I love the Starsearchers and they deserve slavish fan tributes!
Here's the first one that I have. It also celebrates the Spiffany Museum thread coming in March. I hope the little bit of work I did in this Calvin piece does all 3 justice and ya'll enjoy it.
Updated this just a little and I'm more happy with it now!
I redid it a little and gave Spiff MLLASH's Elvis sideburns.
[ March 11, 2010, 12:42 AM: Message edited by: Candle ]
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Heh heh!! Posted by Sketch Lad on :
I can't wait to see Starsearchers fan art!
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Spaceman Spiff is actually a lot like Johnny Comet!
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I was playing in photobucket and found these by blackterrormetal. They remind me of K'zle, duh (and of MLLASH, too, especially the one with the sunglasses!)
[ February 22, 2010, 08:42 PM: Message edited by: Candle ]
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Here's a baby picture of K'zle by Keefer: Aaaawwwwwww!
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I'm finally at a stage with Dr. Battle where I can start doing some renders. Here's a close up head shot, I'll try and get some body shots done tommorrow, though I'm still trying to perfect the body suit. Posted by Candle on :
She's beautiful and a little eerie! You're so good at this.
[ March 12, 2010, 05:37 PM: Message edited by: Candle ]
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Wow! Dedster! That is .... magnificent! Thank you SO much!
Hey, can I use that along with the webcomic? Of course I'll give you full credit!
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Wow, she looks ready to reach through the screen! Fantastic, and fitting.
Dr. Battle gets intro'd in the first pages of issue 2 but it's her scene in the last pages of issue 2 that will really GET ya.
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Thanks Candle, Sketchy and Lash...glad you like the results!
quote:Originally posted by Sketch Lad: Wow! Dedster! That is .... magnificent! Thank you SO much!
Hey, can I use that along with the webcomic? Of course I'll give you full credit!
No prob...I got some full body shots coming for you too.
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Reminded me of a baby K'zle:
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[ March 20, 2010, 02:22 AM: Message edited by: Candle ]
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Starsearcher's Chibis!
These 3 characters were on the title page (1) of the story titled: The Undesirables.
It's the introduction of K'zle and his people on Neptune.
by 0destroyingeffect0
Y'LLO is just a madeup name because we don't find out in the story what he's called. Posted by MLLASH on :
Y'llo works for me, Shady!! KYOOT!
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This is a scene from Iritt's and Hoppa's home world. These are GIANT butterflies from a sentient insectoid tribe from that planet. They are also in competition with the humanoidish tribes on that world:
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I love this one! Another look at Iritt's and Hoppa's homeworld, windmills, to be exact:
It was ment to move but I don't think this version does. posted by ja_ja_eshe_ra
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Works for me.
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They're kind-of hyptonic!
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Here's a different butterfly species from Hoppa's and Iritt's world of dense atmoshere and low gravity, ideal for bugs and plants to flourish in.
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[ April 19, 2010, 02:20 AM: Message edited by: Candle ]
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Thanks for posting those Candle. I'll see if I can somehow incorporate some of those ideas...
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And I'd already planned a visit to Seksha! Yay!
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Nice name for a planet!
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I know I should be writing and not doodling, but I felt doodle-y!
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Awwwwww!
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I just love Dean's designs... he's so freakin' creative...
I wish there was some way for him to benefit financially from all his hard and fantastic work on STARSEARCHERS. Maybe one day there will be.
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There's something really cool about the idea of seeing Lash's interpretation of my interpretation of his characters. Naturally, I wanna see more!
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Hah! How fun is that? I'd love to hang out with Lash and try to figure out how we could be cooler!
Thanks, CanCan!
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I can't stand it anymore!!!! I have to spring my sneaky surprise on everyone here.... a Legion World exclusive....
I've only just begun begging for free Starsearchers pinup art from my pals over at the Comic Book Resources Artist & Writers showcase. Here's the first piece of art offered, by the super creative and vivid imagination of CBRown....
More to come, and the images will be positioned between story sequences when possible.
Cool, huh?
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OMG, this is ridonkulous-level cool!!! Okay, I'm heading over there to join up!!
Seven and Iritt look great!!! Posted by Candle on :
Lovely!
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I posted the image to my Facebook page!
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STARLETTE and THE ELDER...
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KRYSALIS
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I just love Lash's interpretations of Dean's interpretations of Lash's designs!
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Hoppa baby cousin picture:
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real-life DREY...
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Wow, amazing casting!
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Nice.
Here's an original drawing by me, using Paint. Took forever, but I"m pleased. Next time I'll try to use layers and some transparent paints.
I don't know how you two are so quick! sigh
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OOOH!!! I just love that!
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Lovely!
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Well, I finally felt together enough to finish my Neptunian friends chibis drawing! The gumby pull doll was fun to do, as was the fight over it. And my darlin' K'zle and his mom.
