| While working on issue #33, I found myself at one point late, late
at night struck hard and deep by several ideas. The above image was
one of them. The thought of Heath becoming witchy as she grows up;
barefoot and about one quarter-wild, with hair on her legs and such, seemed
very powerful to me. I also like coloring her clothes yellow.
I do it whenever I can. Yellow is her color; it gives her power.
In this image I also tried to depict Rubel above as having become more wolfish
in his young adulthood.
Anyway, rather than leaving this image with the rest of my notes in a rough pencil form, (as so often happens), I thought it might be interesting to ink and color it so that it resembled the kind of finished luminosity that these strange, interloping ideas appear with when they materialize in my head in the middle of the night.
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Now, it is entirely possible that Rubel, Kim and Heath will not evolve into the kind of people pictured above. In fact, I am willing to bet they won't. When it comes time to write about the three of them at that age, (if Kim is even still around!), then I will have grown older and different as well, and who knows what will come out of my pencil then? As such, I really do like to take snapshots of ideas like this one when they come around, simply because I may never see them again. Windows within the mind open and close constantly, and it seems a shame not to share these things as I see them. --Of course, as with the clockwork warrior pictured here, (another product of a late-night inspirational session), sometimes these images do come 'true' after fashion, as those who have been reading the story up until this point will immediately recognize.
Hazy, late night muse sessions of this sort happen with a random sort of regularity, and indeed, I depend on them. People comment from time to time upon the unpredictability of the plot in Thieves & Kings. Many of the most significant changes in story direction are as a result of me sitting bolt-upright in bed at 2:30 A.M. and dashing for the light switch and a pencil. |
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