Transitory States
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Hisham and Sila has been writing stuff down on this weblog since 2005. Sometimes they post photos of family, sometimes they talk about film, books and music, sometimes there is artwork and stuff about tabletop gaming.
Power Pack is one of Sila's favourite comic books back in the day. When I thought about submitting art to the Cornered blog where artists reproduce corner art from comic books, I figured, "Why not Power Pack?" Here they are: Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie Power!
Click here for the Cornered blog entry.
Click here for a larger image at DeviantArt.
Irfan's robot design takes the spotlight in this blog post.
It's a red giant robot with claws on its left hand and a machine gun on its right hand.
On Twitter, Calamity Jon Morris wanted to see more designs of alien Green Lantern Corpsmen, so I thought why not create another visually blind Lantern of the F-Sharp Bell Corps.
Like Rot Lop Fan, this original alien named Toku-Taka Togg of Space Sector 0073, has no sense of sight nor the concept of light and colours.
Last weekend, Irfan's aunt Cik Emma was involved with some communit activity with her friends at Pulau Pinang. They performed voluntary community service to the residents of Rumah Seri Cahaya, an orphanage at Batu Maung.
She asked if I could contribute some art for some bookmarks that she was going to give the children there. I used my ink pens and yellow marker to whip these up quickly:
Hope the orphans put them to good use. (Probably mulch by now, though.)
EBB & Folks sent me another task to complete: The cover for another ebook novella titled The Hags of Teeb.
Here is the step-by-step process involved from the first sketch until the finished cover artwork. The first sketch (seen below) was based on the original black and white cover illustration made by David Leyman. I used the general shape of the Hags and the cauldron in the sketch and put them in a cave.
After the sketch was approved, I decided to create two painted elements which would then be composited digitally. Firstly, I painted the cave background element (below). The centre of the cave where the cauldron sat upon a fire was lighted.
Owogs - feral, ferocious creatures that leaked through into Azamar from the Inferium and domesticated into tracking hounds by Orcs - are generally unpleasant little things. Also, keep an eye out for their Strength+18 bite and Strength+12 foreclaws.
Because they frickin' hurt.
Artwork for Wicked North Games' Azamar fantasy role-playing game.
Meevo is the ebook novella by David Leyman. It is a suitably eerie horror-flavoured science-fiction tale involving an escaped prisoner, the prisoner's hunters and - as we see in the opening scenes - a mutant, in a post-apocalyptic future.
To view the full cover image, click on the thumbnail below.
Meevo is available for purchase on Amazon.com here.
Commissioned by the guys at Wicked North Games for their Star Wars RPG game group, Mithius Cragmoore was born on Coruscant to an Imperial Admiral and is now a bounty hunter with the House Benelex. He wields a pulse rifle, a blade and wears a stun cloak.
Inked and painted on paper, the original artwork was mailed to them, a first for me as a freelance illustrator.
Thanks for the commission, guys. It was great to have illustrated this character.
Zatanna, daughter of the famed magician crimefighter Zatarra and a member of the Justice League - assembled with a combined application of pencil, brush ink and water colours.
Click here to view a larger image on DeviantArt.
Ebb n Folks's latest short story soon to be published on Amazon as a Kindle download is Three's Company. The publisher called for a lined artwork with clean colours on it. So here it is. "Three" in the story title is the catlike lady seen below. But why has she been with the protagonist all these decades?
Watch for it on Amazon.com soon.
Here are revisions of several illustrations that was made for Wicked North Games' Azamar RPG.
Click here for a bigger image of this flaming skeletal monster on DeviantArt.
Click here for a bigger image of a Shrave administering first aid to an injured Immyr.
My first Azamar art redone! Click here for a bigger image of the Immyr city.
Smallville has ended its 10 year run making it the longest running series based on a comic book ever.
I'd like to say it was a great run through and through, but it did lose my attention somewhere during the fourth season due to Clark's teenaged lovey-dovey hijinks with Lana. I saw the odd episode here and there over the years, but I never had the urge to return to my regular viewings of it... until the 8th season.
Horizon is a short film written and directed by Emma Coats, set in the wilds of a post-apocalyptic near future. I've seen a rough cut of the film. It looks spectacular and is very ambitious project. Also, it has a zeppelin! I was invited to contibute a movie poster to be displayed in a gallery released with the DVD and here's what I came up with.
Watch this space for details of its upcoming release!
Click here to see more photos and posters for Horizon.
Click here to see a bigger version of my poster on DeviantArt.
Ebb & Folks has again given me the assignment to come up with another cover for one of their books. This time it's the novella Crater by David Leyman, now on sale on Amazon.com as an ebook.
It's a star and time spanning tale of humans versus a ruthless alien civilisation at war. Check it out at the link above to buy and download it.
I have been illustrating for an article for a new issue of the D6 Magazine. This hilarious entry by Mike Fraley, entitled "Graiv's Magical Curiosities", is a marketing drive by the eponymous business owner trying to sell off some strange and unconventional magical artefacts that seem utterly useless at first glance. Would you purchase...
Using the razor would cause an inhumanly quick hair growth where blade touches the skin.
The flame from this torch cannot be easily doused by water... but human voice will cause it to go out.
This dagger will slice through everything except living matter.
The Blue Ring just turns the wearer's skin blue. Also depicted here are the Trackless Shoes, the Ever Empty Tankard, the Nevertied Rope and the Compass of Impeding Doom. Read about these magical gear and more in the upcoming issue of D6 Magazine.
A Thor movie. Can you believe it? Produced by Marvel themselves instead of licensing it out to another studio? Directed by Kenneth Branagh? I wish I could go back in time to tell 13-year-old, comic book fan Hisham how awesome the future will be in the movies. He would go nuts. In a good way.
Mostly.
So how does one adapt the tale of super-powerful Asgardians into a movie continuity that will also include Captain America, Hulk and Iron Man? It appears the answer to that is, "to totally embrace them as interdimensional space beings using supertechnology so advanced it appears as magic to humans". And boy does it totally embrace that fact, and its Silver Age Comics origins - with some Ultimate Marvel elements. Make no mistake, this is not a primer to Norse mythology. This is a story where superheroes are kicking ass and taking names.
Herein are two more illustration for Wicked North Games' Azamar RPG.
Syndia of the Cliffs, the Goddess of the Moon, the Enlightened One, the Shining Lady... enemy of the Ash Lord and the thwarter of Mo's mischief. She vigilantly protects her charges on Azamar from otherworldly threats.
Balmaritch is the deity of truth behind illusion, with an abundance of disguises among others, clockwise from top left - Hanath the crone, Vankoln the warrior, Naalateth the magician, Marvanock the miser and Parkoxina the thief. (The final artwork has a few modifications done to it compared to this version.)
Click on the links to see Parts One and Two of the Azamar Deities illustrations.
Here are some recent commissions from Sages of RPG in New Hampshire. These are some artwork for their upcoming (and yet-unnamed) game. Stay tuned for more details of this "bright colored happy silly game without being corny," according to game developer Wayne Moulton Jr.
This is some incredulous Hulk, who is said to be gamma-irradiated.
Which sounds unhealthy.
This was a warm-up sketch using a new brush I recently got with ink. Something's still not right with how I wield the brush. I suppose more practice is needed.
Update (May 13, 2011): I've coloured Bruce:
