P. Emerson Williams. Musician, artist, illustrator, web mogul, chaos magick practitioner. Since the late 1980′s P. Emerson Williams has been making his mark in a world that is not often seen by the mainstream media. But through his incredible work ethic and vast amount of creative energies, as well as a knowledge of how to tap into the powers of the web, he is now able to reach across to his fans in a multi-medium fashion that has only become possible since the turn of the century.
P. Emerson Williams is truly a visionary multi-media artist. Delving in music, graphics, writing, and video. He is also the driving force behind the musick of Choronzon and Veil Of Thorns, as well as involvement in the band Kkoagulaa.
Williams is also the host of the monthly show NECROFUTURIST and cohost on the monthly show SATAN’S TASTEMAKERS on Alterati’s “Inside Scoop On The Outside Culture”.
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This is as good an opportunity as any to talk about my illustration process for this book.
There are variations that have developed between how I’m collaborating with Peter (Parts 1 & 2), and Christopher (Part 3 + chapter art) and how I will with Alexey, and Olga. (Part 4). But once they send their material to me, I’ll ink it if it needs inking.
Then I set the inks as a multiply layer, and block out solid colors underneath. I’ve got an established palette for each part of the book (the 4 parts are also 4 seasons, 4 color coding has esoteric associations behind it, though I don’t actually expect most people to figure all that out) though I’ve occasionally gone outside that for various reasons – for instance, these two use the “Summer” color scheme, because Lilith is the character attributed to summer.
On top of the solid colors comes layers of “multiply” and “hard light” watercolor, oil and acrylic brushes. Then I generally bring out highlights and shadows alternately in layer after layer of graphite, pencils, and inks. Generally once they reach about this level of completion, they get put in the pile. Right now I’ve got about 50 pages in the “pile”, and 60 or so not there yet…
Of course, I’ll need to work my way through this pile to get them all to actually complete in the post-production stage. (We’re currently in production.)
And that’s it. This is what I’ve been doing since 2015 or so, when Tales went into production. We hope to be in post- by 2020. If you’d like to support our project, please consider my Patreon, or signing up to the Mail list.
Also, I think I’m cutting “just” from the tagline (as you’ll see above…) The tagline will show on the cover but not on the actual pages. That’s why it’s good that this stuff takes so long, because it can take me years to find what actually works.
Got pg 44 of Peter’s pencils composited, just started inking. Because of the depth of the pencils the inks are mostly to clarify things and add texture. The watercolor and oils pass with this one is going to be especially fun I think…
We have almost all the ~50 illustrated pgs of part 1 penciled. Part 2 will be up next after a few pages we need to loop back for… Meanwhile Part 3 is simultaneously being inked by Amun, and I’m currently discussing with the artist I’ll likely be collaborating with on Part 4.
Still don’t know if they’ll ultimately be released as 4 separate issues as well as a complete book, that depends on the publisher. I’m praying we find a good match… this book is going to be beautiful when it’s finished. Please consider supporting on Patreon.
P. Emerson William’s pencils have been fabulously dream-like as always. I’m going to learn a lot in the process of inking and painting the next 50 pages.
Actually… I think I’m going to keep posting Tales From When I Had A Face work in progress here, so as to not clutter up the Fallen Cycle blog. Here’s the next page, I’ve got the first layer of inks started.
The fifth free compilation album from Intravenous Magazine (www.intravenousmag.co.uk) to mark our fifth birthday as a webzine. Featuring the likes of Angelspit, The Gothsicles, Deadfilmstar, Sounds Like Winter, Noir, Hardcore Pong, Cynical Existence, Veil of Thorns, Cold Therapy, and Chiron, plus many more exclusive and unreleased tracks from international gothic, industrial and electronic bands.creditsreleased January 1, 2018
Artists in order of appearance: Angelspit, The Gothsicles, Chaos Research, Deadfilmstar, Sounds Like winter, Noir, Hardcore Pong, Damsel In the Dollhouse, The Static Architect, Insect Plasma, Cynical Existence, Veil Of Thorns, Non Bio, Planet Damage, Moisaint, May May Graves, Acclimate V.1, Winterhart, Cold Therapy, Vlimmer, Chiron, Tonttu, Lorelei Dreaming, The State.
