The Knight of Pale Countenance
- THE KNIGHT OF PALE COUNTENANCE - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in a book, "Refugees From An Imaginary Country," by Darrell Schweitzer, published by Ganley-Owlswick in 1999.
I consider "fantasy" fiction to be stories of pure imagination, tales created out of dreamland. They never happened, and they never will . . . Like Tolkien's, "The Lord of the Rings".
I consider science fiction to be stories that are directly related to the real world, what they are about falls within the realms of possibility . . . Like Heinlein's, "Universe".
But many "imaginative" stories include both fantasy and science fiction elements, like many of Ray Bradbury's stories.
So I tried to draw realistically when I illustrated a science fiction story, but in many of my fantasy drawings I combined realistic forms with highly stylized imaginary forms to blend the world of reality with the land of make-believe. In this picture you can see that I drew the Knight realistically, but I drew the water he is standing in un-realistically, using stylized decorated waves.
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