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Published: 2010-06-01 04:34:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 116681; Favourites: 3496; Downloads: 17821
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Client: Wildstorm EntertainmentMedia: Pencil, Ink, and Adobe Photoshop
A cover for Alan Moore's VOODOO miniseries back in the 90s. I did 3 covers for this 4-issue miniseries, and WS asked me to do it in an Art Nouveau style because it matched the approach that interior artist Michael Lopez had come up with.
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I have all these issues...been a follower of your work for some time and you never cease to amaze me
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It was the noveau style and the colorscheme that made me want to have a closer look
There are lots of things to look at like the hair (
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That is most beautiful! I love the weathered look you gave it around the edges too!
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Always love a nod to the Art Nouveau style, doesn't get as much love as it deserves.
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Very nice, I love the Mucha styling. You captured the art nouveau very well!
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I love Art Nouveau so much its silly
and this picuture is just so awesome... so it's silly XD
great job keep it up!!
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It's amazing how early-morning sleepy-peaceful you can make an image that has hissing snakes and skulls. Gorgeous work!
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I love that this is in a Nouveau approach. The colors and the background are great, and especially nice touches with the snakes, since the voodoo god, Dahmballa, only possesses and speaks through women, and only women can hold and preform the magic of voodoo. (Not many people know this, and Disney's new movie kind of bugs me because of this.) I also appreciate how the woman isn't a little skinny twig-thing; she is muscular and athletic. Over all, fantastic work and thank you for sharing this with us.
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Lol, finally someone who knows this.
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Yeah, I do my homework before I start assuming I know things about shady cultures, ha ha. Especially ones we still don't know a lot about.
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I know! Or cutting off snake heads and drinking the blood, which a voodooienne would never do. People just like to assume they know everything about anything and therefore they can't be argued with. Pfft. Stupid people, get all the facts first.
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Yeah, Hollywood ruins a lot of stuff just so it can fits its idea. And the whole Europe thing is true. There is so much more rich, amazing history in the world but everybody always wants to ignore it. That's aggravating.
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That's why I've given up on watching any of the crap that comes out of Hollywood a long time ago. 90's movies was great (Beverly Hills Cop!!!), but after that, everything just went downhill.
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Very true. Except for the random anomalies like Avatar, which is a technological and artistic phenomena. I actually like it more for the fact that the story is STRONGLY based on the Native American and European conflict. Being part Native American myself, it was a movie that resonated strongly with me (I pretty much cried through the whole thing, like a total girly-girl. Not the best moment in my life, ha.). Very few movies from Hollywood are actually good anymore. It's sad but true.
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LOL, not even comedy movies are good anymore. They just try TOO hard, and the humor is just overly unnecessarily sexual and just plain crude.
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Agreed. What is the world coming to? Hollywood is running out of good ideas--I think that's why they are now making all the comic books into movies. Go figure, right? There's got to be an original out there somewhere.
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That's pretty awesome. I guess it takes a different perspective in the movie industries sometime!
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Great job! Looks like a banner for a Cabernet Red from Italy.
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I have all 4 comics love your work this one was my fave of the three you did
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Beautiful piece! I remember these covers fondly. Such elegant lines and colours.
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that's very sweet! and quite refreshing, but I guess it's due to the colors and the pose!
I bet the art nouveau style fitted you pretty good! you're very good at it!
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It's really beautiful. I just love this art nouveau style but I could never do it like this! amazing art!
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+Fav because of the amazing detail and miming of art nouveau style.
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you really channeled Mucha in this cover. very well done, i especially love the colors.
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I love this style
I just wonder why the "S" and the "A" of "SAMEDI" are on the top on the picture...
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I drew it so long ago, I had to look at it again to see what you meant...
I think I was going for the idea that she is kneeling along the plane of the words; all the drapery on her right side (closest to us) falls in front of the letters, and all the drapery on her left falls behind the letters.
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okay, I see what you mean. I just felt that the effect was quite weird.
Thanks for you reply
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Outstanding--I would have liked to see your attempt at Promethea!
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This is such a brilliant Mucha take off. Amazingly good. Love it.
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