naiadestricolor:

I’m terrible at telling stories.  Complete ones, at least.  I don’t know if it’s a result of the past few years of my instructors teaching me how to create and tell stories, ones that go through the full arc, and always wanting me to tell a full story in whatever timeframe they constrict me to, but sometimes…I really just don’t want to.

I like moments.  Little scenes that hint at a larger story or can tell a completely different one.  I get tired of telling my audience, “This is what my story is about and this is the only light you can think it in.”  Sometimes, I want my audience to draw their own conclusions.  Make up their stories.  I like to prompt others, I guess would be one way of putting it. 

Which I suppose is where this comic came from.  Although it’s not really a comic.  More of a montage.

It’s a scene between Malcolm Hawke and a younger Carver.  The first two pages are the beginning of the scene, the last two its ending.  I have dialogue bubbles, but those are placed for convenience.  There’s no real dialogue other than a small prompt, although I do have my own ideas about what they’re talking about. 

This is an exercise, nothing more, done really fast whenever I was distracted.  It won’t ever be completed, or at least I have no plans to do anything more with it.  Just some father and son interaction. :)

Yes, father-son moments. Between Carver and Malcolm. ♥

Perhaps this is after he nailed Bethany’s braid to the bed while she was sleeping.