Monday, August 18, 2008

teaser

logic: If all mountain bikers are masochists and Arkonbey is a mountain biker, then Arkonbey is a masochist.

It has been rain-free all week and my favorite trail was open. I called friends today and nobody was available, so I decided to hit the trail and do a training ride (ride the whole course at race-pace) rather than a tooling-around day. I was about 3/4 of the way through the loop, about a half-hour in when I met a fellow member of the Fellowship of the Wheel . Having only built trails with him, never having ridden with him, I asked if I could tag along. I hate riding alone and he said he was going to take it easy (I was already a leetle bit tired).

Over two hours, three long climbs, many short climbs, many fast descents ( and one super-fast descent (where I scared myself I was going so fast) later, I was beat. I was hydrated, but bonking (A breakfast consisting only of of four slices of peanut butter toast and two cups of good, strong free-trade coffee may have aided in the bonking.)and my skinny little backside hurt so much that I couldn't sit on the saddle. All tolled, it was over two and a half hours with 30 minutes of it at race pace.

I came home and ate for a half hour. Not fast, just steady. One (homemade!) hummus/cheese sandwich, 1/2 cheese sandwich. many tortilla chips and hummus, two local-made chocolate bon-bon things, one slice of cheap and tasty grocery store chocolate coffee cake and one Wolaver's organic whit bier later, I showered, then slept for an hour.

It has been so wet and the afternoon was cloudy I decided that I needed to pack in as much riding today as possible for two reasons: it's been so long and it might rain tomorrow. Ah, happy idiocy.

Ah, the teaser. I did a color study for the Obscure Tales Issue Four. It sort of sucks, but I'm posting it anyway. Bolstered by an early success with watercolors on an art trade with Becca , I thought I do the cover fully hand-done (save type, of course).

Man! Watercolor is hard. So, it's, literally, back to the drawing board.

listening to while posting: "Ronnie's Racing School" by Glitter Mini 9 (not on speakers, but in my HEAD! It won't leave!)

6 comments:

Thomas Fummo said...

I've been trying watercolours lately too.
I'll probably post my stuff soon.

I don't think it sucks, man, I think it's great!
You just need to pick out the details in the background (if you can with watercolours... I'm a bit of a novice :-p)

Dean Wormer said...

You know that great image reminds me big time of some of Villains and Vigilantes rpg supplements from the 80s. Hopefully you'll take that as the complement it was intended to be.

Excellent cover.

Arkonbey said...

ET: post, man post!

Dean: I'll take that complement. Supplement art was always... interesting.

I'm still re-doing the cover, though.

Don Snabulus said...

Just don't start riding your bike wearing leather and a ball gag and you'll be just fine.

The cover evolution is going well.

Swinebread said...

I really like the high contrast areas on the suit.

It might be interesting to try coloring this cover with only three of for tones... Just an idea that came to me.

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