Gunnar Rosbo...king Of Forearms!!!

[Pascal]

Do you have also ones of current ifbb pro's?

[Larzker]

I'll have to look for them. Current competitors...I've done ones of Coleman, Schlierkamp, Cutler, Kamali, Ruhl, Priest, Levrone, Cicherillo, Duvall, Prince, Cormier, Dennis James, Titus, Dillett, Gregg Valentino(not competitor),and I'm working on one of Dexter Jackson and others.

[Pascal]

It would be nice if you would post some of them

[Fries]

Je kan al die tekeningen ook gewoon in de musclemag international vinden, en ik betwijfel of dit de echte larry mccusker is. WTF heeft die hier dan te zoeken.....
Gewoon iemand die aandacht wil..

[Pascal]

Origineel gepost door Fries

Je kan al die tekeningen ook gewoon in de musclemag international vinden, en ik betwijfel of dit de echte larry mccusker is. WTF heeft die hier dan te zoeken.....
Gewoon iemand die aandacht wil..

Ik krijg die Musclemag hier nergens...en tja of het hem is

[Larzker]

That's one that someone scanned and posted on a German site.

You guys need proof? Here you go: http://www.larrymccusker.com/me.html

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[Fries]

Well, then i'll take it back. I'll believe you.
Then let me go on by saying that i really really like your drawings, and i am a big fan of your work. My wall is covered of your drawings, i'll post a pic of it later.
The only one i didn't understand, is the one of ben affleck. What if affleck flexed. Why did you draw a duck??

[Larzker]

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Thanks Fries, the duck is from a television commercial in the US for Aflac Insurance. The duck always shouts out AFLAC! Aflac is pronounced similarly to Affleck and Affleck has said on talk shows that he is teased about it. You can watch all the US Aflac commercials as well as the Japanese ones at the website below:

https://www.aflac.com/about_us/aflac_commercials.asp

They have the current commercial there as well as all the previous ones. The older ones are better.

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[Fries]

Damn, it is you....

Well, here is the pic of my room, with some older drawings.
Where do you get your inspiration from? Because those pics are really original!
The one i really like is with snoop and is pimpin' arm...

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...7541&members=1

[Larzker]

I see the [IMG]code but not a picture. The ideas come to me pretty quickly but drawing all the detail is the hard part. In the past year, since I've been going to forums, I've gotten tons of inspiration and ideas. Are the illustration captions in Dutch or English in Holland?

[Fries]

They are all in English, it is the MMI, and i have never seen a dutch mm here.. Finally i got the link down.. Still have to put some more on the wall though, but hey , they are hanging there!
How old are you if i may ask so, and did you go to art school for this stuff? you can send a PM if it too personal.

[Larzker]

I see the link now. That's great. I see the Eminem one there too. People in the US generally speak English only although there is a growing population that speaks Spanish. It would be cool if we were more like European countries and know several languages. There are a few different language versions but I've only seen it printed in English and Serbian. I'm working on one of Martha Stewart now. Do people in Holland know who she is?

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Here are some pictures that some people may find interesting. Here are 2 pictures of Rosbo:



Here is an animated gif of the 2 photos:


Here is a morphed version of the 2 with no touchups:



Here I drew over the individual frames to clean it up a bit. Morphing works best changing A into B provided both A & B are in the same position. The morphing program can't handle a flexed arm to an outstretched arm so I had to fix it a bit by drawing. I could get it perfect if I spent enough time redrawing the hands and touching up more but I'd have to spend more time than I have available.

[Fries]

WOw, that's really cool. You could go and work for LMI
Why do you like Rosbo so much? Yeah, i know who martha stewart is, she makes millions with her programs about eating, householding and being the mother of all mammies of america. Nice, make her look nasty. Some stocking perhaps?
WHen you go to high school here, the first year you all learn english, some german and some french. After that you can choose wich of the 2 foreign languages you want to study.
What do you think about those other drawings in mmi, the ones with big boss or such alike?

[Larzker]

Martha Stewart's going to be drawn as a tough prison chick wearing very little clothes and having a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.

I think Rosbo had the right look to be an action movie star on the level of Schwarzenegger if he had had the right agent. His bodybuilding career was cut short by a pinched nerve on one side of his body. If he kept going he could have accomplished alot more. He was Lee Haney's main competition at the 1980 Mr. Universe but by that time his pinched nerve was making one side of his body atrophy to a degree, not a whole lot but it was noticeable. Who knows, mabey I can make him the star of a video game in the future.

The exercise series that has the big boss has evolved over the years. It's added alot more humor recently. I think the artist likes comic book art and is trying to incorporate that style into his work. He started working for the magazine several years before I did. His art has improved over the years as has mine. I don't know him. I think he's from Toronto, Canada. What do think of his work?

[Fries]

That's going to be a very hot Martha
Well, i think his work is nice, but sometimes really messy. The 'women' he draws practically look all the same. Still, he draws nice musclemen.

I didn't know about the pinched nerve. I think Rosbo has a really nice v taper, including the forearms. Maybe you could have him crush things with his forearms in the game...

Are you a bb yourself, or just a fan? When you draw people like Ruhl Cutler, etc. do you meet them or, just go by the pictures you have of them. Did they ever react, positive or negative towards your drawings? (maybe they'd beat you up )

[dj karatekid]

ja maat da is iets wat ik ook nog nooit heb gezien hoor

[Larzker]

Fries, my definition of bodybuilder is someone who competes so no I'm not a bodybuilder. I started lifting when I was 15 and 5'4'' tall. When I was 20 I was 6'0'' and a lean 217(no steroids ever). But I kept growing in height to 6' 2''. That's about 2 inches taller than Arnold in case feet and inches aren't used at all in Holland. The magazines say he's 6'2'' but I've seen him in 1980 and recently and he's 6' 0''. The taller I got the less I seemed to lift weights. Right now I'm a lean 190 but I only lift about every 10 days.

How about you?

[Fries]

Well, i consider myself a bb, even though i am not competing. I weigh 220, am 21 years old, no steriods. I train 4 times a week, besides that i am still studying.
Two years ago i went to LA, but i didn't manage to get to gold's. My parents weren't feeling quite that safe strolling along venice boulevard. You live there too?
Arnold always seems to look quite tall, 6 feet ain't that tall. That's about average in Holland.
Maybe you could do a drawing about Oprah in a Santa suit, because she keeps giving away those major things like 150 cars or something like that...
How can i morph a picture like you did? Do i need any special programs for this?

[Larzker]

Venice is moderately safe but by no means the safest. I live in San Diego which is about a 1 1/2 hours drive to Los Angeles and Venice. I go to LA about once a month. I hear Holland has a lot of good looking women so I may have to move there!

You're right, it's time for another one of Oprah. Oprah didn't really give away the cars, the car company did. Also, alot of those people are upset because they have to pay $2000 in taxes on the cars to keep them.

I read recently that Holland had the world's tallest people with the average male height of 6'1''. Well, at least I'd be a little taller than average if I lived in Holland.

For morphs I downloaded the free demo. They make you pay if you render out more than 5 morphs. Here's the website.

http://www.morpheussoftware.net/

[Fries]

The women are nothing to complain about here in Holland. Lot of cultures, a meltin'pot of all kinds of flavours
Are you kiddin' me, you still have to pay for those cars Still, it's cheap, but she really had everybody believing that it was FREE. Damn, that women should be punished

You never been to Holland i guess? Europe?

I am 5"6, so i am tiny here. Especially in the north part of Holland where i live, the people are very tall, incl the women. Long legs, yum!

What's your favorite comic book?

I'll try to morph something good...