Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Through the Years

Hi everyone! Is everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving next week ready?? I know I'm not. Time fly's when your having fun. Sorry for the cropped scan but here's a sketch of a character called Kidd Bonzai. It was created by a good friend and super talented guy Derek Fridolfs. This character has been through so many changes over the years that I thought it was time to do another sketch of him. I also placed at the bottom some drawings of what he's looked like over the past 8 years.


The first image from 2002 was a double spread cover for the actual comic that was going to be put out by APcomics. Unfortunately it eventually never saw the light of day and ever since has been in Limbo.  So technically this was Kidds first official look and as you can tell over the years I tried different designs. You can also see how the more we draw the better we get and learn from our mistakes. Heck maybe next week or in months I'll look at the new drawing and say Yuck!! What was I thinking. This drawing sucks! Lol. As artists we are always the hardest on ourselves. Maybe once I find the disk that held a lot of the pages for the book I'll post them up here.

8 comments:

  1. Thanks Zane! Are you ready for CTN?? Best of luck with your portfolio. Wish I could go this year but I'll have to look forward to 2011.

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  2. Hello! It's me, Carla, from DA! Nice! I love the changes he went through. Love your sketch work as always! :) Great blog!

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  3. New version of kid is waycool, but all the versions have their charms. As usual great design and energy to your drawing!
    Have a great Thanksgiving!

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  4. wow kidd has gone through some interesting transformations! it would be great to see some of the pages you did for this, and i really like the latest incarnation of Kidd Bonzai!

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  5. Man! These are lookin great! Look at that character design...wow. I love the form you've given him. Nice work buddy-- you're getting really good! (not that you werent before..you know what I mean!)

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  6. Wow, great stuff Pablo! I love your style! Keep up the great work.

    AG

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  7. I like the designs. I hate to hear the project is dead.

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