DSG 298: Character: Super hero with retro/classic appearence.

[dsg bot]

Today's topic is: Character: Super hero with retro/classic appearence.

[DraigAthar]

Is that like a super-hero in bell-bottoms, or what?

[S51]

Meh, the lips are messed up, the ear is messed up... meh, that's what I get for only spending 5 minutes. But I do have to get to work, so I have an excuse.

http://kak.dynalias.net/s51/mutha.jpg

[illcap]

He's more antiquated than retro; I guess it falls under classic.

http://img7.photobucket.com/albums/v21/illcappucino/clashero.jpg

[MGH]

Kinda looking more like a statue than a person. Oh well. Inspired by Sky Captain.
http://homepage.mac.com/mark_harris/.Pictures/hero.jpg

[Valcon Jet]

WOW HOLY CRAP!

SS1: HAHA that rules!
illcap: SWEET dude ... that guy looks like giraldo rivera!
MGH: I seriously said "WOW" outloud when I saw that, that piece is amazing!

Great inspiration for me guys, i'm gonna have fun with this :)

[pixelherder]

mgh - just thought i had to say congrats, beautiful work. Reminds of the rocketeer, alex ross, etc.

fantastic! *right clicks and saves*

[Cocofuppa]

Heres mine today. Its a bit tongue in cheek, all about poncy gits tryin to show off :P But im just avin a larf with it lol

http://www.mi7shogun.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/websitesketches/DSG-298.jpg

[awalloffire]

Illcap -Lovin' the stash!
MGH -My testicles shrank when I saw this. Maybe you could hire me to be your coffeeboy.
Cocofuppa - I think that guy was a model in one of my life drawing classes.
...and now (reluctantly) my submission.
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v20/awalloffire/DSG/DSGclassichero.jpg

[moops]

"In enemy territory"

MGH: Great painting, cant wait for that Sky Captain movie.
awalloffire: I should've figured someone else would use a fedora :D

http://www.angelfire.com/comics/naart/painting/hero.jpg

[S.C. Watson]

Pen & ink imported into painter.

The inspiration for this was the old socialist propaganda posters and union protests around the turn of the last century.

http://www.in-sight.net/Sketches/298-hero-copy.gif

MIKECORRIERO: Groovy, man.
S51: That is one Bad Mutha.

[Justorama]

First time posting on CA, ill try and color it today. pretty new to digital art:

edit: ran out of time to work on it, but here is the colors, all i rendered was the cape..mostly :)

http://www.luminous-studios.com/justo/dsg-12-22-2003%20copyc.jpg

original linework:
http://www.luminous-studios.com/justo/dsg-12-22-2003%20copy.jpg

[Hunger_Artist]

crazy stuff



http://members.tripod.com/carlbeu/6bf89a00.jpg

[awalloffire]

Moops -Sorry. I actually did the whole thing before adding the hat. The costume on your's is definitely more true to the period.
Oregano - Great work, great inspiration too.
Justorama -Welcome!
Hunger -As always, your posts are something to look forward to.

[SicFrost]

hey does anyone know the range of classical?
i just drew a character but i thik i went a little too far back,
do romans and greeks count as classical?

thank you

_B0R1S

[Lyliani]

i can't seem to upload the work i did today :( Easy designer isn't working at the moment /sigh

Nice work so far on here :)

[Idiot Apathy]

Originally posted by sic8sic
hey does anyone know the range of classical?
i just drew a character but i thik i went a little too far back,
do romans and greeks count as classical?

thank you

_B0R1S

Post it! And then do another for the hell of it! Do eeeet!

[SicFrost]

Great!
but i hope this wasnt a waste....
thx for the feedback

_B0R1S

http://www.crackerbee.com/dsg/298.jpg

[davi]

http://www.creatureone.com/dsg/dsgg024.jpg

retro/classic is refering to the style of design given to older superheros(ie: fantastic four, rocketeer, batman)

[SicFrost]

damn it,
ok then ill draw something else then
_B0R1S

[SABRE]

OK, I HAVE THE CAPITAN FUSION!!!! BECUASE A THUENDER THE CAPITAN, DOUGLAS MCCARTEY, AND THEIR DOG MERGED... AND THE RESULT...A MAN WHIT INCREIBLE POWERS!!! XDDDD


http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/SABRE/CAPITAN_FUSION.jpg


MGH AND OREGANO........WUAU!!

[plaf]

http://www.skjoldbroder.dk/gfx/24bit/retrostylee.jpg

pretty good stuff so far.

sabre: like the dynamic pose
hungerartist: as always. nice!!
oregano: nice! i dig the lines.
moops: strikes me more as a villain than a superhero, but i do like it. i think there's a few perspective problems with the face though.
mgh: you nailed it dude!
illcap: again, he kinda strikes me more as an oldskool villain type. i could see him battling our hero in an airship, anyway.


all the best.

[Lyliani]

here's mine :fruit:

http://members.hometown.aol.com/kalai82/images/dsgdec22.jpg

She's up in the air.. i just didnt draw the background cause i ran out of time at work... and cause i'm too lazy to right now :p

[Wednesday]

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v12/awednesday/dsgretro1.jpg

[Rockhead]

These have been some awesome topics the last couple of days! I really wish I could participate but I'm out of town and away from all my equipment and programs. You guys have been doing awesome work, its great to see the quality improving in everyone's work. When I read this topic I was thinking more like Stan Lee/ Jack Kirby work. Its still good work though!

[S.C. Watson]

Originally posted by Rockhead
These have been some awesome topics the last couple of days! I really wish I could participate but I'm out of town and away from all my equipment and programs.

Ah, man. Grab a restaurant napkin and a ball point pen! Commandere someone's scanner!

