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Just finished a new Dawnstar pic:



Any feedback, positive or negative, is welcome.

Geez, you are just so talented. All your pictures are great. I hate you

Thanks, Quislet. I love you too:D

Frog Kid,

The best I can do is stick figures. So I do get a little jealous when someone like you draws so well.

The feathers on Dawnstar seem very well drawn.

Magnifique! I think you should be Barry's fill in artist when he needs a break on the new Legion!

Thanks, MEL, but I don't think my drawings are consistent enough to be published...

Why not aspire to it? You've often shown a great deal of kinetic grace or fluid emotion in a static panel. (I'm thinking of your Christmas card right now.) That's what some professional comics artists haven't quite mastered.

She's seeking a particular target ... someone she's tracking? a way out of this desert? What it is doesn't matter much, because her eyes and attention are put forward first. I like the intensity of her gaze, made to shape the rest of her body, including her far-from-relaxed wings.

More is implied here about her than we see in the usual portrait drawing -- it tells a fragment of a story. I very much like the straightforward portraits, but it's a pleasure to also see her in a setting suggesting action.

Thanks for the comments, Greybird. When I say I don't think my drawings are consistent, the proof is in this thread. When you look at the various pics I did, some are more realistics(the dawnstar pics, Sensor girl ...), others have a "cartoony" feel(founders, triad, Mon-El)... it is not made on purpose. But I also think one one my problem is I don't trust myself to be that good...

About the pic: At first, she was supposed to look down, toward the valley, but I thought it was be better to make her look the sky. IMO it was interesting to have a "grounded" winged character, not on the ground but not really in the sky either. She is firmly sitting on the rock, but want to fly away.

By the way, it's not a desert in the background: it is a very distant and very dense forrest on StarHaven(but there was now way you could see it - it is supposed to be too far to see the details).

Seriously FK, your stuff is really pretty good. I enjoy looking at your pencils. You put some life into the figures and often show snapshots of their lives. This one and the Gim Allon pic are just wonderful.

If you're worried about consistancy you might try a little of what Dean's been doing and look at redrawing a few pages of sequential art using different camera angles or POVs. You'll find some things you didn't know about your skills as you work through an exercise like that.

Good idea, YK(and thank for the compliment). I found the other day on the web Mr Waid's script To Superman: Birthright #11. I might draw a few pages one of these day...

Beautiful, Froggy. As usual! Any plans to ink and color the piece?

Thanks, PoV, but no thanks. I'm happy with the result, and don't want to mess it with my inking.

But if someone want to try, he or she is welcome...

Great Dawnstar Frog Kid! Thank you for sharing it!

There's definitely a story to be told there. To me it looks like she's been wounded, knocked out of the sky by an unseen villian, but is still in the fight and readying herself to soar back into the battle.

This would make a great cover!

Fantastic Dawny!

Awsome job FK.
I have enjoyed looking at your art..you have a gift. I love the pencil of Dawn as well. I bet your inking would be fantastic!

Does anyone there know if there's a way to get a printed copy of some of these pics? (with the artists's permission, of course) I particularly like the Dawnstar pics.

Sorry, Baycent54, I don't understand your question; In what way do you want a printed copy?

And of course, you can do whatever you want with these pics(as long you don't sell it )...

What I want is a way to print a copy of only certain pics without having to print any extra (non-drawing) material.

Right-click, hit "Save Picture As," then print from there.

Alternatively, if you're using Firefox , you could just right-click, hit "View Image," then print straight from the browser.

Waiting for your comments, good or bad...

Very cool! Three of my favorite new costumes! Love what you did with the starfield on Star Boy's costume... very nice.

Just outta curiousity, did you take liberties with the arrows on Ayla's gloves, or were those in one of the previews and I just missed it?

Your picture is gorgeous FK, more, more, more please!

Thanks, Cru & Belinda!

THe arrows on Ayla's glove can be seen on the splash page focusing on Collosal boy vs. the Robot. In fact, I realize now I draw them wrong! They should go down, not up!

Aren't the color better that way?

Oh! When I drew my Ayla pic, I was using the splash page from the 7 page preview for reference, and the arrows weren't visible in that pic.

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