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March Question Month Answers, Part Two
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jccub1:
Who's your favourite artist?
More broadly, who (or what) has influenced you in your drawing/art?
Most of my artistic influences have been comic book artists, who I think are not given the right amount of respect as true artists. George Perez has long been a perennial favorite of mine. The way he draws the body, facial expressions, and details has always fascinated me. His was the first art in comics that seemed to add body hair to the male form and his women are usually curvy (yet realistic). Whenever I drew as a kid, I often tried to mimic his work and style. There are other comic book artists that have influenced me: Mike Grell, Keith Giffen in the 1980's (before his work when to that slophouse horror style he draws now), John Byrne, Jim Lee, and Jim Starlin.
As I grew up and started looking at works by non-comic book artists, I found favorites in Normal Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, and Alphonse Mucha, all of whom found their big successes as commercial artists for the most part. I guess the overall connection between these artists was a sense of realism. Some artists draw people in cartoonish ways, some completely out of proportion to reality (I've seen some big, gravity-defying breasts on some comic book ladies and a muscle-bound body created by fantasy steriods on some guys). For cartoons, I think this works well, but I don't tend to like my comic books drawn that way (with some exceptions). In my opinion, my favorite artists tend to capture characters as though they were alive, not just figments of the imagination.
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March is Question Month. If anyone else would like to ask a question, you can post it here. You can ask anonymously if you'd like, IP addresses are not recorded for the month. I'll be answering more questions this week :)
jccub1: Who's your favourite artist?
More broadly, who (or what) has influenced you in your drawing/art?
Most of my artistic influences have been comic book artists, who I think are not given the right amount of respect as true artists. George Perez has long been a perennial favorite of mine. The way he draws the body, facial expressions, and details has always fascinated me. His was the first art in comics that seemed to add body hair to the male form and his women are usually curvy (yet realistic). Whenever I drew as a kid, I often tried to mimic his work and style. There are other comic book artists that have influenced me: Mike Grell, Keith Giffen in the 1980's (before his work when to that slophouse horror style he draws now), John Byrne, Jim Lee, and Jim Starlin.
As I grew up and started looking at works by non-comic book artists, I found favorites in Normal Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, and Alphonse Mucha, all of whom found their big successes as commercial artists for the most part. I guess the overall connection between these artists was a sense of realism. Some artists draw people in cartoonish ways, some completely out of proportion to reality (I've seen some big, gravity-defying breasts on some comic book ladies and a muscle-bound body created by fantasy steriods on some guys). For cartoons, I think this works well, but I don't tend to like my comic books drawn that way (with some exceptions). In my opinion, my favorite artists tend to capture characters as though they were alive, not just figments of the imagination.
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March is Question Month. If anyone else would like to ask a question, you can post it here. You can ask anonymously if you'd like, IP addresses are not recorded for the month. I'll be answering more questions this week :)