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DocRedfield — Kong Vs Godzilla REMATCH
Published: 2004-12-12 03:10:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 9188; Favourites: 149; Downloads: 338
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Did this a year or 2 ago, but I wanted to put it up here this month for Godzilla's 50th anniversary... 11x14 pen & inkRelated content
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Exactly, you need to redeem yourself! They grew Kong and gave him electrical powers so he could beat you but it was all a lie! Kick his ass, kick his ass 
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Exactly, Kong, being only an oversized, about 30-50 foot ape, has no chance against Godzilla, the over 200-foot King of the Monsters and number one terror of Japan for the last 50+ years!
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This rematch must one day happen! Seriously! Nice work
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Can you tell me who that girl is supposed to be?
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Just a girl - a Fay Wray Type
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If I were her, I'd stick with Kong, Godzilla might not be quite as gentle with the ladies!
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I'm likin' the way Goji looks. Very nice job on the Big G.
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haha, just saw your comment above about buying a new $20 pen cuz you didn't clean your old ones. I can't count the number of times I've done that! cool pic, by the way.
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Heh, thanks... yeah, that's a golden rule artists often ignore; clean ye pens - they cost buuku
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Awesome. Great details and lineart on this one.
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I love her pose and dismissive gesture. It's like she's saying, 'Huh! Boys will be boys.'
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HAha... never thought of it like that...
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godzilla totally got a raw deal the first time around.they had to give King Ong some electric powers...wtf?
Godzilla should of toasted his ass but then I guess the movie would of only been 3 minutes long....
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Well-said, Sugarballs.... I can't believe I just typed that.
Anyway, it was a tie (and if you see it in the original Japanese, you even hear Godzilla's roar at the end to help support that claim). If you're a KAiju fan, the original Godzilla movie in the original Japanese without the extra American scene comes out on DVD in a few weeks.. highest possible reccomendation.!
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wow..... I could never accomplish a feat like this....
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Thanks... but man, don't sell yourself short; you're well on your way with that Kong vs Gamera piece...
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Hey, if I had it my way, forget about being "on my way", I'd already be wherever it is I'm suppose to be going.... That doesn't make a lick of sense. But whatever, you know what I mean.
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If I may be so bold, I have found that the best - and perhaps truest - way to look at art is not so much as levels or experience but as passion, design, and ability. 12 years ago I showed some of my first comic work to Bernie Wrightson to ask how I was doing. He didn't critque it, or tell me what I was doing wrong (And as I look back on it, it was crap work!) - he just said that it was good and he liked it.
This doesn't always help getting work in the field, but it does help one's own outlook and keeps us pressing on.. I know, I've been there.
'Monkey vs Turtle' may be "cartoony" in one point of view, but it is clean and dynamic, a word I can't always use myself about my own art. It's good work, keep it up - and get noticed for what you do, I say, not what you've not yet accomplished...
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Your own art not clean or dynamic??? Come on! Now who's being their own harsh critic?
Anyways, thanks for the kind words. I think passion is really underrated. As is creativity. I've entered so many art contests where the same thing always happens. The stupidest and/or most boring entry wins, but its also the entry that's the most...how can I say it?...."eye candy"... Like it doesn't matter how much thought or whatever was put into it, so long as it looks like mainstream art and looks flawless like a computer rendered it or something, then that's all that matters.
One of the things keeping me from completing this graphic novel I've been working on is precisely that. If I could draw like Jim Lee, people would be waiting in line to buy it no matter what. I even go so far as to think most people wouldn't even read it. They get it just to look at the "pretty pictures".
But since I don't have that level of skill, it's a detriment to me, especially when I'm trying to tell such a serious story. "Cartoony" art just doesn't cut it.
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I never said my work wasn't clean
Keep at the graphic novel - there's an audiance for EVERY type of art and graphic style. You won't sell as many books as Jim Lee, maybe, but if you put it out there as a complete story, you will sell some copies, so long as the work is consistant. And if you find a good way of marketing - which, by the way, if you DO find a great marketing skill, lemme know, 'cause I've still got 3,000 copies of MY book in my garage that haven't sold yet -- but then, I gave up and wrote a novel instead, whereas I see guys at Con still selling their little indie comic books consistantly...
One way or the other, just keep at it.
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So long as the work's consistant huh? That's a problem since I've been working with this off and on since 2002, its far from consistant. Sometimes I wish I was just writing a novel, I think it would be far easier to do. I've gotten into a lot of arguements with a friend of mine over that issue. He thinks writing a novel is harder than writing and illustrating a graphic novel. Which I'm sorry I don't believe that for an instant. A writer writes, and when he's done he's done, the end. With what I'm doing, the job's not over after the writing phase. And god help me if I have to re-write stuff I've already drawn. That's the biggest waste of time, and something a novelist doesn't have to worry about.
