Keeping the Pencil Moving

[tealin]

It's now a year and a day since the Murderous Dessert Dish Incident. Since then my drawing skills have gone through several cycles of voluntary or involuntary atrophy and struggling to catch back up ... but I think I'm back on track. For now.




Inspired by a short story I heard on BBC7, a different and really intrigiung take on Snow White: Princess Hair-as-black-as-night-Skin-as-white-as-snow-Lips-as-red-as-blood (and her deceased mother) is ... a vampire. And the stepmother Queen does not hate her out of vanity but sends the Hunstman after her to rid the land of the mysterious 'wasting disease' that is plaguing it, and which plagued it when her mother was in power. There was also a certain amount of soul-saving involved as well, in some way or another. Anyway, it was interesting enough to trigger a picture. I was trying to go for a bit more limited style but I'm not sure how successful I was ... I'd no idea what to do with the hands, for example.


Hedgehogs In Overalls (will it ever beat Bananas in Pyjamas?) - Drawn while illustrating to rawrsie how my shorthand for characters in my Piñata boards evolved from how I'd drawn Redwall characters. For some reason my hedgehogs had always worn overalls, so I tried putting overalls on the hedgehog character in Piñata with humourous results. (I figured it was OK to post a Piñata drawing as the designs have been released in other venues already.)


Not paying attention at Life Drawing. Heheh. The poses get over 5 minutes long and my attention wanders...

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

No... I don't think it was Neil Gaiman. I think the author was female... The title was 'Red as Blood' and the Prince figure had an altogether more Christian symbolism going on.

Thanks for coming out of the shadows!

[insper-a-shen.livejournal.com]

Would you be referring to Tanith Lee's "Red as Blood"? Just did a quick google on the title and that's the first thing that came up...

Googled "Snow, Glass, Apple" too, and it looks like you can read the short story here: http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow.html

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That's the one, yes! Thanks.

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

There's a really good song based on it too. It's on the filk album "Of Shoes and Ships," and is called, IIRC "Red as Blood."

[veetvoojagig.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, that was awesome! Thank you for the link!