My parents just came back from Westport. There was a car boot sale going on there. Apparently they take place on the first sunday of every month. In any case, they brought back a crumbling old german book published in 1922, called Gates, Towers and Fountains from German Past Times. They got it for my girlfriend Niamh for reasons which are two-fold: She is fluent in german and deeply interested in all that old architechture. We both found the book immensely interesting. It's brimming with photographs of gates, towers and fountains (who'd have guessed?). Anyway I too am interested in all that old architecture. But in a much less educated, haphazard way. I don't REALLY know anything about it, and I'm no architect. I can't stand technical drawing. but I know a cool weird looking tower when I see one, and this book has plenty. Some of you may know about that comic I'm working on, The Tower, about a prisoner escaping from a strange castle. With that fresh in my mind, I felt in the mood to do some drawing.
So I did a fairly quick painting/drawing (I don't know what to call them, as they are about 50% of both) loosely based on one of the pictures in the book: The town wall in Rothenburg ODT (Der stadtmauer im Rothenburg ob der Tauber). Here it is:
Apart from that, I'm hard at work on various other projects, and in my free time I'm struggling away at Resident Evil 4 on professional mode!
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