The Post-Boot Original Legionnaires ("P-BOLs") Wing will be opening December 1st (November 30th if you can't wait ) so I just wanted to set this up early. We love brand new submissions (stories, poems, prose, novels, artwork, action figures, statues, busts, micros, etchings, etc.) but we certainly want your existing work posted in the galleries too! Come join us on December 1st for the Post-Booty slappin' action!
So many P-BOLs to choose from! XS Thunder Magno Gates Kid Quantum II Kinetix Monstress Gear Shikari and possibly more...?
- The Curatorial Staff of the Museum of Legion Arts
[ December 02, 2004, 08:43 AM: Message edited by: Monkey Eater Lad ]
Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
Bring on the P-BOLs! I did a bunch of sketches and cartoons this time cause I have so many photomanipulation projects right now I didn't have time.
First up, Kid Quantum II (whom I have a larger scan of and is begging to be colored *hint hint* ): Then here's Magno in trouble with and XS:
[ September 17, 2006, 04:00 AM: Message edited by: Monkey Eater Lad ]
Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
Good 'ol Gear: And everyone's favorite P.O.ed insectoid teleporting P-BOL, Gates:
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Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
Thunder: Kinetix and Monstress fighting over an ill-fitting tube top (which clearly, would look better on Princess Crujectra anyways...):
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Posted by Loser Lad on :
Okay, first some reposts...
I've colored two versions of XS, the first drawn by Mike Weringo, the second by Jeff Moy.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Some Post-Boot Orignials mixing it up with some of the non originals.
First is Kinetix and Violet, drawn by Jeff Moy, second is Shikari and Wildfire, from Gina Robotgirl's Chibi Legion...
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Finally, some new stuff, colored for this gallery. First up is Gates, drawn by Jeff Moy. I apologize in advance for the ultra-loud colors on this one. I don't know what that background's all about...
Finally, here's my version of Thunder, pencils by Matt Haley, inked by Tom Simmons. It was originally printed in Legion Secret Files and Origins #2 back in 1999. I found the black and white version of this on Haley's website, and thought I'd give it a go.
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
These are just reposts, but I'll try to get something new up soon...
[ December 01, 2004, 11:13 PM: Message edited by: DrakeB3004 ]
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
MEL, LOVE the KidQ drawing! Thunder, too! I have a drawing of Gear that looks almost just like yours! Coming soon. The Magno cartoon is pretty cute, but Monstress and Kinetix fighting over a tube top is HILARIOUS!! Anyone can say what they want, but I miss the stuff that made people call it the Archie Legion! I suppose it would have been better if there were better adventures to go aside the silliness...
Anyway....
Lou, the colors are great, as always.
DrakeB, yes, we've seen those before, but they're just terrific!
I have some stuff coming soon...
Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
Thanks Sketchy! I had fun (at work) drawing those
I really like Los' coloring, esp. on the drake/shikari toon on the all of the and use of lighting on Drake's XS.
Where's all the other contributions?!? Harbinger? Cru? Cobie? I know there's a lot more creative folks out there!
Here's an old photomanip I did of Rosario "yep, those are my boobies in Alexander" Dawson as XS:
[ September 17, 2006, 04:11 AM: Message edited by: Monkey Eater Lad ]
Posted by Lady Crujectra on :
Sorry I'm late... been kinda swamped lately.
I thought I would do a holiday pic this time, and this is what came to mind. I'm not sure how accurate Gates looks... I was kinda going from memory, and my mind isn't what it used to be
Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
That's awesome Cru! I love it! Though if I saw Santa Gates when I was 4, I'd be scarred by Christmas for life !
Posted by Loser Lad on :
That's actually pretty dead-on for going from memory! Nice work Cru!
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
[ December 02, 2004, 11:27 AM: Message edited by: Sketch Lad ]
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Here's Monkey Eater Lad's awesome Kid Quantum II pic colored.
Funny, in over 4 years since I started working with Photoshop I think this may be the first time I actually used the lens-flare filter. Not sure if I like the effect or not. It kind of kills some of the shading on the right side of her body.
Oh well. Simple solution is to post one with the lens flare and one without. So here they be...
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Cool, Lou! If you go to some of the other artists' sites/message boards, they'll massacre you if you use the lens flare. I, however, still use it and find it can quite enhance certain images. I have to admit, though, that at first, I used it for no reason except cuz it was kewl. Now I actually try to use it like in my above picture and in your above picture, to show that a light source is affecting the "camera."
