Friday, December 11, 2009

X-men art for Marvel Calendar

I couldn't tell you what year this was.  Maybe 1998?







Posted by Kevin Nowlan at 2:27 AM
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12 comments:

  1. PatrickWedgeDecember 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM

    The Beast's face is a riot.

    And I love the energy effect on the top part of the page.

    Sweet stuff!

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  2. BennyDecember 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM

    My wife was looking over my shoulder when I logged in. She thought this was a great drawing. She particularly liked the up-ended Wolverine.

    As for me, I love battle scenes; especially battle scenes featuring the X-Men. Apocalypse is getting the better of them at this phase of the skirmish. I'm particulary impressed by the absence of speedlines. The sense of movement and power is conveyed by the posture of the figures. Someone could write a story around this!

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  3. EddyDecember 11, 2009 at 2:19 PM

    Cool! Never seen this one before.

    -Eddy

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  4. Kevin NowlanDecember 12, 2009 at 9:07 AM

    As you can see, I added a scan of the thumbnail sketch.

    Benny, I'm glad your wife likes the piece. It's full of things I don't draw very well: Action, foreshortening... X-Men.

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  5. HiroshiDecember 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM

    Wow! I'm going to have to hunt down a copy of that calendar. This is really awesome! I especially like the way you did Psylocke's and Storm's hair. That stylized lightning is killer too!

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  6. BennyDecember 12, 2009 at 10:19 AM

    Which X-Men do you find most challenging to draw?

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  7. Kevin NowlanDecember 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM

    All the newer ones.

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  8. Kevin NowlanDecember 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM

    Hiroshi,

    If I remember right, the printed version had some pretty heavy airbrushed color on it. I couldn't find my copy.

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  9. BennyDecember 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM

    What's your personal cutoff for X-Men? Myself, X-Men pretty much ended after #143.

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  10. Kevin NowlanDecember 12, 2009 at 1:25 PM

    I don't remember the issue numbers but I probably bailed out in the early '80's. A few years later I picked up most of the Adams/Palmer back issues.

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  11. BennyDecember 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM

    If you aren't any of the following characters, you aren't an X-Man to me:
    Cyclops, Iceman, Beast, Angel, Marvel Girl, Havok, Polaris, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Banshee, Thunderbird, Sunfire, Sprite, Dazzler.

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  12. Manuel M. VidalDecember 12, 2009 at 4:29 PM

    Eres el PUTO AMO!

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