Well I never had much ambition to make a career out of any sort of creativity. Growing up though, I had an imagination. Not so much of creatures and stuff, but I liked to put together stories in my head, of possible futures, or scenarios regarding my favorite comic book when I was a child (Sonic
). I would just develop stuff in my head, and then I felt compelled to put it on paper, I dunno, just so I could see it. Thats really been my only motive irl.
I still have issues 0-80 or so, of Sonic the Hedgehog, in California stored away somewhere. I have the first 15 or so issues of Knuckles, too. Every 3 issues were a storyline and the 3 covers of those 3 issues made one giant picture (of Knuckles series, only).
I had some thing I made called War on Mobius, and I had created all these factions...Including some race that I invented from an alternate demension.
My favorite theme that I drew stuff based around was my Earth Solar / Earth Lunar war. That whole idea was generated off of some tid bit I overheard. The moon doesnt revolve (spin), it simply orbits the earth, with the same side facing the earth at all times. Heavinly bodies normally spin, infact I cant think of one other instance of a planet or moon not having a day/night cycle at all. I've actually heard 2 explainations to this. One is that the Earth had slowed the Moon's rotation over time to a point where it finally stopped spinning. This is the explaination my story based itself around. The other explaination I have heard more recently, like within the past 2 years, and it deals with aliens and the like so its discredited almost instantly by almost everybody who hears it so nevermind about that. Anyways, suppose that millions if not billions of years from now, the earth's rotation is slowed to a point where it stops, so the same side is always facing the sun and the other side is always facing away. I just started picturing this world, and considered how the permanent temperature changes would be so dramatic on either side, and also considered that humans could have survived this long considering their intelligence which enables them to be very adaptable to different conditions. I basically invented 2 off-shoots of the human species, ones which evolved over a vast expanse of time to be more fit for their localized enviornment. The lunar people ended up having black eyes (to see in the dark) and being paler and generally physically weaker, because their lives are devoted much more to intellectual work and are very technologically advanced etc. The solar side, was more of the brute. The bulky goblin-ish looking guys that are more war mongering than their counterparts. I created some other alien races but most of my pictures dealt with the lunar and solar people.
I dont have much left from those days, I drew much of this in middle school and early high school. But I have this one pic that was scanned years ago on another comp, some of you may have seen it before, dont know. It happens to be a combat scene from the lunar/solar theme.
08-11-2004, 07:06 AM
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