The variety of subjects people ask me to draw is always a surprise to me.
Especially when you see a bunch of them together like this:
This is what I originally thought of when asked to draw a boxing cow:
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The variety of subjects people ask me to draw is always a surprise to me.
Especially when you see a bunch of them together like this:
This is what I originally thought of when asked to draw a boxing cow:
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I couldn’t possibly come close to doing as good a job of presenting this as Paul and his team have done on his website.
So please check this out and enjoy:
http://www.planetslade.com/gerhard.html
Shel and I and some of the motley crew at the Wizard World Madison:
Corey and I and the stack of books he dropped off at the show.
He had all 300 issues hard bound into 10 volumes:
And here are the 10 ‘sketches’ I did in the front of each volume:
I scanned in the sketches that I did of all the essays and articles from
Then, in PhotoShop, I placed all of the sketches into a 20×30 inch space and juggled and resized and fiddled until I got them to fit. Here’s a little gif of the last couple versions as Paul and I decide where to place the logo:
and here is the tight pencilled version, on paper, ready for inking:
(click on image to enlarge in a new window)
Next: inking.
(Not an April Fool’s joke.)
Ah… springtime in Southern Ontario…
…and meanwhile, back at the PlanetSlade miscellany…
…next: the big question is how to fit all of the elements together into one composition…
in the meanwhile, have a Happy Easter!!!
I’m still figuring out WordPress and having fun using the photo “galleries.”
Please excuse me if I’ve used pictures from a previous Blog. Scroll over the pics for more details.
– Shelley
Gerhard’s “Store” is now open.
Check it out!
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