Archive | PermalinkCover for Five's The End

Here is another cover commissioned by Ebb and Folks. Five's The End is a novella by David Leyman that completes the trilogy that begins with Three's Company and continues with Four of a Kind (the second artwork in this post). The style of digital inks and colours (instead of a painterly look) of the cover for all three novellas is an editorial decision.

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Archive | PermalinkIrfan Treks to an Exhibition

Irfan went to the National Science Centre.

Star Trek the Exhibition was being housed there for the time being. Shane managed to go to Star Wars Identities which looked better, but I takes what I gets.

They didn't beam us aboard, we had to walk up the steps and push the door open. Thankfully, this procedure did not need the use of a Heisenberg compensator.

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Archive | PermalinkWallpaprometheus

I appear to have a new wallpaper for the Artist X 1.0 desktop.

It's that ship sent by Weyland Industries.

S.S. Lollipop or something.

Can't wait for the movie.

I'm not saying it's ALIEN, but it's ALIEN.

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Archive | PermalinkRuthermore's First Cover

Ruthermore Heidigens and the Fifth Planet is the first of David Leyman's Ruthermore Heidigens science fiction novellas. It features the most powerful wizard in the known universe, simply because he's the only wizard in the universe. His powers are real, but are they really of a magical source?

Here's the cover for the book I painted recently in watercolour: 

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Archive | PermalinkCover for Meevo

Meevo is the ebook novella by David Leyman. It is a suitably eerie horror-flavoured science-fiction tale involving an escaped prisoner, the prisoner's hunters and - as we see in the opening scenes - a mutant, in a post-apocalyptic future.

To view the full cover image, click on the thumbnail below.

Meevo is available for purchase on Amazon.com here.

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Archive | PermalinkCover for Three's Company

Ebb n Folks's latest short story soon to be published on Amazon as a Kindle download is Three's Company. The publisher called for a lined artwork with clean colours on it. So here it is. "Three" in the story title is the catlike lady seen below. But why has she been with the protagonist all these decades?

Watch for it on Amazon.com soon.

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Archive | PermalinkPoster for Horizon

Horizon is a short film written and directed by Emma Coats, set in the wilds of a post-apocalyptic near future. I've seen a rough cut of the film. It looks spectacular and is very ambitious project. Also, it has a zeppelin! I was invited to contibute a movie poster to be displayed in a gallery released with the DVD and here's what I came up with.

Watch this space for details of its upcoming release!

Click here to see more photos and posters for Horizon.

Click here to see a bigger version of my poster on DeviantArt.

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Archive | PermalinkCover for Crater

Ebb & Folks has again given me the assignment to come up with another cover for one of their books. This time it's the novella Crater by David Leyman, now on sale on Amazon.com as an ebook.

It's a star and time spanning tale of humans versus a ruthless alien civilisation at war. Check it out at the link above to buy and download it.

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Archive | PermalinkDarth Bill Adama?

A weird moment for Admiral William Adama of the Battlestar Galactica (complete with ominous shadow outline) when he suddenly spouts lines from The Empire Strikes Back at his son Lee.

What does he say, and how does Lee reply?

Click here to find out and to view a larger version of the artwork.

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Archive | PermalinkLegacy of Tron: A Tron Legacy Review

After 28 years, the sequel to Disney's Tron is finally upon us. Tron Legacy, produced by the original movie's director Steven Lisberger and directed by newcomer Joseph Kosinski, had a unique problem. Tron had a connection to the computer and gaming lore of the late 70s and early 80s, with its simple vector graphics and sounds. The home computer for the consumer was still rare. The general public had very little clue on how computers work. The World Wide Web is still almost a decade away. How can one create a modern sequel to a movie based on anachronistic world view of technology?

Very simple. Just build upon the even more fantastic elements of the first movie and move on from there.

SPOILERS BEYOND! SPOILERS! 

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Archive | PermalinkThe Many Green Lanterns of the Trailer

The official trailer for next year's Green Lantern movie starring Deadpool is out. There are quite a number of Green Lanterns in the trailer.

Kilowog!

Abin Sur!

Tomar-Re and the Oan central power battery!

Sinestro!

and of course, Hal Jordan.

Yeah, I just wanted to post pictures of the live-action corpsmen on the blog, is all. Too bad there's no Mogo and Bzzd.

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Archive | PermalinkGamera Tears Up The Living Room

... or at the very least, it wishes it could.

As previously mentioned Irfan seems to have taken a shine to Gamera, the giant monster turtle with awesome powers!

I was looking at papercraft material online when I came across a Gamera papercraft, which was only a two-page downloadable pdf. Irfan and I spent the part of the afternoon cutting, folding and gluing the pieces together. Finally this was what we ended up with:

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