More art from the train: Morpheus (G)

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Sometimes the office printer spits out blank pages instead of the text it is supposed to print for me. Whenever that happens, I get a smile on my face, because I already know what purpose that paper is going to serve :).

I drew this picture of Morpheus from Neil Gaiman's Sandman on the train (- you can tell by the extremely wonky calligraphy on the right :P), on extra smooth printer paper.





I have read most of the Sandman series (borrowed from bettyboop_comic, Purveyor of Fine Graphic Reading Materials) on the train, mostly in the morning when I was only half-awake, and in the evenings when I was too tired to create anything. The circumstances somehow made the stories even more surreal than they already are, and I have the feeling that I haven't understood half of them. I'm a bit in two minds about the series at this moment. Some ideas I thought wonderful; but more often than I would have liked, I was put off by the horror elements. I really don't like horror. But as you can tell by the fact that I did a drawing, Morpheus certainly left an impression :). I was so terribly annoyed by much of the visuals, especially in earlier issues, that I soon ached to draw my own version of the King of Dreams. More is to follow.

It's rather sad, I think, that the visual side of the books is so often terrible. I know for a fact that the inker ruined some of the art (Colleen Doran's contributions, for example, are hardly recognisable after the inker had finished with them), and those colours... My! DC might as well have hired me to colour - seriously, a sense of colour was apparently not required -_-. Fortunately there are some real gems too, by Jon J. Muth and long-time personal favourites like Charles Vess and P. Craig Russell.

It's time for my own rendez-vous with Dream now, so I must retreat ;).

Good night!

Comments

[bettyboop-comic.livejournal.com]

Apparently (I only noticed this on Colleen's blog) one of the perks of plonking down the seriously hard cash for the Absolute Sandman vol 2 would mean having re-inked from pencil-stat pages of Colleen's art, by Colleen...
I'm still NOT switching around to those oversized, but I'm just saying.

Nice picture, even if the scan doesn't quite reproduce (i think). The fun with Sandman is that there's so much of him to easily re-interpret & make your own.

Glad to see the character & concepts appeal, even if some of the stories don't.
Spin-offs Destiny, Death, Witchcraft & the '11th' volume are still awaiting in the wings!

Be seeing you

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The scan is actually darker than the original. I used soft, dark pencils, but the smoothness of the paper made them come out very light - that didn't look too good on the screen.

I have just read Mage, by the way. It's great! I can't wait to find out what Kevin Matchstick gets up to next... :D