Inspiration.

I've been quiet about my work for a while. Mostly because I've been practicing some techniques. And I’ve still got a long way to perfecting those techniques, BTW. I just thought I'd share... Mahjeena Jahrool Of all the Mahjeem, Jahrool is the most enigmatic, and the least mentioned, character from the old stories. Yet, she was likely one of the most gifted Mahjuti practitioners to have ever lived. At least, that’s what the word was in every tavern from Purush to Kusht. The truth was a little less impressive, though quite unique, in its own way. Jahrool had a blue Azuranium crystal ball. And with that ball she could see into the spirit worlds and the subtle sub-worlds beyond. And she rarely, if ever, liked what she saw. Still shot from the upcoming animated Oracle Deck, The Mahjuti Cards

A still from the previous animation.

Inspiration.

Kasamatsu Shiro (Japanese, 1898 - 1991)

"Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond", 1938.

Woodblock Print, 38,6 × 26,5 cm.

The process of creating a huge graphic novel like Veil of the Gods hasn’t just involved writing the story, sculpting the characters and preparing the digital artworks. I’ve also been creating typefaces. This was a hobby of mine 20 years or so ago. In 1996 I designed the font for my little book- The Moon on the Lake- published by Random House. Then I typeset the whole book with it. I mention this because it’s such a pleasure to have an excuse to build new typefaces. The graphic novel is full of them. Indeed these various typefaces are integral to the story… Here’s the proof page for two I finished today. They’re inspired by Tibetan scripts.

Theo Metaxis, a.k.a. the Metamahjee, is a philosopher, traveller and supremely experienced practitioner of the arcane science of Mahjuti. He was once a loyal servant of the Emperor of Purush but after a falling out Metaxis was declared an outlaw, a heretic and apostate. The powerful Religious Sect known as the White Jattamansi have placed a price on his head, but Theo always has a trick or two in store for their hired assassins.

Available for collection on HicEtNunc - https://hicetnunc.art/objkt/563302

A 1/3 piece - From the collection of characters from the upcoming graphic novel series, Veil Of The Gods. Big things coming. Follow to stay updated :-)

I’ve been busy. A couple of my novels have been taking up all my time, so Veil of the Gods has had to go on the back-burner for a while. I’m still working away on this project and it’s got me hooked. And I can’t wait to share the next chapter with you all.

Here's my Veil of the Gods sketch for today. Lt. Qureen Sah- Pilot, medico and all round dark horse. There's something she's not telling us.