Inktober #25: Aslan
Added 2017-10-25 11:54:08 +0000 UTCThe Narnia books have been with me for so long, and so constantly, that I can't even remember when I first read them. I must have been in primary school, and I had the first three books in German. The way they were presented probably kept me from reading the others - they had titles so confusingly similar that I can barely remember which is which (The Miracle of Narnia, The King of Narnia, A Ship from Narnia - well, that's the only one I can do), and I hated the illustrations when I was a child. They were typical 70s children's book illustrations by either Rolf or Margret Rettich - I could never tell those two apart either - and while I see their merits now, I thoroughly disliked them when I was younger. My taste was pretty firmly formed quite early, and hasn't changed a lot since.
I got a boxed set of the books in English when I was around seventeen, and was very much into Tolkien, and finally read them all back to back. I've reread them several times in the years since, and it was a tough choice whom I should draw for Inktober - Digory, Lord Drinian, King Tilian and Reepicheep were close contenders.
