“Save” or the failure to -”to keep safe, intact, or unhurt; safeguard; preserve” (Dictionary.com). In lieu of actually doing a real drawing for Illustration Friday this week (after one failed attempt), I thought I might pull an old sketch out of the archives.

So, a train wreck. I seriously doubt any train would every crash in quite this manner. I had it in mind that it was snaking through the air after coming off a broken bridge. A moment of freefall just before it hits the ground and everything goes to hell.

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This weeks Illustration Friday topic was “homage”, so here as a homage to one of my favourite authors, Kelly Link. The illustration is based on “Catskins”¹. However, I did take a few privileges with the illustration and it isn’t completely true to the story nor does it illustrate any particular scene in it. The aberration is mostly the cat costume, and that two of the characters in it are one and the same, but I wanted to show both aspects of the character. Anyway, go buy the book and read it. Especially if you like zombies.

I actually quite like this sketch and plan on making it into a painting when I have the time. So highly unlikely to occur in the next couple of months.

1. In “Magic For Beginners”, Small Beer Press, 2005 Harper Perennial, 2007 [↩]