Fanart: Happiness [Tribute to Drew Hayes]

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Alexej_Axis [Zeichner-Galerie]	Upload: 12.07.2014 14:20
"Happiness is a temporary chemical unbalance of the true state of mind..." Dieses Bild ist eine Hommage an den verstorbenen Comic Artist und Künstler Drew Hayes und sein wunderbares Werk: "Poison Elves". Man sieht meinen Shadowrun RP-Charakter Alexander "Bucephalus" Costa - ein Nächtlicher (pelzige Elfen, die ein wneig aud der 'Dark Side of Life' wandeln) in einer adaption eines von Drew Hayes schönsten Motiven. Das Bild wurde mit Tushce und Copic Markern coloriert, ganz so wie Drew Hayes es meines Wissens nach mit den Covern seiner Comics getan hat. Leider habe ich im Internet nur einen sehr schlechten Scan des besagten Bildes gefunden, das Original habe ich zu Hause, da ich die komplette Sammlung an Poison Elves Comics besitze: http://clzimages.com/comic/large/dc/dc_187560_1_PoisonElvesRequiemForAnElf0TPB.jpg Alex ist ein Pferdeshamane, daher habe ich kleine Graffitis von prähistorischen PFerden hinzugefügt, die im Originalbild von Drew natürlich fehlen. Sie sind ein Zeichen der Hoffnung, welches Alex aber gerade nicht wahrnimmt. Hier noch ein wenig Info über Posion Elves in Englisch, da es den Comic leider eh nicht auf Deutsch gibt, aber glaubt mir, er ist Wert gelesen zu werden: Poison Elves, for those of you who don't know it, is worth a read. It is both, a very unique comic in style and story, hillariously great humor and agonizing depth as well as the success story of an artist. I have to say, it's cheesy as hell, too. But I like it that way. The Poison Elves style is mainly recognizable for the hillariously oversized elven ears (and the comic makes fun of that several times in-plot). The works of Drew Hayes have influenced my early drawing carreer a hell lot. Poison Elves was first published 1996, I think. Drew died in 2006 from pneumonia, as far as I know. RIP Drew. We lost a great artist and a special man with a vision. Drew has dabbled together the first comics in his garage and self-published them because he found no publisher. The story is dark, special, has a very blunt humor and tackled fantasy in a way that was very unique back in the days. Although he found no one to support his vision, he carried on and decided to pull this off himself until he found a publisher. And even then he would always be true to his vision, fiercely defending it, and that although a lot of people said he didn't even have the talent as a writer or artist to make it happen. Apart from the nature of the comic books themselves, this makes the series very special and dear to me. It's a dream come ture, a dream someone fought very hard for, and a story of success. He always stayed true to himself and literally didn't take shit from no one. He didn't only make friends with his attitude from which he had a lot. If you'd like to know more about Poison Elves (and you should, really) here's a couple of links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Elves http://www.cosmictherapy.com/poisonelves.html http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~bradc/pe/ After Drew's death the series was not continued, much to my demise. But this year, someone has finally took up the task to continue with his vision: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=42590 I am really excited!	Themen: Shadowrun Stile: Alkoholmarker
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Kommentare (1)

Von: abgemeldet

12.07.2014 14:34

HAWK!

Was hab ich deine tollen Bilder mit ihrem (zumindest für mich) unverkennbaren Stil auf Mexx vermisst *ranschmeiss*

Antwort von: Alexej_Axis

05.10.2015 21:50

Hahaha ^^
*auffängt und rumwirbelt*
Ich bin alles halbe Jahr mal hier und lade irgendwas hoch weil, ka...ich immer die Email kriege, schau doch mal wieder rein. *g* Freut mich, dass ich noch vermisst werde. ;)