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My pet peeve, speaking of downtown Toronto, is that it's rare to see the CN Tower drawn correctly. It's like artists are asked to draw the Space Needle. From memory.
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If you think comics artists are bad with North American geography, they're even worse about other countries. Most of the time, I don't blame them, it's not exactly an easy job.
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If they drew a parking lot they will pretty much capture the look of Manitoba.
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Yeah, it's not like there's tons of photos available at the click of a button. I'm still amazed at the poo poo a lot of the older, classic pencilers pulled off given how hard it was to access reference material. All they had back then were magazines, newspapers and poo poo they culled from a library maybe. Even Xerox machines weren't readily accessible. Or cheap. Probably one of the main reasons that almost all Marvel poo poo was set in NYC.
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![]() Detective Comics #12 (1938) Pencils/Inks: Bill Ely ![]() Lightning Comics #6 (1942) Pencils/Inks/Colors: ? ![]() Lightning Comics #6 (1942) Pencils/Inks: Harry Anderson Colors: ? ![]() ![]() Metamorpho, The Element Man #5 (1966) Pencils: Joe Orlando Inks: Charles Paris Colors: ? ![]() Dazzler #2 (1981) Pencils: John Romita Jr. Inks: Alfredo Alcala Colors: Ken Klaczak ![]() Radioactive Man #1 (1993) Pencils: Steve Vance (layouts) and Bill Morrison (finished art) Inks: Bill Morrison (finished art) Colors: Cindy Vance
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Grendels Dad posted:Sure, maybe while they are at it, they can learn how to draw German towns that don't consist of medieval roads and torch-lit half-timbered houses. Sure, but it isn't much fun if the angry villagers have to extinguish their torches and be very careful with their pitchforks as they take excellent, timely, and convenient public transit to the stop nearest the mad scientist's castle.
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Animal-Mother posted:Sure, but it isn't much fun if the angry villagers have to extinguish their torches and be very careful with their pitchforks as they take excellent, timely, and convenient public transit to the stop nearest the mad scientist's castle. You are living in the past, Animal-Mother. Germany has made a lot of progress, our public transport hasn't been timely or convenient in a long time.
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BiggerBoat posted:Yeah, it's not like there's tons of photos available at the click of a button. A little bit later down the road, but I remember Marvel making a big deal about sending Chris Claremont, John Romita Jr, and Dan Green to Paris for Uncanny X-Men #200. It was all over the Bullpen Bulletins about how they wanted to not only do a promo tour, but to make sure they got all the details, architecture, and geography as accurate as possible. It was a cool touch to show they really wanted that issue to seem important enough to send the creative team overseas.
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Kevin Palpatine posted:downtown Toronto: To hear my wife talk about the time the plows covered her car on the DVP, this is accurate
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Phy posted:To hear my wife talk about the time the plows covered her car on the DVP, this is accurate Was she... parked on it? I know we joke about DVP standing for Don Valley Parking lot but we don't mean it literally.
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Car trouble of some kind, can't remember exactly what, but she was over on the shoulder when they came by. E: also might have been the 401 instead of the DVP. It's been a while since she brought it up. I know for sure it wasn't the Gardiner since she didn't express fears of falling through the bridge deck/getting brained by spalled concrete Phy fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Terry Moore posts a lot of these videos of pencil work with commentary over it, it's great stuff because he talks about technique and things like why he uses specific pencils and whatnot. It still seems pretty wild to me that he practically never lines out the skeleton at all, he just draws the outline and does a whole lot of erasing and re-drawing. Also that he never touches digital art tools at all, everything he does is very traditional pencil and paper -> ink. https://twitter.com/TerryMooreArt/status/1707393526932103278
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Thanks for posting that. I love seeing the process of artists. It really helps me get better at drawing too
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Who wants to own the greatest comic cover of all time? https://twitter.com/ctropes/status/1710516582240415969?s=46&t=2Vl5mZOAuXyv2LbW1v-6cQ
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I thought that was for an ad, not a cover
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thetoughestbean posted:I thought that was for an ad, not a cover Nope, it was for Captain America #1 from the Heroes Reborn line. I still have the first four orfive isdues, the art is atrocious.
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Joe Fisto posted:Who wants to own the greatest comic cover of all time? It belongs in a museum!
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Joe Fisto posted:Who wants to own the greatest comic cover of all time? I have twitter embeds off so my first thought was legit "is someone selling the original The Transformers #5?" ![]()
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Phy posted:I have twitter embeds off so my first thought was legit "is someone selling the original The Transformers #5?" Well, when it comes to big, protruding chests you were pretty close actually.
