Guest Art from Kevin Wasden
Posted March 15th, 2007 by Howard TaylerKevin Wasden and I got to hang out together at LTUE XXV, and he did a great sketch of Tagon. Naturally I wanted to extend a personal invitation to him to provide some guest art for the next Schlock book.
He was excited to participate.
I’ve gotten a lot of good artwork (and, naturally, I’ve gotten a lot of stuff I can’t use.) In some cases work that is good enough to use will get crowded out of the project by work that is too good to NOT use.
If everything I get could be as good as what Kevin Wasden sent me, I would have to make the book about 20 pages longer. Which reminds me… if you’re looking for a book that is 100% full of artwork as good as what Kevin Wasden sent me, you’ll probably have to go have a look at Technosaurs by Kevin Wasden.
Back on the topic of Schlock pagination, Steve Troop is again handling layout on the book. He tells me that the 518 days of included Schlock are now laid into 224 pages. By the time we get the bonus story and all the extras into place it’ll easily fill the 240 pages I got my quote for.
This means it might be bigger than what I budgeted for. That’s okay. Content is driving the length of the book, not the other way around.
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March 15th, 2007 at 8:01 am
*starts to bounce in anticipation for book 3*
March 15th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Love it!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
March 15th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Awesome artwork. Not even remotely close to how I pictured Tagon but it still works.
March 15th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I advise not going to the top-level home page of that site (which is to say, to http://www.splintered-mind.com/) if you’re using Firefox. On my machine at least, said top-level home page crashes Firefox 2.0.0.2 INSTANTLY.
March 15th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Whoever posed for that shirt, er picture, has a head like ten kilos of cheap brick.
{actually, Tagon reminds me somewhat of Martin Mystery}
March 15th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
that´s gonna color how i see schlock for a while…..
March 16th, 2007 at 12:41 am
I wish I could draw like that. OK, I know, I can do other stuff, and you can’t have everything in this life, but that’s stunning work. The expressions and faces are almost photographic in quality, yet it’s not photographic-style artwork. Mucho respect.
March 16th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Unixronin: I’m running the same version of Firefox as you (2.0.0.2) on Windows XP SP2, and have no issues with the top-level page at splintered-mind.com. Time to clear your cache, maybe?
March 16th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Unixronin The fprotate applet slowed things to a crawl for a while but didn’t crash anything. You should check your Java for the latest version. Or it could be your security settings.
March 16th, 2007 at 7:05 am
p.s.: Get the NoScript plugin for Firefox and you’ll never even notice sites that are Java-happy. I had to whitelist the domain to see the applet at all.
The downside of NoScript is that you’ll spend a month or three remembering to whitelist the sites you want to allow, and filling out forms that forward you across domains can be a pain.
March 18th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Nice! I think I like the sketch Tagon better, though… kind of reminds me of Sinclair from Babylon 5.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:27 am
It seems my JAVA script was causing a few minor complications for some browsers. I’ve since pulled it from the website, so things should run a bit smoother. Thanks all for the comments on the Schlock art. And thanks, especially, to Howard. See ya at Conduit. -Kevin
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:56 am
the link to Technosaurs by Kevin Wasden is broken.