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Yet MORE action staging practice...can you tell I'm serious about my promise to not just draw static mannequin shots anymore yet..?
Back when I was active in the fandom for Shawntae Howard's "Extinctioners" comic, there was a REALLY annoying tendency for folks to try and hype their new characters by having them show up the main characters; Hell, even I did it with my fan-char, Gaijin, and his fight against team swordmaiden, Pandora (although, to be fair, he DID lose, but only after disarming her in a needlessly flashy way). It's not just with the EX fandom, either, I've since learned; Hell, even the Image guys were doing it in their crossovers with Marvel and DC (notable exception being when Grifter met Batman).
So, to rectify matters in my head if no one else's, I decided to have Dogstar meet the Extinctioners by having their powerhouse, Scarlet Starfox, cold-cock him through a skyscraper...although, it's not like he's fighting back, anyway. See, almost everyone Scarlet ever knew and loved, as well as her home and family, were destroyed when the human invaders blew up the Aloplex Space Station in "Extinctioners #1"...and Dogstar's backstory is that he was a crewmember on one of those invading warships (YES, it WAS the event that made him rebel against his human masters, but Scarlet doesn't know this yet).
...needless to say, she's a WEE BIT peeved when she learns of this.
Back when I was active in the fandom for Shawntae Howard's "Extinctioners" comic, there was a REALLY annoying tendency for folks to try and hype their new characters by having them show up the main characters; Hell, even I did it with my fan-char, Gaijin, and his fight against team swordmaiden, Pandora (although, to be fair, he DID lose, but only after disarming her in a needlessly flashy way). It's not just with the EX fandom, either, I've since learned; Hell, even the Image guys were doing it in their crossovers with Marvel and DC (notable exception being when Grifter met Batman).
So, to rectify matters in my head if no one else's, I decided to have Dogstar meet the Extinctioners by having their powerhouse, Scarlet Starfox, cold-cock him through a skyscraper...although, it's not like he's fighting back, anyway. See, almost everyone Scarlet ever knew and loved, as well as her home and family, were destroyed when the human invaders blew up the Aloplex Space Station in "Extinctioners #1"...and Dogstar's backstory is that he was a crewmember on one of those invading warships (YES, it WAS the event that made him rebel against his human masters, but Scarlet doesn't know this yet).
...needless to say, she's a WEE BIT peeved when she learns of this.
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Well, I need to update Dogstar's bio (AGAIN...), but I kinda can't because it spoils his first story, which is the main reason I'm going through all this practice.
The followthrough was the fun part; getting Scarlet to not only look like she threw the punch, but that she was still coming after him for more was the tricky bit. That's why capes and long flowy hair are so useful, because you can use them as action lines to indicate where the bodies are going.
The followthrough was the fun part; getting Scarlet to not only look like she threw the punch, but that she was still coming after him for more was the tricky bit. That's why capes and long flowy hair are so useful, because you can use them as action lines to indicate where the bodies are going.
Art-wise:
Bad ass shot. The foreshortening and angle, the action in the poses, even the expressions in such a limited space were all done really well. Angles like these strangely make us feel like the receiver, having such a distanced view of the attacker affected so heavily by perspective; it's nearly like a first-person view. Not that I'd like to be Dogstar in this situation, mind you; that girl hits like a truck.
Comment-wise: Totally agreed. I always feel just a little twinge of "C'mon, did you need to feed your ego through it that bad?" When I see the heroes or villains completely beaten by a fancharacter. After all, I think a team would be able to take down someone like that pretty easily, at least.
I have a fanchar for this series, too- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/731504/ - and once this silver-age hero goes up to contend against a brave new world, he gets rolled. He just doesn't understand that he's no longer the only one in the world with super-powers.
Bad ass shot. The foreshortening and angle, the action in the poses, even the expressions in such a limited space were all done really well. Angles like these strangely make us feel like the receiver, having such a distanced view of the attacker affected so heavily by perspective; it's nearly like a first-person view. Not that I'd like to be Dogstar in this situation, mind you; that girl hits like a truck.
Comment-wise: Totally agreed. I always feel just a little twinge of "C'mon, did you need to feed your ego through it that bad?" When I see the heroes or villains completely beaten by a fancharacter. After all, I think a team would be able to take down someone like that pretty easily, at least.
I have a fanchar for this series, too- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/731504/ - and once this silver-age hero goes up to contend against a brave new world, he gets rolled. He just doesn't understand that he's no longer the only one in the world with super-powers.
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