Rival Angels – #1 Wrestling Webcomic

May22
by on May 22, 2008 at 9:39 am
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I had a moment to surf around the internet and come to find that there’s not any regularly updating wrestling webcomics, so that lead me to believe that Rival Angels is the #1 Wrestling Webcomic on the web.  So yeah, its unofficial and probably more than just a little egotistical but I don’t think its untrue. 

However, if you do a google search for ‘wrestling webcomic‘ the first page is dominated by Rival Angels, so yay! 😛

In years past, there have been other wrestling webcomics and comic books but a lot of them were just plain silly.  WCW had Marvel comics produce a comic for them and it included Lex Luger trying to blow up a boat that Sting was on.  What kind of crap is that?  Kevin Nash had a comic book where he was a futuristic bounty hunter.  Go to the link to read about that stinker.  Undertaker had a comic where when he tombstone piledrove someone, he would send the demon inside of his opponent back to hell.  

Yikes.

It seems that wrestling in comics has to be slap sticky, nothing resembling wrestling as we know it on television.  The name escapes me but there’s a comic out in Mexico (published through Image comics) about lucha dores who go out and clean up crime in the their neighborhood.  I haven’t read it so I don’t know how it is, but I don’t get why a comic can’t have wrestling action in it.

That being said, there are some good wrestling webcomics/comics that are out there.
Headlocked by Mike Kingston takes a look at pro wrestling from a behind the scenes, warts and all look at wrestling.  This comic came out last year and the next one is coming out later this year and I believe will be collected into a trade paperback.

Diablo Del Ring by Justice (who frequently posts in the comments section here) is a splendid lucha libre tale.  Its not updating at the moment but he’s going to try and get weekly updates going again. The art is nice and smooth and looks to be very entertaining.

Fallen Angels is a groovy little comic on wrestling, but we haven’t seen an update since February.  I hope it comes back because it was very cool. The art was rough but nice.

Definitely check these cool sites out, they’re great reads and have the kind of presentation that is sorely missed in comics and webcomics.

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New Voting Incentive!

May20
by on May 20, 2008 at 9:54 am
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I have updated the Voting Incentive with a new picture of Ultragirl Sabrina Mancini.  Vote to check it out and if you like, let me know what you think.  Regular readers will recognize this from the unfinished sketch that I posted of it here.  Big thanks to Hannah (spiked-stock) for the awesome reference.

        

And a big thanks to everyone who votes daily, with every update, weekly or just every once in a while.  I really appreciate it. 🙂

 

 

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Spiked Stock

May13
by on May 13, 2008 at 9:26 am
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To really do good line work you need good reference.  A point that my teacher and mentor likes to point out:

 

     “Too often I see someone trying to use reference for a body part thinking that’s all they need for the entire pose. Most everyone but the masters of this world DOES NOT have the experience nor the understanding of physics, anatomy, form, contour, lighting, weight, density, foreshortening, perspective and all the other intrinsic necessities for a good drawing without reference. Face it, it’s just not cataloged in the brain in a readily accessible manner. You have to research it. You will not be able to produce something passable by memory. Only masters can, and you know what they always do? That’s right! They use reference! They set up their own models and photos, set up their own lighting, research reams and reams of photographs and are constantly referencing all sorts of media to ensure they can transfer what is in their head to what is on the canvas. Now if every single great artist in the world utilizes reference, don’t you think it might be a good idea for your work?”

 

So I went out and looked for some good stock and I found Hannah’s DeviantArt account. Now, you may have noticed that Hannah (Spiked-stock) has been posting here in the comments as well as drawing dynamite looking pictures of Ultragirl (seen in the current Voting Incentive).  Anyways, I thought I would share with you how Hannah’s stock photos have been helping me out.

This one is a favorite of mine, and is used in tower banners around the web.
 

 

I haven’t shown this one off yet, but it’ll be the next voting incentive.  Of course, it’ll be colored up.

 

Still in the rough stages of this one, but its a dynamic shot.  Way cool.

 

I think this one will turn out well, a picture I’m doing of Krystin the ‘Definition of Technician.’

So a big thanks to Hannah for these crazy cool stock photos.  I wouldn’t have done them as well without you.  So take a gander at some of her awesome pictures, you’ll be glad you did.

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