Not done as a commission, but for the fun of it, and it is for sale and open to offers by the way! A3, pencil & ink.
One of my fave TV cops, Columbo. Here’s the pencils…
And here is the the finished article!
Not done as a commission, but for the fun of it, and it is for sale and open to offers by the way! A3, pencil & ink.
One of my fave TV cops, Columbo. Here’s the pencils…
And here is the the finished article!
The pencils remind me of Gene Colan (which may be deliberate). Very good inking and likeness as usual.
I see what you mean, but no intentional, conscious Colan vibe on my part.
The Falk pencils have a lovely soft quality that is compelling in its own way as the final inked version.
NICE stuff.
Crazy enough, COLUMBO was never one of my favorites in the 70s. But once I got hooked, I never missed it if I could. I love nearly all the NBC Mystery Movies. Thanks to DVDs, I’ve been able to watch most of them again for the first time ever, in chronological sequence. I started from the beginning and am now early in the 1975-76 season.
I was able to get the entire run of COLUMBO — 69 movies!!! — for just about $40. And, for the most part, I’m loving them. In 1974, some halfwit at NBC decided “all” the Mystery Movies needed to be expanded to fit a 2-hour time slot instead of 90 minutes. Unfortunately, this meant MOST of them felt painfully padded-out. Even my favorite series, McCLOUD, began to have some boring episodes. Sheesh.
Somehow, that wasn’t a problem during the revival. The 1st season was poorly-written, but then the 2nd season on ABC, Peter Falk decided to take over control of the show, and began to “play” with the format– something they hadn’t done since the 1st season of the original run. And the revival became one of my FAVORITE shows! It’s nice to have gotten all of them in one box for such a cheap price. (It was only a couple months before they were reissued on Blu-Ray– figures. Oh well!)
I wrote a magazine article last year, covering the origins of the show and then fast-forwarding to its final curtain. Peter Falk wasn’t the easiest person for the studio to work with, and his perfectionism (coupled with the heightened eccentricity encouraged by Patrick McGoohan as director) eventually got in the way of guiding at least one more instalment through the starting gate.
I concur with Norris. Very nice work, both pencils and inks!
Nigel’s right about the pencils, they do have a Gene Colan vibe to them.