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Post by krue on Mar 20, 2008 22:05:50 GMT -5
Have you seen the new sketch of Pajo and Crimson? I was quite impressed with it and had to post it! Pajo looks a little older than he would be in the first book, however. The artist, David Morris, is a good friend of ours from England. We met him in San Francisco and he read Pajo on the plane ride back to the UK.
What do you guys think? Is this what you imagined when you read Pajo?
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Post by bookworm579 on Mar 22, 2008 20:14:17 GMT -5
I thought his face looked kind of like an andalite, and he was a little too muscular. I thought he should be skinnier, since he lives in a forest and eats bugs... Other than that, I thought it was pretty cool.
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Post by swordmaid on Mar 25, 2008 19:36:37 GMT -5
He looks like a monkey...or maybe a fuzzy, monkey faced human. I'm not sure I like it, he needs more fur....all over... I think the muscular-ness is ok, just maybe not so thick. More wiry.
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Post by krue on Mar 26, 2008 10:41:11 GMT -5
I agree with you both when you say that he should be a little skinnier. I see this as an older Pajo, perhaps 19 years old. In 'Pajo' he is at that awkward stage...an awkward stage for a potheem would be pretty nasty, I think!...
Given his diet for the four years prior to 'Pajo', he would probably be a bit slimmer. Although muscular I like.
The face is the most difficult thing for artists to draw. Pajo truly is an ugly creature. Most artists want to make him more cute and fuzzy. It's a natural tendency of ours to have a main character that appeals to you aesthetically. I think David did a great job of showing that this character is not one that may ever think is 'cute'. Pajo has a significant boundary to dealing with others because of his appearance.
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Post by swordmaid on Mar 29, 2008 15:06:27 GMT -5
I liked the way his face looked in the other drawings. I especially liked the one where he's wearing the cloak...he looked all windblown and mysterious and brave. Ahem.  |
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Post by krue on Mar 31, 2008 18:12:55 GMT -5
David Morris has sketched another one for us! It's a group pic of 'The Prince's Orphans'! I'll be sure to post it on the blog soon.
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Post by swordmaid on Apr 4, 2008 18:46:56 GMT -5
Hurray for sketches!
Ow. My knee hurts. It's purple. And green. And red. And painful. And ouch. Dadgummed horse.
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Post by krue on Apr 5, 2008 12:31:42 GMT -5
I am convinced that horses are a dangerous breed...bookworm got knocked around by a horse a few days ago as well.
Your knee sounds lovely! Such pretty colors...
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Post by krue on Apr 5, 2008 13:24:24 GMT -5
Oh, and there is a new sketch on the website! David Morris drew all four of the main characters--or, The Prince's Orphans. Hope you guys like it. Let me know what you think.
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Post by swordmaid on Apr 6, 2008 13:34:23 GMT -5
Aye, I was riding Frosty and she rammed my leg into a fence. And to top it all off, it was sunburned on Friday when I went to the beach. So now there's a red patch (see the full story here: greenleavesofpaper.blogspot.com/2008/04/shazam.html). No more purple...it's faded to brown and yellow and green. And a not so lovely scab where the very top layer of skin was torn and then sunburned. *grimace* I just checked the sketches. I don't much like Jetha's lips...I'm not sure why. *snickers* Mikah's calves are a bit out of proportion with the rest of him. Hee. ;D And no offense to Mr. Morris if I'm being a bit harsh, but Pajo's face (and head-hair) is starting to look like they belong to the slicked-back-hair-continually-falling-in-the-face-of-the-guy-named-Mark-in- Beethoven. I'm sorry, but it does not fit Pajo's character at all. |
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Post by krue on Apr 7, 2008 10:18:21 GMT -5
Hmmm...I thought the body of Pajo in the group picture was very good. I think that I liked the face of the sketch that David did of the lone Pajo the best so far. It was partially covered, but you could tell that it was ugly. I loved it! It seemed to convey the dichotomy of Pajo's dark and frightening exterior with his genlte and meek interior.
David e-mailed me again and said that he is still working on different sketches that deal with 'Pajo'! He does these just for a distraction from working on the Comic-Expo website (www.comicexpo.net)! If I hadn't mentioned it before, David Morris is the Associate Producer of the largest convention of the popular arts in the United Kingdom! It's sort of like Comic-Con...but with an accent...
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Post by swordmaid on Apr 7, 2008 16:35:15 GMT -5
I love accents. I also love to imitate them. Speaking of comics, I hear from book you're quite the Marvel fan. |
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Post by krue on Apr 8, 2008 10:02:34 GMT -5
I had a *huge* 70-80's Marvel collection! Literally thousands of comics! I actually had them shipped to England when I lived over there. I sold them to a collector for a fair amount of quid. Sometimes I almost regret it, though. Most of my childhood was spent between those pages.
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Post by krue on Apr 8, 2008 10:08:09 GMT -5
I suppose that's one of the reasons why I enjoy seeing these characters of my own creation illustrated in that particular format. I can see them with a 'Harry Potter' cover-art look, or a 'Charlie Bones' cover-art look, or even a 'Where the Monsters Are' illustrations look. But David's illustrations really hit home for me due to my past collections.
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Post by swordmaid on Apr 8, 2008 17:49:24 GMT -5
What did you have? Captain America, Blade, Daredevil, Spider-woman? I like 'em, although pretty much all I know about Marvel I learned from the Spidey movies (and some of the comics) and Ultimate Alliance. ;D
One thing I'm wondering...how is it that the Prince's Orphans is going to presented at Comic-con? I mean, it's not exactly a comic book (is it?). But then I've never been to Comic-con, so I don't know all that goes on there. Is it the sort of thing one must have tickets for?
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Post by krue on Apr 8, 2008 18:58:32 GMT -5
I had a collection that spanned twenty years (between my brother and I...he passed it down to me) in Captain America, SpiderMan, Avengers, Defenders, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Marvel Two-In-One, and Marvel Team Up. Ultimate Alliance, by the way, is a great game... Comic-Con started out as a comics-only convention, but as the genre spread out to include other forms of art, it was represented at Comic-Con. So now it is considered the largest representation of the "popular arts". So now you'll find comics, movies, novels (my favorite local bookstore--Mysterious Galaxy--always has a booth there), and video games are all mixed in together in one huge convention center! All for the low, low price of $15.00. You can look it up at www.comic-con.org. |
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Post by krue on Apr 8, 2008 19:09:15 GMT -5
The booth at WonderCon did very well this year. I'm hoping that I will have an equally good reception at Comic-Con. The two are very similar, only Comic-Con is about five-to-six times larger!
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Post by swordmaid on Apr 9, 2008 18:04:26 GMT -5
Woo hoo!
Are you trying to talk me into coming? It's in San Diego, isn't it?
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Post by krue on Apr 9, 2008 21:37:52 GMT -5
It most certainly is! It's being held July 24-27 this year at the convention center. It will have approximately 130,000 attendees this year from just about everywhere in the world. Just make sure you bring some comfortably shoes for walking...
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Post by swordmaid on Apr 11, 2008 15:31:04 GMT -5
*whistles* 130,000 attendants at $15 each, that's...........quite a bit of money.
Your collection sounds pretty sweet. Why did you sell it? And is a quid an actual note or more of a general term?
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Um, that's your trainer
