I don't know if Rolo had photography in mind when he created this thread, but since photography is a visual art form, and there is a photography thread in this forum, this should be ok.
I've admired the work of Robert Mekis for quite some time....some of his photos are absolutely breathtaking.
I'm never sure about Phil's art.
The first chapters were some mighty impressive inks... now the colour (done by someone else) has dominated the artistic part... and I never liked the way he draws faces.
I'm never sure about Phil's art.
The first chapters were some mighty impressive inks... now the colour (done by someone else) has dominated the artistic part... and I never liked the way he draws faces.
also man how on earth does he get such a wide angle going?
If you go to his website, he lists all sorts of technical information, including the equipment he used, next to each photo.
Yeah, I'm lovin' checking out how he does his shots. It looks like a lot of the wider angle ones he gets by putting a panorama together w/8 verticle shots
Just wondering, does anyone out there even really care about contemporary avant-garde artists? I’m becoming convinced that the avant-garde urban artists have self-ostracized themselves into irrelevance by pushing out into art that even people who study art just can’t get a grip on, and that the new heroes of the art world are commercial illustrators of all sorts, comic artists, and maybe some big-name graphic designers.
A couple months ago I found the artist, 0r0ch1 (aka, Omen), on Deviantart. I can't get enough of this guy's style, and the quality he puts into his stuff.
The pics are a tad large so I'm using spoiler tags on most of them to avoid taking up 10 screens. ;P
Volumes of the "Advance Class" comic numbered 5 and higher are colored by Cheyenne Wright. Vol 4 "Advance Class" comic pages are colored by Laurie E. Smith. "101 Class" inks are by Brian Snoddy, 101 colors (when they turn up) by Mark Mc.Nabb.
Ah yes, J Axer..
That is some of the cleanest art I've ever seen.
Shame he doesn't step away from furrydom more than just once in a while.
I think in one of his journals he said that he does the furry stuff mostly just on deviant art and that he draws normal peeples at work. Sadly, we don't see much of that output.
The drawings are nice but....furries fucking creep me out...I'm not quite sure why, but they do....
Is it cuz people hurk it to 'em? Even if the picture is something completely innocuous? Because despite being furry their torsos are always impossibly smooth and ripped?
Here, have some Lackadaisy.
It is somehow covered in fur and simultaneously not a furry.
I think it has to do with the ratio of animal to human. It's like the Loony Toons characters. Most people don't think of Bugs Bunny or Daffy as furries. They're just animals that act like humans.
I think it has to do with the ratio of animal to human. It's like the Loony Toons characters. Most people don't think of Bugs Bunny or Daffy as furries. They're just animals that act like humans.
And yet, there are comic book characters that have roughly the same ratio of human/animal characteristics as those furries, yet they don't give off that same "furry" vibe. Something....different happens when the artist actually sets out to create a "furry" as opposed to just some character who has animalistic characteristics...
To start off, I'll list popular artists that I despise.
Highlander_77's lists of artists may just encompass everything I hate about modern comic art, he lists: Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Dale Keown, J. Scott Campbell, and Borsi Vallejo. Add Rob Liefeld, Todd Mcfarlane, and Chris Bachalo to that list, and the list would be pretty complete of artists I really hate in comics.
Jim Lee's stuff is a lot better now than it was ten years ago, but him, liefeld, mcfarlane, silvestri, and Campbell are nothing but line-whores... "we need to represent a form, how shall we do it? let's draw hundreds of tiny, little lines and make up our own anatomy... (silvestri's supergirl a prime example)" Keown over-models everything, he'd be perfect for 1970s Mexican airbrush van-art. Bachalo's work I find very similar to Campbell's, heavily exaggerated ulra-pointy, and too reliant on line.
Now that that's out of the way, here are some of my fav comic artists. All display excellent line economy and form.
First, Alex Toth. He designed nearly every visual in any action cartoon that Hann-Barbera put out from the late 60s to the early 80s.
Bruce Timm Most well known for designing the 1990s Batman animated series as well the Superman and Justice League spinoffs.
Darwyn Cooke, most well known for DC comics the New Frontier, as well as the Wolverine/Doop comic and the Batman/ The Spirit crossover of late.
I would say these guys are my main influences, but that would imply that I incorporate even an attempt to reflect their masterful skill, which I definitely can not.
Ha! Fair enough. He's one of the few examples of an artist getting worse as he progresses in my opinion, his early work is actually really good, like in his old Sandman and Death comics. However, I completely loathe the style he has now. Them using him as a fill-in artist for Frank Quitely during Morrison's New X-men as well as filling in for Kubert in Ultimate X-men infuriates me, as I'm totally into the story, and right in the middle of the arc, I have to see 30 pages of "dragon ball z style french fry hair". Unless it's by an author I really dig, him being on a comic will keep me from ever picking it up.
