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sketchbook sundays: hammerhead shark

27 Sunday Feb 2022

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in art studio

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animals, drawing, hammerhead shark, lee j ames, shark, sketchbook sundays

Sketchbook Sundays used to be a regular event here at Mars Will Send No More, but then I got into writing fiction. Recently, I’ve missed drawing, and I always wanted to be better at drawing animals. So I picked up a few inexpensive books by Lee J. Ames. Each page has a different animal to draw, guiding you through the process in six stages, from outlining the basic shapes to the final shading and detail. It’s a bit limited by only having one pose per animal, so it isn’t like a master class in anatomy. But it’s fun to learn some of the basics and quickly produce a decent sketch.

When I was a kid, I used to get these books from the library, but I could never get the proportions right. Results were disastrous and crushed my youthful aspirations of illustrating comics. Decades later, I better understand what Ames is trying to tell me about basic underlying shapes, and I’ve learned that it’s okay to be loose and even sloppy in the early stages — kind of like pounding out a rough draft of a scene without worrying about whether it’s perfect. Later, you come back and revise, smooth out the rough edges, and put the final editorial polish to it.

Anyway, I practiced on a bunch of sharks and cats lately. Birds and bugs are next in line.

Collector’s Guide: There’s a whole series of Lee J. Ames books in paperback and Kindle edition that cost around $10 each.

Thinking About Sharks!

02 Thursday May 2013

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in indie, science fiction

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20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo, Illustrated Classics Edition, Jules Verne, Malvina Vogel, Moby Books, Pablo Marcos Studio, shark

Last week, we posted the battle with the giant squid from the Moby Books Illustrated Classics Edition of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. Our reader Martin commented that he remembers his favorite illustration in the book, by the talented comic book artist Pablo Marcos. On this page, our narrator reads of the island of Ceylon. He has a fantastic vision of sharks swarming around his head! Yes! Martin, here’s the iullustration you requested, below. In our gallery you will find the complete Chapter 9: Pearls and Sharks. It’s also got a bad-ass page of Captain Nemo battling a shark!

 
Collector’s Guide: From 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, by Jules Verne. Moby Books Illustrated Classics Edition, adapted by Malvina G. Vogel. Illustrations by Pablo Marcos Studio; Cover illustration by Al Leiner.





Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!

23 Sunday Sep 2012

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Dell, Dell Four Color, giant squid, Gold Key, golden age, Hermes Press, movie adaptation, shark, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Here’s a blast from the past for you, Martians: Dell’s adaptation of the movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Collector’s Guide: This single-issue adaptation comes from Dell Four Color #1230, 1961. Later, from 1964-1969, Gold Key had a 16-issue series that serialized the concept, called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. More recently, Hermes Press collected those Gold Key issues in a hardcover edition of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.













Dell Keys of Knowledge: Wild Animals!

15 Sunday Jan 2012

Posted by Mars Will Send No More in educational, golden age

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Baboon, Dell Comics, Elephant, golden age, Keys of Knowledge, shark, shrew, Tiger, Wild Animals of Asia, Wild Animals of North America, Wild Animals of South America, Wild Boar

Dell Comics’ Keys of Knowledge may not be comics at all. Why? Because comics are sequential. Comics tell stories. These are really illustrations with captions, not truly comics.

We won’t hold that fine distinction against them. Because… Dude! Anteater! Shark! Violent Baboons! Nuff Said! Anyway, The Keys of Knowledge in the gallery below come from the original Turok Son of Stone. Yes, Martian, we are feverishly compiling all of the Young Earth stories from Turok to share with you very soon.

What’s Young Earth, you say? Dinosaurs. The first pure dinosaur comics of all time, according to Steve Bissette — and by “pure” we mean NO HUMANS and no anthropomorphizing. No time travel. JUST STORIES ABOUT PREHISTORIC CRITTERS DOING THEIR PREHISTORIC THING! YES!!

Anyway! Back to the Keys of Knowledge: Wild Animals of Africa from Turok #31, Fish from Turok #35, Wild Animals of South America from Turok #36, Wild Animals of North America from Turok #39 & #42, and Wild Animals of Asia (TIGER) from Turok #43. The black-and-white ones come from the inside covers of the issues. We don’t know if Dark Horse is including these babies in their new reprints of the original Turok, but we hope so. Because we dig these educational animal comics a hell of a lot more than those dumb Turok and Andar stories!




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