"Bad form, my Darling..."

Today I cleaned house and found I was pretty bored after that, so I decided to color that sketch that I did yesterday. It was kind of fun, and I colored it in two different ways.

( First try )

I felt the colors looked washed out, his eyes didn't look right, and his hair was too whispy. Everything ever written about James Hook has made the point, repeatedly, that he had really thick hair.

Then I doodled with it some more, and came up with ( this one: )

I darkened it up and added the stars. I highlighted the Lyra constellation because it is significant in JV Hart's novel, although I think it might have been cheesy of me to point it out like that. I wonder if anyone might have gotten it otherwise, though.

Also, I added the red in his eyes, though I don't think you can see it.

I still can't draw pants and probably will never be able to. Also, the guillotine looks like something out of an Escher painting. Sad to say, that was not my intention. I just have no sense of space or perspective.

Oh, the scene is when he's baiting Arthur Darling to follow him during their duel, and then leads him to the guillotine. I won't give away what happens next, but I know that I didn't capture the scene at all. James is out of his mind in this one scene and totally enjoying it. In my drawing he is far too calm. I meant for him to be beckoning his opponent to follow him, but instead it looks like he's just pointing to the sky. I guess that's all right, but it wasn't my intention.

As for his clothes, I just didn't know what to do. From what I could remember of the story (and I could have checked, but I didn't, sorry,) he would still be wearing the clothes he filched from the sailor, which I imagined were pretty plain. Plus I just didn't want to dress him like an Eton boy. Too complicated. ^_^

That guillotine is really messed up, isn't it? But I don't feel like fixing it.

"Bad form, my Darling..."

Today I cleaned house and found I was pretty bored after that, so I decided to color that sketch that I did yesterday. It was kind of fun, and I colored it in two different ways.

( First try )

I felt the colors looked washed out, his eyes didn't look right, and his hair was too whispy. Everything ever written about James Hook has made the point, repeatedly, that he had really thick hair.

Then I doodled with it some more, and came up with ( this one: )

I darkened it up and added the stars. I highlighted the Lyra constellation because it is significant in JV Hart's novel, although I think it might have been cheesy of me to point it out like that. I wonder if anyone might have gotten it otherwise, though.

Also, I added the red in his eyes, though I don't think you can see it.

I still can't draw pants and probably will never be able to. Also, the guillotine looks like something out of an Escher painting. Sad to say, that was not my intention. I just have no sense of space or perspective.

Oh, the scene is when he's baiting Arthur Darling to follow him during their duel, and then leads him to the guillotine. I won't give away what happens next, but I know that I didn't capture the scene at all. James is out of his mind in this one scene and totally enjoying it. In my drawing he is far too calm. I meant for him to be beckoning his opponent to follow him, but instead it looks like he's just pointing to the sky. I guess that's all right, but it wasn't my intention.

As for his clothes, I just didn't know what to do. From what I could remember of the story (and I could have checked, but I didn't, sorry,) he would still be wearing the clothes he filched from the sailor, which I imagined were pretty plain. Plus I just didn't want to dress him like an Eton boy. Too complicated. ^_^

That guillotine is really messed up, isn't it? But I don't feel like fixing it.

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Halloween / Samhain was relatively uneventful. I cleaned the house, did that drawing, put it up at my DA account, then hung around waiting for trick or treaters. This year I only got a few of them, all between 4 and 8 PM. I guess because of school. Anyway, I have loads of candy left over, whereas last year I had none.

I got a few repeat trick or treaters that I recognized from last year, and a few of them who recognized the house and the various animal life. One little girl came to the door, looked around and said, "Hey, I remember this house from last year. I love this house!" Then a bunch of kids came escorted by their parents. To come from my Grandma's house they usually cross through the backyard, which means passing the sunroom where Pendragon lives. The father of this group called all the kids back to see the "giant iguana sleeping back there!" Then the mother took a look around the yard and said, "This is beautiful. The whole house is." Awww, that was so sweet. And then they got stuck in my curly willow tree. No, seriously, the kids and the Mom all got tangled up in the branches of the tree. It was pretty funny.

The usual group of older kids / teens came by; you know the ones, they're loud and they don't bother with costumes. But I give them candy anyway. Why not? On Halloween, all kids deserve candy. But they should at least make the effort to put on a costume, the little scugs. When I was a kid, I wouldn't be caught dead without one.

For today, though, I settled for my orange Halloween shirt with the black tree and owl on it. The owl has little sparkling orange eyes.

I lit a candle for my ancestors. And, well, because it's a scented candle and it covers up the perpetual smell of peanuts, cucumber and birdseed.

Ahhh, my holiday is over. Next comes everyone else's holiday season. And, that's fine too.

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Halloween / Samhain was relatively uneventful. I cleaned the house, did that drawing, put it up at my DA account, then hung around waiting for trick or treaters. This year I only got a few of them, all between 4 and 8 PM. I guess because of school. Anyway, I have loads of candy left over, whereas last year I had none.

I got a few repeat trick or treaters that I recognized from last year, and a few of them who recognized the house and the various animal life. One little girl came to the door, looked around and said, "Hey, I remember this house from last year. I love this house!" Then a bunch of kids came escorted by their parents. To come from my Grandma's house they usually cross through the backyard, which means passing the sunroom where Pendragon lives. The father of this group called all the kids back to see the "giant iguana sleeping back there!" Then the mother took a look around the yard and said, "This is beautiful. The whole house is." Awww, that was so sweet. And then they got stuck in my curly willow tree. No, seriously, the kids and the Mom all got tangled up in the branches of the tree. It was pretty funny.

The usual group of older kids / teens came by; you know the ones, they're loud and they don't bother with costumes. But I give them candy anyway. Why not? On Halloween, all kids deserve candy. But they should at least make the effort to put on a costume, the little scugs. When I was a kid, I wouldn't be caught dead without one.

For today, though, I settled for my orange Halloween shirt with the black tree and owl on it. The owl has little sparkling orange eyes.

I lit a candle for my ancestors. And, well, because it's a scented candle and it covers up the perpetual smell of peanuts, cucumber and birdseed.

Ahhh, my holiday is over. Next comes everyone else's holiday season. And, that's fine too.