/lit/ - Literature

>>20224965
Post it.

>>20224965
Did you get a reply, even just a form letter?

>>20224965
Corncob probably got a good chuckle out of it. Dont feel too bad big buy.

>>20224965
You can't say such a shitty fake story WITHOUT posting the drawings. Don't be a faggot, OP. Remind me why I still come to this place

>>20224965
You know what you have to do.

The fact that you sent it to corncob of all people makes it even better

OP delivers

pic related is the idiot in a cage

>>20224976
No

OP here

drawings of some flowers that were mentioned in blood meridian and sampled by holden

>>20225138
>>20225212
keep posting, retard

>>20225138
>>20225212
Cute! Poste moar op

>>20225138
>>20225212
If I got da art like this I’d be flattered. Not cringe at all

>>20225384
>>20225422

yall just trying to keep me posting lol, but thanks

here is something everyone has been waiting for

ANIME JUDGE HOLDEN

another scene

BASED

>>20224965
You should have drawn the gunpowder pissing scene or the one where the kid and toadvine are hiding in the dunes.

>>20225138
>>20225212
>>20225435
Disappointing. I wanted cringey OC naruto chrischan art. Not your run of the mill amatuer sketches. I wanted lolz except I got zzzz

>>20225509
I do have a rough draft of it somewhere, but never finished it

>the one where the kid and toadvine are hiding in the dunes.

I have it somewhere. It wasn't toadvine it was the priest

>>20225530
lol

GREAT THREAD KEEP GOING

da road

da road

>>20225694
ok why are the furries and why are they so cute

>>20225530
Sorry to go off topic, but how is it possible after 9 years they don't improve at all? In fact in some ways the original is better since it's stylized, it doesn't contain unnecessary, ugly fold marks masquerading as details

>>20225703
?

the hermit from BM

>>20225738
These drawings are great anon, why would you be embarrassed of them? If you have any of the judge pls upload them, I'd kill to see how they look.

>>20225709
Probably didn't practice.

You know these aren't bad and are only fishing for compliments indirectly, I see through your attention seeking tactic.

>>20226811
you're right. visual artists tend to have lame trannified personalities like that

I wrote to Michael Crichton once. Got back a signed picture and a personalized letter.

>>20225435
>>20225496
>>20225699
>>20225738
It does look like some Zelda fanart a little bit, but good stuff

>>20225709
it's like donkey kong country 2 vs donkey kong 64. dkc was a polished and tight 2d platformer that's one of the best in the genre, it looks great, plays great, sounds great, beautiful world. pretty much perfect.

dkcountry was a jump into 3d and despite the huge technological "improvement" it's total dogshit, a junk version of mario 64, plays shit, looks shit, not fun.

that's kinda what this guy did imo, spent years learning to do shadows to make it 3d, which adds nothing actually, and meant he neglected everything else.

>>20226811
This. He made this thread knowing we would want to see these "embarassing drawings" so when we see that they're normal he'd get some praise

>>20225709
The original is not "stylized" it's just a lack of detail and skill. The 9 years later isn't exactly good for such an amount of time but it's definitely better. And yes fold marks do constitute as detail, which that image has more of. Of course if someone seriously practiced for 9 years they should be a lot more skilled maybe that person just didn't practice much.

>>20226966
I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s a very feminine quality to these drawings. How rounded the lines are. It reminds me of school girl classmates making passible reproductions of sanrio characters in their notebooks.

>>20227045
possibly ftm
posts read similar

>>20225435
>>20225496
>>20225212
>>20225699
The real cringe here is
>praisebaiting
>about drawings
>on /lit/

>>20226811
they're not chrischan tier but they're still cartoony and cutesy for the subject matter, imagine corncob flipping through them

>>20225496
this is great and fits the book perfectly

>>20224965
How old were you when you sent this?

>>20226779
because of the dissonance between the childlike animu style vs the western depraved subject matters (pic related). here is a pic of judge >>20225435

>>20226857
first time anyone compared my art to zelda fanart. I like old anime styles

>>20227045
>>20227064
lol im in touch with my feminine side

>>20227462
thanks yeah this is probably the only picture out of all my drawings that fit the style and vibe of the book

>>20227499
too old to be drawing and writing fanletters

>>20226779
because of the dissonance between the childlike anime style vs the western depraved subject matters (pic related). here is a pic of judge >>20225435

>>20226857
first time anyone compared my art to zelda fanart, thanks. I like old anime styles

>>20227045
>>20227064
lol im in touch with my feminine side

>>20227462
thanks yeah this is probably the only picture out of all my drawings that fit the style and vibe of cormac mccarthy

>>20227499
too old to be drawing and writing fanletters. also these drawings are over 7 years old.

