Who are your favorite movie action heroes? I need yer answers!

So I`m taking a small oil and acrylic painting class at the local college. Its turning out alright, but I bought about two-hundred dollars of oil paints that I can`t use in-class because of their STUIPD long drying times. I ride a bike to and from the class and balancing a fully-dried painting is hard enough without smearing heavy metal-based paints everywhere. So I`ve decided to make good of my moronic investment by doing a series of portraits of my favorite seventies, eighties, and nineties action heroes! And selling them to nerds at the next Ottawa comiccon! Yay, nerds! And their disposable incomes!

These are gonna be colour-based portraits. That is, each hero will get their own colour (either primary or secondary, I`ll be going through them). I`ve already thought of a few but I`m open to suggestions.

These paintings will have to sell, so while you`re welcome to name lesser-known heroes, I`ll probably end up going with the ones that I think will make me more dosh. I know, I know, I`m a shameless capitalist. Behold the list I have so far:

Red: John Rambo from First Blood Part II

Yellow:

Blue: T-800 from Terminator: Judgement Day

Purple:

Orange: Mad Max from The Road Warrior

Green: Ellen Ripley from Aliens

--------- this list is optional. I may or may not do these depending on how the thumbnail sketches I do balance out-----

White: Gandalf the White from Lord of de Rings: The Two Towers

Black:

Grey:

All of these are just ideas. You're welcome to just belt off your favorites without associating them with a colour, but it would be more helpful if you wanna list off which stars you think will go best with each.

Thanks, guys! Here's a bad picture of a oily painty work-in-progress self portrait:

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VicariousE 2014-06-17 12:53:45

For yellow... maybe I'd pick Emilo Estevez in Maximum Overdrive, with his blood speckled, yellowed guinea tee. Purple? No question, The Tick, "Spoon!"

Excellent choice for green, I paid 25$ for this http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/voodoodollmaster/ripley For grey, maybe a US Civil War gray...

Troisnyx 2014-06-17 15:31:27

Black brings to mind the Dark Knight iteration of Batman.

Gianni 2014-06-17 21:50:58

Max Payne for black or gray. Max Payne for the whole rainbow. Max Payne for life.

You can also do red and black with Inspector Tequila.

Gray would also go nice with Inspector Callahan.

Brown is perfect for The Man With No Name.

Comic-Con would probably love comic book action movie fuckers. You know. The Avengers.

You could probably sell one of Gianni Matragrano, but he hasn't had any really worthwhile roles yet.

Kel-chan 2014-06-17 22:09:36

Maximus from Gladiator...

CMON'!

Russel Crowe's best role

FlamingFedora 2014-06-17 23:50:02

the hobo from hobo with a shotgun

the main character of Kill Bill

that chainsaw guy from evil dead

Ripley Scott from Alien (or just paint the Alien)

Joker and batman

the Terminator

Bruce willis

the tire from Rubber

VicariousE 2014-06-18 03:49:38

...or purple could be The Mask, not that I was a huge fan of the flick. Dude, I've seen so much, I'd have to lurk IMDB for the best part of the day to be a proper help... mind you, not something I'd waste a hit of acid over, unless I was doing the art myself. Cheech and Chong would make a decent green (or Gramma's Boy/Friday/etc for that matter)...

Pity you don't have lowly, humble brown listed |: Hey how about the Quizzat Haderack from Dune (the original movie, with all the cool-cat actors/actresses) for the black?

Need more women leads... I thought of Red Sonia, Private Benjamin, slightly cringe worthy stuff from the past. So with that, I'd better stop 'helping' lol

SpikeVallentine 2014-06-18 17:09:03

"The Man From Nowhere" is cool. How about him!
(Foreign film. go watch it!)

VicariousE 2014-06-18 19:06:18

Hope you can make your money back. I just spent 70 bucks on a motion activated, Chinese made, deer sprinkler thingy, wish I could fill it with napalm, but it would harm the 50 bux worth of seed and plants I put in....

It's hard for me to call the hundreds of dollars I've spent on NG artists as disposable income :\ The past 5 years the Art Portal's been here have been some of the best years of my internet browsing, and I feel honor bound to return the favor for all the hard work, ya know?

Peglay 2014-06-18 21:07:15

Grey brings to mind Robocop

VicariousE 2014-06-21 16:46:06

Well, have you chosen any new combos yet? Maybe update your color list? @peglay suggested a good one, though I'd prefer the old 20th century Robocop, all beat up and grimacing at Directive 4, like I do every morning.....

Paxilon 2014-06-21 16:46:06

Hah! There is no room for crappy re-makes in my movie database. I don't even acknowlage the new Robocop. It is a great idea, though-- when i get back from work I'll update this list. Tom pretty well tore it, I'm just gonna do as many of these portraits as it takes.

TomFulp 2014-06-27 11:46:12

I second Robocop, I think he'd sell.

You could consider moving Ripley to yellow and putting her in that mech from the climax in Aliens. That would free up green for Neo and the Matrix.

Alternatively, Yellow could be Uma in Kill Bill.

Black could be Wesley Snipes from Blade.

Purple could be <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Demolition_man.jpg"> Demolition Man.</a>

And Die Hard would always be good somewhere...

Paxilon 2014-06-27 11:46:12

I see what youre trying to do, Tom. Trying to make me choose between Robocop and Terminator. Ripley and Neo. I wont play your sick game. I'll just.... have to do portraits for all of them. I was a fool to think I would only need one for each colour.

And damn it, I can't belive I didnt think of Uma myself-- I thought I would have to get desperate and have Paul Atredies from Dune in yellow, but I didnt even consider--her suit is freaking iconic, why didnt-- ngh, I'm a moron.

Heh. Anyways, thanks! Ah, shit, and Die Hard! Why didnt I think of Die Hard, jeezus--

VicariousE 2014-06-27 17:30:55

Demolition Man was quite a kick ass flick. Too bad reality is catching up with late 20th century sci-fi B movies. I'm already (practically) a virgin sitting alone, drinking a banana and broccoli milkshake, singing "I'm an Oscar Mayer wiener".

Paxilon 2014-06-27 17:30:55

That was probably the most beautiful description of the average San Angeles citizen. I...th-thank you.... :,D
And really, thats exactly what demolition man was, wasnt it? It almost bridges the gap between awesome eighties Escape From New York and the awkward, over -the-top nineties action movies. Like uh...I dunno. Suddenly I've forgotten all those crap ninties flicks. Thank god.