Conan – Savage Art Challenge

Two weeks of hard work have passed. Came up was something I could not miss - Competition for Conan illustrations launched by the Croatian publishing house Bookglobe. The publisher is planning to issue a cult comic book series Savage Sword of Conan. This type of fantasy illustration is not my cup of tea, in terms of artistic expression, but since it is a favorite comic book character from my early childhood, I could not resist the challenge. I did a few illustrations, and here they are:

Pen and watered ink drawing

 This illustration is inspired by the episode Devourer of Souls.

Pen and watered ink drawing

Conan and the evil sorcerer who turns into a monster - a very common situation in the Conan series.

Pen and watered ink drawing

Illustration for my favorite episode of Conan – Demons of the Firelight. Conan is fighting with the revived corpse of dead warrior.

I had enough time to do a new original logo of the comic series.

drawing digitally colored with Conan logo

Here's preview how it looks when applied a new logo on the cover illustration.

 After drawing, I started to paint digitally using Painter and Photoshop. The first illustration that has been digitally painted is the episode The Road of the Eagle. Behind the back of Conan, sees a huge rock with a variety of niches which represents the graves of green devils - very interesting to illustrate.

 Conan and ice worm – The Lair of the Ice Worm episode

 Angry giant monster attack, but the barbarian does not know fear ...

This post is dedicated to Robert E Howard, John Buscema, Ernie Chan, Alfredo Alcala, Tony deZuniga… and the greatest of all Frank Frazetta.

PS

Finally here's something concrete from the announced bonus story for a new edition of Kindly Corpses…

Andrej grammatik - Autopsy of Death