Frank Cho, Liberty Meadows, apesandbabes

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It snowed in Elkridge, Maryland this weekend. When I say snow, I mean over 38 inches of record breaking snow.

I’ve spent better part of today and yesterday shoveling snow. Lot of snow. From my apartment front door, stairs, sidewalk, my parking lot, my car, my neighbor’s car, I’ve shoveled them all.

I really have nothing for today’s art blog other then that I really hate snow.

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Frank Cho

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As you ladies may know after reading my art blog from Sunday, I’ve been quietly working on a King Kong painting for fun these past few years. Constantly second guessing myself, I’ve been painting and repainting, drawing and redrawing the same damn King Kong pose for while now. The pose just wasn’t clicking.

After reading Steve Gordon’s suggestion of going with bent left leg pose instead of the right leg pose, this got me thinking again. The early sketches had King Kong with the bent left leg but I later changed it to the bent right leg. Maybe I gave up too soon on the bent left leg.

So I decided to reevaluate the bent left leg pose and drawn a new study of the pose. And you know what? Steve Gordon was right.

Thanks, Steve.

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Frank Cho

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I love King Kong.

It’s a giant gorilla who runs around Skull Island with a hot blonde and fights dinosaurs or other gigantic beasts. It’s simply one of the most perfect adventure stories around.

I’ve been drawing King Kong for fun since I first saw the movie as a kid, and I’ve always wanted to do a giant oil painting of my favorite ape.

Here’s my latest attempt.

I’ve been playing around with this massive canvas for about 3 years now. I’ve already changed King Kong’s pose 4 times - completely redrawing and repainting the pose each and every time. As matter of
fact, I’m about to redo the pose completely yet again.

At the rate I’m going, this painting won’t be done for another 3 years.

Here’s a preliminary sketch that I’ve been doodling around for the painting. Note the different poses for King Kong.

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Frank Cho

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Random nude figure sketch from my reject files.

Coming up with a striking pose is always a great challenge. I’m always scribbling pose ideas, from stick figures to fully realized images.

Most end up in my reject pile and forgotten.

But every now and then, I come back to my reject pile and reevaluate the poses with fresh eyes and try to save images.

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Frank Cho

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I had to revise a cover. Long story.

The first cover was fine. It was action packed. It’s a regular Marvel fighting cover. But it wasn’t quite what the writer was looking for. And looking at it again. He was right. It was missing the “it” factor.

For the revised cover, I wanted pathos. I wanted emotions. I wanted to be iconic. So after doodling all day and night. I think I came with an image I like.

It’s Captain America, with his shield broken, sits defeated in battle as his enemies overrun the grounds.

Hopefully the editors will approve.

Here’s a partial image of the cover in progress.

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Frank Cho

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