Kevin's Watch

Creator asked:

you re-purposing existing artwork or doing your own!?

I'd do the art and the text myself. The writing style of the source (The Little Flowers, I mean) is extremely simple, almost childlike -- I scribbled about dozen pages yesterday. And the nice part about Caer-Caveral's Lost Years is that there's no canon to muck up.

I also did three watercolors last night. New stuff. Yet strangely I still cannot for the life of me figure put how to embed an image at this forum, sigh.

Wayyyyy back when I was living in NYC, I was doing some work for an editor friend at Topps -- they had a comics imprint for a while. I nagged this guy without mercy until he read the Chrons, and talked him into agreeing to do a graphic novel based on the 1st three. I did some spec artwork of the characters and the Rhaynyn and stuff, and he got in touch with SRD's agent. But apparently SRD wouldn't sign off, so the project never went anywhere.

I'd still love to do illustrations based on these books. The images are so vibrant and striking. Even after all these years (and about a hundred re-reads) they remain amazingly vivid to me.

dang , an artsy type! too bad SRD didnt go for it, that sounds awesome.

inquestor said:

too bad SRD didnt go for it

It would've been a labor of love on my part, that's for sure. (inserts wistful emoticon here) But the editor told me the agent said (and this is third hand and a long time ago, so I hope I don't mess it up) that SRD was doing new stories and wanted to give them a chance -- he didn't want the public's attention re-focusing on the Covenant titles.

Which is a stance you can only respect, of course, considering that it would have been practically free money. But I wish he'd been willing to let somebody do it, at some point. I swear, I've even had a couple of dreams where I stumble on some illustrated Land-y books at Borders or wherever and I'm just ecstatic, completely geeked out. *tiny violin plays* And in the dream I get the book home only to discover the illustrations are pants. This probably means I don't think I have enough youth or energy left to tackle anything so complex and ambitious, woe.

I sure wish somebody would, though...

agreed. you should have seen me a few years ago when I found out about Gilden-Fire... I had to order off amazon's used section, thought I would die before it got here.

Glad someone else is just as goofy as I am about TC...

jwaneeta wrote:I still cannot for the life of me figure put how to embed an image at this forum, sigh.

You need an imageshack or photobucket account, (or any image hosting service). Upload your image to that account, so you can get a URL for the page displaying the image.

Then, replacing normal brackets with square ones [ ], type in the following to your post:

(img)www.url_of_page_displaying_image(/img)

Obviously, inside the image tags, you type (or paste) the relevant URL. Then your image will be displayed in the post.

--A

hey Av, you can use the CODE tag to display exactly what to type....

Learn something every day.

--A

jwaneeta wrote:inquestor said:

too bad SRD didnt go for it

It would've been a labor of love on my part, that's for sure. (inserts wistful emoticon here) But the editor told me the agent said (and this is third hand and a long time ago, so I hope I don't mess it up) that SRD was doing new stories and wanted to give them a chance -- he didn't want the public's attention re-focusing on the Covenant titles.

Which is a stance you can only respect, of course, considering that it would have been practically free money. But I wish he'd been willing to let somebody do it, at some point. I swear, I've even had a couple of dreams where I stumble on some illustrated Land-y books at Borders or wherever and I'm just ecstatic, completely geeked out. *tiny violin plays* And in the dream I get the book home only to discover the illustrations are pants. This probably means I don't think I have enough youth or energy left to tackle anything so complex and ambitious, woe.

I sure wish somebody would, though...

Do it for US!!!

Esmer wrote:hey Av, you can use the CODE tag to display exactly what to type....

Code: Select all

[img]http://www.image.com/image.jpg[/img]

I have a gallery for pics over at LJ so I did that, but all I could see was code, which is why I ended up linking back to an LJ post. I was wondering if there was something that keeps LJ Gallery and ihugny from working and playing well together? I'll give it another shot today.

Back when I first joined I tried to upload my own avatar, but even with help from a longtime Watcher we couldn't make it go. Baffling. Maybe it's my karmic burden.

i'm going nowhere on that link, jwaneeta.

Sorry about that, Lucimay. I took it down after I figured out there was nothing wrong with the LJ Gallery images of themselves -- it's something to do with my coding. I'll try to get it back up shortly.

More Caer-Caveral hagiography. Last week I found a swell little used book about St. Francis, and the watercolor illustrations inspired me. So I even made a fronticepiece. I also scribbled some Little Flowers-type prose, but my text-setting is very slow and amatuerish, so that's coming slow. Haven't had the chance to tackle the coding yet, so these are just links.

This is possibly the silliest thing I've ever spent discretionary time on.

pics.livejournal.com/jwaneeta/pic/0003e6pb

pics.livejournal.com/jwaneeta/pic/0003bdk5

pics.livejournal.com/jwaneeta/pic/0003d9c6

pics.livejournal.com/jwaneeta/pic/0003cq43

pics.livejournal.com/jwaneeta/pic/0003f442

that's FABULOUS work jwaneeta!!! fabulous. very

Aw, thanks. I keep trying for a pious-19th-century vibe, but keep veering Maxfield Parrish. I somehow thought it would be easier to do a faux child's devotional book about a martyred forestal.

I think the code looks for a www. in the link, so automatically rejects any URL that doesn't contain it.

--A

Avatar wrote:I think the code looks for a www. in the link, so automatically rejects any URL that doesn't contain it.

--A

I think that's it. No wonder. Feh. I don't have a photobucket account, so I guess that's that, at least until I get one. LJ code doesn't seem compatible.

Wah

Wonderful art work - simply wonderful!

Danilo Stern-Sapad had created Chrons based fan fiction site. I had joined the site but almost no one else did. The site is still up.
space.wizards.pro/
Perhaps with more interest.......

Creator wrote:Wonderful art work - simply wonderful!

Thank you!

See, in that second-to-last one, he's carrying a doe as Morrinmoss combusts behind him. It's meant to be forshadowing for the Hollian-in-the-left-arm thing in Andelain. Uh.

Yes, I'm a total geek.