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Uploaded by on Feb 23, 2007

Hey folks, Erik Larsen is a gracious fellow and didn't even smack the crap out of me for my wisecracks while he drew. Robotman, if you're unaware, is a character from DC's Doom Patrol. Erik got to draw it for a stretch.

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  • Erik Larsen is badass! Does he always draw like that? He holds his pen in a weird way....

  • Always draws like that. See "Understanding Erik Larsen" in Savage Dragon #100 or in Super Patriot:America's Fighting Force #4 by Chris Eliopoulos.

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  • Was under the impression suffered from heart attack dude, is that what happens.

    

  • When I saw him inking a cover to Savage Dragon at Wondercon last year, I was blown away by how he held his pen. Looks like it would hurt, but then again he IS a master.

  • This guy Rocks ! Your comic books are cool ! (And I don't know if I wrote wrong !)

  • @KnightCrawler2 he holds it that way so he doesnt have any blocks of view and not to get any ink smears from his hand thats why I draw in that same fashion.

  • Doesn't matter how he holds his pen. What matters is the results. Erik Larsen creates one of the coolest character: Savage Dragon. And this is great.

  • alot of illustrators do, its not like still life drawing or painting from a standing model, they have to visualize and put the shit on paper from thought without fucking it up 100 times. I can half ass draw but to make it look half worth a shit I have to hold the pen.... in a odd way.

  • Yeah David Finch! I saw his Gnomon DVD Workshop... I know to what you refer!

    Peace!

  • Well, yeah, everyone has their own method to hold the pencil. There is the writing method, which I use to draw, or there is the butter knife method, where one holds the pencil like a butterknife buttering bread.

    Erik's is more onto this method.

    I know David Finch, who is not a patch on Erik in art terms, holds the lead holder in a truly weird way, and has made a ball of masking tape around the holder so as to prevent his thumb getting calloused, which was happening often.

  • Oh so he also admits... well until he feels comfortable. Everyone has his own way and approach.

    Peace!

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