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Pete Wells

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2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« on: 29 January, 2012, 08:55:08 AM »
Ha, got you! Sorry for the evil trick, it was Cliff's idea not mine. He thought it'd be fun to have Judge Fear showing everyone's worst nightmare behind his evil grill!

I'm am chuffed to share with you the third of my four Dark Judges commissions by the wonderful Cliff Robinson. A bit different this 'un as it features my beautiful face - I normally don't like to do this but I'm really pleased I did for this 'un as Cliff has done an excellent job.

So, let's see this badboy.  If you want to pour over a whopper, high res version, click here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v76/Wellsy/05GazeintotheFaceofFearFinished.jpg.

A smaller version is shown below:



Nice eh? Here's the story of the commission. Cliff came up with the original idea, I wasn't too sure about it at first but he persuaded me. The first image he sent featured an image of me that Cliff had cobbled together from Facebook images!



Neither of us were happy with the image and Cliff asked if I'd send some pictures of me gurning to camera for reference. With those, he came up with this rather sexy little image:



With that approved, Cliff started adding the supporting cast, a bunch of characters that were as shocked as Judge Wells there...



Here's the blueline version with me inked and those characters shuffled about a bit. Note how the wording in the speech balloon has changed, what can I say? I'm a traditionalist!



Continued next post...

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #1 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:06:12 AM »
Absolutely love Mean's sneer!

Pete Wells

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #2 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:06:26 AM »
Bah something's wrong. I'll finish this later...

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #3 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:08:33 AM »
With the image on the way to being inked, Cliff asked how I wanted the background, sending several mock ups. The first, and the one I ultimately decided on, was this medium crosshatching version:



Other options included lighter crosshatching:



Darker crosshatching:




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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #4 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:13:56 AM »
Or all black:



As I said I went for version 1.

Once I'd decided on the hatching, Cliff inked it up and thought he was all finished but had missed TWO slight details. Can you find 'em?



So he put 'em in and finished the image, s'beautiful...


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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #5 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:21:59 AM »
Amazing stuff from the Robinson droid, as usual. But....can't see the two small missing details. S'pose it gives me an excuse to look at it some more!  :D
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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #6 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:22:12 AM »
EDIT - Sorry folks, I thought I'd re-sized these. Mods?

When the art arrived, Cliff had included all his prelims and sketches. Here they are:

Judge hands:



Up the Arse Corner with pencil Pete and Photo Pete:



Pencilled Fear:



Spooky speech:



Sam Slade:



Kano, Johnny and Cass:



Ramone and Finny, Slaine, Mean & Dredd:



Johnny, Slade and Nikolai:



Rogue, Tharg and Cal:



And finally, Mr Cliff!



Wonderful!

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #7 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:28:55 AM »
Scarey!!!!

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #8 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:29:51 AM »
Bloody hell, that's good.

I gave up trying and did a flip-page comparison in Photoshop to spot the difference.

I won't give it away, but THAT'S what I call attention to detail.  Great stuff.

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #9 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:34:21 AM »
Okay, the two things he left off were Mean's dial and Rogue's biochip. You'd have gotten that if I'd have put the right image at the end of my post!

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #10 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:36:47 AM »
LMAO - no wonder I couldn't spot the differences...  Mind you now I know the biochip is obvious, shoulda spotted that one...

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #11 on: 29 January, 2012, 09:46:37 AM »
Love it! Of course all these commissions are stopping Cliff getting on with any strip work for the prog!

Tharg - we need more Cliff in the prog!

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #12 on: 29 January, 2012, 10:25:58 AM »
Lovely stuff - Every detail is a cracker - love the prelim sketches which would take the average Joe months on their own.

No idea how that Wells guy passed his medical - should check on those seized stores of Flab-On!

Hee hee thanks for sharing Pete - you should take up herion instead - you'd save a fortune!

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #13 on: 29 January, 2012, 11:09:42 AM »
That's brilliant.

I wasn't sold on the idea either, but it only goes to show we are mere mortals in the presence of our 2000ad overlords.

It is very scary too.

Nice one.

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Re: 2000AD IS CANCELLED!!! (My Latest Cliff Robinson Commission)
« Reply #14 on: 29 January, 2012, 11:16:13 AM »
Really nice. Love seeing the prelim stuff too.