Discworld Wiki

Ah some good news to brighten my afternoon!  My `The Cunning Man' painting is now on display at the Discworld Wiki site.  While I know it's not exactly a lucrative publishing deal, as an amateur & aspirational artist to have one of my little pieces of work chosen for illustration purposes thrills me to bits!

Bleak Mid-winter

The horrendous commute to work this morning makes me realise I would paint for a living for a substantial pay reduction rather than have to deal with the aggression & thuggery of the UK's car drivers on a daily basis!

The Cunning Man

 I've long been a fan of Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.  When I read  `I Shall Wear Midnight' a few months ago I was struck by the rather sinister character known as `The Cunning Man', especially at the point where he first appears in the story.
I love the description of how he first manifests himself to our heroin Tiffany Aching seemingly from nowhere on a fine sunny day as she makes her way to the city of Ankh Morpork. There's a real presence of malevolent evil about the character.

The picture above is my attempt to depict the character at the point he makes his first appearance in the book.
Like a lot of my digital paintings I have created it using ArtRage 2.6 together with a Wacom tablet.  This is still a work in progress, for example I have expanded the picture to show a little more of the foreground (you can see his feet) & I have made other alterations here & there.  There is a possibility that the version shown above may appear on the Discworld Wiki site as an illustration, which I have to say I'm quite proud about!

If you wish to know more about The Cunning Man I heartily recommend ` I Shall Wear Midnight '.

I hope you enjoy viewing this painting.

Bye for now.

David

Skateboarding's Not a Crime!

Just been doing some tiling!

Just fooling around with a scan (& subsequently a `crop') of a photo that I originally shot waayyyyyy back in 1988.

Here's hoping you dig!

MT