Another piece using the art provided by Albea. We spent so long saying it would be nice to see them in a scene or a group, I did this to see how it would look. Both WW and Supes characters were submitted alone by Albea, my part was just to bring it together, background etc. The concept? Well Superman should have an equally noble and powerful partner, both in heroics and in love, and who better that Wonder Woman. Well, who knows.. it might happen….
Just a bit of a quickie. I found the old pic of Newman, and I thought he would have made the perfect Spirit.
Albea’s great work in the Timm style inspired me to do a quick manip of a few of his pieces into one scene. I thought the poses of the characters would be great to illustrate the rift between Nightwing(the original Robin) and Batman (& the new Robin). Let me know what you think, this was just a quickie to see how the pics would look together and I think it turned out quite well. As usual all characters by Albea, layout and background by me.
Well I had this idea kicking about in the back of my head for the best part of 2-3 months now, and it finally sees the light of day. I guess the final inspiration was the Prime Director (cheers Marcelo). Here we see SilkScreen (my original character) daydreaming about Prime Director as she plasters her bedroom with pictures from the DCG. For your infomation these pictures represent the cream of the DCG artists pool as decided by Essex each day, yes they are all 240 of the front page pictures that have appeared since I posted my first piece back in June up to the Day I am posting this one. Now I must rest.. my eyes hurt something chronic;)
Notes: The model is Kelly Brook. Prime Director is of course Marcelo Gomes’ work. The background is all YOUR work. You are all an inspiration to me. The purple suit is what she was originally wearing while standing in water. I tried to add some translucent panels over her chest, I think it came out okay. The cloak and shoulder clasp were added by hand. Then I downloaded all of the front page pics created thumbnails of them and began to build up the background. 240 odd individual layers later and I was pleased with the result. See If you can identify your work in the background. SilkScreen: She has the power to alter the opacity of herself or any object she can visualize, effectively rendering them invisible. Her powers are still forming and who knows what she is really capable of. cheers, Local
Maybe I’m getting carried away with this South Park malarkey.. but at least i’m enjoying myself. Here we see what happens when you mess with the “Oscar”. Done using the comedy central toy for which the URL was kindly posted by Ryanarya, and then finished off in PSP.
Well i thad to happen didn’t it. Death & Dream visit the small mountain village of South Park. Death meets Kenny, who she thinks is kinda cool. But the course of true love seldom runs smoothly, and when they hold hands the inevitable happens. The rest of the story is pretty obvious. We have Death (with Kenny), Dream, Kyle, Stan and of course Wendy. I used the page applet to get the basics done, then tweaked and added stuff in PSP. Brought them altogether at the bust stop (which i extended a bit). I think the dialogue works well;) Info: Ryanarya posted this link to a page where you can create your own characters in the South Park style: http://www.comedycentral.com/southparkgames/character/
Ryanarya posted the link at the bottom in the no topic thread to a page where you can create your own characters in the South Park style. We had a big influx of pics of our very own artists done in this style. And I got a wee bit of inspiration. Thanks Ryanarya. Here we have The Endless (L-R Destruction, Delirium, Despair, Dream, Death, Desire, Destiny) This was a lot of fun to do. I used the page applet to get the basics done, then tweaked and added stuff in PSP. Brought them altogether on a nice hill under the stars. Hope you all like them.
I thought i would expand my repertoire(sp?) a little and have a go at using my tablet for something a little different than smudging photos. Here is a digital painting of Superman done only with the tablet and pen, the pose is based on a scan of a page i found on the web. I used this for the basic shapes and to give me an idea of where to put some shadows and highlights. I didn’t get round to doing the legs, so a bit of motion blur will had to do… Let me know what you think.
In the second of a series that i will endeavour to keep fresh (if corny) we find Darth_Zaiyen preparing for his role as The Moderator, a cyborg protector from the future, come to ensure peace and harmony on the DCG Gab forum.
I found a couple of Warren sketches of Batgirl on the web and thought i would try my hand at a bit of colouring and texturing. This is the second one. Done using lots of layers and multiply/burn effects. I never got around to finishing colouring the background. maybe someday.
