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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 19, 2024 20:50:57 GMT -5
It looks like the new Batman book “ Absolute Batman “ might be the top seller of 2024. Why does he look like the Hulk in a Batman suit ? Steroids...even Batman is "on the gas."
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 19, 2024 20:55:29 GMT -5
Sinnot and Palmer were possibly the two best inkers ever... clean but without the technical pen look. I'm not sure how best to judge Byrne's inking, because he didn't do much inking pre summer '83, while he was in god mode. A lot of his later inker I saw look lazy and uninspired. As a teen I had the opportunity to say a few words to certain famous comic book creator and he asked what I liked reading, and I mentioned old John Byrne comics. "Not his new stuff?" "No, it looks like he inks with a Sharpie marker." 😅 My dislike of his mid career inking is not new! Regarding inkers looking clean... in modern times, now everyone's inking looks clean, I long for the days of 'messy' inkers like Klaus Janson, whose work looked raw. Watch a video of someone like Joe Kubert ink and it kind of looks sloppy, or at least not super careful, but in fact he added character to pencils and didn't care to merely trace. I love Janson's work! You're right, it looks very raw and alive! Likewise the artists who go straight to ink, despite the risk they take. There's a spontaneity there that's hard to capture otherwise. (And didn't Byrne actually use sharpies? I know Terry Austin did on Chaykin's pencils for an issue of Indiana Jones, and the result was brilliant. But then, it was Terry Austin...) I don't know about inking, but Byrne did use Prismacolor markers for items that he colored, like the cover for the collection of his Captain America run. He noted, in an interview, that he was colorblind and used the markers because they are labeled but that anyone could mess him up by switching the labels. If you looked at the cover, you could kind of see that it was felt-tip marker, though Prismacolor had dual ends, one fine-tipped and one wider. There were also versions with very fine, flexible heads that could sort of simulate a brush, in terms of flexibility.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 19, 2024 21:06:10 GMT -5
This is the cover I am talking about..... These are Prismacolor markers........ They come in sets or you can buy individual colors, at art supply stores. I used to use them a lot for art pieces, while I was assembling a portfolio, to submit for admission to the Kubert School (and for pleasure). There was also a "blender" marker that allowed you soften shades and blend tones. I used those to create highlights. I had tried poster paints, but I was never good with a brush and I didn't care for the results' plus, I wasn't really using the right kind of paper. These worked a lot better, for me, though you could burn through primary colors quickly, doing superhero artwork.
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