Posted by Loser Lad on :
I used to compete in the Photoshop contests at Worth 1000 in another lifetime. There the lens flare (and other "gratuitous" use of filters) was considered a Cliche and was disallowed. If you used a lens flare in one of your entries it would be disqualified, period.
I generally don't like to use effects that call attention to themselves, but in this case I thought it was appropriate. The way MEL drew her hand it was obvious she would be summoning her power with it, and the lens flare seemed to be the easiest way to display the use of her power. Still, there was a part of me that felt a little dirty using it, going back to my Worth days... Posted by Loser Lad on :
I have two more Post-Boot Original pics that I colored (actually it's two different versions of the same pic), but I can't post them here due to content. I will link to them however if anyone wants to see them.
The pic is from the Erotic Gallery on Kat's Jeff Moy Sketchboard. The drawing is of Kinetix cooling down on a hot day in her quarters. The pic was originally of her in her "pointy ears and tail" phase, but I altered it to reflect her normal human form as well. I'll link to both versions.
WARNING: Partially veiled nudity in the following links! Don't open at work with your boss standing over your shoulder!
Cru, Lou, Drake, MEL, Dean--awesome! The post-booters are lookin' good! This actually makes me sad that we won't be seeing these guys anymore (for awhile at least).
Dean, I have a feeling the posters of LW will be FIGHTING like crazy for that Kinetiz pic as they're avatar . Poppin' Hotties!
Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
Wow, Lou, she's lookin'awesome in color! Love the shading, thanks! And Sketchy, man those have got awesome attitude to them! The three of them look like they could start a pop group together! Move over Beyonce, Kelly, and that other girl, Inevitability's Offspring are takin' over!
Posted by minesurfer on :
I feel so dirty now... like after Hughes' Dream Girl Cover. Very nice work indeed on the OPBs people, very nice indeed.
Gonna go take a cold shower now...
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Thanks you guys! I got some nifty new pens, so I couldn't resist inking the Jazmin drawing. I was concerned about losing some of the "life" in the Zoe drawing, so I didn't ink it and the Thunder drawing just feels right as a sketch. I still have a couple other PB Original characters that I've sketched, but they're not done yet.
Posted by dedman on :
awesome pics dean
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Got some more coloring done. Here's Monkey Eater Lad's Thunder colored.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
And here's Dean's Kid Quantum II.
Posted by HighPriestess Viviane on :
Lou: On you KQII pic with the lense flare(?), it looks really good. And you used it perfectly, there this one artist, Chris...something something, who completely over does it, put your use (and Dean's, because I look over his stuff a lot) was right on.
Posted by HighPriestess Viviane on :
quote:Originally posted by Sketch Lad:
AWESOME!!! FANTASTIc!
Beyond words.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by HighPriestess Viviane: Lou: On you KQII pic with the lense flare(?), it looks really good. And you used it perfectly, there this one artist, Chris...something something, who completely over does it, put your use (and Dean's, because I look over his stuff a lot) was right on.
Thanks Viv. I had to tone down the effect quite a bit to get it to work the way I wanted it to without completely obliterating the lighting I was trying to establish. Looking back at it a day or so later I'd say I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out now.
And Dean, why not repost the Moy Kid Q and Shikari you posted for Kat's challenge? That definitely belongs in this gallery!
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Lou, great job coloring the Kid Q picture! Thank you very much!
Thanks for the nice words, too, Viv!
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Any time Dean! Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
Thanks for the color assist Lou! Great gallery update so far...
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
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Posted by Basilios on :
Drake, your work is fantastic, just recently discovered it. Its good to see your use of angles. What artists inspire you??
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
There are plenty of artists I admire, but in terms of the development of my style I sometimes spot in my drawings early influences like Walt Simonson and Keith Giffen (which is odd since, unlike Simonson, I never copied from Giffen). Thanks for the nice words
[ December 04, 2004, 07:56 PM: Message edited by: DrakeB3004 ]
Posted by HighPriestess Viviane on :
quote:Originally posted by DrakeB3004:
This is turning out to be my favorite Museum! Posted by Loser Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by HighPriestess Viviane: This is turning out to be my favorite Museum!
Agreed!
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Had to color a couple of Drake's contributions. Hope you don't mind...
Kinetix:
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Thunder:
Haven't had time to get to the Gates yet, but I still might do that one.
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
Awesome job, Loser Lad! I certainly don't mind - I'm honored (actually, I was kinda hoping - I love it when a plan comes together). Can't wait to see Gates!
Posted by dedman on :
Great Pics Drake
And excellent colour work Loser
Posted by Yellow Kid on :
Reboot did a really sweet version of this one but I had this almost complete so I'll drop it into this thread anyway.