I found a couple of Warren sketches of Batgirl on the web and thought i would try my hand at a bit of colouring and texturing. This is the first one. Done using lots of layers and multiply/burn effects.
Just a quickie for practice, not a preferred casting choice or anything, I found this in my ‘work in progress’ folder and decided not to progress it any further. Mainly a recolor/retouch the pants, remove necklace and created/add the logo & stars.
In the first of what I hope to be a continuing (if probably infrequent series), here we see our very own DCG stalwarts, Robbo & Essex fluffing their big chance of appearing in the forthcoming Trek extravaganza. The emotion of it all was too much, and they just had to make a corny art related joke. NEXT!!! hehe enjoy;)
These artists from all over the world collaborated on this photomanipulation replica of the cover to Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1 (original by Mike Zeck). Dedicated to Robbo and Comics2Film.com:
CREDITS:
(Michael Jai White as) Iron Man by d_authority (w/ blbarett) Visit digitalblueroom.
(Eric Bana as) Hulk by Marcelo Gomes
(Tobey Maguire as) Spider-man by Swingerbone (M/20/Texas, USA)
Matt Damon as Human Torch by Darth_zaiyen
Angela Basset as Storm by Nathauan13 (M/20/ Los Angeles, California, USA)
John Leguizamo as Nightcrawler & Secret Wars title by Juvenilemike
Alicia Keys as Captain Marvel by Lady D (F/26/Ceará, Brazil)
Chris Klein as Colossus and layout by Ed Hopkins (M/30/Maryland, USA)
Tom Sizemore as the Thing by Bill Turner
Katie Price as Rogue by skye
Heath Ledger as Hawkeye by LocalHero (M/32/Glasgow, Scotland)
Victoria Pratt as She-hulk by Paul Tengco (M/24/Philippines)
Guy Pierce as Cyclops by Kevin “kev_incal” Leung (M/22/Alameda, California, USA)
Christina Ricci as Wasp by cyberSpice (M/22/Russia)
Casper Van Dien as Captain America by Black_Alchemy
Martin Sheen as Wolverine by bearbot
Here is my small part of the DCG Secret Wars collaboration – Heath Ledger as Hawkeye. I began with the pose as per the cover of Secret Wars #1. Using various parts of bodies, i began to build up the basic manip. The original pic was black and white, so i had to try and give it a fleshy colour (still not perfect though). The main costume was done using the vector drawing tool, with manual shading by hand. the bow was done in the same fashion. I think it looks better as part of the whole, but I tried to fit it into a new context for the indiviual pic.
Here are some of the intervening steps on the way to the larger image (which i will post seperately with details):
Well, as most Transgenders seem to involve making male characters into females, I thought i would try changing Legionaire Umbra into a fella. I found the small pic of her from her pre-legion days i think. The guy is body builder Milos Sarcev. The pic was black and white, and he was originally wearing only his posing pouch, so everything else was added by me. It is my first real try at a cloak, and even that has taken me three attempts to get it looking halfway decent. I particulary like how the shoulder guard came out – definitely worth the effort put into it.
I got caught up in the thrill of nostaliga caused by the Thundercats theme day, and couldnt resist throwing this teaser poster together The logo is my own vector drawing, metal effects by eyecandy, light glow by animation shop [i did an animated one, but accidentally deleted it 🙁 ] anyways… enjoy;)
Pity rumours of a live action movie haven’t come to anything.. sigh.. maybe one day. I would even settle for a feature length animated movie.. Transformers had one after all.
One of the other C2F DCG artists, Squedge did a drawing of Thing which inspired me to tinkering.. hope you don’t mind i’ve had a go at making your Thing look 3Dish…
Additional – he didnt mind one bit!
Well, this one kinda sneaked up on me. Here we see a promo poster for Wes Craven’s take on Alice from the American McGee game (one of my faves). This was a total frankenstein job, Rachel Leigh Cook’s face, body based on christy turlington, elements from game (logo, stained glass etc). the ‘omega’ pendant and all colouring, shading, lighting, wrinkles, additional hair by me. i really like this piece.
