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This is the Thing graphic used on my current website. It was colored in Photoshop using a quick-n-dirty airbrush method. I'm about to launch a new website soon, so I'm not sure if this will appear there, but I hope you'll enjoy seeing it!-Loston-
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Wonderful! The lineart and coloring are excellent, and Thing's expression is priceless! Great work!
By thy side,
Figaro
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This the Best ,Great Thing Art that looks like King Kiby drew it.
Very nice work Everwhere and I'm still looking aruond your gallery.
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Dude! That looks so ... Jack (King) Kirby. Are you a Kirby fan? Or is it possible your inspiration came from a Kirby fan?
Which ever, your quality is good. I hope to keep developing my quality to such a level. I am going to keep an eye on you.
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I am definately a Kirby fan! Nobody EVER drew the Thing like Jack drew him! To me, it's the only Thing there is! I learned to draw the Thing by looking at issue # 55 of the FANTASTIC FOUR, which was reprinted in ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS by Stan Lee. As a kid, I reproduced each panel on one page over and over again. lol. A while back I actually met someone who actually owned the ACTUAL page I had learned to draw the Thing from! I met him while I stuffing Jack Kirby Collector mags for TwoMorrows Publishing a few years back. He actually made me a nice print of the page (which hangs in my studio), so I'm forever grateful to him for it! Here's the page I mean:
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Long live Kirby the KING!
Thanks for your nice comments!
-Loston-
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Thanks for the link, I enjoyed it. But I also enjoy seeing the artwork of people who are Kirby fans. I like to see how Kirby inspired others, even if their style is very different from the Kirby style. I still find it inspiring for my own development. Because someone might have seen something I didn't. Which could help me understand why Kirby drew X the way he did. I don't want to be a clone of Kirby; no one can be another and why? I want to be myself, not Kirby. So I want to have that Kirby look, not be Kirby. I don't think I'm good enough to be a professional; which goes double for my early work I'm currently posting. But it would be nice if I could sell some stuff, some day.
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I think if you keep working hard, you'll only keep getting better at drawing. Some great books that tought me a lot about basic drawing growing up include HOW TO DRAW COMICS THE MARVEL WAY by Lee and Buscema, and HOW TO DRAW THE HEAD AND FIGURE, by Jack Hamm. I recommend seeking these books out and practising from them. It opened up a lot of doors for me in figuring out where I was going wrong and where I was going right with drawing.
Take care,
Loston
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Thanks for the suggestions.
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No problem. Those are very good books!
Loston
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Well, at the moment it's my website's front page. It's been up since 1998! It used to be a black and white image, but a couple years back I decided I'd try my hand at coloring it in Photoshop. It turned out pretty well, so I've continued to work at improving my colorists skills.
I'm glad you like it!
Loston
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oh, lol that'll explain the logo look lol. yeh the colors came out pretty well
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