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In between head-meltingly difficult jobs this week, I've slowly been colouring this bad boy up.You might notice in comparison with the inks that I posted earlier, there's a few tweaks I made here and there to the line art. I've smoothed out some slightly wonky anatomy where possible. It's still far from perfect, but I've pretty much worked out legs and feet!
Coloured in Photoshop.
Nova is owned by Marvel / Disney / whoever.
I wanna see Simon Williams draw this guy.
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Great Nova pic. Feel free to add it to my features gallery at Nova Prime! Darren UK. Link below!
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Home to the Nova619 fan Webcomic for Nova Prime Page and Cosmic Book News
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Hey there!
Just checked our DA page - great stuff there!
I need to re-submit some work and have a tidy of my gallery in the next few weeks - once that's done, I'll happily add the pic.
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Look forward to it! When you do...check out our Nova619 comic! Thanks. Darren UK/West Midlands.
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very nice colouring....and I absolutely love the effect it has on it, especially the background....and you used it prominently on BWSC pg14 as well. Very unique.
The best phrase I can think of to desribe it is "coloured with eye-shadow".
I think that's something worth developing further, m'boi......
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Thanks, Seb!
It's all pretty simple to do, really - it's just time consuming.
The big detail is that I used to colour with soft, round brushes in Photoshop all the time, and everything looked clinical and clean. I use much dirtier, ragged brushes now, and I'm not afraid to break out the selection tool, gradients and some nice textures.
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Yup, that's it - lack of clinical cleanliness!!
Over stuff like this, one begins to wonder if it was coloured digitally or by hand, or by a combo of it.....and I like that. A lot.
Seriously, this is the direction you should be exploring even more. In time, it has potential of looking totally fantastic and unique.....think of it as this: [link] , but more saturated with colour and a teaspoon of HdE
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NO WAY! Ranx Xerox! I haven't seen anything of that in AGES!
I'll make no bones about the fact that I REALLY enjoy colouring like this. But it does take a while to do. I'm a VERY slow colourist, alas. So the pressure is on to find a method that I feel is attractive to look at and also quick to do.
It's a big ask. but the more I do, the more I learn. This one felt really easy to do, and it was a lot of fun. So maybe if I do more like this I can work on the speed.
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Since I don't know the first thing about didjital colouringses, I really have no advices/suggestions/etc.....all I know (like I genuine idiot) is that I like the looks of this and think it's a very good direction to develop further.
Since you say it's fun, I belive you'll have no objections to that. That's what all of this should be about
...and yes, RanXerox and his disgustingly underage concubine kick some SERIOUS ($#)#"("!!!!!
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Well, I'm continuing to tinker as we speak. I'm hoping I can bring soem of the skills I honed on this here image to bear on our Mosaic with Jon.
And the UK needs RanXerox. Like, NAOW!
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1) YES!!!
2) (..there wasn't a UK release?)
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1) Like I say, I've shunted ahead of everything else for July. I want to see if I can get it completed before Auto Assembly in August. It's proved VERY difficult so far, but I can see a way to press on with it.
2) I'm not sure what the situation with RanXerox in English is. I don't think the UK has had a full release.
We DID get the UbiSoft video game, titled 'Rank Xerox'. I think that's as aware as most folks are of the character over here.
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It's gonna be really something, I have no doubts about that
One can wonder if a Mosaic piece is worth all that trouble, but it'll help you learn...a great deal, I believe. Like a prototype, of sorts.
That alone makes it a worthy endeavour!
If it doesn't turn out to be exactly what you expected, well.....there's an (ugly) saying here stating that "You always drown the first batch of kittens", heh 
...and as for RanXerox, that thing really pushes the limits, I love it!
I still have some of the reprints of the chopped-up story that was published in one short-lived magazine here, as well as several issues of an Italian magazine that had RanXerox in it.
I was so gobsmacked by the looks of that strip back then!! I had no idea what Liberatore used for colouring (now I know it's a special kind of pens), so I somehow assumed it was makeup!
