Monday, October 10, 2011

Declanders

Dec's first issue of Northlanders hits shelves on wednesday, go buy several copies. We've seen the art and it's gorgeous, right up Dec's alley. Besides, Northlanders is a fantastic book anyway, so you've been missing out if you haven't given it a go yet.

I remember reviewing Dec's portfolio when we were looking for somebody to take over on Freakshow after myself and Thompson had left. Do I wish now that I'd never recommended him for the book? Of course I do. In five or so years he's gone from delivering coal to drawing books for both Marvel and DC simultaneously.

It's hard to begrudge the fella all his success, given that he works really hard and he's an all-round good egg. But I manage it.

9 comments:

Declan Shalvey said...

YOWZA! That is SOME piece man. Is that me in the Viking gear? Bloody hell.

Sir; I'm mightily humbled by the effort, sincerity and homoeroticism of this post. Many thanks!

Stephen Thompson said...

That's fantastic, you've really captured Dec's sinister nature. Is that coloured directly over the pencils?

Stephen Mooney said...

Ha, yeah Dec, supposed to be you under there, hard to make the likeness work with the helmet etc.
And yep Thomps, coloured this straight from pencils, wanted to try it out on something to see if i'd use the technique a bit on HPD. I quite like it, but reckon I'm better off with the inks.

Stephen Thompson said...

Yeah it's a nice effect for an illustration but the pencils have to be very, very clean to work as sequentials.

tomm said...

Fantastic ! Pure class. Jayz.

jacintha said...

Me likey!

Will Sliney said...

Haha ohhh yeah it is Dec.

Did you use his wikipedia image for referance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5.21.11DeclanShalveyByLuigiNovi.jpg

Stephen Mooney said...

Ha, that is one heck of an uneasy mugshot. Nah will, looked through his facebook pics. Gotta say, a few... interesting ones of you and Dec on there...
Young love, eh?

Will Sliney said...

Ah yeah, back in his free loving days. Deadly pic by the way.