The Art Thread - with images!

[sgt.null]

sorry to bring up a calamity. it did seemed rushed. and Perez killed Javelin, a character that I liked. but its cool to have a real live celebrity here. (until i'm published, then you will have two. )

[dANdeLION]

Actually, if being published equals fame, then there are several famous people on the Watch already, starting with SRD himself.

[sgt.null]

ok, my bad. no offense meant to anyone.

[jwaneeta]

ok, my bad. no offense meant to anyone.

Oh goodness, no offense taken, I'm sure! It was kind of you to say, and I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner -- I was babbling my head off in The Close and asking a string of perfectly inchoherent, ill-composed questions over at the Runes forum.

You know, we're all our own worst critics. God knows still I get actual stage fright when starting a job, even after all these years.

I, uh, started drawing comics for a living when I was five. *koff koff*

[sgt.null]

i have only met Val Seimeks. really nice guy. and I like some of his work even. I tend to like the more 'cartoonish' pencilers; Ditko, John K Snyder, Sneljberg, Bob Burden. and I have been taken to task for my likes on some comic boards. hell even Don Heck has fans, and I really don't get it.
so in a convoluted way i'm saying, I really enjoy the work of yours that I have. I'll look at the Beetle, but I'm not a fan of this direction. with Speedball and Ted Kord we have lost two Ditko creations. maybe Marvel will let me buy Speedball? I could start a fund.

[jwaneeta]

I'll look at the Beetle, but I'm not a fan of this direction. with Speedball and Ted Kord we have lost two Ditko creations. maybe Marvel will let me buy Speedball? I could start a fund.

Heh, it wasn't until I read your Ditko thread that I realized he created Blue Beetle. What a trip.

And yeah, it's a huge departure from Ditko's original concept, I'm betting. Still, fun in its own way -- the new BB is a Hispanic kid from El Paso, the suit is malevolent, his friends are in perpetual trouble and his family has been all but ruined by his superherodom. Giffen is a really good writer.

[sgt.null]

i loved Giffen's take on the LSH. the Sunboy orifgin is just about the best single issue of anything I have ever read. so of course DC ignores that part of the LSH. i enjoyed his Suicide Squad take and wish it had lasted longer.

[Khaliban]

Nice pics all. And yeah Khaliban, Revelstone would be awesome. C'mon...we're waiting.

--A

Does anyone have scans from the atlas?

[Avatar]

Nope...didn't even know that it was pictured in the atlas (or anywhere official) at all. There's a thread in the TC forum where we've debated at length what it actually looked like.

I tried my hand with and old 3d modelling prog I have, but the results were rather disappointing, and I resolved to wait until I picked up a newer version.

Anyway, why not do it from your imagination? Show us what you think it looks like.

--A

[dANdeLION]

I only remember an overhead view in the Atlas, but I can scan it if you'd like.

[Khaliban]

I only remember an overhead view in the Atlas, but I can scan it if you'd like.

I remember seeing an overhead view and a side view. Those are all I really need.

[Avatar]

Awesome. Can't wait to see how that looks.

--A

[dANdeLION]

Okay, I'll try to scan it tonight. But, I need to know where I should post it.

[Avatar]

Here? Thanks dAN. Look forward to seeing even the pics.

--A

[jwaneeta]

I remember seeing an overhead view and a side view. Those are all I really need.

Can't wait to see it

[Warmark]

kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... revelstone

Just incase anyone doesnt know, this thread has some images of revelstone.

[jwaneeta]

*sigh* I guess everybody's off having a blast in DC. I offer a wistful handwave - wish I could be there.

This is a penciled cover I turned in yesterday, for a biography of Theodore Roosevelt. I'm posting it because I'm making up a couple of posts of all my old TCTC stuff, and some of it is really ooky. What a long strange trip it's been.

[jwaneeta]

This was my very first attempt at drawing comics and lo, it's Covenant stuff. I didn't even remember that until I found these pages while moving. Being a complete n00b, I did all of it: I colored them with markers and even did the lettering. Which is why they're scanned small. Really small.


ink, markers

Several years later, I was working in comics and got an editor pal to approach SRD's agent about doing a graphic novel. I can't find any of the spec pages I actually turned in, and the whole thing came to nothing anyway. But I still have some of the unfinished warmup pages. Most of them are so freaking huge I had to scan in pieces. In the one below, frex, the zap from TC's ring goes up about a foot, on gigantic watercolor paper. I don't know what I was thinking.


watercolor

Another piece of this same montage depicts Elena. Heavy on the crazy.


watercolor

I also did a lot of slapdash character sketches, a few of which survived:


ink

pencil

If I'd had the chance back then to illustrate TCTC, I would have gone
for a lot of color and action, of course. That project never came together, but over the years I kept doing Land-y stuff. On my own time I inclined to more sylvan and Caer-Caverally themes. Those make up the completely non-compelling content of the following post.

[jwaneeta]

Having failed to turn the comics world onto TCTC I entered an Andelainian Phase from which I've yet to emerge. It's a break from drawing people in spandex beating the crud out of each other. What can I say?

The Oak on the Verge:

watercolor

Night:

watercolor

Pimpin' Vaguely Hindu Caer-Caveral:

watercolor

Catholic Martyr Caer-Caveral:

ink

Andelainian Rill:

oil, damaged in storage

the Soulsease:

watercolor

I grow old. I wear my trousers rolled. I don't have the energy to dream of graphic-novelling SRD's work these days, but you know what I'd really like to see? A compendium, an illustrated encyclopedia of his universe, the Land. Spot illustrations accompanying text about the Land's specie, castes, and clothing. Brimfull of different artists and styles, lavish and vibrant, just like his prose. I'd certainly buy it.

[Loredoctor]

OH.MY.GOD. Stunned silence. Jwaneeta, your artwork is incredible. Simply fantastic . . . . . I'm ashamed to have placed mine here; it pales compares to your work.

As for the graphic novel. Perhaps KW could make it happen? I mean, what if some of us work on a comic script, some others (including yourself) on design, and you can do the art? Perhaps we all get the money together to make it happen.