A picture can say a thousand words, or so the saying goes. But is it true? You decide.
Cordan left the old man snoring and made his down down through the clutteryard, hands shoved deep in his pockets. Piles of scrap metal lined the path, rusting ships, smashed towers, bits of cranes and buggies; anything metal you could think of came here to die. Cordan kicked a hub cap off the path absently and listened to the ensuing crash of whatever it had hit falling over.
The antennae towers loomed ahead, twisting spires of metal rearing high up over the surrounding piles. Lines draped from one to another, ladders hung here and there, and everything seemed connected to something else, so that the final effect was of a giant spiderweb of rusting metal suspended over the clutteryard. And if the antennas made a spiderweb, then Reese was the spider, a tiny body hanging upside down from a ladder, his shock of dirty blonde hair ruffled by the breeze.
It's always fun to try to paint the image in your mind across a canvas, be the medium what it may.
But out of curiosity, do any of you use strange or interesting mediums to paint what's in your mind's eye? Or am I just a wierdo? :)
Heh, I can't draw, paint, or even hold a pen straight, so my artistic expressino is limited solely to prose, poetry and the occasional sing-song in my wonky off-tune-without-guidance voice, hehe.
ReplyDeleteI think it's really cool that you use different mediums though :)
Hahahaha! I love it. Sometimes I do that with legos...not often though since we don't have enough fantasy pieces. I draw quite a lot and have a sketchbook dedicated to book scenes and characters that I've decided to draw. I've also been wanting to paint characters...oil paint. But nothing that wacko. Haha.
ReplyDeleteI like to draw, but I'm horrible at it. I like writing stories, poetry, and songs...and I'd like to learn to sing one day. XD
ReplyDeleteI don't have Legos, or I'd probably do stuff with that too.
Now that is just sad, Eru. You don't have Legos?! I am so sorry. Legos were what I grew up on! ;-)
DeleteHeh. I grew up with Lincoln Logs and and Breyer horses. They were my mediums back then. Now I usually stick to pen or charcoal. I draw my scenes and also maps so that I don't get completely disoriented.
ReplyDeleteI said they went left? So is that north or south depending on the last coordinance I gave? Does that mean that they're getting out of the city, or just making a huge loop?
Yeah, detailed maps are important to me so I don't make a major directional error (since my characters move around quite a bit). I drew every location in my story and displayed the characters' routes, where they stopped, how many chapters they were there, etc.
My medium now? Drawing. Maps. An occasional documentary.
Oh, and music. I like to compose soundtracks for my stories sometimes. It helps me understand them better, for some reason.
DeleteAwesome mediums, guys. Or gals, for that matter. I draw many of my characters in pencil or sharpie as well, maybe I'll post a few up here. And maps are awesome. I need to draw one up for Deep Red, which could be tricky, consider the Cluster consists of large chunks of rock floating in space. Space map, anyone?
ReplyDeleteAnd Aubrey, while I don't compose soundtracks for my novels, I most certainly do for my movies!
I usually keep my characters firmly rooted to the ground––not floating around in space. 3-D map?
DeleteYou should definitely post your drawings. That helps enormously with visualizing the characters!
As for the soundtracks, have you posted them anywhere? If you have, I'll have to check them out!
Miss Aubrey, I know not who you are, but I certainly relate with you! I have been recently composing a score for one of my screenplays, one dear to my heart, and it has created an entirely new dimension to the story. Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I understand completely. I've been composing for as long as I've been playing music––eleven years. I even composed a piece for my very first piano recital because I was bored of Twinkle Twinkle. ;)
DeleteI love experimenting on the piano and on my viola and on my dad's many guitars. There are so many incredible sounds! Capturing a simple melody that is both gentle, but can also be transformed into awe inspiring is one of my favorite achievements. When the last note falls into place and you know that your score is complete...It's amazing. And when I listen back, I can hear the story through the notes, even though there aren't any words.
Good luck on your screenplay!
You summarized it. Just replace the viola with a French Horn and the guitars with some orchestral synths and there I am!
DeleteI'm so grateful that my very generic cell phone has a recorder on it, because I always seem to come up with the best themes in my head at the most unfortunate times. Thankfully, all I have to do is flip it open and hum into it like a wierdo!
Keep composing! God bless.
~ Breggo