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Published: 2005-02-13 13:46:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 2402; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 97
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Faster than a bullet! Terrifying scream! I drew this in Illustrator, on my computer machine!Actually, the title for this one is "DEADLY WHEELS!!!" but exclamation points are illegal
characters for titles. Go figure.
I came up with the idea for this illustration after seeing Judas Priest live in concert during
last year's OzzFest. They've been my favorite band, bar none, for a while now, and it was fun
to do this homage to their 1990 album, "Painkiller."
The actual drawing took almost as long to complete as the Illustrator CS artwork. Drawing
Painkiller was a son of a bitch. The cover to the album is not the best reference, particularly
the CD sized version of the image. I used a lot of different references to get the figure right,
including some old action figures I had laying around. (Painkiller is proportioned a little
like a He-Man figure)
I've been encouraged by my friends to send it to Rob Halford, the singer for Judas Priest. If
I can manage to get an accurate e-mail address, I'll do just that.
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Comments: 33
Sons of Judas Bring the Saints to my Revenge!
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Lol just today i was listening the whole album *O*
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Hope it's enriched your life the way it has mine.
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No words can describe how awesome this is...nice tribute to the Metal God
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Not even the word "Awesome"? I'm doing better than I thought, then. Thanks for the favorite.
I watched your "Diamonds and Rust" animation. I had to laugh pretty hard at that ending.
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Nice! Trippy rendition of one of my favorite songs.
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'Preciate it. Thanks for the comment.
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great work! Painkiller is a helluva album...personal fav is Ram It Down...just somethin 'bout hearing Halford sing Jonny B Goode makes the whold day seem worth while...
Your coloring/CGing skills are insane!
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'Preciate it. A lot of fans really hate Johnny B Goode. I think it's interesting that you like that track. Ram it down is awesome, though.
You should give the new album a try, Angel of Redemption. Holy crap, it's awesome.
EZG
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I think I will...thanks! (and thanks for the fav on my work!)
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You know I can't resist a touch of evil.
Or maybe you didn't. I don't know.
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I think the way you handled the sparks is incredibly well done. When I saw the thumbnail I said "Gee, thats a vector, I wonder how he made sparks?" then I looked and saw and said, "Yep, that'll do it." Other than that there are a lot of great things about this. the modeling is well done, there are many different textures. it definately feels in your face. My only real problem is how flat the wings are. with all the great modeling and texture you've got the just seem to placed. Still a great job though.
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I was originally going to model the hell out of the wings, and if they ever start to bug me, I'll go back into them, but the image is already so busy, I felt it needed a simpler area for your eye to rest, so I left the wings as I had originally traced them.
I like your comment about feeling "in your face." I wanted it to have the ludicrous over-the-top feeling the song has, and it's good that's coming through so well.
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actually I had a question on the shading. I am presuming this is illustrator. But were you using radial gradients and the gradient tool together, or gradient mesh. I was just looking at the shading and it could be either. so I wanted to know how you did it, if you don't mind me asking.
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I never practiced much with gradient meshes. Pretty much everything in the piece is a combination of regular old radial and linear gradients. I use the radial gradients in places to create a core shadows and highlights on rounded forms. Each different shape is generally layered somewhere between four and six times to get the colors and values to look right. I could get similar effects with just one layer, but I like the effect the colors have when they blend together. I get slightly unexpected results that look a little richer than standard color, like glazing an oil painting.
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Wow, shit! Fantabulous arrangement of cools and warms. I was expecting to get my ass kicked in the face by this piece, but this exceeds my expectations. Great job! I couldn't even begin to do this kind of stuff with Illustrator. Lazer-bullet this baby to the Priest right away, maybe they'll put it in the liner notes of their next album...wouldn't that rock? Yeah, I couldn't possibly feel safer than to see that thing flying at me from the heavens.
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Yeah, I'm planning to send this to Halford via the e-mail address that he put on the Crucible album. I think it's just damn hillarious that I'm going to send it today...Valentine's day. Hmm.
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Oh shit, it's finally done. It looks pretty damn awesome, I'd have to say. The skull-headlight worked out pretty damn nice. The spikes on the wheel look good too. And the spikes on the jacket are cool too, the way they're arranged, they kind have a sweep in in the which really compliments the whole image. It seems pretty true the look of the other Judas priest album covers too, just a little further over the top.
My only criticism, and it's the same as before, is that I'd like to see some darker darks in some areas, to get some more contrast. But if you tell to go to hell for saying that, you'd be right to do so. It's not like I'd have the patients to do all that in illustrator.
Anyways, this rocks pretty hard; send it in to them. And thanks for the favorite.
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Yeah, I don't know if I'm REALLY done with it, so I might add some more stuff later, as far as darks and contrast, particularly in the Painkiller, because he always looks more incomplete to me the further along I went. But for now, I'm happy to have the damn thing done.
BTW, no need to thank me for the Fav. I've always liked that piece, anyway. I like your description of it an awful lot as well. It's much more well thought out than I ever realized.
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Yeah that piece came from Brandy's class, actually. Well, sort of. It was a second try that I did a semester or two later. We were supposed to illustrate and article about why artists want to create, and to everything that I did or anybody else did, she'd say the same thing every time: "too literal, too literal." So I tried to think of the most abstract way to represent creation that I possibly could.
Oh, I know I said this to you before, but this Painkiller totally, totally needs to be on a pinball machine. Seriously. You should pitch the idea of a Judas Priest pinball game when you send this. And if they already have one, tell 'em they need to make a new one with this on it. Seriously.
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They could call the pinball game "Balls of Steel."
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What about "Balls of Brittish Steel?"
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