"Oops, Wrong Wardrobe" ("The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian")
Pencil Marks: It seemed like a good idea at first. After weeks of brainstorming, Tony and I decided the joke for this picture would be a little play on words. Instead of the lush, beautiful, strong Christian undertone land of Narnia, Erik would accidentally be transported into the macabre, mutated, dank, dark hellhole of "Gwarnia". The joke seemed spot on and I was ready to start working on it.
However, I soon realized I was going to have a hard time.
Short on references, way overspent on time, wasting countless different attempts to get just the basic likenesses down; each moment I devoted to completing this picture got me frustrated and angry. It's possible it could even be the reason I was sick with the flu for a couple of days. My hatred grew so much that many frustrated e-mails were sent to Tony during the course of this and as hard as I tried to get him to stop, I kept getting responses back from him screaming only "GWARNIAAAA!!!!".
When I finally handed him a version I was alright with (two days before the deadline I might add), and he began asking me my thoughts on it, I was pretty solid on my opinion at that point. I didn't f**kin' give a s**t anymore.
So there you go. Anything that's good with this picture, you can give the credit to Tony because in the end, he really does deserves it if not only for inking and coloring this in record time. But if there's anything bad with this picture, you can blame someone else. I wash my hands clean on this one. - Jake
Ink Smudges: Prince Caspian had us by the man toys. I tell you. There was just a slate of weeks when neither Jake nor I could figure out a picture to go along with this picture. Jake wanted to go for the "Christ/Aslan" angle, since he seems to be the only person in the world either offended or mesmorized by this facet of the C.S. Lewis books that he has to constantly mention it almost every time he talks of the subject (Hey guys, did you know this movie has over-bearing Christian overtones? - Jake). But he couldn't come up with an idea. I on the other hand was just out of ideas period. Until one afternoon, sitting in a Burger King chowing on my chicken sandwich, it just dawned on me. The land of the books and films is Narnia, in that HORRID film "Epic Movie" they called it "Gnarnia" (cause, you know, it was gnarly), I was thinking along those lines and that old "scary" metal band Gwar just popped into my head. Then everything just fell into place. Gwarnia - a land of hell and torment where the band must live on their off days. And you HAD to have a magical doorway that would take you there.
Seriously this entire picture just popped into my head.
I told Jake about it, we laughed, and I just fell in love with the idea. Of course I had no idea that Jake had only the most passing of knowledge of the band (which I completely understand by the way), I still thought there would be plenty of online references for him to use. But as the weeks counted down, and still no picture, I kinda got on his case. And boy did this dude flip! He sent me scans of his twentieth attempt, and it was awful! Not even close to what I had pictured. Realizing Jake couldn't quite read my mind, I sent him a description, and a few images of references and that’s what we've got here.
I have to give Jake all the credit here. Because all the things that are screwed up in this picture became crap when I inked it. Still, it came out pretty good after all was said and done, and now we have a picture that is quite unlike anything we've done before in figure placement and the like. I like it, and I know eventually Jake will come around to my point of view. Now to go find a nice GWAR CD for his birthday! - Tony