This is an drawing I did yesterday afternoon that will end up being the back cover image for my next book, which I'm about a dozen pages in to. I was researching what was going to be my next book but was having little trouble envisioning the story. Things were not falling into place and while reading trying to figure things out, I saw the beginning and end for this other book.
An artists obsession with perfection leads him to abandon his life in civilization for the solitude of the woods. The painter, Charley Butters, quickly realizes he has no use for the life he once had and all of the complications the so called "modern world" brought with it, and as a result is never heard from again. 40 years later his delapidated cabin is discovered by a small town black metal band filming a music video in those same woods. The band finds hundreds of paintings and journals within the cabin that will fill in the blanks of why the painter disappeared all those years ago and why trying to attain perfection led to the painters downward mental spiral.
Well, that's a brief summary of my new book. I've yet to show it to my publisher, so I'm hoping this will be my follow up to The Klondike. Cross you fingers!
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