Ziggetai - Veil Of The Gods

It's been a challenging year on so many levels. I'm still putting my visual novel, Veil of the Gods, together and it's coming along very nicely.This piece is called "Morden Flin and the Glyph". Morden is a minor player in a renowned criminal gang, until he stumbles on a secret. It's a secret that someone with his limited understanding of consequences probably should have steered clear of.

The process of creating a huge graphic novel like Veil of the Gods hasn’t just involved writing the story, sculpting the characters and preparing the digital artworks. I’ve also been creating typefaces. This was a hobby of mine 20 years or so ago. In 1996 I designed the font for my little book- The Moon on the Lake- published by Random House. Then I typeset the whole book with it. I mention this because it’s such a pleasure to have an excuse to build new typefaces. The graphic novel is full of them. Indeed these various typefaces are integral to the story… Here’s the proof page for two I finished today. They’re inspired by Tibetan scripts.

I've been quiet on social media for a while, juggling three major projects that all demand my attention. I had decided to put Veil of the Gods on hold until Amazon approved it. That process has taken just over 18 months, but at last Veil of the Gods is going to be listed properly on Amazon under comic books and graphic novels.

They make it hard for Indie Publishers.

So, the release date for Chapter Two draws closer. Hurrah!

To celebrate I created this portrait of Nadine Granie, a principal character.

Two eyes for looking. One eye for seeing.

For those of you who love magical symbolism.

Playing with animations for Veil of the Gods…

Inspiration.

By ninjajo art

Inspiration.

Moebius

Inspiration.

I've been away from Veil of the Gods and Ziggetai for a while. Mainly that's because I've been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. It's a roller coaster. Who knows what might happen?

After pondering the enormity of this situation for some weeks I sat down to create a magical glyph. This graphic spell is designed and intended to draw in life force energy and convert it to health and wealth and joy.

In my graphic novel, "Veil of the Gods", Glyphs are one aspect of a vast magical technology that encompasses all the creative arts. This technology is called Mahjuti. Mastery of these symbols and the creation of new ones takes a lifetime of dedicated study, practice and experimentation.