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Shadowgrail — Teen Age Barbarian
Published: 2009-08-09 09:17:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 9010; Favourites: 208; Downloads: 0
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Young Conan of Cimmeria....Related content
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Actually, this is pretty close to how he was portrayed in the movie - John Milius actually had Arnold lose a good chunk of weight because, post Mr Universe-or-whatever-it-was, he was just too massively cumbersome to convincingly wield a sword ...
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Just gotta love shirtless jail bait with a big sword.
btw, nice style, lol.
^_^
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This is great. I love the life that you gave to his pose. He looks like he's posing for the camera, my animated folks always look stiff...
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try drawing the pose you have in your mind wit ha stick figure first.... if your stick figure looks like it has balance and flow.. you can then start to fill out the frame with your details and do clean up later!
Hope that helps !
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hey man great stuff love the art. my only thing is the sword doesn't read as conan its more ninja style rather than medieval barbarian style. I would play around with that bit a little try a broad sword or 2 edged battle axe. Still the art kicks major ass rock on carlo!
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I was debating the whole sword type too . hmmnn.. hheh i'll think o somethin' later Tom !
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Nice work as usual, Carlo! Even if we were to go by Kuewa's argument of Conan being at his best with no exact past to visualize, it still works. The reason is that the artist has complete freedom to visualize the past version, with no set canon to restrict his/her ideas. Most of us visualize Conan as the older, grizzled throat-cutting barbarian. I gotta admit, as old-school as I am, I like the idea of a younger Cimmerian, with slightly less experience, but the same meanness and guts...
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heya Steve !
Ya.. thanks bud.. I may try to do this guy in sequentials later.. time permitting .
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I like this bit o innocense teenager look, not yet the big ole veteran barbarian yet...great take Carlo (makes me wonder the what the old Conan would look like...)!
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Woah..great pose man! Great lighting as well...you keep stepping it up!
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Yo, thanks man !
I gotta keep tryin' to push it y'know ?
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this i making me want to read the Conan books and comics now. I've only ever seen the movies but this and the comments by make me wanna read up on Conan!
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Yeah it's hard to find all the Robert E. Howard books but I managed t ofind complete volumes online to read !
they're definitely great reading material.
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Del Ray has recently put the original REH stories (not the Pastiches) into three very nice volumes.
[link]
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Oooo... nice imma hafta look that up ! thanks for the link yo !
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Anything I can do to get more people to read the original works of REH.
Maybe it will inspire more cool art from you.
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I'm sure i'll find them somewhere.
I like the Conan mythos
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I would also definitely recommend the DarkHorse conan trade paperbacks.. especially with Cary Nord's art.
I felt he brought it back to mainstream really well and still kept to the classic mythos of Conan !
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i'll see if my LCS has them if not ebay!!!!!!!!!!
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yeah.. amazon.com also has books.. and MAYBE cheaper. hehe
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AWESOME!!!!!!!! Thanks for the heads up!
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Rofl.. co-Co.. lawl I really should do one of THAT red head.. hehe maybe later !
thanks Sensei !
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show me what ya learn !
seriously, ilike sharing ideas and discoveries.
I learned a couple of things after drawing this one.. hehe
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I learned how you simplified the muscles 
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most of the simplifying part I gotta give credit to Cheeks ! he's the mastah !!!
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totally, but I really love your own touch in this one
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Me too !
but now, Cheeks has me thinking I shoulda drawn one of Conan O'Brien ! hehehe !
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yeah you should do a conan o'brien in that exact pose.
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Thanks Howard !
night owl too huh ? hehe
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Terrific teen Conan version! Despite what said, I think you managed to bring out the unsecure years of Conan warfare and thief skills learning, just after his slavery days!! He is free in a world he doesn't know well, ready to slice it like a hot knife in butter!!!
I really that quite romantic stare he got too, maybe a little far from what we would imagine of a teenage barbarian, but ain't he a teenager before being a barbarian in that very piece?!
Cool deviation, my friend, and keep up the great work!!!
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Aw Kuewe has a valid point.. it's not easy to see the wild man of the north .. be the inexperienced
thief..
Thanks Spiderguile !
I'm still experimenting abit on my designs.. I'll keep at it !
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Have fun with it, shadow friend!
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I always try and keep the fun in mind.. hehe !
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that really nice he have to learn before he become the greatest cimmerian, young teen still a bit innocent ready to fight...I like dat that's coool..
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