i know art fu ([info]_ming) wrote,
@ 2007-03-05 09:47:00
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Entry tags:[art] dc, poison ivy, villainous & vile

dr. pamela isley, presumably.
character: poison ivy
rating/warnings: all-natural ingredients.
media: pen, ink, & ps7
artist's note: the second addition to my rogues gallery series.














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[info]tricksterquinn
2007-03-05 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Wow, she is cool. Yanno. In a slightly creepy sort of way.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 03:02 pm UTC (link)
slightly! come now, surely she is way creepier than that!

;P

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[info]tricksterquinn
2007-03-05 03:06 pm UTC (link)
What can I say, I have a talent for understatement.

She's really pretty fab (and everyone knows the hottest girls are the scariest!).

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[info]tammylee
2007-03-05 03:13 pm UTC (link)
If Batman were a farmer instead of a billionare playboy he'd have a special Round Up dispensing weapon just for her. I like this take on her, she is less 'pretty pin up girl' and more 'freaky villain'.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 04:16 pm UTC (link)
you, because batman is batman, he probably does have a pouch full of that "Round Up" stuff somewhere in his utility belt! that or a mini wheedwhacker. and that sounded kind of wrong, but you know what i mean!

thanks, tamma. i'm glad she came out menacing enough to be a proper skerry villainess! :D

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[info]tongari
2007-03-05 03:16 pm UTC (link)
arrrrr your inkinggggg ♥
(her legs in particular are so beautifully done!)

I'd kinda like to see in the full picture that warm glowy tinge the background and her shoulders and hair have in the preview picture. I'm a sucker for red and glowy ^^; but I like how the lights glowww in that preview.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 04:21 pm UTC (link)
i like glowy lights too, but my inner goth always foils me in the end and makes me desaturate and gloomify everything! it is most frustrating indeed.

thank you for the comment! :3

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[info]jubilancy
2007-03-05 03:35 pm UTC (link)
Poison Ivy is my favorite DCU villain of all time-- or at least the basic concept of Poison Ivy is my favorite DCU villain concept of all time-- and this is hands down the best representation of her that I've ever seen. The way she's taking over the cityscape! You've managed to get that out-of-Eden look in there without making it cheesecake, just part of her-- menacing and beautiful like nature. Plus, the way her legs are twining into vines!

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 04:29 pm UTC (link)
Poison Ivy is my favorite DCU villain of all time-- or at least the basic concept of Poison Ivy is my favorite DCU villain concept of all time

and this is one of the many reasons why you are the smartiest. i love, love, love the concept of almost the entire dc universe. it's just that the execution sometimes disappoints me, especially re: ALL FEMALE CHARACTERS, but i believe we've had that conversation before. or are still having it, because the issue ain't gonna be over until ivy stops showing up at hero smackdowns in nothing but a man's dress shirt and a fig leaf. she is supposed to be one very scary berry indeed!

this is hands down the best representation of her that I've ever seen.

and now i'm just a happy fool. thanks, jube. :)

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[info]jubilancy
2007-03-06 03:02 am UTC (link)
I've had this on my desktop all day! It's just so AWESOME.

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[info]rubynye
2007-03-05 05:27 pm UTC (link)
*jawdrop*

Wow. I... damn, you deserve so much more of a comment than "wow. Um.

She looks like a goddess, an elemental, an eruption of Nature into the heights of civilization. She does't look human, in an utterly awesome way.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 07:20 pm UTC (link)
i will totally take a "wow," no complaints! in fact, lots of gratitude. your comment summed up everything i was trying to achieve with this pic, so i offer up a "yay!" in return. :D

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[info]karmic_circuit
2007-03-05 05:57 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Ivy looks so cool! *grins* I love how she looks so frightening and powerful here, rather than just "exotic and sexy" (though she still looks that, too!). She's pretty much always been my favorite Batman villain. ♥

The ink strokes around the top of her head that look like pine needles? Very neat.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 07:25 pm UTC (link)
thanks! and yeah, i tried to make her as physically plantlike as possible. her hair is probably some unholy combination of pine needles, tuber roots, crabgrass, tree branches, and bits of assorted bark. it's the new style! ;)

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[info]soloproject
2007-03-05 06:30 pm UTC (link)
Her legs are just heaps of awesome.♥ ♥ ♥

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 07:21 pm UTC (link)
heaps of spindly jelly plant monster awesome! X3333

thank you!

