Saturday, February 27, 2010

Hampstead and Xel'Duum

I really got into Crack the Skye by Mastodon after seeing them in concert back in November. One of my favorite parts about this album is that Rasputin is in it.

Rasputin is also in my comic, Locus, under the name of Wilfred Hampstead. So, of course, I got thinking about Hampstead while I was listening to the album, and came up with this:



Colored version looks like this:



Such is the art that comes out of my hand when I'm listening to awesome southern rock/metal/whatever on endless repeat for a month or two.

4 comments:

Weertangel said...

A truly wicked wallpaper u made there!! don't know the band myself(i'm dutch) but if it inspires u that good no wonder u draw locus so good hehe :)

Daniel Potter said...

Nice Stuff! So does that mean Hampstead will succeed in waking her up?

Adam Black said...

Thanks, raven! And, to Daniel: Yes, as a matter of fact. He does indeed. It's the least I can do after hinting and dancing around the legend of Xel'Duum for eight whole issues.

Adam Black said...

And thanks to Weertangel for your comment as well! I missed it originally. I'm half-asleep right now. :)