#count of monte cristo
What do u mean it’s past Halloween—
I am back with more Monte Cristo goodness! I wanted to practice a comic style for my project. All in all, I’m happy with how this came out!
SPOILER WARNING for those who have not read the books!
Enjoythe pain
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idakiiler replied to your photoset “Initial character designs from the Count of Monte Cristo. These are…”
Great work, but I would just point out that the count is famous for his ghostly white skin, because of his lack of sun in the prison.
Thank you!
AND THIS IS TRUE (believe me, I’ve thought about this quite a bit). But in the end, I decided that it just felt right to me to have the Count be mixed. As significant as his paleness is in the novels, it’s not exactly necessary. Countess G can still regard him as a vampire (due to the fact that he hardly eats, sleeps, owns an underground mansion, is shrouded in mystery, the list goes on).
So unless something spectacular is lost by having the Count be a MoC, imma just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What I had hoped would be my last artwork of 2017 became my first of 2018. Oh well. Some more MC early (VERY early) concepts because there are too many characters to go through omskgkj!
Ignore the failed alternative Noirtier, that hairstyle is a big noooooo….. I will find something better!
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Some more concepts! This time playing around with skin tones and hair colour more than anything. Featuring the baes, Edmond and Mercedes, then and now.
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Initial character designs from the Count of Monte Cristo. These are far from final and are subject to change but for now HERE HAVE A THING.
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Some early Haydée concepts. I tried to base her outfits on traditional Greek and Albanian costumes that I found scattered around the net. + 7 + );;
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I first read Gormenghast in 2003/4ish?? during my first or second year of university. The edition I had was a tome; the complete edition. Published in digest format (5.5"x8.5"). In addition to the three books, it also included the short story, Boy in Darkness, and final fragment Titus Awakes,
I was thinking about Gormenghast today, which is why i’m writing this now. How the book is so steeped in ritual. The subplot with the Poet especially. But also about the book is also a kind of pre-war class commentary too.
I remember hauling that damn book around with me in my back pack for weeks.
Reading it on the bus, on the train, in cafes, in the park and even in queues for gigs. It was a book read in segments of time that get filled with meaningless scrolling on my phone.
I read The Count of Monte Cristoand Dead Souls this way too. Snatches of narrative and progress unfolded amidst the in-between moments of daily life.
I don’t remember the last time I read a book in this way. It makes me want to leave my phone at home.
Gudako despairing over Gacha while Edmond going extra with the cheering….
Also, Head Nurse had enough of their bullshit
