NYT bestselling Graphic Novel Artist/Writer • Marvel + DC Cover Artist • BG designer for animated feature "Robot Dreams" • Mr. X Co-Creator • Paul Rivoche
Toronto, Canada
Joined October 2009
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これはもう「絵がうまい」としかいいようがない。残酷なほどに「ただの才能」がここにあって、同じ状況を誰が描いてもこんな魅力的なレイアウトにならないだろう。急ごしらえのバリケードがあって、銃を持ってるハイハーバーの人々がいて、ラナがいる。背後に岩山が見える。そんだけ。多分絵描きなら誰でも「はいはい」と言って描ける。描けるが、決してこんな絵にはならないと確信を持って言える。彼の言う「つまんない空間」にしかならないだろう。逆に言えば宮崎駿はいかなるシーンでも「つまんなくない空間」として、しかも反射的に即座に描けたのだと思う。それは同じ平凡な被写体を前にしての、スマホを持った素人とプロのカメラマンの違いのようだ。
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'Speakeasy Corner.' (1928) Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; he found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression leaving him to spend last three decades teaching etching including his famous pupil Edward Hopper.
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❝Critics used the word ‘illustrator’ as a denigrating label. I resented the implied barrier between illustrator and painter. Both should be measured by their competence—not by artificial compartments contrived by critics.❞
—N.C. Wyeth, born on this day, October 22, in 1882
ANIMATION SKETCHERY: another design exploration made for a 3D show. It was during the early phase of developing a series and was fun "blue sky" concept work, throwing out as many ideas as possible.
#conceptart #animation
GLAD SOMEONE SAID IT. All of nature is waiting out there to serve as raw inspiration, but too many times we get recycled copycat attempts at a 3D version of "Milt Kahl Face", watered down through many generations. Probably many of the younger artists have no idea where this came from, but poor Milt is probably rolling in his grave seeing how his work (and others from that earlier Disney school) have been turned into a stale formula.
4 examples of brilliant Milt Kahl art. It looks like his signature way of treating noses (in particular, but more than this) has somehow, through the years, been turned into a repetitive formula—a narrow bridge expanding to a bulbous tip which then further swoops along to a contrasting & sharply-accented nostril.
Of course, there are amazing exceptions, but I agree that this has now become a hallmark of lazy character design.
