Babe Lab. NSFW-which means , not safe for work. Screw acronyms anyway. How hard is it to type not safe for work.
The artist doing these female figure studies obviously has no trouble with nudity. Using Maxim and Penthouse ideas about how to present young beautiful women. But he does some great essays on appeal and gesture.
I really liked being led to this odd calendar featuring pin up models being x-rayed in high heels.
I did this illustration for Dawn Atkin's Shadows Of... fanzine. Now to figure out the exact issue.
I think it's the one with the spider. 1979.
If I remember right , Jim had his work rejected.
Just now getting over it.
Found this. A gang scan with some of Dok's iconography from Leland Corp.
I'm actually in volume 6, 1982.
I'm about to turn 30. About to go to Dallas, followed by Linda Schulman, who I will then follow to San Diego in 1986.
The late bloomer archives.
I'm done. This is the flip side of The Shadows Of... fanzine fiction. The black at the corners on the other page is where I had it taped in my portfolio. With my first notion of anthropomorphizing a big cat. He was going to ride a Harley.
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There's probably only 15 to 20 page refreshes and you've taken in the entire blog. But lots of good discussion and tutorials.
I just assume the x-rays are of pin ups. They might be fit grannies.
Hey! I'll sue! "Stairtop fiction Written by Billy Wolfington Illustrated by Dell Harris"
I just saw Dell Harris for about 5 minutes at the recent SoonerCon.
I just ordered a copy of Shadows Of... Volume 6. Amazing that I can. Coming out of someone's stash somewhere.
Love the X-Ray calendar. The LabTab looks like Fritz the Cat on steroids!
Who is Dawn Atkins? Former member of TAG?
Did you click on the "look who I found link?"
She was a cute, young, Okie lady that put out Fanzines. Anthologizing fiction like she was the publisher of Weird Tales or comparable.
This would have been the early eighties.
I cannot remember who hooked me up. Probably through David Lee Anderson. (Whose paperback illustration work can be seen for the Sam Rockwell credit of Gentlemen Broncos )
Just Okies being creative. Dawn being the conduit.
Mike McQuay was the biggest deal. Local writer that was going places. I took a writing class with him and dated his sometime girlfriend, Joy.
It all comes back to me now. I was probably still working as a newspaper layout artist for OPUBCO.
SERIOUSLY OLD SCHOOL AND COOL!
OK, the pixel-scale character sheet is Dok's, right? Must've been scanned in b&w?
(an aside: remember the hassle of scanning things way back? And how crappy the images came out--and how UNWIELDY the files were?)
(related aside: I am thinking seriously of buying one of these oversized scanners (11"x14" or so?)...anyone with any experience with 'em?)
The nurse and those foreshortened arms...those are arms like my own stunted stumps!
(Excuse me while I just string a buncha my own comments here...to really follow the T.A.G. form-book, I should be posting them on my own post, huh?)
Ellis, did you check out Jason Weesner's in-progress book on Video Game design? It's here http://www.weezie13.com/
He has four chapters up--very good stuff. I liked his illustrations, too! But I said he needs to include some of yr game design drawings...those are choice!
I'm glad you reminded me of this Weezner project. I've got some scans I can send him. I could have sold him some original art just a week ago. Just sold it on Ebay. Lets see if I can link to a archive of the auction.
SOLD! Aug 6th it would seem
And for anyone doing 11 by 17 work , a scanner that size is definitely a good idea. I would not have a record of half my stuff if I just hadn't happened to invest in a scuzzi port 12 by 18 scanner. That's why a lot of my scans feature side by side images like the one with Dok's old art.
I bet they have some nice 11 by 17 scanners that run off of the USB cable. I like the 8.5 by 11 I got from canon years ago. Don't know if they make a big one.
All those weezner concept pieces were scanned on my big scanner.
I just emailed Weezner that I'd zip up any art I did that was done for him by me.
JEE-zus, Ellis!
(Someone please knock some sense into this guy before any more damage is done ...)
You seriously let this gorgeous concept artwork go for $5.50 per PAGE?!?!?!!
Beata. Go to Escondido and get all my art back from the guy.
I appreciate the sentiment expressed. But value comes from finding that connection of buyer to seller.
These guys that turn around and offer my art for 5 or 10 times as much, typically don't sell it. Of course they only have to sell one piece to have made back what they invested. But I'm into turnover at this point. I want every thing I've done sold and out there in the turn around environment. Make a few bucks and maybe have a half assed legacy.
Figuring out a price to sell work at is a hard thing to do. If you are comfortable with what you are getting for the work Ellis, then that's what's important. Marty and I were selling drawings from $5-$15 at the con, so I'm not going to judge.
Speaking of which, I'm thinking about what I'm going to sell at the next con and I'm concidering looking through a bunch of my old EQ2 drawings for some good stuff to sell. Marty did well selling some stuff that he just happened to through into his portfolio... I might put together a couple of binders of work and see how it does.
LOVE Labtab.
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