Posted by Reboot on :
quote:Originally posted by Yellow Kid: Reboot did a really sweet version of this one but I had this almost complete so I'll drop it into this thread anyway.
Wasn't that one, it was the other one with her in that costume/with the Eye. I DID do a quickie version of that one once upon a time a year ago, but I don't know what I did with it.
Anyway, since YK flagged it up:
[Fixing link]
[ November 01, 2012, 01:41 AM: Message edited by: Reboot ]
Posted by Yellow Kid on :
Oh my. Somewhere in the back of my mind I had these two tagged as the same sketch. Must have been a mnemonic misfire. I like that Eye a lot, it's got real power.
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Drake! Those are terrific drawings! Loser Lad's colors are great on them, too. This has been a very lively gallery exhibit! Nice to see color work from Yellow and Reboot, too.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Thanks everybody for your compliments on my colors. And thanks to Drake, Dean and Kevin for providing such awesome stuff to work on! I'd have nothing to contribute to these galleries if it wasn't for the work of artists like yourselves. Take a bow all!
Here's Drake's Gates colored...
Posted by antacidlass on :
Wow, thats really nice Loser Lad.....Actually all you guys (and girls?) are fantastic artists.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Thank you ma'am!
Posted by dedman on :
Got a new Shiakri manip in the works....will post when done. Actually i think i'll go do some work on it now.
Posted by Monkey Eater Lad on :
Wow talk about popular gallery wings -- we're making a killing at the gift shop off the P-BOLS Nude Sketchbook !
Guys, gals, and "other", feel free to go back to old gallery wings and populate them with new stuff. There's links from the first post of this thread if you don't want to go hunt for them...
Posted by Lady Crujectra on :
If anyone should feel inspired to add some color to my Gates pic, I have no problem with that Posted by Loser Lad on :
I'm actually already working on yours Princess. Just haven't had time to get it finished yet.
Posted by dedman on :
Shakari's Finished
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Cool manip Deddy! I know you had some other P-BOL manips that you did back in the day. Don't be shy about reposting them here! I'm sure there are some people who haven't seen them before who would enjoy seeing them!
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Here's Crujeckie's Gates colored. I had to reduce the image size a bit to keep the file size managable for posting. If anyone wants the full sized colored version let me know and I can send it to you.
I couldn't resist "Legionizing" the presents in Gates' bag a bit. So, that's a Brainy teddy bear, a baby Tinya doll, Bouncing Boy basketball, and of course, a little yellow and red rocket ship in there.
Posted by Lady Crujectra on :
Wow! That looks way cool! I wish I had thought to "Legionize" the gifts myself... it's anice touch Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Ded! Great job on the Shikari manip! I especially like the wings!
Lou and Cru are a great team!
Loser Lad-- official colorist of the Galleries!!!
Posted by Greybird on :
Many great creations in this thread, I'm sorry I haven't been giving nods to all of them yet, but they deserve it.
Shikari looks exotic and ... I don't know ... substantive, somehow. Maybe it's seeing her outfit with gray fabric, rather than having the illusion that it was her skin that was exposed. The ears are an elegant touch. Were they pointed in the books?
And as to Gates (never one of my faves), that's one of the first depictions of him to make me smile, though I doubt he'd be doing much to celebrate a holiday as bourgeois as Christmas!
Posted by dedman on :
Thanks everyone, glad you liked the manip.
quote:I know you had some other P-BOL manips that you did back in the day. Don't be shy about reposting them here!
Loser.....i was planning on starting a new thread for just that purpose
quote:Ded! Great job on the Shikari manip! I especially like the wings!
Thanks!.....they were compliments of a dragonfly:)
quote:Shikari looks exotic and ... I don't know ... substantive, somehow. Maybe it's seeing her outfit with gray fabric, rather than having the illusion that it was her skin that was exposed. The ears are an elegant touch. Were they pointed in the books?
They sure were Grey.....might have a manip just for you soon too Posted by Loser Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Lady Crujectra: Wow! That looks way cool! I wish I had thought to "Legionize" the gifts myself... it's anice touch
Glad you like it! I didn't think you'd mind if I altered it just a smidge.
I originally planned on just throwing the rocket ship Clubhouse in there. Then about half way through it I got the idea to make the other presents into Legionesque ones. Now that I'm looking at it again I should have put name tags on the various gifts. The Legion Clubhouse to Rokk, Tinya doll to Jo, Brainy bear to Lyle, etc. Oh well. Still pretty happy with it as is.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Sketch Lad: Lou and Cru are a great team!
