lazzyfair's art thread

[lazzyfair]

Thought I'd post some drawings and pages I'm working on. I'm worried about the pacing. I want it to read a bit slow, almost like "No Country For Old Men"; imagining a long quiet shot of a desert...

[LewMoxinsghost]

Could you repost those in this thread? They are coming through on my end as tiny-2.5"X 1" or thereabouts. It is hard to see.

[lazzyfair]

lemme know, not use to forums...newb

[lazzyfair]

Man, its been like 2 years since I started this thread. I'm still new to the whole forums thing, but I'm really interested in participating in an online community like CBR. Here goes.

First off, here's a page from a story I completed at the end of '09 called Strongman: Rebirth. Its a bit of a Greek tragedy as it stands, but there is a larger story to be told here that has a happy ending. This is essentially act 1 of 3.

It deals with a very Golden Age inspired superhero that is literally the archetype of the superhero in that he is a circus strongman. I very much wanted to do an old fashioned, american under dog story here with a subtle commentary on my views on love. I tried to make the story work on a surface level without it being necessary to read into it, though there is depth to be mined if one were to look.

http://thechrishunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/kabam.jpg

If you want to see the whole story you can go here (http://thechrishunt.com/?page_id=86). And as a head's up, I totally welcome constructive criticism as long as it is truly constructive, and not just a conflict of taste or opinion, so by all means lemme know what you think.

[lazzyfair]

I just finished the inks on this story a couple of days ago. I did this as a submission for Paul Pope's ACA residency. Its based on an account written by Peter Capstick Hathaway in Death In The Long Grass. Hathaway was a professional hunter in east Africa for a couple of decades and made a career as a writer recounting many a harrowing tail of his.

The style of the story (visually) is heavily based on Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese material and the main character is modeled after a young Ernest Hemingway. Essentially, this story served as a way to channel many a love of mine into one project.

http://thechrishunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/maneater.jpg

I plan on coloring it in the near future, but if you'd like to give it a read, check it out here (http://thechrishunt.com/?page_id=298).

[lazzyfair]

Here's an idea of what I want the finished comic to look like.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4570486312_42876a4ef7_b.jpg

[lazzyfair]

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[lazzyfair]

Trying to figure out how to delete this doubled up post, its not very clear how to do so.

[Rob.H]

I don't think you can delete a post, maybe just edit it to read "......".

Loving your style, can't wait to see more.

[lazzyfair]

Good call, that did the trick and thanks for the kind words man. I'm in the middle of writing another story with this hunter character, probably just be putting some sketches up for a time before I get finished pages up again.

[lazzyfair]

This is a drawing I did last night based off of a watercolor print done by Milton Caniff. The character is Pat Ryan from the old strip Terry and The Pirates. Just a pencil sketch I drew in my moleskin that I scanned in and colored in photoshop. Start to finish it was about 2 hours.

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[lazzyfair]

Here's a Mazinger Z I did a few months ago and then sort of forgot about.

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[lazzyfair]

and a few Batman's from the past couple of years

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[lazzyfair]

Boba Fett based off of Eastwood's The Man With No Name character.http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4651500289_7f723010ea_b.jpg

[Rob.H]

Holy bat crap, Batman! Those bat pics are awesome, keep em' coming. :smile:

[lazzyfair]

@Rob.H Will do sir, thank you!

[lazzyfair]

Phase 2
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[drklotuz]

Thats Bad Ass!

[lazzyfair]

This is the original image that Boba was based on.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4648585230_b18106bc07.jpg

This was my first stab at "Fett With A Poncho" from a couple of years ago. I've learned a little bit since then.

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[lazzyfair]

This one's for you Rob.H

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/1562720849_332ac44af6_b.jpg

Also from a little bit ago, but you DID say you wanted more Batman...

[lazzyfair]

And why not a Doom, and the tattoo some random guy got of it.

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http://thechrishunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/3242658473_123344c1a4.jpg

[Rob.H]

Oooh, nice, I'm loving that Doom. How about a Thor? :smile:

[lazzyfair]

I'll see what I can do :)

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[lazzyfair]

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[lazzyfair]

My take on Black Ox from the old Gigantor cartoon

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4710584771_b3f455c9b0_b.jpg

[deanlegion]

Your work has an excellent energy to it, even in static poses! Therefore, your action poses really pop! I want to see your version of SO many characters now.

Keep it coming!

[lazzyfair]

@deanlegion

Well thank you. When I'm working on a story I like to nail at least one image of the characters in a static pose that gives an indicator of their movement/personality in my mind. A little bit above and beyond just a basic ref sheet.

