{"id":1752,"date":"2015-08-05T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2015-09-15T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T10:25:09","slug":"bas-lag-and-fantasy-wild-west-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2015\/08\/bas-lag-and-fantasy-wild-west-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Bas-Lag and fantasy Wild West sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well it’s been a few months since I posted anything on my website\/blog; I’ve loads of mini-projects on the go that become huge undertakings without a deadline! Here are some examples of several of these from a few years back.<\/p>\n

On the left are some characters I was having difficulty placing in a world so I was trying them out in a fantasy Wild West setting. On the right hand side is a Cactus Man from China Mi\u00e9ville’s Bas-Lag<\/em> world. I’m a fan of China Mi\u00e9ville’s novels, (though I haven’t read them all) and I thought it would be fun to try and depict a Cactus Man from Perdido St. Station. I always liked the Symbolist movement and Odilon Redon’s work Cactus Man<\/em> http:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/odilon-redon\/cactus-man-1882<\/a> is a classic example of his slightly creepy and surreal drawings so I tried to incorporate a sense of that into my sketch.
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The next pages follow on, more experiments with a fantasy Wild West theme, a Wyrman. See here for a list of China Mi\u00e9ville’s Bas-Lag creations https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bas-Lag<\/a> and some high-fantasy characters I was working on.
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I returned to the ideas again in my next sketchbook, I might have been reading The Scar<\/em> at the time – this time I was considering a New Crobuzon https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Crobuzon<\/a> scene with various lowlifes (a fat criminal boss, his bouncer and hired thaumaturge, that sort of thing). On the opposite page are more doodles of Vodyanoi (frog-men from Russian folklore) who are another race in Bas-Lag. There’s also an idea for a Gundam\/Starcraft type exo-suit in the middle.
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China Mi\u00e9ville’s ideas are all copyright him, this is just fan art and in no way intended to breach copyright.<\/p>\n

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Well it’s been a few months since I posted anything on my website\/blog; I’ve loads of mini-projects on the go that become huge undertakings without a deadline! Here are some examples of several of these from a few years back. On the left are some characters I was having difficulty placing in a world so … Continue reading Bas-Lag and fantasy Wild West sketches<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,5],"tags":[215,214,213],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-fantasy","category-sketchbook-pages","category-steampunk","tag-bas-lag","tag-fantasy-wild-west","tag-new-crobuzon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}