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Daredevil "Ascent" A Progressive Homage to Gene Colan: Part 5 by Eric W. Meador

Artist: Eric W. Meador (All)

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Title:	Daredevil "Ascent" A Progressive Homage to Gene Colan: Part 5 by Eric W. Meador
Artist:	Eric W. Meador (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	808
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	6/18/2013
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This is the fifth piece in an ambitious series of commissions that artist Eric W. Meador and I are undertaking. This entry into the series marks the transition point, as the series will now shift into red canson paper for the remainder of the letters, which will be capped by fully-rendered masterpiece. Keep your eyes peeled for each new addition.

We've long kicked around an idea of presenting an homage to the great DD artist Gene "The Dean" Colan and his uncanny ability to create that bombastic sense of motion across splash pages in DD comics, featuring a "shadow trail" effect that followed the movement of DD across a scene. In this case, Eric and I opted to show nine separate snapshots of DD ascending up a building in Hell's Kitchen and his arc of movement across the rooftops. Each piece will progressively feature a different letter that will ultimately spell out DAREDEVIL and will sequentially show Daredevil leaping onto a garbage dumpster, climbing up a fire escape, moving up the surface of the building, and performing some Colan-esque aerial acrobatics as he ultimately reaches the rooftops of Hell's Kitchen. Eric came up with the cool idea of creating the letters in DD's name by alternating the areas of crisp resolution with those that are less in focus within a given scene, as can be observed in this fifth commission. I'm not only excited about seeing this series come to fruition, but I'm also anxious to watch the subtle nuances of Eric's stylistic approach evolve over the course of this project, as has already begun to occur. We hope you enjoy each individual piece as they evolve as well as the final panoramic progressive watercolor that they will ultimately create. Thanks, Eric!

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George H
Member Since 2009

Posted on 6/18/2013

Looks great! This is going to be epic.

Dimitrios Z
Member Since 2011

Posted on 6/18/2013

When something is as great as this, it makes us all impatient to see the final product.

Patrick Brooks
Member Since 2008

Posted on 6/19/2013

Spectacular, Matt!! Congrats.

aric shapiro
Member Since 2006

Posted on 7/10/2013

How do you get such amazing work from these folks? Dizzyingly good. Perspective is genius

Craig Rogers
Member Since 2004

Posted on 7/11/2013

aric shapiro wrote:

How do you get such amazing work from these folks? Dizzyingly good. Perspective is genius

Matt didn't coax it out of him. Everything Eric does is top notch.

Mike W
Member Since 2007

Posted on 7/11/2013

A beautiful addition to your amazing project!!!

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