Tag: Lashina

Kirby Kurtain Kall

Though August is over and it’s now Sept. 1st, I have an estab­lished tra­di­tion of tak­ing all my Kir­by Trib­ute Month images and putting them togeth­er into one big poster image. This year is no different.

Though I drew them all and know each image well by this point, I get a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive when I com­bine them after the fact like this, apprais­ing the work I did from an over­all view.

This is now the fourth year that I’ve done Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month, and it’s inter­est­ing to see how much more detailed and involved these small illus­tra­tions have become each year. That’s noth­ing to do with the prompts them­selves (though those can cre­ate their own chal­lenges). It’s more to do with feel­ing the need to move beyond just straight por­traits, to come up with some­thing that feels like there’s a sto­ry to it.

That’s about all there is to say. I always learn some­thing when I do these, so hope­ful­ly you’ve enjoyed this year’s journey.

This Is Gonna Sting!

I’ve made it now to day 19 of this year’s Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month, curat­ed by Howard Simp­son. Today’s prompt is Lashina, of the Female Furies. She first appeared in Mis­ter Mir­a­cle #6.

I pre­vi­ous­ly drew her for Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month 2024 here. Only Kir­by could come up with a char­ac­ter skilled with flat-shaped whips that are stored all over the sur­face of her uniform!

I dis­cov­ered the first time I drew her that there’s a trick to it. You kind of have to start with the fig­ure first, then apply the whips and rings after the fact. That’s the only way you can make it work. I made the mis­take the first time I drew her in 2024 of pay­ing too much atten­tion to the whip and ring design to start with, and end­ed up hav­ing to cut my first draw­ing out and cut in a new re-worked one. I did­n’t make that error this time.

But then, it’s true that a lot of Jack­’s designs can be tricky when you try to trans­late them into your own style!

Any­way, that’s Lashina. Hope you liked my take. If you’re inter­est­ed in who comes up next, feel free to stop by again tomor­row to see!

…And an Encore!

Well, we just com­plet­ed anoth­er Jack Kir­by Trib­ute Month (curat­ed and cre­at­ed by Howard Simp­son). I guess you could call this the bonus round. Like last year, I decid­ed to try to assem­ble all of these into one, big image. With the excep­tion of yes­ter­day’s “wild card” round, which was not a Jack Kir­by cre­ation, so it does­n’t belong here. Plus 30 images just group togeth­er a lot eas­i­er than 31!

See­ing all of these togeth­er, I’m struck by how busy the end result is! There’s a lot going on. I guess that’s a result of my try­ing to give each pan­el a sense of nar­ra­tive, as if they were each ran­dom­ly plucked from the midst of larg­er stories.

A lot­ta work there! See­ing them all togeth­er makes me real­ize that. But it’s cool see­ing them all in this context.

Will I do this again next year? We’ll see. I may tweak my process a lit­tle bit. I did this year, by adding the nar­ra­tive aspect.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this trip with me, found it fun and inspirational.