Pyramos' first outlook -OLD-

Holy Mother, this is old!

Ya know, during my whole life I've had a dream of writing or drawing a story -book or a comic- but my attempts to achieve that dream were always pretty pathetic. I was writing a new novel every other week (which never got far, though. No skills of concentration) or drawing a new comic book (my longest attempt was three pages long). My ideas were always great and epic in my head, but when I remember them nowdays, they really were... Umh, well, very crappy.

My first really serious comic project started somewhere 2002 or 2003 when I started planning a wolf comic with my friend. We named it Amarok (just because it sounded nice) and planned it every time we saw... Which was practically about two times a year, three at most, since we lived so far away, and that was back in the stone age when we didn't have internet connection (At least I didn't). We made half hundred characters and huge plans that we surely believed was epic and bigger-than-life, but we never actually got anything to the actual plotline. The only thing that we had agreed with was that I'd make up a prologue for it and that the lead character was alpha's son, who would safe the whole country by distroying a pack of evil wolves and slay the evils' pack leader who had killed his dear daddy (or would kill, we never agreed in when or how we were going to get Cosh killed. ... Cosh, really, how original name... Ah, well, one of the bad guys was called Superion, so I guess Cosh isn't the worst name)

Now, am I only one, or has someone else that tiny little voice inside their mind screaming "CLICHE" with a helluva loud voice?

There was good points in that project too, though. Because it had so darn many characters and I wanted to draw them all, I spent a perioid of three months doing nothing but drawing. I literally spent all the free time I had by drawing the characters, even if that free time meant only one minute, and during that time I managed to draw up to one hundred drawings and sketches. That perioid had a major influence in my drawing skills.

And there was a few characters that I actually liked, and still do. Like Pyramos. This picture that I collected and stitched up together (after finding out thet the webpage which we did for the comic still existed. Amazing!) shows pieces of the first (and only) three pages that I had drawn of the prologue. Pyramos was supposed to be a bad guy in the past, who had lived hundreds of years ago and started the war between good and evil wolves, and never meant to be anything more. But then when I started planning Wurr this past summer, I needed somebody to drive Iacar and the others out of the crater, and I remembered this guy. I dug him up, dusted a little, put some makeup and voilá! Back in action!

I actually kinda redraw that scene on the bottom picture when I drew this page: [link] Improved slightly, haven't I? (*cough* man, I really knew how to use Photoshop, didn't I?)

Funny, I just realised that Iacar looks pretty much like the boss bad guy from Amarok's storyline (the one who killed the stupid-named alpha and was pure eeeeeevilness).

Anyway, if you're interested, the webpage still seems to be up here: [link] It is only in Finnish, and most of the links in gallery have disappeared, but it's still there.

EDIT: Whoops, I seem to have remembered the names wrong. Cosh was the name of the alpa's son, not the alpha (who, by the way, was Coshica)