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Published: 2004-04-12 20:51:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 18371; Favourites: 171; Downloads: 2856
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I know the Big Pun is about to hit the big screen, soooooooo here is another fan art with some washed out colors.Art: Sean "Cheeks" Galloway
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rwks!
looks like the drawings from humberto ramos
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blue and brown combine well ^^ like bare trees and snow do.
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you know what else? creamy white skin pressed against yellow/brown skin wrapped in a red sheet for cuddling.
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that's the only painted picture in my mind. i want to paint more for you
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=@_@= 
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maybe we can buy new ones after each one is done, i wanna hold onto the memories of each brush
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try it with black hair spiked back... love the pose and the lines...
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Damn nice work. You've got a very cool unique style! Awesome work!
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Da-amn! Did the Punisher movie all ready come out? 
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thanx! Hellboy was good, but Punisher was questionable
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THis is pretty cool, and as for the movie...well I won't talk about that.
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lol thanx, and me either
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very interesting.
can't wait to see the movie!!!
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That is awesome man. I love the style. I'm a huge Pun fan, and I wasn't really looking forward to seeing the movie. It was probably that stupid "Let the bodies hit the floor" crap in the trailers.... but I've recently seen some clips from the movie and I'm totally psyched about it now. Awesome drawing man.
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damn this kicks ass, how are you doing that?
cu martin
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lol thanx. Do what??!! lol
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Frank needs hair club for mass murderers. Does suit him though. Great pose, IIIII like it.
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Very creative and original take on the character...I think the bald head and dead expression work very well for old Frank...Nice job..
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damn, thats one punisher screaming attitude
love it,
greetings Soulrailer
ps Ill be watching you
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i like thomas jane...but he is soooo not frank castle..that was a dumb casting job
this tho is a great fanart job
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What are you doing to get that washed out color look is it lowering the saturation? I like the way it looks. Nice pose by the way. But I think Nomad can kick his butt.
Later Bro.
J.Scott
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Thanx, J! I lowered the opacity of the paintbucket.
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After you get done with the venom project, push for a punisher one! this and the other one rock!
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lol thank you! i don't think my cartoony style will set with them, but who knows?
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Who knows, marvel is a tough mistress, but I just liked the fresh approach on it. Comics from marvel are kind of in a slump I think. Its good to see fresh art and take's on old characters. Or just new ideas compeltely.
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thank you, unfortunately Marvel is trying to weed out the cartoony styles...I do agree with you tho
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There is plenty of companies that are welcoming them though. Maybe one that is more flexible, of course you sacrifice the big name of marvel. :\
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I am nbot too concerned about the big names anymore. i finally did what I set out to do. Here is an interesting interview by Mike Weiringo:
As to the dilemma of being a "cartoony" artist in the comic book industry........
I make the mistake of haunting a lot of message boards-- and as you said yourself-- it's always very discouraging... and more than a little infuriating... to read the kind of comments from folks who knock my work for being either "too cartoony" or "too manga". The manga comment I just don't get anyway, since my stuff doesn't look at all manga to me. I think that many people who don't know the difference tend to equate cartoony with manga. They're just ignorant like that. I think one of the biggest problems with the current market is that the fan base has shrunk down to fans who, for the most part, still want their "sooperhero" fix, even though they're probably closer to MY age than yours (I'll be 41 in June). And BECAUSE they still only want to read about their beloved heroes in long underwear, they want to feel legitimized-- so they want their stories to be preachy, full of dialogue, and hard-core smut (better known as "mature comics"), and they want their artwork to be as "realistic" as possible. ALL so that they don't feel guilty about still liking superhero comics, even though many of them have kids who are the same age they were when they started reading comics. I'm in an email group-- and we refer to these folks as "Babymen". "Adults" who don't want to let go of their beloved childhood characters-- but who need to have them done in an "adult" manner to feel good about their choice of not growing up in terms of their reading choices.
And then, there's another contingent that I think just don't have any damned imagination. These are the folks who might be in their late teens or in their 20's who cry about the fact that every nut and bolt isn't drawn and the characters look "incomplete" because they're not covered in rendering or hatching. They're the folks who don't have the mental capacity to appreciate good, open artwork and have atrophied imaginations from too much XBOX and PLAYSTATION2 and therefore can't USE that imagination to help themselves enjoy a good, energetically done comic book. It's all got to be spelled out for them by folks like Alex Ross, J.G. Jones, Alex Maleev and that whole host of guys who are slaves to the photo reference. Look, when Jim -freaking-Lee is still the hottest ticket in the comics biz after all these years, you gotta know that things have stagnated to a terrible degree. He's not one of the photo guys, but I use him as an example to point to the fact that there's not much new under the sun in what fans appreciate anymore. He's still good, I'll admit-- but his work hasn't changed since I was drooling over his X-MEN work some 15 years ago or so-- in fact, it's gone downhill somewhat. And yet, there he is, still carrying DC on his shoulders. Him and Michael Turner, now.
