Franz - Tumblr Posts

Tutte le persone che incontrarono Franz Kafka nella giovinezza o nella maturità, ebbero l’impressione che lo circondasse una «parete di vetro». Stava là, dietro il vetro trasparentissimo, camminava con grazia, gestiva, parlava: sorridendo come un angelo meticoloso e leggero; e il suo sorriso era l’ultimo fiore nato da una gentilezza che si donava e si tirava subito indietro, si spendeva e si chiudeva gelosamente in sé stessa. Sembrava dire: «Sono come voi. Sono uno come voi, soffro e gioisco come voi fate». Ma, quanto più partecipava al destino e alle sofferenze degli altri, tanto più si escludeva dal gioco, e quell’ombra sottile di invito e di esclusione sul margine delle labbra assicurava che egli non avrebbe mai potuto essere presente, che abitava lontano, molto lontano, in un mondo che non apparteneva nemmeno a lui.

Pietro Citati (via nightsoutro)

"Pes ettiğimden değil, olmayacağını gözüme soka soka gösterdiğin için vazgeçtim."

Franz Kafka

Milena'ya mektuplar

Benimle onun arasında kaldıysan, onu seç Milena.

Neden?

Çünkü beni gerçekten sevseydin, bir seçenek olarak görmezsin Milena

Franz Kafka

Milena'ya mektuplar

I write this very decidedly out of despair over my body and over a future with this body

Franz Kafka, 1910 Diaries

Sketchavember 2012 - Part 1!

I missed doing Inktober because I was super-busy, so I decided to try to ink all my Sketchavember pictures instead. Last year I tried to draw all my characters, in age order, so I picked up where I left off. Then sort of wombled off topic. Anyway these are:

1 - Blackthorn, an elf in the Tolkein mold. I never did much with her but I quite like her design.

2 - Louise! She's got her own tag if you want more pictures of her. She lives in a pre-industrial time and has many encounters with fairies.

3 - Louise again. I was reading Hemlock and tried to draw her in the same style.

4 - And again! I'm not sure what happened to your face here Louise but I promise I'll never do it again! Louise is one of my characters in an arranged marriage, but she and Edward get on quite well. He doesn't believe in magic before they marry, and is much more uncomfortable with magic and the supernatural than she is.

5 - Franz, who doesn't appear very often on account of being hard to draw. He's very proud and hates showing any kind of weakness. He probably checked nobody was watching before blowing on his hands like that.

6 - Jemima, who appears more often on account of being fun to dress up.  She has very low self-esteem and is bullied by her 'friends'.

7 - And then it was Friday so I drew Marceline the Vampire Queen!

8 - Lucas didn't come out great last year, so I tried again. This is much more on-model, although I still haven't worked out where his scars go.

9 - This is Lucas's sister, Lena, who has the gift of prophecy.

10 - At this point I'd started watching Gundam Wing, and had to try very hard not to just draw fanart for every subsequent picture. I could not resist drawing everyone's favourite pilot though.

Part 2 next week!

(Yeah yeah I know Sketchavember was months ago, but my scanner is old and senile and it took me a long time to get these onto my laptop.)

I found some old marker tests that I never shared! These were basically tests for how best to get skin tones with my limited range of marker colours, but I’m still pretty pleased with how the characters look. Especially Franz (the blond covered in blood). Even though he’s my character I find him nearly impossible to draw, and that picture is the only one that really looks like him. I only remembered I never shared these because I was trying to draw him and it would not go right and I had to dig out this picture for reference. I’m sorry Franz, I try.

Inktober 2017 : Day 4 - fineliners and felt tip pen

Here’s someone we don’t see often (because he’s too hard for me to get on-model), Franz! Prompted by my nose being in bloody tatters after four days of this cold.

Inktober 2018 : Day 12 - fountain pentel and felt tip pen Given how often I draw it you could be forgiven for thinking that Franz spends most of his life maiming people with his bare hands, but I’m actually drawing the same scene over and over. I think I’m starting to get the hang of the fountain pentel, which I have affectionately nicknamed ‘the splatter pen’. There’s something nice about the scrappy lines it makes.

Inktober 2019: day 6 - brush inking and coloured ink

One foot in front of the other, repeat as necessary.

I inked this with some rigger brushes that I’ve never been brave enough to use before, they have minds of their own!

Here’s the rest of them! Right at the end of this month I decided I had run out of time, so the real life sketchbook has a few pages painted flat black between these.

I feel a lot better this year, but I have a couple of strategies planned in case things go badly again. I might go as small as A7 if a whole page is too daunting, and in the limit if I really can’t do anything on a given day I’ll paint it black again. That way I won’t have a backlog - either it’s done or it’s not.

Inktober is may favourite art event of the year so I hope this time goes better!