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elthe [2009-03-06 09:57:02 +0000 UTC]

fantastic

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FreelancerGraphics [2009-01-12 19:09:04 +0000 UTC]

I can't wait to get my hands on this book!

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Ziggyman [2009-01-08 05:59:40 +0000 UTC]

Draw that mountains must had been a never-ending hell of a work.

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Kittensoft [2009-01-07 00:19:17 +0000 UTC]

Love the scenery

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PandaIlustra [2008-12-26 13:05:54 +0000 UTC]

Hey Liam, nice page bro.

Merry Xmas to you and your family man.

Keep killing

Cheers

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Mafeo [2008-12-20 06:15:43 +0000 UTC]

Ah, it's a piece of fine art, bro. I'd hang it on my wall.

Awesome as always. Keep it up, your making comic books exciting to read again.

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BrenGun [2008-12-18 17:58:24 +0000 UTC]

wow wonderfull job!!!! I just love the comics keep um coming!!!!

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SOULSSHINE [2008-12-18 14:39:32 +0000 UTC]

hum hum ...

Anyway forget about what i just said .. About your inkwork and fine lines or watever ...

Yu degrade the intensity of the lines on purpose in every single image ...

And more than that ..

I'v been with a Gears Comic book n2 on my hands just right now ....

And the Line Grades And Intensity and "everything" is just perfect for the format ...

If yu did put more detail or efforted even harder ...
Watever yu woudl do more there would not be seen...
Its pushed to the whoole limit ....

The whoole is just way too perfect in everything from pencil to ink ....

( Maibe too much open pannels and too much withe and spare pannels and not full breed page ) sometimes ....

But the detail on each pannel is amazing ...

There is just a prblem for me that is the Colors ...

Dudes i dont know Nothing About Jonny Rench Artwork ...

Whoever he is ...

And for "flats" the color chemes are ok ...
The Jonny Rench guy i'm sure he did a good job "for the time" that they had given to him ...

But ... but ...
Jonny Rench Has alot to learn with yu in colors and volumes ...

he just do flats nothing more ...
And doesnt make justiçe therefore or your wounderfull work ...

There should be 2 colorists ... or 3 assigned to do the job on coloring ...
And i'm not joking on that ...
To support your artline to the Fine art level ..
In color ...

One colorist Like Jony Rench for the Flats ...
he did a wounderfull job ...
One another just to do "shading" in black and withe ... to overlay the colors flats over ...

And one Matte painter ... to use "texture" and photo texture matization ...

And believe me with that ... Your artwork would shine way beyond any thing comon ...

its just that that lacks there ...

Your pencil and ink "for the format" its printed and size .. and every in everything ...
Its a dignifying work for a award or something ...

Long ago i didnt sow such cool "stable" and very well composed to the minum detail scene artworks ...

Its not just the characters personality yu can achieve ... yu can achieve every element its own personality ... even backgrounds monsters efects ...

Its amazing the amount of personality and... its like we seeing a movie sequences so well the each frame its setuped ...

COngrats ...

Well when yu saying that yu were giving your best yu are not joking hum....

On your Part i would give a 88, 90% ... of quality ...
Still lacking some minor lil things as some waaay to uge unmessured lines that go from almost cartoon to extremly detailed ... that lacks a lil bit the coerence sometimes ... but for amazing its still gives style to the inking ... Wich is a very cool way to overpass some here and there kinda faults ...
But its all so dreamy and efforted that ...
We look everywere and we just dazzle..

I only seen that kind of effort in ink .. kinda in teams of inking more than 1 doing the inks yu know .... so yu alone are line 2 persons inking ...
What is a achievemnt in the grade of detail ...

Every single lil character that appears have its own voiçe ... its own very distinctive style ...

Reminds me alot a mix betwne todd makfarlane spawn style mixed with jim lee and mark silvestry ... and a lil bit of stephen splat .. mixed in a solo artwork....

of course that they toguether would do something that ... no one of us would be able to imagine xD ...
But yo dont need to imagine...
Yu reach there a lil bit already .

Whow.. ok That is a Achievement COngrats !

Now push some ears for me to the color department ....

Give them some links like www.mattepainting.org
Or buy them some cg Society D'artist books on Matte Painting from balistic publishing ...

To see if they get a lil bit ashame ...
And start to do something more cool than just "flats" colors ... and put at least one more colorist into help somehow somewere humm...

Thats a Hardcore produçer Critique here ...
If they are earning so much ...
Why not expend just a lil more to improve the sellings with some more color matted quality ...

WELL!

I would love to see the whoole book ...
Penciled , Inked , And painted by you ...

And of that you earning 4 times more for all that job ...
With 4 times more time to do it ...

Would be the "grafic novel" comic of the latest 4 years maibe sure...

