Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson died yesterday.


Coil are dead.

I'm devastated.

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Focussing on 2 books from The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King for my Narrative unit.  They're two books that hold a lot of interest for me [they're my favourite of the series]  

the books I'm looking at are:  "The Drawing Of The Three"  and "The Wasteland"  they are consecutive in the series, following on from "The gunslinger"

Points of particular interest in the books are as follows:

- Roland being attacked by the Lobstrosities on the beach
- Roland encountering three doors on his journey:
1. Eddie Dean's door, a heroin addict smuggling drugs on an aeroplane.
2. The Door to Odetta/Detta/Susannah Holmes [The Lady Of The Shadows]  a Wheelchair bound black civil rights activist with a split personality disorder.
3. Instead of revealing a new companion, the third door (labeled "The Pusher") instead reveals a new adversary for Roland: Jack Mort, a sociopath who takessadistic pleasure in injuring and killing random strangers — and the man responsible for the head trauma that created Odetta Walker's alternate personality, the loss of Odetta/Detta's legs, and the death of Jake Chambers. Mort's murder of Jake led to Jake's appearance in The Gunslinger.  

I have decided to leave out the first book, and in turn, Jakes initial introduction to the story, to emphasize the schizming of reality that Roland experiences after Jake is once again killed and returned back to his initial level of reality/the tower

These scenes are all from "The Drawing Of The Three."

 - Roland, Susannah and Eddie encounter Shardik, the giant thousand year old mechanical bear guardian of the beam.

- The schisming of the memory of Jake chambers, who died and also did not die because of Roland's actions, both the boy and roland experience this.

- Roland burns the man in black's jawbone

- Jake, in a schizophrenic panic, runs away from school, buys a book called "Charlie the ChooChoo" [a reference of what is to come later in the book] and discovers a way back to Roland's world through an old abandoned house - They are finally reunited.

-  The group befriend a creature called a Billy Bumbler, the creature is particularly fond of Jake, the creature joins the group [he is called Oy]

-  The group come to river crossing, a town full of only old people.  The last generation of a dying town.  Roland receives a silver cross

-  The Ka-tet arrive at Lud a ravaged city.  they are attacked by one of the last inhabitants of the city, Gasher.  He kidnaps Jake.  Every day at a certain time the drum beat to Velcro Fly by ZZ Top plays over the city's speaker system,  one of the remaining inhabitants of the town is crucified on a lamp post at that time.

- After rescuing Jake, the Ka-tet board a still functioning train equipped with an onboard AI personality.  after years in isolation, Blaine has gone mad.

- the ka tet arrive at another ruined town, referencing The Stand.

 

Key themes/imagery in the books include:  Roses, The tower, guns, intertextual references to popular culture and other books, alternate realities, parallel dimensions, DOORS  

                                                                      

I found my graphics tablet pen!

Fuck yeahhhhhhhhh

 

I love you, Mijumaru.

Ritual

I start every morning with the extended instrumentals from Pee Wee's big adventure.

Without

Fail

Christ, what is this?  I want to make a nest in it, ohgod

fffffinished and handed in my final images, hooray.  I ended up doing them all in just pencil, because I panicked and I pussied out of doing colour >:C  So much wasted time with the watercolours, urrgghghghghghghghhh

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I just spent far too much money on a vintage Faith No More poster of this picture.  No shame, no shame whatsoever.

 It's all about Billy Gould's repulsive gut.

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PRINTING ONTO ACETATE IS PRETTY EXCITING

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SO DELICIOUS, OH MY GODDDDD!  I wish I could paint as wonderfully as this, it hurts me so much.

Christ I am truly truly terrible at updating this thing. My work for interpretation of text is going ... ish. Did lots of research and re-read Dorian Gray [Albeit speedreading, but whatever] After my last post I've been mainly compiling relevant research/images for my illustrations. Of which I have thus far completed only one. here's the sketch as I've not edited the coloured version yet:

Sybil Vane, after her suicide. I read that there are a lot of parallels between Sybil and Ophelia from Hamlet. I took advantage of this and looked at a lot of paintings of Ophelia, particularly "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais. I noticed the flowers strewn in the water about Ophelia and thought to incorporate them into Sybil's dressing room. Yellow roses are mentioned at the beginning of the book so I thought it best to add them in too. There's a lot of negative space in the sketch that I'll fill with relevant quotations from the book. wheeeee!

John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1851-1852)

So Sybil Vayne is often paralleled with Ophelia from Hamlet.  This is super useful to know when it comes to my illustration of Sybil after her suicide.