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#9

Looks great!
And yea… the skulls are kinda simple, but i think this is why i like it so much, it has a touch of anime/cartoonish style. I don’t know about it’s inspiration, but i can see some of the messege: the ‘exploded’ post-apocaliptic present we are living in; those 2 banners are very symbolic, Coca-Cola and hollywood (greed, pollution, humans just don’t know when to stop). I simple love it! But sadly, it’s the pure truth…
I could talk all day about this, but the point is … that is pretty late night time :smiley:

Keep it up, Vampeta! Looking forward to see more of your works.
5/5

#10

I like your work, i just say you need to dirt the skulls and make them a litle darker. It’s my opinion, keep working…

#11

Ditto: the skulls. I saw his fingers first, and thought the skulls closest to it were stones like those in a wash, until I realized this was carnage from King’s epic. They could use a little texture to match your other elements (e.g.,Planet Hollywood sign…)

Anyways, a good effort. I like your scene elements better than most of King’s current illustrator’s picture choices.

I’m not into the book(s), but the structure and color of the roses look too ‘happy’ for this scene, as well. Just my take… but they seem too lively a green and common looking.

In the story, aren’t they a threat that the gunman needs to be wary of? I don’t know where I got this idea, but I thought the rose and vine were dark like the tower… details please. Aren’t they related in the story?

#12

Greetings, Vampeta :slight_smile: glad to see you here with your Tower

#13

Hi Vampeta,

great image by the way. Hope to see more of your works in this forum.

Cheers

Ralf Stumpf

#14

the last dark tower book though…sigh what a letdown, what WAS he thinking??
Great to see these images, I I ever get some spare time its something I’d love to try myself.

#15

I am disagreeing about the skulls. They look fine! And a rose is a rose doncha know? :slight_smile: I am looking at this as one very good artists interpetation of a scene. Where are the rest of the roses? Why they are behind him of course! Someone should alert Stephen King about this thread especially since it has a well deserved top row spot. You know how rare that is Vampeta? :slight_smile: well done :+1:

#16

Heyyy Alex, wassup mate, gret image, i can say this is a stephentastic scene :lol:

Congrats for another great piece

#17

HI EVERYONE!

I want to thank you all 4 your great support and feedback.
I like this place a lot, the people here are very freindly :wink:

4 sure a place where i will post more artworks in future :smiley:

And also very nice to meet some of my old Friends.

Stay tuned
Alex

#18

The hardest part of an epic is to create a good ending. If you can’t think of anything better, make a door way to the first book, and leave it there.

Don’t indicate whether he regrows his fingers. Or if he’s planted there to save a new dimension. Just copy and paste from the first book, save and email to the publishers.

Oh me’ bum leg, me bum leg…

#19

Each rose is suppose to contain galxies if you look close. And emit that warbling thinny sound of scraping saws. The roses are supposed to mesmorize and comfort you. But I don’t like roses. And no matter what somebody says, farts don’t smell like roses.

#20

hmm… Thank you, tg-

#21

Theres loads of posts on this topic at the official site with the forums where a lot of people are clearly not happy with the ending.

I could have thought of at leat five different endings that would have brought the dark tower to a close, rather than the cop-out he wrote. It was a load of rubbish (the last few chapters of DT7) and I won’t go into detail as I’ve written pages on the topic.

There is a massive gulf of information that could have been used (from black house / talisman / speedy parker the gunslinger etc), and even though a big final battle with all the characters LOTR style would have been a cliche, it would have suited such a deep and involving set of books.

Oh well, sorry to rant its such a passion of mine (as you can see from my user name) so maybe I should keep to commenting on the CG :slight_smile:

#22

King claimed he was really excited to be involved with the graphic novel serialization. Maybe he can repent by writing other endings… suggested by his outraged reader’s fan art?

#23

oh me’ bum leg, me bum leg.

Stephen King was hit by a car sometime after the 4th novel. I think he had to get a few pins inserted into his leg. So throughout the rest of the novels, every few pages he worked the pain he was feeling into his writing. Before he was hit he complained about arthriteus via the dry twist. By the end he explicitly just kept mentioning back and leg pain. Moral of the story, don’t go jogging along any highway.

#24

Here is a short sneak on my sequel to the dark tower. “THE GUNSLINGER”

up to 80% made with Zbrush.

Hope you like it :wink: :smiley: Alex

[](http://kira-network.com/gunslinger/step-08.jpg)![step-02.jpg|800x332](upload://wHU9vH1pOUOrvIy68caoNUEAzrN.jpeg)![step-07.jpg|552x665](upload://owkliIkcw5RvlP9LpX3JIFvgE3P.jpeg)![step-08.jpg|800x800](upload://9k9ECRYf776JLQwhvGyqvKXGCPn.jpeg)
#25

I loved the book and your tower seems to fit very well into the mood of the story. looking forward to what you come up with next :slight_smile:

greets
froyd

#26

yeah!! cocacola is the only thing standing there

#27

Great job on these! I saw The Tower image a while back and your Roland is coming along nicely! I have been a tower fan since the late 80’s and have been planning on creating many characters and hopefuly animating my favorite parts of the books.(someday) So far all I have gotten around to is creating Rolands guns without any engravings.
You can see it here:

http://rynomyte.cgsociety.org/gallery/303754/

I hope to get back to my own Tower project very soon…
Anyway, just wanted to giva a shout out to a fellow Tower junkie. I look forward to more on this. Keep it up! :+1:

#28

wow, this work looks great :+1: