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Howdy from Utah!

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Tyler Blake Art

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Howdy from Utah!
« on: May 29, 2023, 03:52:24 PM »

Hi everyone,
  I'm new here, this place is great!  I have a horror webcomic, I found this place looking for public domain stories to adapt.  I've been drawing for  a little over 30 years and reading comics since I was a  little kid.  Cheers!
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Robb_K

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2023, 08:49:47 AM »


Hi everyone,
  I'm new here, this place is great!  I have a horror webcomic, I found this place looking for public domain stories to adapt.  I've been drawing for  a little over 30 years and reading comics since I was a  little kid.  Cheers!


Welcome Tyler!  The comic book reading community, especially fans of Golden Age comics, are always glad to have current artists write and draw new stories in the old-fashioned, classical style.  I hope that by "adapt", you mean draw new adventures adapting old characters, or writing and drawing sequels to old stories, rather than just drawing new versions of old stories.
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The Australian Panther

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2023, 10:21:27 AM »

Hi Tyler and welcome!
Plenty of art to look at and learn from herein!
Jump in and enjoy!
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Tyler Blake Art

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2023, 10:23:14 AM »

Quote from: Robb_K link=topic=23514.msg90601#m

sg90601 date=1686300587


Hi everyone,
  I'm new here, this place is great!  I have a horror webcomic, I found this place looking for public domain stories to adapt.  I've been drawing for  a little over 30 years and reading comics since I was a  little kid.  Cheers!


Welcome Tyler!  The comic book reading community, especially fans of Golden Age comics, are always glad to have current artists write and draw new stories in the old-fashioned, classical style.  I hope that by "adapt", you mean draw new adventures adapting old characters, or writing and drawing sequels to old stories, rather than just drawing new versions of old stories.


Hi Robb!  I actually do mean doing a  new version of these classic stories.  I'm mostly adapting short prose stories from  Lovecraft, Poe, Robert E Howard, etc. and I thought  it would be fun to adapt some public domain  comics as well.  I've loved horror comics  since I was a little  child, which is  what lead meto do this inthe first place, but- I'm not a writer.  Adapting stories that have come before allows me to focus on the  art, which takes a considerable amount of time.  People have  told me for a while I have a 70's/80's horror style, so I'm leaning into that.   
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Tyler Blake Art

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2023, 10:29:44 AM »


Hi Tyler and welcome!
Plenty of art to look at and learn from herein!
Jump in and enjoy!


Thanks, it's good to be here!
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Robb_K

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2023, 05:01:10 PM »


Quote from: Robb_K link=topic=23514.msg90601#m

sg90601 date=1686300587


Hi everyone,
  I'm new here, this place is great!  I have a horror webcomic, I found this place looking for public domain stories to adapt.  I've been drawing for  a little over 30 years and reading comics since I was a  little kid.  Cheers!


Welcome Tyler!  The comic book reading community, especially fans of Golden Age comics, are always glad to have current artists write and draw new stories in the old-fashioned, classical style.  I hope that by "adapt", you mean draw new adventures adapting old characters, or writing and drawing sequels to old stories, rather than just drawing new versions of old stories.


Hi Robb!  I actually do mean doing a  new version of these classic stories.  I'm mostly adapting short prose stories from  Lovecraft, Poe, Robert E Howard, etc. and I thought  it would be fun to adapt some public domain  comics as well.  I've loved horror comics  since I was a little  child, which is  what led me to do this in the first place, but- I'm not a writer.  Adapting stories that have come before allows me to focus on the  art, which takes a considerable amount of time.  People have  told me for a while I have a 70's/80's horror style, so I'm leaning into that.

Thanks Tyler.   Any chance you could show us a sample page of your art style?
Could you show us
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The Australian Panther

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2023, 11:56:35 PM »

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I'm mostly adapting short prose stories from  Lovecraft, Poe, Robert E Howard, etc.

Tyler, you need to look at Prof's site - which is currently all about E.A. Poe's comic book and illustrated history. 
Here is the link to Prof's thread on CB+
https://comicbookplus.com/forum/?topic=5983.725

and here is the website address. and the latest post.
http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2022/06/poe-1970-pt-5.html

enjoy!



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Tyler Blake Art

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2023, 03:09:48 AM »


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Thanks Tyler.   Any chance you could show us a sample page of your art style?
Could you show us
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Hi  Robb,
  I seem to be having trouble posting images,but then I'm a technophobe.  For now I'm putting up a link to my comics site:

www.tylerblakeart.com 

I'm going to get this figured out, but in  the meantime, I'm going to redo the Lovecraft story to have   the same look (heavy black inks on  toned paper as the  Howard story.  I  was experimenting  with watercolor with that  first one.
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Tyler Blake Art

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2023, 03:11:55 AM »


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I'm mostly adapting short prose stories from  Lovecraft, Poe, Robert E Howard, etc.

Tyler, you need to look at Prof's site - which is currently all about E.A. Poe's comic book and illustrated history. 
Here is the link to Prof's thread on CB+
https://comicbookplus.com/forum/?topic=5983.725

and here is the website address. and the latest post.
http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2022/06/poe-1970-pt-5.html

enjoy!


Thanks, that's awesome!  I saw your signature line, Alex Toth was a fantastic artist
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Robb_K

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Re: Howdy from Utah!
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2023, 07:15:55 AM »




Thanks Tyler.   Any chance you could show us a sample page of your art style?
Could you show us
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Hi  Robb,
  I seem to be having trouble posting images,but then I'm a technophobe.  For now I'm putting up a link to my comics site:

www.tylerblakeart.com 

I'm going to get this figured out, but in  the meantime, I'm going to redo the Lovecraft story to have   the same look (heavy black inks on  toned paper as the  Howard story.  I  was experimenting  with watercolor with that  first one.
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I like your work.  You're brushwork has a light feel, and you are very good with light and shadow.  Your colour schemes are produce strong moods.  I like your high level of detail which gives your figures a strong injection of character.  It's not my favourite style for comic books, but I like it for paintings.  And I prefer well-drawn artwork in any medium, to the bulk of poor quality artwork in comic books.
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