/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3190539]

Post your favorite comic artists

Mike Mignola is the deity of my religion

[Anonymous No.3190648]

thomas ott

[Anonymous No.3190657]

>>3190539
I'm tied between Corben and Moebuis. And Corben drew Mignola's character better than he could. Not trying to knock his style. I liked it, but it gets stale quickly.

[Anonymous No.3190696]

The legendary Greg Capullo.

[Anonymous No.3190731]

>>3190539
Jason Shawn Alexander

[Anonymous No.3190878]

>>3190539
I found Heavy Metal Magazine around '79 (I'm old), so I grew up with that, instead of Marvel and DC. I always thought comic books were boring and for kiddies after Heavy Metal (this was before the really good artists started working). So I grew up on Mobius, Juan Gimenez, Richard Corben, Guido Crepax, etc.

[Anonymous No.3190893]

I feel awkward about bringing anime in this thread, but Kouta Hirano is amazing to me because I adore his use of deep blacks and the hatching.

[Anonymous No.3190906]

>>3190893
post something from his that you like brah

[Anonymous No.3190946]

>>3190696
holy fuck what comic is that. the lines.

[Anonymous No.3190952]

>>3190696
I hate how often the incredible lineart of capeshit is immediatedly drowned in shite colouring.
>dude bloom lmao

[Anonymous No.3190954]

>>3190657
Corben is my all time favorite.

[Anonymous No.3190970]

>>3190539
Was that page even drawn by Mignola? Looks a lot like one of those other artists who are working on Hellboy titles who got really good at emulating his style.

[Anonymous No.3190976]

>>3190970
It was, it's from the first issue.

[Anonymous No.3191060]

Nihei
Absolute genius

[Anonymous No.3191069]

Why are belgian comic book artists almost always god tier with drawing vehicles and architecture?

[Anonymous No.3191076]

T. Matsumoto

[Anonymous No.3191078]

>>3191069
the fuck if I know

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[Anonymous No.3191082]

>>3190539

Segrelles Mercenario is fucking epic

[Anonymous No.3191198]

>>3190731

[Anonymous No.3191201]

>>3190878
My man. Moebius is my favorite.

Mark Schultz I never hear talked about but I absolutely love him. I own the complete collection of Xenozoic and re-read it on the regular

[Anonymous No.3191206]

>>3190657
>Corben drew Mignola's character better than he could. Not trying to knock his style. I liked it, but it gets stale quickly.

nice garbage opinion

[Anonymous No.3191207]

[Anonymous No.3191210]

Joe Mad

[Anonymous No.3191239]

>>3191206
his flat sharply lit graphic style only allows him to draw "horror noir" it's very pretty but not versatile. Corben, on the other hand, though his work is instantly recognizable is so versatile he was able to mimic Mignola's lighting and still keep the chunky, rounded forms of his style. Make a point, explain your position. You'll come to a better understanding of why you think that way you do. It's so easy to be glib.

Giminez was mentioned, he's another great old one

[Anonymous No.3191280]

>>3190657
Yeah I used to be big into Mignola but his current work is almost like a caricature of himself. I'm all for artists paring their work down to its core, but Mignola's forms were already so intentionally flat and exaggerated, now nothing has volume or depth to it.

Also his covers as of late suck ass, there's only so many times you can repeat that same stiff 'obscured figure surrounded by important plot elements' montage before it gets old. None of his decisions seem terribly considered

For example, compare this original Aliens: Salvation cover he did back in 1993...

[Anonymous No.3191286]

>>3191280
...to this cover he did for the reprint earlier this year. The xeno has has next to no presence and is drowned out by all the clutter around it, and the protagonist is some amorphous androgynous blob of a figure. The character in the story is a resolute, determined survivor and worthy opponent of the xeno, but nothing of that is illustrated in this

[Anonymous No.3191293]

>>3190696
Does this really deserve to be called legendary?

[Anonymous No.3191326]

>>3190539
Juanjo Guarnido is a fucking beast.
But I don't like the way he draws most women tho, the pseudo-human faces they have are just creepy.

[Anonymous No.3191364]

SHIRAHAMA Kamome, someone I've just discovered, but her art is just so lovely.

[Anonymous No.3191381]

>>3191286
Composition is still top notch

[Anonymous No.3191383]

>>3191293
Yes

[Anonymous No.3191384]

>>3191239
Not the guy you are talking to. I personally prefer more extreme styles, perfect anatomies are boring to me after a wile, cant find any interest in it. Mignola is very interesting to me for the way he draws and what he draws, his mental library is very peculiar

[Anonymous No.3191389]

>>3190878
Crepax is a god

[Anonymous No.3191391]

>>3190539
For me it's Sergio Toppi, no contest

[Anonymous No.3191464]

>>3191239
That's not Gimenez, that's Valentin Sécher, and that piece is only a year two old.

[Anonymous No.3191478]

>>3191391
Shieet that looks fucking good.

