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This is may favourite page from this eight page short story for Vampirella magazine, which I was also lucky enough to write. I'd love to do another like this...
Cheers,
Liam.
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Stunningly good work. Love the realism melding into the soft impressionistic background. Thank-you.
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The sort of things dreams are made of, wonderfull.
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Forrie Ackerman would be proud, that is one of the best vampi images I've ever seen
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Great Vampi. splash. The textures are a great compliment.
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Vampirella in a wintery wood. Now that's something you don't see everyday. Very nice idea and well done!
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your female anatomy is great, the perfect balance within real n exageration.
again, a great master‘‘‘
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Love the cold shadows and the blurry textured tones of the background. Very subtle with nice composition.
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Comic Hero is a comic art feature.
This week the article is about Vampirella and your deviation was choosen to be featured
Click here to read the article.
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Cool! Thank you.
Best,
Liam.
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Lol! Thanks. Nice to hear somebody was looking at her face for a change...
Very best,
Liam.
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I'm really curious about how you work...
where can I get better informations and details ?
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Hi bipeds.
This piece was a very tight pencil drawing, scanned into photoshop, where I added the snow and more layers of texture to the bark of the tree, and in the woodland background. All of this story was produced using that technique. There's a piece in my gallery called "Sullen Hulk" which is the same technique, but using colour.
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Liam.
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Not nearly enough! LOL!
But I did a lot of writing for the Event Horizon anthology, both as myself and under pseudonyms - Roger M.Cormack and Ralph Raims.
Always looking to do more...
Very best,
Liam.
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Haha Ralph Raims, that's pretty clever! Don't hit me, but I'm not familiar with Event Horizon...the last time I heard a comic called that, I think, was a bad Wildstorm crossover
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Heh! You worked it out...
Event Horizon is an award-winning anthology for MamTor (www.mamtor.com), which is my publishing company.
We're still selling them on the site half price. It's a very beautiful thing, but we struggled like hell to get any decent distribution and for retailers to stock us. Sad, but worth every drop of sweat it took to creat the thing - and it alowed a lot of unsung and unknown great talent to be seen along-side some genuine industry greats (Glenn Fabry, Simon Bizley, Ash Wood, Alan Grant, Greg Staples, to name a few.)
Thankfully I never saw the Wildstorm cross-over...
Very best,
Liam.
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Thanks for the info, if i'm ever not at a below-poverty level, I'll pick it up
Actually there is ONE good thing about the Event Horizon wildstorm crossover: Barry Windsor-Smith did a bunch of the covers for it!
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Thanks all.
To answer a couple of questions and points: Some of the pages were done as seperate drawings pulled together in Photoshop, but mostly they were composed as complete pages in pencil, then just touched up digitally. I tried to keep it subtle so you could still see the drawing though.
As regards the texture, I'm a sucker for a bit of energy and rawness. There's so much sleek Photoshop work out there that I wanted to go the other way, and mix the rough with the smooth.
Very best, and thanks again!
Liam.
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this one is my personal fave as well but all of these pages are simply outstanding!
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I see you found the werewolf in the snow 
Another fact I like with this, is some rough lines mingled with the soft shading.
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excelent drawing,theres alot of grungy texture going on.the best vampirella ive seen since frazzeta.well done.
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these are just amazing. did you do each panel seperatly on different pages? each one looks like a well mastered pin-up
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Wow! What mag was this from, has it already been released?
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Yeah, it was in Vampirella magazine, a couple of years back now I guess. I think it was the last issue before the larger size mag folded, so not many people saw it.
Who knows - maybe it'll make one of the collected editions down the line...
Thanks for asking!
Best,
Liam.
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I hope it'll be collected! It's GREAT work!!
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Absolutely gorgeous. I love the tones and texture. Beautifully detailed and stylized. The anatomy and pose are fantastic. Dreamy lighting. Fabulous technique.
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Thanks man!
And thanks for reminding me about this story - I've not looked aty this for ages!
Very best,
Liam.
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You're welcome
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I like the cast shadows on her leg, looks cool.
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