| EC Sci FI Tribute
 pijon  Sci-fi  2006/12/16 14:56
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| I'd like to get back to this at some point and do more with this after my computer gets up to par but due to technical dificulties, this is about as far as I can get on this one before everything goes CRASH! Poser and Daz imported into Bryce. Very little postwork. Thanks Biohaz for the helpful suggestions. |
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| Kingpin's Trap
pijon Marvel Comics 2006/12/18 8:42
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Man, I totally lost count on how many crashes this one caused me  Ended up piecing it together. Tried some new tricks in post here... |
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| Metal Men vs. Chemo
pijon DC Comics 2007/3/4 17:05
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| From the vaults of obscurity comes... The Metal Men! As usual... Bryce, Poser, Photoshop. |
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| Etrigan and Morgaine
pijon DC Comics 2007/3/18 17:48
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Kirby's Demon - changed things a little, it was time to get Etrigan out of those 70's style nuthugger shorts and into a pair of pants.  This was a little different for me as I put together and rendered this scene in Poser6 instead of Bryce (which I always use). Of course, there's a little postwork in Photoshop too (as usual). |
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| Pirate Month: Popeye
pijon TV and Movies 2007/3/25 8:39
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| Ya know, I'd pretty much given up on the idea of thinkin' of anything for Pirate Month Challenge but I guess you never know when inspiration will strike so I very much rushed this one out in two days (it's rare for me to spend less than two weeks on a piece these days) before the month ended. I've been trying to play with new techniques lately and here's one for ya: 3D shading of 2D drawings. I googled up a few drawings of Popeye characters, did some modest manips and gave them flat colors. I then used those pictures as textures placed on 3D models. Well, I wouldn't say it's good or anything but it is different. |
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| Doctor's Dilemma: Chinny McFate
pijon DC Comics 2007/5/2 12:02
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This was done for another site. The premise is to do a character in mad genius Temporal Dave's Squinty Mc Chin style. If you're not familiar with Dave's stuff, he's the guy that did the very funny BatHomer image in the upper right part of the Home Page. Since I'm such a huge fan of Squinty in particular and Dave in general, I actually picked up a pencil and drew something for the occasion (gasp!). I've also included the goofy little backstory I added over at the other site since folks seemed to enjoy that at least as much as the drawing.
Doctor's Dilemma: Chinny McFate
Poor Kent Nelchin... as Chinworld's Dr. Fate, he would become the sorcerer supreme of this world simply by placing the mystic helmet of Fate over his head. Unfortunately, the ancient forces which placed these great magical powers within the helmet failed to consider the evolution of massive mandibles among the superheroes of the planet and poor Kent can't seem to get the helmet to fit right, no matter how hard he tries. This means he can't actually see when wearing the helmet and it causes his spells to misfire in unpredictable ways which makes poor Chinny one of the least called upon heroes of Chinworld. Squinty in particular, avoids working with him due to his own susceptibility to magic and has frequently been forced to come up with awkwardly lame excuses so as not to make poor Nelchin feel any worse.
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| Li'l Punisher
pijon Marvel Comics 2007/5/5 12:49
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| This is my first attempt at actually doing a complete piece (albiet a fairly simple one) in Adobe Illustrator. |
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| 70's Smackdown: Avengers vs. X-Men by Starchild and
pijon Marvel Comics 2007/6/30 18:16
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PIJON: I know I haven't been around in a while and all the time I spent on this pic had alot to do with that. Starchild and I have been secretly plotting a 3D collaboration for some time now and this is the result. Neither of us had really seen any 3D collaborative pieces (nor 70's Neal Adams style X-Men for that matter) on any of "the sites" so we figured we'd give it a shot. I think 3D collaborations are rife with all sorts of possibilities and while I think we've barely scratched the tip of that iceberg, I'm quite happy with our results. We each picked 3 battle pairings and came up with models, poses and textures for each set and then I put it all together in Bryce. I tried using some other folks' stuff here so a shout out and thanks to Musketeer for the Cap texture, PhilH & JimM for Caps's boots and gloves and Dan Swofford for his Hawkeye figure. Thanks again, Star... it was blast, man!
