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The first thing I've ever ordered off of Amazon came in today, much to my surprise, a copy of SHARKNIFE, volume 1, by Corey Lewis, who also designed the badass ZOMBI t-shirt that I also own.
Sharknife, though. I've gotten maybe a 4th of the way through it, even though it's a pretty slim little book that could probably be read in an hour with no problem. But I've been wanting to really sink my teeth into one of Corey's books for a while now. His art is insane! Bright colors, thick linework, crazy poses with exaggerated proportions and foreshortening. He wears his influences with pride, way too much anime and old-school videogames. He pulls the best of those influences out and puts them on the page, not trying to be another idiot deviantART kid doing Naruto fanart or something, but really making something energetic, explosive, something that CRACKLES. His artwork is not boring at all.
...Er. Anyways.
That was supposed to be a lead-in to where at this point I would ramble about the comic I'm working on. The thumbnailing is all done, shitty as they are, and I've been working on character designs for the past week. Well, not working too hard, admittedly, because my tendency currently is to sit down, draw a few sketches of their faces and such, then get pissed and walk off to play Henry Hatsworth, but I just beat that earlier today, so yeah.
The thing is, I'm torn. I find myself wanting to NOT be another generic anime-style kid whose work plagues deviantART. At the same time, though, trying to draw the characters in proper proportions, trying to make them pretty realistic, is just awful at the same time. They come across as just...boring, bland, uninteresting. So I'm struggling to find a style, a way to draw these characters and the settings they interact in, without getting bored or pissed off, and in a way where people will look at it and not see some generic crap, y'know?
It's frustrating. So I'm looking at Corey's stuff, along with the Brazilian twins Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, both of whom illustrated the excellent CASANOVA (Bá also illustrates UMBRELLA ACADEMY). Paul Pope too.
(you should be clicking these links, these guys are great artists who encapsulate everything I love about comics)
I'm getting other ideas for these characters, too. This comic would be like part 1 of 6 in a trade, yes? But I've gotta draw this crap first. Arg.
So there we go. Rant out of the way. I'm going to find food and possibly watch Tokyo Gore Police. It might be my next HINDSIGHT ALLOYS review.
[Brett]
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