Axl Rose for REVOLVER Magazine
Yeah, my first post with Imaginism Studios!
This is a full page illustration that I did before Christmas for REVOLVER Magazine. The idea for this piece was to show Axl on his throne with his Yoda near his side as a guide of sorts. I guess Axl had this weird little oracle woman with him at all times and the rest of the band made fun of her and called her Yoda, which may help explain why Yoda is in this illustration? You'll have to buy the magazine and read the article.
My first idea for this piece was to do a Norman Rockwell-ish painting, sort of like a Saturday Evening Post cover, I had a cleaner design behind Axl, a small circle with flames. It's a fun idea, Axl in nothing but a kilt and shoes with Yoda and all that painted in a warm and totally ideal American family setting, totally backwards of something Rockwell would have painted. Long story short, last minute and I mean the very last, the idea was changed dramatically and I had to trash that idea and paint flames everywhere in the background all in under three hours. This means that I had to also re-work a lot of what I had finished painting on Axl and Yoda, having to add warmer color, reflective light from the flames, and so forth so that they would feel like they were really within this surrounding.
posted by Jason Seiler at 4:09 PM
8 Comments:
Yay! first to comment! Woweee, thats soo cool Jason! I deffinately get a sense of Rockwell--and with your style is terrific! Yoda kills me.
Hey, checked out your stuff, very interesting the way you exaggerate, I love it. You can definitely see the difference in time spent on the background to the foreground, but a deadline is a deadline.
Good job, I'll enjoy seeing more from you.
What a funny couple! You're a painting machine my friend.
Does that normally happen clients making last minute changes very close to the deadline? I always wondered is it out of ignorance of the process or simply the client wanting changes while being aware of the process.
Thanks Bobby, Kei and Philip.
Gemini, yes, that does happen, more than I would like. Sometimes it's bad communication, or sometimes an art director sees the direction the piece is headed and gets new ideas or any number of things. Most the time, a.d's don't seem to get what it takes to do the kind of work that I do. It's probably easy to take the work for granted. It's all part of the work. Always something to learn right?
Very awsome, i also really love that carrot run, great stuff
Awesome Jason! Great job on the last minute changes on the background and reflected light. And congrats on the merge with Imaginism Studios!
Hahaha...how can you not love good ol' Axl! Very nice J!
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