Roy G Krenkel (RGK) original preliminary/rough drawing artwork battle scene

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Roy G Krenkel (RGK) original preliminary/rough drawing artwork battle scene:
$350.00

Nice RGK rare action battle scene drawing. About 4x6 image area. Great motion! Looks similar to the Road of Azrael, (see man in center background sitting on horse) and the horse\'s in the foreground have a bit of Barsoom in them. The man with shield in the center is reminiscent of the LION OF TIBERIUS illustration out of the SOWERS OF THE THUNDER. RGK is one of the most under-rated/unknown artists of Burroughs/Howard type fantasy. Many people who see a cover by RGK think it is by Frank Frazetta. Roy and Frank were great friends and it was Krenkel who got Frazetta into the genre. Donald Wolheim, publisher of many of the great classics by these artists, (Sowers of the Thunder/Road of Azrael) actually prefer\'d RGK\'s work to that of the legendary Frank Frazetta. Roy actually read the stories by the authors and stayed true to those writings. Roy loved to watch daytime TV while creating doodles and preliminaries from every angle imaginable. This is a good one. The photo\'s do not do justice. The great Jeff Jones said to me personally that \"No one could touch Roy with a pen\". (Roy loved to draw \"direct pen\", which many artists are afraid of because you can\'t erase a pen.) This is not signed but it is easy to recognize as an RGK. (many of the unsigned works I\'ve seen have come out of the RGK estate. He would take drawings like this to comic conventions and sign them at the time a fan would purchase. Of course he also created works at shows in front of amazed fans of whom many were artists.) Roy enjoyed collaborating with artists like Jeff Jones, Mike Kaluta and of course Frank Frazetta who turned many RGK pencil/painting \"roughs\" into masterpieces. (Eerie/Creepy Magazine as well as the Conan books put out by Lancer) RGK loved the young talent in his time and encouraged & nurtured them, speaking so highly of them and how they were so much better than himself. Bernie Wrightson\'s first cover art, (The Conan Reader Cover) had illustrations by RGK and no doubt it was Roy who got this up and coming artist into print. I don\'t know what happened but I can only imagine Roy was of course offered the cover but he knew of a new talent who showed him the art in the young artists portfolio and so he got this kid on the cover for all to see. Which is why I think RGK was the grandfather of the genre during his prime time. A MAJOR influence without care for his own fame, which is why I really like him more than just a great artist. For some reason his original art is IMO extremely undervalued compared to those he aided. The best comic art of all time is said to be FOOD FOR THOUGHT of EC comics fame, which Roy drew a lush alien landscape on the splash page. He could have finished it himself and got all the credit. Instead, he got his friend, a fella named Al Williamson to draw a creature on the beautiful splash. Roy could have done it but Roy wanted to share the creation with his friend. The only painting which Roy worked with Jeff Jones, a small painting (I will tell you what painting it is on request) which Jones said to me, \"It was a small painting with people walking up a hill, I only helped Roy with the colors because Roy was a horrible painter! (laughs) I didn\'t do much of anything to it, but Roy insisted I touch it up a little so I did and he wanted me to sign it but I wouldn\'t. It was Roy\'s painting!\" So what did Roy do? He kept the collaboration for his own and left it unsigned, because he didn\'t feel right taking full credit since he had help, (that he could have done without), so copied the painting in a larger format to turn in, and because he didn\'t get the art back in those days and the painting was dear to him having worked on it with Jones. There is also a painting this happened to with his pal Frazetta.(probably more than 1 painting in the case of Frank Frazetta) In I believe ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE there is an interview with Frazetta and he tells a similar story, how he put, among just a few brush strokes \"one dot for an eye of figure in the center of the painting \" in which Roy insisted made the art come together and so asked Frank to sign the painting but Frazetta wouldn\'t sign it, because as Frazetta said, \"It was his painting!\" so again, Roy left it unsigned. Frazetta did name Roy as advisor in the Lancer Conan books for a reason. And it wasn\'t just because Roy \"told\" him, Roy showed him. (for the one dot for an eye painting, see SWORD & FANTASY #1 front and back cover.) Look closely at the action contained within this small drawing. There is a lot going on. No doubt Roy had fun making this doodle. The composition is \"quite alive\", not dinosaur, not scantly clad damsel, not Tarzan, not city/jungle landscape, but a rare battle scene.I never met Roy, but I was heavily into collecting his art, in fact I was so infatuated, I only collected originals by RGK. when I found out after getting the book Cities & Scenes, I was born on the same day as Roy, exactly 50 years later. Weird huh?Thank you for your interest!