Chapter IV: CCLV
I wasn’t going to use this one. It ended up being more an exercise in drawing a famous pose and thinking about how it feels to know someone you love and could have saved has been put in a jar on a shelf. So I decided to skip this one. But then again, since I’ve fallen behind on both this week’s comics and a Sunday one, here’s the one that didn’t quite make it.
I think it’s most appropriate… the hopeless black depression… Felix wonders what more he should have done… not yet consdiering that Mus’s life was his own responsibility, not Felix’s alone… Thanks for posting this one. It helps me deal with my own losses. Everybody has them…
I had given it a chapter category that would take it out of the sequence if someone were viewing the chapter as a whole.
But…I’m going to put it in the sequence, keep it as part of the story.
But, yes. There were many such thoughts on my mind when I was considering this installment.
I think it is okay. It shows that Felix is not a superman but a common man that has gone through a lot. He has recovered his son and now he believes that he has lost a brother.
I dread how he will take when he finds out that the only family he has left are his children, Mus and Iusta.
One time when he suffered a great bereavement he sat in the bottom of an amphora for a while. (Figuratively, that is. Some amphorae were quite large.) But he toughed his way through the next time when he had Iusta’s safety to watch out for. So it could go either way.
Klio, I think that the image is good but the trouble is with the left hand. It is missing some lines indicating that it is bending. Right now it looks out of place as if it belongs to a more erect posture.
I moved the hand back (away from the knee) from where it is in the original pose, which foreshortened it an awful lot. I usually try to avoid this sort of foreshortening for that very reason.
The you should consider placing an object beneath the hand so it does not hang in the air. The pose it has right now is one of support as in the sculpture, but there is nothing beneath the hand to provide support so it hangs there and in my opinion looks out of place.
any fiction that makes me cry is well done. This is the firstof your comics that did.
David-he babysat Mus when Mus was little. It’s hard for him not to feel responsible.
Thank you, Susan. I’m torn between wanting to apologise, and being moved that the comic was that moving to someone.
you did a great thing. don’t apologise for making your imaginary friends so real to me.
Klio-don’t apologise for making your imaginary friedns real to me.
I think this is heartbreakingly well done.
I don’t agree on the comment about the art. Given this is foreshortening done well. Foreshortening is hard. <3
More importantly, though–when did he have time to shave?? I’m fixing that right now 😛
what Kyleen said.
btw-what famous pose is that?
The sculpture the Dying Gaul. I didn’t want to copy it exactly, but just be suggestive of it.