As Shane pointed out yesterday, this was posted on the GAIJIN forums… where Brian Stelfreeze gave me a wonderful and informative critique. The man’s a born teacher…. and an amazing artist. I never got around to re-working it….mostly because the slip case idea kind of bogged down. But here’s the piece anyway for you to look at.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
This is Entry 181.
Mike
I’ve been talking with Todd Dezago– TELLOS co-creator and great friend– about various TELLOS related things lately. One of them has been the possibility of creating a slip-case in order to offer the two TELLOS trades together with as a nice package with new art done for the covering. Apparently there are still several hundred copies of each trade left at the IMAGE warehouse (which is really DIAMOND DISTRIBUTORS, but it sounds cooler thinking that IMAGE houses them). I did a piece based on the protagonists from our little fantasy world and actually inked and colored it myself. But I couldn’t remember if I had posted it here or not. I know that the colors didn’t come out as well as I’d like…. but it was one of my first attempts in using Photoshop to color, so I think I was a little too ambitious in that first try. But until I can go back and look at the archives in BLOGGER to see if I actually posted the cover– or someone who’s been reading long enough to be able to refresh my memory– I’ll post this sketch I did for the opposite side of the slip-case with the bad guys from TELLOS.
I’m not sure whether the slip-case idea will ever happen… but I CAN tell you that Todd and I continue to talk about future TELLOS projects. My desire to revisit those characters has been growing of late. I don’t know what brought it on…. well, actually, I DO know what brought it on, but that would entail engaging in a rant that could possibly get me in some hot water in certain circles. So I’ll just keep my (virtual) mouth shut.
That’s it for today.
This is entry 180 (coming up on 200 soon…!).
Mike
I was born in 1963, had my formative years in the late 60’s and into the 70’s and finished my teenage years in the early 80’s. If anyone had said the date 2006 to me at any of those times, I would have imagined flying cars, holographic screens, talking computers and rocket packs. It’s so interesting to look back at each generation’s idea of what a ‘SCI-FI’ vision of the future would/will be. And the reality that we’re finding out is that it’s not really our transportation technology that’s growing and evolving in leaps and bounds (in fact, we’re stuck in the PAST as far as that’s concerned), but the way we connect with and communicate with each other that’s changing so quickly. My computer comes with iChat, and I purchased an iSight– a video camera that mounts on the top of the monitor, and I occasionally have video chats with some comics buddies….. and that’s something that’s done over the internet…. something that was fodder for science fiction tales not all that long ago. Internet telephony is revolutionizing the telecommunications industry. SKYPE, a free internet telephone software company, allows others with the software and headsets to speak to each other over the internet… and the sound quality is fantastic. My phone service here in my home is provided by TIME WARNER CABLE now over my high speed cable internet service. They charge a flat fee for unlimited local and long distance calling in the continental U.S. and Canada. In entertainment, Multi-Player-Online gaming has become huge business. Games like WORLD OF WARCRAFT, STAR WARS GALAXIES, and BATTLEFIELD are massively popular on PC (and Mac)… and X-BOX LIVE and PLAYSTATION ONLINE are also giants with gamers these days. This is all not to even mention the fascinating strides that cell phone technology is making with TV on your phone…. music on your phone… games in your phone… and text messaging (which is really actually OLD tech by now). But I’m not so much into that stuff…. I’m a home body, so it’s the internet and the way it has brought us all so much closer together is what really blows my mind. And this is all in just the past decade! It’s truly amazing, when you really think about it.
I often think back to the science fiction magazine published by WARREN PUBLISHING ‘back in the day’ called 1984. When it first began publication, that date was in vogue (and some ways off) thanks to the George Orwell futurist novel. But then it became the year 1984 in actuality, and they had to change the name to 1994. Then it eventually became the year 1994…. and they stopped publishing it not long afterward. It’s quite an illustration that we’re ALWAYS moving into the future… it keeps moving inexorably (and ever quicker) in our direction.
I hope 2006 is an amazing year for us all as we meet that future head-on.
This is Entry 179.
Mike