321: Return to the Garden of Evil
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Dear Patrons,
What a past couple of months! I do not want to burden you with details, but matters have transpired that had me close to losing my works and retiring. Personal drama, accidents, broken down equipment, and the nail in the coffin, a dead computer! However, it took a very long time, and many hours of troubleshooting to get things up and running again, but to make a long story short, I have finally recovered my works and built back my tools I needed to do my work. I wanted to make sure I have them all set up before I make another post, so I’m sorry for the radio silence. But I didn’t want to be one amongst the whiny bunch to share my plight without focusing on solving my issues first. Fighting these fires and tamp down real life drama instead of sitting in my cozy corner to write and draw without a care in the world has taken a lot out of me. But I can thankfully report that the worst part of it is over!
During this down-time where I was unable to work, I managed to touch base with the world of mainstream literature and read a handful of books, many of which I’ve added to the Repository of Mainstream Literature. It’s probably a good idea down the line to have a side hustle of being a book-recommender with my own promo-code and all but alas, I’ve not set that up yet!
And finally, I thank you all for sticking with me through these tough times, especially too with the holiday seasons coming up and many of you being a little strapped for cash after Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas spending. I hope I didn’t ruin the momentum I had built too earlier this year, and with a new resolution to pick things up once again to earn your valued patronage!
With this, there should be one more update by month’s end as I try to build momentum during this holiday season. Being late as I am with this update, I know I have lost a lot of memberships as many of you await my updates. Yet, I’ve continued to extend the moratorium for expired memberships but this should be the last one before I start managing memberships again. I hope to throw in two more but that would be overly optimistic and I do not want to make promises I can’t keep!
Now as I’m back to business after an unscheduled vacation, boys and I can finally report once again that meat’s back on the menu, boys. Bon Appétit!
The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.
I. CLAUSI CUM CLAVE
The following are pair of artworks from the story, OCCULTI VATICANI: CLAUSI CUM CLAVE. This one has the makings to be one epic tale and I hope you will enjoy it. First, the carving…
Image 1: (1 complete colored artwork)
… and next, the presentation!
Image 2: (1 complete colored artwork)
The following are scenes of the quivering quarry, still alive and fearing for her life.
Image 3-5: (3 works in progress of a similar scene)
Below are a pair of extra variations of the previously published artworks above… not so much new content, more as a bonus for the curious.
Image 6-7: (2 variations of a completed colored artwork)
II. DEATH OF A SHOWGIRL
I thought of capturing the moment here seeing that a popular pop star has released a new album and that I’ve done works related to her in the past. It’s funny to see the parallels of the symbolisms of real life intersecting the content of my works, as if these celebrities themselves have found inspiration in my works and decided to play along with it! Thus, this gives me a reason to revisit this story. This will be a teaser for the following update coming very soon!
Image 8: (1 colored & shaded work in progress)
III. THE FRUIT BASKET KILLER’S THANKSGIVING
Here are some sketched variation ideas I’m playing around for the story, FRUIT BASKET KILLER series, with one of his victims prepared befitting the Thanksgiving theme.
Image 9-15: (7 black & white sketched variations of a similar scene)
IV. BONUS “ROTISSERIE” SKETCHES
The full bird need not be served for the rotisserie for Thanksgiving. Here are some ideas for different kinds of cuts of meat sizzling in the oven. The first, I present you, the CRADLE CUT.
Image 16-17: (2 black & white sketched variations of a similar scene)
The second, the MAILLOT CUT with the rack designed to accent the roast’s prized assets.
Image 18-19: (2 black & white sketches of different angles of a similar scene)
And for this one, I relent… back to the full bird on the rack, but this time, with the head included.
Image 20: (1 black & white sketch)
Finally, here are a pair of MAILLOT CUT drawings being stuffed and violated before her date with the oven.
Image 21-22: (2 black & white sketched variations of a similar scene)