I love how stylistic this is. You know, it's not just "here. this is a manip. bleh." It's definitely got its own style and statement. Me loves

~Rudy

This is so cool! I haven't read the Dark Tower books in a few years, but I also loved Cuthbert's snarky humor.

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The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done...”
George Carlin

It's a Stephen King novel, no? I really need to read more of his books. I'm totally in love with that sky! The barren landscape is also very cool. What does the face coming out from the clouds mean? I love art inspired by novels. It's always great to see how people visualize the written word.

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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real.
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

It's Stephen King's "Dark Tower Series". 7 books which he called "My answer to Lord of the rings". This story will make you to love the author or hate him completely. My friend who was a fan before, read "The Gunslinger", the first book, and said: "The old man lost his mind. I can't read this crap". And I mindlessly fell in love with it from the first pages. The world King created here captured me.
It's hard to explain what the face means... The original idea was to surround the rook's skull with scary visions, like it was radiating them. To illustrate the part of the book where he, being the only realist and a bit of jealous bastard, can sense the danger. But the visions distracted the attention from the tower completely. So I left one face as a symbol of the death hanging over him.
lol I wasn't sure I would be able to finish it. Because you want one of your favorite characters to look exactly how you imagined him. I would use young Johnny Depp or Christian Bale if I did it for Creative only. And Cuthbert is 14-15 in "Wizzard and Glass". I looked through *all* male stock pages here. I clicked "browse male stock" and clicked "next" until the search results were over. Then I found a face, captured my sister's classmate, dressed him in my cowboy coat... He fought like a hero. But we told him he'd have a different face and he calmed down. If you only could see the face he made on original picture, little bastard.
Thank you, hun.

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"Just relax, that's what Jesus would do" -- Robbie Williams, "Sin Sin Sin"

You mean, you didn't read the final part? It came out last year here. Stephen King's books occupy 2 shelves in my room and I don't think there is something he wrote I didn't read yet, but the final was a total surprise. He wrote a final in Chuck Palahniuk's fashion. I was so shocked, I cried from shock. And I want "Dark Tower" the movie.
So you remember Bert, too? There is not much of him in the books, but he's so easy to remember.
Thank you.

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"Just relax, that's what Jesus would do" -- Robbie Williams, "Sin Sin Sin"

Thank you, Rudy. Really great compliment. I'm glad you liked.

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"Just relax, that's what Jesus would do" -- Robbie Williams, "Sin Sin Sin"

No, I didn't read the final part. I have this thing where... if I don't read it, then nothing terrible happened, so I can live in oblivious comfort. I don't like endings.

I wonder who they'd cast in a movie version...

You're welcome!

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The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done...”
George Carlin

I love it, you definitely captured the feel of the dark tower, but for that doesnt really give me a feel of cuthbert as much as it does the crimson king, or whoever it was that went crazy and shoved a spoon down his throat and ran off to the dark tower. That's goin to give me some inspiration on him if I paint him. And yea I finished Eddie but i dont want to put him up here he seems really unfinished to me still and bland compared to Susannah, dont want to disappoint you.

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we await our eventual downfall

Thank you. I'm not pushing your muse, I'll try to be patient (sighs). I Eddie. I tried to address the books for inspiration, mostly it helped. But Mr.King isn't really acurate with descriptions. "Wizard and Glass" starts with Cuthbert having black hair, a few pages after he has it brown and in original poem which is given in the end of the last book he's a blonde.

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"Just relax, that's what Jesus would do" -- Robbe Williams