Snicker-Snack
Feb. 19th, 2011 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
secondlina
What's that? It's a comic cover for Jabberwocky. With the help of friends, I managed to unblock on the story and i'm currently drawing it. My goal is for it to be available at the TCAF (I'm going to be at the "Trip Collection" editor table, for those who might want to find me). I'm going to post the page here as I get them done, so you guys will be able to read the full 20 page story. A few pages will be under LJ-cut for violence or bloodiness (this IS the story of a girl that goes to gut a monster, after all). I hope you'll all enjoy it! I even took some days off from work to work on these all over the month of March. Isa, thy name is motivation!
I'm really happy with the cover. I love how it turned out I tried using a limited palette or reds and plums. My inking style seems to work with limited palette coloring. If I recall correctly, one of the Namesake reviewers had underlined that fact. Well, I guess it's true.
I tried to base the Jabberwock off the original "Alice through the looking glass" illustration. I love the big buck-tooth teeth. A lot of other artists make the Jabberwock look less... ridiculous. He's suppose to be a feared beast, so they make him look less grotesque and more scary and dangerous (pointy?).
I really like white, immaculate swords...
In non-drawing news... Is my apartment gonna fall on my head. I swear the pipes are plotting to kill us. They tap in the walls. There's barely any hot water. They make noises that sound like they are about to explode when the upstairs neighbor takes a shower. The whole heating in the building is done with pipes too (hot-water-based heating). So I dunno. I feel like the building has a giant, rusty pipe snake in the walls.
Is...is it going to eat me?
- Isa
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Date: 2011-02-20 02:05 am (UTC)My favorite Jabberwocky design - of the ones that diverged from the original, anyway - was Graeme Base's. I just love birds with teeth...
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Date: 2011-02-20 02:13 am (UTC)And yes, the pipe snake might eat you. Give it some mice? D:
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Date: 2011-02-20 02:52 am (UTC)Also once again I must comment on your attention to detail. The patterns in the back and the folds in the clothing. All so wonderful!
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Date: 2011-02-20 03:43 am (UTC)And lol, That caulking stuff in my apartment is falling out between the bathroom shower tiles. I swear one's going to fall off on my head one day.
(Maybe if something explodes on your neighbor, they'll get the landlord to fix the pipes so you don't have to! :D Problem solved?? D: )
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Date: 2011-02-21 04:02 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure my landlord is already aware of the problem. He's quite talented at ignoring us.
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Date: 2011-02-20 08:16 am (UTC)That cover is awesome! If I saw it in a bookstore, it would sure catch my attention!
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Date: 2011-02-20 08:34 am (UTC)We use a similar system for hot-water and heating - judging from what you described, there might some problem with the pressure in the pipes. Worth mentioning to the janitor or whatever that person is called there who is supposed to keep the building in one piece. ;)
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Date: 2011-02-20 09:03 am (UTC)I did love Alice wearing that awesome armor and going to slay the Jabberwocky by the end of the movie.
And let's not forget American McGee's alice with her companion knife. <3
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Date: 2011-02-21 04:23 pm (UTC)I liked the armor too, but I found it weird that they would send a girl with no fighting experience to slay their biggest foe, especially when she had nothing personaly against it. I guess the sword did most of the fighting?
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Date: 2011-02-22 05:28 am (UTC)I also find it weird towards the very end of the movie that an English girl would be allowed to travel to China ALL BY HERSELF. Shouldn't she have been assigned bodyguards or something?
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Date: 2011-02-20 09:50 am (UTC)I can't wait to read the comic <3
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Date: 2011-02-21 04:25 pm (UTC)Also, tiny demons all over.
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Date: 2011-02-20 10:18 am (UTC)As to Jabberwockies in general... I like making mine super lanky, with buck teeth.
I couldn't help but notice that the girl on this cover has the stereotypical Snow White look. I know a lot of fairy tales give their main character that complexion (The Juniper Tree, for example); was that intentional?
Also: I do hope you don't get eaten by the rusty pipe snake!
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Date: 2011-02-21 04:27 pm (UTC)I love the lanky ones. It's almost snake like and surreal. So awesome.
The pale aspect represents innocence and beauty. It's pretty common in fairy tales, yes.
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Date: 2011-02-20 06:08 pm (UTC)(And D&D fans everywhere can thank the Jabberwocky for giving us the Vorpal Sword, although Relina's is yet to go "snicker-snack" as she slays foes. Too bad for her!)
As for the pipes...ARGH! I think they used the same system in my apartment in Idaho! I HATED it! It's very disconcerting hearing all the sounds water in pipes makes while going about its business. Do keep up with your tucked away ceilings and walls though. One year I discovered water had been leaking into the ceiling of my closet, and it had gone unnoticed long enough that a repairman had to come in and tear out the ceiling to put in a new one. The apartment smelled like spackle and fresh paint for a long time after that... XP
So yes, the pipes might eat you.
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Date: 2011-02-21 04:30 pm (UTC)Relina has a vorpal blade?
Urgh. Leaks. We got a few. so much that I worry about elaving my drawings all over the place. The sound in itself isn't too bad. It mostly happens when someone upstairs takes a shower. But it still worries me that there's so many old pipes and water around. My of my apartment is composed of things made out of paper!
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Date: 2011-02-21 06:19 pm (UTC)Relina does have a vorpal sword! It's her Holy Avenger at that, so she'd never be replacing it. A sword that can cut through anything? YES.
I had a lot of electronics in mine (and paper - lots of schoolwork and the like), so it was not a comforting feeling knowing leaks could and did happen. Then, when you have neighbors who set their apartment on fire due to negligence...so glad I am done with apartment living for now. It's stressful!
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Date: 2011-02-21 06:23 pm (UTC)I think i'm going to buy some plastic storage boxes for the art... just in case.
The thing I love the most about the vorpal sword is the whole "Cutting through everything" part. Plus, I bet in a marketing campaign, you probably got to use it on things that usually can't be cut, right? (like ghosts)
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Date: 2011-02-21 07:26 pm (UTC)It's good to have storage units, especially the sort that won't get soggy should flooding happen. I store all of my fabrics in plastic bins. Helps keep critters away, too, since they seem able to get into cardboard boxes easily.
I pulled out my Dungeon Master's Guide just to check this, but while Vorpal swords are really awesome in cutting into things (beheading on a natural 20 roll...which Relina never did, but I doubt she'd want to lop off heads anyway!), if you want to be able to hurt a ghost with a weapon, the weapon would need to have Ghost Touch. Come to think of it, Relina's might have had that as well... I don't think the DM realized what a nasty weapon he was creating when he made Relina's Holy Avenger (all this, and the ability to cast lightning, as well as dispell magic!). The thing was amazing! Now I want to pull out my notes just to check Anga Alenath's stats again....yep! The sword did indeed have a name!
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Date: 2011-02-21 07:30 pm (UTC)I guess the vorpal sword would be good for a paladin. It's always been a monster-slaying one.
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Date: 2011-02-20 10:11 pm (UTC)Also, is that the Vorpal Blade?
Urgh, plumbing problems. Does your landlord know?
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Date: 2011-02-21 09:15 pm (UTC)GIRL BE BADASS!!!
I like how your colors look here! :D I'm glad you're getting ahold of your style <3 (I mean, coloring style)
I hope your apt. doesn't kill you BTW