A Painted Pause

One thing that will pretty much always take priority over getting a blog post together is painting. When the brain wanders over that way, i dare not discourage it.

So, guess what today?

I mentioned previously that the renders that i had been posting were not to be considered actual game art. They're the 'actors' being cast and costumed - all pre-production work. Now we're actually getting into some of the artwork. 

Though not 'complete & done' status yet, here's a couple that are close enough to give you an idea of the actual look for the artwork.

This first one is for dreaming - something PCs may be prone to doing when sleeping. Kelly Friday was born and raised in a subterranean colony. Her dreams can be simple things, like enjoying a sunset under an open sky -

We previously saw a promo for Epic Super Battles which featured a cropped shot of Kelly's mom, The Golden Lady vs. The Fugly Brute. Here's the nearly completed painted version of the shot -
 

As noted, these are both still in-progress paintings, and they are greatly reduced from the original 6000x4000 size. (I like to print at 30"x20" - reason for a Costco membership all by itself)

I'll tell you one thing - it feels good to be painting again. Hopefully there's a whole bunch more in the flow.

stuff by -3- (2020)

His Name Is Buck, He's Here To Duck

Saturday i made reference to Stanley & Edwin, but i was really talking about Buck -

That may not make a lot of sense right up front, but don't worry - it doesn't get any better with a close view.

But maybe the credits on this story will help just a tad...
 

Stan Lee and Ed Win - Did ol' Smilin' Stan convince somebody else to split their name the way he did? Or did he follow Edwin's example?
 

Nope, that ain't it.
Ed Win took a different route to get to his name. He's not Edwin, he's Ed Winiarski. So it's all just a bit of damnfoolery filling my head once again. 

Somehow Buck seems good for damnfoolery, doesn't he?

We don't know who originally wrote or drew the comic, But Winiarski came onboard with the third issue (#6) and rapidly became the primary artist. Stanley hopped on and started writing most of the title with issue #10. The next issue was the final, as Buck drove off a cliff and was never seen again.

Though Stan did manage to work Iron Man into it before they were through -

Yeah, okay. Maybe not quite Iron Man.
And we didn't even get to Meathead Wiggins. I guess we may have to come back here later. But for now, here are the rest of the covers for It's A Duck's Life -

page art by Ed Winiarski from It's A Duck's Life #s 10 & 11 (1951, 1952)

2020 Calendars - Week 04

In our fine modern entertainment tradition, we're going back to Week 01 of this year's calendars to reboot/recycle/rerun our artists for Week 04. Not the artwork, of course, just the artists.

First up, Henry Clive returns with a bit more classically themed piece in this week's Pin-up Calendar - 

And for our Covers Calendar, Enoch Bolles returns, this time with the January 1942 cover of Film Fun -

And Archie Dickens gives us another winter themed pin-up for out Blue Monday Calendar, available in our adult content 'back room.'
Here's a direct link to the full version of this post.

We're keeping it very simple this week - just the three basic calendars. Now i'm off to figure out where i parked my brain.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.


art by labeled artists, of course (20thC)

Covering Early Ditko

Oops.

We forgot a post, even though i mentioned it while we were indulging in Ditko this week. Previously i said we'd get a collection of Ditko covers from Amazing Adult Fantasy and the earlier titles which we were perusing, so here they are - 23 covers from Steve Ditko's rising days in the mid-50s and early-60s...

Okay...   Now we'll move along from Ditko for a while.

Tomorrow i believe we'll visit with Stanley & Edwin!(?) See you then.

cover art by Steve Ditko from the books for which they're covers (1954, 1956, 1961, 1962)