Copertina ufficiale di Steve Purcell rivelata: che ne pensate ??

Non ho criticato Tales per la graficache all'inizio un pochino ci sembrava spoglia a tutti visto che le cose da valutare in un Monkey Island sarebberos tate anche la storia ecc.. Ma non lo so', con tutti gli elementi che ci sono in questo monkey Island questa copertina dice poco e niente, c'è solo Guybrush ed Elaine.. Non compare neanche LeChuck!!! Io una copertina di Purcell me l'aspetto caotica, piena di particolari, mi aspettavo qualcosa in stile sicret.. Nellos fondo il manato gigante, De Singe con ampolle in mano che compare fra i fumi, Lechuck che compie il sacrificio o alleato umano... Magari non ci mettete Morgan per non spoilerare, però Guy, Elaine e una scimmia con i pugnali dai.. Banalissimo!!!

Ma sicuro sicuro che è definitiva ??

It was a fun challenge to paint a cover for a Monkey Island game so many years later. If anyone's interested I'll soon be posting some work in progress photos and notes on the decisions I made along the way at my blog spudvisionblog.blogspot.com.

In response to Thunderpeel2001, I would love to see Ryan Jones take on the "real" box cover (though I have no idea what Telltale has in mind for the packaging). I think Ryan's a brilliant artist and is doing phenomenal work on the next Sam & Max. I was impressed with his take on Guybrush which is why I referenced it in my piece, though the way I draw girls took my Elaine in a slightly different direction.

I think Telltale asked me to do this cover as a tip of the hat to the dawn of the franchise. I loved the dark edge to the story as it was pitched to me when I was gearing up to start the painting and I glommed onto that angle. If you've been aware of the piratey paintings on my blog or any of the work I've done for the Telltale Sam & Max covers, you know my painting style has evolved over the decades since those first two Monkey Island covers. It makes me chuckle to think of all those little faces I painstakingly noodled for so long from the first Monkey Island painting. For "LeChuck", I spent a solid month in my studio painting that in oils on a two by three foot canvas. It was exhausting but very satisfying. There's not really another piece in my portfolio anything like it before or since, which is why it still hangs in my office in its garish pirate frame.

I'm glad people are still connected to those old covers. Who knew they'd be bandied about almost 20 years later? Hopefully Monkey Island will be around long enough for a lot more artists to take a crack at painting these characters. And if they ask me again, in another 20 years when I can barely hobble to my studio, I'll probably still say yes.

sarebbe tosto aggiungere qualcosa ad un acquarello...