FanArt: Blazing Lion

Hey there - I've been enjoying the pics in your gallery - You've definitely got a great style and skill and I wish you luck in creating your own Comic book universe. So I hate to bring this up - but the only thing that I feel I must comment on is that a couple of your pics are a little bit too similar to familiar comic book characters... From the thumbnail of this one - I thought that it WAS a picture of X-Men's Gambit - just with a different color used for the kinetic energy surrounding his hand and the playing card... I mean - If you replace the sword with a Bo Staff... Turn those flames into pink energy - and change his costume colors a little bit (Pink instead of red, etc...) It IS Gambit - Right down to the costume design, the trademark trench and red on black eyes. Again - I don't want to criticise - I just think you need to be a little more careful to differentiate between your own original characters...and those that belong to companies like Marvel or DC. Anyway - hope you don't mind the feedback...and good luck.

Charles E. Owens 3 replies: "well thanks for visiting. i know he looks alot like Gambit. i really didn't intend that. i used Gambit's pose from a seek 'n' find book, and i guess i didn't change much. i really need to work on stuff like this. just useing the pose, and completely changing the costume and what not. i like getting the detail, thats why i use the poses from comic books and cards."

Sweet! It has fire. Now all it needs is laser eyed cats and mice, giant mallets, exploding fire hydrants, bombs, dynamite, dragons, more fire, cheese, and everything else we use in our chats!