...so I gathered all the money I got for my birthday that year, went to the drugstore, and bought the cheapest set of 12 eye shadows, 5 eye-liners, a bottle of a thin cleansing lotion as a solvent, and splotched that with very thin brushes on a fine-surface tempera paper!
...and I dare say, the results were most impressive!! Of course, my general drawing/painting knowledge and technique was most lacking, but that's not the point here, lol....I wonder if those paintings still exist, hmm...
...and now I remembered the look on the face of the drustore woman when an early-pubescent boy came to the counter with hands full of makeup...priceless
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That is one AWESOME story!
I think it was pantone markers he used on RanXerox, wasn't it? The more I think about it, the more uncertain I am as to what happened about UK releases.
It's a series I wish was easier to come by, along with 'L'Incal'.
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Pantone, yes...I couldn't remember the name. That's it!
Truth be told, the effect which can be achieved with makeup is very similar (if someone skillful does it, not me), although very time-consuming...in the end, that's the effect Liberatore was going for!
...and ahhh, a painful spot you touched there, mister...
One dude borrowed the entire Incal saga from me (late 90s), and shortly after his dad got a job in another city, they moved, and I never heard from him again......and I never re-bought it either
...but you never know! Same thing happened in '91 when the war was starting, and families whose dads were bigshots in the (up to that point national, after that the aggressor's) army were ordered to pack up their stuff overnight and move to wherever they were being re-stationed....we had a huge naval base right on the edge of town.
One childhood pal of mine went because of that, along with one Superman almanac of mine......and about a DECADE later, while browsing through the stash of a street vendor of 2nd hand comics and magazines on a flea-market HERE in the city, some 300km away from my hometown, I FOUND MY COMIC, markings and all!!!!
...only to (after persistent nagging) borrow it to a moron who left it out on the balcony one night, and it ended up utterly destroyed by that night's apocalyptic rain. Some people should really be bludgeoned....
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yup..gotta love folks who take ever so much care of other people's belongings...
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Reminds me... I had a friend who used to constantly tell me 'don't lend that guy your CDs! they'll come back scratched!' or 'Do'n't give that guy anything unless you don't want it back! He has NO respect for people's property!'
The ONE time I loaned ths guy anything, it was a paperback book. I got it back in pieces.
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lol yeah...and what's interesting is, they'll never return the stuff on their own - you either gotta nag endlessly, or go to their place and take it yourself.
I gots me several of those, yup...
...including a champ who once returned me my portable electric mini-stove with half a centimetre think incrustation composed of various soups and sauces that spilled-over-then-baked-dry during 10 months...
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Some people have no shame.
I loaned a friend's girlfriend a stack of CDs once, because she was stuck at home for several weeks with nothing to do.
Eventually, I got my CDs back, in a noticeably smaller pile than I'd handed them over in.
'Where's the rest of 'em? ' I asked.
'Oh,' my friend replied. 'She likes those, so she's gonna hang on to them for a bit.'
I was pretty surprised at that.
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I did, but only after reminding them!
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I have a friend who can top that.
He lives in a city apartment, opposite a dwelling that has seen various ne'er-do-wells come and go. Variously, it's been home to drug dealers, benefit cheats, sex offenders... and amusingly, in this instance, gypsies.
My friend was at home, watching TV with his young son, when there was a tap at the door. He answered and found his new gypsy neighbour standing outside.
'Excuse me, mate,' the man said 'I just moved into the flat opposite today, and I fancied kicking back after unpacking all my stuff. I was just wondering - any chance I could borrow a DVD?'
My friend, alarm bells ringing at this request from someone he'd NEVER met before, realised he had to hand something over just to get rid of the guy. So he went and fetched one of the DVDs his son had grown tired of, reasoning that it wouldn't matter if it didn't come back.
So, planting the Thomas Tank (or whatever) DVD in the man's hands, he was rewarded with a big grin and thanks, and the man retreated.
So, my friend returned to watching DVDs with his son. But five minutes later, there was a tap at the door again.
My friend answered, and found the same guy standing there.
'Thanks for the DVD, mate,' the guy said. 'I was just wondering if you could loan me a DVD player to watch it on?'
