Monday 14 July 2014

Karl Richardson - Karlifacts!

 
Aquila is back and he's on a mission from God - Ammit the Devourer to be precise! Leigh Gallagher is back on art duties, however, the always brilliant Karl Richardson has painted this scorching hot cover for us.
 
Karl said "It's almost a year since I've done any digital painting so I was a little rusty at first. However, Leigh Gallagher was happy and said it could have been traditionally painted. I think Tharg was happy, so it's all good!" As Karl hasn't ended up as a plaything for Mek-Quake, he may be right...
 
Below we see Karl's very rough pencils (his words, not mine!) and this cover is already off to a mean and moody start...

The Roman Paparazzi artist Crotchus Maximus was the founder of the Upskirt shot.
 
Karl tidies those pencils up and adds the obligatory drop of jizz to his picture...
 
He wants to be careful where he's putting that sword...
 
Digital painting begins - if this is Karl when he's 'a little rusty', then Grud help the rest of us!
 
A quick spray tan and we're ready to go...

Digital painting continues, with background elements added...

"Arise, Sir Soontobedead...."
 
And here's the finished image, complete with blood and gore, absolutely amazing!

Aquila got in trouble for lighting his farts again...

Here's how the cover looks on your thrill merchant's shelves - deadly!

I wouldn't eat this butcher's 'Special Stuff.'

The colour scheme and wicked flames reminded me of my lovely commission that I got from Karl, fully painted and bloody amazing!

"Judgement Day at Pete Wells Block."
 
Huuuuuuge thanks to Karl for sending the images, I'm sure Leigh Gallagher couldn't have asked for a better start to the series!


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