Rhapsodies

Well I’m dropping the Mike cause I just finished Inktober!

I confess based on the rules I cheated today the first scrap of paper I drew from the Inktober Tupperware was a centipede. I assume I meant some sort of badass youkai, or something like Toshiro Mifune‘s coat of arms in Throne of Blood, when I was doing the list but somehow it didn’t feel Halloweeny enough. But for the last day I figured I have a surplus of selections, try again. So after drawing Cerebus my second time drew  Edger Allan Poe’s Raven.

That works.

The Raven is one of my favorite poems in or out of it’s spooky context ( I especially like it when Vincent Price reads it, (though Walken, Lee and Jones also kick ass.) It’s always fun to try to see of ways to visualize it. (in this version I’m not sure if it would be right to have Poe drinking in the poem but it certainly would be in character.)