X-Men Christmas Card Commission - MFF18
Done in time for MFF with the immeasurable help of
redkam, who handled all that color and effects work like a goddamned CHAMP in just over 2 weeks’ time! She blew the doors off this complicated piece and managed to make sense of it all. :)
Amazingly, no one requested to be drawn as either Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Jean Grey/Phoenix, Iceman or even Professor X! If anyone thinks that should be remedied, I’m open for another commission! ;D
Originally commissioned by
equino at MFF last year, this piece features a laundry list of furries, most of whom either attended MFF, or take part in his Booby Tuesday podcast, which he broadcasts at The Ark on SL every Tuesday at 7pm EST, for any who’d like to check it out.
Might even hear me on there once in a great while! So, y’know... sorry in advance. XD
redkam, who handled all that color and effects work like a goddamned CHAMP in just over 2 weeks’ time! She blew the doors off this complicated piece and managed to make sense of it all. :)Amazingly, no one requested to be drawn as either Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Jean Grey/Phoenix, Iceman or even Professor X! If anyone thinks that should be remedied, I’m open for another commission! ;D
Originally commissioned by
equino at MFF last year, this piece features a laundry list of furries, most of whom either attended MFF, or take part in his Booby Tuesday podcast, which he broadcasts at The Ark on SL every Tuesday at 7pm EST, for any who’d like to check it out.Might even hear me on there once in a great while! So, y’know... sorry in advance. XD
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 2381 x 842px
File Size 3.02 MB
I'm considering making prints of this piece at it's full size, which is roughly 11x33". If I do, I'll be sure to announce, so people will either know where to go online to get it, or what cons I'll be attending so they can get their hands on it there. :)
As for online presentation, this'll be the largest you'll find it.
As for online presentation, this'll be the largest you'll find it.
Hey there!
I've been meaning to get back around to this one again. Apparently, the online presentation was WAAAAY smaller than I'd originally thought. My bad for being so sure of that. : P I must've uploaded this from my phone, thinking it was the same as this updated version. : P
That said, here is a FAR better version. Hope this looks better for you. :) Sorry for taking so long to get around to this! >_<
I've been meaning to get back around to this one again. Apparently, the online presentation was WAAAAY smaller than I'd originally thought. My bad for being so sure of that. : P I must've uploaded this from my phone, thinking it was the same as this updated version. : P
That said, here is a FAR better version. Hope this looks better for you. :) Sorry for taking so long to get around to this! >_<
As someone who grew up with the X-Men and Marvel Mutants of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the work you've always put into both your homage drawings (the first drawing I ever saw of yours was of Cyclops, in his X-Men Blue Team uniform from the beginning of X-Men, Vol. 2) of superheroes and specifically the X-Teams like this one, has always touched me deeply. Not everyone remembers this incarnation of the X-Men so clearly, Adam, both themselves and the villains they fought, but I know you do. And that means a lot to me, to see and brought forth in flesh of imagination, pencil and ink (and excellent colouring work by Gabrielle!).
Excelsior, and thank you for that gift shared, good Sir. :)
-2Paw.
Excelsior, and thank you for that gift shared, good Sir. :)
-2Paw.
Knowing Erick Lensherr personally myself here at home, his own home two blocks from my own where it's been for almost as long as I've been alive, only reminds me of how important our memory of these things can be, Adam. And why it's never worth giving up on those memories, our ideals and what our mind's eye cranks out, whether in prose on paper or pencilled and drawn visuals on similar sheets of pressed paper pulp of varying weights.
And we need to do these things, don't we? We need to maintain these memories, sustaining their importance. Because they don't go away. Because they get bigger. They develop their own super-powers, too. And then we share them with those who now begin the same journey we did, so long ago, and foster in them their own dreams, their own depth of purpose. We seek and find our posterity in the legends we create, and leave behind when we're away, whether the final veil of life is parted, or just a given convention finished for a weekend during the year. Friendships, like that purpose don't go away when two people are parted by physical distance. They get stronger. The magnetic-powers fusing us into one when in each others' company build and spill over, and we use that to draw our dreams, write our imaginings, and in that way those dreams become flesh.
I think Charles Francis Xavier, and Erick Lensherr, boy and man both, would echo this sentiment. And in their worst moments, they would sit together at the same table in mutual respect, and be mortal men, as we all are in the end.
Thank you for helping me build my own dreams, Adam, inspired by your own those many years ago, and in time to build those dreams with me, in our own accord and shared purpose.
-2Paw.
And we need to do these things, don't we? We need to maintain these memories, sustaining their importance. Because they don't go away. Because they get bigger. They develop their own super-powers, too. And then we share them with those who now begin the same journey we did, so long ago, and foster in them their own dreams, their own depth of purpose. We seek and find our posterity in the legends we create, and leave behind when we're away, whether the final veil of life is parted, or just a given convention finished for a weekend during the year. Friendships, like that purpose don't go away when two people are parted by physical distance. They get stronger. The magnetic-powers fusing us into one when in each others' company build and spill over, and we use that to draw our dreams, write our imaginings, and in that way those dreams become flesh.
I think Charles Francis Xavier, and Erick Lensherr, boy and man both, would echo this sentiment. And in their worst moments, they would sit together at the same table in mutual respect, and be mortal men, as we all are in the end.
Thank you for helping me build my own dreams, Adam, inspired by your own those many years ago, and in time to build those dreams with me, in our own accord and shared purpose.
-2Paw.
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