HOME | DD
mikemayhew — X-Men 50 Cover Recreation Painting
Published: 2012-01-05 23:34:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 17254; Favourites: 559; Downloads: 621
Redirect to original
Description
14" X 17" in watercolor.Related content
Comments: 47
We just named our VexRobotics Vexmen team Polaris. Each of the 35 Vex Robotics teams in Brandywine Robotics is named after an X-men. This is an amazing piece of art! Would you mind if we used part of the image on our robot? www.vexmen.com/about/
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I love Steranko, the X-Men and especially Havok & Polaris (my faves). You did them all justice, this is wonderful. I discovered your work in the defunct Wizard magazine in some of your feature articles. Do you have any Havok pics?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
not yet. I should try one though...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Great stuff! I always loved how Steranko used the color green in the original cover and you did it great here. I kind of think it was mistake to have 2 super chicks with the same color costume. Marvel Girl's costume was also green!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Very intense colors!
The reflexions on Ice Man are great!
Keep your good work!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Hey I think someone stole this. c;
[link]
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
**** FOUR STARS. This issue of X-Men with the Steranko cover was one of the few I kept.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
For some reason painted Kirby Krackle is so cool to me.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Great piece of work.
Thanks for sharing...
Featured in Inspirations at hangaroundtheweb.com
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Absolutely stunning. Such wonderful lighting is possible in watercolors?!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Gorgeous, Mike, and my only feedback is that Cyclops and Beast are in the wrong costumes.
[link]
I can certainly understand the error; the colors on the original make it hard to see, but the costumes on this cover are the revised suits they got in X-Men #39
[link]
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
you are correct! Well, like Joe E. Brown says at the end of that movie, "Nobody's perfect."
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
That's true (I am certainly not), and you really have to be a ridiculously anal-retentive fanboy to even notice...LOL!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
The girl on the cover is Polaris, the mistress of magnetism
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Oh!!!! Isn't she related to Magneto?
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
great work!
--
NEW COMMISSION OPEN: [link] 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Great stuff. I like the original, too. (I looked it up.)
You've got a wonderful style. Kinda golden/silver age of illustration. Hyper-Kinetic color. There a great feeling of awe like the X-men are statues frozen in a moment of action.
Thanks for posting.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0