August 19th, 2008
page 23 - The Shadow Creature
This process has haunted my dreams since childhood, when I first heard about cave painters who’d leave their “signature” on the wall by chewing up and spitting pigment onto their hand to make a stencil…
August 19th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Now I *have* to use this idea somewhere. If you allow.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:33 am
why not also have a stencil on your hand!?!
this is a very creepy page. well done!
August 19th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Incredible. I didn’t know you had creepy in you! But then, you did stare at me through my bathroom mirror the day we met (which I thought was fantastically unique).
I love the chicken feet.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am
That process is rather beautiful, when you think about it — akin to seeing the potter’s fingerprint in clay, or the artist’s brushmarks on canvas. An organic and human connection that keeps the art real, vital, and deeply visceral.
Seeing the Shadow Creature leaving its mark in this way makes it hard for me to think of it as a villain despite its appearance.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I’m happy that everyone likes the page/idea/chicken feet/creepy and hand marks. It’s one of those scenes you hope will be conveyed alright on the page. Best!
August 20th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Oh, awesome! I remember reading about this and seeing it on those old anthropology shows. I love how you’ve captured the process. Beautiful. And quite scary here.
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
The rendering on the hand in panel 4 is one of the best things I’ve ever seen you do. I hate you. A lot.
The whole thing reminds me of a little dumb anecdote: Berke Breathed (Bloom County) did a painting in college of an astronaut’s head exploding; he achieved the effect by filling his mouth with red paint and spewing it all over the canvas (you can see it in his book ‘Classics of Western Literature’)
Sound familiar?
October 21st, 2008 at 5:49 am
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