Guest Ransik Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 I've come to find out my best work comes from doing Marvel characters... but after HOURS of running around the net searching for something to do next, I cannot find one decent cover or art to draw! My main target for my next piece was Venom... but 99.9% of all Venom pics on the web are trash! After searching through hundreds of pics I found one halfway decent one, but not really all that great. Aside from Marvel.com, does anyone know of a good website to look at Marvel art? I've tried looking around for the Fleer cards, comic covers, art, anything at all... and I'm finding the worst of the worst! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamelessposer Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 I think comicvine.com is a good resource, but the pictures could be too small for you to use as a reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FINisher Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 While not original, DeviantArt offers thousands and thousands of really good artwork done by everyday people :) Searched with the word "marvel". [url]http://browse.deviantart.com/?section=browse&order=9&qh=&q=marvel[/url] And also, you could join the site and ask fellow artists on how they have found their covers etc. materials from which they have done their artwork! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ransik Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Thanks guys, I'm finding a ton of stuff to work with! One question that's bugging me. When, where, how, and WHY did the symbiote get ahold of Wolverine?! [IMG]http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/11136/[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberkitten01 Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 [QUOTE=Ransik;477280]When, where, how, and WHY did the symbiote get ahold of Wolverine?[/QUOTE] Apparently he's had the Venom symbiote before, but recently New York was hit with a Venom Bomb and turned everyone into symbiotes, people like Wolverine, Doctor Strange and Iron Fist all went Venomy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ransik Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 [QUOTE=cyberkitten01;477295]Apparently he's had the Venom symbiote before, but recently New York was hit with a Venom Bomb and turned everyone into symbiotes, people like Wolverine, Doctor Strange and Iron Fist all went Venomy[/QUOTE] That seems.... odd. lol I was thinking maybe they'd finally gone in a different direction for Wolvey and "turned him heel". Wolverine with the symbiote would be unstoppable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamelessposer Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 [QUOTE=Ransik;477299]I was thinking maybe they'd finally gone in a different direction for Wolvey and "turned him heel". Wolverine with the symbiote would be unstoppable![/QUOTE] He's gone through a couple of heel turns. In the nineties he became one of Apocalypse's Four Horsemen, War. A couple of years ago he was brainwashed by The Hand and sent to kill other heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 [URL="http://comicartcommunity.com/gallery/index.php"]Comic Art Community Gallery[/URL] A lot of nice pictures here too, but it's sorted by artist, not content. I'd throw in my piece about Wolverine, but I haven't had a chance to really read a comic in years. However, I am going to have to find this horsemen set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamelessposer Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 [QUOTE=Prophet;477320]However, I am going to have to find this horsemen set.[/QUOTE] It was after he lost his adamantium skeleton, but before he got it back. That's as much help as I can provide without actually, y'know, doing work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 I looked it up on Wiki (the source of all that is good and true in the inter-world) and it only has the Wolvie stint as War as a What If? comic. Still works for me, though. A lot of neat stuff in the article that I never realized, such as Gambit playing Death at one point, and a comic where Archangel, as Death, regrew bat wings, after he lost the feathered ones, and obtained the ability to breathe fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djthefunkchris Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 [QUOTE=Prophet;477320][URL="http://comicartcommunity.com/gallery/index.php"]Comic Art Community Gallery[/URL] A lot of nice pictures here too, but it's sorted by artist, not content. I'd throw in my piece about Wolverine, but I haven't had a chance to really read a comic in years. However, I am going to have to find this horsemen set.[/QUOTE] Outside of the obvious (Alex Ross), one of my favorites, Adam Hughe is on that list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moe Hunter Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 [QUOTE=Ransik;477299]That seems.... odd. lol I was thinking maybe they'd finally gone in a different direction for Wolvey and "turned him heel". Wolverine with the symbiote would be unstoppable![/QUOTE] Indeed. Though his healing factor kept kicking the Symbiote out and the Symbiote kept trying to latch, so he was pretty much a mess. Oddly enough, I guess Activision are trying to make up for the horrible Spider-man 3 movie game with their next one featuring... .Symbiote Wolverine, for no good reason. Oh well, the rest of the game looks pretty good. Horrible voice for Spidey too, actually... [QUOTE=shamelessposer;477328]It was after he lost his adamantium skeleton, but before he got it back. That's as much help as I can provide without actually, y'know, doing work.