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Michael Arndt Byrne Robotics Member
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Stances
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Shane Matlock Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 August 2012 Location: United States Posts: 1760
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Posted: 13 June 2018 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | 2
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I love just about everything about John Byrne's art, but if I have to pick out one thing that I love the most: women, especially Aurora, She-Hulk, and Invisible Woman.
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15726
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Posted: 13 June 2018 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | 3
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Body language.
I like how JB is able to capture characters interacting with each other in one single panel, and how his art plays a large part in communicating not just characterisation, but specific differentiation in character. This runs all the way through to consistently portraying differences in height and attitude. JB does it so well it is simply a level above everyone else.
Think of Kitty awkwardly stumbling into the Danger Room, or Lex Luthor with his arms clasped behind his back staring out of his penthouse over Metropolis, or basically any panel he's ever drawn with Wolverine.
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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132129
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It can be a person that is sorrowful, happy, gleeful, imposing, monstrous, horrific, majestic, sneaky, in motion, at rest, etc.; one of JBs strongest skills is his ability to capture all the nuances of body language and express a character's emotional and physical state.••• Here I must give all due credit to the gesture drawing classes at ACA. The model would strike a pose for ten or fifteen seconds, and we had to capture the gesture of the pose, concentrating on form rather than detail.
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Rich Marzullo Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 13 January 2011 Location: United States Posts: 2693
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Posted: 13 June 2018 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | 5
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I'll say eyes, too. Very emotive and detailed.
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James Woodcock Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 21 September 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7581
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Posted: 13 June 2018 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | 6
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Details. I mentioned this ina thread that showed a panel of Red Sonja attacking. Her leg strap made a slight indentation in her thigh.
Details like that elevate JB’s art above many, many other artists in my opinion.
& then there are the things others mention. But yeah, details first for me
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Tim O Neill Byrne Robotics Security
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 10918
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Posted: 13 June 2018 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | 7
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Facial expressions
While JB is known for making worlds collide, so much of what the characters are doing/thinking/saying are related through subtle (and not so subtle!) facial expressions. It became more pronounced to me when JB posted some original pencils to work that was ultimately inked by someone else. Looking at the pencils, the inker altered the facial expressions and really robbed the scene of its impact.
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Darren Taylor Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 22 April 2004 Location: Scotland Posts: 5994
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Posted: 14 June 2018 at 5:48am | IP Logged | 8
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For the sake of latching on to one thing, I too will go with textures.
Some of the pencils scans we were privileged to see on books like Doom Patrol, Blood of the Demon and The New Atom, felt like Next Level Byrne to me.
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Sergio Calvet Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 April 2004 Location: Spain Posts: 181
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Posted: 14 June 2018 at 10:37am | IP Logged | 9
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I'll go for body language as well. It doesn't translate in my final art but, in my mind, practically all characters begin with a JB pose.
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Karl Wiebe Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 06 December 2015 Location: Canada Posts: 172
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Posted: 14 June 2018 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | 10
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Hands down the best Galactus in the universe.
Edited by Karl Wiebe on 14 June 2018 at 12:33pm
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Gundars Berzins Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 14 March 2012 Location: United States Posts: 1559
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Posted: 14 June 2018 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | 11
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The dart on the board landed on textures.
Others on the board were poses, faces, rubble, tech and machinery, architecture, self inking...
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Derek Rogers Byrne Robotics Member
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My favorite things that JB draws are machinery especially high tech gadgets and vehicles. It's very distinct and instantly recognizable like the way Kirby drew tech.
His poses are great too. If you made them silhouettes, you could still discern the action that is going on. They are very readable. A particular set of poses that I think JB does great are flying poses. They are graceful and also have a look of grandeur to them.
I think his art is very detailed but not OVERLY detailed. It's hard to strike that balance.
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