"Death Dealer standing front on to us face-on
because SO has totally captured the very essence of Death Dealers dark menace
which Frank was so great at..i think Frazetta would also have got a kick out of
this Otis piece." Simon Bisley
I've been drawing
since the age of three, I live in Québec city Canada and our cold
winters were a great time to stay inside and draw and draw...and then
draw some more!
My earliest "art" featured dinosaurs fighting superheroes among other
strange aliens and creatures. I soon became a comic book addict (
Creepie and Eerie those great Warren mags) and at the age of 12, I saw
my first Frazetta piece. The famous Conan painting standing on a pile of
bodies. This image haunted me and pushed more and more into the world
of fantasy art especielly Frank Frazetta I devoured his art books. I
discovered Boris, Corben and by the late 80's I came upon a body of work
that just knocked me out, Slaine the Horned God by the one and only
Simon Bisley.
I enrolled in art
teaching at University level and started freelancing doing cover work
for obscure canadian sci fi fanzines, some book and CD covers for local
heavy metal acts. After my art degree, I worked as an art teacher in
high school and did alot of storyboarding and design work for animated
features for a local company and illustration for Iron Crown's Lord of
the Ring collectible card game.
I know basically
paint for my own pleasure and spend alot of time being a dad and family
man, but the spectre of the great Frazetta still appears and entices me
to my easel. These pieces were done over a span of 10 years in hommage
to a man who truly had a major influence on my artistic development.
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