Note: Was originally created on a pc with a very dark screen, so the abrupt cut off on the arms and the background cheshire cat wasn’t noticed at the time.
Here are my versions of Rogue and Gambit for the Transgender theme day. Rogue is Marcus Schenkenberg, I don’t know who the female in the pic is, but when i saw them together, i thought of Rogue & Gambit.
The original picture was black and white. I smoothed out the skin, smudging out nipples and blemishes. then i sketched out the basic costumes and colours. As i usually do, the costumes are built up in layers. if you look closely at the exposed areas of uniform you will see a woven texture to them. this is also me starting to do wrinkles and seams. the glasses were done from scratch. the white hair was drawn in three shades using the pen. Gambits coat is frankensteined from a raincoat advert. the dinosaur picture in the background i found on the web somewhere. i thought it gave a ‘savage land’ feel, hence the title. i then finalised the shadows and added the x-logos. i think it turned out quite nice.
Well the truth had to finally be revealed, Robbo is indeed the Kingpin, not only of crime, but of C2F. Hope you like it. I took Robbo’s head from Yahoo messed about with the perspective, then smudge and softened it onto the kingpin pic i grabbed from marvel. the skin on the kingpin i recoloured to match robbo more closely. i added a slight shadow.
Well here is my interpretation of a female Dan Dare. For those of you not familiar, Dan was a character who became famous in the pages of Eagle comic, originally in the early 50s, but was reintroduced in the 80s.
The model for this pic was Sofia Vergara. The green jumpsuit she was wearing was just ideal for this concept. Although it may be a bit lost in the shadow, the first thing i did was giver her Dan’s distinctive eyebrow. I recoloured her eyes. Next I created the metallic buckle, and recoloured the zipper to match. The raygun is an actual Dan Dare Raygun that you could buy, shadowed to blend in with the pic. The hat was added, and recoloured by hand to match the jumpsuit. additional shadowing added. The IPS insignia used throuhout the picture was downloaded from the web and used at various sizes and various level of drop shadow and blur. the large one was also embossed to give it a more 3d look. The watch is actually a 70s attempt at a watch/voice recorder, rotated and shrunk to fit, with shadows added. finally added the framed Dan Dare pic in the corner for reference. the pic and the IPS text make it seem like a lobby or waiting room. enjoy local
Well, here is Rachel Leigh Cook as Death. The base pic was such a godsend, all i had to do to her was replace her red shorts. the whole layer was then desaturated to give her a deathly flesh tone. the lips were darkened using a red layer. the eye makeup was done using a vector layer set on multiply. i the ankh was drawn using the vector tool, then metalized using a filter. additional reflections of arms and pumpkin added manually. the pumpkin was one i found on the net, with the eyes and mouth added by hand and dodged to give a glowing effect. i added the shadow on her arm, and a faint orange glow on her arms from the pumpkin. the background was part of a larger pic i had, enlarged and smoothed to give a suitable moody feel. the text is Spirits of the Dead by Edgar Allan Poe.
What if… Dazzler did actually release a single? This was just a bit of fun, messing about with metals and layers. The base pic of britney was from an advert for rollerboots. As a concept, rather than face paint, i tried to give her a 3dish mask(s), added the glitter ball & chain to all 5 britneys 🙂 the logo is made up of several layers – the bottom layer is a motion blurred britney, over that is a lightshow (coutesy of Ulead Particle plugin), the next layer up contains multiple pics of britney in various poses and colours. a rectangle was added over these with the dazzler cut out. applied an eyecandy chrome effect. hand coloured the highlights around the cutout on the chrome. LH
Theme day submission. This started from the previous manip i did of the Hulk (based on a combination of a Randy Bowen Bust and a Jim Sweet statue). I found some good explosion pictures and decided to do the Hulks origin in the Gamma Bomb explosion. The explosion layers were built up to give it more volume. Banner was added at the very front of the explosion. The smaller hulk forms part of the explosive cloud and came from a picture of a model i found on the net. A bit of blending, shading, and there ya go.
