Funny that when pictures are so carefully drawn, you immediately think this is a redraw...

Wait, wait.
This is weird, what are the probabilities that a scene graphician copies a famous artist work and uses the original artist name as a nickname??

Unless the copier and the original are the very same person... I'm confused...

Please, CONS, who is this "Beltran"? And what are his connections with the demoscene?

Well, from what I've learnt, when 4x or 8x zooming on some "declared" scan pics, they usually include skin tones that are not natural, both in terms of hue choices (skin features some olive green and too satured reds) and pixel placement (which seems noisy or messy).

This is not a rule, of course, just some general remarks I observed.

from rebels demo "hideout thing" in 1991.
(ed.CONS: link added,thanks!)

It's the black outlines...

The scene is beautiful. Its just between comic and reality, stylewise and that makes it so appealing to me.

I can only agree, this logo looks ace!

Palette is a bit odd but i like the result.

Aw, aw, aw! I know that comic book. Used to love it, when I was younger.

Somehow I like the background very much. It looks so real, lively and volumetric.

not my lovely logo-style, but extremely well painted!

btw, very well b/w painted cd-rom!

Heavily unfinished anyway, ended last in the compo...
(those lame herring-eaters...grrr!!! ;D )

so cute!

Anarkhya: It was around 1995 I think, Photoshop 3 or 4 maybe. It might be hard to identify scan artifacts though because it's all airbrushed over and I think I added a noise filter too.

However, just to expand on the hidden message...yes, this is a paint over job. I loaded a mono scan into Photoshop and airbrushed and painted over it. The idea wasn't to fool sceners, but as it was my first time using Photoshop it was just a way of learning the tools, how to airbrush etc.

there was an obsession to make the things look shinier back then.

Never seen this Made's logo, somewhere between cheesy rock and rocky cheese. According to how Made painted his signature, this must be old stuff.

thanks god, we're not so serious here

Come on, this is demoscene history, superspecular skins! Is there any secret partnership between oil vendors and demoscene graphicians?

this discussion reminds me of a tutorial explaining the walk of dragons... (;

@Ripek: thanks for the steps, can you submit more tags please (eg. date, machine)