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Mark of the Fae - An Exercise in Futility 1- 5

In his Memoir, "On Writing", Stephen King described his approach to writing as being like an archeologist extracting a skeleton from the ground. The story he was trying to write was the skeleton, and his job, he said, was to extract each bone, one at a time, as carefully as he could, and try to reconstruct it just as he found it.

Well, I'd make a lousy archeologist. I don't know what skeleton I found, or even how many, but this dig is a disaster and I don't recognize the creature I've assembled.

I'm posting here the majority of the (at last count) 126 "bones" of the sequence that "Mark of the Fae' came from. As I mentioned in the Artists Comments for that image, 'Mark of the Fae' is NOT the name of the sequence. It was the working title based on the main character's temporary name (they're all are named 'Mark' in my head while I'm working on a sequence). The images are in order of creation date for the key images--any variations of that image follow regardless of when it was done. This order will prevail until we get to page 4, but I'll wait to explain why it changes when we get there.

Not included in this compilation are images taken from this sequence and re-purposed for other projects, or images that were redone for technical reasons (correcting the line-art, drawn at the wrong resolution, etc.)

This page includes the 'concept' sketches done in 1981, an image from the initial sequence done in 2001, the color character model done in 2012, and the beginning of the colored sequence begun in May, 2015. The backgrounds used for panels 5-18 are a temporary one I often use made from a Poser render.

All but panels 1-3 are Poser Based Illustrations.
All colored images were done in Painter IX.5 (images 1 & 2 are done in pencil)
Compilation assembled in Comic Life Deluxe
Base images were rendered in Poser 7 and inked in Manga Studio 3

All images by Stephanie McG.

Description
Mark of the Fae - An Exercise in Futility 1- 5

In his Memoir, "On Writing", Stephen King described his approach to writing as being like an archeologist extracting a skeleton from the ground. The story he was trying to write was the skeleton, and his job, he said, was to extract each bone, one at a time, as carefully as he could, and try to reconstruct it just as he found it.

Well, I'd make a lousy archeologist. I don't know what skeleton I found, or even how many, but this dig is a disaster and I don't recognize the creature I've assembled.

I'm posting here the majority of the (at last count) 126 "bones" of the sequence that "Mark of the Fae' came from. As I mentioned in the Artists Comments for that image, 'Mark of the Fae' is NOT the name of the sequence. It was the working title based on the main character's temporary name (they're all are named 'Mark' in my head while I'm working on a sequence). The images are in order of creation date for the key images--any variations of that image follow regardless of when it was done. This order will prevail until we get to page 4, but I'll wait to explain why it changes when we get there.

Not included in this compilation are images taken from this sequence and re-purposed for other projects, or images that were redone for technical reasons (correcting the line-art, drawn at the wrong resolution, etc.)

This page includes the 'concept' sketches done in 1981, an image from the initial sequence done in 2001, the color character model done in 2012, and the beginning of the colored sequence begun in May, 2015. The backgrounds used for panels 5-18 are a temporary one I often use made from a Poser render.

All but panels 1-3 are Poser Based Illustrations.
All colored images were done in Painter IX.5 (images 1 & 2 are done in pencil)
Compilation assembled in Comic Life Deluxe
Base images were rendered in Poser 7 and inked in Manga Studio 3

All images by Stephanie McG.