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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Jose Luis Garcia Lopez Stock Art

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F.O.A.M.er Ilke Hincer sent me a link to the website Artist's Choice, featuring some stock art poses by the master, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez. Thanks Ilke!

What's intriguing is that they are more "modern" interpretations of the characters, some of which I've never seen before, like this shot of Aquaman. Can anyone think of a time this piece was ever used?

As is usual with the work of JLGL, its all kinds of awesome.

9 comments:

Tegan said...

I don't recall ever seeing that one.

Airship Over Water said...

Wow, what a great looking desing. It almost looks animalistic -- the way the knees are bent forward and the shin-fins really poking out -- he looks more shark like than any other Aquaman model I've ever seen. It looks really cool.

David J. Cutler said...

Huh--I wouldn't even recognize that as a Garcia Lopez piece. Looks like a hybrid of his early work with the influences and trappings of the early 1990s.

Josh Hill said...

wow, that's darn cool. I love Garcia Lopez.

Randy said...

Man, does he know how to draw or what?

Wings1295 said...

Great piece, but the sharpness of the fins just throws me for some reason.

Earth 2 Chris said...

Garcia Lopez "amped" up his style guide work to keep up with modern tastes. I've never seen this Aquaman piece, but it fits in with the Superman and Batman work he's output since the early 90s.

Chris

Anonymous said...

I think Lopez' current style guides are really ugly, that Aquaman piece included unfortunately. Which is sad to me because I absolutely LOVE his 80's style guides and work.

pblfsda said...

Period-wise it kind of looks like it ties into "Time And Tide", or that period between that and Peter David's ongoing series. 1993? I only say that because there are four elements you don't normally see simultaneously: long hair, clean-shaven, 'A' belt-buckle/insignia and mail/scale style shirt with emphasized texture. I can't remember who the pre-T&T and post-T&T artists were, but it might have been Gary Frank, or Kirk...um, Jarvinen? Could I have spelled that right?