PressOblivion.com/net

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have re-established the Press Oblivion.com/net website

There you can find a gallery of my work where you can post comments and rate images.

I have also set up a Message board.

There's also a great feature in the Links area where you can add your own link to the site as well as a image banner, complete description of your site. brows other site additions and comment on your experience there and rate the site! All this in the links section!

Just about every aspect of the site is interactive and I hope that it will be a great time for everyone involved.

I'm still tweaking things here and there and I need to add descriptions to all of the images that I have posted thus far so over the next 2 weeks, everything should be shaping up well and I hope that you will join me.

Thanks guys!

EJ

Spider-Man & Contra-ban

So by looking at the last couple of entries, you might now that I am part of the Digital Webbing 2006 Draw-Off tournament. This is the third installment for round 3 of the Tournament and the assignment was "The Iron Spider drinking tea", to interpreted as loosely as we saw fit.

When I first saw this theme I cringed and cured Jamal for cramping my portfolio but I think that I was able to bend the theme enough to come up with a solid entry for this round.



The idea is, since Spider-Man has a new suit gifted to him by Iron Man what if Titanium Man were to do the same for the Scorpion? If they all were to find a need to tussle, what would they tussle over? Here I thought that the do-gooders would have somehow discovered that the Titanium Man & Scorpion were smuggling high tech fire arms in crates filled with tea bags. Throw the word Boston on one of the crates and you have a little historical reference, though not a very good one. (And Yes, Spider-Man's talons appear to be coming out of his Ass. That wasn't intentional but is damned funny!)



In the vein of trying to be consistent with an image that tells a little story as well as something that is pleasing to the eye, I took the same approach with this drawing, as with the last one, that I wanted to do something that was plausible in the universe of Spider-Man. I see that there are a lot of campy entries again for this theme and no that there's anything wrong with that especially given the nature of Spider-Man, but if you want to stand out in a crowd, you have to be unique to get noticed. I hope that this is enough to get me to round 4.


I finished Round 2 on top with 73 votes putting me 29 votes ahead of the second place entry. I was very shocked at the results considering the powerful entry by Ethan Write and the heavy competition brought on by the rest of the contestants. For those of you that participated in the voting, it was a hard fought battle by all. For those of you that voted for me, I really appreciate your coming out and making a difference.

Thanks,
EJ

Have one on me Grievous!

I like Star Wars but I'm not really a huge fan. So when the next round assignment in the tournament offered up this scenario "Padamé & Grievous at a bar having a Drink", I about cried. This is a tough theme but it tests the ability of the illustrator to have the elements of the assignment and still come up with something interesting.

I noticed earlier in the week that other illustrators that had posted their assignments were running with a similar sort of campy/fun theme in their entries. This was my first thought as well when the assignment was posted but to see that so many went that route, I felt that changing direction would be more unique against the competition and the competition is very heavy in this round.

I like to try to tell a little bit of a story with what I do in these tournament drawings. With Thundarr I wanted there to be a reason for hisbarbaricc behavior and justification in killing the lizard-man. When I look at that drawing I start to play with the events that took place before the scene that tell the story of what may have happened to bring the characters to this point.

I wanted the same thing to happen in thisimage andd do something that might be moreplausiblee in the continuity of the Star Wars theme even though it doesn't jive with Star Wars actuality.

The addition of the Thundarr drawing in the background I thought would unify the entries of the two rounds well and pay homage to the decapitation theme that the two images have in common.

As always, let me know what you think! Oh and the voting for the last round went in my favor with 101 total votes for mine, leving me 24 ahead of the runner up. Not bad for a drawing I hated initially and didn't think anyone would vote for.
EJ