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TheRealT · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 11:13 pm

This was something I made for a potential employer who wanted to test my ability. Happy to say he liked it!

www.art-machine.com

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laslauk · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 11:27 pm

I like it too.. No real crits, just amazing.

EBE · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 11:31 pm

I like it too!!!

(she looks like one girl from "atomic Kitten"!!!)

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Jezebel · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 11:32 pm

Ooooer... very nice style! I love the colors and I love her face. :>

P'tit Ben · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 12:55 am

Simply beautiful

The Green Man · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 1:07 am

Dude...you rock.

Highfive · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 1:20 am

So she should. The shading is beautiful!

Randis Albion · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 2:04 am

Very interesting image.
i like it.
have a japanese style atmosphere.
Do you have a hp?

please contact me.

Randis :: www.visual-god.com

ken · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 2:46 am

randis, if hp = homepage, then yes, it's in his signature.

would that employer be dave, pierre? if so, i can see why you were hired!

-Ken

Shannen · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 4:47 am

I just had the pleasure of visiting your webpage and I must say I ADORE your stuff.

And I agree with Randis, you have a very japanese feel to some of your artwork. I see a hint of yoshitoshi abe (he's the guy who did the original character design for Lain-very good anime!) and also a lil itty bit of
Hayao Miyazaki (mostly known in the western world for Princess Mononoke).
I might be totally off, but that's my two cents~

gArGOyLe^ · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 6:15 am

brilliant shading! thats aweesome! I'm gonna try and use ur shading style in my next pic

NextGen · member Member # Joined: 24 Apr 2001 Posts: 149

/me loves your anime-ish style
Nice site too

The Magic Pen · member Member # Joined: 05 Dec 2001 Posts: 321

WOW !!!

I sure as hell hope he liked it !! Pleassseeeeee post more I love your style !!

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[edit : oHH I just caught that..I guess your not working for Dreamwave anymore

..BTW that image on the front of your homepage kills me man ...so cool

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DustyKrakk · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 10:15 am

That looks wonderful, as always. I've always loved how you keep your stuff so colorful, but at the same time desaturated. It really adds to the realism of it.

Btw...Congrats on the big success with the book this month.

-Dusty

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Shannen · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 12:28 pm

HAH! I did see Niea 7, but not the whole series I only have the 1rst dvd. But it was fun~ That girl is so cruel she eats everything she can put her hands on!! Hehehe, but I'm glad to hear I'm not the only Yoshitoshi Abe fan around

VanhoozerArt · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 1:21 pm

Beautiful work man.
I really love it.
Nice soft feel.

Cos · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 2:51 pm

damn nice work! very polished, great painterly style!

Morbid Guy · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 3:02 pm

This is great! Really well done and a very nice style, reminds me a little of Joachims stuff. Really nice work.

TheRealT · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 11:10 pm

Wow, Thanks everyone!!

Yes, Yoshitoshi Abe is my 2nd favorite artist! You should check out Niea_7, his latest project. Hilarious stuff

I like Miyazaki, but I never considered him a visual inluence... But you know what, I wouldn't be surprised if he seeped into my style a little

No, I dont work on Tranformers anymore... True it's a high profile gig, but certain key people in production were slacking off as usual and I had to pull all the colours off in the 3 days before the deadline (no sleep).
So regretably, I quit due to losing faith in the company's ability to keep a professionnal schedule among other things...
It was just too much unnecessary stress

My HP is "art-machine.com" for anyone who missed it in my post and beside my signature

Oh, yep ken, It was Dave.

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FFNeX · Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 11:51 pm

It's a damn shame you are not in the Transformers project anymore

One of the reasons I'm going to buy the first issue tomorrow when it comes out is the colors, I fell in love with it on the 6 page preview they had in Wizard and all the promotional pinups

I hope the comic doesn't go down the toilet now without you

and I sure hope to see more of your stuff ASAP

TheRealT · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 12:46 am

They replaced me with Ramil Sunga, So not to worry. It should have been him in the first place in fact. He'll do as good a job as I would have, better even!

As for "my stuff"

You likely won't be seeing it around comics anymore. Too little pay for too much BS. But it's been a good growing experience

Time to grow in other dirrections

Malachi Maloney · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 4:07 am

Nice work.

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Lunatique · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 4:26 am

I like!!!

SWANYDSPIN · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 8:31 pm

You should show this to the guys at slap-on art, youd be a shoe in to design sticker decals. I want to put that on my skis!

Little Beefucker · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 8:43 pm

Awesome awesome awesome.

gowansy · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 1:59 pm

This is awesome! Brilliant style, i love this type of art, v. inspiring!

Liser Studios · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 2:10 pm

nice, very nice.
but i have one question, and i might not be right...
when you are on one leg like that, wouldn't the leg usually be extended straight? i might be wrong, especially since she's dancing. I dunno, I'm no animator.

but this is quite nice.
So, what is comic production like? How's the pay? I'm not necessarily asking for actual figures or anything, but is it enough to live comfortably on?

TheRealT · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 3:56 pm

Pays better than a fastfood job... But really it's a piece of rotting industry. Most people are lazy and end up throwing you your work only a few days befor a deadline even after you've been buging them for the whole month. You CONSTANTLY get screwed by companies who take your product and suddenly decide "I'm not paying you" and there's nothing you can do about it...
Aim for a fresher more reliable/profitable maket like vidogames... Comics has become a dirty, grumpy, cheap old man...
Just my 2 cents about it all

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jesusclone · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 4:48 pm

Damn you talented bastards

. I feel inspired not so much from the style, but because of the talent you have for your age

Great work.. needless to say

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http://www.twigpeople.com/dmo

TheRealT · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 5:51 pm

Thanks man