Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Photo-referencing is a bad idea for artwork
Comics-Comics Mag has a short entry with a few panels from a special reprint of the current Jonah Hex's first issue, where the artwork was done almost entirely in photo-referencing, or photo-realism, so much it's hard to believe they even call this a comic book anymore. I know where some of this problem may have originated though: with an "artist" by the name of Greg Horn, who'd done work for Marvel like this that was more photo-realist than it was really artwork. How do they expect anyone to buy that these are comic books if they're going to stray so far from authentic cartooning?
I actually like the Hyper-Realistic style of art, can't stand Giffen or the style of most of the Manga stuff, this "Photo" stuff Isn't comics
ReplyDeleteI don't mind it if it's done right. When it's done wrong, it's blatantly obvious and can actually take you out of the story.
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