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ebas — before and after Hallowland

Published: 2010-10-02 19:32:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 32149; Favourites: 374; Downloads: 1585
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Description this was for a Halloween special for grim fairy tails (mid ohio con exclusive) for zenescope comics with all the characters dressed in wonderland outfits

this was kinda simple...i was asked to do a halloween cover and to have the main girl (in glasses) in the center and vampire chicks all around looking at the reader...in front of a college dorm...this is what i gave them...i never like drawing buildings on a cover...its stills the picture too much and looks too much like an interior page.

this is a standard stock group composition... it starts with the main figure at the top center...and u have all other characters coming out from there. and have them get closer to the reader as the figures get lower to the page.

u can call this a classic xmen shot but with hot chicks...u can easily replace the cheshire chick with wolverine...cause he's always coming at us..and the white rabbit with night crawler...alice with cyclops...and so on..any figure that hunches over makes for a good foreground spot...like spider man.

im sure some of u will notice the white rabbit girl looks like shes getting "fingered" by the hatter...but i assure u she is NOT!! but honestly i wish she was...cause it was an accident. i didnt mean for this to happen. most girls posing for a pinup shot have at least one hand gently (with finger tips) touching a spot on their own body.. thats what i did here... and this may shock some of u cause i never hold back. everybody worries about the ""OMG"" did u SEE what he just drew!! ""can u believe he DID that!!!"" and i dont care about all that drama...cause my motto is...if u dont like it...dont look at it! so anyways...i didnt see it until i scanned it and shrank it down...by then it was too late...and since my editors didnt see it..im going to try and get away with it more often...why?? cause its friggin cool! and all of us have a lil perv inside us..some of us just embrace it more than others.

im always happy to draw this many chicks on a cover cause then i can represent my one true love...ASS!!!! i love ass!! and i can always have at least one girl bent over...oh yeah!

lately ive been trying to put more effort in my facial expressions...believe me its harder than it looks...especially when u are trying to draw attractive ppl...the rule of thumb is .."the more lines u put on the face the uglier they become"" and its mostly true. not sure i captured it here but i tried...and i only had a day to draw this...i did it in about 10 hrs...but i was watching frasier season 9 at the same time.

it was fun making up female versions of the hatter/white rabbit and the cheshire cat halloween style. theres not much to it cause i wanted them to look like an actual person could wear them.

my personaly fav was the hatter,...i dont get to draw the side of the body too often cause everybody always likes full frontal...wonder why? ; ) so the pose was more uncommon than the rest..plus i like that she has a mask of the hatter...which makes NO sense i know...cause if she put the mask ON...she would be a cross dresser...heh...

GO ASS!!! lots and lots of ASS!!!
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Comments: 24

PinPastor [2014-03-30 20:28:21 +0000 UTC]

Now that you mention the finger... i didnt notice it the first time. But hey, extra kudos for the happy coincidence.

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kkskipper [2010-11-15 15:24:47 +0000 UTC]

I adore your style of drawing faces. I've been trying to figure out something like that myself, and your drawings are an awesome reference. (No copying, promise - just structural reference!) Your composition of pieces is also amazing.

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PtomaineArt [2010-10-18 17:24:05 +0000 UTC]

Blew my head off.

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mumitrold [2010-10-14 19:06:06 +0000 UTC]

Wow -picture is stunnig, and your description is really reeeeaally helpful to me as(s) I'm trying to learn how to draw. And awesome to see tips from a pro

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Sapphire720 [2010-10-07 18:18:41 +0000 UTC]

fuggin awesome. love before and after, thanks xP

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Ferzog [2010-10-04 02:04:16 +0000 UTC]

"im sure some of u will notice the white rabbit girl looks like shes getting "fingered" by the hatter...but i assure u she is NOT!! but honestly i wish she was..."

you fuckin made my day

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jameslink [2010-10-03 16:05:56 +0000 UTC]

Ass Forever!!! LOL

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Okina-SilentEcho [2010-10-03 14:48:43 +0000 UTC]

I love seeing these pieces. It sort of let's people into your creative process by showing the before and after. I like seeing the roughs alongside of the final product. For a visual person, like myself, it makes for a wonderful study on technique and process development.

Bravo!

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Maxi-knows-2-much [2010-10-03 10:30:29 +0000 UTC]

I really love that you put more effort into the expressions of your girls, you have really improved over the years

The cover is just awesome, one of your best collaboratons with Nei ever

Great work man, greaaaaat work!

-Maxi

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ebas In reply to Maxi-knows-2-much [2010-10-03 19:04:10 +0000 UTC]

thanks man...its hard work to do expressions well but i gotta do it some time.

its very different than anything else we've done together

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Maxi-knows-2-much In reply to ebas [2010-10-03 21:13:05 +0000 UTC]

I suppose the last sentence is meant ironic?^^



No, honestly, you have come along way since I became a fan of yours. As I said many times before, your run on Tomb Raider was great. Your books belong to the top ten of my favorites from the series

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ebas In reply to Maxi-knows-2-much [2010-10-03 21:28:56 +0000 UTC]

wow thanks man...i had a lot of fun with TR...and i put a lot of effort in that run

E

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Maxi-knows-2-much In reply to ebas [2010-10-03 21:31:59 +0000 UTC]

And that is visible in every panel my friend
Your Magdalena is my all time favorite version of her.
And you Lara is on top with Andy Park's

By the way, is that project dead? What was the name, Cherish?

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ave-leen [2010-10-03 09:40:15 +0000 UTC]

hmmm you're a great artist......

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ebas In reply to ave-leen [2010-10-03 19:03:13 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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ave-leen In reply to ebas [2010-10-03 20:56:15 +0000 UTC]

heh no need to thank^^

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cjekim [2010-10-03 01:46:42 +0000 UTC]

so you start by drawing them small first and them enlarg them?

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ebas In reply to cjekim [2010-10-03 19:02:49 +0000 UTC]

i draw small thumb nails...about three inches by 3 inches...then i draw the layout at full 11x17 scale

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Maxi-knows-2-much In reply to cjekim [2010-10-03 10:31:29 +0000 UTC]

a lot of artist do that.
they make small thumbnail sketches and use a lightbox to trace 'em on bigger paper.

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JoelPoischen [2010-10-02 21:28:27 +0000 UTC]

Man your pencils are clean! You use a light box over your sketch or what? Nice!

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ebas In reply to JoelPoischen [2010-10-03 18:56:57 +0000 UTC]

yes i do..i draw it at full scale then light box it

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JoelPoischen In reply to ebas [2010-10-04 09:20:44 +0000 UTC]

But what about all those vines and other details? You only use those few sketchy lines as a guide? Skills!

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bignando [2010-10-02 20:55:57 +0000 UTC]

Wow !!!!

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100AnimeGirl100 [2010-10-02 20:06:55 +0000 UTC]

its a sketch and a line art right?

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