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Lost Art - Little Fires Cover
🕑 Added 2021-12-12 23:01:50 +0000 UTCI've been making an effort to go through old art folders. I've wanted to start organizing things a little better, but I also have a lot of art and characters that have been largely consigned to the bit-rot folder inside my skull, often forever lost to the void that is the failed neurological meatball that is my brain.
This image is one such find. It was in a folder labeled 'comic2' and apparently I had planned on some kind of mini black-and-white comic featuring the gnomish lady above. The folder even contained a template and a title-graphic(!?) called 'Little Fires'.
I don't know what the name is of the explorer in this picture. She might have been a prelude to Ellythistle as this was around the early 2018 mark (ah, the pre-plague times). I don't know if her name is 'Little Fires' or if that's just the name I was giving the series. The only other notes I had in the folder were some mundane 'gutter and bleed' sizes for comic pages, and a few notes stating that the character was a 'barbaric, tribal mountain-gnome on a heavy-metal journey between Trampier-esque points of light and dark'
I ponder if I was drunk when I came up with the concept, wrote the notes, and promptly forgot about it. (I probably wasn't. I don't really get drunk, but whatever the hell I was thinking sure was more caffeine-induced than I'm used to).
I figure I owed it to the now lost little lady to ink the picture and share it. It was in a fairly rough sketch state, but I managed to rescue it, at least briefly, from the swirling drain that a lot of these folks disappear into. The project is probably dead and gone forever, but at least the cover of 'issue one' survived :)
-T.J.
"Don't forget to paint the boat with bread, Wally. Dad said he'd be home any minute."
Comments
MishaFox
I've found random notes of my own occasionally. In some long forgotten file and wondered "What the @#$%^ is this?"
David J.
This one would certainly quest with her if she'd have us. Skyrim could certainly use some gnomish folk (along with a few of your other creations) that's for sure.
Perfesser Bear
Well, she's certainly of Ellythistle's clan, if not a close relative. Somewhat dangerous and still cute. I occasionally run across text or Word files on my computer while looking for other things. Ideas from projects I started and abandoned for one reason or another. One or two I've polished and posted on Fur Affinity or sometimes DeviantART. One had to be extricated from a overarching story and cleaned up (quite successfully) and thrown to the wolves. I've found a couple of (non-furry) stories I'd like to publish, probably in an anthology type thing.
