a commission drawing for Draco Nihil. the task was to recreate something like an unused box art design for the video game “doom 64” with characters that are more reminiscent of mortimewde stapleton meepmire, nemitz, elpse and a dope. this has no relation or compatibility with my gzdoom matter.
i can say i understand why that box art was unused, but not why somebody would want to pay for such a substitute to be produced. nonetheless someone did and now it is your problem
i am far from an expert on the matter but i suspect the original artist invented many of the muscles whose details i have attempted to replicate here
thinking about this brought me back to the “40 worst rob liefeld drawings” page which i apparently have looked at before since I recognize more of them than I should, but last time I wasn’t aware of elon musk and was fascinated this time to see how many liefeld characters seem to have his same tight squinty botoxy face
gosh i didn’t even KNOW he actually had botox. i just thought: this looks like someone who has something wrong with his face that is probably his own fault because he has enough money to buy luxembourg. How does anyone have sympathy enough for this scumheap to interview him about being disliked for doing shallow things to try and make people dislike him less?
elon musk is a lot like rob liefeld himself in that both were talked about around me for years without me having any reason to know or care who they were but they eventually became my problem anyway. I suppose I should be glad to share that problem with more people than dopes and eight squared.
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pinfofnip sez:
Now that is some weird and wonderful cover art, like that Nemitz is definitely scarier than anything the ID software guys ever came up with! But yeah, good job with this wacky painting. The shading and reflection on the trombone in particular looks excellent, and the other changes from the original picture all look fun, amusing or tasty x)
And Rob Liefeld is Rob Liefeld, I can’t really think of anything new to say about him, except that after seeing some of the dreck published by Marvel/DC over the past decade or so, I have come to realize that he’s FAR from the worst artist that they’ve ever hired!
Frimpinheap sez:
Thank you for appreciating this strange image! The lighting on the trombone unfortunately is directly lifted from the photograph of a trombone that I downloaded, placed in that spot and then drew over. I also traced the exaggerated, fake musculation on the being-shot imp and bowtie mutant, something I would not have excused me doing in the past. I suppose I still do not totally excuse it if I bring it up without being accused of it. But I have little need to do so, generally.
I am sure that whoever has supplanted Liefeld in that place in counter-popular opinion will know plenty about 10 to 20 years after relevance! I can appreciate the detail level, however misplaced and eh comical surrealism of the result, better than the low effort cutesy tumblr style drawings in the more recent comic books I have come across.
Anonymous sez:
64 dopes is way too many
Draco Nihil sez:
I paid good money for this, and I don’t regret it.
Honestly; when I saw this strange prototype box art on the Doom Wiki I immediately wanted to commission you to draw a spoof of this and I’m glad it came out so well.
Frimpinheap sez:
nony: one dope is way too many! I am thankful that they have such stupid weaknesses as to be, for the moment, easily subdue-able.
nihily: thank you for trusting me with such a critically important job!