>>20226779
another judge holden

the kid from BM leaving home

>>20227581
>too old to be drawing and writing fanletters. also these drawings are over 7 years old.
Come on anon, there's no harm in being specific
At what age did you read the books, at least?
I find all this very interesting and kinda cool honestly

>>20228567
17 when I found out about corncob. My english teacher back then was the type who'd watch Oprah and I am sure she saw The Road recommendation on that show, so one day she didn't want to teach us actual literature and instead put on The Road the movie. I liked the intensity and decided to google the author and here we are

I don't draw fanart but Cormac McCarthy is the only fanart I did. A lot of this stuff was drawn on-and-off throughout the years and I sent a handful of artwork with a fanletter when I was 22

pic related

clearly fishing for compliments but they're pretty good

>>20224965
>>20225138

maybe he was so happy he ate it.

>>20227593
He looks more victorian in this one. That looks more like a fedora than a cowboy hat.
>THE COIN DAVY

>>20227085
imagine being such a cynical fuck about everything. lighten up

>>20228725
not that anon but
>doesn't even say anything particularly malevolent
>probably right as well
>REEEEE REEEE YOURE A CYNICAL FUCK
if this is what it's like to be an optimist, I'm glad I'm not fucked in the head like you

>>20228608
thanks good to know people actually think they're good. i know a lot of you love corncob so im releasing these pics into the wild after 7 years

>>20228654
lol

>>20228688

judge is a cultured man/overman

pic related, here is everyone's favorite from BM besides the judge: Toadvine

>>20227045
You're not the only one who thinks this. Perhaps its just how generic the style is. It feels derivative of more child targeted media

>>20229233
Not how I pictured toadvine; a man with no ears and a branded face and necklace of teeth.

>>20229233
My favorite characters were Bathcat, cracker and coon Jackson, and the injuns just because that one red niggers death was so abrupt.

>>20229339
>It feels derivative of more child targeted media

thats it, a lot of my inspos were child or teen oriented media though i dont watch the shows myself. bigger eyes, soft round lines, very friendly looking stuff. I was asked to work at highlights (children's magazine)

>>20229350
it was a necklace of ears because he doesnt have ears

>>20229363
toadvine has the most art besides the judge from what i've seen. i havent seen a bathcat or the jacksons yet. i have them somewhere but never completed it

my favorite is the judge

pic related: the head in the jar

>>2022958
That’s the cartooniest head in a jar I’ve ever seen.

Bathcat wore the necklace of ears, then Davy Brown after he took it from Bathcat’s corpse. Toadvine had teeth, which got him in shit outside with the governor’s guards in Chihuahua.

You know i was expecting cringe art bits it’s pretty decent.

>>20229597
>That’s the cartooniest head in a jar I’ve ever seen.

now imagine corncob flipping through my drawings

>>20229609
thanks

more judge

>>20229805
>Listen to me Joe Rogan, let me tell you a somethin' 'bout fuckin' Mexicans.

>>20224965
Definitely reminiscent of those old Zelda illustrations

>>20226811
>>20227085
Who cares, at least it's more interesting than the boring threads that get repeated day in day out

I picked a simpler and less realistic style because i wanted to pump out a lot of sketches at once, but then i realized that the style was out of touch with the subject matter. This may or may not work depending on how i pulled it off. Sometimes a simpler style may work as a way to detach the audience the more ridiculous, tragic, or violent the content is. Example: penguins memory, barefoot gen

here is our main character (kind of, before he disappears in the middle of the book and pops out again near the end)

>>20229889
kek

the scene where the hermit makes that blue moldy rabbit stew (the rabbit ears is a nice playful touch against the utter fuckedupness of the book) and they talk about god:


The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he?

I don't believe he had me much in mind.

Aye, said the old man. But where does a man come by his notions. What world's he seen that he liked better?

I can think of better places and better ways.

Can ye make it be?

No.

