Napoleon

[gnurf]

Here is an image I just finished. It is an illustration to a short story, where a "tourist" from the future takes the role of a "nobody" army leader in France in the past. Soon the Time Travel agency notices that there are changes in the time line, and finds out that the tourist has turned into a great leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. So two agents are sent to bring him back, before he messes up the future any more...

This image is made entirely in Xara X, where I tried to get the sketched and inked look. I have to confess that I had a photo of Mulder and Scully, and a portrait of Napoleon as models that I more or less traced the faces and poses.

-Paul

[gnurf]

Here is an image I just finished. It is an illustration to a short story, where a "tourist" from the future takes the role of a "nobody" army leader in France in the past. Soon the Time Travel agency notices that there are changes in the time line, and finds out that the tourist has turned into a great leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. So two agents are sent to bring him back, before he messes up the future any more...

This image is made entirely in Xara X, where I tried to get the sketched and inked look. I have to confess that I had a photo of Mulder and Scully, and a portrait of Napoleon as models that I more or less traced the faces and poses.

-Paul

[Steve Newport]

Wow Paul, this illustration is great! It definentally looks like a comic book ink picture. The story line looks very ineteresting and I'd like to see how it turns out. Nice job

Steve Newport

[gwpriester]

Paul

That is an amazing drawing. How appropriate that the X Files characters are rendered in Xara X :-)

Gary

Gary Priester

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Be It Sever So Humble...

[Eric]

superb drawing paul, i love the upward perspective, was that hard work?
so what if you did a bit of tracing? the results are A1

cheers
eric

[Soquili]

Hi Paul,

Excellent ink look!

Soquili [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[dk_art]

That's a good job .... Xara's great for line drawing s like this

David K
www.dkingdesign.com

[a4hire]

Very nice!
You have captured the pen and ink look very nicely. As Steve said I would like to know how the story turns out. Maybe you will post more for us later. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

[gnurf]

The short story is not mine, and it is in Finnish and also translated to Swedish, so I am sorry to say I don't think many of you can enjoy it. The story will be published in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy fanzine in July, and I will check out if there will be any English translations soon. The story is quite funny, but I think it is too long (even a shorter resume) to put in this forum [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img] But I place on my site an English version when/if there will be one. And therefore I will not reveal the ending here now [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

About the perspectives: I was way past deadline with this illustration, so I actually made a bumpmap in xara which I imported to Vue d'Esprit. In Vue I applied the map on a terrain (if I have understood correctly it could be compaired to adisplacement map). Anyway, I made the cityscape in the 3D app, and exported it back as a bitmap, which I also traced in Xara X (along with Napoleon and Mulder & Scully).

To get the perspecives right for the bridges and flying vehicles, I had to use vanishing points and a perspective grid.

-Paul

[RTK]

You are amazing with cartoons, Paul. This is a great illustration and the story idea sounds very intriguing also.

Do you use Xara for your comics in your day-to day work, or just for special projects and for the images you spoil as with here?

Risto