Willow Meets Zatanna

[ffutures]

One of my recent stories had a very brief encounter between Willow Rosenberg and a witch not totally unlike Zatanna. So I thought why not try my hand at an icon...

The Zatanna picture was found on line, not sure who the artist is. The manip to "Willowtana" is a fairly basic head transplant plus some blurring of the edges etc. Didn't work as well as I would have liked, as is obvious from the bigger picture, but the icon seems to be reasonably good anyway.



One of these days I really must get myself a decent paint package. Any recommendations? Currently using PaintShop Pro 4, incidentally.

Later - Forgot to say that katemonkey gave me the idea for this in a round-about way. Also that the story was the last part of Bring Me The Head of Harry Potter

Later still - John Koenigsbeck tells me the artist was Brian Bolland.

And a final thought on Thursday night - Is her head a little too big? I think she's a shorter woman than Zatanna is supposed to be, so her head would be proportionally larger, and maybe I should have changed the body proportions slightly but I don't think it would have worked very well.

Comments

[akadougal.livejournal.com]

This is great - original artist is Brian Bolland

[booster17.livejournal.com]

No problems, Marcus. Any comics trivia like that is unfortunately right at the front of my brain.

I sometimes wonder just what's fallen out to fit all that info in...

And thanks for the LJ information.

[elementalv.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, my personal favorite for manips is Photoshop.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I came very close to having a Bolland cover on one of my RPG modules, Queen Victoria and the Holy Grail for Games Workshop's Golden Heroes. Unfortunately their budget for the game only ran to one Bolland cover and they decided to have it on the first module published for the game. Mine was (in my opinion) a better adventure, but unfortunately the first one was by the guy who wrote the game, so he got the star prize. I got Kev Wright, not a bad artist but not in Bolland's league, with Fox for interior illos.

[akadougal.livejournal.com]

see - now I'm all jealous.