Would you pay for one of these?

[Nik da Greek]

No pressure! Should be able to sort something out, dude.

[RemarkLima]

Thanks for the compliment, Mark, I especially like the way you slip into Yoda-speak at the end there :Thumbs-up! I can understand that its not to everyone\'s taste to have a pic of their car on the wall, in fact, I don\'t have one of my own car up, ironically. I\'ve got an A1 size pic of Niall Mackenzie on the Boost Yamaha YZF in the downstairs loo, though, dunno what that says about our household! Also, we rather bizarrely have a few pics I painted up of Alice In Wonderland, copied from the incomparably talented Harry Rountree who illustrated a very rare edition in his inimitable water colour style. Nice though they are, I didn\'t think they\'d do much to enhance my reputation if I\'d posted them up on the MRC site! :yes

Hey it makes my old sudo-Nippon wood block prints seems pretty basic by comparision But then I\'ve not drawn or painted anything (except walls in the house!) for years and years now... Shame as it\'d be nice to get back into it, like so much other stuff, good to see you\'ve kept it up

As for the Yoda speak, I must have been picking my nose and the greeness just brought out the inner-Yoda in me!

And nothing wrong with Alice in Wonderland, it\'s a seriously superb bit of psychedelia and has always had some amazing imagery with it, I\'d been keen to see them, don\'t worry about your rep on here, I can join in with some girly slaps to try and scare the bg brutes away!

[Nik da Greek]

Okay, then, here you go. Not the best scan the worlds ever seen, I haven\'t tried to colour correct it and it\'s come out a bit yellow, but gives you the general idea. Apologies to the late great Harry Rountree, one of Alice in the courtroom


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[RemarkLima]

Superb, really nice work there mate

I\'m sure there\'s something that I\'d be more than happy to commission you to do, you\'ve got a rare talent to have such a broad scope with your work, if you\'d ever need a website to sell it on just gimmy a shout

[Nik da Greek]

Thanks again! I\'m gonna be blushing under all this praise. TBH, I don\'t know that I\'ve any mad special skills, it\'s a lot easier to copy something that\'s already there than to make it up off the top of your head! I remember seeing a quote from a sculptor, can\'t remember his name, who was asked how he manged to produce such a startlingly lifelike bust of Gladstone, the Victorian Prime Minister. His answer, as if it was the most natural thing in the worls, was "I take take a large block of marble and chip away all of the parts that don\'t look like Mr Gladstone". That\'s kinda what I do in reverse, take a bit of paper and fill in the bits that look like a car, or whatever! Dunno how, it just happens! I started by painting album covers for people on their leather greebo jackets and stuff, had to draw the line under that when I kept asked getting for "a naked women holding a guitar with lightning and stuff" every other week. One likes to keep some artistic integrity!

Is website design what you do, then, chap? Might be an idea if this takes off....

[mar71n]

They are some fantastic drawings. Good if you can use your talent to earn a living. A girl I joust to know does a similar thing to what you are proposing ie produces pencil sketches from people’s photos but cats & fisherman’s catches.
Took her a long time to build up the volume of work to the point see could give up the day job but drawings are all she does now. Had to do lots of shows but what she found did make money is limited edition 1 of 50 prints, so she had a stock of cat or fish drawings depending on the show & an easel  showing how she could copy photos.

[Nik da Greek]

That\'s different! Cats I can understand, but surely all fish look the same except to other fish, don\'t they!?:Giggle

[RemarkLima]

LOL @ Fish, one man and his fish

Is website design what you do, then, chap? Might be an idea if this takes off....

Indeed it is, well it used to be full time, however I\'m now a corporate wh0r3who does web-applications (oo-er!)... So all my web design is on the sidelines now.

But coming into winter I always get involved in a bit more moonlighting as there\'s not much to do outside in the cold drizzle (a bit like summer then).

[AshRX]

They are wicked Nik, hope you start doing these as I would love one done

[Nik da Greek]

Thanks, Ash! Be a nice challenge to do your graphics justice. I half-thought from your post they were just a photoshop, but then I saw them at RS5, they\'re awesome, really good :yes. Dunno if you got the knock with the weather, cos by the time I got a chance to come over and compliment you on them, you\'d vanished! Are you going on the tunnel run tm? Like I said, I\'ll bring the originals along for anyone who wants a look at the real thing

Looks like I\'ll have to get a vendors slot sorted out with Admin when I get paid next, by the look of things I\'ll have enough requests to make it worth all our while!  :Thumbs-up

[AshRX]

yes mate ill be there tonight. Thanks for the comments.

Think Maz was looking at these as a birthday treat for me. Look wicked framed in the office

[FEED Addict]

Thread revival!

Nik has recently completed a pen\'d drawing of Feed Chicks FD, it looks Awesome and i would recomend his work to everyone. Here\'s a couple of pics:-



On the wall:-



and look at the wheels:-



\'Mr. Da Greek\' has got some skilz for sure!