Speckled Band📘 An epic trek comes to an end. I’ve just finished The Dark Tower novels by Stephen King. It’s broadly a fantasy Western inspired by King’s love of the cowboy genre. But becomes so much more.
Evander L FragosoMore on inspiration--What horror writer doesn’t look to Stephen King as a source of inspiration? I’ll confess that I haven’t read every morsel of his making, and I can’t say that I enjoy every work that I have read, but there are certain works that have definitely left an impression on me. Before reading the epic Dark Tower series I already had my own thoughts on a string of worlds strewn together across a multiverse, but the series was a great different take on bringing together different dimensions. The Gunslinger starts off with a slow burn that stretches out into an intricate web with The Drawing of The Three and onward. It’s also a wonderful genre blender, with its cowboy and magical tropes sifted through the lens of a collapsing world. Dreamcatcher is another magical book to me, with a mental battle that I’ll always think about.
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#writer #author #life #horror #inspiration #inspirational #StephenKing #TheDarkTower #dreamcatcher #TheGunslinger
tmac3artI read The Gunslinger and then painted this. This is what I saw when I thought of the main character, Roland, and then I brought it to life. I used flat oil brushes in infinite painter to paint this. Purple being my favorite color was an easy choice because it gave it this dark and rugged look.
#thegunslinger #stephenking #thedarktower #digitalart #painting #infinitepainter #oilpainting #cowboy #wildwest #purple
#thegunslinger #stephenking #thedarktower #digitalart #painting #infinitepainter #oilpainting #cowboy #wildwest #purple
Gaurav VaidyaI find Eddie, Jake and Susannah so annoying in #TheDarkTower that I sometimes forget just how good the parts of the stories without them are, such as #TheGunslinger or the flashback story in #WizardAndGlass.
David Brent 📚"You'd kill him?"
Roland's smile was wintry in the moonlight. Merciless.
"Without a moment's hesitation," said he.
- The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower VII)
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Nick Saunders ⓋGolly-bob howdy! I enjoyed #TheGunslinger but thought it was a bit dry in places. Loved the world though. Reading #112264 now and really enjoying it so far. Once that's done I'm off to #DrawingOfTheThree ! #stephenking
binaI borrowed #TheGunslinger from the library and it's the revised edition, fuckin sucks.
"I couldn't get into #TheDarkTower series because of the gunslinger," fuckin lol.
The forced 19s is no 42 and never was. I don't want the foreshadowing. The best part about Roland vs the #lobstrosities is surprise 🎶 goodbye fingers, I'm barfing over youuuu 🎶
"I couldn't get into #TheDarkTower series because of the gunslinger," fuckin lol.
The forced 19s is no 42 and never was. I don't want the foreshadowing. The best part about Roland vs the #lobstrosities is surprise 🎶 goodbye fingers, I'm barfing over youuuu 🎶
TypeFlukeI just blew right through #TheGunslinger & could have sworn I'd read parts of it before. If I had, it was so long ago, I'd forgotten it. Anyway onto book 2. The drawing of the three.
dTron 
Picked up #TheChurn by James S. A. Corey and already blowing through it. Finished the main series but this is the first of #TheExpanse novellas I will have read.
Next in the queue: #Cabal by Clive Barker then onward to a rereading of #TheGunslinger by Stephen King. Never finished #TheDarkTower series and wanting to tackle it before the Mike Flanagan adaptation drops. Super excited for that one!
FiXatoDark Tower: The Gunslinger in water colours
Tried my hand at a fairly #monochrome water colour #painting as a practice for #huevember, and as an example for an upcoming experiment: painting with tea.
Ended up using two different colours though, rather than one: #Panduro's #YellowOchre and #BurntUmber.
Three different brushes: a number 12 round brush from #SøstreneGrene, a number 2 flat brush from #GreneArt, and a number 2 round brush probably, though I'm not sure as it had no markings on it.
Painted on 230 grams acid-free A5 watercolour paper from Søstrene Grene.
Painted after the example of #SteveStone's original cover art: https://shop.suntup.press/products/the-dark-tower-i-the-gunslinger-fine-art-print
#waterColour #waterColours #waterColorArt #waterColors #DarkTower #StephenKing #TheGunslinger #aquarel #akvarell #aquarelle
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