NEW book!!

About a year ago I entered a particularly interesting point in my life and in my art. I was going through some rather personal matters and found myself drawing my pain away @ job. Something I normally do not do. I like to have fun with my art and have always found other ways to deal with any hardships I face. Until this day. I did one piece, very quickly. You know those moments when you are creating and you find yourself just in the zone? This was one of those moments. I saw the page and immediately knew I needed more. I took out a few more pages and the story just seemed to flow all on it's own. After some time I was left with eight drawings. Eight very personal drawings. With scripts. I don't know where the idea came from but I instantly knew they needed color. GOOD color. Color I have yet to explore. Styles I have yet to explore.

I began collecting textures and brushes and toiled away on these the following weeks. I kept this very close to the hip and didn't speak about it until the pages were done. When it was done, however, I wasn't sure I wanted anyone to see it. It was by far the most personal piece I had done. Eight pages of exploratory ideas and techniques that needed to see the light of day somehow, yet I was too nervous to even tell people about it. Finally I casually alluded to it online explaining my hesitancy and was welcomed with a sense of needing to share it if I was mentioning it @ all, let alone publicly.

I decided then to print it. Regardless of the subject matter, regardless of my nervousness, I needed people to see this. To read this and see a part of me I usually keep insiede. I needed to see it, together, as a tangible whole. The pages were too new, too different from what I or anyone else was used to seeing from me. A new endeavour to share with you all. After months of indecisiveness and edits (ironically only to the intro page and "ad space" lol), I finally built some capital up and had a small grip printed to share with you all. All self-published and created.

I welcome you into a brief yet intriguing story from the depths of my mind and creative skillset. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Penumbral Silence #1.

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Stay Creative,
BLUE731.