Well folks here's my contribution to this esteemed forum hope y'all enjoy and let me know what you think.


**incase your scratching your head, this first drawning i did was for the Yahoo LsHRPG. it's Element Lad (in more of a Monk phase) Colossal Boy,(i took alittle from the Cockrum era Costume & mixed it with the Sw6 era costume to come up with that outfit.) next is Thunder, and Dream Girl.**

heres my spin on a new costume for Shady.


and this one is a little different design on Dawny:


and here's CeCe:

Kid Quantum 2

LJ, your images are undoubtedly appearing here for you, but not for those who aren't signed in to MSN Groups with a .NET Passport ID.

Edit: Nor, apparently, for those with a .NET Passport ID other than your own -- mine doesn't work.

Take a look at the stickied thread at the top of Bits for information about several alternatives to store and "hot-link" your images effectively, all of them free to use.

Here's Laurel Gand: Andromeda

Sorry for the mix up folks, finally got it right thanks to Greybird,

You're very kind, LJ. Do try the free hosting at ImageShack , folks, it's a lot faster to use and more intuitive than some of the other alternatives -- such as MyWebpage.netscape.com, which once worked well, but is now slow and erratic.

These are marvelous sketches! (Or DC-ous {grin}) Vibrant and realistic body types, especially in contrast among that quartet. You have an excellent grasp of humanoid proportion and anatomy. I'd love to see these colored by one of our intrepid folk (hint!), especially the Andromeda and (o'course) Dawnstar.

I agree. Very very nice, John. I started to complain about the ladies hips but Grey's correct, they look more like real people than I usually see in comics.
Jasmin in particular actually looks like a real "lady of color" as opposed to just being colored that way. She's even got the body language and attitude to accompany the part.
Well done.

John, what Legion Yahoo group are you a part of? Caroline and I (more her than myself for the last while) are members of a number of Legion based Yahoo RPGs. Why do I feel like I should know you and will feel real stupid when I find out.

Spectacular pencils john, really well done

don't feel silly Scott, i'm Thunder over at Kel's Superboy's Legion RPG. hope you and prince Garth come back real soon ok?

Greybird,Yellow Kid,Dedman, thank you for the kind words

Very nice JOHN, it does make a nice change to see women drawn with more realistic shapes. Thunder and Kid Q are my favourites.

More, more, more!!!

Thanks John! Should've realized you were Thunder from your avatar. Prince Garth is one of my two favorite Garth's that I play(ed) and I do hope one day to return to the fold. Maybe I'll surprise Kel soon with a post.

BTW, I love the piece you did for Kel's game. Especially for Evan's Jan. It looks great!

Particularly lovely Jazmin! Let's see some more L. John.

Here's my design for the Dragonmage over at Kel's Legion

Another really nice job on Dragonmage John, like the dragon design too!!!

Thanks again Dedman.

I've seen your thread on here for quite a while, but was never able to see the images until now. Well, they're very good! The Andromeda is a classic. It'd be great if you could ink and color these, too.

These are very good John. Thanks for sharing them!

Had a chance to color the Thunder. Hope you like it. When I get a chance I may do some of the others.

Loser Lad AWESOME coloring job, like all your other colorings bravo!!!! i've got to learn how to do Photoshop.

this is my restyled Mysa Nul aka: the White Witch from Superboy's Legion over at Yahoo

here's a few more i managed work on.



here's a little different version of Romie i did

and Saturn Girl

i was honored to have this Sketch i did of Saturn Girl touched up and inked by non other than ChrisCross him self.

i was inspired by Lil'Knowjack to go and dig out these drawing i did back in '92 or '93 when DC launched the Sw6 Legionnares book







and this one i did back then was a submisson to an old comics magazine called Hero's Illustrated they use to have a contest every month and if your submission was picked it would be the cover of that months issue,....couldn't find the finished colored copy but enjoy.


didn't get chosen but i had fun doing it back then.

i think this speaks for itself

John very sexy Saturn Girl. Love the alternate Andromeda outfit and Dawny! Great stuff man.

Hi John - a question for you - who is the guy next to Catspaw? (to her immediate right)?

Hi John! *jumps* *waves*

Now that I knew who to look for here, I could find your works. I think my favorite is your redesign of Dawnstar. I'll be watching your thread now.

I really like that Supergirl picture. You make her look strong; recent artists seem to avoid that.

Wow--I am embarrassed to say I missed this thread until now. Love that you were 'inspired' by me to bring out your older artwork!

Excellent stuff! Keep it coming!

Suncat,Arachne & Knowjack, thanks for the complaments.

here's a pic of Jan before he became the
progenitor;

and the next group of pic are more redesigns of Legionnaires that i did from the Superboy's Legion RPG over at Yahoo.


this is Tinya who goes by the code name Banshee.

and this is Jo Nah who goes by the name Rogue

Kent Shakespeare

and this is Starbolt aka Thom Kallor
of the Legion and the legendary Star Knights

This is my favorite out of this set of redesigns. I'm a sucker for bell sleeves.

thanks Suncat all i really did was keep the basic
bellsleves & bottoms from her pre-boot era costume and merged it with Phase's L.e.g.i.o.n
costume with the black top and the black area down the middle.

ok now something non-Legion i just got the Modern Masters vol #2 book on George Perez and i was inspired to Draw Wonder Woman in his style with curly hair making her look more greek than anglo as so many artist have drawn her nowadays

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here's a link to a bigger pic if needed

Wow John... Perez ain't got nothin' on you!

