About a Lost Cat and Mechanical Chess Pieces

It’s morning, slept late after working the past few days on a piece and trying my hand at self-promotion and marketing.  As I mentioned in my previous blog entry, self-promotion has never been my forte, but you are never to old to learn I suppose.

Usually when I am working on the drawing board I listen to either music or podcasts. I have been following the No Sleep Podcast for quite some time.  Not only is the No Sleep podcast well produced, if you are a fan of horror stories, you will find some well executed episodes that are well written with solid voice acting.

The other podcast that I have become a fan of is The Lost Cat.  It is hard to describe the Lost Cat podcast, its eccentric, surreal and a gem.  Some have compared it to if Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett all showed up at a party and began telling stories about a lost cat and their attempts to find him. The writer Andrew P. Clarke, who resides in London, is also the narrator and  a song writer, singer and uses his talents in each episode and spins not only a hypnotic tale, but also interweaves a song that is often cryptic and soulful. Think if Tom Waits had a love child with Nick Cave.

In other news I finally finished The Red Knight pen and ink drawing I have been working on. I really pushed myself on this one, I confess there were moments that I also thought it wasn’t going to work. I learned a lot from the piece, also gave me ideas on how to define the pieces that will follow it.

The Red Knight is a minor character in Alice in Wonderland who kidnaps Alice momentarily and is rescued by the White Knight in a comical jousting match.  I decided to make the Red Knight a mechanical chess piece. Since I am doing a twisted version of Wonderland, I felt it would fit.  Now comes the clean up and digital coloring process then I will make it available on Tees, posters, prints etc.