John Byrne AF Commision

[Flightpath07]

That's what the girl at the picnic said. . .

LOL

Dang, this reminds me, i need to find issue one of JB's new "Trio" comic...

Ryan, that is a NEATO piece you got yourself there! I love Hawkeye, he was a nice idea for the pic, although he isn't traditionally one whom i would think of hanging out in a bar and hoisting a pint (he always seemed so tightly wound to me).

Congrats!

[Le Messor]

That's what the girl at the picnic said. . .

Dang, this reminds me, i need to find issue one of JB's new "Trio" comic...

It's okay.
Not his best work, not his worst - but the Fred Hembeck strip in the back is wayyy too accurate. It implies it's an F4 expy... and you can see which specific F4 story Byrne's setting up to copy.

Ryan, that is a GREAT commission. I extend you my envy.

- Le Messor
"If you get somebody to give you a dollar, they'll vote for you for the rest of their lives."
~ Hugh Parmer

[Flightpath07]

It's okay.
Not his best work, not his worst - - Le Messor

Well, my supplier was supposed to put Trio # 1 aside for me and send it to me, but he dropped the ball on this one, and another series i asked for as well. Dang it, customer service in this industry SUX! I'm getting peeved again.

[Ryan Maxwell]

Dang. I want this. Bad.

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/f....asp?TID=41981

[Flightpath07]

"i hope you don't tire of hearing this, JB- you are the best there is at rendering Logan and your Alpha Flight run is sorely missed!!!"

Unfortunately, JB only responded to the Logan part, and said nothing about his AF run.

Ryan, you are correct, that is a VERY nice piece of artwork. Were i part of JB's site, i would add that he is also the best at drawing Heather Hudson, and that it is nice to see her actually LOOK like her.

[Le Messor]

I don't like long threads of everybody saying the same thing over and over, so I'll be contrary and say that is a great, amazing commission.

Wait, that is what everybody else is saying!
Well, it is a wonderful pic. I'm not gonna tear it down, even just to be contrary.

When I'm really rich I'll have to get a commission myself.

For contrast, my parents got back from the US yesterday, where my Dad got me a bunch of the 90s X-Men that I didn't get back in the day. Seeing Logan back then, all cartoonish and noseless... not so good.

Seems like no matter how much texture I drew, the colorist would lay in a flat slab of blue and they'd immediately read as polyester.

I never had that problem (jeans have always read as jeans to me); but then, I'm not colour blind.
(Also, his Jean has always read as Jean to me; he does her as well as he does Logan.)

- Le Messor
"If you want to make it big in life, remember, take care, You must know whom to kiss, and also where..."
~ PDQ Bach, A Little Nightmare Music

[Flightpath07]

Here's to hoping you get rich some day! Really wanna see what a JB commission of YOU would look like!

[Le Messor]

Here's to hoping you get rich some day! Really wanna see what a JB commission of YOU would look like!

I didn't say a commission OF myself!

[Flightpath07]

Yes you did! Look, right here...

...a commission OF myself!

See!

[Le Messor]

Ya got me there.

[SasqFan]

New Byrne commission of Alpha Flight with Wolverine and Namor

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/f...406&PN=0&TPN=1

[Jason Eberly]

Great pic and hate to be nitpicky but...

Isn't that Wolverine's yellow costume JB drew? At that point, Wolverine was in his tan and brown one. The customer even said "as John drew them in Alpha Flight".

Regardless, awesome pic that gave me warm fuzzies.

[Flightpath07]

It's a nice pic. But.

...is it just me, or does every single character have a VERY wide smile? It's almost like JB was miffed that he was told to make "nobody angry" looking, and so rebelled by giving everyone huge silly grins. And its not the smiles I have a problem with, it is just the width of the mouths themselves.

Of course, it IS a bit like complaining about the Mona Lisa, isn't it? No Question, hands down, JB is the best AF artist there is. NOBODY draws characters like John does.

[Le Messor]

Great pic!

Love it!

- Le Messor
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
~ Gaultier

[Ryan Maxwell]

It's a nice pic. But.

...is it just me, or does every single character have a VERY wide smile? It's almost like JB was miffed that he was told to make "nobody angry" looking, and so rebelled by giving everyone huge silly grins. And its not the smiles I have a problem with, it is just the width of the mouths themselves.

Of course, it IS a bit like complaining about the Mona Lisa, isn't it? No Question, hands down, JB is the best AF artist there is. NOBODY draws characters like John does.

JB likely would have made everyone smile anyway. His heroes are typically happy in non-battle commissions, unless you ask for something different.