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J Culture Con Poster by ~AaronSmurfMurphy:iconAaronSmurfMurphy:

Categories Cartoons & Comics > Traditional Media > Cartoons > Drawings

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So Wil, manager of Tokyo Otaku, offers me the chance to design the poster for this years J-Culture Con([link]) which is the follow up festival to last years Chibi Con. Taking him up on the offer in exchange for a bit of cash (which mostly went on new pens and printers bills) and a free table ended up with this:

Godzilla smashing up the venue and Derby landmark - the Assembly Rooms. The aim is to pull in Japanese film fans with 'Zilla and strike interest in the residents of Derbyshire by using a recognisable building.

This basically involved lots of photo referencing and learning how to draw the anatomy of Godzilla (who apparentally comes in 3 broad variants with sub categorisations within each of them). Not only that but Godzilla is supposedly based on 3 different reptiles taped together according to wikipedia.

Done on A3 with pigment inks, promarkers and the wonders of Art Rage 2.

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~zombiemoose Apr 18, 2009, 9:28:00 AM
Aw hell yes.

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that deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball
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~The-Tortured-Soul Apr 18, 2009, 10:18:36 AM
hehe Awesome pic! Hafta say thyough, there is something about Gozilla's face that reminds me of something from my childhood (Like a power rangers villan or something) I can't quite put my finger on what or why *shrug*

Anyway I'm looking foward to JCC for many reasons, one of which is meeting you again and getting the 3rd FD!

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*teamzoth Apr 18, 2009, 11:04:54 AM
that building is incredible, awesome work!
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~Slothboy3000 Apr 18, 2009, 11:48:13 AM
I always liked stoned looking Godzilla myself, god knows which era that is. Never thought I'd see the day where you draw him. Very nicely done, and I think varying tones like this work alot more than mostly blacks in your work.

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Crayola wolves!? Whatever next!
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~AaronSmurfMurphy Apr 18, 2009, 12:42:56 PM
Well some bloke in Derby told me there's 3 era's called Showa, Heisei and Millenium but I've no idea in which order they go. As for the fact I've drawn him at all I'm as surprised as you are.

Originally it was meant to be him and Rammie, Derby County's mascot duking it out but then I realised I could'nt drawn Rammie and that it'd wreck the composition. As for all the grey tones - I blame promarkers. I could'nt risk using mechanical tone as it's too pricey and messy. On the other hand despite doing the sun beams in markers it scanned up terribly and I had to do it all again digitally.
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~Slothboy3000 Apr 18, 2009, 1:05:26 PM
well it looks pretty ace. as for the eras, I'm guessing Millenium is the latest =P I remember Forbidden Planet sold some extortionately priced figures (typical), each with the subtle differences of each Era. However, being that no one is probaly going to go out of their way to notice those differences the figures i think were dropped after the first series.

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Crayola wolves!? Whatever next!
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~AaronSmurfMurphy Apr 18, 2009, 1:09:52 PM
Ah well, I won't lie - the whole thing's heavily photo referenced. I went into Derby with a digital camera and took about 15 photo's of the Assembly Rooms at various angles and distances. Then I printed the most useful ones off and blew sections up on copiers to get detailed references of all the support beams and concrete tones etc.

Keep in mind the Assembly Rooms are a piece 70's British architecture. And buildings from that era are usually very ugly and made with a series of complicated concrete beams and criss crosses etc.
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~spadge19 Apr 19, 2009, 1:55:46 AM
this is awesome the detail on the building is amazing and the highlights and tones on godzillas form the flame breath (?) are really well done
anuther fantastic piece

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