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August 19, 2003
girls like bastards
The latest website cover is of Wraith, who I won't be writing about for a long time. He's a character in a universe that I am letting brew in the back of my mind like a fabulous pot of super-deluxe, extra-strength Turkish coffee. It's part of my evil plan to someday sharpen my craft so I can write a first-person hardboiled fantasy universe. No, REALLY.
Biggest problem with this cover was that I drew it entirely in ink, which means I couldn't correct proportions, and the hair was a real bitch. You'd think after fifteen years of freestyle drawing I'd learn, but it's just so much easier to draw with pen than pencil, and pencils tend to get lost around my house (read: I own cats).
As for Wraith -- he's the original Smiling Bastard, and he has a brother, who's also a bastard, but on the other end of the Bastard Spectrum TM. I mean, there are smiling bastards, who you love to love, and scary bastards, who you just wish would go away.
And that's all I'm gonna say, because it's truly pointless to go on about a character when he hasn't even appeared in any novels yet.
Posted by sdshaver at August 19, 2003 12:51 PM