Original Art Sundays no. 141: Surrealist Cowgirls cover!

Back after three weeks away.
Oh my Lord!
This Encyclopedia project is killing me, but I'm almost done. Only 28 entries to go.
Meanwhile...
I've been poking at this whenever I had a couple minutes. You may recall that I posted the black & white art a while back.
I'm not sure if I consider this final- too tired to render a verdict at the moment- but for now, I'm happy with it.

Got WAY hung up on the details, but I think it came out OK. My other big idea was to do a pastiche of the cover for Superman Annual No. 7, with Whalliam sitting in for the Superman statue.
But it struck me as a bit overdone.
Not that this idea is all that fresh, being derivative of Laugh Kills Lonesome by Charlie Russell.
next week: either an oddment or the overdue new page!

Original Art Sundays no. 117: Surrealist Cowgirls cover

Back in the saddle, in so many ways.
On my birthday, I finished the inks for this piece.
Here's the original layout, with the logo block on the bottom.

After some Photoshop dinkery, here's the revised layout with the title in place and completely lettered. The typeface is called Bleeding Cowboys, and it's one of those limited use decorative fonts that's worthless for anything except select instances. Luckily for moi, this is one such instance.

This is almost exactly what I envisioned for this cover. Very happy, or as Whalliam would think, "happy."
I love the ropey text of the word "surrealist". I want to keep the sky simple as opposed to dropping in my usual absurdist elements- this one is about the mood and the characters. Think Charles Russell meets the Fleischer Brothers!
I'm working on adding color and dropping in my company logo, numbering and pricing indicia. But rather than keep folks waiting any longer, I'm posting it as a Work in Progress.
Next: a Tranny Towers page.