No. It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. You believe that?

I don't know.

Believe that.

here is the picture i sprinkled with a photoshop snow effect mentioned in the OP

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>>20230534
>>20229805
>>20229582
Anon, you're a good cartoonist. You should unironically produce a small graphic novel illustrating a short story (doesn't have to be corncob, just something you can get the rights to). You have an evocative style, keep it up.

>>20229147
will you suck his dick if it turns he’s right?

>>20232479
thanks. I have my own series of stories I plan on turning into graphic novels.
A synopsis of a story I am still working on: >>/lit/thread/S14707277#p14707431

My art skills aren't where I want them to be yet (even 7 years later, all the drawings here are at least 7 years old), and I don't have the life experience or the mental library of references to truly finish the stories (devil is in the details). This is not me being humble, I am just aware of how far I have to go.

Regarding writing good stories: Cormac McCarthy became a good writer by doing his research, reading a lot of stuff, even travelling to and living at the places he was writing about. He even stayed unemployed as humanly possible to spend his time and energy into reading and writing. Robert Heinlein had actual military experience to write Starship Troopers. Dostoevsky was a rebel and nearly executed by the Russian government for reading some book. Great writers don't become great writers by sitting in an ivory tower jacking each other off, they go and experience life and then draw from their experiences.

It can take a lifetime to become a decent storyteller. I am more focused on being a good storyteller than being a good artist, but hiring another artist is pretty cost prohibitive. Hence, I am still drawing. My natural style is hilariously out of sync with the subject matter of even my own stories but I don't mind it, I am focusing on technical skills instead.

pic related: when the kid grows up and carries around a bible with him, and people think he's a preacher

>>20228593
Are you the dude who posted that fanart of the burning tree passage from BM on reddit? If so, I love your stuff and would love if you posted more

>>20234164
yes it's me, I am surprised someone remembered it from so long ago

>If so, I love your stuff and would love if you posted more

thanks, I got busy with my job and also turned to working on my own stories and art skills. If there is enough demand for the corncob art I can pick it back up again, especially BM

here is burning tree page 1

>>20234443
cont pg 2

>>20234443
cont pg 2

>>20234459
cont pg 3

>>20234467
cont pg 4 (last page)

>>20225384
tits or gtfo

>>20234957
another devastating insight from I hate women. bravo

>>20226797
I hope so!
>>20226916
I didn't have a Nintendo as a kid so I'm sad to say this analogy is lost on me
> it's total dogshit, a junk version of mario 64, plays shit, looks shit, not fun.
That sounds like a mega tease!
>>20226989
>And yes fold marks do constitute as detail, which that image has more of.
It's distracting and irrelevant detail

>>20234443
>>20234459
>>20234467
>>20234474
Awesome, thanks anon. I remember seeing this year's ago and it made me want to learn how to doodle. I never got around to doing it but maybe some day.

Did he ever reply?

>>20224965
Anon you just made your thread as an excuse to post your art and get praised for it, don't lie to yourself.

OP here

An art inspo that influenced my corncob art: Sanpei Shirato

>>20236304
No and I wasn't expecting it, knowing his reputation

>>20236572
thanks

It's been years since I read BM but I remember reading that Glanton was a manlet. Some other real life sources also mention he was short and stocky. This doesn't take away from his abilities or character, in fact it makes Glanton more layered. It would be contrived if he was some chad or a clint eastwood-looking badass, and he isn't even portrayed that way in the book. This is the type of guy who prefers his horse to people and becomes a softie for a dog while he has no problem killing people, desperately sells his soul to the devil when he is cornered by the Indians he was trying to get, and gets more wasted and insane the more he wraps around the Judge's finger. He stares at the horizon towards the direction where his home is. He could've been lived a normal life without getting exiled at one point, yet he now leads a group of scraggletoothed degenerates fucking around in the desert. I like how corncob developed him and worked with his real-life references.

I also drew a design of his wife for no particular reason. Apparently in real life the real Glanton's wife was famous for her beauty and he got her hand in marriage by threatening her dad with a gun. Imagine getting a girlfriend that way in modern times.

pic related: Glanton. Corncob saw this.

>>20236218
Never too late to start. Just have fun.

Op your shit is kino. Please release more stuff as and when you do them for different books. You could do the same of other board's like some fan art for /v/ or /tv/ or whatever you are into.

