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Anyone else excited about the prospect of a quality Elric adaption?
Hopefully more than a wasted option. And they use you for some conce
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NIGHT CRAWLER by Michael Whelan
I often take walks at night to give my eyes a break and to stretch my legs a bit. Late one foggy night I was out on our street when I came upon a bare, oddly shaped tree in a neighbor’s yard, looking very mysterious in the glow of a nearby streetlamp. Staring at the ghostly shape my imagination added a naked pale creature twisting there in the fog, clambering around amid the branches with some unknown intent. Hmm.
I immediately went back to my studio and sketched the scene out, altering the lighting to look as if the tree and it’s denizen were caught in the headlights of a passing car. I tidied the painting up later, but it was no problem because the image in my mind stayed there and nagged at me until I got it down.
Don’t ask me where these things come from!
May your knees
last forever.
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From our in the studio feature from last summer
THE PLANET SAVERS (1976) by Michael Whelan, commissioned by ACE for a reissue of the Darkover novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The artwork can be found in Wonderworks, Michael’s first art collection, but the book just doesn’t capture the life of the piece.
When you see a Whelan painting in person, the colors jump out at you. It’s an experience you just can’t simulate on the page or computer screen.
Sure his sense of composition is exquisite, and his devotion to anatomy and texture grounds his work in realism. But man, the color…you just have to see that up close to appreciate his mastery.
Even today most book reproduction os horrid.
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THE WHITE WOLF (1977) by Michael Whelan, cover for The Weird of the White Wolf by Michael Moorcock.
Think you repainted this. 2 versions I believe.
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Will you be coming to the SF Bay Area after SDCC? I would love a chance to meet and get a book signed and maybe even see In a World of Her Own.
Thanks for the question.
Just to clarify, Michael won’t be attending SDCC. Baby Tattoo will have signed books at their booth that the publisher Bob Self brought back from his recent visit with the Whelans in CT.
I’m not aware of any scheduled appearances at the moment, but there’s always the possibility of NYCC and perhaps some East Coast signings.
2017 was a busy travel year, and that usually means the following year is spent catching up in studio. Michael is currently working on the next Tad Williams cover.
If it’s any consolation, we will be offering signed books in our shop. We hope to announce that soon, and of course will update everyone on any appearances that hit the schedule.
Remarques, remarques!
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As requested by @brak723, remarques of Elric by Michael Whelan. The first two, I believe, were from THE VANISHING TOWER. The last two were from THE ART OF MICHAEL WHELAN (Limited Edition).
These are cool. Had a ink one in the art of were Elric was on the corner of the page pointing like to contiue turning the page. Unfortunately it got flooded out in my basement. Hopefuuly Aud will come through for me.
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Some of the inspired work Michael Whelan has done when revisiting the world of Elric.
You should post the remarques.
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