I’ve fallen behind on posting lately, for which I apologize (mostly to myself). There was a wedding one week, and a graduation the next, with lots of lab time in between. Meanwhile, Sara and I have discovered (and gotten completely sucked into) “Battlestar Galactica.” And on top of it all, I find myself with the responsibility of writing and organizing a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, a bit of a challenge considering the fact that neither I nor any of my three players have played the game before (apart from a few trial sessions).
In short, I’ve let myself get somewhat distracted from writing and drawing. It’s not the end of the world, I know. But it did feel good to pick up a pencil again the past night or two, if only a little bit at a time.
On the subject of fantasy games, I have been seriously jonesing for the original Final Fantasy on the NES.
Sorcerers will destroy you.
Deciphering the graphics of old video games was almost a game in unto itself sometimes. It’s fun trying to tease out what details were intended in their economy of pixels. I’m not sure how long it took for me to realize as a kid that those were tentacles coming out of their faces. It might not have been until after my brother first got his D&D books, and I made the connection with the Mind Flayers.
Let’s try a couple different angles:
And while we’ve got a bunch of squidlips up, here’s a sketch from a little while back:
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