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Thanks Zobragas! The Man only drew the first Silver Surfer and so many countless others... gees people, bone up on your history!
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This is what happens when the youth of America doesn't read the Classics! :P
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Yeah by hand can't be beat, but once you get in the groove with digital, it's like falling over to the Dark Side. You don't understand the POWER!!! Just kidding, here's a super link of links to get you started, some of them aren't there anymore, but a lot are...
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Rapidograph! Man I haven't heard that word in eons... I hated cleaning the buggers, it was almost worth getting a new one then having to clean them all the time. Nice work Nightchill, good luck with the digital in the future...
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Cj admitted to being a die hard Jack King Kirby fan, so I contacted Jack through the great beyond, and he drew this for him...
Kirby Crimson Jimson
Amazing how he got Joe Sinott to ink it too...
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Silly Emma!
Ok I am going to take the time and do a guide on our artists and commissions vs free art with links. I think it's something thats needed to have a place to point new people to art towards.
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The Oprah thing made me spit! Yes I like the shark head, but I likes the shiny skin much betta... good work Juggy!
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I'm probably going to be doing the second one, on account of this is a style I'm dying to get better at... so you're an experiment is what you are... muahahaha... but seriously I will gladly color them all for you eventually, but the second one comes first.
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Emma, see if you like this, if so you can pay me in Influence whenever I'm on Justice... I'll try to finish it later... but I've got Lady Jades to color.
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I appreciate that Crimson... I'm the first to say I don't take crits well, part of the reason I don't ask for them. I mean it was up to the guy to take what I said with a grain of salt, or do whatever they like, I was no way telling them, this is the only way, this is the best way. In the end he said, he didn't care for the anime style, and if this were 20 yrs ago I would have agreed with him.
Back then I never cared for it, and part of that was because I didn't understand it, want to try it, or respect it. Now I see it for what it is, just like anything else, a tool to garner something from.
I don't know about you, but whenever I start a drawing, I first try to excite myself about it, because if I don't like it... how can the person I'm drawing it for like it. Check this out... this is as close to my own individual style that I do without thinking. If you anaylze that you'll find dozens of mistakes, and hopefully dozens of good things.
And this is to say, what I've learned, I've learned from trial and error, and only now am I doing that with anything resembling a traditional approach and or an anime approach to superhero figures. Some of those comments make me feel unappreciated, and I am disheartened to share work for anyone but the intended.
Okay now I'm officially babbling... think I'll take a break. Apologies LJ for whining in your thread.
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Thanks Crimson, gees I didn't mean to start an anime vs comic book style war in the other thread. The person asked for advice, and since someone already took the practice, practice, practice route... I figured for a beginner, learning anime would help to understand more complex styles later on. I was no way implying that someone could pick up anime alone and be a Master... just that the artform itself was a universal way of teaching concepts.
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Very good LJ, probably one of your best. Normally your proportions seem a little off, the stomach usually seems a bit long, but this one is much much better. Not saying your other art is bad btw, just giving my opinion.
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I have Edge of the Page-itis, which means I always draw too large... thus the elongated figures. But believe me I have tried drawing squat correct figures, and they don't seem right to me - aesthetically that is for my own taste. So I tend to draw long and sweeping over compact and powerful.
If you look at Gill Bates' figures, his thighs are consistently thick, and squat... I chalk that up to artistic license and preference. I'm sure he could draw a slender thigh, but most likely to him , "it doesn't seem right" with his own style.
Anyway, after seeing LJ's anime avatar in another thread, I am trying another approach, an anime version of her instead.
LJ, tell me what you think before I go to color...
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The funny thing is even with a lot of training, an art form like Manga & Anime is so easily learnable... that anyone can pick it up. And I mean pick it up and even master it within a year if they put their minds to it.
Manga & Anime is not fine art. It is and can be fine art, however in general it a simple structure tool to showcase someone's imagination. I was watching Howl's Moving Castle the other day, and was just amazed at how much story can be told just from the simplest lines and color.
But what I'm trying to say is, teach yourself this style, and learn the basics. And then teach yourself how to draw normally and apply that back into your Anime work. You'll find that it greatly influences it, because the details you pick up from real life observation only serve to enhance your imaginary images.
This is the difference between any okay drawing and a better one, the amount of details, and how those serve to create a certain style.
Good luck.
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The Final
Hope you like it, I took some liberties with the costume, but I think it does you justice as to who it is... I mean recognizability wise.
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Back when I use to do everything by brush and ink bottle: the 80s!
Dr. Doom & The Thing
Captain America (pencil)
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I'll draw him for an FX trade on my character... send me a pm if yer game.
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Has anyone encountered the two groups of 4 Longbow hovering high above the IP bank? I acidentally jumped too high and aggroed them in 2 waves of pain...
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Just a trial coloring of the first sketch, I'm currently working on the second one, but found some article on coloring in Painter, where this was also inked.
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lol actually it does, now you blew my surprise! I'm actually looking forward to yours, cause it'll be my first take on stoneskin... I already have a screenshot of ya...
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great pose, uh I can't decide who I want to win...
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Awesome website Zobragas!, Forgot to mention the Cuppa piece rocks!
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LOL okay TA before you have a heart attack, it's not what you think, just read my reply in my Mar Dun thread, and you'll get this gag... lol bet I gotcha... wait this could be the Final piece, wouldn't that be a hoot!
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Actually I call them Chatnuts... I developed them after chatting with friends online. They would send me pics, and I would convert them into slightly elongated Peanuts characters. My buddy in High School use to do a great running strip for a bunch of us who knew about it. He did Charlie Brown with a pumpkin on his head running around killing the Peanuts gang one by one, ala Michael in Halloween.
I always thought it was a great gag, so I kind of borrowed it... most of them are inside jokes for an old art website and writer's site I belong to, but now it seems I have new material... YOU PEOPLE!!! muahahahahaha.....
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