Nero the Sable

you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young,whatever life you wear

it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.
Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need:
i can entirely her only love

whose any mystery makes every man's
flesh put space on;and his mind take off time

that you should ever think,may god forbid
and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:
for that way knowledge lies,the foetal grave
called progress,and negation's dead undoom.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
-E.E. Cummings

Seriously, this is my favorite poet. He is such a pervert but I think he has some nice romantic things that get me in the drawing mood. This is another picture from my story, “Confessionale Dell'elevatore” right before the elevator door closes.

I probably should have mentioned this in the last picture. I’ve started drawing Nero and Weiss with longer faces (you probably noticed if you looked at the rest of my junk) – which I think really… really works with my style of drawing in a good way. I used to give them squat faces which I think was an improvement to some of the crud I used to do. This longer look really achieves the pretty-boy look I’m going for a lot better than just adding longer eye lashes and whatnot.

I’m not trying to be all like: I’m the man or anything. I just think it’s starting to look a little better. I swear I hate some of the crud I put up on here and it’s hard to say: “I’m proud of this” I just don’t say it because I could whine all day about how bad or what I think I did wrong.

I’m not horribly proud of this one either… but I drew the last picture like this and I wanted to see if I could do it again. Fortunately for me, I can do it. Some of the styles I try I can never seem to grasp all the way.

~Originally posted on November 16, 2006~