Traditional 2019 | Digital Edit 2019 | Traditional, 2014
The original was done on much larger paper, & took me abt a month. The redo was done on 12x18" watercolor paper. I was overly confident I could communicate the same scale with a smaller paper option, but I think the original piece still benefits from feeling really BIG. Other than that I feel I can see my improvements in character design, hand lettering, etc. It was fun to do more pop culture references this time since I didn't have the stress of the AP board on my shoulders.
William Goldman passed away a few days ago. It feels like he shares so much of himself in the book, The Princess Bride, so I felt as though an old friend had passed. Here’s the last line of the book.
Dess had walked his share of red carpets in far more than his share of lurid please-notice-me outfits. He’d heeded the bleats of tabloid reporters over and over, so instinctive and helpes and native to their kind. a cow goes moo; a sheep goes baa; a celebrity correspondent goes who are you wearing? But if one of those pull-string See’n Say barnyard creatures had appeared out of the long-light-years between here and home to ask him who he was wearing now, all he could’ve answered was: Myself.
Decibel Jones was dressed in the Glorious bombed-out rubble of his whole life. He was Raggedy Dandy, big as life and twice as hard. He never wanted to take it off.
Decibel Jones from Catherynne Valente’s Space Opera. The book’s nominated for a Hugo now! You should go read it.