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Well, LL -- I can take a hint, but as of now I have ... seven other sketches to ink and color before I start new ones. But I'll do Ayla next and I have a group shot that I left Garth out of since he's dead and all, but I'll throw him in there.

And thanks for the nice words (and the forum to present them).

No rush Drake. Every piece you post is great so anything I'm sure we'll enjoy everything until you can get that all important one of Garth done.

Whooaaa! Nice! You did a fantastic job on the lighting, Drake.

AWESOME!!!! Wow Drake, these are really incredible! God I wish I had talent like yours

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Thanks again for all the nice words -- having other fans appreciate it makes it all worth while. Here's a clip of the other Wildfire pic I'm working on:

Everytime I check out this thread, I forget to remember to say what great stuff this is Drake. Well, no more! Thanks for posting this for us to check out. I can't wait to see the pre-boot piece, you big tease.

Same here, Drake. Show us, already!!! {g} ... I'd be inclined to have this stay, de facto, your own fan-art thread. Every such artist deserves his or her own, or threads by project, such as "Legion Park" or Mondo Joe's movie posters.

Sorry Grey, I'm still workin' on it ... tease that I am

Wildfire vs. the Brainiacs!

Simply gorgeous.

Drake, as others have said, your work is great!! Keep it up, and be sure to work on that Garth shot. And if you want it to be a Garth and Imra picture, with Imra in her pink bikini and disco boots... I could live with that.



Draw what feels right to you. I think your second Wildfire picture is one of your best works you posted here. Your love of the character really shows in the quality of your work. Damn I wish I could draw (even my stick figures look malnourished...).

Okaaayyyy, so we're obviously not communicating with a weekend artist here.

What are your credits? This is your job right?

The space scene seriously made me miss the pre-TMK. Some of those stories with modern graphics abilities, wow!

Those droids are fabulous. Heck with Garth (no offense meant) what about Robotica?

Thanks for sharing.

Drake,

That pic is awesome! Your Wildfire makes me wish he still looked that way!

You've hit another one out of the park Drake. Keep it up and you may break Barry Bonds' record!

that's AMAZING !!! i miss that version of "Wildfire" !!!

Matthew.

Wow! I had to register here to post this.
Drake, this stuff is amazing. With all the garbage being published in comics today, why the hell aren't you penciling something?!?!
Beautiful stuff. Keep it up.

Yeah, I'll second that emotion! Advertising storyboards are an underrated need and specialty, but are not enough for your talents, methinks. Why aren't YOU drawing Drake for DC? -- I asketh myself.

Stunning, that's all I can really say. Even the choices of that ueber-blasting in-control Wildfire, a lovely and well-formed Dawny, and Ultra Boy evoke my own modern intro to the Legion, when I picked up "LSH" v2 n284 in late '81. (Also Levitz's re-intro to writing the Legion.) So that group means a -lot- to me.

Would you happen to have a larger version even yet of your Dawnstar here? Or, hell's bells, of the whole picture? If you do and can e-mail either to me, I would be most beholden ...

I hear you Grey -- Wildfire, Dawnstar and Ultra-Boy as the "advance team" flying ahead of a Legion cruiser was a stable for what was my "glory days" of the Legion.

I'll gladly send a larger version if you want Grey, but I warn you Dawnstar was meant to be out of focus.

Oh yeah, and the reason I'm not drawing for DC is that if I were, there'd be a lot of angry posts here about how much more page-space Drake was getting than everyone else in every issue and he'd be on top of the "Five MUST Die!" poll

There'd also be compaints about me missing deadlines, I'm sure -- a monthly grind is pretty hard to do and I like my pretty lucrative, but not too time-comsuming existence as a freelance hack in the tv ad biz

those "glory days" are missed !!!

Matthew.

Drake, just for a chill, is it allowed that you let us know something, an ad, you did and we might see? One of those things that when were hanging out with buds, we can say "yeh I know who did that!"

And hey, all Drake all the time isn't necessarily a bad thing, particularly when he looks like your version.

Drake, you should get that Wildfire pic made up into a poster. It would be amazing! Unless it got you into trouble with DC, then.. never mind.

Honestly, I can't think of anything right now -- it's usually months later that something I worked on ends up on the air and I can't think back that far -- most of it's a blur. And even if I remembered, I don't know which ones air in which parts of the country. I did a bunch of comic book type art for the MTV Movie Awards though -- I remember that cuz I worked on it for an entire month.

Oh ok, I remembered I recently worked on a Smirnoff Vodka compaign and an AOL Bradband commercial. I also did some anti-drug p.s.a's that are airing now.

Here's an "Ayla in overalls" sketch.
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Cute, even if it is Ayla, but what happened to her shirt?