I'm going to be working on piece for an auction to raise money for Bill Mantlo's medical care today and tomorrow. I wish I could say this is what I came up with because this is some pretty amazing work! It reminds me a lot of the kind of fantasy illustration style I might see on the cover of an issue of Heavy Metal magazine. But in actuality this just happens to be some more random art I discovered on the internet I had never seen before by some artist at Glove Studios. The details are also quite exceptional so if you have the means to enlarge or magnify this image please do so since I posted it at a fairly high resolution. This illustration also came with the following information you might find interesting:It's been a while since I uploaded anything that wasn't Transformers, so I thought I'd upload a pin-up I did recently as sort of a commission for IDW Publishing's Editor-In-Chief Chris Ryall. Chris is a big fan of the 1980s character ROM who was a toy that was developed into a Marvel Comic. Unfortunately the rights to ROM are caught up in limbo (which is ironic if you are familiar with ROM fiction) so any future tales of the Galadorian Spaceknight are very much in doubt. However, I was able to at least have some fun with the character.
I LIKE!!!!YAY Did I say I like that.
ReplyDeleteHoly Cow! Now that's a pin up! Oh man. That's the kind of art that makes a fair maiden want to be rescued by her knight in shining armor. Who the hell cares about feminist crap anyway?
ReplyDeletewell in that case perhaps the artist should have made the damsel's boobs a bit bigger. especially if this illustration were to be used on the cover of Heavy Metal.
ReplyDeletePlus, to be on the cover of Heavy Metal, the shirt needs to be a bit more see-through.
ReplyDeleteYeah that's from the last show. I've actually got that picture as my smartphone background at this very moment. haha. I tripped out when I saw it posted here cuz I checked the page with my phone. haha
ReplyDeleteYou need to watch where you're going too, Zipdot, or you might break your smartphone.
ReplyDeleteI think I might put it on my desktop. I don't know. It's hard to knock my other ROM's off.
Best of all, the artist was nice enough to give me the original art along with a color print after he drew the image for me. I've managed to amass a mini-collection of Rom portraits from various IDW artists, like Casey Coller, David Messina, Don Figueroa, and a couple others. Working on getting Ashley Wood to do one for me now...
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holy shit! we're honored to have the artist himself join us, welcome Chris. i have to say i had some reservations about putting this here with out permission but i figured worse case scenario you get pissed at me and i take it down and that's that. i would be more then happy to showcase any other art you or anyone else has that is ROM related. can you tell us a bit about how you made this piece (the medium and so on)? you can leave a comment or you can email it to me so i can incorporate it into the posting itself if you prefer. one last thing Chris if your listening, how did you find out about your work being on this blog? i just posted it earlier today. and one more last thing, you seem to be a Tranformers fan too so you may like the posting that kicked off this blog when i started it last April:
ReplyDeletehttp://romspaceknightart.blogspot.com/2010/04/before-optimus-prime-there-was-rom.html
Nice!
ReplyDeleteI know the hero and his thankful long-haired lassie are the centre stagers of this piece, but I that has to be the best drawn Dire Wraith I've seen in pretty much ever.
Villains rock.
Hey, David--
ReplyDeleteI'm not actually the artist of the piece, just the recipient. I think I've been talking about ROM so passionately since joining IDW 6 years ago that artists we work with either got sick of hearing me talk and decided to draw me an image to shut me up, or else I managed to win them over with my incessant praise for the book.
And now you just have me thinking even more about the Rom/Transformers crossover I've always wanted to do...
wow, that was a great tactic for scoring some free art work Chris. well it sounds like this blog is just the place for a guy like you where you are welcomed to talk as much as you want about what makes ROM cool. sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name.
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