Did another warm up sketch today before getting down to drawing. With Dirge part 2 being the last half of the Dirge story and not really being sure what I’ll move onto after that I think doing more sketch book work and trying to get some new ideas down would be a smart move. It was also a nice change to draw something a bit different to the realistic, urban tone of recent work and something I plan to do more once I’ve completed Dirge.
I found this story on the Internet earlier today. Its one of those strange but true stories.
“A bullet that reached its destiny years later
Henry Ziegland thought he had dodged fate. In 1883, he broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl's brother was so enraged that he hunted down Ziegland and shot him. The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland, then turned his gun on himself and took his own life. But Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet, in fact, had only grazed his face and then lodged in a tree. Ziegland surely thought himself a lucky man. Some years later, however, Ziegland decided to cut down the large tree, which still had the bullet in it. The task seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with a few sticks of dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland's head, killing him. (Source: Ripley's Believe It or Not!)”
Its probably the best strange but true story I’ve ever heard.
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