April Commissions
Apr. 18th, 2022 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI got in touch with an artist about the Demon King commission. Maybe this is embarrassing to admit, but I labored over that email all weekend. I also spent an actually embarrassingly long time on a sketchy mock-up of the composition, which taught me that what I want is definitely beyond my own skill level... for now. I'm starting to understand where I need to be in order to draw illustrations myself instead of commissioning other artists, but I'm not sure how to get there. Anyway, this is a slightly edited version of how I described the story:
The Demon King is set in a postapocalyptic world filled with monsters. Ceres is queen who needs to be pragmatic and slightly evil in order to keep her kingdom from collapsing, while Ananth is a wizard who wants to recover a relic that will reverse the apocalypse but destroy the kingdom in the process. Ceres manipulates Ananth for political purposes, and Ananth allows Ceres to manipulate him so that he can eventually betray her. The story is essentially about how much people are willing to sacrifice to protect what they love.
Idk, I'm thinking about scraping the comedy elements of this story altogether. No great loss.
The artist said she'd accept the commission but that she currently has a backlog, which is fair. I therefore took the money I budgeted for this commission and used it for (this), a custom bookshelf illustration from (this artist). The theme of the books I asked him to illustrate is "Japanese suspense novels by female writers." If you're curious, these are the titles:
Natsuo Kirino, Real World
Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman
Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job
Mariko Koike, The Graveyard Apartment
Kanae Minato, Penance
Mitsuyo Kakuta, The Eighth Day
Miyuki Miyabe, All She Was Worth
Natsuko Imamura, The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Fumiko Enchi, Masks
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police
Idk man, I just love stories. I love art.
The Demon King is set in a postapocalyptic world filled with monsters. Ceres is queen who needs to be pragmatic and slightly evil in order to keep her kingdom from collapsing, while Ananth is a wizard who wants to recover a relic that will reverse the apocalypse but destroy the kingdom in the process. Ceres manipulates Ananth for political purposes, and Ananth allows Ceres to manipulate him so that he can eventually betray her. The story is essentially about how much people are willing to sacrifice to protect what they love.
Idk, I'm thinking about scraping the comedy elements of this story altogether. No great loss.
The artist said she'd accept the commission but that she currently has a backlog, which is fair. I therefore took the money I budgeted for this commission and used it for (this), a custom bookshelf illustration from (this artist). The theme of the books I asked him to illustrate is "Japanese suspense novels by female writers." If you're curious, these are the titles:
Natsuo Kirino, Real World
Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman
Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job
Mariko Koike, The Graveyard Apartment
Kanae Minato, Penance
Mitsuyo Kakuta, The Eighth Day
Miyuki Miyabe, All She Was Worth
Natsuko Imamura, The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Fumiko Enchi, Masks
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police
Idk man, I just love stories. I love art.
