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Published: 2012-03-11 21:45:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 1276; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 29
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I moved over to the Marvel Universe for this one, it is done as a gift for a friend's oldest son who dressed as Wolverine for Halloween. I took some liberties with his uniform, but given how much it has changed over the years I didn't feel too bad about it.It is a pencil drawing I scanned into a blueline to ink over the top of, then scanned again and composed with the background then I colored him up with copic markers.
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That outfit looks like armor of some kind. Which makes a lot of sense, honestly. Would you want to go around getting shot and getting your soft, vulnerable painful insides getting torn up just because you could heal them back up?
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Very cool! I think you captured him dead on! Great uniform too!
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Thanks! I liked how he turned out, I need to try and make another a little more action oriented.
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That'd be cool! Can't wait to see.
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This is awesome! Great work! I really like your anatomy style. Wolverine still looks pissed lol.
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Dang, I really like the process you go through for a cool rendering! AND, the liberities are actually IMPROVEMENTS -- I see all the "brown" elements of his costume to be "leather," with the thick, raised seems and the chunky-thick cowl (LOVE the shortened "points" on his mask, BTW). A terrific rendering, Mike, and just love the backdrop, too. Brilliant, Sir.
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Thanks! There are times where I wonder if all of it is worth it, but I am glad you recognize the effort! I have to take a look at what others do with the character sometimes to get a feel for them. I primarily read comics in the 80's and early 90's and I know that they have evolved so much since then, but I still feel like that that era are the "Right" versions of those characters. I am going to have to try another technique that I have read about where the illustrator reverses the image to make sure that it is proportional and looks right.
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Geez, Mike, I'm not so sure they've really been evolving... I stopped "active" reading (meaning, I stopped my weekly robotic buying at the comic book shop) back in 1999, and only pick-and-choose from the reprinted graphic novels or collections (the industry got smart with the re-pubs). I can tell you that, at that time, the artwork was getting so complex that it was hard to figure out what was going on -- emphasis on computer color, breaking the panel barrier, super-gloss paper, all these made it harder to simply enjoy a comic book (in my humble opinion). Just yesterday I received Volume One of Kirby's Fourth World combined reprints, and it's a historic joy to read, with NON glossy paper, and computer coloring that was designed to mimic the 1970's four-color process. That simple joy, from the seveties... ahhh!
So, making a character simplifies, and more exact, as you've done with Logan, seems to be a step in the right direction, for me!
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I like the rough look of his uniform. Works for his tough guy image.
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Thanks! I wasn't sure which version of his uniform to go with, so I kind of made up one. When I started reading comics in the 80's he had the tan and brown uniform which is what I consider his "real" one. I know that he has bounced around in various get ups over the years, but wanted to at least have the tans in this drawing.
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sweet. definatly my kind of take on a character. Ok, well it was your take on the character, but you know what I mean.
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Of course 
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Thanks! He was drawn as a gift for a friend's child, so I didn't want to get too gritty
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