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D Dave Draper

Creations

Mekon on Flying Chariot

‘Mekon on flying chariot, Red halo’
‘Mekon on Flying Chariot Orange’
‘Mekon Sepia Tint’
‘Mekon Sepia on Green’
‘Mekon in Stark Neon’
‘On The Dark Side of Neon’
‘Mekon Shaded on Blue’
‘Mekon in the Shadows’

Aerial Chase above Mekonta

The featured image is my personalised rendition of the Mekon in aerial flight, giving chase to Dan Dare and his Comrades in their attempt to escape from the North Venusian capital of Mekonta aboard a Telezero Reflector, one of the Mekon’s specialised Space Battleships.

The illustration was hand-painted in acrylic watercolours and outlined in black ink. The image is copied from a panel of the first Dan Dare Venus story, devised and drawn in full colour by Frank Hampson and published by Marcus Morris in the highly successful Eagle comic of the early 1950s.

The array of eight copies in the slideshow beneath have been rendered and stylized variously with tonal alterations and enhancements in PhotoStudio and the colour adjust facilities of my MacBook.

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Dave Draper 2015

SEE ALSO:

THE MEKON: Located in Art under Portrait, Space Art and Fantasy

TREENS: In Art under Space Art and Fantasy

DAN DARE: In Art under Portrait, Space Art and Fantasy

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future
THE PRIME MINISTER SYNDROME

Located in Writing under Stories

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future
THE NUTWOOD AFFAIR

Located in Writing under Stories

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