Countdown to Hibearnation: 2 days
I received an email from <kumazuki> saying that he decided to take all of Thursday off from work, meaning that we will get to St Louis for Hibearnation even earlier than first planned. Nice.
I have been resizing and reformatting many of my note cards. I am worn out!
At first I didn’t think I had to do too many, but then I got into it… Oy!
I will only missing a few images when I leave for the weekend. I am okay with that. Most of images I had to rescan from photo prints and I am not having the best of luck with the image clean-up. No big loss. I can refinish those when I get back…
I have a lot of fucking images. Well, okay, only a few of them are actually images of fucking, but you get the point.
I got two 60-card spinning racks. I only have one dozen empty spaces on them – combined. I think that might be a hell of a lot of drawing in only eight years… especially considering how much time I have taken off from actual production and the pile of roughs I have done that don’t yet have finished inks… I could add another couple of dozen of those, I think.
The last on the list to go with me are the hawkman images. I had to rescan all those, ten images in the set. They were my third series, done through 1999 and 2000. I have thought about retiring the card images, but now having worked with them again after seven years, I don’t think I could. This set was a narrative. I did the images for an erotic fiction I wrote. It was awful and didn’t get to far. It was the prove I needed to know I was a better poet than I writer. I use to many words. I need to explain too much of the details.
Going through the images again, I think I might try again. Instead of giving all the background and building up everything I needed to create of the hawkmen’s tribe, I might just try to take it from my viewpoint, relating each chapter as a series of dreams. Then I could unveil some at a time, instead of having all that back-story to shove in all at once.
There is a human character in the original story. I could easily take his role and write it from that viewpoint. I do like the idea and the notion of the story is still worth something. It also tells a story of transformation and enlightenment without involving the celebration of darkness. That is my obsession lately…
I will think on that, let me add it to the growing heap of shit to do…
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