{"id":2060,"date":"2007-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2007-11-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T08:00:00","slug":"billionaires-in-power-suits-part-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires in Power-Suits (Part 2 of 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Continuing the theme from last Friday–while coloring up my Iron Man post, I was IMing with Charles<\/a> and Lex Luthor<\/a> came up in conversation. Yes, we are that nerdy<\/i>. Anyways, Lex in his early 80’s power-suit seemed like a good follow up to Tony Stark:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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From start to finish this whole thing took under 3 hours, which is pretty fast for me. Sketched in pen and Sharpie, but this time I did look at reference and I took a little more time cleaning it up in Photoshop before coloring it. Getting the colors right on this one was surprisingly easy. But I guess when you’re coloring lime and berry power armor, it’s pretty easy to zero in on the right colors. As for the drawing itself, Lex’s pose is a little stiff (somewhat intentional) and the composition is incredibly boring (not intentional).<\/p>\n

Continuity-wise, this one is all over the place. Identifying Lex as a billionaire in the title of the post implies the post-Crisis<\/a> version (I’m pretty sure all the pre-Crisis versions were finiancially unsuccessful). However, the reference I followed was the Lex Luthor action figure from the old Super Powers<\/a> toyline, which implies either the version from the Super Powers cartoon<\/a> (naturally), or the pre-crisis Lex Luthor of Earth-One<\/a>. Furthermore, while drawing it, I decided to give Lex his kryptonite<\/a> ring, which is definitely a post-Crisis detail, and to complicate matters his face is somewhat reminiscent of the version seen in Superman: The Animated Series”<\/a> and Justice League Unlimited<\/a>. Of all these confusing and obscure details, my favorite is the fact that post crisis-Lex has green eyes (according to the DC Comics Encyclopedia<\/i><\/a>) and pre-Crisis Lex from Earth-One had blue eyes (according to Who’s Who<\/i><\/a> volume XIV)–I gave this one blue eyes. So, in summary: hell if I know<\/i>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing the theme from last Friday–while coloring up my Iron Man post, I was IMing with Charles and Lex Luthor came up in conversation. Yes, we are that nerdy. Anyways, Lex in his early 80’s power-suit seemed like a good follow up to Tony Stark: click above for larger view From start to finish this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}