Hello, folks! This is the illustration I promised I was going to do a thousand
years ago, but it was been so long that I’m certain everyone but
myself forgot about it. I never forgot–all day, all night, “I
should definitely be working on that comic…”
So, I’ve been drawing all my life, but I’ve never done
anything with digital art before. I drew this with the cheapest
active stylus I could buy and my nook. Hence why it looks like a
toddler drew it! I promise I am capable of more than this.
Well, actually no, apparently I’m not. But! I hope you get some
enjoyment from this, even if it cannot possibly be as much as you’ll
get from the story that inspired it. To find that, please head over to https://archiveofourown.org/works/11358261/chapters/25422936 and give it all kinds of love.
I have to warn that I am discovering I am barely computer competent and it has been absurdly difficult to figure out how to post this. I am so sorry for any blunders, and also for the general state of the drawings. I did my best to translate to Sindarin and transliterate to tengwar but I am a nurse, not a linguist, so I can’t promise accuracy.
Don’t worry, guys. Carl is clearly a brachiosaurus, which lived during the Jurassic period. (And before anyone says our lil’ boy Steve is a velociraptor and therefore puts our comic in the late cretaceous, aka the time of the comet–that lil guy could easily be a compsognathus or a caudipteryx, both Jurassic-era species of small theropod dinosaurs. So the light getting bigger every night is going to pass by harmlessly, and Steve and Carl can go on enjoying the stars together until they die of old age, since Carl has very few natural predators at his size and I bet he’ll protect Steve, if he needs it (though small, fast and carnivorous as Steve is, he probably won’t).
willowfoot 