[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-utterly-dark-drawing-the-gorm":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Here's a bit of fan art I did, sitting on the sofa last night, for Philip Reeve's \u003Ci>\u003Ca href=\"https://philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/2021/02/utterly-dark-face-of-deep.html\">Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep\u003C/a>\u003C/i>. There are a few mentions in the story of a certain painting of 'the Gorm', a terrifying creature of the sea, and I imagined how a woodcut copy of the painting could look. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1120339_original-2268dffffc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\nAfter I finished, I wanted to try it all over again, to try to get more of the sense of an artist who hasn't actually seen a lion before - I think I could have gone more bizarre or goofy. Maybe I'll try again later, the Gorm is fun to draw, and she comes in many different guises...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1120609_original-64228b19d3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\\r\n\\r\n... which you'll find out about if you \u003Ca href=\"https://philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/2021/02/utterly-dark-face-of-deep.html\">read the book\u003C/a>! Highly recommended.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/1120973_original-6635b72f7c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">","2021-10-05T13:52:00.000Z","utterly-dark-drawing-the-gorm",[],"Utterly Dark: drawing the Gorm",1776628731295]