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Candlelight, what a wonderful Neptunian scene! I love all the vivid colors - even in the frame.
Thank you!
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I love it too!! Precious!!
Thanks, Shady!! Posted by Candlelight on :
I'm glad you like it, guys.
In Starsearchers you had them be friends. I wanted to show how long ago in their lives that the friendships started, especially since they were all still young when your story of their deaths and recruitment happened.
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Original photo used for the Mharva piece below: CW
[ May 16, 2011, 04:15 PM: Message edited by: Candlelight ]
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This one is ready before the Mharva transformation work, so I can't wait. sigh
Origninal photo is from a fashion shoot, the model is Carmen Dell'Orefice, a or 'THE' Megamodel at 76.
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love!
Posted by Suncat on :
It amuses me to no end, Candlelight, how you are able to make such excellent and fitting 31st century character portraits by using 21st century fashion shoots, often with hardly any manipping.
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I'm pretty sure if there was ever any Starsearchers fan art done by Suncat, I'd lose my mind! (subtle hint?)
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I need to read it first. I am so behind in my reading.
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Sometimes, when I use something like Ink Stamp, which I seem to love recently, the process works quickly and doesn't need much else, sometimes it does. For Starlette, I used the afore mentioned Ink Stamp, then, since the process changed her gloves from black to white, which was great, but I had to fill in finger line and finish areas were the lines didn't connect. The harshness of the inking, meant I had to go into the face and neckline and get rid of some of the cheekbone lines, fill out the mouth while making it slightly smaller, working on her chin/neck and lightening her eyes and underbrows. The background needed a slight amount of work on oneside and after putting her through the poster process, twice, I floffed her hair out of the originial photo borders. And ta-da.
But, you're right on some of them, that's for sure. Rain Forest required nothing but erasing some type in the photo and posterizing. Catspaw got some pupil extensions and fangs but that's all. Kestrel had writing and flames to fill.
It's amazing what's possible on tinypics and paint.
Mharva is pretty involved though. I'm on my second try with her, extending her wings, removing the hands and closing her limbs. Then, I'll do a little coloring, I think.
Anyway, I'm hoping for a scanner soon.
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I wasn't denigrating the work you put in, truly. And appreciate your process notes. I was simply commenting on the ... oddity ... of some high fashion images.
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Thanks! Some images ARE incredibly odd. The McQueen and Chinese shows are really amazing!
The Tom and Lorenzo Fashion site has dozens of shows from all over the world, and fashion shoots, too. They're a huge source of incredible images, as is ANTM.
The internet is so fun!
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Finished! I hope ya'll like it. I tried coloring and found it didn't really add to the image, so I took the drawing back to black and white. (I'll post the original photo in the 'work in progress' slot above for reference if you care to compare. ) original photo of Ann Ward, ANTM winner, cycle 15 Edit: Last Wed. of June - I've updated the image, removing a few glitches that happened when I saved in paint and I tweeked the wings some, too.
[ June 29, 2011, 10:26 PM: Message edited by: Candlelight ]
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VERY cool!
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Something I never ever thought I would see in a million years... my characters in custom-made action figure form!!
Based of course on the designs of the brilliant Dean Lee, these action figures were custom-made by Dean's son (and Starsearchers design consultant) Jake Lee!
JOHNNY COMET
DR. BATTLE
OVERTHINK
OVERTHINK (closeup)
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Wow! Those are AMAZING! How wonderful! Give him a !
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Those are totally awesome. Talent totally runs in your family!
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Well, I hope to do two versions of this one since it's a combination of 2 favs of mine, Iritt and Alexander McQueen designs. What a find the original photo was, so bug like!
I added the upper wing and worked on the lower one where it meets the front skirt in the photo. Then, I played with the effect options on tinypics and most of what you see happened, something I can't figure out how to repeat, lol.
I worked on the face and coloring on the arms, back and legs.
I have to admit, that while she's not an exact copy of Sketch's work or MLLASH's concept, I love her. original photo by Steve Meisle for the Smithsonian book on Alexander McQueen designs
[ June 27, 2011, 09:42 AM: Message edited by: Candlelight ]
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I also love it!! Posted by Candlelight on :
Sighs with relief and joy and satisfaction. Posted by Sarcasm Kid on :
Wow. It's like looking through iridescent infrared.
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Yeah!
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Candle, I love the artwork featuring Mharva and Iritt! Sorry I'm so late in responding.
I'm glad people like the action figures my son customized. It was a thrilling surprise!
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Kids can be wonderful! Posted by Candlelight on :
You guys are so sweet. . . . But you should have told me that Iritt's name was spelled wrong. I corrected it and added antennea.
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Didn't have to do a thing, except posterize this one. The red really played up what I think of as his 'power'. photo is of Alexander Skarsgard from an interview on T&L
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WHOA!!!! Very nice!! Would you mind if I collected these over on the Starsearchers Facebook group?
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