Showing posts with label traditional colour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditional colour. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 April 2014

April already?

One of the things about Winter, even the mild ones, is I appear to suffer from s.a.d. and it wasn't till the clocks reverted did I feel better, though the headaches continue [laugh]. Another type of headache is that I complete new work but as it is still to be printed I cannot show it, I'm not complaining just explaining why there is often a dearth of new [more recent pieces] to show. Luckily I have some old, and I mean old work to show so let's start with that.

But don't worry there are some new bits as well.

Back in the 70's I was 'playing' with style and technique and found, besides the BFS, that some comic fanzines would publish work including mine, and then, as now, I got a lot of pleasure from seeing my work, good or bad, in print.

These next that follow fall into that category. The first two, drawn in pen, were done as headers for a comic fanzine.


The next for another fanzine, including an article found inside, where the art [and lettering] were done with brush this was many years before I did work for D.C. Thomson.






This nest was done for a small zine but this time in pen and brush. This has a more fantasy approach and characterise the 'comedic' approach I took to such work [as here] and for the British Fantasy Society.

Now I have some more such covers. But be warned this is what you get for me digging through old boxes, but felt it sensible to keep those for another day and instead will show something completely different, well, sort of different, and a little more modern.

Now a couple of try out covers for a proposed Shakespeare Graphic novel/comic. I may have posted these before for which my apologies, but I liked the idea of the project and trying to breakdown without losing the flavour of the original. But please note these were done in the late 80's/early 90's and have nothing to do with any such material published since.

 
Finally, a couple of old pieces used recently by others that I found on the net.


So there you are till the next time, when it will be a few Games Workshop related project work.

Thursday, 23 June 2011

SORCERY & WIZARDY & DWARFY BITS

I recently did a small commission based on a Sorcerer and a Sorceress and coincidentally a piece for Blackgate, the online magazine, who have been running a series called ART EVOLUTION where RPG artists have been highlighted. Along with some background information and a critical overview of their oeuvre all have been asked to create their interpretation of a Sorceress [WIZARD] called LYSSA. It all started in 2010 and has continued this year, where my little efforts have been featured in the June 'issue'. I have to confess that even as I think it well written write-up by Scott Taylor, it frankly says such nice things about myself, and my work, that I have no hesitation in highlighting it here.

http://www.blackgate.com/2011/06/22/art-evolution-2011-russ-nicholson/

As I too was asked to create my version of LYSSA here it is.

LYSSA
 As mentioned, I also completed two others. A male and  a female Sorcerer.


For Laminations of the Flame Princess I also did a Sorcerer [wizard]. Here we see him trying to use more mundane methods of finding power.
Now for a few Dwarfy bits. White Dwarf Magazine that is. I was asked to illustrate an adventure called 'Night of Blood' [imagine thunder peels and Hammer films screechy music]. I wasn't given a lot of space, except for the colour demon, and was in a phase of trying to experiment with picture 'telling' and where I was allowed [that is nobody said anything] to indulge in a sort of homage to Albrecht Durer, which, if you read the Blackgate piece, you'll know was [is] a favourite of mine, as is a lot of Renaissance art. Anyway from WDM 87 here are those pictures.


And finally ... the Demon.

That's it for now ... and I haven't forgotten about Warhammer, just that I can only find one pic at the moment. But you never know.

Oh, age beckons; where's my depression when I need it?