Hey guys

I seriously haven't posted anything in a while, have I?
Sorry bout that. I've been working on my latest project, plus I've had school work (I've changed schools 4 or 5 times in my life, how was I supposed to know this time it would drastically affect my free time?). But I'm back (mostly cuz I have a 3-day weekend so I don't have to freak out over impending deadlines), and I waned to give some notifications:

First, it's almost Hallowe'en. If you're reading this, please tell me what you'll be doing, since apparently everyone does their own thing, right? I've got parties coming up and I plan to be going as Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead, since I'll have the costume already half-ready once I finish my current history project. I will be trick-or-treating, b/c with my current condition I'll put on a fez and vest and dance like a monkey to reunite with my best friend chocolate again.

Second, I have braces. Finally. I was supposed to get them two years ago but apparently there was something wrong with my teeth that made it so I had to wait til two weeks ago to get my braces. Check my new updated profile pick to see what I look like with em.

Third, I've joined some new sites! First, my new schools literature club website (there's no editor for it tho, so don't be critical about entries posted by people who aren't perfect): Buccaneers' Literature Club! I've also joined deviantart! Jakob Dailes' DeviantArt Page. There you go! Check it out!

Fourth, I'm thinking about making a website. As in, an actual website. Any suggestions on content?

Well, see you later guys.

News!

My birthday happened. So glad all of you sent presents, cards, and comments on Feb. 27!

That was sarcasm.
I can't believe my parents picked up the subtle hints that I wanted a cookie-cake (after all, I only scribbled it into their day-planners, burnt the words 'I WANNA COOKIE-CAKE' into the side of the house, and hired the Goodyear blimp to fly over bearing the banner 'LUCAS WANTS A FRIGGIN COOKIE-CAKE YOU MORONS')
And here's my new business-card!

Grimm Happenings is my new project. A book-project. Because Legendary recently was drenched in gas, set on fire, and dropped from the Empire State Building (to be scattered along America's coast the next day) by the hideous goblins that are "mid-write editing".
Grimm Happenings is about a British boy (Eli) who just moved to America and is finding he has strange powers. Some of his classmates and teachers (Mr. Batton and the ever-so-hot Angela) seem to know something they aren't telling, and some classmates (like Trevor) seem to unknowingly be part of that something. That's all I'll reveal for now.
Also, I (and by that I mean my dad) am renovating my den. From (dog-pee-covered) carpet (that refuses to be washed) to beautiful tile. Woo!
B.t.w. I noticed no entries were submitted for my art contest. My friend Will is an artist and (yes, I know, he's a judge, but I told him he could submit one if he didn't vote on it) he didn't even submit. (Maybe I should have told him louder. Note to self: Buy megaphone.) I'm giving a redemptive period of until May 15. Then I'll vote (if anyone submits art). Click on the art contest label to see the rules.
I won't be doing very many posts til "HERA: The Goddess and her glory" comes out. Awesome, right?
Expect a Myth-Talk (super-long) about Dionysos (I call him D) soon.
Comment!

New pics! yeah!

Just finished selected sketches based on scenes from "All Action Classics' Dracula" and "The Big Book of Grimm". Check it out!

The Boy Riding The "Bed Of Doom"

--The Story Of The Boy Who Set Forth To Learn What Fear Was

Death

--Godfather Death

Three Elves and a Baby

--The Elfin Trilogy: The Changeling

Rapunzel lowering her hair

--Rapunzel

Red-Cap and the Wolf

--Red-Cap

Snowdrop in her Glass Casket (notice the lump of apple stuck in her throat)

--Snowdrop

These are all Copyright 2010 Lucas Brandon/Ben Caldwell/Vincent Deporter.

(only half-credit given to the last two names; I might've based my sketches on their's but I still changed them into Grimm scenes)

These sketches are for a book-in-production I'm doing (don't ask dates! Still not to publisher!) about select stories from the Brothers Grimm. Now I know what you're thinking: Fairy tales? Princesses? What?

I'd like you to know that the appearance of the Brothers Grimm over the years has been trajically altered! If you want prissy, pony-filled, rainbow fairy tales, go to Charles Perrault. Not the Brothers Grimm. No offense, but just to give you a snippet of what these world-traveling, horror-making brothers did, try reading their story "The Juniper Tree". And if you're really daring, try reading it from the book "Grimm's grimmest", where there are detailed pictures included! This will give you nightmares! And compared to some of the other stories, "The Juniper Tree" is a prissy, rainbow-filled tea-party! If you're thinking half-wit, poisoned Snow-White, think again. More like vengeful Snowdrop. In the Grimm-tale Snowdrop, the Snow-White character gets revenge on the evil stepmother... by forcing her to dance in fire-hot metal shoes until she died! Prissy Cinderella? More like Ash-Maid, a kick-butt chick whose magical birds vengefully peck out her stepsisters' eyes! Heck, "Red Riding Hood" and Granny even get revenge by boiling a wolf alive!

Stay tuned for sneak-peek pages.

Athene Profile

There's my profile for the goddess Athene.

Perseus *you may cabbage-patch gleefully now*

That's a preview of my book of gods. Of course I had Medousa in it (technically she and her sisters, the Gorgones, were goddesses, Medousa was just the only one that could die). And if I have in it Medousa, I have to have Perseus (duh). Here's a preview, in which Perseus is told what to do be Athene and Hermes. He travels to the Graiai, the three Gray women, the goddesses of the mist and sea foam, to ask them for help. I based the Graiai's swanlike appearance on the way Aeschylus portrayed them as half swan. Yay!

I'm an artist! Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Oh yah!

Yep. I drew that. I'm a good artist. I told you so... Wait. I never told you I was a good artist. Oh. Okay. Well, anyway, the pic's of the goddess Psykhe, the wife of the Greek god Eros. If you wanna know more, you can read my book:

LEGENDARY

BOOK I: QUEST FOR THE GOLDEN FLEECE