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[dolari]

Wow. Solitude has it's perks. Everything is pencilled. Took me all of three hours. Although I'm using an old method, putting all the strips on one page. There's a loss of detail, but it's faster to draw, and, to be honest, these things get so squinched down, I lose all the nice detail anyway.

Sleep, then a quick run home for scanning.

Comments

[cenopussy.livejournal.com]

too much detail takes away the image anyway (unless you are doing real life sketching).
Dan Fraga and Rob Liefeld (think old school Extreme comics) are wonderful exapmles of why you shouldn't use too much detailing. you look at the piece and wonder what is what?!?!

*no offence to Rob or Dan, I just dont like over C-hatching*
Cross hatching is the devil, IMO.

[nathan-r.livejournal.com]

Rob Liefeld is the devil.

[cenopussy.livejournal.com]

This I know from personal experience.

That man should not still be in comics (if he isn't,then YAY)

Even Tony Libido couldn't stand him..and that was his 'partner' in Extreme and Image.

[amw.livejournal.com]

Ah blasphemy! Crosshatching is the shizzle! I miss detail being done in pencils. These days it seems like everything is either photo-referenced and boring (a la Hitch, Cassady) or cartoony and plain because all the detail is added by the colorist. I miss the 90s style with scratchiness and lines everywhere, i think it had character.

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

I actually like a mix a both. Some good crosshatching and good flat color and you've got a good comic. But I haven't liked a comic since the B&W Comic Crash in the late 80s/early 90s....

[amw.livejournal.com]

There's some awesome B&W stuff out at the moment. I'll plug AIT/Planet Lar, they do some awesome shit. Couriers, Channel Zero and Couscous Express by Brain Wood are loads of fun. Teenagers from Mars by Rob G (also draws Couriers) and Rick Spears is great too. That's all teen action flick sorta stuff. Astronauts in Trouble by Larry Young was fun in its unique way. Then there's the Image crowd. Kirkman is doing Walking Dead, which is a fantastic zombie book. Small Gods by Rand (Aussie!) and Ferreyra is a cool book about psychic cops. Hawaiian Dick (color, but gorgeous) by B Clay Moore and Griffin (Aussie!) is a kickass zombie/cop book too. There's a bunch of other stuff, but i'm not really sure what your tastes are :) I reckon Couriers and Teenages From Mars are a good start but. Rob G's art is just fantastic stuff.