RoomCon Art

[rowyn]

jimmyholloman finally gave me a deadline, so I buckled down this past week and started work on the cover for RoomCon's conbook.


This is what I've got so far:


It's based off of this design:


I looked at a lot of images for reference for this piece before I started. Originally, I wanted to do something based off of images from the Disney ride. But the way the ride is broken up into sections for different parts of the world, no single image from it really captures the shallow, multicultural glory of the experience. But the image above was perfect: small, simple, and vaguely disturbing in the way that only "It's a Small World"-inspired images can be.

I didn't imitate it that closely, in part because I had a hard time getting costume details into such small bodies, and in part because I thought the cartoon images for my source were particularly appalling in their ugliness, and I just couldn't bear to draw something that unappealling.

Anyway, I'm thinking of trying to redraw it and get the hands and feet to line up better for mine; I've already fiddled with it some in Photopaint, but I'm not entirely happy with it. I'm also considering replacing the jedi with a Darth Vader. I'd kinda like to replace either the valkyrie or the Vampirella with a less cheese-cakey female fen, but ... all the stereotypically female con costumes I can think of are cheesecakey.

I'd like to fit the title for the conbook into the space between the feet, preferably in the same style font as the original. (Any of you font wonks know a font like that one?) Maybe something like "It's a Small WorldCon"?

Suggestions welcome, especially from Jimmy -- it's his conbook, after all! =)

Comments

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

o/~ Iiiit's his CON book AFFFter all! Iiiiit's his CON book AAAFFFFter all! Iiiiit's his CON book AFFFter all! It's a SMAAALL WORRLD CON! ~/o

(yes, I've lost my mind...)

[rowyn]

The song you are parodying is easily the worst part of working on this project. O_O

[jimmy-hollaman.livejournal.com]

I ask that you keep the vampirella, (vamp was created by a dear friend named Forrest J Ackerman), other than that it is your peice of art. now remember i want you to bring other art work with you to the con as well. Call it your own gallery showing. (i know you have some great art that you have done, print them out and tell me the size of frames you would need. (i can get you some of the types i used last year, but bigger. Plus i ask that i get to buy a copy of the finished art peice you do for the cover..... I am sure murray can help on the font. he has a lot of them. Send the picture of the pin and ask if he can find the right font for the thing......

i love it! (and you wondered why i asked you to be my artist guest) send murray your bio.

[rowyn]

OK, Vampirella stays. I rather like the way she came out anyway. :) As for a copy of the finished piece -- you may certainly have one, but you are under no circumstances allowed to buy it. You're spending enough on this venture as it is. Consider it one of the perks of being the chair. :)

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I really like it. Well executed and clever!

And look at the abs on those gals! ];-)

===|==============/ Level Head

[rowyn]

Thank you, sir.

And if I get the lighting just right, I can get shadows on my abs ... sort of like those. :)

[genkitty.livejournal.com]

I really like it! :)

[rowyn]

Thank you! =)

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Looks great - I guess you could redraw it to get cleaner lines. What about a ballroom-gown-dressed woman? Renaissance-style and Victorian-style outfits are popular out here with the talented seamstresses at the local con.

[rowyn]

I thought about Renfaire garb or something like that -- it is very popular at cons here, too. But it doesn't have that same "Yes, this is a fandom outfit" that Klingons or Jedi costumes do. But I may give it a try anyway.

[b-a-sheep.livejournal.com]

Cute. =:)

[rowyn]

Thank you -- "cute" is definitely the goal on this one. :)