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That's always in my mind as one of the coolest (if not THE coolest) comic covers I've ever seen, and I don't even like Transformers that much.
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Lobok posted:Well, when it comes to big, protruding chests you were pretty close actually. Lol I didn't even think of that, good call
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However, cap is the one with his head positioned like a digger's cockpit.
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![]() A lovely map of Middle-earth, from the European Lord of the Rings comics by Luis Bermejo.
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![]() Journey into Mystery #70 (1961) Pencils/Inks: Steve Ditko Colors: Stan Goldberg ![]() Journey into Mystery #71 (1961) Pencils/Inks: Steve Ditko Colors: Stan Goldberg ![]() Journey into Mystery #72 (1961) Pencils/Inks: Steve Ditko Colors: Stan Goldberg ![]() Journey into Mystery #75 (1961) Pencils/Inks: Steve Ditko Colors: Stan Goldberg ![]() Journey into Mystery #76 (1962) Pencils/Inks: Steve Ditko Colors: Stan Goldberg ![]() Journey into Mystery #77 (1962) Pencils: Jack Kirby Inks: Dick Ayers Colors: Stan Goldberg ![]() Journey into Mystery #78 (1962) Pencils/Inks: Joe Sinnott Colors: Stan Goldberg ![]() The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves #48 (1974) Pencils/Inks: Tom Sutton Colors: ? ![]() Dazzler #3 (1981) Pencils: Alan Kupperberg Inks: Armando Gil Colors: Bob Sharen
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Darthemed posted:
These would all be sick oversized avs
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Back in the 90s Keith Giffen did some books with this really odd and unique art style. I dug it. This might not be the best example, but I didn't find too many on google images. ![]()
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Dig the style, but what a nightmare for the colorist.
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Joe Fisto posted:Back in the 90s Keith Giffen did some books with this really odd and unique art style. I dug it. This might not be the best example, but I didn't find too many on google images. That cover art certainly takes a bit of work to unpack.
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I loved that art but the computer lettering was an eyesore in that book. Wish Keith would’ve lettered it himself, and also do more books in that style. His Images Of Shadowhawk book was great.
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I feel like I'm alone in never really digging Steve Ditko. He has his moments here and there but I think my main issue with his stuff is that it's all drawn like a play. Ground level 90 degree angles, not much in the way of depth or visceral action and really kind of boring compositions. He doesn't crop or variate the size of his panels nor use dynamic perspective and everything looks like it takes place on a small stage. I don't think his line work, use of contrast, suggestion of motion/action or even his panel by panel storytelling are anything particularly compelling either. I mean, he's fine in as much that I can read a page and know what's happening but there's nothing that really snaps and his...rhythm (?), I guess, is a bit dull, especially compared to his contemporaries like Jack Kirby or Steranko where the character's movement jumps off every page. Almost everything looks "flat" to me and he's not much on backgrounds either I've tried with Ditko (and it took me a while to appreciate Kirby) but I think he's a little overrated.
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BiggerBoat posted:I feel like I'm alone in never really digging Steve Ditko. Ditko was at his best when establishing the look for Doctor Strange comics, I think. I do agree that his other work isn't as interesting in comparison to Kirby and Steranko. ![]()
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Agreed completely on Ditko, but with the caveat that sometimes his simplicity is a nice contract to Kirby or Steranko who could struggle to find points of focus in their full-page/splash compositions as a necessary sacrifice to get that sense of motion.
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The depiction of Ragnarok in Valhalla.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Valhalla #15 - The Vala's Visions (2009) (Unofficial translation) Art: Peter Madsen Coloring: Jonas Sonne
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So I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684053374?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details But... it doesn't have this in it: ![]() I bought the wrong Bernie Wrightson Frankenstein? ![]()
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Animal-Mother posted:So I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684053374?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Yea I did the same but it also has Kelley Jones so I am okay with it.
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Animal-Mother posted:So I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1684053374?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details A shameful omission. God drat that book is beautiful
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Some seasonally-appropriate art from Martin Simmonds in the new Image Dracula book.![]() ![]()
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![]() Strange Tales #157 (1967) Pencils/Inks/Colors: Jim Steranko ![]() ![]() ![]() Goosebumps: Terror Trips (2007) Pencils/Inks: Jamie Tolagson ![]() ![]() ![]() Goosebumps: Slappy's Tales of Horror (2015) Pencils/Inks: Jamie Tolagson Colors: Jose Garibaldi Happy Halloween!
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Those Goosebumps illustrations are sick as hell!
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![]() I guess spiders don't have bones so maybe this makes sense.
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