Comrade Hero

Thanks muchly. That's pretty much it for a little while. Spending those pennies on inking, flatting, coloring and lettering.

Kubert, Joseph (1926-2012).
Served with Sergeant Frank Rock and the men of Easy Company. Will be missed.

Ain't so tough...

Great image.

Final Pencils by Yamandú Orce .

Sample Pages #011 to #12.
August, 2012.

This will be it from Yamandú for a little while as he prepares his portfolio and submissions. Of course, I will be getting these sample pages inked and colored while I carry on writing.

Or attacking anyone upfront when ambushing an unaware opponent tended to be the more preferred route.

Then again, having a Ninja strike a sleeping Spartan without warning during the night, surreptitiously slip poison into a food or water source, or patiently wait to strike from the inside of a latrine, sewer or other unexpected place wouldn't have been 'dramatic' enough for Deadliest Warrior.

That was quite funny actually! An interesting selection of weapons on both sides, but odd choices.

I would have liked to see Shaolin Monk vs. Japanese Ninja (what idiot put a Ninja up against a Spartan? What Ninja is going to go for frontal combat against an armored opponent?) or Maori vs. Aztec. European Knight vs. Samurai would be great to see, but alas a Knight vs. a Pirate? Argghhh!

Thanks for the comments and feedback. It's always a tricky balance juggling different elements and you can never be entirely sure you've got it right. So it's always encouraging to hear when I'm on the right track (and useful to know if I'm not).

Pish-posh! No need to apologize. And I didn't actually use a dictionary, I used Google. There used to be a time when I would turn to the physical edition of my Oxford Dictionary but those days are almost behind me.

Big fan of Deadliest Warrior although some of the match-ups have me scratching my head a little.


And a little piece of environmental concept art from Amit Dutta.

A Reactor Control Room with a Man in the Machine.

At the moment I've been compiling sample pages, promotional images, and character and environmental concept art into PDF files for downloading (150dpi) and printing (600dpi) to supplement my application to Creative New Zealand in the next contestable arts funding round.

I'm not nearly as much in-game as I used to be, although with a bitter winter down here in New Zealand I've been getting reacquainted with my heroes and villains on Protector. A lot of the newer artwork is tied to my creative writing project that I've been actively working on since 2008. And with that in mind, here's some more artwork for you to peruse.

Final Pencils by Yamandú Orce .

Sample Pages #01 to #06. July 2012

Thanks for you vote of approval!


You made me use a dictionary. I haven't had to do that for a while.

Heterochromia indeed.

Actually, I thought that a god of war should look the part as in the deity actually did a lot of fighting and had the scars to prove it.

I envisioned the gods - or Ngā Atua - having glowing eyes thematically colored. Hence Tāwhirimātea is blue/white while Tūmatauenga was glowing red. However, after seeing the glowing red pupil-less eye version of Tūmatauenga I reconsidered as he looked too much like a Terminator. Hence the red eye as it is now. The other eye is milky white due to being raked across the face. Although as a God Tūmatauenga see's perfectly well out that eye.

However there is a duality to Tūmatauenga:

I'd be happy with the violence, language content, adult themes, and humor of Dredd being in the vein of RoboCop, which seems more appropriate.

The early uniform worn by the Street Judges was kind of like a cross between highway patrol/riot squad police officers, and Dredd wasn't a particularly physically imposing character either. The early uniform pieces were gradually increased in size (gloves, boots, belt, badge and elbow and knee pads, shoulder pad and shoulder eagle) to the current iconic image of Dredd in his Judges uniform.

This. The Avengers goes from two women on the team to one. Maybe they'll throw in Maria Hill to balance things out a little (sigh).

True, but RoboCop often gets the best one-liners and no-one delivers awesome one-liners quite like Mr. Jackson.

Now, these two actresses didn't gain the muscle mass of certain fitness and bodybuilding women - and I'm not suggesting them for Wonder Woman.

A ways back, Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 got the buffed body treatment, and she looked like a very lethal (and unhinged) Sarah Connor.

And more recently, Katee Sackhoff buffed up for the role of a mercenary in the sequel to Chronicles of Riddick (she's quoted as saying she had to lose about 10lbs of muscle post-filming for upcoming television work).