"Bloodshot" Vs. Everybody 🔴

As you have probably seen over the past few posts I've been working on an illustration that I digitally painted recently for a Talenthouse competition. I would not go as far as saying it's the best thing I have ever created, but it is something that saw a bit of a return to the old me. Like using a pencil and paper and ink. Which should not be as weird as it sounds, being an artist and all. But with work, most of what I do tends to be Wacom, on-screen. So a change of pace to more tactile things was a much-welcomed instance.

The illustration and art were done for a bit of a competition for the forthcoming Valiant Comics + Sony Pictures' Bloodshot movie starring Vin Diesel. I have to say I was never as familiar with Bloodshot as I was with XO, but getting into the super-soldier, he reminds me of a Captain America meets Deadpool meets the Terminator. So, it was definitely fun rendering this one.

I didn't want to go too familiar with the key art already out for the movie (because then what's the point). As such I ended up with the idea of Bloodshot charging towards certain violence and danger, taking shots left and right, having his face blown off, yet still keeping an expression that was less "owwie" and more, "Alright, you're all starting to pissing me off".


So this is how things looked inked at first:

© 2020 Bloodshot. Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.com)

Then took her to Photoshop and started playing around with colour and shading. I think it turned out okay in the end. But let me know what you guys think. Check it out:

© 2020 Bloodshot. Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.com)

Click-clack gang.

Plus, if you could all do me a super solid and head over to Talenthouse and hit it with alike. Like, I'd be super grateful and indebted to you for life. Like kidney-level indebted. A digital kidney for your digital heart, of course. But a kidney nonetheless. Vote here: https://www.talenthouse.com/item/2266115/40c230dd

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Buhbuhbuh BOOM

With a grimace like that...

Been steady sketching and having the pen bleed. Tactile is always king. Few things have been annoying me lately so it's always good put the energy into something cathartic.

This weeks been quite, but that doesn't mean the work stops. Whoa is me with all this debris.

Had that image inked. Check it:

© 2020. Artwork by Dulani Wilson/bluntspear.com. All rights reserved.

I've also done a colour render and my Bloodshot Talenthouse entry is also live. Will share that and a speed art type of video I made too soon.

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Until then superfriends,

"The Authority" Storyboard Line Art

Hey, another round of story art I did. I'd say more but you know the old saying.... yeah that one:

© 2014 "The Authority" Storyboard. Artwork by Dulani Wilson (@bluntspear) All rights reserved.

What you guys think?

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Why on God's green are film locations so expensive? I'm not asking to shoot in 10 Downing Street to see what the PM and Balls are getting up to. Lol. Balls. Teased much?

Red Man Artwork

Thespians! Red Man FB page is live. Check out some of the taster images that have been hitting people square in the face over there on www.facebook.com/redmananimation:

©2013 Red Man "Something Wicked" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "My Voice" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "Alarums 1" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

©2013 Red Man "Alarums 2" Title Card (www.fb.com/redmananimation). Artwork by Dulani Wilson (www.bluntspear.co.uk). All rights reserved.

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Currently doing the last of the frames now. Happy days. Macbeth our bloody tyrant would be pleased.

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Sectioned and quartered

All That Remains' "Asking Too Much"

Hey Pistoleros!
How's it going out there in Internetland?
Thought I'd share a music video I entered into a Talenthouse Competition hosted by All That Remains and Razor & Tie. It's for ATR song 'Asking Too Much'. Cool track, and thought I'd take part, as I haven't really done anything music video-wise for the kind of rock/metal crowd. But it proved to be fun. Although spent 5 days illustrating in photoshop and animating/editing/rendering because I saw the competition last minute. All strenuous stuff. I had only an hour and 1 minute to spare after I uploaded it.

Voting is now live, and I need your help to get noticed. Follow through and have a look-see:
http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/aa0b7bcac4515bb04d69d04f7055fd87/1707

The video is embeded on their for you to watch, or have a double take and watch the video here too:



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It's my 50th video apparently. That must be a milestone somewhere. Right, YouTube? Keep rocking people! :)

ATR Illustration 'BF Slave'.

Check out the digital inking of an image I did. Building and I may just pull this off if I concentrate. Really hard.

©2013 'Boyfriend Slave'. Artwork by Dulani Wilson /bluntspear. All rights reserved.

Looks like someone got the 'ball and chain' treatment.

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Rrrrr. *concentration face*

Heroine Badass

Illustration for a quick music video I'm hoping to get done in the next few days. Fingers crossed anyway. Just dividing the illustration into its respective elements:

© 2013. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved.

Let me know what you think.

