... and I'm back, avatar speaking that is.
Yes Soze and others, Run to the hills. Seems to be the song that most remember and with good cause probably, because it was Iron Maiden's first mainstream single and the first ever song to be played live on Top of the Pops in the UK. They insisted.
Thought it was time to switch back to my usual avatar.
It is most apt due to the subject matter but it's also an image I had an affinity to for many, many years. I'm not totally sure but I think the artist used some letraset on the shop signs in the background of the full image. I have used letraset in my formative years as a designer. Even before that though, there was something about the image that connected with me and it was probably the depiction of the shops in the background which reminded me of similar shops near my house when I was growing up.
In high school I was in the role playing club. Yes it was geeky but then I was also in the chess club, table tennis club and a winger in rugby which eventually took up most of my time. I think I had a good spread as opposed to the popular depiction which polarizes people ie geek or jock in US parlance.
With regards to role playing we were pretty diverse. We started with dungeons and dragons and character sheets written out on A4 pages but grew to include all role playing games of the time from dracula to the DC and Marvel rpg's and everything inbetween. One such offshoot was a game called 'dark future'. A road race rpg where your character was a car and your attributes involved weapons and upgrades on the car. I can't remember for definite the make of car that I used but I think it was a transam firebird or something very similar. Either way it was a diecast model and I modified it by hand with window grills and weapons from the game glued onto it. I also painted it and on the bonnet I painted the killers artwork with a paint brush that had about 5 hairs on it.
So myself and this image go back a long way. I'm sure others have their own back stories to their avatars, just thought I'd share mine. There was just something about the composition that spoke to me in this image and I truly believe it's down to the artist's insight and thought that he put into those works.
The artist of course being Derek Riggs - one of the world's best illustrators in my opinion. Not only because of his skill but also because of his reasoning in his pieces.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Derek-Ri ... 3647233831http://derek.server311.com/
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:47 pm