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©2007-2009 *dcmatthews
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The Herculoids was (is) one of my favorite cartoon shows ever, and here are my renditions of my two favorite Herculoids, Tara and Zok.

This was supposed to have been a fun little pic - an afternoon's worth of work, after which I'd go on to some "serious" work (well, as serious as my stuff gets, which isn't very).

But finding good color reference on these two was difficult. There are a number of Herculoids clips on YouTube, but most of them are such poor quality, it's hard to tell exactly what colors you're looking at. So I kinda just guessed.

Anyway... right in the middle of coloring this, I decided to get ambitious and render it in a more "painterly" style, as I did the recent Velshen'narith pic. (I'm always setting myself more work than I need to...)

Comments


:iconsteamydumpling:
Hahaha! I dunno why, but the first thing that popped into my head was the Green Giant. XDD

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:icontitaneer:
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...
:iconwyattx:
Coool!! Herculoids ruless!! Tara is wonderful! :clap:

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:iconangel-uriel15:
Ha, you went ol' skool on us. Love it.
:iconchwen-hoou:
Looks great, gives it more depth but I feel the WIP retained the cartoon feel to it with the flat colors. But that's just me. =)

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"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
:iconmarkmoore:
I think you got the colors pretty much exactly. Watching the cartoons , I came away with the impression that Zok felt especially protective of Tara. This , of course , was just my childish filling in of the backstory...
Mark Moore
:iconjack-x:
this is a really beautiful pic and I love it a lot. it feels so richly textured and 3-d that it feels very realistic. Great art, man! Thanks for all the hard work you've put into this one.
:iconvarchild:
Holy crap! THat's rad! I love the Texture on Zok!
:icondcmatthews:
Hmm, good point. I wonder if I can transfer the WIP out of my scraps and into my gallery. We'll know soon!

Thanks for the compliments!

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"Ladies in skimpy sci-fi costumes? That sounds like EVERYTHING I wanna be a part of!" - Strong Bad

“I became a Conservative by being around Liberals and I became a Libertarian by being around Conservatives.” - Greg Gutfeld
:icondcmatthews:
Thanks, Varchild and Jack-x; I'm rather proud of the textures.

The simplicity of the art in the TV series left a lot of details undetermined, such as: what exactly is the texture of Zok's skin? Scaly like a lizard? smooth like a salamander's skin (only dry)? I went with something in-between.

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"Ladies in skimpy sci-fi costumes? That sounds like EVERYTHING I wanna be a part of!" - Strong Bad

“I became a Conservative by being around Liberals and I became a Libertarian by being around Conservatives.” - Greg Gutfeld

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