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Ragin' Cage-in' by ~Sqarr:iconSqarr:

Categories Fan Art > Cartoons/Comics > Digital > Miscellaneous

©2008-2009 ~Sqarr
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*EDIT for Warhound608 from GT* Yes, this is, in fact, my work.

*jusdog drew this pin-up a while back and it caught my eye. So I asked, got permission, inked it, started colouring it... And then it sat untouched for several months. I'd look at it occasionally and was just never happy with the rendering. So I scrapped the light and shadows and started over tonight, inspired by *Markovah's tutorial [link]

I added the goatee in the inks because Cage had one in the New Avengers issue that Jus mentioned previously somewhere... I forget where... I thought it was in the description, but it's gone now. Weird.

It still looks like garbage to me in a lot of areas, but I need to be done with it so I can move on.

Sorry, Justin. I really wanted it to be better but I can't agonize over it anymore. :/

See the original pencil drawing here: [link]

Horribly inked in Manga Studio EX [still awesome for inking; I just suck at it].

Coloured in Photoshop CS with a Graphire3 and Intuos3.

This is my first real try at rendering. Sort of. First, second, third, seventh... Kept starting over. Pretty pleased with the background. Took two minutes. Dur...

Character [Luke Cage] is Copyrighted to Marvel Characters Inc.

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~gravnar Jul 28, 2008, 5:28:58 PM
This is amazing.

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"Sunburns are clearly our body's way of telling us we need to hurry up and evolve some fucking armor plating or something." - Tim Buckley
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~Sqarr Jul 28, 2008, 5:31:06 PM
Wow, that was quick.

Thanks!

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"Half the world is laughing at the other half, and folly rules over all." - Baltasar Gracian
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~gravnar Jul 28, 2008, 5:45:25 PM
I was just on the front page hitting refresh until I saw something I liked. And your picture was amazing.

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"Sunburns are clearly our body's way of telling us we need to hurry up and evolve some fucking armor plating or something." - Tim Buckley
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~Sqarr Jul 28, 2008, 6:29:07 PM
Yeah, I figured.

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"Half the world is laughing at the other half, and folly rules over all." - Baltasar Gracian
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~EraserX Jul 28, 2008, 7:23:32 PM
Looking good Eagle! I really like how the mostly desaturated palette really pops those bullet impacts.
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~Sqarr Jul 28, 2008, 7:40:05 PM
It looks very different now than what I was working on. I slid the middle level thing to 1.54 to lighten it. I didn't want it to be so much "desaturated," but... >_<

I wish I could see it on your screen. I've got no controls on mine, since it's just a laptop. The video drivers don't have them either.

It looks so gray and blah compared to everything I see from you. I think I'm getting there, though.

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"Half the world is laughing at the other half, and folly rules over all." - Baltasar Gracian
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~jusdog Jul 28, 2008, 8:54:51 PM
dude, I don't know what your talking about, this is hotness! Great work for real! can you send me a hi-res? I wanna put it up;}

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"It's not that Christ has been tried and found wanting, it's that Christ has been found too difficult, and left untried."

G.K. Chesterton
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~Sqarr Jul 29, 2008, 4:03:44 AM
How high you want? I worked it at typical comic page scan size, so it can be pretty big.

Thanks, man. ;)

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"Half the world is laughing at the other half, and folly rules over all." - Baltasar Gracian
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~EraserX Jul 29, 2008, 6:58:13 AM
Well, that sucks that you can't tell what it really looks like, but the result is still pretty good. Laptop screens are notoriously bad at color matching. A good gauge of light/dark is to look at solid white, black, and 50% grey on your screen and make sure they actually look like what they're supposed to be. Also, PS has some of it's own controls that you could get a little closer.
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~Sqarr Jul 29, 2008, 9:09:19 AM
For anyone who happens to be watching, we discussed this in private, so I'm not ignoring him!

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"Half the world is laughing at the other half, and folly rules over all." - Baltasar Gracian
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