Practice sketches for the kung fu dictionary for the unfinished RPG Mandate of Heaven.
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On the left – a palm strike?
On the right – a pair of leopard punches?
I’m not sure of either of these at the moment and the reference I used is still in boxes.
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On the left, a round house punch.
On the right, an uppercut.
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I’m pretty sure that the illustration on the right is an earlier version of the horse position that I posted a few days ago. Certainly I like this version better than that.
The figure on the right is probably a simple punch.
Kung Fu Dictionary 3
More kung fu dictionary. A backhand punch and an elbow jab. I didn’t like that jab and redrew it later.
Kung Fu Dictionary 2
Another couple of examples of the kung fu visual dictionary from the unfinished Mandate of Heaven RPG. I believe that’s a palm strike on the left and (probably) a couple of leopard punches on the right. I did these back in 2004 and my memory on exactly what I illustrated is a little fuzzy.
Kung Fu Dictionary 1
Mandate of Heaven was a role playing game Derek Fetters and I tried to put together in 2004. He was the writer. I was the illustrator. One of the features of the game that Derek came up with was to be a visual kung fu dictionary. The intention was to provide players with a set of visual references so they could create more interesting action sequences. Here we have the basic “horse” position on the left and a left cross punch on the right.
Color by Swenson 4
This is the last of the art samples (that I’ve found anyway) from 1998 with Jeff Swenson digitally painting over my pencils. I don’t think that this was one of the pages of the comic. I think we did this one just to see what it would like to have him paint over my pencils. It’s … interesting. It’s always weird for me to have someone ink or color my work. Not bad. Just a little weird. I can digitally color my own work now but in 1998 I barely understood what Photoshop did, let alone Painter. And even if I did Jeff could paint far faster than me. Hell, he could probably paint faster then than I can now.
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Another example of a comic art from 1998, penciled by me, digitally painted by Jeff Swenson. The company we were submitting to published “adult” comics – meaning there was nudity and violence in the stories. So we included nudity and violence in the samples.
Color by Swenson 2
Another example from 1998 of Jeff Swenson’s digital painting over my pencils. I don’t remember how many pages of samples we did. Probably 3. It was a brief vignette featuring some sort of detective investigating an old house in the sticks. I believe I drew the pages as regular comics and then Jeff created individual paintings of each panel and then put them back together as a page. If so, I don’t have the final digital pages. The samples I’m showing are scans of printouts that I had in my files.
