This post actually has a little bit of a story to it...this guy, Primo Carnera I had never even heard of until I did this drawing.
Some of you might know the current heavyweight boxing champion Valuev...he's this huge 7 foot guy from Russia who looks like he could punch holes through a brick wall...anyways I've been meaning to do some drawings of him for a while now because he's such a cool, interesting looking character.
So one day I was looking through some blogs and I noticed that another artist had done a caricature of him, so I was like, I'm going to do that too! So I went on google and did an image search for Valuev and a bunch of pictures came up that I proceeded to download. Somehow while downloading I came across an article that referred to Valuev as modern day Primo Carnera...when I saw this I was like COOL!!! and I went and did some more digging on this new guy Primo Carnera.
His story is that he was a boxer back in the day from Italy and he was like 6'5" and 350 lbs or something like that. Anyway's he was like 10 times bigger than any of the other boxers at the time and I guess he was a bit of a freakshow to people...just like some would say Valuev is today (Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling them freaks personally, but that is unfortunately how some people may perceive them).
Back to the topic though, I ended up reading quite a bit about this gentleman Primo Carnera and I found his story to be quite interesting (most of which I forgot, I think he fought Max Baer(the bad guy in Cinderella Man(who wasn't actually portrayed properly in the film(I did some reading on him too that day(I did more reading than drawing that day for sure!))))) so I did some sketches of him instead of Valuev...kind of like a tribute I guess. The Valuev drawings will be coming at a later date! I hope that some of you learned something interesting today!
Take care.
-Gavin
12 comments:
Interesting Gavin. I don't know that much about boxing but now I know a little something. Thanks for sharing. I like the armadillos as well.
anytime my friend...anytime.
Hey man, both of your last posts were great! It's wonderful to see a character with different attitudes. Do more!
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Very strong work here.
Thanks man!
Beautiful drawings Gavin!
Thanks Bob, that means a lot coming from you.
Very nice character drawing!
Great piece of work!!
Davide Toffolo, an Italian comic artist has made an interesting graphic novel based on Carnera's life, and recently there were rumors about an imminent movie about this giant boxer!
Hey nice drawings Gav! Always nice structure. Come check out the Lint Trap to see some of your drawings from our artjams back in 3rd year animation.
I was doing a drawing of Valuev just know :), I agree, he has a very interesting figure, very primitive facial features, though I've heard he's an educated and polite man:)
Oh and by the way, scrolling your blog made me envious:)), I have to practice more on my artistic skills, a lot more:D, Keep up the good work!
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