You wrote a book???
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yeah. OK, quick history of my property, Hero-Lore ([link] )... Idea's been in my head since I was a kid. Started drawing comics of it in my teens (on college-rule paper, no less). Go to college and got some good criticism from fellow comic geeks, eventually leading to my attempt at making a real comic book, self-published. Looking at so much of what was out there in comics printed and distributed, I figured that there was worse crap than what I could draw - what could go wrong? Long and short; found an inker, got my Star-Wars-published friend to script issue #1 (based on my notes) and finished issue #1 in about a year. At the same time, I wrote, penciled, inked, and laid-out #1/2. Went to Comic-con w/ another local wannabe and had our own booth... he never finished his comic, while I printed 3,000 copies of the 2 issues. There we were at our very own Con BOOTH... I sold 3 copies and Diamond Dist (the only real comic book distributor) passed on the book, which sits in my garage (and is for sale on my official H-L site as an extra) to this day, 7 years later. Wrote some short stories to get the Hero-Lore ideas out of my head... next thing you know, I'm 25,000 words into a novel. Took me a year and half to write it, then editing, illustrations, and shopping it to agents took another year and a half. Now I have an agent shopping the first novel, 'Shards of Destiny', to publishers (which may never bite) and I've self-published (& illustrated) a short-story anthology of Hero-Lore Tales that leads up to the novel... and not sold 15 copies yet (but who knows, if the novel sells, it could all take off at last). I'm working on Book II and plan at least 5 novels while I get on with the rest of my work/life...
Having done both comics and novels, I can say that both are equally hard in varying ways... however, doing a comic as a one-man-band is daunting as hell and very time consuming, so tougher from that standpoint. Still, as a writer there's a lot of things to understand to make a book worth the paper its (presumably) printed on, including plotting, grammer, pacing, etc... but then a graphic artist has to know design, layout, illustrative techniques, lettering, cover-design, etc etc.. so, yeah, both are way hard, but the comic's harder to do alone, I'd say - or at least more time-consuming... Hope this helps you win the argument, and gets you to buy a copy of one of my books
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Yes the "one-man-band" shit is very..... ugh. I wish I had help if only in the printing aspect of it. I mean if I did this as a short 22 pager and it was saddle-stitched, I could print it all out myself, I have the Rolls Royce of printers in my home. But this thing keeps fluctuating between 100 and 200 pages. 73 of which were finished until I went into a fit and destroyed half of them I thought weren't good enough, so now I have about 45 pages complete. Point is, with that many pages I need to do square/perfect bound format and I really don't know squat about setting that up. I don't even have a book layout program yet like Quark, since they're so damned expensive.
What sucks is I know people who've "been around the block" as far as printing and publishing go and I ask for help and they always just blow me off with this "you just gotta do it and things will just happen" repsonse. To me it comes off more like they don't care to be bothered.
And sure I'll check out your book.
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Thanks in advance for the book-look
Yeah, I sent my comic book to the printer, but that was when it was all just inks on 11x17 boards, so things have changed. I use adobe illustrator and whatnot for layout of zines (again, back in the day) or online comic pages these days.
Why don't you do single issues first...?
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I've thought about doing single issues, but there's 2 problems with that.
Problem the first.... I've been telling people for so long I'm doing a GRAPHIC NOVEL, that if I cranked out a 22-pager It'll make me look like a bullshitter....more importantly is that I mentioned this already to a professor at an art school I'm trying to get into (d'oh!) , and he said that if I show that along with my portfolio I'm almost guranteed a freeride and wont have to worry about tuition because it'll show how passionate I am.... It's kind of imperative that I do it this way now.
Problem the second.... The story takes some twists and turns and without looking at it in its entirety, certain messages are lost. Basically, a lot of it can be taken out of context, and with the subject matter I'm dealing with I'm gonna have more than enough enemies with the book as it is. I don't need to compound that further by cutting the book up into 4 22-page issues and having people read issue 1 and go off thinking the story is about something its not.
And at all this we're not even discussing your deviation....this is like those DVD commentaries where the people get side tracked talking about other shit and forget they're even watching the movie.
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Thanks very much. Swing back by; there might be more ya like...
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wow, I love the scales and details in Godzilla, and King Kong looks great. Looks amazing.
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Awesome, Godzilla even looks like his old school costume, rather then a stylized super real one. It's a nice nod to the old movie with these two.
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Thanks... I used the 'Godzilla 2000' design. Funny part is that this piece started out as an idea that became "Warbirds of Mars' in my gallery...
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Freaking awesome image! The imagination in this work was really well put!
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It must have taken years of hard work to be able to put so much detail into a drawing! It's so full of action
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