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Guardian7:
I presently am setting the stage to do and use the PD chara from the Centaur Line.
Probably in some ONLINE COMIC. Since I doubt anyone will pick it up or even be interested in picking up. If I had the cash... I would certainly self publish... even at a cost. But alas I don't. One day maybe I will (since winning the lottery seems more feasible than finding a decent job! LOL).

Here is a montage of images I have done of Centaur chara (some are simply enhanced pencils others are inked line art) . It gives a fair idea that I have a pretty firm grasp on their appearances (Plus I do believe my artwork does the characters justice).

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t225/Samcub/CentaurUniverseRevisited.jpgThis of course does not include any sequential pages that I have done though haven't posted to anyone (no I don't plan on posting them until I figure exactly what I am going to do with them and whether or not I want my stories of them to appear).
I will say that I do plan on remaining as strict to the characters as they have been presented. It won't be a modern age take on them. Though I may take a few liberties with costumes. An extreme example of this is as here with Solarman (His color scheme is based on the first image I got of him from the net. Not knowing that he wasn't Green-orange-pale yellow and black: He IS bright blue-red-yellow with Black shading).

Here is a montage of the two (same) images of Solarman... I flipped the wrong colored one just to make the pic look neat! LOL

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t225/Samcub/Solarmanyinyang.jpgHere is my drawing of the wrong color scheme... but still lookin pretty sharp I think.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t225/Samcub/Solarman2c1.jpgJust so everyone knows... this doing characters in color thing is utterly new for me (ask Comicsnorth if you don't believe me - not usually my forte... but I am getting faster at it. Most certainly covers and any pin-ups I decide to do will be in color when this Online Comic gets started).

I of course will never do a character that I know absolutely nothing about. Which is why I am leaning away from the (Detective) Eye (Sees) and Masked Marvel. I have a few of their stories... and they seem pretty much of a similar pattern. I just want just a few more stories to just cement them more solidly in my head.
I don't plan on introducing too many of my own characters into the stories -- as there is SUCH a host of characters to be culled from the pages of all the Centaur stuff, even the ones that played bit parts or had more HUMAN level stories -- All of them could and should be used before I pile a bunch of my own crap on top of everything.
Most likely if I do indeed do it. It will be soldiers, lab assistants or other possibly necessary side characters.
I only plan on introducing one character and that is because I do not feel that some minorities are represented (or in the case of the period these take place in... shown VERY stereotypically bad). Product of the times, but still something I plan on doing something about and addressing.

Anyhow... that is the plan at least on paper... *wink*

Cya
G7

bchat:
Well, I for one hope you do post your stuff somewhere.  You have a nice style which reminds of John Byrne & Jerry Ordway a little bit.  TNT Todd especially looks cool.  I enjoy seeing "fan art" where people are drawing PD characters.  For example, there is an entire card set called "Golden Age of Comics: Heroes & Villains" from Breygent Marketing which is fun to look at, but I haven't seen too many people creating stories using the characters.

narfstar:
Really great looking stuff. I especially like The Arrow. Nice mysterious look

Guardian7:
Hey... I'll take a "reminds" someone of JByrne/JOrdway compliment anytime!

In the case of TNT Todd... no offense to the original artist... but I couldn't do anything more than go up with him. He was a hard nut to crack for me at first because his suit pattern from the front to the back seemed (and is in some panels) wholly different. Then there was that god awful helm of his... I never thought I would get that down pat from any position except a straight on one... Then in one moment it seemed to click and I had it downpat.
TNT Todd is like Wildfire (LSH) only decades older.

The Arrow is a wonderful character to draw. I have a lot of different colored/styled outfits to choose of his (most of the changes in outfits being pretty subtle). But drawing bowmen is pretty easy. I think the Arrow is just as menacing as Batman. Everyone seems to fear him the same way... and that is in broad daylight. I can not imagine how much more scary he would seem in the dark of night.

I'd like to do a teaming of Arrow with the Clock.

Doing Amazing Man is where it truly is at for me. I have pretty much three complete stories with Aman and one strongly involves TNT Todd. Most of the layouts are done. The covers have turned out kick-ass for them.
I will likely do Anthologies... Much like the original AMAZING MAN COMICS was. Though with Aman's portion being much larger.
So several other characters will likely appear (listed on the left or right of the cover in boxes, circles or stars).
Right now on the docket for appearances at first are Dash Dartwell, Plymo the Rubber Man (with a guest appearance by Miraco the Great and it will lead to a larger story involving even more characters) and Solarman (who is a total open book for me to play with).

My "Want to do's" is a pretty large volume of characters: Inner Circle, Reef Kinkaid, Blue Lady, Iron Skull, Shark, Jay Douglas and his Dinosaur Forest, Minimidget and Ritty, Owl, Black Panther, The Eye, Super-Ann (and by default Mighty Man), Man of War and of course everyone I listed above.
Not including all the stuff of World War Two and all it entails. 

Big wants I know. But I have sworn this year that I will do a comic.
I am a huge fan of WWII heroes and this particular Comic Group was left hanging (Plus they are PD).
Hopefully this will be one that anyone that desired to could see it, could and would. I would love it if I became an internet must read. But with the age and obscurity of said chara... plus the fact that I want to (for the most part) remain true to the characters based on who they are and NOT make some sort of uber-modernization of them. Might make them a bit bland for today's audiences. But I know one thing... the fights will be anything BUT bland! You guys have only seen my stand and pose work... but once I start doing action... Well... maybe I'll just wait and let you decide for yourselves.

As you can tell I am hyped on doing this. Hope I don't lose steam! *wink*

Just for the heck of it... here is an Amazing Man pic that I may have shown before on GAC.

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t225/Samcub/AmazingMan3.jpgCya
G7

bchat:

--- Quote from: Guardian7 on September 17, 2010, 08:54:54 PM ---In the case of TNT Todd... no offense to the original artist... but I couldn't do anything more than go up with him. He was a hard nut to crack for me at first because his suit pattern from the front to the back seemed (and is in some panels) wholly different. Then there was that god awful helm of his... I never thought I would get that down pat from any position except a straight on one... Then in one moment it seemed to click and I had it downpat.
TNT Todd is like Wildfire (LSH) only decades older.
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The original artist for the superhero version of TNT Todd was, in my opinion, definitely not suited for superhero stories.  He wasn't a bad artist, but his figure drawing just wasn't strong enough to make the character look dynamic, especially when TNT Todd was flying around & blowing things up.  Another artist, like yourself, drawing TNT Todd can make it work because it is, I think, a cool costume design ... except for the inconsistent way the original artist drew the front & back (I don't see how it matched-up all the way around as he drew it).

Just wondering:  Are you keeping "TNT Todd" as his name?  I think he's a potentially great character but having "Todd" as part of his "superhero name" always seemed kind of silly to me.  Kind of like if Captain America was actually called "Captain Steve" or Superman was called "Super Clark".


--- Quote ---As you can tell I am hyped on doing this. Hope I don't lose steam! *wink*

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I hope you don't lose steam either.  You seem pretty excited about it, so run with it!

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