Nude portrait drawings with pencil on 9×12 & 13×18 paper- studies range from 1 minute to 45 minutes. This closed out the recent set of sessions at the studio- work with Ms Meg- however, I keep cheating and giving her “Patrick Nagel” stylized hair from an 1980’s airbrush dream in the longer 30-40 minute poses. I was really happy with all 3 of our 30+ min poses.
A closeup on a headless corpse and enemies united against a new common foe- the Chinaman and Elijah get ready for a showdown with 4 killers on this page. The bottom right panel is a nod to panel 1 on page 2 of the Chinaman’s shadow as he went to the Sheriff’s office, now it is redone with it being joined bby his now ally as the goe side by side into a shootout with a sword and 2 six shooters. Also a nice low angle closeup of El Alacran’s eyepatch side of his face.
The gig is almost up as the Injun rushes Elijah Holman- with a meat cleaver only a few feet from chopping our protagonist apart at the seams, and his 1850’s single action revolvers can’t lock on to this one man killing machine with time and bullets running out, and just as it is all coming to an end for our hero… The Injun loses his head and left hand, and an unlikely ally appears, The Chinaman- Xi Chou Long. Realizing that he’s been set up to die in a double cross, and his enemy was an honorable one, he decides to save Elijah’s life and team up to fight for their lives.
Now, I did diverge from David’s script here, but as I have been doing the work on the pages, this made more sense than Chinaman just fighting Elijah with the Banditos. Of course, that’s my .02 cents on the story at this point… The readers will tell us if it works when it’s all done!
From an art point of view- I loved these three panels, lots of action, movement and emotion, and lets get down to it, a really cool decapitation!
Elijah Holman puts a bullet in Xi Chou Long’s right elbow after the Chinaman missed a killing strike, however a handmade dagger is thrown at both of the putting a halt to their showdown outside the destroyed whorehouse of San Quentin, California! It’s the rising tide of drama at UGLI Studios true believers as we keep up a steady march to get Ugli Studios Presents #2 in your hands!
30 Years ago, an 8 year old Jason Lenox in 1983 started making a “Dungeons and Dragons” Fiend Folio Book because his Mom and Dad wouldnt buy him one due to the objectionable content for a child. In 2013 a much older (30 years) Jason Lenox is going to finish the job he started 30 years ago. Here is a preview of some of this unseen in forever artwork I snagged out of my attic last December!
Elijah Holman goes at it up close with the Chinaman on page 7 of the “Painted Ladies of San Quentin”… Tried some alternate angles to really show the Chinaman getting up close with his sword and pole arm which would negate the advantage of Elijah’s handguns, until using a close up, we see Elijah (perhaps) getting the drop on his would-be assassin!
Nude portrait drawings with pencil on 9×12, 12×18 & 23×33 paper- studies range from 1 minute to 40 minutes. We had a very active model this week that really worked and did her last 40 minute pose (top piece) all standing, so that was really a challenge to keep that pose consistent for the class- thanks Dayna!
One of the greatest OVA’s of All time from the late 80’s early 90’s- BUBBLEGUM CRISIS! Quick synopsis… Fetish Armored Girls fighting Terminator like robots with cool weapons… does it get better than that? I really wanted to get some original poses and cool angles to make the kinetic action from the show come to life in 2d board- and this piece really hit it after a few aborted tries. I love Priss in this flipped spread eagle pose and the close up Boomer from Ep. 1 “Tinsel City Rhapsody” with the gatling gun being absorbed into it’s arm just hits that Boomer look of menace that we loved on VHS when I first discovered it in 1992- hoping to get this inked soon in time to sell at Setsucon! The character models for Priss and Boomer Androids (original design by Art God – Kenichi Sonada) are below my pencil work- I wanted to get the characters as accurate as possible, but use no poses from the show or any other BGC art that was out there so I got the model sheets and ran with it and tried to avoid the great art that is out there to maximize my original vision of this incredible animation that I still love to this day 20 years later. Enjoy Anime fans- this is my first Anime based work- and as the Knight Sabers (the cute armored girls) say on the show- SANJO!!