STARCHILD: No thank you sir! It was a pleasure working with you. I already had a lot of respect for what you can do with Bryce but watching you put together this scene peice by peice was truly a joy. Now before everyone starts patting me on the back..I really didn't do that much although I am proud of the textures I created for Beast, Angel, Havok [Pijon created the headpeice] and the Panther. This peice was inspired by nostalgia and the cover of Avengers#53.
For interested I will divulge my part in this peice. My characters were Angel vs Goliath, Beast vs Panther and Havok vs Vision. I did use stand alone figures of both Vision and Goliath [Hasdrubal] only because they were put together so well. The thought process behind each match-up was to show action and respresent battle without actually giving an advantage to either participant. I think both myself and Pijon pulled it off greatly.
The most trying part of this was selecting a proper background scene and once again PIJ pulled it off with the Roman Colloseum [where else?]. In conclusion this was fun and I can't wait until the next one. Hint Hint PIJ.
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| Avengers Japan by Lord Kuyohashi and
pijon Marvel Comics 2007/7/2 9:09
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Pijon: I've been a fan of Lord Kuyohashi's for quite some time. I'd been impressed by his knowledge of the source material and an incredible ability to "mix it up" in terms of both subject matter and technique and his prolific output of material. When he publicly mentioned me as one of the people he wanted to collaborate with, I was more than a little surprised... I mean I knew he was always looking to try new things but with him being a 2D guy and me working 3D, I wasn't really sure that we'd ever find a middle ground which could showcase both of our styles. None the less, I was quick to agree to the collaboration as I did think it a most interesting opportunity. Actually getting to it was another matter though. Having limited time to work on art and being rather slow in my production, it took me close to a year to get to it. After Lord K asked me what I wanted to do, I'd mentioned characters of his I'd seen from a couple of previous pieces: White Cloak (an original of his) and Avengers Japan. He picked Avengers Japan and I asked him to send me some basic line drawings of the characters (with flat color if he liked) so that I could try a new technique I'd been working on of converting 2D art into 3D images. Well, Lord K quickly produced a series of great images for me to work with. On my end, things went poorly... as I'd only tried this style one previous time, I was finding it wasn't working out as I'd hoped. After several restarts and failures, I tried another collaboration and a few drawn pieces before returning to it. It went much better the second time around. So those are my excuses for making you wait so long Lord K! Anyway, I thouht his Manga/Anime influenced version of the Avengers the coolest thing (well, why do ya think i picked it?!!)! I still haven't perfected my 2D to 3D technique but I have refined it somewhat since my previous attempt. It was alot of work trying to pull this off but still, challenging and fun too. Hope you like it, Lord K!
Lord K: I have a pencil. Now I have pictures.Yay me!.
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Clockwise from the Left: Daredevil, Wasp, Spidey, Kuma, Thor, Luke Cage, Captain Japan, Hulk, Spiderwoman
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| Dr. Fate
pijon DC Comics 2007/8/12 22:07
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| An old favorite of mine (but I guess my avatar gave that away, huh?). |
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| The Shadow
pijon DC Comics 2007/8/22 17:06
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| Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? That's right, you know who! |
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| Sword of the Atom
pijon DC Comics 2007/9/6 23:37
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| No, I didn't make this up, I swear! Based on Atom's swashbuckling mini series adventures from back in '84. |
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| Moon Knight: Hunter's Moon
pijon Marvel Comics 2007/10/14 9:05
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Happy Halloween, everybody!
