The OFFICIAL "This week in your ILLUSTRATION collection?" 1 1

[Bronty]

yessir.   looks like leia, chewie, and r2d2 were lifted/inspired from the poster below.  Leia's pose is pretty well identical.

29 minutes ago, SquareChaos said:

And not a single Ewok in sight  

Edited May 17, 2017 by Bronty

[SquareChaos]

I actually think I remember playing that Chess game on PC - if it's the one I'm thinking of, it had awesome combat / death animations.

[Bronty]

1 minute ago, SquareChaos said:

I actually think I remember playing that Chess game on PC - if it's the one I'm thinking of, it had awesome combat / death animations.

has to be.   

 

[SquareChaos]

4 minutes ago, Bronty said:

has to be.   

 

Yeah that's it. It was fun to see all of the combinations, but if I were playing it now, I'd search for a way to turn the initial move animations off.

[Bronty]

Touching on the previous conversation about studies.

Look at this poor schlub who ignored the word.

Paid 12k for the prelim in 2007   https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/stanley-mouse-jerry-angel-unplugged-study-painting-original-art-1995-grateful-dead-guitarist-jerry-garcia-s-passing-/a/648-23032.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

And...... then the finished original came up in 2011, and...... got only 7k   

https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/grateful-dead-jerry-angel-stanley-mouse-painting-original-art-1995-/a/7042-46335.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

 

Perhaps the price in 2007 was higher due to the recency of Jerry's passing.   And, since the finished piece is unpublished anyways and they are similar dimensions, the market probably draws less difference in the values than normal, but still... yikes.

Edited May 18, 2017 by Bronty

[Monkeyman]

On ‎5‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 9:00 PM, delekkerste said:

I completed an NYU program in Art Business 5 years ago.  One of the classes I took was Art as a Financial Asset, and the prof broke down all the fees & commissions that go into selling a piece at auction.  Bottom line?  We are totally spoiled in comics and comic art.  It may not get the headlines that the Sotheby's and Christie's evening fine art sales get, but, there are lower transaction costs and a lot more liquidity than in fine art.  When you look at illustration art, as you noted with the LOTR resale and Bronty did with his Elvgren observation, you see the difference in liquidity that the removal of one buyer (the previous winner) can make, plus the impact of the higher commission costs.  

Aside from that, though, as a general observation, it seems as though interest in Heritage's illustration art auctions has waned over the past couple/few years.  Part of that may be that, when the crux of the Martignette Collection was auctioned off, it generated its own heat (which has since dissipated).  I wonder if the market for much of these sub-genres has aged out a bit as well?  Of course, we know that Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon was an active buyer before he sadly passed away.   Also, I would imagine that many collectors (including myself) largely got their fill of what they wanted.  But, of course, the auctions keep coming, and so price has to drop to clear the market (much as I expect will eventually happen in our hobby sometime down the line).  

 

The size of the Heritage Illustration Art auctions has certainly decreased since the Martignette Collection finished up.  Definitely not as exciting as when the collection was rolled out.

Mike

[buyatari]

Not new but my only Star Wars final.

Star Wars Shadows of the Empire for PC also by Greg Winters.

[Bronty]

bump!   anyone have new illos to share?

[vodou]

4 hours ago, Bronty said:

bump!   anyone have new illos to share?

Crates are good.

My last crate was December 2009. Can't believe I waited nearly eight years for that next hit

 

[Bronty]

Woof?

 

Barker?

[vodou]

20 minutes ago, Bronty said:

Woof?

 

Barker?

Nice! and correct.

[Bronty]

2 minutes ago, vodou said:

Nice! and correct.

Ruff!

[Bronty]

Well?  Have you uncrated it yet ?

[Junkdrawer]

VALKYRIE 

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1406244

Edited July 5, 2017 by Junkdrawer

[Mephisto]

On 5/18/2017 at 1:17 PM, Bronty said:

Touching on the previous conversation about studies.

Look at this poor schlub who ignored the word.

Paid 12k for the prelim in 2007   https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/stanley-mouse-jerry-angel-unplugged-study-painting-original-art-1995-grateful-dead-guitarist-jerry-garcia-s-passing-/a/648-23032.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

And...... then the finished original came up in 2011, and...... got only 7k   

https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/grateful-dead-jerry-angel-stanley-mouse-painting-original-art-1995-/a/7042-46335.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

 

Perhaps the price in 2007 was higher due to the recency of Jerry's passing.   And, since the finished piece is unpublished anyways and they are similar dimensions, the market probably draws less difference in the values than normal, but still... yikes.

....Jerry passed away in 1995 I don't think 4 years difference would really be a recency factor by that point.

[AnkurJ]

Purchased this from Stuart Ng yesterday. Love the ink work on this one and would love to find out where it was published. By Harold W. McCauley.

 

[vodou]

Very nice AnkurJ.

[ESeffinga]

Dig the angle of that composition a lot.

[Bronty]

Thought there was a D&D thread but I can't find it.  

Quite the result here.

Early D&D loose prelim, 10k

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TSR-D-amp-D-B2-Keep-on-the-Borderlands-Orig-Cover-Art-Color-Study-1979-Jim-Roslof-/122472665973?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=z%2BOkAlSEFegEueBfPmmhxKJRbGQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

[Monkeyman]

On ‎7‎/‎14‎/‎2017 at 5:16 PM, Bronty said:

Thought there was a D&D thread but I can't find it.  

Quite the result here.

Early D&D loose prelim, 10k

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TSR-D-amp-D-B2-Keep-on-the-Borderlands-Orig-Cover-Art-Color-Study-1979-Jim-Roslof-/122472665973?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=z%2BOkAlSEFegEueBfPmmhxKJRbGQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

One of my friends got the D&D Basic Set for Christmas in 1982 and it came with this module.  My very first D&D campaign which lead to close to 20 years of playing.  Unfortunately, my group disbanded in the very late 1990s and that was the end for me.

Mike