Welcome to the Underworld! *New 5/24/07

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[Relent<]

Kudos, Kalamos!!

 

[Spud_Mobile]

Please please please please do a */M version of this! 😀

p.s. Please?

 

[alwayssilver]

I'm very proud of this cover. Kalmos really did a great job doing it for the e-zine. I can't thank him enough.

 

[Low_Roads]

Tickling fiction in a dark, dangerous milieu, the most potent sort! Looks great (the hot red motif, clutching damned-hands and scythe-toting baddie forming a fine contrast for the cute, perky heroine!) Bet it reads great, too!

 

[alwayssilver]

Thank you littlebighead. I don't like to brag, so I won't, it was fun to write.

 

[DarthGrinn]

Grats Kolamos and Always Silver for a great collaboration xD

 

[Reaper_666]

weird i've been called Reaper a few times

 

[Kalamos]

Grats Kolamos and Always Silver for a great collaboration xD

Kolawhat...?

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😉

 

[scavenger]

WOW! Stunning artwork on this cover! Promises a really good read. 🙂
Very well done, Kalamos and Always Silver! 🙂

 

[CorwinFt1]

You do good work K. It looks like you had fun
doing this. I know I would've! Keep it up my
man.

 

[Kalamos]

WOW! Stunning artwork on this cover! Promises a really good read. 🙂
Very well done, Kalamos and Always Silver! 🙂

They told me this was the first of AS's ezines ever, so I tried to give him some extra zing.
Hope I managed to get him started off the right foot.

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Glad you liked it. 🙂

You do good work K. It looks like you had fun
doing this. I know I would've! Keep it up my
man.

It was a small labour of love.
AS gave me a blank slate to work from: he described Dorothy's clothes and trappings, but basically left it to me to come up with her actual features.

I tried to mix my own personal taste for an attractive youthful face with the idea of a young, yet hardened fighting woman.

In the early drafts, I depicted her as a Mad-Max-like character, with mismatched torn leather garments and a roguish flair.

I eventually polished her up a bit, because AS really loved her mellower version, without the grisly trophies and battered look.

For the final thing, I came up with something in-between.
I keep the prettier face, and added in details as I was drawing.
AS mentioned a lot of charms and assorted magical items, hanging from Dot's belt, so I let my fantasy run free with it.

As Larry Elmore used to say, "I love designing stuff".


🙂

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As an extra personal touch, I added the skull-faced altar thing, with bars and chains and spiky bits.

Basically a tribute to MOTU and Warhammer...
I'm sure die-hard fans will notice, and hope like, the homage.

In the earliest version, I also had a knightly statue, behind Dot, but in the final cover, I took it out because I could not really fit everything in without severely reducing the individual chars.

Again, we added it in as extra art.

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Overall, I'm happy with it.
I'm back to my first love ever, sketching, and I'm glad to say it came back to me as if I had never stopped doing it.

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Hope you'll enjoy reading this ezine as much as I enjoyed coming up with the cover and the extra sketches.

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😉

 

[alwayssilver]

WOW! Stunning artwork on this cover! Promises a really good read. 🙂
Very well done, Kalamos and Always Silver! 🙂

That means a lot to me Scavenger. I know your work as well, and I'm a big fan of yours.

 

[alwayssilver]

They told me this was the first of AS's ezines ever, so I tried to give him some extra zing.
Hope I managed to get him started off the right foot.

And it was very much appreciated, and it worked. Thank you so much for everything you put into this cover, and the extra pieces of art you did. They were beautiful pieces.

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Glad you liked it. 🙂

It was a small labour of love.
AS gave me a blank slate to work from: he described Dorothy's clothes and trappings, but basically left it to me to come up with her actual features.

I tried to mix my own personal taste for an attractive youthful face with the idea of a young, yet hardened fighting woman.

In the early drafts, I depicted her as a Mad-Max-like character, with mismatched torn leather garments and a roguish flair.

I eventually polished her up a bit, because AS really loved her mellower version, without the grisly trophies and battered look.

For the final thing, I came up with something in-between.
I keep the prettier face, and added in details as I was drawing.
AS mentioned a lot of charms and assorted magical items, hanging from Dot's belt, so I let my fantasy run free with it.

As Larry Elmore used to say, "I love designing stuff".


🙂

When I thought up Dorothy I wanted to make her unique. In my other stories when a character is tickle tortured, and can escape they normally seek revenge. In Dorothy's case she isn't that way. She doesn't seek revenge, she tries to be there for people even if they treat her like dirt (she doesn't let them walk all over her, but she doesn't turn her back on them either.) Also I wanted her to be tough as nails, but still a softy. She's a loving, compassionate girl.