According to Reed this is a combination of digital and traditional tools. Penciled in Illustrator, and inked with a Windsor-Newton series 7 brush. This is now the fourth ROM/Galactus themed fan art I've now come across in the last year or so. I think it's really cool how ROM # 26 & 27 have still managed to stay in people's imaginations all these years. But I still wonder why nobody thus far has done a ROM/Silver Surfer piece?
Oh I was just messing around with photoshop and this Micronauts cover art and wondered what it would look like if I replaced Captain Universe with a certain silver spaceknight. The nice thing is when you know how to use photoshop you don't have to wonder you can just make it happen visually speaking. This sort of ROM "saves the day" scenario that sets up a confrontation between the tyrant of the Microverse and the Greatest of the Spaceknights would have been epic indeed!First thing next week we take a look at a recently found 1981 interview with Bill Mantlo
Awesome work. I don't have Photoshop, but I do have Corel PhotoPaint which is similar but less well known. Maybe I should start exploring it again. Or maybe I should just break out the tablets and start painting again.
ReplyDeleteI still think that Michael Golden cover with Serpentyne is perhaps the best representation of Rom.
yeah that cover is pretty much a classic. it appears as if Rob Liefield is quite fond of it too. hopefully you've checked out the Sanctum Sanctorum blog already. but if not, do so you'll see what i'm talking about.
DeleteMan Oh man Both of these pieces Look Fan-Freaking Tastic Brother!!! Talk about workin it!! This cover you made with Photoshop?!? Wicked cool I waited until I got home to try to post I already had a frustrating night, I didn't want to through my phone out the window because I could post Ha! Either way man sweet find and creation!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Serpentyne cover really was all that! If anything, there were more ideas inside ROM #26 &27 than were used! This is sterling; my hat's off to the artist! Sigh...now excuse me while, like Rom often did, I prove I'm not a robot...
ReplyDeletewell there's many ways one might demonstrate they're not a robot. perhaps it's best you leave us all in suspense about that :)
Deletegiven your admiration for the Michael Golden cover art of ROM#9 i strongly recommend you check out the Sanctum Sanctorum Comix(see blog role)March 13 posting.
Very nice, Dave! It looks just like the real thing.
ReplyDeletethanks Bruce, wait until you see what i post on Monday. maybe . . just maybe there might be something in it about the great Bill Mantlo even you didn't know about.
DeleteVery much looking forward to it. I found and translated one interview published in the fanzine Bem #24, in July 1979.
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