There are quite a few fans out there that DO dig on cartoony stuff, but I get the feeling that there's not enough of them to support a "movement" anymore. I see more criticism of Humberto Ramos's version of SPIDER-MAN than I do praise-- and that's just wrong.
I only own TWO issues of ULTIMATE X-MEN, and those are the two done by Kaare Andrews. I only own two issues of ELEKTRA, and those are the two drawn by Carlos Meglia.
It's the exact opposite in the "real world". Look at the comic strip pages in the newspapers. The day of the adventure strip and the soap opera strip done by folks like Alex Raymond and Stan Drake are gone. ROSE IS ROSE, ZITS, BOONDOGGLE, MUTTS and on and on rule the roost. DILBERT is one of the most .... I guess "blankly"...drawn comic strips out there. It's so basic-- but everyone who works in a "DILBERT" type situation can connect and project themselves into that strip. Look at the popularity of cartoons like TEEN TITANS on Cartoon Network, the Nickelodean stuff like FAIRLY ODDPARENTS, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS and the like. Heck-- it's no suprise that the Happy Face is the most recognized symbol in the world. It's the open-ness that allows people to project themselves onto those characters that makes them so popular. It sparks peoples' imaginations. Look at the majority of manga being sold. For the most part, it is very open, with little or no backgrounds, simple character designs and very broad pacing. But the subject matter is very diverse and caters to a super-broad spectrum of interests, from romance to horror to action adventure to fantasy and beyond.
In american comics-- look at who used to be the masters back in the 60's. Kirby, Ditko, Romita for Marvel and Infantino, Sekowski and others for DC. Then, go back and look at their work. Lots of open figures, very cartoony-- cracker box buildings, pages of fight scenes with little or no backgrounds. Could these artists get away with this kind of thing today? Not likely.
Here's how bad it's gotten: I was just talking with a close friend of Rob Haynes a couple of weeks ago. DC has scrapped the KID AMAZO graphic novel that Rob has ALREADY FINISHED, because they took a long look at it, and thought that they couldn't sell it because the art is too.... avant garde. MY words. I don't know what term they would have used. But Rob's doing amazing stuff-- pushing the envelope. And the higher-ups can't appreciate that. They would have preferred, I'm sure, that his work look more like Leonard Kirk, Steve Sedowski, Drew Johnson, and all the other guys who draw like third-rate Adam Hughes's or something like that. I know these guys draw incredibly well-- but when I look at that kind of stuff, my eyes glaze over. It just bores me. I'm sure that if Ed McGuinness's work wasn't a PROVEN seller, he'd get no work out of DC either.
And you mentioned rumblings inside Marvel about them cutting down on using cartoony or manga guys. Well, it's true. I heard it from the mouth of my very own editor. He told me that they would be using people like Carlos Meglia (who is a friggin' GENIUS) and people who draw in that vein much less, if at all. I told him he was hitting a little close to my back yard with that policy, and he told me not to worry-- that I strike enough of a balance of what they're looking for that I don't have to worry. But really, all that does is reinforce my fears that I will never, as long as I'm working for Marvel and DC, be able to push my work in the direction I would ultimately like to get it to. I feel now that if I did that, I would alienate the editors at those companies.
So, in the end-- I really have no advice for you, I'm afraid. I guess if I were to say anything, it would be to find a way to bring in income doing something you can enjoy (like your licensing work) to pay the bills-- and then find opportunities, whether it's at Marvel and DC or self-publishing at Image or somewhere else, where you can do the kind of work that you enjoy and can have the kind of fun doing comics that you like to do. The biggest eye-opener and disappointment I've found about the comics biz personally, is that it has been no where NEAR the fun I used to have drawing comics for myself laying on the floor of my parents' house when I was a kid. That was pure joy. Just letting my imagination go in any and every direction, getting completely absorbed by the wonder and thrill of drawing from my own imagination. WORKING in the comics industry has turned into just that: work. And at this point, I've got a mortgage and other debts that I have to have a steady income for-- so I feel a bit trapped. So, if you've got a way to create other forms of income using your talent, and you can get enjoyment from that-- then by all means do it. Create your own opportunities where you can. I'm hoping to find ways of doing that myself soon. Hopefully I can branch out to other forms of entertainment like animation and video game character design, storyboards, or whatever would give me the freedom to create the kinds of comics I want to create. After all, that's what it's all about, right? That's what we all dreamed of doing as that little kid laying on the floor drawing our crude little comic adventures.
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Wise words. I think, you have the creativity and style that you could do animation or character concept stuff. I heard it pays more anyways.
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Oh the true true part was for the article was wise. Thank you for thinking of me as having creativty and style!
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True True.. I think it's time for me to look for an agent...Thanx again!
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