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John Byrne
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11" x 17" illo of Wolverine in black drugstore cowboy garb jumping over a gravestone to defend Heather Hudson from Guardian's flaming ghost. It is pulled from the nightmare sequence of Alpha Flight #13. Details are:- please add grey tones - portrait orientation with cemetery backgrounds 
NOTE: The tip of Wolverine's "index" claw IS on the drawing. Just got clipped by the scanner.
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Steve Ogden
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WOW! Nice. I really like the grey tones. I always like seeing your skeletons, flaming or not. I always felt that cemeteries make some of the best scenes/backgrounds. Congrats to the owner.
Edited by Steve Ogden on 13 June 2012 at 8:14am
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Joe Alexander
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Wow! Perfectly staged action shot. Love the hat flying off. The grey tones are so really well done. Just a great picture.
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Love it! The grey tones are starting to grow on me. Nice touch with the hat.
Edited by Wilson Mui on 13 June 2012 at 8:15am
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Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiρo
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Whoa...
Wonderful!
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Adam Hutchinson
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Holy smokes!
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Valmor J. Pedretti
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Wow, Wolverine looks like WOLVERINE!!!
Isn't that amazing??? ;-D
And what a cool effect with the blacks on Heather's coat!
Any temptation over writing "MARVEL" on one of the tombstones, chief?
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Ben Mcvay
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Very cool.
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AWESOME!!! I love the grey-tones. The textures on things like Wolverine's clothing is really cool!
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Steve Gumm
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Soooo incredibly cool!!! Your handling of these grey tone pieces are really masterful. The textures come to life with this method!
I'd love to see a book where you grey toned the page then the colorist would tint the greys to the appropriate color. If handled correctly, I think the resulting image would be outstanding... looking less computer generated and more from the artist hand!
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John Byrne
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The textures on things like Wolverine's clothing is really cool! One of the things that no one could quite seem to make work for me, back in the day, was blue jeans. 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. In fact, for some reason, just about ANY cloth colored blue reads as polyester to me! So being able to do some serious texturing like this, in the gray tones, is a small joy.
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John Byrne
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I'd love to see a book where you grey toned the page then the colorist would tint the greys to the appropriate color. If handled correctly, I think the resulting image would be outstanding... looking less computer generated and more from the artist hand! Did something like that in the last three issues of my STAR TREK: CREW miniseries, for IDW. Pencil tones with the lines inked and color laid on top. Also, the first issue of TRIO has a page o' whales where I added the tones, there with the same PITT brush pens I used on this piece.
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Jeffery Tolbird
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Love love love the grey tones!! Beautiful composition. The hat flying
off wolverine's head is a nice touch! I wish I could see a whole issue
like this! Kudos!!
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John Byrne
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My ANGEL - BLOOD AND TRENCHES Mini for IDW was shot from the pencil gray tones.
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Phil Southern
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From the (probably) Worst Compliment Department:
Those are amazingly well-drawn boots!
The rest of the picture ain't too bad, either.
Phil
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From the (probably) Worst Compliment Department:Those are amazingly well-drawn boots! Hey, I'll take 'em where I can find 'em!
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Excuse my language, but, Oh, Shit! I flamin' LOVE this!! (no surprise there, eh?) As many Alpha Flight commission ideas that I've thought up over the years, this was never one of them. Brilliant!! Congrats to the very lucky owner (Nathan?) and extremely well done, JB!!
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Eric Ladd
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Woohoo, weekday commission post!!
I will parrot the compliments to texture already posted, Chief. This is a beaut! Stone, leather, cloth, foliage! The variety of texture is fantastic.
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This really is an awesome piece. Nobody draws Logan better than JB.
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Fantastic!!!! Love the grey tones and 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!!! Great commission!!!
-C!
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Wow! Now, this is cool! Great job, JB.
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John Byrne
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No, Charles, I don't get tired of being told I am the best at drawing Logan -- altho these days it does feel a bit like being the world's tallest midget!
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This one is really sweet. May be my favorite this year--the jacket is a real stand out part of this piece. it looks so real. And Logan's profile is perfect
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The grey tones are really spiffy. It makes me miss the old b&w Marvel magazines that they put out back in the '70s.
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I wish I could see a whole issue like this!
By the time I reached Jeffery's comment, I was thinking of how much I'd love
to see a future COLD WAR story arc done this way.
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