You start off with Destrier, your first robot, with two light hardpoints. Not to worry, everyone was here once, so let's get started. Halcyon Realms – you are here, it means you are probably new to the game, War Robots.i just have a hard time getting excited when i hear him announce some new project i know he is never going to finish. The bottom line is that he does incredible work, but his drive is turned off very easily for a single work, and although everyone can be guilty of that, it’s especially frustrating to see that from someone who is incredibly talented and whose work i appreciate very much. i love his art, and i still check out his blog regularly, but i am just bummed that there is little to no literary content to his work as a visual artist he is great, but i keep holding out for more stuff like D’Airain Adventure, which seemed really promising, then was given up on and Lore, which i thought was really excellent, which was also given up on, so i ended up having to buy the super deluxe hardcover edition of it just to get one issue’s worth of an ending, and that was after already owning another trade of it. i have most of his work up to a certain point as well, including every Popbot single issue and two separate collected editions it’s basically a “story” that is set up to do whatever he wants with it, but the downside is that it also lets him be kind of lazy with it and reuse paintings from other works as single pages for it. I understand what you’re saying, but for a while, everything he was putting out from IDW was still in print, or at least still widely available. he focuses mostly now on vinyl toys, i think, and there is a huge, expensive market for that all over the world, so i can understand if he doesn’t have as much incentive to work on something as thankless as comics when he can make a ton of money on variant colors of the exact same vinyl figure. He often works with his wife, TP Louise, and maybe that is the issue she is a good enough writer, they just never produce finished work together, and maybe it would take him being commissioned by someone else to do something to make it actually go to completion.Įither way, i still love his work, i just wish he would show more variety in it from time to time. he is purely images, but sometimes that’s okay. He also has a huge habit of pumping up huge projects and then giving up on them after one or two issues before starting something else and repeating the process. he has a real habit of rereleasing the same material over and over again in different volumes he will release book one, then a hardcover of book one, then book two, then a hardcover of book two, then a hardcover of books one and two together, then book three, then a hardcover of all three, etc… i love Ashley Wood, but i really have been suffering a little fatigue in his releases over the past couple years. He does use digital a lot, but i think for this book it is almost entirely unretouched oil paint. You might also be interested in these items : “World War Robot – Ashley Wood” art book details :īuy From Amazon CA | Amazon JP | Amazon UK | Amazon FR | Amazon IT | Amazon DE | Amazon ES This one gets my highest recommendations. Does anyone know if this is the case here ? There were no technical notes on the making in the book so I have no clue.įantastic pieces of art work all around from Ashley Wood, in a huge hard cover volume. The medium used seems positively oil paint to me, but I understand Ashley Wood sometimes combine it with digital techniques. (above) One of my favourite pieces in the book, capturing the zeitgeist of WWII’s era perfectly. I find these pieces triggering an immediate and impactful emotional response in comparison to the scores of technically competent but trite robot fare out there.
Australian comic book artist Ashley Wood paints an epic vista of expressionistic robot warfare in his art book World War Robot.