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jimlee00 β First Stab in the Dark--ness
Published: 2009-03-27 01:43:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 49971; Favourites: 1117; Downloads: 1332
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A quick sketch for a bud who helped me out on a technical issue. First attempt at the Darkness created by the incomparable Marc Silvestri.First draft was too grey so I went back in and spotted blacks in the background and added some visual interest with white out pen.
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The Darkness is one of my favorite characters. Great Job.
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u have NO idea how many pieces adrian got with his computer skills...lucky bastard
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What type of computer work does he do?
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he designs and runs websites..i think he is the moderator to the topcow site
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Oh i c, he is that cartoon face on the site, adrian nikita or somethin.
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White out pen ftw! This is so remarkable and full of detail! This guy is so wicked, I can see wher ehe got his name! 
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The Darkness, one of my favorite characters and straight up fave of all the Image-type characters!
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The Darkness, now that was a great character! I like the way you draw clawed hands.
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One of my fave characters drawn beautifully! Adrian is SUCH a lucky guy!!! *envy*
WH
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Excelent work Jim ! I like the character Jackie Estacado a lot !
PS: I'm still waiting your visit to my gallery
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Whoa! I never saw a Darkness drawn by you. Fantastic drawing, I wish I can meet you again to have one of this too
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I really envy Adrian right about now, amazing depiction of the Darkness.
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It practically oozes the essence of evil, right out of the monitor~
I think the most interesting parts are the hands, and the hair. I suck at drawing either at any given time, so it awes me when I see beautifully drawn hands and hair.
Pretty damn impressive for a 'quick sketch'.
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awsome man just all you need to do now is color it
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holy shhhhhh.... O_O jim... wtf? dude... marc NEEDS you as a guest artist. how awesome would that be to do an issue or two?! we also need to see a jim lee version of sara pezzini. i think it's so cool to see you draw a top cow character... i don't believe i've seen you ever do something like this. amazing!
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stunning as always Mr. Lee, stunning as always.
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I love being able to see the pencil lines in this sketch...the pose look like hes hunched over after doing major damage.
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I cant believe this is your first shot to do this character.. Marc did not ask you to do some covers for the Darkness??? let me fave this awesome piece.. I love the character.. drawn by his awesomeness Jim Lee.. lol
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Again, I'm really enjoying hearing about your thought processes on these pieces.
The spot black in the background does indeed help pop the character and I really like the grays in the smoke/flames at the bottom.
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It's really cool to see your take on the character
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love the mask, quite different from the usual darkness dsign. and just to bust your chops a little(not that my opinion matters of course) jackies head is a little flat on top. alittle more hieght to his hair next time
so whats the good word? will you be participating in the big image crossover book?
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Respectfully disagree--poofy hair makes him look too girly...he's not of the 80's!
Conscious decision to flatten the hair so it looks more vampiric in nature rather than Loverboy.
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i'm with yah, definately no 80's feather! although that would be a little funny...
what i meant was there's some volume, just a little, to his hair all the way around, except directly ontop. that top line is almost totally in line with the curve of his skull if he was bald. i was humbly suggesting a slightly thicker line there. but this was a quick sketch for a friend and i probably shouldn't be correcting you
welcome to deviant art by the way
-J. Wichmann
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No, what I am saying is that I had it higher and it looked too groomed like he went to the salon. He should be more "street" with hair a bit tangly and greasy. And yeah I draw the domes down tight tho, even on Batman. I'm not a fan of the big forehead.
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lol, i was going to say that he's italian, and we tend to be a greasy people,
i'm not a big fan of the 5-6head either.
on batman, and even superman i like how you cut the shape of their heads. its very... precise. your emphasis on the outlines tends to be very minimal and clean. i find a lot of artists go crazy with their line work, over emphasizing certain areas when they should be giving us a visual area to rest on...
say what kind of white-out do you use?
i'm playing with a bic shake-n-squeeze white-out pen and i hate it so i'm trying to use it up. there's no control with it so i end up having to go back and forth with the markers several times to get the line i want.
-J
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bales kek lee...........awesome duuuuuuuude..
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Stop drawing the Darkness right now. I mean it.
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Good details. You really are one of the best.
Must confess I don't catch the white out at first glanze.
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I remember meeting you at Pacific Comicon 11 years ago...your artwork today is just, if not more mind-blowing than ever! Gratz Jim on wowing us on Deviantart!!! 
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