{"id":4440,"date":"2012-09-30T14:19:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2014-05-16T08:07:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T12:07:18","slug":"iron-man-mk1-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4440","title":{"rendered":"Iron Man MK1 Armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick pinup I did of the first version of Iron Man&#8217;s armor. There&#8217;s something really appealing about this clunky, gray &#8220;bullet head&#8221; version of Iron Man, I think. It has a visual sense of weight and menace that the later versions lack. As you can see I&#8217;m still experimenting with trying spotting blacks. I&#8217;ll do a dedicated post about my efforts in that department at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my pinup and the armor as it originally appeared in Marvel&#8217;s <em>Tales of Suspense<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Iron-Man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4441\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4441\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Iron-Man.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Iron-Man\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Iron-Man-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Iron-Man.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4441\" title=\"Iron-Man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Iron-Man-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Iron-Man-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Iron-Man-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Iron-Man.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tales_of_Suspense_39.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4442\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=4442\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tales_of_Suspense_39.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tales_of_Suspense_39\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tales_of_Suspense_39-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tales_of_Suspense_39.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4442\" title=\"Tales_of_Suspense_39\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tales_of_Suspense_39-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tales_of_Suspense_39-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Tales_of_Suspense_39.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>My image was drawn in pencil, inked in Digital Manga Studio, colored in Photoshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick pinup I did of the first version of Iron Man&#8217;s armor. There&#8217;s something really appealing about this clunky, gray &#8220;bullet head&#8221; version of Iron Man, I think. It has a visual sense of weight and menace that the later versions lack. As you can see I&#8217;m still experimenting with trying spotting blacks. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4440\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,12,26],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-19C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}