A little thing (sketch)
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 at 8:03 amI’m usually not satisfied with my skill, either in writing or drawing. This is an exercise in just letting something have its existence and be expressed, however clumsily (perhaps this creature is an expression of clumsiness?). I rather like it. (Though it seems to have simple eyes in the thumbnail that it doesn’t have in the big picture - odd!)
September 11th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
KJ,
Couldn’t agree with you more about letting all our creations ‘out’, however humble they might be. Your lonely (frightened?) little creature deserves an lLife as much as any divine faery.
Keep lettin’ ‘em out!
flyingspider
September 12th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Thanks for the encouragement. I’m sure they all deserve a public life - I just tend to feel I’m not an adequate demiurge. But if I don’t give it a go, who will…so, yeah.
September 13th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Oh, he’s - she’s? - er, it’s charming! There’s a bizarre amount of personality oozing out of it for something that doesn’t have any facial features.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
It looks like it is trying to get warm
that this is really cool lookin
and i thought it was the top of its head
September 16th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Laurie - I’ve seen completely abstract sculptures that somehow turn themselves into vivid characters when I look at them, and I remember a Walt Disney cartoon where he’d made a faceless flour sack into a totally believable character just through its movements. Maybe I should explore this thing more…
Colin - it could be the top of its head! And it could be trying to get warm. It doesn’t seem comfortable, at any rate.
September 16th, 2007 at 7:58 am
It is a rath comfortable way of sitting in open bush or in caves or near a fire
September 17th, 2007 at 7:37 am
It’s a campfire kind of creature, really.
September 17th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
it also looks like it has very important things to say but in a voice
and it eats children
and its name is like Jake
September 18th, 2007 at 3:44 am
The first and third are very possibly true. But it doesn’t eat children unless they try to eat it first.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
it eats meat
so meat is living animals
animals must be born
hence it eats children
September 19th, 2007 at 3:50 am
I don’t think it’s planning to eat that meat-like object it’s looking at - though I admit it’s open to interpretation!