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Published: 2011-10-31 16:53:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1025; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 0
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Finally here with card #6 is probably the most well-known mutant - Wolverine. I think whoever drew the original card must have either really hated Wolvie or really hated anatomy. Look at that back arm... try to do it yourself. It hurts!"A born savage prone to berserker rages, Wolverine uses that wild side to fight for justice as an X-Man! Though his powers have recently undergone some radical changes, he's still the toughest fighter alive!"
Does anybody know what 'radical changes' his powers went through in 94? And I can't believe they missed out on saying "the best at what he does" instead of saying "the toughest fighter alive".
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The changes they are referring to would be from X-Men #25 and the immediate followup in Wolverine #75 where Magneto ripped the adamantium from Logan's skeleton. Logan's healing factor subsequently went into overdrive and turned him more feral. For a while during this time he became little more than an animal. Thankfully, they eventually returned him to the character we all know and love.
As for the original artist, it's Glen Fabry. He's better known and, in my opinion, better suited to his works on Vertigo books where his unique style fits the often more off beat worlds of Preacher and the like. He's always been more about the emotion of an image than the technical aspects.
I like the clean style you have used in your rendition. What program do you use, however? I notice a lot of "jaggies" on your black lines. Perhaps working at a higher resolution and then shrinking it down will help with these. These could also be solved by using vectors for the broad strokes. They distract from the overall clean style you seem to be going for. Overall though, great work. Kudos.
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Thanks for the info! I suspected it had something to do with Magneto ripping out Wolvie's adimantium, but since he still had the metal claws on the card, I wasn't sure.
For the trading cards recreations, I've been scanning in my traditional inks and coloring in Photoshop. I'm not a huge fan of the "jaggies" either, so I am still playing around with how to get the best lines possible.
Thanks again for your great info and critique!
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What resolution do you scan your line work in at? Scan them in at the highest resolution that your scanner allows, 300 or perhaps 600dpi. Once in photoshop you can then use the image properties to scale it down to a more manageable resolution. This should alleviate the issue.
I don't notice any real problem areas on your Minotaur piece, did you do a different process on that one?
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I scan at 300, but I'm not sure it's the best scanner. For the minotaur, I did digital inks with tablet. I'm still trying to decide which method I prefer. Both have their benefits, but I do like how smooth the digital inks can be.
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Thanks! Not my favorite Wolvie pic, but that's mostly because of the original I had to recreate
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