Painted on the back of a misprinted Dark Tower image that I was using as a mixing palette, mostly white, yellow ocher, and raw umber. The print is on such a fine grade of heavyweight watercolor paper that I was loathe to throw it away.
The shape suggested by a brush mark made me think of creatures described in Stephen King’s The Waste Lands, long beaked, bird-like things that resemble "walking camera tripods". The image never left my mind after reading the book.
As I worked on the main painting—which at the time was HARBINGER—I tweaked the shapes here and there, added the legs, and covered some of the splashes that did not fit in with the mental picture in my head.
One day perhaps this sketch will lead to an actual illustration of the scene, which I’m sure should be darker and more hellish than what I indicated in this sketch.
Additional images from TRIPOD WALKER
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