/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3283915
Harry Clarke?

>>3283922
Personal favourite of his

Vojtěch Preissig

If you mean black and white (inked) using strokes to give texture, Bernie Wrightson was a master of that.

>>3283980
This is nauseating. Poorly composed with too much 'noise' created by far too many details on the upper half.

Something like >>3283922 looks way better IMO - as there is a much greater variety in the different levels of detail which helps prevent everything from feeling so overwhelming.

>>3283980
only good thing about this is the figure and the river/rocks

>>3283980
>Reply
And yet, Wrightson is revered as a master, and his work on Frankenstein, which this is from, is considered a masterwork.

And you are?

>>3284000
>nauseating
>overwhelming
I don't know the context of the image, but going by the figure's pose and the fact that it's a page from a comic book rather than a solo art piece, it's possible that this is completely intentional as a means of storytelling. Still a worthwhile observation though, I'm just saying. The fact that it's part of a longer comic also makes it just as likely that corners were cut to meet deadlines.

>>3283915
Check out the true masters, Albrect Durer, and Gustav Dore. For a looser style of line drawing, check out the golden age of children's book illustrator, with guys like Dulac, Arthur Rackham. Booth is about as good as you're gonna get in the 19th/20th century

>>3283915
H.J Ford

>>3283980
That's disgusting. Can't even tell what I'm looking at

Gustave Dore

>>3283980

>>3283980
not his best. >>3284203 is great though

>>3283980
>reply
It's clearly Frankenstein's monster kneeling on a rocky river bank in front of a couple of trees and boulders, and in the background is a huge stack of cut trees.

>>3283915
Mentioned already are Gustave Doré and Albrecht Dürer, they are the great grandfathers, so they are relevant obviously.

Bernie Wrightson is already mentioned.

You should also check out Daniel Vierge, Joseph Clement Coll, Alfredo Alcala, Walter Jardine (pic related), and Nicolas Delort.

Sergio Toppi might be straying too far from what you're looking for, but nonetheless. The draftsmanship of Edwin Austin Abbey might interest you too.

I'll post some pics of the names I mentioned.

>>3285934
>Daniel Vierge

>>3285934
>Joseph Clement Coll

>>3285934
>Joseph Clement Coll .

>>3285934
>Joseph Clement Coll ..

>>3285934
>Alfredo Alcala

>>3285934
>Alfredo Alcala .

>>3285934
>Alfredo Alcala ..

>>3285934
>Alfredo Alcala ...

>>3285934
>Nicolas Delort

This guy is amazing! You can see a lot of Booth and Doré in his works.
Oh, and compared to the previous artists, he's actually not a dead guy, so I feel obliged to include his social media links, in case anyone wants to check him out.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicodelort
Tumblr: https://nicolasdelort.tumblr.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicodelort

>>3285934
>Nicolas Delort

There you go OP, hope it helped!

>>3285948
god how much must he have been paid per page that he can spend like a week on each one

>>3283915
thank you for this thread.
so many new artists that i got to research now!

>>3283980
>using strokes to give texture
you mean hatching?

autism can go a long way

For modern artists, how about Ian Miller?

>>3284000
Do you find paintings of cornucopia nauseating too? Good, that's what the artist intended

>>3288208
Source?

>>3288202
I love this guy. I don't even like pornographic art, but you can just feeeel the insane hedonism in his work, and his stuff is so beautiful and rich.

>>3288538

Jesus fucking Christ. How long was he toiling over this? These types of pieces boggle my mind.

>>3288614
Myeah, but unlike Goya, Wrightson, Delort etc... he really doesn't have the chops to justify the effort. Still pretty cool tho.

>>3288614
About 1/100th of the time of the average oil painting

>>3284034
>>3285935
>>3285950


Today I realised most of you fuckers don't know what etching is. Most of these are prints produced by scratching on a metal plate and then drowning it in acid for a set amount of minutes, repeat the process with different amounts of time to get grey hues once you coat the piece of work with ink and voila. About 1/3rd of the work here is not hand-drawn but hand-carved. You guys seriously need to get a more well-rounded art education.

>>3288614
>>3288826
>>3289810

I recently picked up a book of Miller's work, and was surprised to learn that he worked with Ralph Bakshi on Wizards. He created some of the post-apocalyptic backgrounds, and those set in Skorch, Blackwolf's castle; you can see one in this scene, for example.

>>3285955
That is just great.

>>3285934
not OP but thanks these are all great

>>3288565
I believe that's hercules

>>3283915
Hayao Miyazaki in the nausicaa comics.