{"id":147,"date":"2011-06-20T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/?p=147"},"modified":"2011-06-20T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:48:14","slug":"icad-4-at-the-throne-of-the-faerie-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"#ICAD 4 At the Throne of the Faerie King"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Face to face with the faerie king, and on her knees in fear<\/p><\/div>\n

The girl dropped to her knees at the base of the throne. Not from obeisance like the pale, angular courtiers around her, but from fear.<\/em><\/p>\n

The king could have commanded her to stand. It was his right. But instead he knelt before her, like a supplicant, and brushed the hair from her eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n

For this index card, I used the Lamy 2000 that Richard Binder<\/a> modified into a cursive italic nib for me at the Raleigh Pen Show earlier this month. It was a nice pen to use for this because it could do both thick and thin lines. The ink is, again, Noodler’s Heart of Darkness. (It really is my go-to black ink.)<\/p>\n

The art for these cards is taking me longer than I expected. I’m a writer, not an artist, but I’m also a perfectionist so I spend hours trying to make the art the best I can. When I came up with this idea for ICAD, I hadn’t really planned to do artwork on each card. But now that I’ve done it for the first few, it’s hard to imagine posting an ICAD card without art on it.<\/p>\n

So even though I have enough of the story written for a buffer, I’m having a hard time getting a card posted every day. Technically, this card should have been posted yesterday, which means I still owe you one for today. So I might have to do a few cards in advance to create an artwork buffer, too.<\/p>\n

(I have new-found respect for artists who knock out a sketch for folks in 15 minutes at conventions. I’ve always admired their skill, but now — seriously, y’all are freaking amazing!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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