I’m Having So Much Fun Creating The Cells For Veil Of The Gods. I Forget To Post Them For You To See.

Inspiration.

Kali (Gerald Brom)

This pair are two characters from Veil of the Gods. He is Namkia Nam and she is Zagger Shkeet. They're also our avatars, sculpted in 3D and ready to drop into whatever Metaverse will have them.

I'm having a lot of fun sculpting avatars.

The final Creations are pouring out of me.

The process of creating a huge graphic novel like Veil of the Gods hasn’t just involved writing the story, sculpting the characters and preparing the digital artworks. I’ve also been creating typefaces. This was a hobby of mine 20 years or so ago. In 1996 I designed the font for my little book- The Moon on the Lake- published by Random House. Then I typeset the whole book with it. I mention this because it’s such a pleasure to have an excuse to build new typefaces. The graphic novel is full of them. Indeed these various typefaces are integral to the story… Here’s the proof page for two I finished today. They’re inspired by Tibetan scripts.

Inspiration.

Vasilisa Romanenko

The Japanese woodblock artist Hiroshi Yoshida ( 1876-1950 ) has been a huge influence on my approach to creating the graphic novel- Veil of the Gods. When I was researching the origins of graphic stories I found myself inevitably drawn to Japan where the art of graphic storytelling has been perfected over many hundreds of years. I’ve never seen one of Yoshida’s prints in the flesh, so to speak. I’ve only ever looked at them in books or online. I’d love to drink in the colours up close… Here’s a few of my favourite pieces by this master.

Inspiration.

Konjikido in Snow, Hiraizumi, Hasui Kawase, 1957

I've been away from Veil of the Gods and Ziggetai for a while. Mainly that's because I've been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. It's a roller coaster. Who knows what might happen?

After pondering the enormity of this situation for some weeks I sat down to create a magical glyph. This graphic spell is designed and intended to draw in life force energy and convert it to health and wealth and joy.

In my graphic novel, "Veil of the Gods", Glyphs are one aspect of a vast magical technology that encompasses all the creative arts. This technology is called Mahjuti. Mastery of these symbols and the creation of new ones takes a lifetime of dedicated study, practice and experimentation.