Another cover story
I knew what I wanted so I got my lil pal Wormy Mc Worm Worm to pose for a mock up. All the elements are here; the dangling mouse, the red bowl, the sand, the logo and the background colour. People are usually surprised to see Wormy Mc Worm Worm sitting on my drawing desk after seeing him appear in the comic, I've had him for 9 years and he sleeps in a tissue lined box beside my bed.
texturing on the sand. Wow.
I'm silly. At the time my photoshop ability was terrible and the only way I could get the desired effect was to use chalk pastels and scan them in, luckily we had an A3 scanner in my job. These were A3. The first two were shit looking but I nailed it on the third try thank God.
Now with the new Wormy I could position it all better,
Back out with the pastels for the background......
These are the other drawn elements, The bowl is cropped on the final cover so you can
see here all the other stuff that Wormy eats.
This bit I loved. I thought that the logo looked too stale on the other covers so I printed it off on an A3 sheet and threw it on the lightbox in work (God bless that studio) and crustified it. I still love this logo. Check out the hiding piss prune above the dot on the exclamation mark and the staples on the H, I'm a prince.
And now a rapid jump forward. There was tons of dicking around; the blood on the walls (which came out shit looking on the print), some corny embossed scratches, the sand and of course the wonderful creeping shadow effects which make me look as if I know what I'm doing.
Then I had to stick a barcode on it and all the other stuff. If I had to do it again, there's loads of things I'd do differently or not at all. Hey, if you want a laugh get your paws on the first issue, I really fucked up that cover. And the funny thing is that it's still selling. Idiots.-------------------------------------------------------
6 Comments:
That worm is real? Where'd you get him
Know this is off topic (maybe some tangential worm connection) found out on a link from Warren Ellis's site today that the unspoken dreams of the flarn-lover have been answered, they've finally gone and done it! they've made a porn you tube: check out
pornotube!
check out this porn kung fu!
horray for flarn
don't why know that last link didn't work: it's under the humor section: kung fu porn
thank god for the subtitles "oral attack!"
Bob sez: Lorcs you gem!
i always liked that crusty, sweaty version of the mbleh logo - that would make a great cover all on its ownio.
what the fuck porno tube is so fucking gay!!!! Jesus thank god for that black girl bukkake. Now to the real shizzle - I'm surprised to hear you slating your first cover - i was just looking at it there and technically (nerdsville) its not as accomplished but thematically - i love my callys - its still good.
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