"Zarkov Undersea"
Medium: Graphite on sketchpad
This sketch will very likely become a painting soon. The main lighting will come from the coral city below. I always thought that Zarkov was an interesting enough character to warrant his own story arc seperately from Flash Gordan and Dale. With a good writer and Al Williamson doing the art it would be terrific. I thought I could clean this up in Illustrator and rotate it, but it seems that Illustrator's save for web format's are pretty aweful.
I think that I need to lengthen the legs on Zarkov a bit - any comments welcome.
6 comments:
This is very cool. I can't wait to see it in color. Your right the leg is too short. I like the idea of intelligent Zarkhov stepping out of Flash's muscle bound shadow.
Yeah I was pretty sure it was...I did this late at night, and when I got up in the morning I looked at it and was like, "what was I thinking?" LoL. I'll fix it for the final when I get to it.
This one is outstanding in it's field.
Now, go tell it to come inside before it rains. HA!
No really, this is very cool. It's a terrific composition and should make for a dynamic painting. I really like the creature design.
I like the leg the way it is, but ultimately it's you're call.
Instead of Al W., Why don't YOU draw this new adventure?
Scott made a good point that this makes a good comic panel from a series, but as for a stand alone work I might want to have Zarkov facing the viewer more.
I may change it a bit for the painting so that Zarkov is twisted a bit toward the viewer in the saddle with a lazer pistol drawn. This would also make more dramatic use of the light coming from below as well.
I wouldn't draw it because it would take me forever heheh...I am just too slow for comics work I think.
Glad you like the critter.
"Scott made a good point that this makes a good comic panel from a series, but as for a stand alone work I might want to have Zarkov facing the viewer more."
That's actually a very good point. How did Scott come up with it? ;p
Either the legs too short or the rest of him's too long. (Just calls 'em like I see's 'em...Now where're those glasses?)
I will probably have to redraw the whole thing and just use this sketch as a reference only.
After changing the pose I will probably have to change some of the background as well.
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