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Year: 2010Client: Private Commission
Media: Pencil, PITT pen, COPIC marker, Berol Prismacolor pencil on 13.5" X 8.5" Strathmore Drawing paper
This is the sketch for the guaranteed eBay sketch done for Baltimore Comic-Con. Before anyone asks "You did this at a show?" - I didn't. I worked on it from home, and took a day on it. The winner is a friend of mine, so I wanted it to be extra awesome with chocolate sauce and jimmies.
Also, Mantis is an old-school AVENGERS character. I have no idea what her deal is, especially those things coming off her head. I infodumped my childhood.
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Awesome! I love how you've handled the antenna and other dangly bits. I have seen her crop up over the years as a character, but I am not sure I've seen a version that actually works as well as yours!
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oh my goodness you draw so..........GOOD!!! WELL! same thing
love her face and her hair! so pretty X)
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great one more time.
Have you got a "bank" of pose models or do you imagine each position with just imagination?
I'm envious by your talent!
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awesome work. id love to see you give it a try with the outfit shes been wearing in Guardians of the Galaxy. that almost grass skirt shes wearing now is kinda hot
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Lucky person, whoever gets this. Mantis looks gorgeous here.
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Fantastic! I recently bought a white gel pen, and a couple of copics, and prisma color pencils,. I wanna try your technique out. Its so nice to look and appreciate every detail of your work man.
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What kind of Over Grown Geek Boy would ask for such an Obscure Character???
Rich
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No kidding; what a loser!
Thanks for being patient Rich!
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Awesome artistry!
Shading is perfect.
Lines shapes and pose are just fabulous.
And the background is pretty interesting too. Those cloud-ish shapes look cool.
Perfectly executed.
You're a master.
Keep up the phenomenal work!
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This looks phenomenal! Go chocolate sauce! (hmmm, have no idea what jimmies are)
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Color-wise, that is some of the best hair I have ever seen. [hat-tip]
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Taking me back on this one. I haven't seen Mantis in years. I know she was trained by this cult to be some ultimate priestess or such. She had like willpower + 500 because of that. lol
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Love the lines used for the hands and muscle definition.
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I am in love with her
cool dark blue hair
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Your work is always so good and I love just staring at it.
I had no idea who this character was and immediately set off to find out, thanks for the amazing work you do and for indirectly leading to an increase in my knowledge of comic books! <3
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Thanks for taking the time to search info!
"Catch knowledge!"
~Annie Edison
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Mantis was a Vietnamese hooker with psychic powers and martial arts skills who joined the Avengers. She then discovered that she was the daughter of the supervillain Libra, and had been raised by a sect of Kree monks to be the Celestial Madonna, destined to mate with a tree from space and give birth to the Celestial Messiah. In the meantime she'd been mind-wiped and sent into the outside world to gain "life experience". Eventually she gave birth to a son, had to give him up to his dad's space tree family, wandered the universe, split into several archetypes, re-unified into a single individual, and left her body to join her kid and his space tree father's space tree family in space.
tl;dr Steve Englehart smoked a lot of pot in the '70s.
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thanks. i wish there were more of u here.
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Thanks for sharing another amazing piece!
You mentioned "Berol Prismacolor pencil"... did you use a white prismacolor for the highlights?
BTW... I received my copy of "Cover Run" in the mail recently.
Fantastic work!
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Beautiful usage of the copic markers as always Adam.
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She looks gorgeous here. I remember Mantis from way back. I wonder what happened to her?
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She's a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy at the moment.
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Mantis!! My favorite insect, now a hot chick!
Does she bite the heads off of her mates?
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Very desireable women, as always! Great work!
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What copic marker do you use for the skin tones? is that Warm Greys or do you use the browns? love your skin tones!
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Not only a gorgeous piece but your skill with the COPIC is beyond brilliant..
Cheers as always for sharing AH..!
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Thank you, Keen-Eyed World Traveler!
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I really like the picture, although I've never heard of her before xD
Really cute!
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Mantis!I donΒ΄t see this babe a long time ago! 
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have you tried chartpac markers? they seem to blend with the right paper better than copics and dry just as fast. ends up with a more 'water color' type look.
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