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BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
Oh Boy, teeheeeeeeee.....
(btw, my kid LOVES Thomas, that theme song is one of rare things that can snap him out of a hysterical fit of crying
Reminds of ages ago, when a gypsy kid came to me on a tram stop and asked for my earphones so he could "listen to a very important tape"......they were tucked underneath my sweater, so I gave him the earpiece-end and the jack connector-end and stood really close (lol), which he plugged in his ancient walkman, and said he can't hear shit, and if I could hand him my walkman as well.
If I did, rest assured he and my walkman would have accelerated to warp 8 on spot...
Oh, so typical...I KNEW your story is gonna end that way, hehheh
Gypsies, strange bunch.....say, what's their general attitude up there?
Do they also adamantly refuse to live like people, go to school, have jobs and integrate into society, and just keep on truckin' in their own hunter-gatherer mindset...?
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Heh!
Gypsies here? Well, very simply, they're like they are everywhere else. Our town centre used to regularly play host to them each summer. I used to see the same two girls every year, rudely approaching passers by and LITERALLY thrusting ugly clumps of grass wrapped in foil in their faces (apparently, they call this 'lucky heather') and demanding money for it.
I'm proud to say that I played a small part in having them banned from the town centre, after one of them pulled this stunt on me. I replied, 'Oh, no thank you' and was given 'Well f**k off then, you townie bastid!' for my reply.
Coincidentally, a local officer of the law was passing at exactly that moment. I beckoned him over, words were had, and... well, I've never seen them or ANY other gypsies in town since!
Say - how is your little lad doing these days?
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Oh, I missed that last part
My boy is fine....super fine, in fact!
Doctors can't come to their senses, everything looks like nothing ever happened at all! No way to be 100% sure at the moment (not at least until we start potty-training him, matter of continence and control), but compared to expectations and prognosis of a great chance of him being dependent on diapers for good, this is perfect....quite a little miracle, my baby hero
As we speak, he's skinny-dipping his baby butt down on the coast with his mum, and loving every second of it
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This is all wonderful to hear!
Kids have the most amazing capacity to bounce back, as they say. Here's hoping your boy has no further ill effects - I'm rootin' for the little guy!
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Thanks
There is a very good chance that the concequences will be minimal, if any at all...and considering the enormous digestive handicap he was born with, it's really a miracle.
Without that surgery he wouldn't be able to function properly (read: at all), and post-surgery prognosis was very bleak regarding the level of control he'd have over the matter in the future - we fixed the duct and that's all we can do, now it's up to the nerves to accept the new condition and actually transmit orders - kind of thing.
But for now, it looks like we proved them wrong, 3 of us, with care, excercise, patience and devotion...and it's good.
It couldn't have been any different, that little dude and his Mum are pretty much all I have
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Hehheh, yes...exactly the same!
Except ours like to thrust pictures of saints and those church-y calendars with names. For some reason, St. Anthony of Padua (the one with that strange hair) is the favorite one.
...and if don't take it and give money, they usually mumble a curse at ya
They live in the city outskirts, mostly....in illegal settlements made out of makeshift shack-like houses of brick, tin sheets and chicken wire...and adamantly refuse to be part of the society, and instead make a living by scavenging for recyclables.
The only occasions you'll see'em in town en masse is when, several times every year, the garbage disposal service organizes a "bulky junk" day for your 'hood - folks throw out their old furniture, fridges car tyres, bags of debris left from construction/renovation, and similar garbage that usually clogs basements and attics, and city-peeps do rounds with dump trucks equipped with grappling cranes, and collect it.
Seriously, those are, like, Gypsy holidays....they come early in the morning, leave a woman (in 95% cases pregnant) to "own" a ever-growing pile and guard it vigorously, sometimes all day long, while men cruise in ancient vans and collect from such guarded piles everything that can be salvaged or recycled for money...
You just try to mess with an 'owned' junk pile, buddy....
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Oooooo, I likes me the Nova!
Interestingly, part of Marvel Cosmic's Annihilation series was written by the Furmanmeister!
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