[Anonymous No.3191479]

>>3191464
my bad, he's on my list too. I got my metabarons titles munked up

[Anonymous No.3191742]

>>3191464
>Juan Gimenez
This is Juan's work.

[Anonymous No.3191790]

>>3191364
I love her as well, but man is that dragons leg fucked. The thing it's resting on is waaay in the distance, already outside its reach, but to add to that no foreshortening it just makes it look like the dragon is floating

[Anonymous No.3191828]

If manga were applicable, I'd droll on and on about Yusuke Murata again. But I'll go with a comic book artist this time and say Jeffrey Cruz. His stylized stuff is kind of ass, especially with his inktober stuff if I'm being honest, but when he sticks to the source, his stuff is fucking great. The pic on the right is what got me reading Street Fighter after I found this dude on DeviantArt. I like Long Vo more but Vo is more of a concept and poster artist.
>>3191210
that Spider-Man is sexy as fuck for the eyes. Good name for that image.

[Anonymous No.3191829]

>>3190952
>Think all capeshit is boring looking crap
>Lesser know artist i love gets to work on one
>His pencils look great
>After other people handle the inking and colour it barely looks like he had anything to do with it.
>Find out this is the norm for the business.
>A lot of cape pencils actually look amazing

Why do they do this? Its like they seek out the most boring colourists they can find.

[Anonymous No.3191830]

>>3191828
I'm sure he gets tired of people telling him this but i really wish he would cool it with the fan art and do more of his own stuff. He's better than "LUPIN AND INSPECTOR GADGET CROSSOVER".

[Anonymous No.3191832]

>>3191326
Damn. This dude's art looks fucking banging. Pretty fucking ace for a furshit. The comic any good?

[Anonymous No.3191833]

>>3191830
I'm with you there. I know it kind of contradicts my first statement, but I do like his stylized stuff, as long as it's his original work. I'd definitely buy his comic if they sold it at my local shop. But like his faces on women especially. All the mouths look like Princess Peach with lip injections. Also most of the noses on his Dragon Ball characters look like they have really flat, straight bridges which has never been the case for any Dragon Ball character which irks me a little.

[Anonymous No.3191834]

>>3191210
The Battle Chasers game is so fucking good.

[Anonymous No.3191962]

>>3191834
It really is. Joe mad and his team have literally created one of the best JRPG Dungeon Crawlers ever. Also, good taste in vidya.

[Anonymous No.3192039]

>>3191790
indeed. There are a few ways you could repair this; one is by moving the closer leg closer to us even closer, like on the top of the wall above the black haired girl, making like this the dragon bigger and showing the further front leg could go that far back, but that would mean redrawing almost completely the dragon and loosing some part of his body by the top end of the panel. It would make him more big, menacing and mysterious (because we can't see it all) but maybe the artist wanted to show the whole dragon with this one

another one would be to do the opposite and redraw the further frontal leg closer, like over that gate, but that would fuck up his posture

and the last solution which I can think of and is the simples too is pic related

[Anonymous No.3192041]

>>3192039

[Anonymous No.3192253]

>>3190946
Haunt

[Anonymous No.3192258]

I'm a phone posting fuck so forgive me for the lack of images, but I felt the need to mention Serpieri. His cross hatching is masterful and his love of ass is infinite. He, Manara, and Moebius are tied in my opinion, very different styles but all incredibly accomplished.

[Anonymous No.3192267]

Mike McMahon

[Anonymous No.3192447]

>>3192267
This is awesome, gotta look this guy up

[Anonymous No.3192459]

>>3192267
Reminds me of elf quest

[Anonymous No.3192460]

>>3191069
That's all there's in this fucking country

[Anonymous No.3192464]

>>3191832
Yeah, the art is pretty amazing. Working for Disney really has it's perks.
The writing? It's alright, but it gets worse with every volume.

Still, pretty good shit.

[Anonymous No.3193918]

Gary Frank, personally. i love his hatching and crosshatching.

[Anonymous No.3193919]

>>3193918
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.3195825]

>>3191082
what's the medium of this? is it oil paints? it looks so crispy and textured, I love it

[Anonymous No.3195979]

>>3195825
Yeah, quick google says Mercenario at least was all done with oils. I really want to do something similar, so it's really neat seeing someone who has done it so well.

[Anonymous No.3196162]

>>3191286
regardless of the quality of compositions, I vastly prefer the recent mignola style. It has an unique material feel to it, which is the one thing artists should strive for in style.

[Anonymous No.3196166]

>>3190954
photo novel with clay looks cool

[Anonymous No.3196168]

>>3196162
This

[Anonymous No.3198041]

>>3191060
I will never stop being disappointed in the direction his art has gone recently.

[Anonymous No.3198117]

>>3198041
His daughter doesn't like his old art style.

[Anonymous No.3198136]

>>3190539
Holy shit, I can actually hear the voices