Tuesday, April 15, 2008

A memory from another time...

I read a touching story recently where one of the characters died. Now this character had never given any hint of his backstory up to this point, but then the protagonist found, tucked deep in the character's bloodied sleeve, an old worn photograph of a family long lost (dead), in a time before the protagonist had met him. One little sliver of a happy memory.

My interest was so piqued by this little reveal in the plot, that I wanted to sketch what I imagined the photo to look like, and it sort of went from there:

1 comment:

Unknown said...

what a great idea! i hadn't thought about taking something i've read and illustrating it in a long time. thanks for resparking that idea!