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Red Leader · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 7:41 pm

Hey Loki, indirect thanks...
I sent my monkey doodles off to my buds at Dark Horse for laughs, and It landed me a surprise writing / painting gig! Looks like I'll be doing a 4 page story for Star Wars tales...(A wacky Maul story)
Here's some character designs I worked on today...I'll post more later.

Loki · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 7:57 pm

Wow! Congratulations! Your paintings of the monkey were awesome - I laughed my ass off!
So, IMHO the surprise assignment is more than well deserved!

Loki

Oh, nearly forgot - the drawing above is neat too - both are funny!

[ May 09, 2001: Message edited by: Loki ]

immi · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 7:59 pm

Congrats man! Those monkey pics of yours cracked me up as do the caricatures of the star wars crew.

Red Leader · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 8:08 pm

Thanks guys!

Oh, and i know Lukes legs are too short or his arms are too long... I'll fix it another day.

TheMilkMan · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 8:18 pm

Awsome red leader....congrates on the good news...you should try to get some work from star wars gamer..anyways i'll make sure to pick up your issue when it hits the street!

Jenn · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 8:46 pm

awesome

Collosimo · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 9:12 pm

Nice. I really do like your comic style. Awesome characters.. nice drawings.. well deserved job. Keep us posted throughout..

ShinShot · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 9:20 pm

Good for you! That is some deep, dark crevasse that your Chewy/Green Monkey tongues reside. Very entertaining.

Are these scanned pencil sketches or strictly digital?

Excellent work. Good luck!

Red Leader · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 9:26 pm

Shinshot- This stuff is all digital...Same as the monkeys. I color all day long with the Wacom, so it feels more natural to me than a pencil does. This was done in PS

pixualize · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 9:44 pm

Congrats on the gig! I think they are fantastic! Can't wait to see the rest of the cast. Keep us posted as to the progress, I'll wanna snag a copy from my local pulp pusher!

I also noticed you are a fellow In-Depther like myself (howdy neighbor). Would love for you to put a gallery together to show more cool stuff like this!

nickmarksdotcom · member Member # Joined: 17 Feb 2001 Posts: 244

Congrats Red Leader!!! way to go. You gotta tell us what issue so we can all go buy it!

Nick

Visigothan · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 10:04 pm

Congratulations Red Leader! It is well deserved, IMO

I enjoyed the drawings you did in the monkey thread as well -- As for Luke's arms/legs -- I say keep them the way they are...They add to his comical appearance.

BoBo_the_seal · Posted: Wed May 09, 2001 10:08 pm

Congrats!!
Heh, your monkeys are what made me do mine.

BoBo the seal

Sumaleth · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 12:15 am

Congrats RL, good stuff.

(and to think I almost had to KO that monkey thread because Loki didn't post a pic with the initial thread!

)

Row.

Joachim · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 1:12 am

congrats ! it's funny how a job can start out...but isn't that what also makes it so fun

[ May 10, 2001: Message edited by: Joachim ]

Sempere · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 4:47 am

Congrats!
These Starwars characters and those monkeys are really funny !!!

They have charisma !!!

Rinaldo · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 6:51 am

haha, damn those are good. very slick=)

the monkeys where awesome as well

Kaiju · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 6:56 am

Is this Dave from comiccolors? Congrats on the new gig.

mellowsmoothe · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 7:19 am

looks great...i really admire your work, very enrapturing style. one thing i noticed about this pict. though is that chewy's knees are pointed in the right direction but his feet aren't, thus making it seem like an unnatural stance. great otherwise. i look forward to more.

micke · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 8:21 am

I'm really keen on seeing more of your work!
Congratulations!

-Mikael

agent44 · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 8:24 am

that's great! and I loved your monkeys. these starwars charactures are wonderful can't wait to see the book. Keep us posted.

Bishop_Six · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 8:35 am

Congratulations, man, that's pretty cool. Those caricatures are nice, too

Red Leader · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 12:58 pm

All- Thanks!

Pixualize- Thanks, I want to put together a web site, I hope to have time in the next month or so... I don't really have a lot of illos right now anyway, the stuff I've drawn for this board over the last month is all I've drawn for over two years, except for a handful of figure drawing sessions. No time in the fast paced coloring world for art for fun's sake. It's sure fun to get back into it.

Kaiju- Yes, this is Dave from CC~ thus the "Red Leader" (his name was Dave... Oh my god, I've become a Star Wars nerd!)

kaareandrews · junior member Member # Joined: 24 Apr 2001 Posts: 18

Congrats Dave! Wussup Kaiju? Looking forward to seeing finished pages. Nice SW pic.

-K

Kaiju · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 7:02 pm

You guys leaving us high and dry at CC? I was trying to leave this place, but I might come back more often if you folks are hanging here now.

Red Leader · Posted: Thu May 10, 2001 9:35 pm

Kaiju- I refuse to use the Cc boards until they fix the major problems that came along with the half-assed conversion to UltraBoard...I'm not going to turn frames off on my browser just so I can post a message, that's nuts. Too bad, because I really liked that board...

TheSourPatchKid · Posted: Fri May 11, 2001 12:11 am

For some reason I can't see any of your work Red Leader??? Just the boxes with the X's. Why is that do you think?

neebhore · Posted: Fri May 11, 2001 3:14 am

Whoa those are cool! Immediately identify who they're supposed to be. I think you should leave lukes anatomy as it is personnally, adds to the cartoony feel.

Gimbal8 · Posted: Fri May 11, 2001 4:55 am

Red Leader landed a Star Wars job. Go figure.

I love your posts. Those freakin' monkeys of yours kill me.

Morgoth · Posted: Fri May 11, 2001 5:13 am

You don't seem to have forgotten much in 2 years!

Why don't you do line art as well as colouring?? I think you're damn good at it! The monkeys were soo very well "animated"... And I like the SW characters very very much! So much caricature and yet so much likeness to the true heroes