I think the problem of artist workload is immense, and I have a whole post I want to research and write up about how splitting illustration work into pencils, inks, colors and letters is inevitably going to punish any style that’s really out of the box. Unfortunately the style they’ve chosen to be inside the box appears to be muscles and shiny, which is still a lot of work, even though I hate it!
Off the top of my head, some comics artists doing tasty stuff:
>>Mike Mignola — aside from his amazing distinctive line style and fabulous off-beat sense of form in Hellboy, he’s super aware of how light hits things and conveys it in the inking. If you look at a building by Mignola has drawn you can see the planes of the walls just absolutely clearly. His composition is stunning, too.
>>Alex Maleev — this guy walks a little closer to the classic line while still caring about light. He uses both more muted colors and more subtle variations of colors that help a lot to convey form. Also he uses a lot of blank backgrounds which is just nice. Love his use of textures. (Less in love with his use of that one photoshop filter, but I can’t win them all.)
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Date: 2018-12-11 05:35 pm (UTC)I think the problem of artist workload is immense, and I have a whole post I want to research and write up about how splitting illustration work into pencils, inks, colors and letters is inevitably going to punish any style that’s really out of the box. Unfortunately the style they’ve chosen to be inside the box appears to be muscles and shiny, which is still a lot of work, even though I hate it!
Off the top of my head, some comics artists doing tasty stuff:
>>Mike Mignola — aside from his amazing distinctive line style and fabulous off-beat sense of form in Hellboy, he’s super aware of how light hits things and conveys it in the inking. If you look at a building by Mignola has drawn you can see the planes of the walls just absolutely clearly. His composition is stunning, too.
>>Alex Maleev — this guy walks a little closer to the classic line while still caring about light. He uses both more muted colors and more subtle variations of colors that help a lot to convey form. Also he uses a lot of blank backgrounds which is just nice. Love his use of textures. (Less in love with his use of that one photoshop filter, but I can’t win them all.)