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[info]miakun
2007-03-05 07:09 pm UTC (link)
I love how her hair and the roots coming up are almost interchangable. That's so neat.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 07:31 pm UTC (link)
hee, thanks! i think her hair kind of is</i... um, roots. tree roots. you know, SCARY PLANT STUFF. to steal from marvel, her "secondary mutation" has kicked in. thankfully, she didn't turn into a big blue cat. ;)

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[info]discountfactor
2007-03-05 07:42 pm UTC (link)
I love the way her body bends and blends with nature, it's gorgeous! :)

I've been haunting your site of late and I'm in love with the batman art. They're haunting, I love it. :)

(Did you ever watch Batman Beyond? I've just got done watching the series online, I couldn't resist, haha.)

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[info]_ming
2007-03-05 07:51 pm UTC (link)
you know, i've seen most of the first season and some of the other stuff? never saw it on tv, sadly. i caught it all on youtube. i do like it! wily, older bruce is great fun, and that terry kid ain't hard to look at. um, for a cartoon. of course. i imagine. *g*

(and thanks!)

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[info]discountfactor
2007-03-06 05:41 am UTC (link)
oh man, the entire series is online at alluc.org! it was probably the best way to procrastinate that i've enjoyed so far. and then the movie with those characters that explains why bruce stopped being batman is pretty sweet too. all kinds of old and new coming together. not to mention the justice league episodes that have all kinds of batmans running around...

I really need to cut back the TV, hahah

And no kidding about that Terry kid, whew! :)

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[info]_ming
2007-03-07 12:46 am UTC (link)
god, that site is evil! it has EVERYTHING, and the anime section is so huge and tempting!

*trembles in fear*

i bought the Return of the Joker dvd a while ago. it's twisted, but i do like it. i love the entire dc animated universe! but as cracky as it can be with the multiple batmans and everything, it is nothing compared to the crackiness that is the comics. i've only even vaguely looked in the direction of the tip of the comics ice berg, and the crackiness truly astounding.

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[info]morot
2007-03-05 09:06 pm UTC (link)
Super hot, I like this even more than the joker one!

All these batman villains makes me think of Julie Newmar.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-06 11:56 pm UTC (link)
mmm. julile newmar. mmmm.

uh, i mean. thank you! right. *g*

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[info]glossing
2007-03-05 10:47 pm UTC (link)
She's gorgeous and fearsome! The hair/roots and coloring on her costume are transfixing me.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-07 12:15 am UTC (link)
why thank you! she is rather transfixin', isn't she? i recently read her arc in Gotham Knights, where she beseeches bruce wayne to help her regain her biological humanity because she over-fertilized some NML orphans. and then hush re-fertilized her to death because he wanted to date her, but it didn't take, etc.

I CAN'T LOOK AWAY FROM THE COMICS, o sweetest of sexductions.

<333

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[info]vejiicakes
2007-03-06 01:10 am UTC (link)
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFABBO! OOOOOOF I love the colors. And how gloriously organic she feels! I'm completely enamoured of the way her hair twines into the rooty tendrils. She's magnificent X3

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[info]_ming
2007-03-07 12:35 am UTC (link)
ah, thank you! ivy feels very pretty indeed after reading your comment.

i totally just gave my drawing feelings. weeeeeeeiiird! XD

<3

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[info]oneangrykate
2007-03-06 03:04 am UTC (link)
Oh, how utterly fabulous. I love how she looks dangerous and gorgeous without the ridiculous sexpot look a lot of the artists seem to go for. She looks like she could kick your ass here.

