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Mark Haslett
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Posted: 08 May 2024 at 12:05am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Big improvement! Great note and nice execution.
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Thanks Mark! (:
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Just saw this Paul. Excellent improvement!

A Joe Kubert tip I saw on a YouTube video is that shadows link objects together in space.  

I think our eyes love shadows in art.


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Thanks, Steven!
Now that comment about shadows will forever be embedded in my brain (:
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The shadows definitely look better. Nice job!
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Posted: 18 May 2024 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Agreed! Nice job!

That Al Williamson page is so detailed, I wonder how it looked on newsprint back in the day?
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Thanks guys! I have engrained that shadows trait into my brain henceforth!
That Al Williamson page is incredible - and got me to seek out more of his work which is stellar! I wasn't much into his work in the past as a naïve kid - a regret.
Funny how so many artists back then put in full effort with detail knowing it wasn't going to be reproduced on the best paper format. 
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There's an interesting linage of artists that flows from the very first days of newspaper comic, and in particular Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, through the a second generation cohort at EC comics that included Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, and Al Williamson---and eventually a third through the Madison Avenue ad world (which included Neal Adams).

An interest think I never appreciated is how famous, influential, and wealthy those early newspaper artists (Hal Foster, Raymond & Milt Caniff) were and how that rippled down through the decades.

As a younger man, I never really appreciated the talent on display in the newspaper comics, and looked down my nose at it from the loft perspective of superhero mags (i.e. Marvel/DC).

Going back now and looking at for example, Frazetta's Tarzan ink-drawings, I now view them as close to the pinnacle of black & white fantasy art.  Insanely good brush work!  Those tapered ends & atmospheric perspective fades!

It's been fun tracing the genealogy of the genre.


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Peter Martin
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Excellent, Darren.
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Nice! Highly impressive, Darren! Love the crisp, clean lines.
Looking forward to more!
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Looking at Darren's inked page makes me think (far from the first time): boy does JB draw a great Iron Man!

Loved JB and JR Jr's short run on Iron Man, but wish we'd had a year or two of JB on script and art as well.
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