VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: The letter V strikes!
Added 2021-02-19 14:01:01 +0000 UTCI'm finishing off the last few pieces from my old CON SKETCHES folder, this time featuring a trio of illos with "letter V characters." Yay!
First up is a sketch based on "Valkyrie Wylde," the faux videogame character that the Playstation magazine PSM created in the early 2000s as a "nude-code Tomb Raider" knockoff game for an April Fools' joke. I did a few pieces of alleged promo art for the character, which I'll have to dig up sometime.
Note that she's dual-wielding the Ruger P89 9mm semiautos that have often appeared in my work, as they were very easy to reference, if you catch my drift. Alas, they were easy to ref, sure, but also very hard to draw, due to all the bevels and scallops and peculiar angles infesting this model's slide and frame. (Life would've been a lot less frustrating for me as an artist if I'd owned a nice, boxy, easily sketched Glock instead.)
Next up is an especially ambitious "double-page spread" Valkyrie Wylde sketch which I stalled out on for some reason:
Note that I was employing the same "dual-wielding" photoreference that I had earlier used for "gunplay Caitlin Fairchild" in 1997's miniseries Gen13: Grunge! The Movie.
Next up is a con sketch of the character Vision...
...from episode 7 of the original Bubblegum Crisis OAV anime series. Yay!
NEXT MONDAY ON THIS HERE PATREON: More life drawings, as usual on a Monday.
Comments
I'm on Chrome, and the pic only shows up in the gallery shot under the header pic. I can click on it and see the full-size version, though. So, was the idea for VW 'Lara Croft is wearing too much clothes'?
Strypgia
2021-02-22 23:12:03 +0000 UTCChrome 88. Not showing for me. Edit: OK that's odd. The sketch shows up in the gallery below the post header and I can click on it and view there, but the picture embedded in the post (surrounded by text) is showing as a broken link. What Dean said.
Mark Magagna
2021-02-21 12:28:14 +0000 UTCTo repeat a question: What are you using to view the post? All the images appear in Firefox and the Patreon app for me, at least.
Adam Warren
2021-02-20 13:29:37 +0000 UTCTo repeat a question: What are you using to view the post? All the images appear in Firefox and the Patreon app for me, at least.
Adam Warren
2021-02-20 13:29:04 +0000 UTCWhat are you using to view the post? All the images appear in Firefox and the Patreon app for me, at least.
Adam Warren
2021-02-20 13:27:53 +0000 UTCI love the Valkyrie Wilde poster that PSM gave away at SDCC.
Steven Ng
2021-02-20 02:36:16 +0000 UTCGood memories! :)
Kenneth Winkelman
2021-02-20 01:22:28 +0000 UTCI can see and open the thumbnail image at the top, but that's it.
Dean Reilly
2021-02-20 01:03:41 +0000 UTCIt doesn't show up for me, either.
2021-02-19 19:58:17 +0000 UTCI see it
PixelThis
2021-02-19 18:51:40 +0000 UTCIs the con sketch for Vision not showing up for anyone else?
JKurt
2021-02-19 18:13:34 +0000 UTCIs Ms. Wylde really naked, or is she just wearing transparent polymer armor?
Burninator
2021-02-19 18:03:08 +0000 UTCniceee!
Brandon Graham
2021-02-19 14:24:41 +0000 UTCDo you own the character of Valkyrie Wilde? Seems like the sort of game ThugBoy could be playing in the background in a panel somewhere.
Ross Fisher-Davis
2021-02-19 14:10:41 +0000 UTCAh, Valkyrie Wyld. I was so bummed when I realized this was an April Fool’s prank. It would have been so cool to play a video game festooned with your artwork. Perhaps someday?
Tekkaman-James
2021-02-19 14:06:03 +0000 UTC
