AWAKE: A Vampire Tale
Character Sketches

I have always been both a writer and a visual artist   My journals, except for my very first journal, have all been a mix of writing, scrawling, sketching, drawing, and quotes. (The first was a star trek captains log book, hence: punctilious.  I wrote the date thus: Star Date 10.13.1994.  I was 13.)

I started drawing the character sketch during the spaces between.  The times when I did not know what was going to happen next but was thinking about Titian and Quinn and Ella and Erin.  The intermissions. 

I think drawing and writing have vast similarities.  Each is bringing forth a concept of the mind, attempting to render it into words and lines and colors.  On the best days,  an artist steps back from a drawing or rereads a paragraph and discovers that there is more in their words than they had intended. 

The day I colored Titian's hair was one of those days.  (I would still like to ink in a halo of black around her, see her shining in the darkness.)

The day I did the standing sketch was not.  I redid that sketch and would tack it over the upper corner. 

Titian wears converse sneakers. They are worn, patched, written on, and beloved. As all the best converse sneakers are. 

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