Mathurin Kerbouchard

This is admittedly, fan art. My favorite book in the whole-wide-world is The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour. Mathurin Kerbouchard is the main character. I love his character so much. I was compelled to draw him... and now for some of my favorite quotes....

"The best of things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever."

"Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think."

"Blasphemy? Not unless it is blasphemy to seek the truth. No, I am no blasphemer, but something worse, I am an asker of questions."

"I shall miss the walking drum, Suzanne, miss it indeed. That drum has been our pulse, and often have I wondered what it is that starts the drum of a man's life to beating? For each of us walks to the beat of our own drum, an unheard rhythm to all our movements and thought."

Anyway.... Yeah... done in pencil.... now I want to read that book again.