How many years,
I know I’ll bear,
I found something in the woods somewhere…
Tag: The Author
Four select scenes (and one bonus)
from The Light Keeper series by @impishnature!
Outrageously belated birthday gift for my dear friend and collaborator! 😀 THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO BE AN INSPIRATION, BUDDY!
Eeeee we just got the go-ahead to post our pieces for the @gfwayfaringstrangerszine!!!
Gravity Falls had such a big influence on my life, and I wanted this to be my sort of goodbye letter/ love note to the show that helped me through so much!! Thank you so much to the zine crew for organizing this beautiful project!!
I think one of the reasons stanford pines appeals to me is that in most other cases he would have been a villain. Hes an angry abuse survivor. Hes visibly traumatized. He has a physical abnormality. Even before the stuff with Bill or the portal hes socially inept, he has trouble taking care of himself, he has trouble expressing himself and connecting, he has strange interests he fixates on. Hes weird. He’s different than other ppl. Hes alienated. Hes flawed and hes angry and hes dysfunctional and his problems and differences arent always pretty or charming. Hes the kind of character I would normally have to settle for picking through villains or bad caricatures or both to find.
But the cool thing about Ford is hes a protagonist. Not only that, he’s got genuinely a good heart. He cares about people, hes kind and sincere. He messes up but he admits being wrong, takes responsibility for his actions, and tries to fix things. He perpetually means well. Hes not only defined by his flaws or differences and we arent supposed to hate him because of them. Hes complex and imperfect and divergent and good all at the same fucking time, and it matters so fucking much to me
We finally have the all clear to post our pieces for the @gfwayfaringstrangerszine! I ended up doing two pieces for it, so here’s the first one I did. Young Portal Ford on the run from danger. Had a blast doing this one.
Young Portal Ford – Wayfaring Strangers Zine!
(click through for larger size!)So this was my piece for the Wayfaring Strangers Zine! ( @gfwayfaringstrangerszine )
Folks who follow me will find this subject a little bit familiar by now, I think… since I’ve spent the intervening year, since doing this, slowly filling in a number of back-story elements for Pteroworld (< see tag for all pieces). Basically I came up with this and then was like, hmm, perhaps some explanations are in order… like, how the heck those eels are managing to fly, or the fact that the dino-dragon-pterosaur-alien isn’t just a flying mount, but part of a sentient race, and Ford makes friends with this youngster and they go searching for archaeological ruins together. That kind of thing.
ANYWAY. I had a blast doing this, having also decided I wanted to make the style (of inking and coloring, color-choices and landscape) an homage to the incomparable Jean Giraud (Moebius).
Honestly can’t wait to see all the other pieces being posted! And of course, can’t wait to hold this zine in my hands!
my 2 pieces for the @gfwayfaringstrangerszine!
i absolutely loved working on these, & i have individual prints up here and here ♡
The second piece I did for the @gfwayfaringstrangerszine. This one was a lot of fun to do. I was pleased with how it turned out. This book is full of awesome art and artists and I can’t wait to have the physical copy in my hand.
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