| |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
SciFi and Fantasy Art: Agent Dark Horse - Serial WD-40 '...Meanwhile, Dark Horse was convinced he’d broken every bone in his body by the time he managed to draw his revolver and shoot the whip out of Shade Darker’s hand. –convinced, that is, until he realized that he could still move. With surprising speed for his bumps and bruises – and possible sprains and breaks – he ran pell-mell for the wall behind him, dashed up it, and back-flipped onto the fountain’s top-most spire. He fired repeatedly at Shade all the while, reloading the revolver so quickly that there was no pause in the rhythm of gunfire.
Shade Darker dodged each bullet with ease now that he knew they were coming. He drew upon his psychic expertise and caught the bullets in a kind of invisible field, allowing them to orbit him like small bronze moons. Soon Dark Horse found himself out of ammunition. Muttering something like, “Hot Diggity,” he shoved the revolver back in its holster and swung down behind the spire just as the orbiting bullets stopped and shot toward him in some bizarre parody of a swarm of bees.
The combined force of the bullets blew off the top spire, sending water and chunks of white stone flying in all directions. Shade Darker half floated, half jumped to land on top of one of the other spires, looking for Dark Horse as the bullets splashed into the water below like a shower of wishing coins.
“Yeeeeeehaaw!” Dark Horse swung around one of the other spires, holding on to the slippery wet stone with both hands. He smacked into Shade, kicking him hard off the fountain so that he landed on top of Silver Spoon in his pile of rubble.' --(Excerpt from Trench Coats and Love Notes, a story by ME!)
Yes, meet Agent Dark Horse, a rough and tumble cowboy with a heart of gold. His arch nemesis is a psychic voodoo obsessed wannabe cowboy named Shade Darker. Dark Horse has a reputation at the Agency for his sharp shootin', and for managing to lasso one of the wild wing-ed horses that live in thunderheads, the high spirited bay with black wings, Mountain Thunder. :)
This painting was a birthday present for a friend who is in no way associated with a group of secret agents. Ha ha...*wipes your memory*
Acrylic 8x10 |
|
 | |  | | | Date | Name | Comment | | | 26 Nov 2007 |  Stephen "Werepenguin" Cauley | Also, speaking of accents and Swell Well, I always picture him with a snobby, Rockefeller type accent as if he's totally stuck on himself. My manager in college had that kind of accent    Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: "Ha ha ha! That's perfect! I never really imagined him with an accent until I tried reading the story out loud to my brother, and it turned Brooklyn. I think he'd need an accent to say all those lines; otherwise, according to Dark Horse, he sounds like an old woman, and according to my friend Stephanie, he sounds like he's a little light in the loafers. " | |
| 26 Nov 2007 |  Stephen "Werepenguin" Cauley | Heh speaking of writing accents, I say DO IT! My connection to Dark Horse and Wobbles is that I got to read the way they spoke! I think it's the same way I loved Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury". He wrote four different chapters through four different people's minds and switched speech patterns and even sentence structure between them! In one chapter he even refrained from using punctuation because the character was always to nervous and too rushed to do so! As for the piece, I'm so happy to see this again after I read the stories. I feel much closer to the Dark Horse character now. Ol' Softy!  Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: "My problem with accents is I can't really write the ones I don't know how to do. --Spoon's for instance. I can't do a Russian accent for beans and it's hard for me to picture...er hear it in my head. Wobbles...well, she's cockney, which I can do relatively well (I'd love to play Eliza Dolittle!), and then she's got a hint of Scottish...which I can't do, but eh, she's a pirate; she had to say "aye"! Arrr!
Though I live out west, I can't do a western accent for beans. I kin do southe'n when the fancy takes me, but to me southe'n an' west'rn accent 'er too much alyke. So I didn't really write Dark Horse with a western accent, I left that one, for the most part, up to the reader. --Ha ha...same with Sudoku. Though now that I think about it, he probably wouldn't have an Asian accent. when I first pictured him, it was like a mix of Jackie Chan in Shanghai Noon, and like all the main guys in Iron Monkey. --But Su's a born and bred American. He just looks asian, what with his long ol' samurai braid.
I'm really glad you enjoyed the accents. And it's good to know that it can cause the reader to have a better connection with the character. Part of me likes it, part of me has a hard time reading it when I go through the story myself. But it's a useful literary technique, because I don't always have to define who's speaking. You know it's wobbles if you hear "Git back yeh bloomin' pidgeon, arr!"
The Sound and the Fury sounds interesting. It just goes to show that there really aren't any set rules to writing. I've seen writers use sentence fragments and other literary no nos to great effect. The rules are like the pirate code; more like guidelines anyway. A true artist can bend the rules to his or her will.
I'm glad you and Dark are friend now, Agent Penguin. " | |
| 26 Nov 2007 |  Swell Well | Hey, have you lovely ladies seen my beach ball? It's about...this big, I think it went...that way. What? Is something on my...shoe?  Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: "*rolls eyes* Swell Well...oh LOOK! It's Stitch! Shoo, man, shoo!" | |
| 26 Jan 2008 |  Anna Bjork | Cooool!  Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: "Yeah. He is pretty cool. so cool in fact that he has his own fan club!" | |
| 5 Feb 2008 |  Ffranses ´Ffelix´ Medland | Dark Horse is just the cutest! sorry but omg i cant stop lolling at his serial number XD  Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: "See, Dark Horse. You do impress all the ladies. Lol. " | |
| 8 Jun 2008 |  Andris Dreiks Celms | good Its is better than the one Ash draw (sorry Ash)  Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: " I personally love the one Ash drew. I’ve got it set to my desktop. " | |
| 8 Jun 2008 |  Andris Dreiks Celms | | |
| 9 Jun 2008 |  Andris Dreiks Celms | Ash’s drawings are great I agree but yours are fabulous as well  Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: "Heh. Thank you! " | |
| 15 Jul 2008 |  Sarah ´Ash´ Koch | ash- blinks huh what am i doing here.....who am i.......*looks around puzzled*...nah just kidding as if i’d let my memory be erased...then all my people would hunt and terrorize the culprit....heee.....*shrugs* most characters are best drawn by their creature....unless someone who simply draws better does them...blah blah....yeah i have to say i liked Dark Horse a lot....hes really cool and different......and then i ended up finding my own cowboy Aidreiss- she needs to draw me though ash- when i get to you...hee....hes gonna be cool.....maybe not cooler than dark horse though....good perspective on this pic ^^.....heee *thumbs up*  Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: "Hut: Well, it’s not like I just let my memory get erased....
*hut disappears in a cloud of smoke to be replaced by someone who looks suspiciously like her, minus the poofy pants* Ehm.
Oo! Cowboy characters are fun, I’ve discovered. Especially wannabe cowboys.  Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Shade Dark...*catches Dark Horse’s glare* What? Girls dig Brits. It’s all in the accent. What’s that? Yes, I know you have an accent too. I’m already part of your fan club, share the spotlight, ok? Sheesh... " | |
| 25 Aug 2008 |  Barbora Haringová | Heh, cool character. I like his smirk And his pose is good drawn as well   Glo 'the Bug' Bowden replies: "Well thanks very much! " | |
| Page: [1] 2 3 |
| |  | |  |
 Do a search for similar items! (Regarding theme, technique and inspirations)
|
 All
rights are reserved for the work 'Agent Dark Horse - Serial WD-40' by Glo 'the Bug' Bowden under
Elfwoods all rights reserved copyright policy
License.
All material posted at Elfwood is covered by the Elfwood Rules. If this page break any rule(s), help us out, and report it to the ERB by clicking here!
|
|
|