We are, aren't we!
quote:Loser Lad-- official colorist of the Galleries!!!
As honored as I am by that, I by no means want anyone to think that they're not welcome to try their hand at coloring any of these pics themselves. Even (especially) the ones I've already done.
I know that's not what you meant Dean, but I just want everyone to know that I'm not trying to monopolize anything here. I've just had a bit of extra time the past couple of days, so I've been able to take on a few extra projects.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Greybird: And as to Gates (never one of my faves), that's one of the first depictions of him to make me smile, though I doubt he'd be doing much to celebrate a holiday as bourgeois as Christmas!
The cool thing about that pic is the look on Gates' face. Yes, he's playing Santa, but he definitely does not look happy about it in the least. It's almost as if he's doing it against his will, which I think does fit his character quite well.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by dedman: Loser.....i was planning on starting a new thread for just that purpose
Cool. That'll work too then! Hope we get to see some more new ones soon too!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by Greybird: And as to Gates (never one of my faves), that's one of the first depictions of him to make me smile, though I doubt he'd be doing much to celebrate a holiday as bourgeois as Christmas!
No doubt Gates developed a fondness for the lyrics of Arlo Guthrie while in the 20th century:
Santa Clause has a red suit He's a communist And a beard, and long hair Must be a pacifist What's in the pipe that he's smoking? Posted by Lady Crujectra on :
quote:Originally posted by Loser Lad: The cool thing about that pic is the look on Gates' face. Yes, he's playing Santa, but he definitely does not look happy about it in the least. It's almost as if he's doing it against his will, which I think does fit his character quite well.
I'm glad that came through a little. It was the look I was going for, but found it hard to convey with really only the pupilless eyes and body language to work with. There's only so much expression you can put into a beak Posted by Lady Crujectra on :
quote:Originally posted by Loser Lad: As honored as I am by that, I by no means want anyone to think that they're not welcome to try their hand at coloring any of these pics themselves. Even (especially) the ones I've already done.
Personally, I'm thrilled. I can do some very simple coloring, but nothing compared to what you do. So anytime you want to colorize me, I'm all over it Posted by Lady Crujectra on :
Keeping with my holiday theme, here's Kinetix. Again, I've never tried drawing her before, so my apologies to her fans if I messed her up at all
Posted by Loser Lad on :
It's great Jeckie! See, the great thing about Kinetix is that she changed so much over time that you can draw he just about any way you'd like and still be right!
You can draw her with a skirt, and guess what? You're right! You can draw her with a cape and puffy sleeves, and guess what? You're right! You can draw her with pointy ears and a tail and guess what? Right again! Hell, you can even draw her as a 7 foot tall evolutionary nightmare with no nipples that walks around naked all the time! It's a win-win situation!
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Wow, Lady Cru, it's weird that you've never drawn Zoe before this. She's seems like your cup of tea...
Your drawing is very good. Wouldn't it be nice to have her powers when decorating for Christmas? Especially for positioning lights! I hope Lou finds time to color this one, too.
Posted by antacidlass on :
I like it Lady Crujectra
Posted by minesurfer on :
Here's what I've got on these guys and gals. They're all from the fall of 2003. I've actually made some 'improvements' to some of these since these pics were taken, but I don't have new pics up on the web yet.
Thunder is the one figure that I've actually made two of. I basically had an attack of kindness and gave this figure away. Glad I got that out of my system.
I have since added more legs to Gates and joined his head to his body better so that you can't see his snap.
Xs is still the same.
I've added eyes to Jazmin since this picture was taken. Some day, now that I have a little more confidence, I'm going to remake this figure. For now though, she'll do.
I've added a tail and a tattoo to her face since this picture was taken.
[ August 03, 2007, 09:36 AM: Message edited by: minesurfer ]
Posted by dedman on :
COOL FIGURES!!!!!!!
did you sculpt them yourself? (i'm assuming you did)....and what did you use?.....too cool, way too cool Posted by minesurfer on :
Thanks Dedman. Welcome to the Board and let me say excellent work on your manips.
For the most part, my figures are pieces of other figures that I've cut up and epoxied back together to give the illusion that I want. There are some elements of my custom figure that I've sculpted myself... boot cuffs, bracers, Cos' shoulder things, some hair, and the like. The only body parts I've sculpted from scratch are Gates' and Tellus' heads.
For fine detail work, I like to use Super Sculpey or Premo. These are PVC clays that cure when you heat them. They're not sticky to work with which is why they are good for details. The drawback is that even when they are cured, they are still easily damaged.