Seriously, this stuff is great. Maaaajor props.

Wow John, I love this design and pic of Tinya.

Thanks Cobalt Kid and Caliente.

Oh my God! How is it you've drawn such an outrageously good picture of my character, and yet I've never seen it?!? You've got to show these to the rest of the group...
Awesome!!!

something to help me get JLU withdrawal

holy Crap it's been 2 years since i posted anything new on here,..kinda funny how life get's in the way but i'm back and gonna post some Legion-goodness here's the first one
a little tribute to all that was cool about the Legion in the 70's:


more to come folks.

Love it! More is definitely needed!

Shady looks especially hot and playful.

decided to try my hand at drawing 3boot Dream girl.
and obviously you all know who this is:

thanks Cobbie yeah i tried to make her look hot and sassy

That second one is... now don't tell me.... it's...it's... Orintho of the Wanderers! Right?

Seriously, great work John.

I love the four girls together, they really look happy. It reminds me of that story when four of them went out to the City Star restaurant and ended up arresting the Chief of the SPs (except that story had really bad artwork).

That's an excellent Dawnstar costume! (All I see is a photobucket notice for Dream Girl - I guess she's moved on to another realm? )

yeah for some reason Photobucket in their infantile wisdom decreed that my Dream Girl pic violated their term of use of whatever so i'll up load it to another host site

Just wanted to put a thumbs up with a side of keep 'em comin' on this thread!

thanks Sketch.

can't help it she was one of my favorites from the reboot era


*Opps sorry for the repost folks*

That's a real good Wildfire.

I never really liked Thunder, but that is a great drawing of her.

Heh! I knew I'd seen that Thunder drawing before!

3 Boot StarBoy

The dark eyes really work against the lighter pencils. Gives him a look that I can't explain, but I like!

Andromeda

I admire your nice clean linework. I wish I was patient enough to do that, but then I wouldn't be "Sketch" Lad anymore, would I?

Well, I'm sure it will come as no surprise that it would be great to see your work in action. Literally....sequentials! Have you ever done any?

not yet Sketch but that's on my "to-do" list of new year projects. it's just trying to find the time is the hard part.

Very nice work! Once again, I seem to be one of the few on these boards with no discernible talent. Sighhh...

check here for an example of my no discernable talent.

That version of Sun Boy reminds me of Prez.

not exactly Legion related *or is it * anywho Earth's GL's

I like it...

Garth!! Wow, totes fab, John!! So dynamic. He's a powerful guy, that Lightning Lad.

Glad you like the GL's Abin and thank you Cali

Dude that's a seriously awesome Garth pic and I love that Supes image.

3Boot Shadow Lass

ok this is my redesign of CatsPaw,..i had done this a few years ago for the yahoo Legion RPG i was playing.

Seriously serious Catspaw there - and a nice change from the scatterbrained look of the original.

Great Superboy! Shady looks awfully sedate - or pleased with herself.

Nice gestures on that last one in particular.

(((Inking envy)))) Love the shadows on Superman.

thank's cleome it was fun doing it.

great stuff, John! I see you're using that Superman on Facebook.

i now present to you all one of the least favorite (although i thought she was cool)character from the re-boot era:

hey!! someone had to show poor Candi some love.
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thanks for the correction Quis.

I liked Monstress too. Excellant drawing byb the way.

(also her name was Candi, not Cyndi)

darnit your right Quis,..my bad

I liked Monstress and I like your drawing of her.

was looking forward to doing these, and tried to color my own stuff for a change, not crazy with how it turned out probably the type of markers i used. but i'll learn from this and try again.

Great stuff! I love the Cham & Sun Boy in particular.

thought i'd try a redesign of Tyroc's costume. tried to keep some of the original aspects of his 70's costume and tweak it some including a new hair-do. but looking at it now after i drew it, it kinda looks like something Karate Kid would wear.

Great stuff, John! Your design here is the first time I've actually liked Projectra's latest costume!

Love Rokk's pose and expression.

He must be thinking about Brainy!
(Or was that just Primeboot?)

Cool Tyroc! I can't tell from the size of the picture, but did you go cornrows or tight braids?

Tight braids or dreds would have totally rocked on Tyroc, I think.

went with tight braids. it looks like they're going with dreds for him in the Legion Lost book

Bumped in memory of l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN



Rest in Peace

Thanks, Exxy. Good idea!

A fitting tribute.

he had such an amazing talent

I loved his poses, even physically weak characters looked powerful.
He had a real knack for capturing the "super" part of superhero

I can't believe I never commented on these before. He did such a great job.

Anyone have the pictures originally hosted on Imageshack, now removed?