My first attempt at rendering a scene in Daz Studio (though I've done plenty in Bryce and a couple in Poser). |
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| Gravedigger
pijon Original Characters 2007/12/26 17:44
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| I always liked this Starchild creation from Unicorn Comics. |
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| Mystery In Space
pijon DC Comics 2008/1/8 22:59
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| Adam Strange and his main squeeze, Alanna confront hostile bug eyed aliens (as usual). |
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| Luke Cage II
pijon Marvel Comics 2008/1/21 15:08
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| A re-working of my last piece after some suggestions with some modest changes and a new more dynamic camera angle to give the hero more emphasis. Um, would it help if I said there was a really hot babe inside the helicopter? |
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| Deadman
pijon DC Comics 2008/2/6 20:01
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Deadman plays psychic's little helper by possessing the fortune teller to reveal the killer.
Done in Daz, Bryce and Photoshop. |
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| Punisher
pijon Marvel Comics 2008/6/27 20:12
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| Bryce Daz Photoshop I suppose I should thank Stonemason for his outstanding Industrial Warehouse prop used here as well as Adam Thwaite for all those cool 3D props he so generously gives away on his site like the case full of money and Bullet Time props (bullet trail, bullet, muzzle flash) used here. |
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| Conan
pijon Marvel Comics 2008/7/24 22:03
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| Taking a little Brycebreak on this one... my 3rd attempt at doing a render in Daz Studio. |
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| Nightman
pijon TV and Movies 2008/8/6 20:56
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Yeah, I know, you never see pencils from me (it's pretty rare for me to pick one up these days)...
I barely remember this show as I only seemed to catch it on late night cable after long nights out drinking with my buddies! It always seemed very "West Coast" to me as though I could hear some LA pitchman trying to push it on Network execs..."See there's this guy, Johnny Domino, sax player by night and crime fighter by, uh, later at night and he's got one bulgey eye and uh, one even bulgier eye and drives a purple Chrystler Prowler" ...oooh-kay (yes, that moon is made of cheese!)*
*(found out after I wrote this that Nightman started as a Malibu Comic...oops!)
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| Friend or Foe? (ver.2)
pijon Original Characters 2008/10/20 2:39
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| Been trying to motivate myself into doing something new so I figured I'd start by redoing my last piece... wasn't so happy with the woman in the piece the first time so I redid her. I like this one better but the rest of the pic is the same. |
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| Bat Lash
pijon DC Comics 2008/10/21 11:17
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Yeah, I'm still trying to see just how many characters I can jam into a pic.
Bat prevents a young Cowpoke from making the fatal mistake of drawing on his deadly friend with his usual disarming sense of humor.
I figured I might be making a pretty obscure choice here till I discovered there's a new Bat Lash series out now while researching this pic on the net. Good to see John Severin still drawing the hell out of a comic at 85 yrs old! |
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| Martian Manhunter
pijon DC Comics 2008/10/27 14:35
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| Jack O'Green Lantern
pijon DC Comics 2008/10/31 1:20
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| Oh, you know... jes a little quick Holiday silliness |
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| Hitchcock inked by Bill Anderson
pijon TV and Movies 2008/11/7 15:20
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| Here's a blast from my past... I was just talking with an old friend recently, Bill Anderson who emailed me a copy of an old collaboration we did... my pencils and his inks, he'd kept the original so I'd all but forgotten about it till now. I remember giving him some fairly detailed shading in my pencils but man, it's the killer linework in his inks that really make the piece. |
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| Benny the Bouncer - page 5
pijon Other Comics 2008/11/16 21:29
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| IF YOU'RE STARTING HERE, STOP! Well, you don't have to but you'll probably want to start on page 1. |
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| Benny the Bouncer - page 4
pijon Other Comics 2008/11/16 21:30
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yup, that's supposed to be an arm in her hand in that last panel.  |
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| Benny the Bouncer - page 3
pijon Other Comics 2008/11/16 21:31
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| Benny the Bouncer - page 2
pijon Other Comics 2008/11/16 21:32
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| Benny the Bouncer - page 1
pijon Other Comics 2008/11/16 21:33
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