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Quick Ben and Kalam from the limited edition

#1 Hetan

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Posted 04 January 2010 - 06:46 PM

My own personal favourite - love the colours - and they actually look like I imagined (although the dreads I didn't, but they still look awfully cool and Steve liked 'em too)

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Posted 04 January 2010 - 06:49 PM

Like! LOTS!!!

- Abyss, ok with the dreads.

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Posted 04 January 2010 - 06:54 PM

That is awesome. I remember seeing a couple of the early iterations of the limited edition artworks, I have to say the final versions all look fantastic.

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Posted 04 January 2010 - 07:21 PM

That I like a lot. Although I can't see the dreads being that practical a look for an assassin; speaking as someone who once wore dreads almost exactly like those (and I like to think I carried them with equal aplomb

), they can be a bit of a nuisance. They do look totally cool, though.

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Posted 04 January 2010 - 07:44 PM

Very nice. What is the medium?

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Posted 04 January 2010 - 10:14 PM

The early artwork from Komarck had them a lot less... black. I expected Kalam to be quite a bit more of a hulk. SE doesn't really describe his characters much physically initially. I'm assuming Komarck probably read the first book only for his work.

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Posted 04 January 2010 - 10:41 PM

Being too bulky wouldn't work really. Muscled but not too big is the best frame.

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 02:20 AM

Really like 'em, even if QB is doing the pose from Titanic!

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 02:26 AM

D, on 05 January 2010 - 02:20 AM, said:

Really like 'em, even if QB is doing the pose from Titanic!

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 06:34 AM

D, on 05 January 2010 - 02:20 AM, said:

Really like 'em, even if QB is doing the pose from Titanic!

My impression was that this is a depiction of the moment when QB casts the levitation spell on kalam and on himself, omitting the invisibility spell on QB for obvious reasons, so it makes sense for him to be lifting off the rooftop

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 08:47 AM

Hetan, on 04 January 2010 - 06:46 PM, said:

My own personal favourite - love the colours - and they actually look like I imagined (although the dreads I didn't, but they still look awfully cool and Steve liked 'em too)

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maro, on 04 January 2010 - 10:41 PM, said:

Being too bulky wouldn't work really. Muscled but not too big is the best frame.

I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be huge, but carries himself with an uncanny grace.

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Posted 05 January 2010 - 09:23 AM

Ooh! Thanks for that - it's much sharper than the crappy scanned version I posted. Kudos.

I still like the dreads though!

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Posted 06 January 2010 - 12:29 AM

You, on 05 January 2010 - 08:47 AM, said:

I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be huge, but carries himself with an uncanny grace.

"The third and last man, also black, slipped past the sergeant's left and for all his girth seemed to glide forward..." GotM, US HC p.59, UK mmpb p.55

"Wouldn't take much to set him off, I think... The man was big, bearish, but she remembered his dangerous glide past her. Snake indeed, the man's a killer, a soldier who's reached the next level in the art of murder. Not just a job any more, this man likes it." - Tattersail on Kalam

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I know he's supposed to be huge but biomechanically, he wouldn't be as fast as he is if he was. A bit of artistic license.

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Posted 07 January 2010 - 02:59 PM

I am finally awed beyond reason.

I could say that this is the most amazing image of kalam and Quick
I have seen to date. I could say the dreads on kalam are such a revolutionary step for
the character it makes me wanna revise all the Kalams I've sketched to date.
I could even go so far as to say I will buy Dust of dreams and sketch every scene I
can get of quick or kalam SOLELY in honour of this picture...

I could say all that but I can't remember? I'm awed beyond reason.

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Posted 07 January 2010 - 09:37 PM

Quick Ben ... Mage, former Spurs, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Notts County and England Center Half.
Great pictures.

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Posted 07 January 2010 - 09:51 PM

this is by far my favorite pic of these two, i absolutely love it! kalam with dreads looks awsome!

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Posted 08 January 2010 - 09:35 PM

Yep, best I've seen of them to date even if I have never pictured Kalam with dreads.

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Posted 09 January 2010 - 07:06 PM

maro, on 04 January 2010 - 10:41 PM, said:

Being too bulky wouldn't work really. Muscled but not too big is the best frame.

I have to agree. It bothers me how some of the art I see around here has muscles on people like Kalam and Karsa Orlong so extremely oversized that it looks more rediculous than anything.

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Posted 11 January 2010 - 12:25 AM

EsotericForest, on 09 January 2010 - 07:06 PM, said:

maro, on 04 January 2010 - 10:41 PM, said:

Being too bulky wouldn't work really. Muscled but not too big is the best frame.

I have to agree. It bothers me how some of the art I see around here has muscles on people like Kalam and Karsa Orlong so extremely oversized that it looks more rediculous than anything.

Coupled with the Artist's obsession with the Atlantean Sword from Conan!!

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