"Oops, Wrong Wardrobe" ("The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian")
Gwar (c) Gwar
Pencil Marks: It seemed like a great idea. The premise 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 which Tony came up with seemed spot on and I was ready to start working on it.
However, I quickly realized I was going to have a hard time.
Short on references, overspent on time, and wasting countless attempts to get the basic likenesses down, each moment I devoted to completing this picture got me more frustrated and angrier. It's possible it was the reason I became sick with the flu for a couple of days. Meanwhile every time I e-mailed Tony concerning the picture, the only response I would get back from him was "GWARNIAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
When I finally handed him a version I was content with, and he began asking me my thoughts on it, my opinion was pretty solid at that point: I didn't give a s**t anymore.
So, there you go. Anything that's good with this picture, you can give the credit to Tony. But if there's anything bad, you can blame someone else. I wash my hands clean on this one. - Jake
Ink Smudges: One afternoon, as I was sitting in my local Burger King chowing on a delectable chicken sandwich, the idea for this illustration dawned on me. The land of the books and films is Narnia. In that horrid film "Epic Movie" they called it 'Gnarnia' (because, you know, it was gnarly). So, I was thinking along those lines and the 'scary' metal band "Gwar" just popped into my head. Gwarnia - a land of hell and torment where the band lives during 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 Jake had only the most passing of knowledge of the band (which I completely understand by the way). I just thought there would be plenty of online references for him to use. But as the weeks counted down, and still no picture, I kind of 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 he couldn't quite read my mind, I sent him a description and a few images of references which ultimately is what we've got here.
I must throw all the credit back to Jake though because the things screwed up in this picture are on account of my inks. Still, it came out good after everything was said and done, and now we have a picture unlike anything we've done before. 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