A third and last glimpse of the The Cauldron webcomic that wasn’t.
Cauldron 2
Another sample of the Cauldron webcomic that I (barely) started back in 2002 (or 2003).
Cauldron 1
In 2003 (or maybe 2002) I decided to try to turn The Cauldron into a webcomic. The world of the story had changed a bit from the basic premise. No longer did it take place in what was basically a 20th century America with elves, vampires and other magical folks. Now the stories occurred in a world with a multitude of differently evolved intelligent primates. Half those primates evolved from lemurs. Half from apes. The stories still revolved around cops who had to solve magic related crimes.
Cauldron 1
In 2003 (or maybe 2002) I decided to try to turn The Cauldron into a webcomic. The world of the story had changed a bit from the basic premise. No longer did it take place in what was basically a 20th century America with elves, vampires and other magical folks. Now the stories occurred in a world with a multitude of differently evolved intelligent primates. Half those primates evolved from lemurs. Half from apes. The stories still revolved around cops who had to solve magic related crimes.
Oblivion Seas 3
A final three character portraits from my Oblivion Seas story outline.
The gent on the left is one of the sailors. The young man in the middle is the slave of the merchant featured yesterday. The fellow with the ruined face on the right is someone that our protagonists meet on their way into the sea of weed.
Oblivion Seas 2
Continuing from yesterday – more Oblivion Seas character portraits.
On the left is the First Mate, if my memory serves me correctly, the narrator of the original novel. In the center is a merchant, one of the Glenn Carig’s passengers. On the right is the merchant’s secretary. Both the merchant and the secretary are my additions to the story.
Oblivion Seas 1
Today’s, tomorrow’s and the day after tomorrow’s character portraits are all from 2000 or 2001. I was playing around with taking the Sargasso cartoon series idea and turning it into a comic of some sort. Sargasso was inspired by William Hope Hodgson’s The Boats of the “Glen Carrig”. “Inspired by” meaning that I took the general premise of the novel (shipwreck survivors encountering trapped ships and weird monsters in a sea of weed) and headed in a different direction.
Not too different a direction really. I thought the general premise was great but I wanted more weird creatures and more identifiable human characters. Most of the sailors in the story are nameless and even those with names don’t have much in the way of personality.
These portraits were done help me think of characters to populate the story with. I often find it easier to come up with character names and personalities after I’ve come up with character appearances. I don’t think I got as far as naming any of these gentlemen. The big guy on the left would be one of the regular sailors, the bearded fellow would probably be the bosun, and the young chap would be a cabin boy.
Three Creatures
The final three monsters (of nine) from 2000 or 2001.
The creature on the left is some sort of giant leech thing, inspired somewhat by the Flukeman in The X-Files and the giant leeches in Attack of the Giant Leeches. Giant Leeches freaked me out as a kid because it was one of the first movies I saw in which the monsters weren’t all destroyed by the end of the story. They were still out there, waiting to suck again.
In the middle is a version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
On the right is a Mummy. The Mummy is one of the “classic” monsters that I’ve never really understood the appeal of. Sure, if I were stalked by a relentless, reanimated corpse in real life I’d be plenty scared. But I’d be scared if I were attacked by giant flesh eating bunnies too. Lots of things that would scary in real life are not so scary in the movies. One of these days I’ll have to watch the original Karloff film to see what the appeal is. If nothing else Karloff is always entertaining.
Three Things
Three Monsters
I’m guessing these three monster portraits were done in 2000 or 2001. I know they were done at about the same time as the nine portraits of women that were posted over the previous three days. So those portraits might have been done in 2000 or 2001.
How do I know that these monsters were drawn before the women. Because, when I’m practicing, I always draw monsters first. Always. Some people sketch fruit. Some people draw sexy babes. I draw monsters to loosen up.
From right to left we have: a vampire, a werewolf and a zombie. But that was obvious wasn’t it?