I can relate. We're taking off to California for three weeks in January (I'm taking my computer with me DAMBIT!) and I'm not sure if I will have internet access at my wife's parent's house...:eek:

--

So, since "Retro/Classic" was refering to a style and not an era, should I redraw Captain Industry?

Hmmm... Perhaps another hero...

:flower: power, me-ahn.

[Idiot Apathy]

"The first super-powered, costumed crime fighter in comics was not Superman. It was Mandrake the Magician. Wearing a stage magician's black silk, Mandrake used his powers against evil four years before the Man of Steel. And although his early magical powers were toned down later, being able to make people believe anything, simply by gesturing hypnotically, is still a marvelous and very useful ability."

From http://www.toonopedia.com/mandrake.htm

Here is my basis for today's dsg:

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v13/Ragnarok27/Cb121.jpeg

I saw this and thought it was perfect for today, heh heh its soooo campy. I am learning a lot right now from references.

I focused on repainting this cool cover from 1939 using the existing lineart I extracted from the sample.

Aaaaannnnd boom here it is-

http://img3.photobucket.com/albums/v13/Ragnarok27/dsg-dec-22.jpg

Let me just re-iterate, all I did was the painting part the original line art belongs to Lee Falk, Mandrakes creator.

[bkmini]

here's a BW. im gonna try to color it, but I'm not sure if I have time tonight.

http://www.bradkurz.com/mercuryBW.jpg

it's mercury. he gets his powers from mercury's staff, which he found in a dormant volcano in Greece.

I just made that crap up cuz it sounds corny. retro superheros were very corny.

[SicFrost]

damn second one today...and i have to study for tomorrows final, getting tired...

_B0R1S

http://www.crackerbee.com/dsg/298b.jpg

[bkmini]

here's a quickie color. ~45 mins in PS7. about 15 was using color balance to try out different color combinations for his costume.

hope you like it :)

http://www.bradkurz.com/mercurycolor.jpg

[Wundergeek]

I had lots of fun with this one. I did two graphite sketches, but I only had time to clean one up. The first is inspired by a friend of mine. The second is a concept stolen from the author of a popular children's series by the same name - but with my own spin.


http://www.pbtteam.com/dump/captainjusticesm.gif

http://www.pbtteam.com/dump/captainunderpantssm.jpg

comments...

S51: Funny. Reminds me of Shaft.

MGH: Actually, I thought of Flash Gordan first when I saw yours.

Mike: Too funny. I especially like the Bowling Ball.

bkmini: ...there are no words.

I'm loving everyone's takes on retro.

[Sapphire]

This is me being cheap for now and recoloring an old image, but today was Mega-Chirstmas-shopping Day so I just got home. I have a more retro idea in mind that I hope I can scan in time.

http://sapphire-art.50megs.com/images/viperbg.jpg

(It's... Viper Woman!)

[Rho]

http://home.comcast.net/~dbowen113/22by12by03.jpg

uh. It's Renaissance man, "Keeping the world in perspective". Da Vinci is my hero. Tried to keep the shading all smooth like his/michealanglo's/the other classics.
I just noticed his wrist is horribly mis aligned.
wtf.


Hey hunger artist, i would suggest checking out David Mack. He is currently illustrating Daredevil. I think you would like his work.

[Wystro]

Make way for Action Girl! I had to make ammends for my skanky Aphrodite by making a wholesome heroine...

http://sparkles295.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/actiongirl.jpg

[paper slayer]

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/paper_slayer/dsg298rsh.JPG

Bugeyed aliens almost never got to be the hero it seems so...

Think I´m on a silly streak :)

[Zram]

This one i couldn't resist... and retro-heros to me are the early space heros... before cg and sfx... more along the sparklers, smoke and fire extinguishers. ENJOYYYYY!!!!!


I really need to come up with a name for him....

zram

http://olecram.members.easyspace.com/jpg/retrohero.jpg

[avalos]

nice work all.
mgh -- dramatic and appealing

reference used,
(sry, could not get name, site down){http://www.angelfire.com/comics/fangirl/engineer.html}
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v16/lavacasuprema/comicbook.jpg

This subject, like many, is not exactly my forte but tried nonetheless.

[morbidhumor]

Super Nifty Guy! :p
This was fun. I wish I had given myself more time to mess with this one. Figure ref used.
http://home.comcast.net/~bcrart/superweb.jpg

Fav is MGH. Great concept plus it just looks cool.
Other faves are bkmini and Wystro .
Nice stuff everyone.

[silentbrain]

http://64.191.99.205/~silentbr/dump/122303-dsg-retrosuperhero.gif

Holy bat-cakes! My hand feels like what superman's crotch must feel like after being hit by a kryptonite boulder.

Wystro- lol, I was waiting for someone to use that "old comic book print" look. :D

Y'all are on a roll today! :chug:

[Schlo-mo]

How did you produce that ink dot effect, wystro?

[SicFrost]

@ shlo-mo, thats not hard at all i think he made it a brush in PS then just put it on a deifferent layer and set it to difference...thats what i would have done

_B0R1S

[Wystro]

I produced the effect on Photoshop. I had a seperate layer for the line and a lower one for the color. I then targeted the color layer and went to Filter/Pixilate/color halftone.

From that point, it's just a matter of choosing the dot size. The only change that I made was that since I wasn't happy with the dotty blue, I went back and painted the blue points solid again.

I also let the colors bleed a little so that it had a cheap-print look. Give it a try -- its a fun and easy effect. I think I may print out a few Christmas cards with it.

:) Wystro

[ihatecompulsiveliars]

Had some fun with this one:

http://venus.walagata.com/w/mbjacobson/retrohero.jpg

I wanted to color her, but ran out of time; maybe tomorrow.

Comments and critique are appreciated.