dathon wrote:That is awesome. I'll have to start thinking about this now too... Was there any reason why you went with black and white rather than color?
Badmike wrote: I've just always felt B&W inks bring out more detail, and it reminds me of the inner illustrations of the original D&D modules (no color interiors, remember) and looked a lot more "old school" to me. Plus Roslof's style seems (to me at least) to sometimes become buried and washed out with color, which sometimes obscures the details ( I think a lot of Erol Otus' b&w stuff looks cooler than this color stuff also). Plus the time factor and cost, I know color would have cost more and taken much more time (it was only about 3 weeks from start to finish for this piece, which Jim did in his spare time). Honestly I never even considered color, I had a conception of what I wanted and Jim filled it perfectly, sort of like one of those full page b&w drawings in one of the 1st edition classics.Mike B.
Adam Shultz wrote:8) Thanks for the show. What a great visual and story to boot. I never tell teh wifey how much I spend on any of this stuff.
Ssendam wrote:HOLY CRAP!!! Wow, that is amazing... just like the old days but the detail and refinement is incredible.Can you tell us any more about your correspondence with Jim? like history working with TSR?
Adam Shultz wrote:He is tough to pin down for more than a very specific email. Sometimes he doesn't seem to get emails at all or files mine away in the circular file cabinet. I am glad the commission worked out though. He has been hankering to do some fantasy work again.
I'm looking at this and thinking wow, wow, wow.I'm so jealous...
killjoy32 wrote:i still think that pic is so utterly stupendous.i was talking about this to family over new yea - my dad was well impressed with the quality of the pic. as soon as i have funds available i am going to get one done too. most certainly - its just gonna have to be done and there is no two ways about it. the one i want done is most likely gonna be an interpretation similar to mikes as that is also one of my very favorite scenes.my dad came up with an amazing idea, and the more i think of it, the better i like the idea. what we are going to do, is get the character out of our sheets that we want putting into the art, describe him/her as best we can and use a portrait of ourselves and ask for it to be "D&D-ised" into the art. if that could be done, that would be about as close as i could imagine a piece of art being perfect to me.thats how its looking right now and i think it would be tremendous fun if he could do it.Al
Badmike wrote:Wow, what a great idea! Talk about personalizing the artwork, I think that's an incredible suggestion! It doesn't sound like too hard a task for Jim, I bet it wouldn't be a stretch for him to do that. Maybe mail or email the photos when you send in the initial payment. It can't hurt to ask. Let us know who it goes! Believe me Al, ST1s, Fazzlewoods or Orange B3s wil come and go, but a one of a kind piece of art like this is unique.Mike B.
Badmike wrote:I hope someday to have Jeff Dee and Erol Otus prints to go up with it.....!