To keep the post on subject, I'm also a large fan of the late Seth Fisher
I love his choice of relatively muted colors, confidence in line, and specifically, the way he draws the Thing.
He's one of the few examples of an artist getting worse as he progresses in my opinion
I'll agree with that. His figures have simplified dramatically over time, but he's basically just an inker who draws comics. He does really cool simple things, that just make reading his comics that much more engaging.
I don't care for some of his current work on the Xmen, but I will vouch for Steampunk(dreadful coloring excluded) Witching Hour and his ElephantMen. It's just good fun.
To start off, I'll list popular artists that I despise.
Highlander_77's lists of artists may just encompass everything I hate about modern comic art, he lists: Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Dale Keown, J. Scott Campbell, and Borsi Vallejo. Add Rob Liefeld, Todd Mcfarlane, and Chris Bachalo to that list, and the list would be pretty complete of artists I really hate in comics.
Jim Lee's stuff is a lot better now than it was ten years ago, but him, liefeld, mcfarlane, silvestri, and Campbell are nothing but line-whores... "we need to represent a form, how shall we do it? let's draw hundreds of tiny, little lines and make up our own anatomy... (silvestri's supergirl a prime example)" Keown over-models everything, he'd be perfect for 1970s Mexican airbrush van-art. Bachalo's work I find very similar to Campbell's, heavily exaggerated ulra-pointy, and too reliant on line.
I didn't think that bashing the artists that other people like was quite in the spirit of this thread.
First off, putting Rob Liefeld in the same category as Lee, Silvestri, Keown, etc. is pretty much blasphemy as far as I'm concerned, so you've already lost me right there. And I don't know why you added Boris Vallejo into your list, as he's not a comic artist (though he has painted a few comic book characters for various things). Secondly, those guys aren't the first artists to use cross-hatching and similar techniques to render forms. I wouldn't call the anatomy exactly "made-up". Exagerrated? Sure...comic book art generally is. But most of it looks pretty accurate to me (Rob Liefeld would be a good example of someone who "makes up" his anatomy). That Supergirl is by Jim Lee, not Silvestri, btw...and I don't see how that demonstrates your point at all, since I think the Linework in that was used pretty sparingly (at least by Jim Lee standards).
As to the examples you posted, they're ok. For my tastes, they're a little too cartoony and oversimplified. That's ok for certain comics, but I wouldn't want to see art like that in anything with a fairly serious story. And several of those pieces just look like the artist was trying to emulate Jack Kirby. As for the Seth Fisher stuff, that Batman looks extremely dumpy and run-of-the-mill. It looks like some average 40-year old guy stuffed into a set of tights. And I don't like The Thing at all....he doesn't look very strong, and he's barely bigger than Iron Man and Sue Storm in that piece. I do like all the weird tentacle fish things that are attacking them, though.
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No I didn't, but now I love him more.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure of his schooling but that little tid bit was displayed on his website before he did the redesign.
And, Wen-M on deviantart...
Alphonse Mucha
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Robert Frank
Wesley Burt
Guy Aitchison
Mitch Epstein
I've admired the work of Robert Mekis for quite some time....some of his photos are absolutely breathtaking.
http://www.robertmekis.com/
also man how on earth does he get such a wide angle going?
My art Teacher introduced me to him last year. His art career was a joke to him thats why i admire him.
Marcel Duchamp -
He basically spit in the face of all critics with this piece.
I want to go to NY MoMA and the Chicago Art Mesum, a little closer to home the new R.O.M Art attachment.
Man anyone hear about the artist who wanted to pour an 1 oz of his blood into the cement? Man that guy is nut's.
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Ian Mcconville. Actually, Ian was who got me back into drawing a few years back. Still my art idol.
Also, more recently, the Folgios for their work on Girl Genius, though that's both writing and art.
Tumblr/Artblog | DevArt
The first chapters were some mighty impressive inks... now the colour (done by someone else) has dominated the artistic part... and I never liked the way he draws faces.
If you go to his website, he lists all sorts of technical information, including the equipment he used, next to each photo.
Tumblr/Artblog | DevArt
Yeah, I'm lovin' checking out how he does his shots. It looks like a lot of the wider angle ones he gets by putting a panorama together w/8 verticle shots
My Portfolio Site
Ian Francis http://216.70.77.151/
Edward Burtynsky http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
(I highly recommend the documentary on his site)
Kim Cogan http://www.kimcogan.com/
The pics are a tad large so I'm using spoiler tags on most of them to avoid taking up 10 screens. ;P
This one is currently my background.
