Sleep of a dope fiend
Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 8:10 amVery rough sketch of Gwynn. Anatomy fubared as usual. I really do need to do a lot more copying of poses.
“The doctor in Phaience had diagnosed nervous exhaustion. He thought this hilarious but was happy to undergo the prescribed rest-cure, which he effected for himself in an eye-poppingly grand uptown pipe den—a place where there were chandeliers above the beds and they called you sir and made sure you ate and would literally wipe your arse for you. Minor royalty had come one night with a guard of very young female soldiers all with the faces of tropical fish.
After the passage of approximately one month he became afraid of the intentions of certain figures in the wallpaper…”
July 30th, 2007 at 8:21 am
When people are like that they are easiest to minipulate.
or contort them into funny possistions
but its not cool to BURN them.
beside who would want to ruin the fun
July 30th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
♥ He reminds me of the mad duke from Privilege of the Sword/Swordspoint in that picture, somehow.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Colin - indeed, it isn’t cool to, ah, burn people. Though contorting them into funny positions is fun.
Laurie - I want to read those books, but I’m also stupidly scared to, since at the end of TEC and in The Art of Dying I had that society of duellists, and I’m afraid I’ll be sitting there the whole time thinking, “Bugger, I wish I’d developed that idea properly and written about it.”
July 30th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I haven’t actually gotten my hands on Swordspoint yet, but there was a whole stack of Privilege in my local store after it won that Locus award and I snatched it up, since everyone was talking about it. It was wonderful. There was some mysterious anti-depressant quality about it - it was just so cheering, and I’m not entirely sure what made it so. And the duke - oh, man, the duke. I’ll start wildly keyboard mashing if I try and enumerate his finer points. I think you’d love the duke.
And hey, you can always develop the idea further and write about it now. You know we’d all love to read it. ;D
July 31st, 2007 at 7:00 am
but then again. Give a man a fire he will be warm for a night.
Set a man on fire and he will be warm for a life time
July 31st, 2007 at 7:17 am
Laurie - I’m feeling oh so tempted now. I have to go to Kinokuniya (big bookstore here) anyway, so I maybe I will throw caution to the winds and buy them. At least if I read them I won’t inadvertently attempt to write something too similar - though the duellist society in my mind is probably not something I would write about in depth for its own sake. It’s more likely a background to something else.
But sometimes another writer’s brilliance can kill a theme for me. I can’t do dragons, because every time I even think about it, Ursula le Guin’s Kalessin breathes gently over me and burns me to a crisp (thank you for putting that in my head, Colin).
July 31st, 2007 at 8:22 am
don’t thank me.
thank the colour of magic
July 31st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
You have Kinokuniya too?! Man, it seems like everywhere in the world has a Kinokuniya except our city!
July 31st, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Oh, I thought Kinokuniya was only in Asia, for some reason. It’s the main chain bookstore here. I’m very impressed with the selection at the two stores near me.
July 31st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Everyone on my LJ list has one nearby, it seems - I can’t count the number of times I read, “So today I went to Kinokuniya and got [insert Japanese series I’m coveting here] and…”
August 1st, 2007 at 5:49 am
We have a Japanese KK here… but Thai laws keep most of the ah, more interesting stuff out. Only the occasional odd thing like “Men Who Cannot Get Marry” slips through.
August 2nd, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Ever read ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’?
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I haven’t (I should). We had dark red flock paper in one room in the house I grew up in, and it seemed to have the faces of dragons and strange moustachioed men in it.