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Geez, you are just so talented. All your pictures are great. I hate you
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The best I can do is stick figures. So I do get a little jealous when someone like you draws so well.
The feathers on Dawnstar seem very well drawn.
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From: Boston | Registered: Aug 2003
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Magnifique! I think you should be Barry's fill in artist when he needs a break on the new Legion!
From: Alameda, CA | Registered: Dec 2003
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Why not aspire to it? You've often shown a great deal of kinetic grace or fluid emotion in a static panel. (I'm thinking of your Christmas card right now.) That's what some professional comics artists haven't quite mastered.
She's seeking a particular target ... someone she's tracking? a way out of this desert? What it is doesn't matter much, because her eyes and attention are put forward first. I like the intensity of her gaze, made to shape the rest of her body, including her far-from-relaxed wings.
More is implied here about her than we see in the usual portrait drawing -- it tells a fragment of a story. I very much like the straightforward portraits, but it's a pleasure to also see her in a setting suggesting action.
From: Starhaven Consulate, City of Angels | Registered: Jul 2003
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Thanks for the comments, Greybird. When I say I don't think my drawings are consistent, the proof is in this thread. When you look at the various pics I did, some are more realistics(the dawnstar pics, Sensor girl ...), others have a "cartoony" feel(founders, triad, Mon-El)... it is not made on purpose. But I also think one one my problem is I don't trust myself to be that good...
About the pic: At first, she was supposed to look down, toward the valley, but I thought it was be better to make her look the sky. IMO it was interesting to have a "grounded" winged character, not on the ground but not really in the sky either. She is firmly sitting on the rock, but want to fly away.
By the way, it's not a desert in the background: it is a very distant and very dense forrest on StarHaven(but there was now way you could see it - it is supposed to be too far to see the details).
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From: Berlin | Registered: Nov 2003
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Seriously FK, your stuff is really pretty good. I enjoy looking at your pencils. You put some life into the figures and often show snapshots of their lives. This one and the Gim Allon pic are just wonderful.
If you're worried about consistancy you might try a little of what Dean's been doing and look at redrawing a few pages of sequential art using different camera angles or POVs. You'll find some things you didn't know about your skills as you work through an exercise like that.
From: Smallville Sector : Greater Metropolis | Registered: Jun 2004
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Good idea, YK(and thank for the compliment). I found the other day on the web Mr Waid's script To Superman: Birthright #11. I might draw a few pages one of these day...
From: Berlin | Registered: Nov 2003
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Great Dawnstar Frog Kid! Thank you for sharing it!
There's definitely a story to be told there. To me it looks like she's been wounded, knocked out of the sky by an unseen villian, but is still in the fight and readying herself to soar back into the battle.
This would make a great cover!
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From: The Loser Cave | Registered: Jul 2003
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Beautiful, Froggy. As usual! Any plans to ink and color the piece?![[Smile]](smile.gif)
