This is an illustration I did for a story called “One” by Marlo Dianne, to be published in the seventh issue of Tales of the Talisman. The story is one page long, so I won’t post even a one-line summary for fear I’ll give away the entire plot. It’s a great story though, with a cool twist. I had to read it several times again after the first time because I couldn’t figure out which lines were literal and which were metaphorical, something I had to determine before even sketching a draft.

I didn’t do a pure cartoon for this illustration—pure, in my eyes, meaning completely from scratch. I usually do for Talisman, but the nature of this story made me want to have a little bit of realism within the cartoon, so I used some scrap for reference this time around.

Below is a compilation of the scrap I used:

Yep. Body parts from several different people make up my illustrated character, kind of fitting given the storyline, but I can’t tell you why it’s fitting because, again, I’d be giving away the plot. Heck, the scrap itself may give it away, but hopefully not enough of it.

There is, however, one part of the story I’d like to share. One character asks another, “Say one, just one, sentence that totals your relationship.”

I’m still trying to figure out what one sentence would sum up mine. What about you?

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