Yea I know exactly what you mean on the nibs. I have a tough time with our lab Wacoms. I have only briefly looked at MangaStudio, I shall dive deeper. All of these works astound and amaze me. And the inclusion of conceptual work makes me moist. Keep it up guys and gals.
Paul Sizer: That's one snazzy-ass coat you've designed, well done.
Kyle-Latino: What a lovely layout.
Rainbowblight: Well, that's just elegant, there.
Anyhow, here's my contribution (as always, ignore the awful coloring, I work with what I've got):
More interesting is the notion that most of these reinterpretations (including mine) are in a humorous bent. Which begs the question: is there a way to do a "Doktor Popeye" in a more serious vein?
Tough guys these days tend to be evoked by Johnny Bravo-style characters. Tek Jansen, Brock Samson, even Dwight from Sin City (he was a semi-serious lead in his story, but once he bacame a sidekick in "A Dame to Kill For," he became comic relief). I suppose crafting such a character as a lead in a serious story makes the bully/fascist tendencies more obvious, but from a storytelling perspective, I'm curious, if there's a way to write such a character in a non-comic way.
Which is all ignoring the fact that this picture comes with a little ha-ha vignette, available on www.threatquality.com, if anyone wants to read.
I can't color this picture here at work, so you have to imagine that he's a black guy.
The idea was, let's say you were a former Navy captain, and you made a billion dollars robbing oil tankers off the coast of Somalia and, rather than spending it on liquor and whores (er...rather than spending ALL of it on liquor and whores), you spent it on cutting edge tech and adventuring and, you know...justice. That kind of stuff.
@shining_lion: That's a City of Villains screenshot, from Cap au Diable if I'm any judge. I'm guessing it's from that coastal industrial area in the far east of the zone, the one that looks like it could be a lumbermill?
(Yes, I do play that game far too much. What of it?)
@JeffHolland Thanks so much! I dig your vignette "canniborgs" is the coolest term ever invented.
@Trigger25 So cool! and I'm a big tintin fan too! I was kinda hoping you'd end your awesomely alliterative subtitle with metropolis rather than city, but the art is top notch! ;)
@Vogonpoet30 Holy @#$%! that's too gorgeous to contemplate, like a still from the most amazing movie ever!
@MartinWhitmore gorgeously clean linework and harpoon-arm-cannon is the shit! Peg legged reanimated skeleton is also badass!