Showing posts with label Discworld. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discworld. Show all posts
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Monday, February 6, 2012
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
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
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