..... fucking furries.
he should draw people though.
furries =\
Well, to further clarify:
site:http://www.betteo.blogspot.com/
Seung Kim. Awesome skills in the comics department (he did the Boondocks intro too).
deviantArt: http://kse332.deviantart.com/
The above artist reminds me: Jeff Axer: Hyung Tae Kim of Furries (At least on his DA account). Creepy yes, but damn well rendered and detailed.
That is some of the cleanest art I've ever seen.
Shame he doesn't step away from furrydom more than just once in a while.
Darryl Mandryk.
I think in one of his journals he said that he does the furry stuff mostly just on deviant art and that he draws normal peeples at work. Sadly, we don't see much of that output.
poast moar, Scos.
http://www.eriksiador.com/
Sweet.
Is it cuz people hurk it to 'em? Even if the picture is something completely innocuous? Because despite being furry their torsos are always impossibly smooth and ripped?
Here, have some Lackadaisy.
It is somehow covered in fur and simultaneously not a furry.
http://www.iconeditions.com/bggallery/bg.htm
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And yet, there are comic book characters that have roughly the same ratio of human/animal characteristics as those furries, yet they don't give off that same "furry" vibe. Something....different happens when the artist actually sets out to create a "furry" as opposed to just some character who has animalistic characteristics...
Highlander_77's lists of artists may just encompass everything I hate about modern comic art, he lists: Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Dale Keown, J. Scott Campbell, and Borsi Vallejo. Add Rob Liefeld, Todd Mcfarlane, and Chris Bachalo to that list, and the list would be pretty complete of artists I really hate in comics.
Jim Lee's stuff is a lot better now than it was ten years ago, but him, liefeld, mcfarlane, silvestri, and Campbell are nothing but line-whores... "we need to represent a form, how shall we do it? let's draw hundreds of tiny, little lines and make up our own anatomy... (silvestri's supergirl a prime example)" Keown over-models everything, he'd be perfect for 1970s Mexican airbrush van-art. Bachalo's work I find very similar to Campbell's, heavily exaggerated ulra-pointy, and too reliant on line.
Now that that's out of the way, here are some of my fav comic artists. All display excellent line economy and form.
First, Alex Toth. He designed nearly every visual in any action cartoon that Hann-Barbera put out from the late 60s to the early 80s.
Bruce Timm Most well known for designing the 1990s Batman animated series as well the Superman and Justice League spinoffs.
Darwyn Cooke, most well known for DC comics the New Frontier, as well as the Wolverine/Doop comic and the Batman/ The Spirit crossover of late.
I would say these guys are my main influences, but that would imply that I incorporate even an attempt to reflect their masterful skill, which I definitely can not.
Ha! Fair enough. He's one of the few examples of an artist getting worse as he progresses in my opinion, his early work is actually really good, like in his old Sandman and Death comics. However, I completely loathe the style he has now. Them using him as a fill-in artist for Frank Quitely during Morrison's New X-men as well as filling in for Kubert in Ultimate X-men infuriates me, as I'm totally into the story, and right in the middle of the arc, I have to see 30 pages of "dragon ball z style french fry hair". Unless it's by an author I really dig, him being on a comic will keep me from ever picking it up.
To keep the post on subject, I'm also a large fan of the late Seth Fisher
I love his choice of relatively muted colors, confidence in line, and specifically, the way he draws the Thing.
I don't care for some of his current work on the Xmen, but I will vouch for Steampunk(dreadful coloring excluded) Witching Hour and his ElephantMen. It's just good fun.
I didn't think that bashing the artists that other people like was quite in the spirit of this thread.
First off, putting Rob Liefeld in the same category as Lee, Silvestri, Keown, etc. is pretty much blasphemy as far as I'm concerned, so you've already lost me right there. And I don't know why you added Boris Vallejo into your list, as he's not a comic artist (though he has painted a few comic book characters for various things). Secondly, those guys aren't the first artists to use cross-hatching and similar techniques to render forms. I wouldn't call the anatomy exactly "made-up". Exagerrated? Sure...comic book art generally is. But most of it looks pretty accurate to me (Rob Liefeld would be a good example of someone who "makes up" his anatomy). That Supergirl is by Jim Lee, not Silvestri, btw...and I don't see how that demonstrates your point at all, since I think the Linework in that was used pretty sparingly (at least by Jim Lee standards).
As to the examples you posted, they're ok. For my tastes, they're a little too cartoony and oversimplified. That's ok for certain comics, but I wouldn't want to see art like that in anything with a fairly serious story. And several of those pieces just look like the artist was trying to emulate Jack Kirby. As for the Seth Fisher stuff, that Batman looks extremely dumpy and run-of-the-mill. It looks like some average 40-year old guy stuffed into a set of tights. And I don't like The Thing at all....he doesn't look very strong, and he's barely bigger than Iron Man and Sue Storm in that piece. I do like all the weird tentacle fish things that are attacking them, though.
So I guess it's all just a matter of taste, huh?