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E.J.Su · junior member Member # Joined: 06 Dec 2001 Posts: 12

Hi, everyone, long time lurker first time poster.

This is the cover of a comic that will be published in June by Funk-O-Tron. The book is called Double Take #3: Legend of Stone Monkey, a one shot story written and penciled by me. The story is based on a Chinese classic mythical novel.

Please comment and critique my cover. thanks.

[img=http://www.protodepot.com/post/wukoncover.jpg[/img]

David Pardo · junior member Member # Joined: 19 Oct 2001 Posts: 6

The Son Goku!!

Great work. Drop a line if you ever print some posters.

mucha · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 7:54 am

Heya welcome too sijun Ej

Here ya go:

ggrrr couldnt get it too show either =/
ah well here it is *uploaded too too diff server

[ January 30, 2002: Message edited by: mucha ]

iAm-Philter · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 8:14 am

hmm i only got one thing to say... that is sweeeeet!!!!!!!... iron monkey > me

allthough a background would > me more...
damn good work...

jr · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 8:41 am

hey there ej, i've seen your work on pencil jack and the old wizard boards, welcome!

Andromeda · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 8:46 am

Hey thats Sun Wu Kong.
More well known as 'The monkey god' in these region.

Born of stone, neither angel nor devil.
Mischeivious creature.

That staff you see him carrying, its magical.
he can make it grow to any lenght/size he wants .. damned cool

tyron · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 9:28 am

coolness!
reminded me of the song steel monkey by jetrho tull.. download it

no crits from me, everyting looks good to me.

MoleculeMan · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 11:28 am

hey, nice stuff. I love your pencil work from penciljack.com!

About time you joined. You should tweak the fire from the dragon, maybe make it a little more pervasive and orange. It looks a little unrefined as compared with the rest of the picture.

jake

Twincruiser · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 11:41 am

I saw your pic at the OZcomics forum... very cool pic and the sketches are super too!!

Makafui · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 11:51 am

woah me like me like alot!

E.J.Su · junior member Member # Joined: 06 Dec 2001 Posts: 12

argh! thanks Mucha, I made a poop poop.

Andromeda> Yes! that's him! I am glad there are people knows about the story

MoleculeMan> thanks for the critique, I'll see if I can tweak some more before they go to the press. I actually joined a while back, just never had anything worthy to show the incredible talents here.

Thank you everyone for you comment. hopefully the book will do well.

jome · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2002 1:34 pm

Hey, I have a classical one-shot version lying around here some where. Black and white, the story's called "Monkey subdues the White Bone demon". Typical example of oriental composition.
You updated it nicely, paying attention to those curled clouds that are so recognizable. And the clothing... excellent.
I'd love to see the whole comic.
The only comment on this, but I guess this is judging a horse by its mouth, is the lack of landscape. Something that gave the book I have over here so much atmosphere.
Nice!

Ian Jones · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2002 5:02 am

Really nice. So clean and so illustrative... it really gets the message across in a dynamic way. clean rendering and nice colours, fair bit of detail in there too. Good job! The comic looks like it will be great. We would love to see more, so feel free to use us for critiques etc!

Welcome to the forum.

Spartan · junior member Member # Joined: 08 Aug 2001 Posts: 6

Rob? Greenwhale Rob? is that you? man if it is, e-mail me. Its me "Eps" from the old HF days. w00t!

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lithius611 · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2002 12:24 am

correct me if im wrong but isnt that the story the dragonball series is based upon? its a good story and that's a cool pic, i always wanted to see (another) different take on it.

[ February 01, 2002: Message edited by: lithius611 ]

gema · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2002 12:35 am

woohaa, this monkey can kick some ***, fantastic work!

Pat · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2002 2:06 pm

I'd been meaning to say something really positive about this image. Thankfully, I'm getting around to it finally.

I just love the composition and while I'd never use the colors you chose, you pull them off great. Outstanding control!

-Pat

Tinusch · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2002 2:14 pm

Dragonball is based on Dragon Power for NES, I think. The name is similar and the characters are the same.

Finnegan · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2002 1:57 am

holy cow EJ's here

*waves hiya to EJ*

you know i love this pic buddy... it's one of my favorites from ya! It kinda has a "primary colors" look to it, but i kinda like that about it

FINN (another lurker)

E.J.Su · junior member Member # Joined: 06 Dec 2001 Posts: 12

Hey Finn.

Thanks everyone, I am glad that I got such a positive response.

..and yes, original Dragonball were based on the same original novel that I am basing my story on.

Malachi Maloney · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 5:32 am

Very clean.

I like it.

Welcome to sijun.

Malachi