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Lady Death is always fun to draw. She is also one of the few characters other than Luxura that I am most identified with since I did several Lady Death illustrations for Chaos Comics back in the 90′s.

The image is a bit risque so to see the complete version you will have to go to the Photos section in my Yahoo Group. The image was great fun to draw. I haven’t worked on a Lady Death drawing in a long time so this was quite enjoyable. The image is done with markers and is 11×14 on Strathmore Bristol.

The first prelim was kind of okay. The customer liked it and was willing to let me go with it but after looking at it for a day, I was not fully happy with it. It’s a nice drawing but I wanted to make a more shapely Lady Death and this one seemed to fall more into the “fit” category. I loved the background though. It looks a little weak in the sketch, but I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do with it in the final drawing. As you can see the background in the finished image at the top is basically the same.

I liked the second prelim much better. This one has more of the sexy pin-up, very curvy and voluptuous Lady Death look to it. The customer agreed and then I was off to the races. You can view some of the work in progress pics for this image at my Work in Progress Page.

It always intrigues me what the story is behind why customers choose the characters that they do and how they found me. The following is what the new owner of this art had to say about his completed commission.

“I’ve been a Lady Death fan ever since she got her own series under Chaos Comics.  There was just something about the character that drew me in as a kid, the darkness of the story behind her, the power behind her…oh who am I kidding, it’s the fact that the late great Steven Hughes drew her as a big breasted, half naked, sword wielding bodacious bombshell!  After getting hooked on how Steven Hughes rendered her, I truly became captivated by the story behind Lady Death.  As the issues for Lady Death increased, more pinups were being drawn by different artists, and one artist that truly caught my eye was Kirk Lindo.  The detail that he put into each and every Lady Death pinup was absolutely amazing.  It’s because of those original pinups that I decided  to commission Kirk for a Lady Death piece of my own.  I felt that he could render a really sexy lookin’ Lady Death.  I was very surprised to learn that Kirk was a huge Lady Death fan himself.  I’m not qualified to say who is the larger Lady Death fan, however I can say that we are both huge fiends of Lady Death!  I think Kirk’s work really reflects that he is a huge Lady Death fan, because never in my wildest dreams would I have ever conceived my commission to look like what Kirk rendered.  I mean he went all out on his own whim!  My commission is proof of how big of a fan Kirk is of Lady Death.  The commission process went smooth. Kirk gave me regular updates, and the final result was simply breathtaking!  I don’t think I’ve ever been as stunned as when I saw the final rendering of my commission.  Kirk exceeded all of my expectations, by a mile.  All I can say after this experience is that Kirk, you’ve got a customer for life brother! “

-A.K.