LIIIIIEEFELLLLD!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, I had to.

"Prophet" I remember, but I had forgotten all about "Glory". Sheesh. What's next, a revival of Bloodwulf?

Why is that creature made of labia?

I gotta admit that the blog linked is one of those... awww ffs kinda blogs written by someone who has never ever worked as an illustrator or comic artist. Like the part where the writers angry about a gun having two barrels, or the one with the guy who dies in a room after drinking something... All I want to do is grab the blogger and shake him.

I get the poses and I get the things about wierdly shaped women. Fine. But bitching about the tiny details (or parts that just isn't the illustrators work at all) is like... I dunno whining about the cucumber on my burger from McDonalds being wierdly shaped...

Whats even worse the guy who wrote it doesn't seem to know anything about the craft he's whining about. I mean what the hell does he think an industry comic artist does? Or any artist?

Rob Liefield isnt my favorite artist, but if I would criticize him it wouldn't be done by this kind of limp comic-book-guy blog-text. I can just hear him snorting over the keyboard going "are we supposed to believe that water [snort] is opaque?"...

Gah...

I have a Ross Campbell print hanging in my apartment. It is fabulous.

Uh, I realize this sort of makes JensR's point, in a way, because this comic blog post talks about how Rob Leifeld apparently thinks water is opaque... But still, have you *seen* his art?! It is just. AWFUL.
http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/…

JSR1138: its the same blogg Paul Constant links to. But yeah its not great, lets not mince around that part and some times it makes you a bit frustrated but its art made out really really fast. Since its morning here for me I cant for the life of me figure out who the hell it was but the later marvel comics use an effect similar to live trace in Illustrator to create quick large illustrations.

It looks great, it really does, but it is in my opinion worse than the work of Rob Leifeld because its not using the artists imagery. I mean tracing a photo is all fine (allot, and I mean ALLOT of illustrators do that) but the difference is that they add something to the image, recreating it into something of their own. When you, like they have, just plonk it into illustrator its changing nothing. Its like adding sunflairs to photos in PS Elements and calling it "art".

But the feets look great, no extra gun barrels and all the realism freaks can sleep safe at night knowing that the water in the image probably isnt opaque.

... but thats ok. I mean these illustrators work under an extreme pressure to force something out very very quick. Its like an assembly line and if you have to, like Leifeld, cover the feet or in more modern cases use live trace... its what you need to do to keep the pace.
(luckily the hunt for mind numbing "realism" is slowing down and we start to see comics more in the style of Hellboy and Sin City becoming more common)

I love Ross Campbell's style. His continuing series Wet Moon has no plot and no actual sympathetic characters, but I will read it over and over just for the way he draws women. Beautiful.