UP FOR SALE IS A HAND DRAWN ONE OF A KIND UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: CREATURE OF THE BLACK LAGOON # 1 COVER RECREATION ORIGINAL COMIC ART PENCIL SKETCH ON 8 1/2'' X 11'' CARD STOCK BY COMIC BOOK ARTIST JAMES CHEN WHO DID ARTWORK FOR FIST OF THE DRAGON # 1,2,3 & 4 AND LADY DRAGON # 0. THE ARTWORK IS SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
BUT IT IS ACTUALLY A LOT HARDER TO DO COVER RECREATIONS IN THE 8 1/2'' X 11'' CARD STOCK BECAUSE IT IS MUCH HARDER TO DRAW THE TINY DETAILS IN HALF THE PAPER SIZE. COVER RECREATIONS IN THE 8 1/2'' X 11'' CARD STOCK SIZE IS MUCH BETTER ALSO BECAUSE IT IS CLOSER TO THE ACTUAL SIZE OF A ACTUAL COMIC BOOK COVER.
HE WAS NOT APPRECIATED IN HIS LIFETIME AS AN ARTIST. SO MORE PEOPLE WORE CLOTHING CREATED BY JAMES CHEN THAN PROBABLY ANY OTHER DESIGNER EVER. JAMES CHEN ALSO OWNED THE PUBLISHING COMPANY DRAGON COMICS AND WAS THE ARTIST OF COMICS SUCH AS FIST OF THE DRAGON #1,2,3, & 0, LADY DRAGON #1, DRAGON & THE WARRIORS. JAMES CHEN IS ALSO THE SON OF FAMED ARTIST SUI KANG CHEN OR ALBERT CHEN WHOSE CHINESE PAINTINGS ARE HANGING IN MUSEUMS ALL OVER THE WORLD. AFTER RETIRING FROM BEING A FAMED FASHION DESIGNER JAMES CHEN TRANSITIONED INTO A FINE ARTIST 12 YEARS AGO DOING SMALL SKETCHES IN MARKER AND COLOR PENCILS, AND SCULPTURE, AND HUGE PAINTINGS AS LARGE AS 8 FEET TALL IN EVERY MEDIUM FROM WATERCOLOR PAINT, ACRYLIC PAINT, OIL PAINT AND TEMPERA PAINT. JAMES CHEN HAS ALSO VOLUNTEERED HIS TIME TO DO DOZENS OF MURALS FOR SCHOOL AUDITORIUMS AND SCHOOL CAFETERIAS SUCH AS 4 TWENTY FOOT TALL CANVASES WITH PROFILES OF ALL THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS FOR ONE SCHOOL AND 6 FOOT MURALS OF NATURE SCENES SUCH AS PEACOCKS FOR ANOTHER SCHOOL CAFETERIA.
IT IS PROBABLY ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE HIS ARTWORK IS DISCOVERED BY THE ART GALLERIES, THE ART WORLD AND INDIVIDUAL COLLECTORS. ONE COLLECTOR ALONE BOUGHT 8000 PIECES OF JAMES CHEN'S ART IN A 12 MONTH PERIOD.