Well! We cant have it all ...
So we can just dream and try to push dreams into reality with lil by lil daily efforts isnt pall..

Only that way ..
with time we get there ...
To real big things achieved tru our live...


Have fun man !
Happi holidays ...

And yu know ...
Sometimes yu canot whin the war when is all depending of others ...

But yu reaaly can be a hero on this war on your own ...

And on this war ...
The hero.
Yu have been.

CONGRATS !

Keep going !


RUBEN ISMAEL
RPGSI STudio
Light OF Live Editions Publishings Ltd [link]
Main Multimedia Engineer, Technical Production And Publishing Development Administrator.
Coimbra Portugal

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mickeyrem [2008-12-18 13:04:47 +0000 UTC]

heya liam great background my friend!! all by hand or did you use brushes for starters? just wondering cause there are lots of details in it. great work!!
greets

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piotrasss [2008-12-18 11:11:22 +0000 UTC]

awesome!

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turbosuo [2008-12-18 07:10:28 +0000 UTC]

You do some amazing textures in your art. You're right, it is getting rare these days. It seems the current fad is to leave all the detail and texture up to the colorist. While I know photoshop can do some amazing things in that department, I would rather see the penciler or inker do it. I makes the page pop more I think.

I hope they get hazard pay for babysitting. Taking along a kid in just about any sci-fi is certain death. They are like monster bait.

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yatoy [2008-12-18 06:27:32 +0000 UTC]

awesome rocks formation details.

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tiamat9 [2008-12-18 03:07:23 +0000 UTC]

Man, your work is so amazing to view. The detailing and texture are fantastic. Great job with the rock formation and characters. For lack of any other praise, this kicks major ass.

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AndyTurnbull [2008-12-18 02:10:34 +0000 UTC]

Another great page from GoW. Hope it's still doing well outside the DM like the first issue did.

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zenithomishu [2008-12-18 00:19:36 +0000 UTC]

I just want to let you know, you are an amazing artist. I hope one day I could do what your doing, and obtain a name for myself. Love your GoW Comic <: Keep on rocking in the free world.

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milxart [2008-12-17 23:59:34 +0000 UTC]

awesome! i love the details on the terrains n rocks... just nice!

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imgonnaeatamoose [2008-12-17 22:59:57 +0000 UTC]

You sure made the whole Marcus is all battle scared and Awesome looking lol

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thelearningcurv [2008-12-17 21:53:28 +0000 UTC]

wow...... this is a pretty intensive page..... I need toget this book....

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jhames34 [2008-12-17 21:32:52 +0000 UTC]

This book could go down as having the best backgrounds in comic history...if not for Gerhard! Drats! Kidding aside, your Gears pages are so breathtaking!

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Madtoy [2008-12-17 21:01:53 +0000 UTC]

Nice. Have u used this same background in a different page? Looks so similar

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FlowComa [2008-12-17 21:00:52 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that environment detail is awe inspiring. Great work Liam!

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manuelgarcia [2008-12-17 20:31:36 +0000 UTC]

Oh my god!! is an amzing page!! beautifull colour!!

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JoeJusko [2008-12-17 20:23:46 +0000 UTC]

You know me, I'm a background guy. That bottom panel is rockin', Liam!!!

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metalheadkomik [2008-12-17 20:22:50 +0000 UTC]

a little girl among the beast lol......
damm.......i should grab a copy

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Quazzie [2008-12-17 20:20:14 +0000 UTC]

Incredible work on the landscape. The rocks look great. Every time I try to do rocks they just look like a blob of shadows without any depth or dimension. The rocks on your page certainly do not lack either.


The guys don't appear to be too happy about the little girl riding along... but I'm sure they're all old softies and would do whatever it took to protect her.

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Zulema [2008-12-17 20:15:39 +0000 UTC]

When I first bought the first two copies, I was amazed by all the ink textures put into every panal.

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thedarkcloak [2008-12-17 20:12:42 +0000 UTC]

jeebus Liam! You really outdid yourself on that terrain/ landscape. The detail and texturing in the ink work is brilliant.

And yeah, the colorist did not take away from your inks, in fact the colors and drawings seem to be flowing really nicely together, co-existing dare I say.

I'm curious, Liam. Have you ever seen any of Bernie Wrightsons work in person?

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Metal-Truncator [2008-12-17 20:11:38 +0000 UTC]

Tis a good colourist certainly but Mr Sharp's inkwork is king as always.

The landscape is spectacular

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Muady [2008-12-17 19:48:22 +0000 UTC]

You both draw, ink and colour this as i understand it?

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Buchemi [2008-12-17 19:47:52 +0000 UTC]

dude, youŕe the "texture man"!

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urban-barbarian [2008-12-17 19:45:32 +0000 UTC]

Just phoning out the BGs, eh?

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