Pinebrook QaA

Do you have anyone else on your staff, or is it just you?

On a scale of one to ten, how helpful and/or have me and @QwQw been on the overall production of Pinebrook?

Oh, it's fine. It's not like I refresh the page every ten seconds to see if you made a new post or anything.

When and where do you think the first book is gonna come out?

I don't think any of us are very good at accepting complements. You're good, man.

Sure.

Could I help with illustrations?

I'd love to do the cover art.

Had an idea for a Pinebrook title.

Just a simple concept.

Drew this at 3AM two days ago.

The reason it took so long was that, as I've mentioned, I don't have any sort of phone or camera of my own, so I have to get someone I know to take a picture and Email it to me. Didn't work out very well.

Iteration two is on it's way.

Just waiting for the Email to arrive.

Absolutely not.

If your wondering about the awkward framing and lighting, it was my brother who took the picture. It was probably deliberate, but not malicious.

I was initially going to have chains draped over the 'Os," but as any artist can tell you, it's both tedious and difficult to draw them and not have them look like poorly drawn ropes.

I tried turning the "R" into a lamppost, and I tried giving the "B" a bark texture. With more detail visible, the "E" really does stand out when it's made of glass, so if you want I can definitively change it in the next iteration.

And yes, I know that the "K" looks too much like an "X."

Also,

I prefer Zdzisław Beksiński, thank you very much.

Yeah, he was a Polish artist who grew up during the second World War, which may explain a few things. In my opinion, he's one of the greats when it comes to art.

He didn't take inspiration from any other artists, instead painting his own nightmares while listening to rock and roll and classical music, sometimes both at once. The result is the primary inspiration for what we like to call "heavy metal album cover art."

One thing he was particularly known for was describing how he painted as "photographing dreams," which meant that he was looking at the "source" like a photographer would as opposed to how a painter would. In the end, he was a photographer more than a painter in many ways.

He actually started his career as an architect, but then he started taking photos of seemingly random things. His photos were the exact reverse of the current art movement, which could be summed up as "pictures of how things are, not how we imagine them or want them to be." All of his photos were clearly, blatantly staged, which somehow added to the uncanny effect. Look up his "Sadist's Corset" photo if you're up for it.

He died on Febuary 21, 2005, when his landlord's son stabbed him because Zdzisław wouldn't lend the kid $100.

He was a very friendly person, from what I've read. He was the primary inspiration of H.R. Geiger, the guy who designed the Xenomorph.

Sorry for the history lesson, I'm just eager to share (read, infodump) with anyone who'll listen.