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Post by rich on Oct 6, 2024 13:16:52 GMT -5
PS as for digital inking, well at least inkers don't have to use assistants to ink all the background now and just do the figures themselves as many inkers did back in the day to make deadlines. And PPS-at least with the ability to make digital corrections editorial asks for, we don't get Murphy Anderson, Al Pastino or whomever faces on Kirby Superman bodies anymore, or Romita faces and heads on Starlin pages, or whomever they had redo the Hulk's face on Steranko's cover for the annual, etc. Klaus Janson is frequently accused of using assistants to do the backgrounds on his images, back when he was the most in demand inker in the land, but he angrily denies this common accusation. Typically assistants just rubbed out pencil marks, filled in large black sections and sometimes cut and pasted zip-a-tone where they were told, apparently. Only a few inkers in studios used to share inking jobs- unless you have someone financially minded, like Neal Adams, divvying up exactly what everyone earns from a job it becomes more trouble than it's worth. I agree that digitally editing art is much easier, but it's just as easy now to do a digital edit over the top of original art once it's been scanned. I liked the bonus Romita touches, by the way 😅
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Post by supercat on Oct 6, 2024 13:17:12 GMT -5
Artwork like this, and the Spidey one above it, would explain why I wouldn't pay $3.99-$5.99 cover price for this low quality bollocks.
This is satirical... I'm guessing the art is deliberately bad to mock such work? I'm not sure where it's from, but it gets reposted whenever artists get pulled up for doing excessive copy and paste crap. It’s from Invincible #10 (a fabulous series actually), and yeah, it’s making a joke about what we’re talking about. It’s on “our side”.
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Post by rich on Oct 6, 2024 13:38:52 GMT -5
or create stats and paste it up onto the page. Using digital is the same process, just quicker and easier. Sorry, I misread this sentence. Yes, pasting stats is equally as bad. I can't recall seeing it, though? Artists using stats of one panel repeatedly? I'm sure it happened, but tracing on a light box and re-inking seemed more common- like in comics where they had talking heads on television sets. I can't think of any examples of perfect copies in any Silver or Bronze Age books, off the top of my head, but can easily draw to mind dozens of examples of copy and paste stuff in modern comics.
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