More from White Wolf's Demon: The Fallen series.

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When things are going REALLY well, I get to have some of my wonderful friends model for me on commercial assignments. Here we have Aubrey as a Mage, taking a gracefully defensive position. He is opposed by Chris, a determined Hunter looking to rid the World Of Darkness of one more reality deviant.

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'Nother Aberrant. In the immortal words of Flip Wilson's Geraldine; "what you see is what you get."

Not that I was going for that effect, but this one is easily the most 'Alex Ross-ian' I've ever gotten with my style.

hmmm...

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The first two pages of the set

While I am a great fan of the medium, I am far from good at doing it myself. Comic artists are not your average illustrator. Proficiency in this medium requires a level of skill, artistry and discipline that I have yet to wring out of my tiny mortal frame for more than a few pages. A number of cherished supporters of my work seem to be of the opinion that I do have a couple of graphic novels in me, somewhere. I do still have my appendix. Maybe that's what its for.

So maybe all's I needs to do is give it a good squeeze, and-

Oh good Lord...Anyone have a sponge?

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From an RPG called, Fading Suns made by Holistic Design, Inc. Think Dune enters the galactic Dark Ages.
Its an uncommonly elegant and, at least to me, unaccountably melancholic world. No doubt its something to do with the title. Worth a looksee.

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White Wolf likes it dark. As you've no doubt noticed, so do I.

While it may not be an actual genre in itself, Dark makes an apt adjective to establish the mood for a wide range of settings. The GothPunk millieu of the World of Darkness pretty much sells itself. However, prior to the first Alien film, there wasn't much to find in the way of "dark" or "gothic" Science Fiction. That the future could be bleak and gritty, or at least drearily downbeat was a novel concept to me as a kid. Watching shows like Star Trek or The Jetsons, you don't get the sense that little Jimmy Kirk or Elroy Jetson ever worried about the Boogeyman being under their beds. Their futures were too well lit to be scary.

After Alien debuted, there seemed to be more visions of an arguably more nihilistic look at humanity's future. Perhaps this stems from a time-honored fascination with the unkempt attics and cellars of our own psyches, the possible wellspring from which many of our boogeymen (human/alien/supernatural) emerge.

Whatever the case, the folks at White Wolf were very good at tapping into that wellspring and lending verisimilitude to a series of fictional worlds that seemed to slip effortlessly from out of and back into the shadows of our own.

More to come.

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One of my many RPG assignments. The few jobs I did with Pinnacle Entertainment were fun, but I sure wish I had been able take more time off from other assignments to do more work on this title.

Along with Weird Science, Weird West is yet another genre I adore. Any kind of vintage indutstrial/steam/boilerplate world (where adventure is high and nature is bent) is bound to command my attention and get my gears a turnin', as it were. Thus far, there have been any number of permutations and cross pollenations of periods and genres. Just wiki* your favorite type; eg. Steam Punk or Weird West and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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This is/was the poster art for a completely bent, visciously funny parody of all those contemporary 70's action parodies. Essentially a wacky, over the top imitation of other OTT imitations that might have taken themselves a bit too seriously. There was kind of an odd sensation of stepping into Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine while doing the research for this poster. I had to pour over all this now vintage art from back in the day. Geez, most of it was new art when I was a kid... I was surprised to see how many of these films I remembered seeing as a wee tyke on late night tv.

Let me tell you, this was and still is great art, worthy of any gallery. If you can get your hands on a copy of
What It Is... What It Was!; The Black Film Explosion of the '70s in Words and Pictures by Andres Chavez, Denise Chavez, and Gerald Martinez (Paperback - Oct 1998), you'll see what I'm talking about. And you won't be disappointed.

(The long one is the preliminary. The black boarder is the final art.)

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Time for work unseen in my portfolio site to break out to the interweb. Watch the skies. Watch this space. Here's some work from my existing portfolio site to get started.

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