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I don't know how I missed this thread earlier. They look great, Drake!

Eric

Drake, I'm not sure if I've ever done this, but I really want to gush over your artwork! You do some really good renditions of the Legionnaires and your love of Wildfire TOTALLY shows! Please keep this thread active!!

Awesome pics!! I really love your XS pic but I love them all! Hope to see more soon. Keep it up :gives ya two big thumbs up:

Thanks for the nice comments and for dropping by to check out my thread!

Unlike the other stuff here, this is something I did 100% on the computer (MacPaint). I thought I'd put it up because of the current Legionology topic...

Wow.
Your art is amazing. And the colors are excellent!
You really do a better job than some of the artists that DC hired for the comics.
I wish they had hired you to do the DC trading cards.
I know the monthly grind is a royal pain, but I think you could do a great job doing just the covers even. And I'd love to see you do trading cards. Some of the pics you did would be great for comic covers or trading cards. Hell, if you didn't want to draw you could be a colorist. :-)
I especially love the Starboy one. Just the way he's posed and the sunspots and stuff.
I wish that I could still hold a pencil for more than 5 minutes much less draw like that.
luv,
-Su
ps. Are we going to see any pictures of postboot Brainiac 5 and Andromeda before the anomoly (I liked Andromeda's loincloth)-- I know I'm a pest.

In honor of Lightle's redesign...

P.S. Thanks a lot Su!

Fantastic Drawing Drake. Really captures the unique look.

Drake,

Regarding Tasmia...




Two thumbs up. More if I had 'em! Has Steve L. seen this yet?

Outstanding rendition. If anything, this shows her face and contours better than Lightle's original redesign -- because her skin is a bit lighter.

Jeez Drake, why aren't you drawing covers at very least for DC? Your pictures are superb!

Somebody give this man a job!!!!!

A sketch of the team...

I think i've just found the new poster I want.

Very nice, Drake! I've always loved the team flying pictures. With so many characters, they're so dynamic and inspiring.

Eric

Yes, this would be one of the better posters, post Z-hour for sure. (also note who got snuck into the middle! )

Love Gates and Ferro. Those must be most difficult to pose.

thanks!

I had to do a slight redesign (this is something that aired on MTV for about .002 seconds with different coloring), but I think you guys should recognize them...

Drake, one of the things I most enjoy about your renditions of the team is that you make each one an individual. I can distinguish Mon from Cos and Lyle from Val without needing the costume. In the current series, they all seem to have the same face with just the hair changed.

You really are much better than what we get in the book on a regular basis, IMO.

Vee

Hey Drake, the team shot is nice! I really like the mini computers floating around Querl, and the fact that Tinya is phasing into the poster istelf! Well done.

And the Wildfire/Dawny shot captures so much of their inner torment. It makes me think of when Dawnstar left to search the galaxy for her soulmate, and Drake whispers "Damn" and explodes out of his containment suit, knowing he can't be the man she needs/deserves.

I applaud your artistic ability, all the while cursing my "two left hands". Bravo!

Thanks Omni Craig and thank you Vee! Good thing I'll never be offered the Legion book and prove you wrong

I hope that's not the case. Your work is stellar...I'd have no complaints about seeing it in the books.

And I hope you are offered a shot at the Legion book and end up proving me right!

Belated praise is due for your latest items. I've rarely seen so adept a group portrait as you've done above, with its even being up-to-the-current-issue on Umbra's look.

As others have said, you've made individual expressions visible and distinctive, even in such a crowded setting, and that's something even Davis, Farmer, and Batista haven't quite managed to the same degree recently. ("Dream Crime" and "Superboy's Legion," the best recent Legion art.)

And the anguish in Dawny's face ... exquisite. I'm not sure of the setting or metaphor for those flames -- the gases swirling above Venus, perhaps?

Drake, that team shot is really, REALLY good! I love stuff like that there! Can I whine that Dreamer isn't there?

How/why was the picture of Wildfire and Dawnstar used on MTV? It's really good, too.

Would it be the first time a LMBP has gotten book time?

I'd be thrilled to see you get a poster page such as in LSH #100. I love those artists one-shots and yours are smack dab at the top.

Thanks -- the Dawnstar/ Drake pic was part of a whole slew of stuff I drew for the last MTV movie awards (which had a comic book theme). There was a series of promos for the awards that I drew to promote the event and the above panel passed across the screen (among others) in one of the promos.