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Eagle-eyed readers will notice that I’m not
Claire Howlett. Your regular editor has
taken on her most challenging mission to
date… motherhood. I’m sure you’ll all join
me in congratulating her on the new
arrival! While Claire recharges her
batteries, ImagineFX remains as
committed as ever to championing the
fantasy art you love, both old and new.
This issue we invoke the era of Wally Wood and Norman Saunders
in a celebration of the Golden Age of pulp art. Turn to page 48 to read
our feature on the era’s inspirational artists, who worked for the love
of their art and the recognition from their peers. I think there’s
something we can all learn from these pioneers of fantasy illustration;
love the art you make and have pride in your achievements.
Our workshops this issue offer an array of insights. Weta’s Christian
Pearce demonstrates how to grime-up your illustrations on page 76,
while Daniela Uhlig shows how keeping brushes simple can reap
rewards in her pin-up workshop on page 94, and Thom Tenery uses
compositional rules to define an alien world on page 98. Finally,
ex-Disney artist Jack Bosson recalls his life in the jazz bars of 1950s
New York on page 82, to demonstrate how to draw a complex scene
with multiple figures.
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Dan works in the For most of A graduate of
video games her life Daniela the illustrious Art
industry as a has worked Center College
technical art traditionally with of Design, in
director, but in his paint on canvas. Pasadena, US,
spare time he Then, following Thom has
pays artistic homage to pulp a new job at a large worked in video games, film
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film posters and book covers, entertainment company, she and book publishing. Thom’s
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as well as working on a film. began experimenting with clean, evocative paintings are
Beauford Court, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW. All information
contained in this magazine is for information only and is, as far as we are aware, Dan shows how he creates a Photoshop and Painter, and highly sort after and have
correct at the time of going to press. Future cannot accept any responsibility
for errors or inaccuracies in such information. Readers are advised to contact bespoke pulp book cover never looked back. A fan adorned many book covers.
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from sketch to cover lines, of pin-up art, Daniela has This issue, in his workshop in
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and in any physical or digital format throughout the world. Any material you using Photoshop trickery to created a unique poster girl page 98, Thom channels the
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its employees, agents or subcontractors shall be liable for loss or damage. create the look of sloppy for futuristic air travel, and spirits of Frank Frazetta and
gouache. His workshop is she explains why less can Edgar Rice Burroughs to
on page 88. often mean more. Daniela’s create an alien palace in
www.myartshame. workshop is on page 94. a snowy environment.
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Assassins Creed Art Book © 2011 Ubisoft Entertainment

In progress
Will grapples with pulp
art for our latest cover

We set Will the challenge of creating a

cover in the pulp art style with a modern
twist. Delving into his love of the genre,
Will hit on the idea of a literal ‘monstrous
boss’ getting fresh with his secretary.
Tentacles, a strong light source and a
‘dame’ in distress, Will is on the right track…

For purposes of the cover we love the

Cover artist
simplicity of the image and the strong light
source that adds drama. To update the
pulp premise we ensure our secretary isn’t
a victim – she’s now an Ellen Ripley-inspired
survivor. More tweaks, and Will creates a
new crop to fit the ImagineFX cover layout.

An accomplished
li h d illustrator
ill with
i h an infectious
i f i sense off fun,
f Brazilian
ili
Will Murai proved the perfect foil for our pulp art fantasies this issue

Will Murai
COUNTRY: Brazil
SOFTWARE: Photoshop
WEB: www.willmurai.com
São Paulo based Willian Hideki
Murai never imagined he’d sketch
out a career as a leading digital
artist. As a child he loved to draw;
now the adult Will draws for Marvel,
DC Comics and led an art team at
Ubisoft. An adaptable artist with
We suggest that the tentacles have caught
a keen eye for character, Will various office paraphernalia in their slime
sharpened his pencils to turn in a trail. Will adds his worn paper textures,
boosts the contrast and embellishes the
fantastic pulp-inspired cover. shadows, to create the perfect pulp
homage. See his workshop on page 72.

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Contents
FXPosé
8 Reader FXPosé
48

ImagineNation
18 News
28 Forum winners
30 Letters
40 Artist Q&A

Features
33 Rising Stars 2012
Our judges offer advice for
creating the perfect portfolio
to enter this year’s search for
the best new artists.

48 Pulp art
We look back at the gaudy pulp
art covers of the 30s and 40s, See page 8 for the best new art
and ask leading artists why
they enjoy this eye-catching
painting style. 41
58 Sketchbook
Veteran film and TV designer
Craig Elliott gives us a peek
into the twisted, darker corners “Pulp has an enjoyable simplicity
of his sketchbook. and naivety that modern fantasy
62 Legend: art has distanced itself from”
Mark Schultz Artist Daren Bader on the joys of pulp art
Melting metal
The pulp-inspired illustrator
legend talks about technique,
comics history and why colour 62 58 44
might be overrated.

