Tarzan Sketch
Added 2020-11-14 10:46:30 +0000 UTCThese type of images are the hardest to paint. Close and intimate but with enough tension and promise of action to make it interesting enough.
Actually I painted one right before this one, just on a whim and to try out if what I saw would look good, only two days ago, but it didn't turn out as I wanted at all, so I had to toss it. I'll do a Tarzan image nonetheless. This sketch looks more promising but that doesn't mean anything. I can still mess it up. It is challenging.
What I do know for sure is that it'll not be a Disney Tarzan or a beautyboy apeman. It'll be the scarred tough guy who lived in the jungle for decades and fought huge beasts to win. I grew up with the original Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. The one from the original books :) Jane is another story. I'll just make her pretty. :D
As an illustrator I get descriptions of characters to make a painting by all the time. I want it to be as accurate as the description allows, but Hollywood didn't even read the Tarzan series, did they?
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😁 she was an early adapter 😁
Frans Mensink
2020-11-17 06:13:18 +0000 UTCFor an 19th century Victorian virgin, Jane went full on "Jungle Fever" pretty doggone quickly... the lil' 'ho😉😀
William Briscoe
2020-11-16 12:18:47 +0000 UTCNever saw any of that. 😊
Frans Mensink
2020-11-16 11:57:59 +0000 UTCI'm yearning to see the accurate TARZAN (I think the closest I've seen before "GREYSTROKE" was the "TUROK, SON OF TARZAN" Comic Books from DC during the '70s, a couple of the stories were adaptations of original E.R. Buroughs' TARZAN stories (and the artist depicted both TARZAN and his son TUROK as somewhat modern cave-savage and very rugged.).
Lawrence Wise
2020-11-14 17:01:15 +0000 UTCMy best friend, THE Sasquatch, is a huge ERB Tarzan fan and always disappointed, for one reason or the other, in the Hollyweird adaptations. His favorite Tarzan, looks wise, was Mike Henry, although he hated the movies for their lost potential. We both agree that a either a mini series, or a 3-4 motion picture series, needs to be done to ACCURATELY tell, the first two books in the series.
Darcsyde
2020-11-14 16:48:44 +0000 UTCThanks! I’m hoping it’ll work out 😊
Frans Mensink
2020-11-14 11:15:03 +0000 UTCWell, we weren’t spoiled yet. I liked him too. But still, not anywhere near the original character description 😁
Frans Mensink
2020-11-14 11:14:27 +0000 UTCOh, and this sketch looks VERY promising! Really tough looking Tarzan, and a gorgeous, sexy Jane.
Jeff Pender
2020-11-14 10:51:51 +0000 UTCYou’re probably right about Hollywood, but I confess, I loved Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan.
Jeff Pender
2020-11-14 10:50:03 +0000 UTC