[rZi]

liking you're style alot! good work

[lazzyfair]

@rZi

Thank you! Its taken the past four years to even come close to having a style, but what I have so far isn't as embarrassing as it once was ;)

[lazzyfair]

I'm figuring that most people aren't clicking through to the link of my story, so if'n y'all don't mind, I'm just going to post the pages in this thread

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[lazzyfair]

The above story was done as apart of an application for a residency with Paul Pope later this year. The plan is to color it shortly, as well as translate it into Spanish and French (playing to my strengths there, I feel like my style is much more European than American both visually and in terms of material) There are also a couple little things to fix here and there but over all I'm very pleased with this.

[Tenacious_AA]

Awwww! I was cheering for the Lion.

[lazzyfair]

Tenacious_AA

You don't mess with a man with a mustache, its just a simple fact and the lion had to learn it the hard way ;)

[lazzyfair]

Hell, let's just keep the ball rolling. Here's the other story I did before the hunter one
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[lazzyfair]

So this last one I finished up at the end of last year. There are a number of things I'd do differently half a year later, but I learned the most working on this one than anything else I've done. It was a bit of a turning point in a lot of ways for me. I figured out how I wanted to draw action, that I need to use dot patterns less, etc. I took a large portion of this with me to SDCC and got a lot of great advice which I took to heart and worked on correcting.

As a note to other artists, despite what you might think, SDCC is hands down the WORST place to try and get critiques. I happened to luck out through some friends a couple of times and get the ear of some great artists and editors but do not expect that, and if you do get the chance, shut up and listen when they critique you. I mean, don't say SHIT. Just listen.

[lazzyfair]

Last up for today, From Out Of The Pit

This was a story I penciled and wrote for a blog that folded promptly after my friend (the inker) and I finished. The theme they were working with was horror, something I'm not very fond of. I modeled the whole thing off of the old Eerie's and Tales From the Crypt. It looks pretty good but I generally view this as a piece of shit and everything I don't enjoy in comics.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2727/4250528326_685c463861_b.jpg

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More 01-AD
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[lazzyfair]

Here's the colored version of the picture above. I got rid of the "AyDEE" because it seemed rather cluttery with it there. Going for an autumn, evening sort of feel.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1052/4734259396_4547eabaff_b.jpg

[Rob.H]

Gorgeous, love the colouring.

[lazzyfair]

@Rob.H

Thank you, I was very pleased with it. I recently remembered how much I loved Fall as a child growing up in Ohio. There was something about it, some sort of feeling I still can't put my finger on. Maybe magical with a bit of a spooky, sinister edge? Regardless, I thought it would make an interesting juxtaposition to a gigantic bipedal robot and his human ward.

[lazzyfair]

Haven't posted for a while cause I've mainly just been sketching and writing, think I finally figured out the look of O1-AD's story though with this http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4795042941_c9d157b980_b.jpg

[lazzyfair]

This is a pencil study of a panel from a Paul Pope comic.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4807785732_8f457022a1_z.jpg

[lazzyfair]

No art on this post, just really stoked about something that happened today INVOLVING my art.

I found out that I will be one of 8 artists studying under Paul Pope later this year for a 3 week residency at the Atlantic Center For The Arts. I'm stoked beyond measure.

[DaveHedmark]

Fantastic work!

[lazzyfair]

Thanks Dave!

[lazzyfair]

Kickin around ideas for covers. I'm thinking it would be kind of interesting to tie each of my stories together using the design of the covers. I like the idea that each of my stories would appear to be apart of a collection, like Criterion Movies or Penguin Classic Books.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4852439806_b4a1680c08.jpg

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The japanese kanji are representative of certain themes or subjects of the stories. For The Strongman, its rebirth and Death In The Afternoon is, well, death.

[lazzyfair]

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Hey just wanted to let any of you who might occasionally come by to check out my thread, that I'm running a Kickstarter project right now to get my first comic printed and its been wildly successful!

Here's the project if you want to take a look at it:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lazzyfair/volume-one-from-mr-christopher-hunt

and here's a link to an interview I did for Kickstarter's blog:

http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/963752223/spotlight-boise

[lazzyfair]

So I'm actually starting to do pages now around the 01-AD robot story. This is the last page of a preview that I'm doing for my self published anthology VOLUME ONE (http://kck.st/d39ZVN). The story has been simmering in my mind for some time now, and overall I can tell you the story is basically Mobile Suit Gundam meets The Warriors meets The Battle of Britain.

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Tatooine Standoff

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[Count Yoda]

I like the Tatooine Standoff, quite a bit.

[lazzyfair]

Thanks, it was based on an earlier idea I had to do the "Get your mule" scene from Fistful of Dollars, but I really wanted to see if I could do something in that vein and whittle it down to one page.