Another environment design for the Conjurers. Not sure where this is but I can’t wait to get there.
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Archive for April, 2007
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I’ve been doing some construction around the Conjurian. Doodling some sets for upcoming chapters. This is Glengarrogh, or at least my first idea Glengarrogh. I’ll probably sketch it again, hopefully pumping some more life and umph into it. But all in all not a bad start. It’ll certainly be fun to convert the drawing to prose and climb around on it verbally.
This character popped up in a sketching session over the weekend. I think I know who she is. I’m looking forward to finding out if I’m right. In the meantime I’ll flesh out some more sketches for her.
Slight change of plans. A good change. I had dinner with my editor a couple weeks ago, mainly to discuss the picture books. He was however, very interested to hear how this novel was going, and asked when I’d be willing to show him something. So I’m doing some rough re-writing, and if he likes what he sees, I’ll hopefully have a final commitment to publish the book.
That also means I’ll be doing some posting on the re-writing process.
I love exploring the world of this novel through my sketchbook. A couple reasons why. For one, it’s a great way to flesh out scenes, and specifically, details of the world that can zip through your head before you get to jot them down. Another benefit is getting to see things that will never make it into the book. Like this guy here.
Why would you create something that’s not going in the book? Seems like a waste of time. Quite the opposite for me. Even if much of what I create doesn’t make the cut, it helps give the world of the Conjurian an added sense of reality. It becomes a real living, breathing organic system. And that’s key for a fantasy book. I certainly don’t want the reader feeling as if the book is just a bunch of made up places and creatures strung together. Rather I want to give them the sensation that they have stepped through a window into a world that already was and continues to be. A rabbit’s hole made from bound pieces of paper.
Creating such an experience is the joy and torment of writing.
Well, my clowns to be exact. I’ll have to post some of the initial sketches of these guys, the Grubian Brothers.
I did this sketch after writing the chapter in which they first appear. Just a chance to really get them to come to life.
Some quick doodles form my sketchbook.
