LadyJudgement

Reference - Roselyn Sanchez, hope you like her Gray!

lay off the crack TA... that's why Juggy snuck up on you... LOLOL (sorry folks inside joke)

Happy Happy (check other thread for present...) PM me your addy so I can send LARGE version!

LJ

Happy Birthday! (was gonna draw this one anyway, but seemed like a good idea to do it now...) Have a great day... click for large file.

Actually this is the second version, the first was so bad, I threw it into the garbage... well the digital one, and hit empty! This was completely done in Photoshop. At least the bad one let me remember his costume, so it was easier to draw him the second time from memory. I added the blue tints to his should be black cowl, artist's prerogative... Hope you like him Nazghul1, though I shouldn't be doing art for you, not after looking at your gallery.

If that's your sad attempt at guilting me into your sketch thread, you'll have to try A LOT harder... All my pencils are #2 yellows, they refuse to shade, it's in their contract.

Actually this is Adobe Illustrator CS3, and some of the colors have their opacity turned down from 100% o 50%. I'm 40 + kid btw...

I like the no iris look, it's available in the CC twice, not only as a normal face (alien 14) but also in the blatant shiny auras for the eyes. What drives me nuts about Liefield, is his inventive anatomy...but even more than that attrocity is his use of cross hatching on every surface, not even lines that form along the shape if it was say a cylindrical thigh, but instead it goes against the shape, almost against the imaginary grain on purpose. It's just insane the amount of unusual lines, unnecessary lines, lines for the sake of just being there because it's the only spot he hasn't put lines on. I tell you if his figures were done in Braille, the would make complete sense, but for the rest of us, it creates too much surface tension.

Jim Lee does it too, but he does it stylistically and in moderation. It's almost as if Liefield watched Jim draw those lines, and thought the more the merrier. McFarlane does it too, but at least he has some interesting design work. Liefield is on line crack!

I love giving a good piece of art gift... GH ordered this as one of her 10 commissions from me, still 2 gifts coming to some unsuspecting peoples... Hope you like TMS! (this is at quarter size, large version arriving via gmail...) Click to see half size bigger...

Originally this was just my sketch after about an hour, but I liked it so much, I didn't want to chance ruining it, so I cleaned it up in Photoshop... Actually the original order was for a piece for TMS, but I wanted to make it special for her forth coming nuptials... Give my best to WemblyFraggle!

Okay David, start posting...

Edit: okay as a comic artist, I don't think this guy can be ignored, his anatomy is too good - Gil Kane!

Some covers - click me

Wiki entry - click me

On that note, one of Gil's peers, BIG BAD - JOHN BUSCEMA!

To quote Ahnold... DOOOO EEEEEET!!!!

Now now Vivace, some of us have kids... mine are old enough to see this thread. But ya never know - thus the 2 Click rule, which ummm CR already violated on page 2, and didn't get trolled about. But heck, I think everything Implicit Bookcarrier even talks about is a 2 Clicker... lololol. This thread has merit if not for the ridiculous title, it might even get respect.

Though after reading Dark Forgiven's post, I am highly tempted to sketch up a page of bewbs...

Edit: make pin ups? you mean muscle poses?

(Yo BEN - this is required reading for you!)

Everyone else, please feel free to post whomever you like for their INK work.

For now I thought I would look up the Eisner Award winners for the past few years, and I found out, that Best Inker has only been given out since 1991! Which sucks, cause a lot of the inkers I love from the 70s and 80s are not on this list... but I will supplement them into it later on.

I thought this would be a nice thread to commemorate them, after 93, the Award was changed to include pencillers in the same category, though you could win as either... so not sure who exactly won for what... I have include direct links to their sites, sometimes a wiki on them, and when all else failed, whatever I could find. But for multiple winners, I included a different one for each time they won.

Anyway here are the Winners!

2009 - Guy Davis (best penciller/inker) * warning link has music *

2008 - Pia Guerra/Jose Marzan, Jr as a team (best penciller/inker) * the Marzan site is very bare bones *

2007 - Mark Buckingham/Steve Leialoha as a team (best penciller/inker)

2006 - John Cassaday (third win)

2005 - John Cassaday (second win) tied with Frank Quietly (best penciller/inker)

2004 - John Cassaday (best penciller/inker)

2003 - Kevin O'Neill (best penciller/inker)

2002 - Eduardo Risso (best penciller/inker)

2001 - P. Craig Russell (third win) for (best penciller/inker)

2000 - Kevin Nolan (second win) for (best penciller/inker) *fan blog*

1999 - Tim Sale (best penciller/inker)

1998 - P. Craig Russell (second win) for (best penciller/inker)

1997 - Al Williamson (second win), Charles Vess also won in another category (best penciller/inker)

1996 - Geof Darrow

1995 - Dave Gibbons (best penciller/inker) * fan site *

1994 - P. Craig Russell (best penciller/inker)

1993 - Kevin Nowlan

1992 - Adam Kubert

1991 - Al Williamson

Not sure I would put Benes as much as I love him, in the same boat as Hughes and Ross... And my personal taste is Ross first for sheer audacity to use watercolor and only watercolor to make such remarkable work. I love Hughes, but sometimes his subject matter design is hit and miss with me, although overall his style is incomparable.

What I love about Benes is his inking, and the weight of his muscle work. Yes his women are hot, but overall he can draw, and and he can tell a decent story, visually. As Inkers go though, I love David Finch and Lenil Francis Yu, two very different and distinct styles. Again not so much for their female boobage rendering, but their versatility, and no one draws black blood like Finch.

Yeah I can't seem to make myself draw shorter legs, my wife commented, and I already shrunk the knee to the toe, but forgot to shrink from the ankle to the toe, so her foot is a little long.

Dude, that IS a piece of art, wish I could afford your skills. Looking forward to more...