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Elma Fudd "Bailiff Season"

Guillotine Swizzord Move!

This is it. Hamburger Hill. Half a banana clip that you got the GTA way. RedMan frames are being completed piece by piece. This is despite trying to keep on top of producing a short film. Which is annoying to say the least. Like tending to numerous bushfires at once. But it'll eventually get done. February 15th people! Mark it to death.

Meanwhile deep in the super-secret lair of the Villainous Vagabond, the #animationvagrant concocts another dubious plan for... yeah yeah, check out a frame I did for RedMan:

© 2013 'MacDuff Swings' Red Man frame. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved.

Til next time kid.

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Peace. We out.

Story Art for Credit Repair Ad

Hey dudes and dudettes. Check out some boards I did for DCreative. An ad about some stuff... yeah. Credit repair and all that. Check it:

© 2012 Victorstone Credit Repair Ad Board Draft. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

© 2012 Victorstone Credit Repair Ad Story Art. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All rights reserved to respective owners.

All that lovely colour. Christmas is almost here, and more importantly, the 21st of December. Bad if you believe in all that Mayan stuff. Good if you have been tuning into www.lazarusrisingfilm.com

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No one in the circle to trust. Thats why I know I'll survive the Zombie apocalypse.

PBL Story Art

Boards I did recently for some guys. I'll still take my badge for craftsmanship, although my Sword of Originality is momentarily sheathed in my Scabbard of Shame. Check out some o' me boards matey:

©2012 PBL Jeweller Ad Story Art. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All Rights Reserved to respective owners.

©2012 PBL Jeweller Ad Story Art. Artwork by Dulani Wilson. All Rights Reserved to respective owners.

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Shum, shum!!

Lot's o' Shamurai Warriors. That's army talk #LazarusWillRise

Apprenticeship Campaign Storyboards

Did some boards for an ad campaign about slaver...kaff! kaff! ... I mean Apprenticeships. Yeah. One of my first jobs on peopleperhour.com, but that's cool. Even ended up doing character design so can't complain. Which made me use Illustrator, a program I hadn't used in like forever. Vector is so mathy-mathy. Have a looksey:

Turned out to be one set of 4 storyboards, but I powered through it over the weekend.

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#storyboardwarlord

Dissent into Hell

Dante, the crusades, the 9 levels of hell, not something I enjoy reading about or watching adaptations of. The concept of the Italian poems really is unnerving. It's ugly, but of course the thanatos in me always peaks my interest. Based on the vid game Dante's Inferno, EA did a series of animations (anime of course). Something about falling, lack of control, screams of terror w/dopler effect. But the sentiment "good intentions pave the roads to hell" and the long standing evils of Anglo-hegemonies is something that I can appreciate. Religosity adds a more relevant twist especially today, as Islam extremism, the Brotherhood, or whatever the BBC is calling it has replaced Christianity and the Propaganda wing of the Roman Catholic Sect as the dominant ideology hellbent on converting heathens through violence.



Segue to my illustrations of Redman. Been doing the frames for a whimsical scene where he falls after his crown. Pretty cool,decided to go with a black, white and red palette. This is a frame I'm currently working on.

Mat H. will be proud. The project's been through so much starting and stopping I thought I'd never get it off to a start.

I wanted this sequence to be intense and violent as his fall into darkness signifes his state of mind, fearless, desperate. He falls to catch his crown, symbolic of his desperate gripe for power and sovereignty of a luster-lack kingship.

It's coming on well. Also looking to get an anthology done that I have been sitting on for the past 4 years. Busy Busy.

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Fall for me and I will teach you how to rise with me.

By Crom!

I grew up on stuff like this. But as a young dude I never took care of my comics. Coloured in them. got torn. Lost. Re-found with the first 5 pages missing. Lost again. But with the remainder of what I had when I got older I really appreciated the art and literature. Even young back then when you'd think I'd gravitate towards books with colour, the black and white draftsmanship did more for me than any other book could. So sometime ago, I went on ebay and got some of The Savage Sword of Conan catalogue and geeked out. Well worth the dineros. But I have to say, I didn't remember Conan being so racially charged. The sexism, yeah that's a given. Disdain for sorcery and witchery- sure.  I guess its why they took a page from MAD and published themselves as a magazine rather that publish under the thumb of the Comic Code of Conduct. Creative bigoted bastards.

But with all that said, I'm back on the theme of sword play and this time things are gonna get done on Redman. Not to say I didnt make progress on it the last time I was chipping away at it... about a third of it is pencilled out. Just working on the other 2/3,

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1000 years of success. I wish. On you. Friends. By Crom.