from dust.(<--- observe.. lissa's attempt at a title with some depth..) by @LissaBT (Lissa B. Treiman)

i appologise for the recent lack of uploadage (...heh... well, it's a word now!)... i've been working a lot on 14 (for those of you just tuning in, it's my comic-in-the-making), and alternately i've been procrastinating on working on 14 by making a special Halloween comic (in the works!) and stuff like this thing (indicates image)...

i fell asleep reading an issue of Hell Boy last night (greeeaaat comic.... like x-files meets...... meets...... i dunno, some crazy RPG... delves into a lot of mythology and folklore) by Mike Mignola. I love the man... he's got the greatest comic-book style, and awsome use of color, and his writing's terrific to boot ^-^ (he also did art direction for disney's Atlantis)

so anyway, thought i'd get into a bit of folklore myself, borrowing a bit from Mignola's style. This is a Golem, a demon of sorts out of an old Jewish legend. The story in breif: the village was under attack. In an act of desperation, the local rabbi utters a hebrew incantation (the supposed words spoken have long since been lost) and summons a man-demon made from the earth to destroy the oppressors.... which it does very well. the problem arises when it starts to destroy the townspeople. uh-oh... so uttering more hebrew verses (again, lost in the sands of time) the rabbi destroys the creature he created... there's a lesson in it about the right to give life, but that's really not important ;) they made an x-files episode based on teh legend... it was neat

the pics not quite done... i'm roughing out the background, but i'm taking my time... i have a tendancy to ruin my own art with awful backgrounds >:p

(micron pen, tria marker) Artwork © Copyright 2002 Lissa B. Treiman