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Wallace Sellars
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JB, I like how you used a skeleton when drawing Negative Man for most of your
DOOM PATROL run.
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Bill Mimbu
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Off the top of my head...
The way JB draws metal, be it the mask of Dr. Doom, or a gigantic war machine...
Hard to put my finger on it, but there is a sense of heft / mass / solidness when JB draws those structures.
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Dave Kopperman
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Bill Mimbu wrote:
| The way JB draws metal, be it the mask of Dr. Doom, or a gigantic war machine... Hard to put my finger on it |
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Yes, definitely. I'd say it's that he understands (just guessing, here) that metal is not a single texture. There's coarse metal, polished metal, painted metal, matted metal, etc. The older I get, the more impressed I am with illustrators like JB who can indicate very specific textures with a few lines. And do it so well that you don't even realize how hard it really is.
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John Byrne
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I'm reminded of years ago when a particular inker was showing off his latest pages in the bullpen. Looking them over, Jack Abel said "Yeah, you've got a great metal technique. (Pause for effect) Unfortunately you use it on skin, cloth, trees, grass..."
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Mark Haslett
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My favorite things John Byrne draws are legion!
But one detail I haven't seen mentioned, yet made a huge impact on me when I first noticed it (too long ago to get into) is the way he draws the soles of superhero boots. -- I mean when the boot is looked at from the side -- so a thin line added to indicate a seam between the sole and the boot.
This little detail, done so deliciously, adds what feels like millions of dollars worth of production value!
Edited by Mark Haslett on 15 June 2018 at 10:32am
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Michael Roberts
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Diversity of body types, especially female superheroes. A lot of artists have a standard male and female superhero body that they draw different costumes on. JB doesn’t have a cookie cutter build for his characters.
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Tom Donaldson
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I was thinking about along these lines when I clicked on to the forum: JB (along with another JB) was/is the best at emulating Kirby style technology. I feel this was important for Marvel, because it help create an aesthetic continuity from the Silver Age to later years, helping the world "feel" real in my imagination.
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Robert Shepherd
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A cooky thing that really was the first thing that compelled me to appreciate JB characters was the way he draws the shoulder/bicep/tricep proportions. It's such an odd observation, but I recall that standing out when I was new to comics. I think it must be a better representation or at least a more stylized representation of anatomy that other artists didn't capture the same way.
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Rebecca Jansen
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That JK4W page really is up there with the best of Alex Toth who could be a magician in what he could do and suggest with a minimum of lines, and Joe Kubert, Milton Caniff too... That is a lot of thought and observation behind work like that.
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Mark Haslett
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I don't know why, but I realized one of my favorite things to see JB draw is Hawkeye.
I don't especially love the character, but when JB does him-- he's one of the coolest things out there.
This might go under the heading of "I love the way JB makes otherwise less interesting characters super-cool!"
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John Byrne
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This might go under the heading of "I love the way JB makes otherwise less interesting characters super-cool!"••• In the beginning, Roger Stern used to say that was my mutant power!
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Mike Norris
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Body language. I'm always amazed at how natural his figures look.
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