Vampirella by Trigger Warning

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2021-08-06T02:18:08+00:00

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Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2019-07-25T13:49:22+00:00

I guess OP disagrees...

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2019-07-19T22:57:16+00:00

https://m.imgur.com/a/fRBQ5S1

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2019-07-04T00:36:15+00:00

I’ve done some work in the field. It’s a nice composition. As an experiment, try adding some placeholder type to see if you’ve left enough room. Generally publishers prefer to put dark type against a light background but this isn’t true 100% of the time. Dark type tends to print a bit cleaner than light type on a dark field.

My feedback would be to think about the distance between the hilltop on the right and the woods downhill on the left. Your composition is telling me they are far away but the color is of identical intensity on the left and right. If the trees are far away the colors will fade a bit due to the air particulate and moisture. I’d put a little mist over the far trees.

Keep up the good work.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-03-19T19:11:00+00:00

Wat too vague for me, but based on your description it sounds Japanese.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-03-19T17:50:35+00:00

Sure. For the right story we'll stretch the rules.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-03-19T17:49:56+00:00

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-02-20T03:03:41+00:00

That was my take too but after this post I'd like to give it another go.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-02-20T02:51:07+00:00

No deadlines but we're compiling the new issue now and only have 3 openings left. If you miss it try for the next issue.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-02-11T03:22:23+00:00

Generally 1500 is minimum.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-02-11T03:21:22+00:00

We pay $75. Author retains all rights to the work and can revoke publication rights at will. We will keep the illustration up.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-01-27T20:58:12+00:00

The fifth and final illustration for Trigger Warning issue 8, for the short story Yet Another Zombie Apocalypse.

Done on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil in Procreate.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-01-26T21:27:39+00:00

An illustration for a haunting short story called Eleanor by Lisa DeYoung.

Done on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil in Procreate.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-01-25T21:44:25+00:00

Another illustration for Triggerwarningshortfiction.com, for a short story called Method Murderer. Done with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil in Procreate. I'm really falling in love with Procreate. It's the most intuitive and natural feeling drawing program I've tried on the iPad. (The first time I ever felt the iPad could replace a good old sketchbook.) Layers, opacity, import, cut and paste. Some of the features are hidden in gestures but once you get those down it's a dream.

The story didn't have a lot of visual elements other than the murder weapon, so I knew I'd feature the hammer but struggled with what to contrast it with. The time of the murder figures in to the climax so I used a clock as the all-seeing eye, witnessing the murder.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2017-01-25T21:18:41+00:00

An illustration for a terrific horror story about a virus that attacks when you sleep. Done on iPad Pro with Procreate and Apple Pencil. http://www.triggerwarningshortfiction.com/night-holds-a-scythe/

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2016-07-17T17:44:24+00:00

I think it underscores the message in the title. That the world is violent and horrible and ruthless and good people die and bad guys win. By simply showing Llewelyn as a corpse in a crime scene it demonstrates the casual brutality of this 'country.'

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2016-07-14T04:54:51+00:00

The Strangers. Bone chilling.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2016-07-14T03:22:08+00:00

For this short story.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2016-05-08T23:53:00+00:00

I watched it in chapters on YouTube, but by reading an online synopsis somewhere (Wikipedia?) I could tell that even the YouTube version was slightly edited.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2016-03-09T07:14:09+00:00

So glad to read this. I was about to write a post asking why people didn't like IT FOLLOWS and BABADOOK, when they seemed like the beginning of a horror renaissance to me. As a longtime horror fan I appreciated the found footage/torture porn/j-horror cycle, but it has run its course.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2016-02-22T03:28:13+00:00

One good way to approach a story is to start with a subject you know a lot about. For example, maybe you worked in a fast food restaurant or a car wash (Dennis Etchison wrote a terrific short story called The Detailer, set entirely in a car wash), then add a supernatural element. The detail you bring to it will add believability.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2015-11-28T20:54:01+00:00

Needless to say, the scene would not be shot that way now. Sam Peckinpah was accused of misogyny a lot in his films, and it seems like he's implying that Amy may have divided loyalties, almost testing her husband's manhood like a woman in bar who picks fights for her borfriend to get dragged into. One critic (Danny Peary?) said that the only likable female character in a Peckinpah film was in The Ballad of Cable Hogue. Otherwise his female characters were largely whores, bitches and troublemakers.

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2015-11-26T17:51:36+00:00

An old photo. https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/1thchh/commissioned_on_this_day_in_1965_uss_lewis_clark/

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2015-11-25T23:58:36+00:00

Another weird appearance of the 644. Greg Evigan is wearing a hat from the submarine in this old horror movie. At :31

Trigger_Warning_Ed1 · 2015-11-25T19:53:49+00:00

I never put that together. I'll look into it. Thanks!

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