[/QUOTE] In and around Wolverine #175, he was operating as Death wearing a big red scarf, fighting the Hulk, etc with a big sword. It was then revealed that Apocalypse gave him his skeleton back finally. In the meantime, the Wolverine that was running around in every other title was a Skrull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 [QUOTE=djthefunkchris;477432]Outside of the obvious (Alex Ross), one of my favorites, Adam Hughe is on that list.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I find myself scrolling through from time to time, merely to see what catches my eye. It also has Frazetta work, which is a major plus. [QUOTE]In and around Wolverine #175, he was operating as Death wearing a big red scarf, fighting the Hulk, etc with a big sword. It was then revealed that Apocalypse gave him his skeleton back finally. In the meantime, the Wolverine that was running around in every other title was a Skrull.[/QUOTE] I was never really good with comic storylines. Like the legit storylines anyway. Maybe because I was into them during the second boom period, and comic upon comic was printed, with writers making up stuff on the fly to keep pressing issues. Like the Scarlet Spider being the real Spiderman, and Spiderman was a clone made by the Goblin. And MJ was actually a clone of Gwen Stacy, or somesuch. I always got lost, because I never got them week to week. So I became a bigger fan of the what if's and the alterverse. What if the Punisher wiped out the marvel universe, where Frank Castle became a cop after his marine days, and his wife and kid are killed in a superhuman war's crossfire. So Castle, at the behest of some old man, spends the next three years brutally slaughtering the entire Marvel superhero/villain encyclopedia. Brilliant! I think of the massive collection of comics I had, the only ones I still own, are those types. Speaking of ... the zombie issues ... awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamelessposer Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 [QUOTE=Prophet;477446]I was never really good with comic storylines. Like the legit storylines anyway. Maybe because I was into them during the second boom period, and comic upon comic was printed, with writers making up stuff on the fly to keep pressing issues. Like the Scarlet Spider being the real Spiderman, and Spiderman was a clone made by the Goblin. And MJ was actually a clone of Gwen Stacy, or somesuch. I always got lost, because I never got them week to week. [/QUOTE] The Clone Saga started out as a story that would've only lasted a few months, and in the end Scarlet Spider would have been given one of the Spider-Man books to carry on his own to help shake up the status quo. But instead the management at Marvel saw the high sales and forced the creative team to keep artificially extending the storyline, which is where you get all of the stupid and unnecessary plot twists (Spidercide? Really?) leading up to a payoff that would've worked a lot better if it had come six months earlier when people still cared. If an individual event killed the comics boom and almost took the whole industry with it, it was the Clone Saga. Also, Ransik: [url]http://www.marvel.com/digitalcomics/[/url] Ten dollars a month or sixty dollars a year and you get to read a huge chunk of Marvel's back catalog. There's also a bunch of free issues that might give you some inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_w_w Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 [QUOTE=shamelessposer;477505] [url]http://www.marvel.com/digitalcomics/[/url] Ten dollars a month or sixty dollars a year and you get to read a huge chunk of Marvel's back catalog. There's also a bunch of free issues that might give you some inspiration.[/QUOTE] Oh, that is fantastic. Marvel is like 3 minutes away from getting 60 of my dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ransik Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Oh you guys have gotta watch this! [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-o6M3HbwM&feature=related[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imarevenant Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 [QUOTE=d_w_w;477515]Oh, that is fantastic. Marvel is like 3 minutes away from getting 60 of my dollars.[/QUOTE] /nod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ransik Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Ok I'm going nuts here.... I thought I'd hop online and find some tutorials on how to draw some Marvel characters so I can finally sit and teach myself to do things free hand and without having a reference point to use. Well... there's TONS of sites and videos... and it's also very obvious 100% of these people have never taught another human being how to do anything in their entire lives. Each video is nothing but a "watch me draw this guy" while it's labeled "how to draw this guy". Doesn't tell you how to set up a skeleton.... what the guidelines are for proper shading.... nothing. Just "watch me draw Spider-Man in 9 minutes while I label it 'how to draw Spider-Man'". Does anyone know of any useful sites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamelessposer Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 [QUOTE=Ransik;477764]Does anyone know of any useful sites?[/QUOTE] I doubt it's anything you'll find online for free. But if I'm wrong then I'd appreciate a link, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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