Showing posts with label Iron Fist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iron Fist. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Orson Randall: Iron Fist 1916


Something different? I do these perhaps more often than I draw, though they're much more time consuming and cost a hellava lot more. This is Iron Fist, of which you saw somewhere around my first post. Though while the painting down below is of a more Kung Fu Iron Fist, this is in the WWI style, as there have been many to hold the Iron Fist title over the centuries. He took me about 6 months while I was in England, though most of the work was on and off. He's a random 6 inch action figure beneath, with a BSG Anders head heavily modified above the nose. Everything is cloth save for the boots and hands, which are action figure plastic. The belt is a mix between leather, plastic pouches from the action figure and an Elizabeth Swann bandoleer from the Neca Pirates line. The Lee-Enfield Rifle was made of styrene and 300 hours of time and patience, this thing is homemade down to the tiniest detail. The mud was cheap paint and some of my flatmates's bleached flour. The Base is from McFarlane military figures, repainted.

He stands somewhere around 6-7 inches.



Thursday, August 20, 2009

Watercolors and Failed Comic Books

Ok, I've been messing around with adding some color to my ink drawings and, to be honest, I really don't want to learn digital colored all that bad. I figure, it's probably in my best interests to stick with the brush and let my brush skills benefit from the experience rather than my mouse hand. The first two are Iron Fist and Batman with Poison Ivy (my favorite bat-villain!). Iron Fist had the benefit of a model, Batman and Ivy did not. I think I can see the difference as a lot of guest work is left out in Iron Fist. I think with Batman, the dodgy bits are quite obvious and hurt it overall. My colors... well, I'm not completely satisfied. Don't get me wrong, the color is a nice touch but I made some mistakes on both. I learned the hard way with Iron Fist that you should do your inks AFTER your colors and with Bats, watch out for drawing in pencil too dark and washes with ink won't get as dark as you like.

Anyway, the final two are part of a 6 page comic on Rayna Eclipse that I started months ago. I guess I just lost ambition with it as the script was too loose, the panel layouts ambiguous, the dialogue... unknown. Plus I started using models after page one and it shows. I used a technical pen to ink and that really doesn't give me the line quality I can get with a brush. So if I ever feel the need to re-tackle the story... lessons learned.




 
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