I have a direct line of communication with John Francis aka Corncob's son. Y'all want me to send him this thread?

>>20237845
Hell Yes

>>20237809
thanks. I don't think I will be doing fanart of movies/games anytime soon. For whatever reason I never had the need to add my own interpretations of something that is already visually existent and fine as it is. Books on the other hand leave a lot up to imagination so I come with my own shit, but even then nothing got me flowing like The Road and especially BM did. I think it's the descriptions and the subject matter.

I might do something with the biblical Samson story (the interpretation based off of "Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson" by David Grossman).

>>20237845
yea fuck it why not lol

judge WIP i never finished

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WIP of the scene where Glanton gets his fortune told. I only had a vague memory of this scene so it was bizarre finding this among my old files. Here is it from the book:

Un maleficio, cried the old woman. Que viento tan maleante ...

By god you will shut up, said Glanton, drawing his revolver.

Carroza de muertos, llena de huesos. El joven que...

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element. He put his arms around Glanton.

Why?

pic related: Tobin. Anyone can tell what scene this is? I have more pictures of this character somewhere but I have to find it.

>>20237809
>>20238515
>I don't think I will be doing fanart of movies/games anytime soon.

You know what, I take that back. There are some games I like that I would make fanart of. Secret of Evermore, and Hylics. SoE was Jeremy Soule's first project (Soule composed the soundtrack for the Harry Potter movies). Hylics is an indie game with a nice soundtrack too and some trippy aesthetics, similar to the movie Fantastic Planet (1973).

pic related: Tobin. Anyone can tell what scene this is?

The inspo for Tobin was Dega from the movie Papillon (1973), a story about the innocent convict Henri who escapes a french prison colony. There is no particular reason why. I have more pictures of this character somewhere but I have to find it.

>>20237809
>>20238515
>I don't think I will be doing fanart of movies/games anytime soon.

You know what, I take that back. There are some games I like that I would make fanart of. Secret of Evermore, and Hylics. SoE was Jeremy Soule's first project (Soule composed the soundtrack for the Harry Potter movies). Hylics is an indie game with a nice soundtrack too and some trippy aesthetics, similar to the movie Fantastic Planet (1973).

>>20224979
Based

>>20229147
you should sincerely kill yourself and i mean it

>>20243077
I hope you choke in your sleep, dyke imitator

Blood Meridian in a disney style that doesn't hold back on the blood and gore but that doesn't try to be overtly edgy beyond the actual darkness of the original story would be kino.

>>20229147
retard

>>20243077
>>20243237
yikes, who hurt you?
lighten up

>>20243133
INB4 Blood Meridian the Musical. On ice.

>>20243133

A visual depiction is possible but the gore and violence won't be the most challenging part. Japanese manga and anime have violent, fucked up shit going on all the time. Korean movies can get pretty fucked up. The violence and fuckery in Blood Meridian is pretty bad but it's not the worst that exists in the media. Japanese stories about feudal battles are way more violent and brutal, women and children unspared.

I think the challenge is that a lot of things will be lost in translation from written to visual mode. The themes. Some dialogue, since the Judge has multiple monologues. Another challenge would be to capture the mood. Corncob describes mountains for a pretty long time, how are you gonna capture that? The stars burning in the sky when the man shoots some boy in the train? Or the vastness as the kid is looking into the ocean when he reaches California and McCarthy describes a whale swimming around in there? How do you make that work?

There's also some things that heavily rely on a suspension of disbelief. How does the kid kick toadvine in the face, or the black jackson (whoever it was) get his head chopped off in one swipe? It's one thing to read about it but seeing it visually is another.

Visual depiction is possible, it just needs to be done with good judgment on what to keep and what to change as it translate from prose to whatever media it's being translated to.

>>20243616

lol

You guys, I found the page with the embarrassing song lyric plastered next to the picture I sprinkled with a Photoshop snow effect.

So I made a 40 page book with fanart in it, and I even somehow found 8 other artists who volunteered to join me and contributed their work as well because I said I will be sending it to corncob. "Hey we love your shit" - pretty much the gist of the art collection.

The best part is that once I made the book and sent it to corncob, I sent a copy to everyone else. Nobody responded except this one dude who was like "hey, this is a nice collection. Let me know if Cormac McCarthy replies".