68 Development sheet
Chinese designer Zhang Jian
lets us in on the creation of his
giant arachnid for a video game.

Reviews
104 Hardware Legend: Mark Schultz Sketchbook Disintegrating demon
106 Books
107 Training
108 Film 18 68 47
110 Video games

Regulars
3 Editor’s letter
31 Digital editions
38 Subscribe today
57 Back issues Mars Attacks! Development sheet Mountain pass
93 Next month

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Workshops
Advice and techniques
from pro artists…
72 Master the vivid
look of pulp art
Will Murai shows how
he created our cover.

76 Use texture
in an image
Christian Pearce applies
some dirty tricks.

81 Give your art

a traditional look
Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
gives strokes realism.

82 Compose
multiple figures
Jack Bosson puts together
an engaging crowd scene.

86 Portray a
sci-fi soldier
Daryl Mandryk gives his
female trooper attitude.

88 Paint a worn-out
pulp book cover
Dan D Evans pays homage
to the pioneers of pulp.

94 Simplify your
brush choices
Daniela Uhlig shows how
to create a sci-fi pin-up.

98 Depict a snowy
alien landscape
WATCH THIS!
www.bit.ly/IFX86_book
Thom Tenery imagines a How to
palace on an alien moon. watch your
video workshops
Artist Q&A Where you see this badge
you’ll find an accompanying
video workshop. Click the
40 This month’s topics... link to watch the artist
at work.
How to paint flowers, lips, wet
atmospheres, calm seas, floating in
space,
pace, guilty expressions and more.

86 98

Paint a sci-fi soldier Depict a snowy alien world

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Wes Talbott 1
LOCATION: US
WEB: www.westalbott.daportfolio.com
EMAIL: westalbott@live.com
SOFTWARE: Photoshop

Wes is studying Illustration

at Columbus College of Art
& Design: “I did my first
digital painting in 2007
with GIMP and a mouse
and instantly decided I needed to get a
tablet and pursue this new medium.”
Despite still being a scholar, he’s
already begun to make in-roads into the
professional life: “Recently I’ve done
some concept art for several films and
am currently doing concepts for
Emerald City Games. My hope is that
upon graduation I’ll be able to make art,
start a family and live comfortably,
either through freelancing or securing a
full-time position doing concept art.”

1 TH RAVEN QUEEN “This piece was

THE
just a fun exercise to try some things
jus
II’ve never done before. I don’t use a lot
of red normally, I don’t paint female
characters very often and I rarely do
paintings of villains. So this was a
combination of all of those.”

2 T
THE BLACK DRAGON “I wanted to
revisit the classic idea of a single
re
courageous knight confronting a dragon
co
who had stolen his maiden, but I was
having trouble being inspired. So I wrote
a poem describing a scene in my head,
and this is the final depiction of that.”

ARTIST OF THE MONTH

Congratulations Wes – you’ve won
yourself a copy of Exotique 6 and
Character Modeling 3! To find out more
about these two great art resources, go
to www.ballisticpublishing.com.

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Concept artist Jason Pickthall

comments on Wes’s Black Dragon
“A really nice use of colour for
a wintry scene. Perhaps some
fogging or slight desaturation
in the top half of the image
would really create some distance
and make it even more dramatic!”

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Rozenn Illiano 2
LOCATION: France
WEB: www.onirography.com
EMAIL: rozenn@onirography.com
SOFTWARE: Photoshop

Not content with being a

published children’s
author, Rozenn also spends
her time “creating
illustrations about fantasy,
fairies and surrealism.”
She’s entirely self-taught and admits,
“I’m still learning. I started with
traditional tools, watercolour and
coloured pencils, but with time I
discovered Photoshop and bought my
first tablet. With the help of my
companion, who’s also an illustrator,
and thanks to the many talented
illustrators around the world that make
me dream, I learn every day and hope to
live with my art.”

1 S
SERAPHITA
w
“The goal of this painting
was to do a picture using common
photo stock on deviantART, entirely
p
painted and not photo-manipulated.
I wanted to depict an angel of ashes,
bringing with her the Apocalypse and
utter desolation.”

2 S
SNOW
o
QUEEN “One of my
obsessions is winter and the Snow
Queen tale. I always try to push the
Q
realism as far as I can, and a portrait like
this is a good training piece.”

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