{"id":188,"date":"2008-10-31T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-05-30T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T00:28:16","slug":"blue-devil-vs-dr-fate-original-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/31\/blue-devil-vs-dr-fate-original-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Devil vs Dr Fate [Original Sketch]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While at DragonCon this year, I commissioned a sketch from artist David Wong.\u00a0 I&#8217;d seen some of his work in the past at DragonCon and was impressed.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t draw comics for the primary publishers, but he appears to make his living off his art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I just received my commission in the mail.\u00a0 The image below is Blue Devil (in his classic gear) versus Doctor Fate (with his signature ankh shield).\u00a0 Both are in my &#8216;top five favorite characters of all time&#8217; and both happen to be magical, so I thought an image together would make sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Blue Devil vs Doctor Fate - Full Size\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_fate.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_fate_s.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Devil vs Doctor Fate\" width=\"540\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I asked for these two characters I didn&#8217;t think about the fact that the color scheme would be a bit limited.\u00a0 Both characters primary colors are blue and gold.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a happy accident that having only two main colors created a nice sense of balance in the sketch.\u00a0 Also, I feel the artist did a good job using various blues and orange highlights to bring out texture and shading.\u00a0 Nicely done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think the sketch came off pretty well.\u00a0 The only part I&#8217;m slightly disappointed in is Blue Devil&#8217;s face.\u00a0 It just doesn&#8217;t seem quite right.\u00a0 Other than that it looks pretty good.\u00a0 Doctor Fate looks great!\u00a0 In an ideal world, Blue Devil would have been sketched by Paris Cullins and Doctor Fate would have been sketched by Walt Simonson.\u00a0 One can dream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next year I gotta figure out a way to get a sketch of Firestorm, Aquaman, and Flash all together.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230; if only George Perez was coming next year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-188\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" 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