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From the Shadowrun "Germany Sourcebook", FASA, 1994.Sometimes I ran out of time and just handed in pencils. I really regret that now, because they never looked all that hot in print. This one would've looked pretty awesome if I'd ever inked it.
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Glad to find you in here. This had been one of my favorite SR artworks, and I had been tempted to scan it in, but now I can fave the real thing.
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So glad you liked it! And considering how muddy it ended out looking in the printed book, I'm glad I saved you the trouble of scanning it
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Well, it was a great combination of 'damn she's sexy' and 'damn there's some great details and such in this pic'. Your work was always a high point in the books.
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Oh, thanks so much! I had to work hard to keep up with some of the other artists though. A lot of great talent in those books
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It's a blast. Even in pencil, although the original concept was to pull this off in solid b/w for print - this is class and all kinds of awesome. So well executed. The art of making such a concept in b/w is lost to today's illustrators, mostly, because of the better printing methods and budgets and all, it's rarely needed (or wanted, for that matter) anymore. I find that saddening.
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Too true. Printing technology was low-fi enough that it made pen & ink a necessity for reproduction. That said, I think there's still a lot of people working like this in comics, though its rarely reproduced in black & white anymore.
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That's true, of course. But still, today we can mingle everything through Photoshop and the like - I truely admire that this is 100% hand crafted!
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Wow, points for recognizing the firearm!
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Thanks! I was hoping to see it in a sourcebook but nowhere to be found... unless I missed it?
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If it did, I didn't draw it. I tended to just make up new guns for every drawing...
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Nah as far as I know it hasn't but a good one nontheless...
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Also, I'm pretty sure someone inked it, as it looks fairly inked in GSB.
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Nope, they just crushed the contrast for the book, and it ended out looking all smudgy.
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Ah okay. Thought that was my print that had somehow ruined it. It would really look great inked. So many clichΓ©s in one image ... a bavarian friend of mine was rather delighted by this image.
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Cool! Yeah, I had fun drawing that castle. Can't remember the name of it now, but it's a major tourist attraction and shows up in the movie Spaceballs.
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It's castle Neuschwanstein, in Bavaria. Greetings from Germany
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Haha, yes! And thanks!
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YES! This is one of those I hoped you'd put up. And maybe the Wurst troll?
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