Battle of Thermopylae by Johnson

A little homage to the freaky comic by Frank Miller. My entry to the weekly challenge.

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painted on a Nintendo DS
12 Mar, 2009, 3:47 pm
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serio

12 Mar, 2009, 4:59 pm

very graphical piece and minimalistic effort.Good job.

Mr. Karl

12 Mar, 2009, 6:28 pm

great scene!

Splotch

12 Mar, 2009, 7:00 pm

I like the style!

goosekeeper

12 Mar, 2009, 8:36 pm

Cool sketch! Really like your website. I can't navigate it tho, I'm an English only guy. Cool design tho, like being in a cartoon world.

boombox

13 Mar, 2009, 1:07 am

saw this on the forum, nice style, love the layering - Ftw!

pacocolors

13 Mar, 2009, 4:00 am

wow! I rally like this painting.

brand

13 Mar, 2009, 4:08 am

Dude I really like this. Great use of values. star!

Scha11enkrieger

13 Mar, 2009, 9:58 am

hell this is soo good, i think i dont entry some for this contest... i will never win :D

jetboy

13 Mar, 2009, 12:24 pm

@Scha11enkrieger: its not about wining but having fun. We would love to see your submission even if you are not going to win. Besides you ll never know until you tried.

Johnson

13 Mar, 2009, 1:20 pm

Yepp. Just look at the 99 Contest. It's not always about the best technique and look.

Scha11enkrieger

13 Mar, 2009, 1:27 pm

well that was a bad joke, i know :D the last contest entry was my first gold star, jeeeha... the problem is, that i thought about something like johnsons entry, so i have to made something totaly different^^....damn....

DeeRumm

14 Mar, 2009, 12:02 pm

thats so great!is that the original comic style?i never paid a look at the comic! shame on me i will do!

dalong

16 Mar, 2009, 3:01 am

喜欢这种风格

Johnson

16 Mar, 2009, 7:45 pm

Cool, the first chinese sentence i put into a translator and got an understandable result. Thanks for liking this kind of artwork (if that's what you said) the original comic looks a bit different though.

Mr. Karl

18 Mar, 2009, 6:33 pm

Congratulations!! You won!!

Gerald de Dios

19 Mar, 2009, 8:16 pm

Nice rendition Johnson!!!! Congrats.

thierrys

23 Mar, 2009, 9:33 am

Yes, I like what you've done here, very graphical and simple yet powerful. And congrats for the first prize!

toubab

27 Mar, 2009, 2:45 pm

just great, in frank miller's novel spirit!

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