Three cheers and a mighty huzzah!

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[info]_ming
2007-03-07 12:40 am UTC (link)
thank you! i like my leading psycho ladies to be lean, mean, killling so-and-sos, etc. and so on.

and your costume icon is a THING OF GLORY!

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[info]dechanique
2007-03-06 08:37 am UTC (link)
ohhhh I love it!

That would make an awesome desktop background!

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[info]_ming
2007-03-07 12:41 am UTC (link)
thanks! i'm using it as mine right now, which i know is kind of conceited, but i spent so long on the coloring that i'm still feeling pretty proud. *g*

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[info]brown_betty
2007-03-07 03:12 am UTC (link)
Oh! I like how at the edges she blurs back to plant.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-07 03:37 am UTC (link)
that's not a femme fatale, that's a femme plante, baby!

:D

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[info]tresorart
2007-03-07 07:32 am UTC (link)
Wow I LOVE this. You really mastered the black and white and coloring quite seemlessly. Looks amazing le ming!

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[info]_ming
2007-03-07 07:46 am UTC (link)
sankyuu, my little pheasant puff! X3

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[info]kiltsandlollies
2007-03-07 06:00 pm UTC (link)
oh, OH. this is so gorgeous. *saves forever*

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[info]_ming
2007-03-07 11:33 pm UTC (link)
aw, thank you! and rocking icon. ;)

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[info]thete1
2007-03-12 06:23 am UTC (link)
... *WOW*. God, the legs were freaking me out as I scrolled down and then I saw and I saw the arms for what they were and and and I totally flailed. Like, parts of my brain which had previously been in one place totally found their way to entirely different places. Just -- glorious.

I especially love the inking on this -- *really* nice old-school Vertigo feel, like maybe I'm about to read something creepy and dark and brilliant about Ivy by Milligan or someone. Major coolness, babe.

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[info]_ming
2007-03-12 07:54 am UTC (link)
YAY. i know that canonically, ivy is simply green and filled with florablood, but i absolutely had to go down the far more japanese and deranged path of making her a plant. perhaps the end result is a little too classically nymph-like, but what girl doesn't need bark tentacles? I ASK YOU.

and oh, MILLIGAN. VERTIGO. <333333333. i bought Enigma - drawn by fegredo? - a few months ago. i am still agonizing over the beauty.

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[info]kreis_b
2007-03-18 10:16 am UTC (link)
amazing!

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[info]_ming
2007-03-18 02:50 pm UTC (link)
thank you. :)

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[info]xenobody
2007-03-25 02:43 pm UTC (link)
Wow. I'm always grateful to see Ivy art that isn't cheesecake. This drawing is . . . fascinating. I'm intrigued by this visual and would love to see more of your work with Ivy . . .

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[info]_ming
2007-03-25 04:40 pm UTC (link)
thanks for the comment. i certainly hope to draw more of her in the future.

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[info]askmehow
2007-04-17 12:02 am UTC (link)
Oooh, shiny! The juxtaposition between her and the urban sprawl, and her vibrancy... Love. Love, love, love.

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[info]_ming
2007-04-17 12:46 am UTC (link)
i still think i may've erred on the side of making her look like a construction worker rather than a force of nature in the city's maw, but it was my first attempt. ;)

thank you so very, very much!

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[info]mordicai
2008-05-07 05:42 pm UTC (link)
that hand into thorns thing is solid as...some really solid trees. petrified wood!

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[info]_ming
2008-05-07 06:05 pm UTC (link)
ha, yes! i've always preferred the plantlike ivy, she's so much more sinister than sweet little fleshy pam. as she should be!

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[info]mordicai
2008-05-07 06:21 pm UTC (link)
i like ivy more mystical-- i want her tied in with swamp thing & the green. shame that vertigo & dc have such an impermeable membrane.

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