Ultra™ Action in Blue by mmitchell_houston

Poser • Comics/Cartoons • posted on Sep 13, 2019

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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.

Description

This is a quick illustration of a superhero I created back in the 1980s and early 1990s. As you might guess, her name is ULTRA and she appeared in a handful of fanzines and then a lot of her art and stories sat in a file cabinet drawer for a few decades. Recently, I've been pulling her material together to release via POD. I also paid Terry McG to create a custom costume for me. A few days ago I was playing around with the new Poser 11.2 early release: I decided to give the comic book preview a full shakedown by using it in my usual workflow. And this is what came out. I think the new release of Poser will definitely work well for my needs. The hair obviously needs work, but I think it's okay for a quick illustration. Rendered in Poser Pro 11, clean up in Manga Studio 5 EX (aka Clip Studio Paint).

Comments (7)

uncollared

11:26PM | Fri, 13 September 2019

Awesome

X-TC

3:25AM | Sat, 14 September 2019

You know I love your art style! It's funky, oldschool and in these days really unique! So this is another peace I like, but I have a little nitpick: I thought maybe after re-visiting the image and looking at it longer I would wrap my mind around it, but it just won't snap into place. What I am babbling about is her pose. I'm no martial artist (lol, maybe I could be a Kung Fu panda), but the way her upper body seems to be bent forward feels unnatural to me. Just my personal opinion, and not to talk down the quality of your work, but I think it would look more natural and add some to the overall flow of her movement if you pushed her upper body back quite a bit).

My nitpicking aside: love her and hope to see more of ULTRA soon!

mmitchell_houston

2:56PM | Sat, 14 September 2019

Thanks for the kudos and the constructive criticism. I'm actively trying to draw figures as I wish I could have drawn them back in the 1980s and 90s. That's also why I limit the colors so much. And I think you're right about the pose being a little "off." It's mostly because of the angle I selected for the render. I wanted to keep her hand separate from her leg (in other words, I wanted the hand to appear in open space between the two legs so it would be easier to see). I also had a problem with the way her shorts were riding up in this extreme pose (if you saw them from behind you'd see that the shorts had some distortion wrapping around her buttocks). If this were for a cover I definitely would have change things. But for a quickie, I let it ride.

Thanks again for taking the time to comment. All constructive criticism expands my "critical-eye" me something else to watch for in the future.