Nick's Rage Against the Machine Spot

[Arjen Vriezekolk]

Dear Nick,

This your funniest ever!
Love the atmosfere in the greenhouse.....

I secretly have to copy that to my harddisk and keep it as a wallpaper for rainy cold drizzle days!!

Hopefully the first in a serie?

regards,

Arjen

[Nickillus]

Thanks Caesar hope you had a great birthday by the way.
Thanks Arjen. Glad you like it despite the need for a ton more work on it to make it work properly.

Meanwhile I've hardly had any time to get on with the fairytale project while work is taking precedence. Here is a bit of development work on the underlying idea though.

Cuthbert is a storyteller with a speech impediment, who has been travelling around plying his trade and unwittingly changing peoples' perception of various tales.
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Give thanks for all those magic tales we heard when we were young,
Read out by doting relatives or sometimes even sung.
The printed words and pictures captivate upon the page,
Forever giving life to stories from a bygone age.

But…………..

Once Upon a Time before technology held sway,
Simple entertainments were the order of the day.
Fables, tales and verses were passed on by spoken word,
Through translation and retelling variations have occurred.

That brings us onto Cuthbert, son of Cyril, son of Crysp,
Third generation storyteller, first one with a lisp.
He sprayed a path through Europe, skewing stories as he went,
Distorting names and plot lines, which was never his intent.

Crowds liked to watch the teller, for he really entertained,
With broad gesticulations and expressions strange and pained.
He found out on his deathbed of the damage he had wrought,
And resolved to put things right as any good man really ought.

He sent out for a local scribe to get his tales down right.
And focus on relating them as clearly as he might.
How sad the scribe was nearly blind and very hard of hearing.
It doesn’t take a mastermind to see where this is steering.

A convoluted, mixed up tale reflects that fated meeting,
With glimpses of some characters you know, however fleeting.
Forgive poor lisping Cuthbert, for he really, really tried,
His word processor failed him as he spluttered out and died.

[Caesar]

My birthday was happy
My ale can was nappy
now it takes one year
thanks God I would say
to suffer the fear
that time's going away ...

Thank You again, dear Nick.

You are outstandingly endowed with both poems and illustrations.

The character You created is terrific and the color drawing is enligtened in the most amazing and impressive way. Thanks for sharing and have my jaw drop and my mouth take air anytime You post a new artpiece ...

[Chuckart]

Great expressions and poses on Cuthbert Nick and thanks for the heads up on your friends blogs. As you you stated, well worth a look.

[Mairzie Dotes]

Nickillus,
If your artistic and literary abilities are an indication of "rage against
the machine spot" then please ... may I have yet another "spot" of this
expressively aromatic tea! I continue to marvel at your updates, so
talented you are!

[Arjen Vriezekolk]

It seems we are having the same basic idea about twisting fairytales Nick..Mine is told through the rusty Knight......But Cuthbert is even more funny....
There is always a master!!
Never knew that you were an artist with words....And "GOTCHA"..?? was that on purpose?The first letters?
Anyway.....Anxious to see it evolve into another marvelous set of drawings!

I posted my finished (have to stop at some point) RaPUNzel in the gallery section....
Wil send it in for the CG challenge.....my first ever..

Reading your posts is like following a feuilleton... Can't wait for the next episode!

regards,

Arjen

[Nickillus]

Thanks guys. It's such a fun challenge, I'd recommend anyone to dip their toe in it. The way mine is going is off on a tangent from the roginal brief, but then that's one of the things that challenges are great for. Ideas!

Been busy again, so haven't had much time to push it - but here is a tiny bit more. I'd love to say there is a great masterplan behind it, but to be honest, I'm sort of winging it and seeing where it goes. The plan then is to go back over it and see what I can make of it - if anything.

Arjen - Your Rapunzel is looking really fun and has really come on. Nice work my friend.

[Chuckart]

It's such a fun challenge, I'd recommend anyone to dip their toe in it.

Totally agree with this. Get Raging, Ragers. If i can get my figures to a standard where they don't scare me before the Challenge deadline i'll be submitting a Rage thats for sure.

Would love to see a work from Hanzz, mannafig, Someonesane. Mr Jon Hodgson, Alexandra and the many other excellent Ragers around in the Cghub challenge forum.

[Arjen Vriezekolk]

Thank you Nick.

this means a lot to me....and now I do feel confident enough to participate in the challenge.....

I've been pondering about the Sleeping Beauty already.....sweaty, clothes torn.....A sword above his head and blood stained.....surly is'nt the prince you like to see when you wake up after a 100 years.....

Of on sunday with the schoolkids to Austria for a fun week......

Yours
Arjen

[Nickillus]

Brilliant to hear Arjen. It will be great to see you in the challenge.

And I agree Chuck. It would be fantastic to see some of those you named and others throwing their hats in too. Come on folks. What's there to lose?

Here's another study for the Cuthbert, lisping storyteller character.