53 - 'Owl, with a theatric stagger ...'

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I'm busy tonight so I'll just get right down to praising myself. Notice the single line that is the outline of the skull. Very economic, I call it. Also, it ain't easy to take a couple of characters who started out in life as an egg and dart wallpaper design and raise them up into commanding presences on the Shakespearean stage. Notice how each eye of each character expresses a different emotion. (Except for the skull. I made one eye for him and did the old copy/paste to make the other. But he's dead so he won't mind.) Just look at those actions lines. You can really see the ... action.

So praise my art, you groundlings, you clapperclawed Flickr-combers!

Comments

[The Modesto Kid]

Am visualizing a speech balloon coming out of Squid's enormous forehead: "Alas, poor Yorick!"

[Chris Ashley]

I love Squid's two little legs he's standing on, with the rest for extravagant gesture.

[The Modesto Kid]

This would scan a little better:
"Stranger still the story gets,/ As on the stage, squid struts and frets." Right now you need to breathe for a beat before you say "On" -- is that called a cæsura? It sounds funny at the beginning of a line.

[v]

Is the shadow of dagger broad on the correct side?

That aside, I *^~praise~^* thee!

[jholbo]

Hmmm, it's not really a shadow per se. In the universe of Squid and Owl, most objects have little biomorphic shapes that float around them. Possibly these are ectoplasmic in nature, or are Schmoo-iform familiars associated with the character. I really could not say. But I do concede that making one that looks like a misplaced shadow, when it isn't really a shadow at all, might be a mistake.