Recently I've started using products like Kneadatite and Magic Sculp. These are 2-part epoxie clays that cure to be very hard. Kneadatite is a little more flexible when cured, but they both are excellent products. The problem with these two are that they are very sticky to work with and you only have about an hour or two of working time before they start to cure. They're still sandable once cured, but they both provide alot more strength than the heat cured clays.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Here's Cru's Kinetix colored...
Posted by Lady Crujectra on :
Wow! That turned out great, Lou!
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Thanks! It was fun. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out too.
Posted by Morgaine of the Faeries on :
She's pretty.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Wow! Amazing work, everyone!
Posted by dedman on :
nice colours loser.
Posted by minesurfer on :
I forgot about my Monstress figure, I believe she qualifies for this wing of the museum:
[ August 03, 2007, 09:35 AM: Message edited by: minesurfer ]
Posted by Loser Lad on :
That she does!
Interesting choice to paint her in her original She-Hulk ripoff green-skinned appearance. Was this done before her look changed or did you just prefer that look for her?
Love your customs by the way, but I believe I've told you that before.
Posted by minesurfer on :
Don't fret it Ded. You can really never hear that enough.
I finished Monstress in the Spring of 2004 so basically I could have gone with any look. I went with the green skin, basically because that's how I remember her. Orange seemed like change for change's sake in the comics. Not only that, but when Coipel got a hold of her, he made her a little too simian for my tastes. I wanted her to be muscular, bright, feminine, and thick, but not ape-y.
Usually when I'm in a dilemma on which paint scheme, I tend to go with first appearance looks as far as the reboot goes. With Monstress here, orange can be a pain in the rear to paint... acryllically speaking of course. Green seems to cover and look better in general. The only color I dislike painting more than orange is yellow. It can take upto six or seven coats to get it looking right.
Posted by Loser Lad on :
Cool. As far as Monstress goes though, I don't think the change was for change's sake (though it was played off that way in-continuity), but more to avoid being sued by Marvel for appropriating one of their copyrighted characters!
Anyhow, I hear you about certain colors being more troublesome to work with than others. I find the same thing when doing my coloring. Can't stand working with red. It doesn't look right when shading, and it gets really messed up by jpeg compression when saving. I usually color all my red layers in blue, which takes shading much better, and then change the color with a hue/saturation adjustment layer after I'm done to make it look red. That's how I did all the reds on the Thunder pics I colored here, and most of the the pics I've colored in my Gallery. Much easier to "cheat" in Photoshop than with real paint! Posted by dedman on :
quote:Originally posted by minesurfer: With Monstress here, orange can be a pain in the rear to paint... acryllically speaking of course. Green seems to cover and look better in general. The only color I dislike painting more than orange is yellow. It can take upto six or seven coats to get it looking right.
I do my painting in acrylic too and i find i have the same problem with yellow too (as well as oranges and reds) However I've found using a base coat of Ivory helps the paint show up as its meant to much easier. Hope this helps
Posted by dedman on :
Interesting technique loser, never thought of trying something like that before....i'll give it a go next time i'm having a shading problem
Posted by Reboot on :
quote:Originally posted by Reboot:
quote:Originally posted by Yellow Kid: Reboot did a really sweet version of this one but I had this almost complete so I'll drop it into this thread anyway.
Wasn't that one, it was the other one with her in that costume/with the Eye. I DID do a quickie version of that one once upon a time a year ago, but I don't know what I did with it.
Found it when I was looking for something else there, and since I mentioned it... (bear in mind this was done over a year ago (on the 10th of August 2003 according to the "File Created" date) in about 5mins during a chat just to show off the colour scheme I was thinking of, and no more)
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Posted by Candle on :
Wow ~ I got some new Chibis! I'm absolutely greedy for them! Here's one, by Gina and Loser Lad. He's from the reboot but the words refer to the retroboot Thom in the past who's so mentally ill.
Posted by Candle on :
I so love Gina's work! Posted by Candle on :
And these are colored by Loser Lad, of course! Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Great fun!
Posted by Sarcasm Kid on :
Holiday Monstress by Jeff Moy
Posted by Sarcasm Kid on :
Does Gazelle count even if she was 3Boot? By Francis Manapul.
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) so I just wanted to set this up early. We love brand new submissions (stories, poems, prose, novels, artwork, action figures, statues, busts, micros, etchings, etc.) but we certainly want your existing work posted in the galleries too! Come join us on December 1st for the Post-Booty slappin' action!
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