Keeping track of progress on creative projects
This year I’ve started work on a sequential art project called “Fail Points.” The project takes its name from the engineering term for any point in a process where things can break down, often causing the entire system to stop working.
As the name implies, entries will focus on some of the less successful moments in my life. For the time being, I’m keeping the multi-page stories to myself. But I’m also planning a set of four-panel minis, this being the first.
Poe, page two.
I think this particular variation on the leaf ghost theme might look right at home on the walls of the Glore Museum. But perhaps that’s part of the charm.
My idea of an ideal summer, all captured in a single photo.
After a rough May, I’m finally settling back into a place of comfort with some creative work. I actually did the pencil sketch for this ghost more than a month ago and then couldn’t find the time or energy to actually paint it.
I even briefly changed the number, assuming that I’d do some ghosts when we were on vacation in late May, but between the rain and the cicadas there wasn’t really a lot of opportunity to spread out on the picnic table and paint.
The greens have too much water in them, which produced an uneven surface effect that I thought looked leafy.
Wait, didn’t I recently do one just like this using this same story? Well, yes and no.
Ghost #133 was the same style and even the same tale. I was pleased enough with the result that I thought it might be fun to create a whole sketchbook with nothing but leaf ghosts made out of Poe stories. I enjoy creating them, and actually being able to continue on to the end of the story appeals to me.
So this is page one of what I’m hoping will be a more extensive set.
This wasn’t originally designed to be an ear worm. It’s an illustration I created for a sequential art project I’m working on. But I did sneak some song lyrics into it (and the song has been stuck in my head recently).
Back to Copics. These are the same colors as Leaf Ghost #48 only reversed. And the shadow is Cool Grey 5.
Same pens, same inks, this time on tan paper. Drop shadow done entirely with hatching using the narrower tip.
