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Published: 2005-08-08 07:25:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 3216; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 286
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This is the value study for the Cloak & Dagger painting with which I'm currently obsessed. I spent way more time on this one than I usually do with my value studies, but I wanted to make sure that I had a pretty finalized idea of how the entire piece should turn out before I committed to breaking out the big guns (acrylic paint). I'll eventually move this to my scraps, but for right now I think it's deviation worthy.
Just pencil on a Xeroxed copy of my own line art.
Cloak & Dagger characters © copyright Marvel Comics
This image of Cloak & Dagger © copyright me 2005
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You know, I think I like this one even more than the finished version (could be because I myself am more of a drawing artist; I can just smell the pencil when I look at this). Which I faved earlier. So this has to be a fav, too.
Your stuff is awesome!
Actually you walk around seeing this kind of amazing stuff all the time on comic- or book covers, on movie posters, on ordinary food packages (most of the stuff's not photographs but extremely realistic art 
You have my respect. *bows*
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great symmetry and details! the apocalyptic scene has an immersing touch.
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Thank you! The finished piece is going up here in a couple of days, so hopefully you’ll dig the final outcome. You can be the judge if I've made it apocalyptic enough.
All this talk of apocalypse has got scenes from "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" running thru my head. "Whoever busts a deal must spin the wheel!!!"
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Wow! Wow! Wow! The detail in this piece is amazing!!!!!! I love the hands on the cloak, they look so real!
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Thanks! It's nice to get compliments about little details from someone who obviously knows what she's talking about!
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Before I clicked for the Full Page view, I was already starting to drool of amazement.
The extraordinary detail, put into every little piece of art, in the whole of the theme you chose for, it's just mind crushing. I got goosebumps at how eerie you managed to make the picture in the picture. This is a journey in a journey in a journey.... When I "took in" the main man's eyes, purely demonic. The detail of his face and hands speak for themselves, it's bottled up inside and you expose it very well.
I cannot wait until this is painted with acryl really, though for me, this, is already a masterpiece now.
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Jeez man, if only I could paint as well as you write then I would really be getting somewhere! Wow, thanks for all of your kind words! I'm glad you like it!
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Girl 
I never knew Cloak & Dagger before seeing this, I must say, so maybe this comment is totally unworthy
If my words touched a fraction of what you managed putting down here, I will be over the top happy, trust me.
You deserve a place at Marvel in my opinion, but I'm just me and not a busy/cranky/arrogant employer. If not at Marvel, which I hope for you coz I know it's your goal, you will definitely have to strive to get a job in this world. Your work is incredibly detailed and very fragile and strong at the same time, I've yet to see an equivalent on DA for that!
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Ooops!
No, you really did hit the idea behind the two characters right on the head and I 'm glad I was able to get some of that across in this piece.
Wow, thank you so much for the truly nice compliments. Hopefully I can make us both proud! I don't know if I'm THAT good, but it's nice to be told that I am! THANK YOU!!!
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You are most welcome
If I knew people in the US who could possibly help you out, I would have noted you, but I'm in far away crappy Belgium 
Don't worry bout the sexe mix up, it's nice to "feel like a man" for a second XD Just it doesn't have to take me longer lol XD
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just browsing and came upon this, this work is great and cloak an dagger are great charactors to be obsessed with
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Thanks for the kind words! I finally finished this beast and should be posting the end result fairly soon. I've posted a little teaser glimpse of it in my gallery so feel free to drop by and check it out! Thanks again for looking!
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Wow.. amazing detail as usual,very powerful.
I can't imagine how it's going to look once you splodged the paint on...
I really like the Tortured souls and the light that emits from the Dagger.....
Well Good luck again,And watch out for Mila's paws
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The tortured souls took a bit longer to design than I would have hoped, but I like how they turned out. Now I have to try and not go all ape-shit crazy with lensflare and lighting effects when painting the damn thing. Mila insists that the composition needs some tortured cat paws in there, and keeps attempting to add them herself when I'm not looking. But, we'll have to agree to disagree on that one.
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It's fantastic....and I can imagine how the colour will bring it to life..very exciting.
*tortured cat paws*
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the shading on his face and the veins on his hands show great skill. i can feel the hatred and ruth in his features
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Thanks for thinking I got dem mad skillz to pay the billz. It's nice to know that he really looks as intense as I was trying to make him seem.
I love your avatar by the way!
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and thanks!
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Your sense of dark and light is unbelievable O_O I can't wait to see the finished work!
Just one small, small detail... Cloak's hands look af is (s)he had gloves or some sort of clothes over them - so unless that's the whole point, you should add just a little bit of texture there. Other than that - perfection
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Thanks for the advice on the hands. On closer inspection I can see what you mean, but I'm hoping that the addition of color will help sort that out in the final picture. Some great eyes you got there!
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This is very striking mate, can't wait to see th finished article. How is your seduction of Marvel Comics into a finer and financial appreciation of your skills going?
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Right now Marvel doesn't really know who the fuck I am, but I'm still trying to change that.
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I do and you should mate
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