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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 19, 2024 20:50:57 GMT -5
It looks like the new Batman book “ Absolute Batman “ might be the top seller of 2024. Why does he look like the Hulk in a Batman suit ? Steroids...even Batman is "on the gas." |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 19, 2024 20:55:29 GMT -5
Sinnot and Palmer were possibly the two best inkers ever... clean but without the technical pen look. I'm not sure how best to judge Byrne's inking, because he didn't do much inking pre summer '83, while he was in god mode. A lot of his later inker I saw look lazy and uninspired. As a teen I had the opportunity to say a few words to certain famous comic book creator and he asked what I liked reading, and I mentioned old John Byrne comics. "Not his new stuff?" "No, it looks like he inks with a Sharpie marker." 😅 My dislike of his mid career inking is not new! Regarding inkers looking clean... in modern times, now everyone's inking looks clean, I long for the days of 'messy' inkers like Klaus Janson, whose work looked raw. Watch a video of someone like Joe Kubert ink and it kind of looks sloppy, or at least not super careful, but in fact he added character to pencils and didn't care to merely trace. I love Janson's work! You're right, it looks very raw and alive! Likewise the artists who go straight to ink, despite the risk they take. There's a spontaneity there that's hard to capture otherwise. (And didn't Byrne actually use sharpies? I know Terry Austin did on Chaykin's pencils for an issue of Indiana Jones, and the result was brilliant. But then, it was Terry Austin...) I don't know about inking, but Byrne did use Prismacolor markers for items that he colored, like the cover for the collection of his Captain America run. He noted, in an interview, that he was colorblind and used the markers because they are labeled but that anyone could mess him up by switching the labels. If you looked at the cover, you could kind of see that it was felt-tip marker, though Prismacolor had dual ends, one fine-tipped and one wider. There were also versions with very fine, flexible heads that could sort of simulate a brush, in terms of flexibility. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 19, 2024 21:06:10 GMT -5
This is the cover I am talking about.....  These are Prismacolor markers........  They come in sets or you can buy individual colors, at art supply stores. I used to use them a lot for art pieces, while I was assembling a portfolio, to submit for admission to the Kubert School (and for pleasure). There was also a "blender" marker that allowed you soften shades and blend tones. I used those to create highlights. I had tried poster paints, but I was never good with a brush and I didn't care for the results' plus, I wasn't really using the right kind of paper. These worked a lot better, for me, though you could burn through primary colors quickly, doing superhero artwork. |
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Post by rich on Oct 20, 2024 3:32:50 GMT -5
I’m reading the digital version and even Ordways inks can’t save the cartoony look. It might have been the period when he was doing 2 books ( FF and Alpha Flight). He was doing 4 per month at his peak, and they looked brilliant. Surely he was still doing 3 per month by this stage... |
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Post by rich on Oct 20, 2024 3:35:55 GMT -5
This is the cover I am talking about..... These are Prismacolor markers........ They come in sets or you can buy individual colors, at art supply stores. I used to use them a lot for art pieces, while I was assembling a portfolio, to submit for admission to the Kubert School (and for pleasure). There was also a "blender" marker that allowed you soften shades and blend tones. I used those to create highlights. I had tried poster paints, but I was never good with a brush and I didn't care for the results' plus, I wasn't really using the right kind of paper. These worked a lot better, for me, though you could burn through primary colors quickly, doing superhero artwork. The links are both broken, sadly. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 20, 2024 10:07:01 GMT -5
This is the cover I am talking about..... These are Prismacolor markers........ They come in sets or you can buy individual colors, at art supply stores. I used to use them a lot for art pieces, while I was assembling a portfolio, to submit for admission to the Kubert School (and for pleasure). There was also a "blender" marker that allowed you soften shades and blend tones. I used those to create highlights. I had tried poster paints, but I was never good with a brush and I didn't care for the results' plus, I wasn't really using the right kind of paper. These worked a lot better, for me, though you could burn through primary colors quickly, doing superhero artwork. The links are both broken, sadly. They show up fine, on my screen. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 20, 2024 10:44:00 GMT -5
The links are both broken, sadly. They show up fine, on my screen. They’re cached in your computer so they show up. They don’t show up for me either. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2024 11:56:27 GMT -5
A pet peeve of mine, when comic titles are too similar...so doing a search for Misty or Warriors pulls up a whole lot of other material I have no interest in but have to sift through....
Annoying....
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 20, 2024 12:40:59 GMT -5
They show up fine, on my screen. They’re cached in your computer so they show up. They don’t show up for me either. If you're talking about the images in his post, I can see them just fine as well. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 20, 2024 12:56:45 GMT -5
A pet peeve of mine, when comic titles are too similar...so doing a search for Misty or Warriors pulls up a whole lot of other material I have no interest in but have to sift through....
Annoying....
I know what you mean since I did so many searches for download links for comic titles with very common names Sometimes it's helpful to put the year the comic title debuted right after the name |
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 20, 2024 13:52:22 GMT -5
A pet peeve of mine, when comic titles are too similar...so doing a search for Misty or Warriors pulls up a whole lot of other material I have no interest in but have to sift through....
Annoying....
I know the feeling. I like the M.A.S.K. toyline and comics. On eBay, no matter how I phrase it, search results almost always are about that Jim Carrey film! |
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 20, 2024 14:04:20 GMT -5
A pet peeve of mine, when comic titles are too similar...so doing a search for Misty or Warriors pulls up a whole lot of other material I have no interest in but have to sift through....
Annoying....
I know the feeling. I like the M.A.S.K. toyline and comics. On eBay, no matter how I phrase it, search results almost always are about that Jim Carrey film! Jim Carrey...bleh. |
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Post by Calidore on Oct 20, 2024 15:42:30 GMT -5
They show up fine, on my screen. They’re cached in your computer so they show up. They don’t show up for me either. Showing up fine here also. |
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Post by rich on Oct 20, 2024 16:12:30 GMT -5
They’re cached in your computer so they show up. They don’t show up for me either. If you're talking about the images in his post, I can see them just fine as well. Whilst broken earlier, now I can see them too. Mysterious! Cool cover inking/colouring. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 20, 2024 19:06:42 GMT -5
If you're talking about the images in his post, I can see them just fine as well. Whilst broken earlier, now I can see them too. Mysterious! Cool cover inking/colouring. I use postimages to display images and have seen instances where their server is down and it affects images in my review threads. I have also see where some things don't always display on other platforms. I have had issues seeing Twitter images that people have linked, on my desktop. Not so much on my current computer (which is still pretty new); but on my previous one. |
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