The golden tree and the gate to nowhere.
Categories: artwork, books, and-another-thing, general-stuff
Tags: Paul Kercal, Pixelmator, Artwork
Date: 06 May 2009 07:37:09
The tree is back and it's time for a little backstory :)
So there's a competition going on in America for comic artists or writers to create a spin on a fairy tale. I'm doing something... hopefully unexpected, although I am riffing on something quite obvious in ways. We'll see.
What I AM trying to do, while doodling ideas out, is create a number of ideas which could have been fairy tales and are accepted as real life to the inhabitants of a particular world and this picture led to a story and that whole idea coming to be: in the story of the pic greedy elves trick people into giving gold at the base of a tree that they have lined the bark with golden thread. Should the person give the right amount of gold the gate will open and the tree will turn to solid gold and follow the traveller home. Someone outsmarts them and explains a counter tale he has heard that if gold is buried at the roots of a tree like the one the elves have then the leaves will all turn into a variety of precious metals and make them all rich. The greedy elves all dig as fast as they can and, when the hole is deep enough they climb out to find that the traveller has taken all of the gold they tricked people out of and gone far, far away.
So at least someone was happy at the end of the story, maybe he even gave the money to the poor, who knows?
All of which bounced into my mind a: as soon as I saw the gold lines in the picture, b: when I really should be doing other things and c: very therapeutically.
Righto, off to teach x 2 and meeting x 2. Should be fun I'm sure..........