Hoping that Rick did not also do paintings of Poopdeck Pappy, Olive, etc.

Sooo scary! I would not like to run into him in a back alley, even if I ate all my spinach!

Oooh — see a little Basil Gogos homage in there. Nice.

But hey — wasn’t Popeye a bit of an old salt when he first appeared? Must be 120 or 130 by now.

The eye would be redder ;)

Wouldn’t mind a rendition of Bluto. Might look a little worse for wear, though, what with the incessant beating he was put through.

To call this a “painting” is a bit misleading; it was done with ZBrush.

Oh dear god! Thats horrible, and yet so….closely accurate, lol

Awesome, I wish could hang that up in my room.

Oh my. *said in a Sulu way*

Jeez, not only is Rick Baker a living legend, he’s also a great painter. That is so cool!

as long as he never stops mumbling adlibs and scatting his own musical score!!

The kind of person I don’t want to meet on a lonely night at the docks!

Wasn’t Popeye’s age stated as 40 or 50 years old in those early appearances? That would make him at least 120 years old today. Baker paints him as dang spry for that age.

Is that a painting or a Z-Brush creation? Baker was active on the Z-Brush discussion boards as “Monster Maker” for a while.

Isn’t that just Keith Richards in a sailor cap?

Popeye is that way from all those years of smoking

3d, not paint, but still awesome. That link didn’t work for me, but here’s another. The detail is rediculous…
http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/tdomf/67929/Popeye.jpg

Victoria, that was my joke… I think he looks around 120 years old.

Great pic, but like so many before him, Mr Baker got the eyes mixed up. According to E.C. Segar, Popeye lost his right eye in a fight, not the left.
While we’re speaking of The Pop, what’s going one with those Famous Studio restorations. It’s been about a year since Popeye the Sailor Vol 3.

Good thing REAL cartoon characters never age.

What’s with the Dumbo ears? Popeye’s ears are much smaller.
Otherwise, a rather scary (and accurate) image!

.. I meant to add that, yes, the right eye is the one that should be
closed.

Actually Popeye was just arrested. His mug shot is here…

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0828093mugs1.html

He looks like Freddy Krueger.

It’s an interesting painting. But it’s not Popeye. The features are all off. Where’s the cleft chin, the small ears? As an aged Popeye it misses the mark. But as a Popeye-inspired zombie design it’s pretty good.

“What’s with the Dumbo ears?”

Ya ears get bigger and bigger the older you get, son –

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/26/the_odd_body_ears/

I like this face much better: http://img42.imageshack.us/i/popeye.jpg/

In the Fleischer cartoon “Goonland” made in 1938, Popeye claims his father has been lost since the day he was born, which at that point was 40 years prior. This would mean he was born in 1898 which would make him about 111 years old today.

That’s actually not far off from the real guy that popeye was based on- an old man named Frank ‘Rocky’ Feigel who lived in Segar’s home town. Check it out…

http://www.ncs-glc.com/GLC/ed_black/segar/segar1.html

“In the Fleischer cartoon ‘Goonland’ made in 1938, Popeye claims his father has been lost since the day he was born, which at that point was 40 years prior. This would mean he was born in 1898 which would make him about 111 years old today.”

Excellent scholarship, Adam! A larger point is that Popeye, who I think Jules Pfeiffer nominated as the first “superhero,” was no teen titan but an indomitable middle-aged guy. Before youth-fetish set in, one source of power was to be, in the olde time parlance, “weathered.”

Regardless, Still a BadAss, he would still kick anybodys ass. Bluto’s included.

For those commenting on “accuracy”, this Zbrush picture actually started life as a portrait of Baker’s dad. Obviously Rick then had a “waaaaiiitaminute!” moment!

Brilliant! Got to love these “realismed” cartoons…

Deffinately looks like Zbrush was involved.

Wow! That’s wicked (in both senses).

In the 1936 THIMBLE THEATER comic strip story arc titled “Popeye’s Search for his Poppa,” Poopdeck Pappy, on first encountering Popeye, has a thought-balloon containing a picture of an infant Popeye and the date “1894.” So, at least in the Segar comic-strip continuity, Popeye would have been 42 in 1936–coincidentally(?), the same age as Segar himself.

I knew Popeye and the Seahag were somehow related.

@Russell H
I guess the Fleischer’s didn’t take that into consideration when making “Goonland” in 1938 which Popeye claims his father has been lost since 1898.

He looks like Casey Stengel

Rick got the eye wrong! his right eye’s the squinty one.