Old and Unused Illustrations

While putting together the artwork for Memory's Wake there have been a number of images that didn't make the final cut. Some where only ever temporary sketches, and some were from much earlier versions of the story and characters. Below is a small collection of artworks that for one reason or another didn't make it into the final version. "Lost Soul" Memory- I finished my first draft of Memory's Wake not long before Christmas 2010. I wanted to print a few copies for friends and family, but didn't have any artwork ready for it yet. So I went through my collection of existing images to try and find something suitable for a cover. The closest I found was my artwork "Lost Soul", in which the gown reminded me a little of the gown Memory wears to the masquerade ball in the book. I did a bit of photoshop work to turn what was a long haired ghostly figure into my character Memory, and it became the temporary cover for my Christmas copies. Various Sketches- I drew this dragon for the illustration for Chapter 21, but it never looked right for me. I ended up drawing a new dragon design for the opening of this chapter. A sketch that was meant for Chapter 25, I decided that I wanted something much bigger and nicer for this scene and ended up doing a full page illustration version of this image which is now in the book instead. This is a very old image, from back when I had plans to have Memory's Wake be a comic book. The original story started quite differently, but the character in silhouette here has always been much the same. A rough sketch of Roen I started, but abandoned because it never felt like Roen to me, it just didn't capture and character his look properly. A very old character sketch from my original version of Memory's Wake. The wild forest man has remained pretty much the same, except, ah, he wears pants now (loin cloths are SO outdated!). Another very old character sketch of Eloryn. This is from back when the story was a much more generic sword and sorcery tale, as were the settings and costumes.