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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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Comments: 186
Weird Compliment but, boobs are easy to draw, but hard to perfect. You did it
I like.
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What kind of scanner do you use? And do you anything to the image in PS or another program? Anything to smooth out the lines, tones, etc?
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I have an Epson 836XL scanner. Sometimes a scan needs to be cleaned up in PS, but this Mantis piece is a straight scan with no PS fiddling.
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Thanks very much for the information, I know you are a busy man so I greatly appreciate it.
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I'm not, but it sure is fun when you're accused of being one!
(Take THAT, High School Guidance Counselor!)
Thanks!
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lol You're welcome. I've always enjoy your work. I even have a poster of the big, uh, blue eyed Power Girl that you did. Also a signed Catwoman.
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Magnificent. You really captured the essence of the character! That friend of yours is lucky!
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Might I just say: You draw the sexiest women on earth.
Amazing job!
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I never heard of her either *reads up on wiki link someone else provided* but I'd let her bug me any day!
Your usual awesome Adam!
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She is known as the Celestial Mother who would birth the Savior of the Universe. Her beloved was the Swordsman.
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I like it. I've read copics were good but I didn't know they could make such watercolor like marks.
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Everything about this picture makes me want to grab those boobs. Mission accomplished Adam!
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"...extra awesome with chocolate sauce and jimmies."
That's the subtitle to your new sketchbook, right?
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yeah she looks weird, I'd wish I'd understood...
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fantastic,love it.did you use any reference on the pic mr wizard?
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So it's cute as a bug,
sexy like a...what?
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See! That's how ya know yer not from down here. We say "jimmies" and people go huh?
HA!
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I Adam, i love your work, your lines are great and the style is amazing.
I want to ask you, how brand of Pitt Pen are you using with copics, cause mines are a mesh when i draw with my copics over it, and the whole drawing gets wet again.
Mines are Staedler. Are you using Faber CastleΒ΄s pens or something like this?
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absolutely beautiful! really love it!
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You are only a tiny bit more talented than me. In the same way a Mountain is a tiny bit larger than a pebble.
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realy really nice!! i love the highlights and all the little extras you took your time on! fantastic!! ^^
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It is STUNNING!!! I have to believe that every now and then when you do some good work even you are proud of yourself. Congrats.
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She's got an amazingly beautiful face. I am really loving this one. Pretty highlights on her nose, too.
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I know this will sound a bit weird but aside from everything else that looks awesome with this I really like how you did the background.
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Those are her little headpiece thingies on her hair beret originally.
(Mantis never made sense before, or with, the whole "Celestial Madonna" storyline...)
My question has always been: "How the heck does that top stay on?"
If she was raised in a monastery in the Himalayas, where did they get all the spirit gum to hold that thing on? And she does martial arts in it too?
Awful lot of spirit gum....
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Beautiful! Inspiring . You good sir have been and always will be a source of insiration for me. You always amaze me.
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Mantis is a 3rd or 4th tier character. But the artwork is awesome!
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I dare you to show me 1 person on this planet that draws a better female than Adam Hughes! I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU!!!! LOL!
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i first saw the title as "Mantits." True story.
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Jimmies?
I've been reading comics for awhile and I've never heard of Mantis!
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The way you render with markers is soo amazing! and you dont use so many colors but yet you convey the information in basic strokes
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