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Steelpengu — Death Dealer Triumphant
Published: 2005-08-27 06:30:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 3522; Favourites: 50; Downloads: 88
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inspired and based on and is Frazetta's Death Dealer. The Dealer's image is so raw and iconic that I had to a picture of him. I was channeling Mark Schultz and Gary Gianni when I did this. Mark is one of the coolest guys I've ever met and Gary is one of the coolest guys I haven't. They're both mad good artists with very separate styles. There's more Gary going on here, but Mark really inspired me to strive to get better. So I credit them both. I'm damn pleased with it and I think it can speak for itself, really. I listened to a lot of Therion while making it and my study sketches will be in my scraps. Enjoy.[edit]
For the record, since no body mentioned it if they realized this (only a handful of people I know here listen to metal), but this composition is send/ode to/ parody of Hammerfall's live album "One Crimson Night."
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Nice drawing. I'll fave it because it sysmbolizes my goals in life and desire to win... at all cost! 
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Again, very effective composition and pose and some very nice inking!
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Actually, random thought.. I couldn't quite place what this reminded me of before i hit submit, but now i got it: Manowar album covers!
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Yeah, I was actually thinking Hammerfall, which I believe I mentioned in my description... But yeah, it's got power metal written all over it. This was the first piece I did in the inking style, though the Conan comic preceded this, that was more the prototype for this style. The pieces that you see like this, are my most recent. I've been trying to work more with value and texture... and backgrounds.... I'm getting there.
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Yes they do! They're my favorite band! I can listen to them anytime and they never get old!
(btw, bad ass avatar!)
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AND I NEVER FAVED THIS ONE?!? Jeebers, what the hell is wrong with me. I'm getting old.. I forget things.
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not too many people have the patience to
ink this perfectly.
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Well, it's hardly perfect, but I'm glad somone thinks so! There's a conversation I have on my "Only Honor" picture about how I ink, and it's not very patient!
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WEll IT lOOks
Good
much better than I could do
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Ah, I think you're pretty talented. And you're going in a very different direction than myself, so I find that comparison moot. You're what? 19? I've got roughly two years on you, give or take. With some practice and effort you'll be making me look like a fool in no time!
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moot? 
thanx, but I won't make U look
like a Fool!
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That's alright, I look like a fool on my own just fine!
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I was just browsing galleries on DA when I came across yours and--woah! This is really a knockout piece. I really love the shading; it gives it that old style-engraving feel without overstyling the picture. Fantastic!
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Thank you very much. This piece was the progression of several ideas for me. I'm happy that it turned out the way it did!
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Sure! You certainly have the right to be happy with it--it's great!
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Excellent work! The anatomy is really well done. The detail in his armour looks awesome!
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Irony of ironies, this wasn't even intended to be the Death Dealer piece that I set out to do! It was a sketch I did in, of all things, a church to take my mind off things! I really like the sketch so with a little extra time and effort it ended up, well, this! Glad you like it!
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Bo, just out random browsing and came across your gallery. I particularly like this image, and a fitting tribute to Master Frazetta. It's cool the way that you suggest the carnage below the Death Dealer. One doesn't have to show all the "blood and gore" in order to get the point across.
What do you use to ink with? It looks like pen work. If so, you may want to get a hold of a brush and try that. I think you'll be greatly pleased with the results. Keep up the fine work, and I look forward to see your future submissions!
Oh, and you're right about Mark. I had the pleasure to meet him a few years ago at a convention and spent a few moments talking (and many more moments marveling at his work). Nice fella, and very helpful in his discussion.
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Of all things, it's the composition that I owe to Mark. I spent about an hour and half hanging out with him after a portfolio review at my college (I snuck in after to get him to autograph my copy of Conan!) He invited me back the next day to drop by after a workshop he was teaching to look at my stuff (as I am not a sequential art major). He made a comment how Frazetta's art doesn't really have that much blood and even less gore. That it's mostly writhing bodies and raised weapons. I bore that in mind while doing this piece. Gary's influence comes with the mad hatching, which I enjoy doing from time to time to break up my usual tendency to Sin City-ish flat black and whites.
Brush and I don't get along so well. We've had an "okay" relationship, but the sex just wasn't good enough if you know what I mean? I'm just not very intuitive with it, nor am I very patient. I work fast and in spurts, so pens have alwasy served me best. DDT was done in a combination of a pentel ball point v5 something or other (I really dig em') and this little cheap scrapbooking marker/pen that I picked up to sketch with while waiting to get Bruce to autograph my "Hey, space sushi!" picture. I enjoy using crowquill a ton more, but my good one broke a while ago and I haven't gotten a new one yet.
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As Lovecraft also is the master of suggestive "blood and gore".
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Ah yes, his horrors are always just beyond mortal conception. Cthulhu, for instance is almost entirely represented through his statuette and feint mentions of him in the necronomicon, yet the entire mythos is named after him!
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