As I said, it was pretty bad.

More art to come....

>>20234443
>>20234459
>>20234467
>>20234474
Honestly really like these. I feel you did a great job capturing the feel and visuals of that scene, one of the best parts of the book.

Back then I was really into GEKIGA style of manga (literally "dramatic pictures" in Japanese) and wanted to see what BM would look like as one. The actual Japanese title is 血の子午線

I didn't send this to corncob, no way.

>>20245146

Thanks, glad you like it.

>>20224965
This thread is just self-indulgent humble bragging.

Bump

k i n o

>>20245442
So? He's happy he shared his little pictures to his idol. Is that wrong? Go shit your pants elsewhere bitch.

Found a storyboard of when the kid and the priest are finding a place to hide before they try to shoot the judge.

>>20245442
>humble bragging
Stupid Reddit term. go back

>>20224965
These are decent drawings. You're not embarrassed, you're just being a dishonest attentionwhore. I'm 1000% convinced you replied to yourself as an excuse to post the artwork.

>>20224976
>>20225212
>>20225496
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>>20230534
I really like these ones. They make me feel emotions, that's more than I can say about 99% of art I see posted on the internet. I don't know shit about drawing but I think you atleast have some artistic talent. Keep up the work manrpp

>>20225138
>>20225212
>>20225496
>>20225699
No Country for Old Men

>I actually think it's le good
No. You are only undermining OP's legitimate acknowledgement of shame and faggotry, prolonging his discomfort and confusion.

>>20224965
Cormac McCarthy here. I enjoyed it.

>>20225703
The penguin is that toy from the boy's dream

>>20248476
you're probably right lol the first reply was posted only a minute after

>>20248594
?

Why do you call your drawings anime when they're all western?

>>20237845
Yes, please dear god yes, although realistically he'll just look at it and say 'weird' and never come here again

OP, you're a very talented cartoonist. You have the ability to make a great graphic novel if you wish. If I received fanmail like these, I'd be endlessly flattered. There is no need to feel cringe

Lol, the one time someone shows talent on this board and people call it humblebragging

>>20248804
>Cormac McCarthy here.

I wanna believe

>>20251400
>talent

>>20248594
i wish all the other drawings had this realistic style

OP here, this is a panel of the victim civilians hiding from the gang. It was supposed to be part of a page that I never finished.

>>20248506
thanks. also glad they made you feel something

>>20248804
lol thanks

>>20251391
thanks. also graphic novels are my plan.

>>20250531
what if all the responses were actually OP, including the humblebragging and attentionwhore posts

>>20250796
art is a spectrum

>>20251470
lol

i expected worse

>>20234164
>>20234443
oh god you are real life redditors?

>>20252386

OP your art is great, and now I want Blood Meridian done in this style. Sell it as the western Madoka Magica, with this cute Disney cowboy style that devolves into the horror and brutality of the book.
Hell, you could probably build your own story, dunno how much you can use before the lawyers start knocking on your door, but since its an entirely diffeent medium... in any case, cool stuff OP.

>>20230534
hahahaahaha bless your precious soul
stay true to yourself
man i wish we could go back in time to authenticity

>>20253137
did you see this? even better >>20244782

>>20225509
>>20225555
>the one where the kid and toadvine are hiding in the dunes.
>It wasn't toadvine it was the priest

here it is >>20247905

pic related: broken virgin mary statue from a pillaged church that the kid (and another character I don't remember) walks in on before the kid joined the gang. There were vultures in that church.

>>20252926

thanks glad you like my corncob art

>before the lawyers start knocking on your door

I think it crosses copyright territory once you start selling it or publishing it, or if it damages corncob's (or publishing company's) ability to make their own BM comic in the future. Yeah no my fanart ain't damaging shit lol, I did these for practice of my own creativity and because I wanted to send corncob something.

>>20253550
Yep, that's what I meant, make an actual comic out of it. Great art, again.

>>20253767
Thanks, I'll make more comic pages and fanart.

pic related: As a practice to my own future graphic novels (which I planned on hosting on my own website), I made an HTML/webpage compilation for the BM art. I thought of launching it into the internet in a zip file. I never finished it 7 years ago but here's the first three pages of it.

B

B

>>20225435
I like it.

>>20255983
thanks

pic related: hey look everyone its corncob

>>20224965
Bump