Just another random sketch. An entrance to a dweough stronghold. The above is the pencil sketch scanned and cleaned up a little. I’ve used the multiply function on a duplicated layer on the second image. Maybe improved the image? Maybe not? Hm. Alright, I guess.
Category: Update
Illustration 010 (updates Thursdays)
Just a quick drawing from the pages of the sketch book. The top image is the original colours, red oil pastel pencil on paper. The bottom image is cleaned up by setting to greyscale, then using the Photoshop levels tool to clear away the grey murk, duplicating a layer, and setting the layer to multiply. A…
Just quickly
I’m running around a bit like mad at the moment. I’ll scan something and get it online for the weekly illustration as soon as I’ve a chance. Should be tomorrow at the latest.
Journal and updates
I’m going to see if I can start up some posting with updates and (hopefully relatively brief) thoughts and reflections on writing. I’d like these to stand out from the ongoing fiction I’m posting. To that end, I’m going to play around with fonts and colours. These life updates won’t be regular. It’ll largely depend…
Old Dark Things: Freebee Promotion
Currently free until the 15th at Amazon… or, at least I think until the 15th… you might want to grab it sooner rather than later, as I’m still getting used to how the Amazon free promotion system works. I will, however, be re-running the promotion as regularly as possible. Also, feel free to email me…
Old Dark Things
Well, it’s done. At about 150k words, Old Dark Things is a dark, folkloric stand-alone fantasy set in Clay-o-the-Green, the same world as The Winter King. My plan is to run it through Kindle Select for a while to start off with, so that I can make the book available as a free product over at least a couple…
New Years Thoughts
Well, it has been an interesting, odd and difficult year. Personally, 2016 was full of both wonderful life events and a lot of hard trials. I have come through it, and although I am perhaps not unscathed, I am feeling positive about the future. Yes, it has been a somewhat bleak year for me in many respects….
Fair Upon the Tor Drafting
I have made some small headway with Fair Upon the Tor, enough so that I’m considering posting the first draft as I write it… or perhaps, not quite as I write it, but in thousand-word chunks. I think I’m also going to switch comments on. I don’t expect I’ll see much in the way of feedback, although…
Is Beauty
The Boulevard Montmartre at Night Camille Pissarro There is a quote from Pissarro I like. I read it once on one of those little white placards they have in galleries, the small micro-essays that sit beside the painting. Have you ever noticed how people tend to spend more time reading those little placards than looking…
Rather neglectful update
Starry Night Jean-François Millet It has been quite some time since I posted any updates or writing. I did consider spinning a story about how Auberon sent me off to beguile a bean-feed mooncalf, or similar, but the truth of it is that lecturing this semester has run me off my feet. I have an outline and some…