Bandit’s Moon
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 11:27 amThis has been a challenging year, physically and mentally. I think this picture I drew this morning says something about it. The minotaur might be the animus (because I always seem to express myself through the animus when there’s something wrong), and the moon, I’m pretty sure, is psychological disturbance:
The blood spatter was an accidental blot, so I did more blotty shading with my fingers, which I’ve never tried before. Then used a makeup brush, which worked quite well, except that there was eyeshadow on it which came off in the ink, so that there’s a silvery bit on the original. Background tones added in PS, as the paper was too flimsy for a wash.
This poor minotaur needs another drawing. He needs his arms and his right hind leg. But I like the blotty shading, although I could have planned the tones a little better.
October 19th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Good luck with the year (and the workload).
P.S. Submit Comment button doesn’t seem to work in Firefox 3.x.
October 19th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Thanks, Charles.
3.x — is that any of the 3.something Firefoxes, or 3.0.something, or something else? I’m running 3.5.3, and the button works (checking with this comment). This version of Firefox was flaky as hell until I rebooted the computer.
October 20th, 2009 at 4:48 am
3.5.3 here… testing submit comment button…
October 20th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Someone else couldn’t submit comments either. I still wish I’d stuck with my old Firefox — there was nothing wrong with it. This new one seems a terrible memory gobbler (I don’t think it’s just my imagination.)
October 20th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
There was probably an extension that prevented us from commenting. It did happen (seems to be working now) as it occurred on the office computer as well (which was a Mac and I use Safari to make comment #1 in the first place).
October 20th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Gremlins. I am starting to believe in them.
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:01 am
Ah! Somehow I missed this! I love this one, it’s very eerie.
Re: the comments thing, the comments button regularly stops working for me for no apparent reason – I just go back to the index, reload the post, and then the comment button works again. (Sometimes a simple reload of the page works, and sometimes not.)
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:45 am
I feel kind of bad for drawing a creature in that much distress, though…
I had no idea that this thing was broken like that. I have no idea how to make it unbroken, either. :-/