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Oh heck no, not today...
Apr. 8th, 2011 11:45 amWell, today started amazingly. And by amazingly I mean not. Seriously, you know when some days just feel like they are actually out to get you, dispensing annoyances and misery with what seems to be a metaphorical machine gun? Yes. Today decided it was putting a bounty on my head and collecting it. Thank god it's bloody Friday.
Anywho...
DRAWINGS!
Due to a conversation with the extraordinary torreadora, I started re-reading my "Bone" comics (by Jeff Smith). I adore everything about that comic. The story, the art, the characters... It's basically "Disney" meets "Lord of the Rings" with mystical fairy tales about dreams thrown in and that is indeed as cool as it sounds. I actually own a black and white collected edition. It's starting to get really damaged though. The soft cover is peeling and can barely contain the 400 or so pages anymore. Many of the pages have stains, FOOD and high-lighter stains, which are definitely not done by me. In any case. My book is stained and somewhat damaged. Makes me think maybe I should buy a better hardcover version soon enough.
I'm not really the "collector" type (most of my books are far from pristine), but the damaged softcover actually makes the book somewhat difficult to read. You kinda need to put in on a table. So you can't lounge about and read it on a couch anymore. And by god, that's where I do most of my reading!
Re-reading this epic comic made me want to draw the two main characters, Fone Bone and Thorn. So here they are.
Lately i've also been toying with new comics and book ideas. Jabberwocky is finished, so i'm going back to work on Psychopompes, but I also want to start developing a new project (since developing and perfecting scenarios takes forever with me). I'm having ideas with werewolves, fairy tales, and mostly animal transformations.
I was thinking it would be neat to do a gender-reversed version of the Beauty and the Beast tale. Aka, the beast would be the girl. This kinda makes the point of the fairy tale a little void. In fairy tales, "full-time" animal metamorphosis are usually a guy thing. Female characters usually have a "part-time" metamorphosis (they turn into a creature only during a specific part of the day or the week). The reason why? Transformations in tales are usually a symbol for puberty. Guys "change" permanently (they get... hairy and have urges). Girls only "change" on a specific schedule, which is a metaphor for that time of the month. The girl stays "pure" until she changes the guy back to a "normal" human. That segment is of course, a metaphor for sex and marriage, "taming" the dude and making the girl loose her "innocent" status and enter the "princess" status as a wife.
Fairy tale metaphors - they aren't very subtle.
I still think I can kinda work with that.
I started working on a design for the "beast girl". Her face are inspired by Bali masks. Her hair kinda serves as a cloak. That is inspired by "Tangled", and also by Aisling's animation in "Secret of Kells". It's also somewhat still inspired by the Bali masks, that usually have a ton of "hair" covering the mask-bearer's body. Hummmm. I might need to make the girl somewhat less cute for this to work. Then again, cute monster girls. Everyone loves them.
That's all for now!
- Isa
Anywho...
DRAWINGS!
Due to a conversation with the extraordinary torreadora, I started re-reading my "Bone" comics (by Jeff Smith). I adore everything about that comic. The story, the art, the characters... It's basically "Disney" meets "Lord of the Rings" with mystical fairy tales about dreams thrown in and that is indeed as cool as it sounds. I actually own a black and white collected edition. It's starting to get really damaged though. The soft cover is peeling and can barely contain the 400 or so pages anymore. Many of the pages have stains, FOOD and high-lighter stains, which are definitely not done by me. In any case. My book is stained and somewhat damaged. Makes me think maybe I should buy a better hardcover version soon enough.
I'm not really the "collector" type (most of my books are far from pristine), but the damaged softcover actually makes the book somewhat difficult to read. You kinda need to put in on a table. So you can't lounge about and read it on a couch anymore. And by god, that's where I do most of my reading!
Re-reading this epic comic made me want to draw the two main characters, Fone Bone and Thorn. So here they are.
Lately i've also been toying with new comics and book ideas. Jabberwocky is finished, so i'm going back to work on Psychopompes, but I also want to start developing a new project (since developing and perfecting scenarios takes forever with me). I'm having ideas with werewolves, fairy tales, and mostly animal transformations.
I was thinking it would be neat to do a gender-reversed version of the Beauty and the Beast tale. Aka, the beast would be the girl. This kinda makes the point of the fairy tale a little void. In fairy tales, "full-time" animal metamorphosis are usually a guy thing. Female characters usually have a "part-time" metamorphosis (they turn into a creature only during a specific part of the day or the week). The reason why? Transformations in tales are usually a symbol for puberty. Guys "change" permanently (they get... hairy and have urges). Girls only "change" on a specific schedule, which is a metaphor for that time of the month. The girl stays "pure" until she changes the guy back to a "normal" human. That segment is of course, a metaphor for sex and marriage, "taming" the dude and making the girl loose her "innocent" status and enter the "princess" status as a wife.
Fairy tale metaphors - they aren't very subtle.
I still think I can kinda work with that.
I started working on a design for the "beast girl". Her face are inspired by Bali masks. Her hair kinda serves as a cloak. That is inspired by "Tangled", and also by Aisling's animation in "Secret of Kells". It's also somewhat still inspired by the Bali masks, that usually have a ton of "hair" covering the mask-bearer's body. Hummmm. I might need to make the girl somewhat less cute for this to work. Then again, cute monster girls. Everyone loves them.
That's all for now!
- Isa
