Illustration Friday: Total
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the path of inspiration is sometimes a long and winding road. how i ended up here is still somewhat of a mystery to me, but I'm happy with the results.
my (along with my wife's) first thought yesterday morning was of cereal, having recently tried the new chocolate Total (which isn't half bad. at the end you're left with a dozen or so tiny chocolate bars in your bowl). from there i cycled through ideas such as Calculator Man, Check-Out Guy, even considered an Ah-nold movie adaptation cover for Total Recall, a Heroes adaptation with its total ecplipse logo, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. nothing seemed right.
i wanted to do something with "total destruction" i was sure of that much, but i wasn't sure what. then last night while my wife and I were watching an episode of Charmed (season 1, episode 4 "Dead Man Dating") they had a character in the show named Yama (the Chinese god of death and ruler of hell), which seemed to be a perfect candidate for my total destruction theme. But, i wasn't able to come up with a decent pose. frustrated and despondent i blew it off and watched TV.
Later, as I lay in bed searching compulsively for an idea I recalled the popular use of "totally" back in the eighties era of the valley girls, and from there everything fell into place. celebrating Image Comics' contribution to the medium of pop culture: the "sexy heroine", meet Total E.
created spcifically for this IF challenge in Adobe Illustrator.
special thanks to those who commented on last week's illustration and have a groovy week.
posted by demosthenes at 10:36 AM
9 Comments:
Cool work.
haha!
You are wonderfully talented. And you provided one of those "weird moments"! As I clicked on your image for the larger view...the second my eyes rested on the words, "oh mah god", Ben Stiller said the same thing on the TV! Some movie where he's a priest...
Have a good one, Bill.
Wow! U r awesome, Demosthenes!
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Oh. My. Gawd. COOOOL! Great concept, great execution, just all around great.
she is a total badass. Nice! and didn't know there is a chocolate total cereal. my fav is total raisin bran. ;-)
Man. I have yet to grow wearing of seeing these covers, man.
I still think you should consider age-ing and distressing them to give them that 'just pulled out of the longbox' look (ala' Les McClaine)
Ha! Great job.
Keep up the great takes on the comic book cover theme - I think they've been really successful. The drawing in this one is really strong - good movement and weight to the figure (don't tell her I said something about her weight.)
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