I think I mentioned awhile ago that I enjoy drawing armor. And I still do, but after this page I’ve discovered that I’m not a huge fan of scale armor… at least not when I have to draw the scales 
I think I mentioned awhile ago that I enjoy drawing armor. And I still do, but after this page I’ve discovered that I’m not a huge fan of scale armor… at least not when I have to draw the scales
Wow. Not only must those three guys have REALLY wanted to keep their spears, but ladder-dude must SERIOUSLY work out. Maybe he ate his Wheaties this morning. Ah well, looks like he’ll be plummeting to his death with them; there’s no way he’ll be able to regain his balance.
Yep, eating his Wheaties and working out.
Also steroids. But we don’t talk about that.
But what about the ladder? >:(
You mean how anyone could maintain balance like that on a ladder? I’m sure it wouldn’t be easy, but I believe it is in keeping with the general spirit of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel – many characters in the original novel are capable of performing extraordinary, even superhuman, feats – think Dian Wei swinging two enemy soldiers’ bodies around as weapons, or Zhuge Liang divining the future by reading the stars. So yeah, I think in the ROTK universe Sun Jian would be able to flip a bunch of guys over his head and still be able to regain balance on a ladder.
Oh, he’ll just hook his left foot under one of the rungs of the ladder and pull himself upright. Such feats were commonplace in the Three Kingdoms, provided you were a heroic warrior and not just a faceless mook. It’s the sort of thing Lu Bu would have done five times before breakfast.
I’m sure that drawing all those scales was a lot of work, but the end result is superb.
If I was thirty years younger, I’d try to be one of these Parkour guys…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jquXcwooV6A
I’m trying to talk my grandson into being a Traceur!
Maybe he could be an actor in these
Hong Kong karate movies
and jump off tall buildings.
I’ve never heard of Parkour before. But… WOW. Those guys are nuts. Good luck to your grandson, he’ll need it if those are the kinds of stunts he’ll be pulling…
Thanks Mercy, the work’s totally worth it when you guys like it
Mook… that’s a word you don’t hear very often in this part of the world. I’m gonna start calling people that
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I did the exact same thing once.
Except, instead of the three guys, it was a paint bucket!
Survived the fall by crushing the ladder on the way down and landing flat on my back…Something like in this pic, but higher:
http://i.imgur.com/XW5i2.jpg
Ouch. Are you sure you want your grandson in that line of work? I mean… no offense but apparently genetics is not on his side either
I’m retired now, but in my line of work, I used ALL the luck of fifty guys…
Now, I’m afraid of stepping out for the sky to fall on my head.
I’ve had my fun, I wont deny others their chance at excitement!
Well, nothing wrong with that. We’ll look forward to seeing your grandson pulling stunts on Youtube then
Growing up on Chinese kung fu serials and movies, the term of “the weightless kung-fu” has been drilled into my head. This particular art allows practitioners to leap tall buildings, fly through the air, and generally behave as if they have a gravity negation field around them at all times… With that in mind, the wall scaling, spear grabbing and enemy flipping acrobatics illustrated here is most likely due to the “weightless kung-fu”
Huh… I know exactly what you’re talking about. I think growing up on kung fu movies skewed my understanding of gravity and the limits of human leaping ability for a long time. I’d like to think I’ve grown out of that now, but I guess you never know…
he’ll just continue with the anti-clockwise circle, grab the lower rung (while upside-down), hook his feet where they are, and do a kung-fu flip and land on the top of the wall. AWESOME STUFF! inspires me to go-back to Kung Fu and continue Parkour:) I’m a less-than-amateur Traceur
Well if you happen to make any Youtube videos of your Parkour endeavors, be sure to let us know