Death and the Maiden
Ozoneocean on Jan. 16, 2006
Important news!
-I have my first appearance in AACMAW : http://www.drunkduck.com/AACMAW/index.php ^_^
Page description:
Pinky is led inside a grim passageway by the anonymous sailor, on an alternative route to the rear deck to check on the S.S.V.5. There’re obvious smoke stains, some minor signs of fire, a bit of blood… but no real damage here. They’re just leaving poor sods like dead Boris in here while they make repairs. Boris seems to have lost most of his skin somehow? Some kind of instant flaying accident I suppose… >_<
It’s possible… explosions aren’t kind to living creatures. All icky and meaty!
Commentary:
Gold toothed dead Boris there would be looking up her skirt!
…If she had one! O_o
After doing the thumbnail sketch for this, I liked the image so much I turned it into a full pencil drawing. Later I did a coloured version in watercolour pencil. A version I made that was basically a digital amalgam of the watercolour and a background of a felid of skulls from an earlier work was used in a heavy metal music magazine. By the time it came to do the comic I redrew the image yet again, as it appears here.
The background was a bit tricky to formulate, but consisted of a lot of straight ruled lines and resized copy and pasted shapes I’d made for the middle of the passage. The colour was very simple; I just used a couple of gradients and then added only the most minimal colour over the top for the details and figures. The black smoke damage took a long time though –lots of simple repetitive scribbling. Finally I selected the arch at the end of the passage, feathered it a bit (for the blur) and made it pure white. The bits of Pinky most blocking the light were made darkest to highlight the contrast.
I’m very happy with the composition and the whole image, I even made a Café press T-shirt pic of it. ^_^
A note:
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cdmalcolm1 at 6:15AM, May 27, 2018
This page is crazy. Gold tooth? Awesome. Fire damage is a dreadful thing to deal with.
trevoramueller at 11:18AM, March 20, 2008
Love the lighting.
Rori at 7:37PM, Sept. 1, 2007
Awesome splash page. love the glow from outside.
sukuru tihoshi at 12:41AM, July 3, 2007
sexy
Tantz_Aerine at 4:46PM, Nov. 24, 2006
Is that a gold tooth that the dead guy has? Somehow, I find this detail wonderfully put in! Makes the dead guy um... real. yeah.
Green_Tangerine at 9:38PM, Jan. 17, 2006
Gore!
bobo_81 at 8:24PM, Jan. 17, 2006
Mmm...smells like chicken.
Mazoo at 5:42PM, Jan. 17, 2006
Poor ol' Boris! That really is a pretty wicked lookin' corpse, kudos to you, my friend. Ha, I wonder how many orders you've had for this particular design on the T-Shirt. I wonder where you could wear it without "offending" someone. :P I'll have to give you a 5 for that corpse, though.
Ruka E Pocky at 5:22PM, Jan. 17, 2006
Woah what a corpse. Don't even wanna know what happened to him. o.o
zactheninja at 2:47PM, Jan. 17, 2006
Boris reminds me of Red Skull! That's like totally sweet! Pinky's being cool and not looking
Ozoneocean at 9:16AM, Jan. 17, 2006
Thanx Cresc, Office, Hero. ^^ I really need to do a whole new link list for the comics on Drunk Duck now. This is really my link list for my main site. I'd rather have the comic I follow on DD listed here. So I'll have to change that.
Hero at 8:58AM, Jan. 17, 2006
So, Pinky's a little squeemish around flayed, gold toothed dead folk. But, who isn't. The hair and the dead guy really jump out against the grey and black.
Office_Zone at 7:59AM, Jan. 17, 2006
Excellent! Cres is right about the perspective! There is always something cool and interesting to look at in your pages! I gotta make a link list for my page too! there are so many stories I wanna keep up with like yours!
cresc at 7:34AM, Jan. 17, 2006
Really great perspective, and the body is so ominous
Ozoneocean at 6:04AM, Jan. 17, 2006
Squick? That's a new one to me Coy ^_^ Thanx IagoJester! ^^ Ha! Aussie kid, I was sort of joking about that... Besides, dead people can't see. Not in the world of Pinky TA anyway.
Coydog at 12:13AM, Jan. 17, 2006
Eeeeewww... I can see why this would squick her.
iagojester at 10:30PM, Jan. 16, 2006
I feel dirty and violated looking at this page. I mean... perverted and morbid... does it get worse? ^_^ Excellent job as always mate. I love the worm-eye view. You pull it off splendidly!!
Aussie_kid at 9:12PM, Jan. 16, 2006
What's the point of looking up a skirt when the girl wear's pants that show off her G-string?