Fortress #1

If you looked at my classroom notes from the time that they started making me take them, you would have seen a lot more doodles than notes. One of the things that I liked to doodle was underground forts. Usually they were a side view, and they contained everything a bored ten year old might want or think of. So there were a lot of traps and gun racks and cannons and rooms devoted to ammo storage.

Sometimes I would branch out to ewok-style tree forts (for D&D elves, because I was a big ol’ nerd) or castles (again with the D&D), but mainly I stuck to underground forts. I had heard of the underground bunkers of the Maginot line, and I thought they sounded cool.

I’m pretty sure that I had stopped drawing them by the time I was 16.

Last summer I was unlucky enough to find myself in an all day meeting that was at least as boring and unpleasant as any class, and one of the things I drew was the half finished fort above. It’s your basic missile silo with control room and acid trap on the entry ladder. I had planned to add on to it down and to the left (underneath the dinosaur bones), but I got distracted and never came back to it. Even so, it was a minor revelation. Drawing hidden forts is demented and sad fun, and I can’t imagine why I stopped.

This blog is where I’m gonna put my hidden fort drawings, along with any notes about them…