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Kris
10 years ago

Because Spider!

Lucie le Blanc
Lucie le Blanc
10 years ago

That girl has very weird joints. And the face of an alien. And there’s a drop of something falling from her behind… I think that’s her behind.

James F. Brown
James F. Brown
10 years ago
Reply to  Lucie le Blanc

Uh, Golden Phantom… or Golden Shower?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
10 years ago
Reply to  Lucie le Blanc

The drop is the “FPB” logo: Fountain Blue Publishing. It cudda been placed somewhere less humorous. Nope, leave it. Adds to the ambiance.

Lucie le Blanc
Lucie le Blanc
10 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

heh I was being sarcastic. But I do appreciate the reactions I got from it. 😉

john e. . .
10 years ago

It’s a bad sign when the poorly drawn horse looks more intelligent that the poorly drawn woman(?).

invader
invader
10 years ago

Is this girl made of rubber? That is the only way I can figure how the hell they are posing like that.

Ebony McKenna
10 years ago

Dude, do you even people?

Waffles
Waffles
10 years ago

Nothing makes you feel better about your own artistic ability like this cover. Thank you artist, thank you.

Axolotl
Axolotl
10 years ago

Sadly, there do exist real, f**ked-up horses that actually look like this! http://forums.arabianbreeders.net/uploads/monthly_04_2008/post-2459-1207089007.jpg

Waffles
Waffles
10 years ago

The sad part is, that is is so stylistic that it is almost cool. It almost looks like it was done on purpose. If her body was not a twisted backwards-sideways-impossibletotellways wreck, and that was a purple space horse then this would be a very interesting style.

Pity.

Take Cover
Take Cover
10 years ago
Reply to  Waffles

I agree about the artwork. It’s a strong, assured and quite compelling style. But the impossibly rotated ass ruins it. And that horse-head needs to go too, because right now it looks like that scene from The Godfather and she’s all like, ‘OK, who put this thing on my pillow?’

Lucie le Blanc
Lucie le Blanc
10 years ago
Reply to  Waffles

I agree, too, dear. I could be spectacular art. I love the colours. But the girl weirds me out too much.

Lucie le Blanc
Lucie le Blanc
10 years ago
Reply to  Lucie le Blanc

It not I.

Waffles
Waffles
10 years ago
Reply to  Lucie le Blanc

To be fair, you could be some pretty spectacular art as well, given the right hat.
😀

Lucie le Blanc
Lucie le Blanc
10 years ago
Reply to  Waffles

Snort. I knew that typo would haunt me. 😉

Catie
Catie
10 years ago
Reply to  Waffles

No. To have a strong stylized style, you first need to have an excellent grasp on anatomy. You have to know the rules before you can break them. There are no shortcuts, unless you want to end up with a mess like this one. I assume more people here are writers than painters, so to put it in more literary terms, this cover is like someone trying to write in second person point of view without having a good grasp of the third and first person POV, or narration in general, and no amount of well crafted sentences and rich vocabulary can hide the fact that the writer has no idea what he’s doing.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
10 years ago
Reply to  Catie

This cover continues to disturb me. If Tillie (I am presuming Tillie is the girl not the pony since she is on the cover of three of the series), if Tillie is standing on the ground, what is that pony (too small to call a horse) standing on? Or, given Tillie’s distortions, does it have legs like a giraffe? Or is it really a flying horse like Pegasus hoovering in mid-air (which shown in toto would be even more surreal)? So many questions.

Catie
Catie
10 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

Those are too complicated questions. I’d settle for an answer to the one we’ve all been asking ourselves: is that her front or her back? The position of her head suggests her back is towards us, but that would mean her arm is so bent forward to the point of dislocating her shoulder. The pockets on her jeans would suggest that that’s her ass, but I’m not sure. I’ve tried this pose in the mirror and I can’t make any sense out of it. Maybe if the arm didn’t appear broken or dislocated and the body had some curves to it, I’d be possible to tell. Right now I can’t tell if she’s coming or going.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
10 years ago

How did Mr. Shumate miss “Tillie and the Voodoo Kid” and “Tillie and the Weird Christmas Tree”?

James F. Brown
James F. Brown
10 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

OMG! You mean this is a series?

Shudder…