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sideshowmonkey — GIRLS OF THE GROTTO by Hartman
Published: 2005-08-20 01:12:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 16799; Favourites: 371; Downloads: 630
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I started a poll on which Universal Monster should be drawn and the Creature from the Black Lagoon has been winning so far. I decided to go ahead and draw him anyhow and I'll take his name off the poll, but keep the votes coming.This piece didn't turn out quite as cool as I hoped. The lighting in the cave was a little tricky to not get too contrasty or too muddy. The girl in white behind him is Julia Adams from the first movie.
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Gotta love the Gillman.
I think the lighting in the cave is awesome. The contrast, the mud, it captures the eerie, smudgy camerawork used in the underwater sequences of the film, and makes him look really, really cool.
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Thanks so much
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Love the feel of this, with the high contrast and monochromatic tones, very nice!
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I personally really like how it turned out..the lighting is interesting and good take on the creature
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Thanks a bunch! It was just an experiment but gave me some ideas how to do the technique better next time.
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Indeed, my pleasure, learning by doing is always good...and besides i'm partial in general towards the Creature lol as wlel
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Love the gill-man! I hope the rumors are true that there's a remake in the works! The girls would look pretty wild if the gill-man had some sort of power to transform them into gill-girls with webbed hands and feet, too!
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Yea, that rumor has been floating around for a long time. At one point John Carpenter was set to Direct and then Stephen Somers who did the Mummy and VanHelsing. The last rumor I heard had the guy who did the Batman
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Really like how this one turned out & the reflected lighting on the ceiling is a nice detail to the piece. Always wondered with the Creature (and other leading lady abducting movie monsters) just what it was going to do with the girl once it got back home.
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One of my favorite monsters!
Yah, I know he's just a fishman, but who cares.
This is great.
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Awesome pic! Gotta love the Creature from the black lagoon! Cool compostion and cool stylized elements with the figures!
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that's what monsters should look like. (i tried to draw the chinese antichrist, but it turned out as a lovely toy compared to your monster...)
the reflections of the water on the wall is very well done. i'm really looking forward to seeing more of your art.
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this is awesome man, I admire all of your work you are an amazing artist.
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WOW!!! this looks amazing too. and yet again an ambience about it 
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Fantastic (I guess the Forrest J. Ackerman-style pun would be "fintastic"). I've always had a soft spot for Creech...and this is a great treatment of him.
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I really liked your works here.. Its really clear to see that you know what its all about...
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I like it, especially the lighting. Something about your creature's face reminds me of one of those fish at the bottom of the ocean with it's own light that hangs out in front of it's face, you know for attracting other fish to eat.
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Wow, dave hartman drawing Blackie Lagoon.... can it get any better?
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Real nice work bud, you've made him skinny and scary, great stuff
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hey man! This is really cool! I have allways wanted to see that movie!
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I like the new skinny touch you gave the monster.
About the light: I think it's just right so, you even thought of the water reflections on the cave's ceiling. That's really precise working.
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The creature from the Black Lagoon is one of my fav old horror/monster classics...
The pic looks great.
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ewwww an ugly sea creature great work
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I really like it, just one problem is he doesn't seem as bulky as he should
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Yea, I thought about that when I was drawing him. I started out that way but it felt more natural for me to make him skinny, kind of fish-salamander-like and less guy-in-a-suit-like. I kind of liked both versions but I opted to color this one, maybe I'll post the sketch for the other.
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That'd be cool, can't wait to see and the sketchyness and skinnyness makes him seem darker. And you never answered is your icon inspired by the KONG studios monkey logo (Gorillaz was one of their few projects)
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No, I just now realized they were similar.
I drew this zombie monkey head with a fez because it matched the identity for all my art "sideshow Monkey". It is actually supposed to be a zombie version of the 'real" sideshow monkies that danced around to an organ grinder for a peanut as payment while the organ grinder sits back and does nothing collecting all the money. Kind of fitting for the story of my art career.
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I do agree Fezs are awesome
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Kind of like these poor souls!
Poor, poor Monkey [link]
Workin' for the man [link]
what a cute hat [link]
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Awright
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The colors are perfect, I like how you did the mist. Hehe, and those flippers are a nice touch.
Awesomely done.
Hmmm ..Is that a tu-tu I see back there? 
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Ha ha, I wondered if you'd see that.
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This is what I'm talkin about!!!
Awesome man, simply marvelous!!!
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