I have always liked 'llIustration' and tend to produce it either as Cover Art or Sequential imagery. The former is probably the more challenging because of the balance that needs to be struck between form and content, decoration and narrative. Cover Art, like the short story, gets a limited shot at indicating what lies beneath the cover. My current preoccupation has been described, and I think aptly, as 'nostalgic sci fi and pulp'. And someone also suggested that it might be a little too late to revive the 'adventure genre'.
Stylistically, I'm keen on the commercial illustration of the mid 20th Century that was made to promote 'mass' publication (especially children's annuals, pulp magazines and comics). There is so much creativity and artistic competence to found on the covers and within the pages of even the most mundane examples.
It is over the last 7 years that I have started to use, and like, digital media. My working methods are still a little too intuitive and involve the usual squinting and standing back that one associates with traditional media, but I am enjoying making imagery more than ever and would now like to explore the possibilities of illustrating written stories (preferably by working with an author).
Interests: Commercial illustration and sequential imagery of the mid 20th Century that was made to promote 'mass' publications (especially children's annuals, pulp magazines and comics).
I am here for: Artistic interests. www.mikefyles.co.uk
Mike.
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Comments (6)
duo
Fantastic! Great fake pulp cover, realistic book wearing, perfect "graphic illustration style" of your render! I love too to make fake vintage pulp covers (I have some in my renderosity gallery), but this picture overhelm me for its realism. BRAVO! Just a suggestion: the magazine title fonts are perfect, but I find the titles fonts too modern, try to use more "vintage" fonts. ANYWAY BRAVO AGAIN!
lookoo
Haha! Cool concept ;) Show us more!
bbratche
Reminds me of an old comic I loved, Turok Son of Stone!
grosdingo
nice......... my young years.....
deci6el
If I haven't mentioned it before, I really like how you work the product credits into the magazine cover. It completes "the look" and at the same time serves a "real world" purpose. I have no comments on the render as I feel you really know how to nail that illustrated look, taking the 3D-curse out of it. My advice would be in the "acting" section where the human and the horse are only slightly bothered by the raptors. If it were me, I'd make their reactions bigger. Otherwise, I think the compostion is great, color balance, all of it, top-notch as usual.
zboyi
Excellent concept and posing ;)