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Still learning things about markers every time I work. Such as a saturation limit. Especially if you work with Prismacolor, the black ink is a bit different from every other ink. At some point, if you layer it too much, it won't be absorbed by the paper any more and you get streaks like you see here. from anywhere other than straight on, the light doesnt catch it, but it's nicely visible here in the scan. Things like that drive me bananna sandwich.Anyways, a 90's classic created by the beast known as Sam Kieth. I always wanted to take a crack at him, so this was a cool one to work on.
Prismacolor cool grey and white paint on vellum bristol board.
Maxx © Sam Kieth
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Man, I freakin loved the maxx. I even named my first car after him 
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This is great! I love how his bulbous muscles are just tearing through his skin. That's a great effect. Nicely done on the shading too. Brilliant!
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Thanks. That's meant to just be battle damage in his suit. Keith loved to draw shredded fabric and that was my nod to that.
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Oooh I see. 
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Absolutely sick marker shading.
This is mastery.
Well done.
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Sick brother! So how many shades of marker is this, was it like a grey set of colors or something?
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Thanks. Yeah, I use every shade in the book in my work. There's 10 including black.
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Man, it looks great. Those markers aren't cheap though are they?
I'm working on my lighting and shading for my first comic I've got to do. I hope I'm able to at least try and do something simular in shading in PS. I'm going to be "attempting" to do mt first comic which will be black and white (cut down on printing cost.)
Thanks for doing such awesome and inspirational work! ;D
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Yeah, markers can be pretty expensive. Especially if you're trying to do full comic pages with them. Copics are the cheaper option, but I just prefer the Prismacolor.
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Fiddling with Levels in PS doesn't help remove the streaks?
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Nah. About the only thing I could do is digitally paint it out, but I want my scans to be raw...warts and all.
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its funny, out of the whole picture, I can't stop staring at his foot, its awesome.
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Hehe, well that's normal with Maxx. Keith would put so much detail into those gigantic boats.
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Yeah, MAXX!
My favorite quote:
"Sometimes its fate, that saves them. - Somtimes... IT'S ME!"
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Fantastic version of an all-time personal favorite! Really great sense of form with the marker work!!
I think Maxx was one of the best examples of what Image was meant to be - something unlike what the "Big Two" would have published at the time.
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Thanks. Yeah, I agree.
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with every piece you do it becomes harder to tell what is lighter marker and what is painted or tinted with colored pencil. It all blends so perfectly. I think someone said your style is like marker painting...seems to sum it up.
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Thanks. It actually is a marker painting so that fits hehe. I haven't used color pencil in a long time, but have started to again. This one doesn't have any though.
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awesome work.
My favorite comic book character hands down!!
"yeah sometimes it's fate that saves them, sometimes it's luck, and sometimes it's ME!!!!" "Yeah and sometimes it's us!" "oh no talking out loud again."
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chriss2d ...
You did a FANTASTIC job on this. Seriously dude.
Well done. Well done indeed.
Love the amount of shading in this piece. At first glance, I thought that this was a digital rendering due to the grey tones having been blended so nicely.
Was SHOCKED to see that it was done using Prismacolour pens instead.
Keep up the good work and you'll have no need for banana sandwiches affecting you anymore.
Peace out,
vertebrae242
+FAVED+
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Thanks. I hope these aren't too clean. I don't want these to be mistaken as digital.
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Yeah ... they are quite clean.
Like I said, I mistook this for being digitally rendered.
It is that well done.
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Hehe. He and he's an original creation by Sam Keith that was published by Image in the 90's. Even had his own MTV cartoon for a while. I recommend the comic. It has some great art by Keith.
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ah. interesting. i may have to look that up.
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Aaaawwwweeeee snap! I LOVE The Maxx. And you did him justice to boot!!!
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Stunning details, textures and rendering. Really good work. I'll be watching.
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Your understanding or values drives ME bananna sandwich!
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The good news is Photoshop can help you fix that. Healing brush to the rescue!!
Love your rendering style!
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Yeah, I could do that, but I prefer the raw scan. Warts and all.
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Prismacolor black ink is always like that no matter what.
I use have the whole collection of Maxx comics, back when it was a big deal.
Great work though all in all.
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Thanks. Yeah, black is weird sometimes, but it was layering it too much that really screwed me. It was looking ok until I decided to go a little darker with one more pass. Live and learn.
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just reread the series on my tablet last week. I love the maxx and one of the best original Image series.
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Wow, killer take on The Maxx! Great details and mega-depth.
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Awesome job, this definitely brings back memories. I never really got a chance to read the comic but I did see the animated series on mtv, you did an awesome job with this and lots of great detail through the whole pic.
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Thanks. I tell everyone. You should check out the comic. It's worth it just for Keiths amazing art.
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