You know that guy that's always marooning people on a desert island, and he only lets them take one book or one celebrity or one cd or something to that effect?
Well, let's say he's struck again, but being fond of artsy types like us, he'll let you take two art books with you and that's it.
For me, it would be Oeuvre by Drew Struzan (http://www.drewstruzan.com/illustrated/portfolio/) and a big book of Alphonse Mucha's work (there are quite a few. The one by the Belvedere Museum (http://www.amazon.com/Alfons-Mucha-German-Louis-Gaillemin/dp/377747035X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268197713&sr=1-1) is good).
Et vous?
Certainly a hard one. I'd say Brian Froud's Goblins of the Labyrinth and and Lost Angel by Kaori Yuki.
Hmmm...possibly Lost Girls. If I'm on a desert island I'm gonna want porn.
Pragmatic sarcasm aside, this is kind of a tough question. I'd probably take a big book of Warner Bros. stuff and an Osamu Tezuka sketchbook
Tough one, because I usually much prefer character work, but I absolutely adore Hans Bacher's "Dream Worlds" which deals mostly with environment design.
I'd have to go with Where's Waldo? and Where's Waldo Now?
Quote from: Gibson on March 10, 2010, 01:07:04 PM
I'd have to go with Where's Waldo? and Where's Waldo Now?
Hmmm, that gives me an idea for a community project. I'm no good at backgrounds, but if someone draws a large background with some expansive blank spaces that could be passed around for everyone to slot a couple of their characters in, after a while we'd end up with a pretty good find/identify characters Where's Waldo game where readers look for the characters from the site they found it on (and GunBaby).
Maybe someone draw a character doing something, then the next person does a character reacting to the first one, plus another character initiating another action and so on. It'd need to be passed around quite a lot to get to full Waldo complexity (and a size limit for characters would have to be agreed upon) but it could be really cool.
Off-topic, I know, but would people be interested?
Sounds like fun. And I'm always in favor of fun but I don't have time to organize it. Let me know if someone decides to do it and I'll try and promote it like I promote all things in my time.
Good Luck. ;)
With out a doubt Greg LaRocque is the man to me, he is the reason that I got into comics. The way that man drew The Flash seemed so real to me it made me want to draw comics.
Anything by Phil Foglio and the complete Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew collection.
Without a doubt James Gurney, one of the finest chaps in america both in terms of talent and experience and just being such a damn fine bloke. He (if the name sounds familiar) is the man who wrote and drew the classic dinotopia books, though elsewhere he's mostly a landscape painter. He runs a blog over at http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/ which I think is one of the best free resources for artists online.
I also love the work of adrian smith. His work is so detailed, vibrant and evocative. He understands how to unify a diverse colour palette better than almost any artist I've seen, including many of the great masters, and while his anatomy and charicature is not the best I've ever seen, he can definitely portray energy exceptionally well. his gallery is here: http://www.adriansmith.co.uk/
Actually, I'm not much of a gamer, but I love the art of Blizzard Entertainment's Samwise Didier. HIS GALLERY LINKED. (http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/gallery.php?artist=samwise)
QuoteI also love the work of adrian smith.
Me, too! I think he's fantastic. I have one of his artbooks and I really enjoy his work.
-S
Hey everyone
I got this one book that blows me away every time I scope it:
Oxide2 Carta Numinous - Kim Hyung Tae
It continues to inspire me and shame me at the same time.
Holy crap, Plughead! I remember you from the old BuzzComix boards!
Hey Gar, holy crap! We haven't spoken in centuries!
Ha ha, the buzz forums, that's going back in time. That place was awesome back in like 2003-2005.
Dude, Neko is looking sick awesome, I'll have to get in there and get myself caught up!
Thanks! I got myself a Wacom tablet and Illustrator, I've been having a lot of fun with them and it's an art tools combo that really works for me. I've been really proud of Neko lately.
I checked out the new Sarah Zero yesterday when I saw you were on here - looking good! I love the one-giant-panel thing you're doing now.
This place actually kind of reminds me of the old Buzz boards in terms of atmosphere - Except there isn't a Squidi trying to piss everyone off ;D
Quote from: Gar on July 08, 2010, 03:48:34 AM
Except there isn't a Squidi trying to piss everyone off ;D
Obviously I need to try harder. >:(
Ha ha, Squidi!
The Squidi/Pockybot flame wars were the ultimate! I wish I would have archived that stuff!
Good times. I remember this one thread where a whole bunch of us were all having a convo about drawn vs sprite comics and I kinda chimed in with the need for webcomics to embrace concepts like facial expressions, acting moments, subtley, nuance and stuff like that. The discussion eventually turned into a flame war where people were accused of outright stealing each others pixels and recolouring the ones they invented on their own.
Ha ha Rob
You're a koo dude, but sorry, you could NEVER aspire to be so evil.
:)
Rob - Squidi was a guy on the BuzzComix board who did an (actually pretty good) pixel art comic called A Modest Destiny. Unfortunately he was basically insane and kept accusing anyone who did pixel art in which the characters' heads were the same size as their body of ripping off his work. He also kept telling everyone else that their comics were terrible and generally trolling up the boards. He kept getting into big long arguments with a young Tim Buckley and this guy who called himself Pockybot (who did a nicely-drawn but difficult-to-follow comic of the same name) which went on for pages and pages.
Personally I had fun Squidi baiting. You could set him off on an enormous venomous rant by commenting on your cereal preferences, it was awesome. He was basically the ultimate jerk. He ended up taking down his site and archive, opting instead to sulk REALLY HARD.
So big Twilight fan then?
I should see Tim tomorrow. I've met him a couple times. He has a reputation that I've never seen him live up to. Nice guy. :-\
Quote from: Gar on July 08, 2010, 03:48:34 AM
Except there isn't a Squidi trying to piss everyone off ;D
Don't tempt me, Frodo.
I remember both the Artxilla boards and the Valhalla Comics boards each having an angry troll guy similar to that back when those boards will still around. The Artxilla guy was a fairly standard troll that mainly just insulted the artists that posted there and their art, but the guy on Valhalla Comics would not only disparage the art of anyone that posted there, but eventually began hijacking almost every thread with lengthy diatribes on American politics (even though he wasn't American). I'm pretty sure it contributed to the demise of the board. I certainly didn't bother to post there anymore, and some of the other regulars complained or disappeared as well.
I don't think it's coincidence that all these boards are gone now.
QuoteI got this one book that blows me away every time I scope it:
Oxide2 Carta Numinous - Kim Hyung Tae
I have that book too! I think he's an excellent artist.
I also have
Sweet Dreams and
Wild Flower by Shunya Yamashita which rank up there among my favorites as well.
-S
Way to bring us back on topic, Harrington!
Way to make me self-conscious about my hairy feet Gibson :'(
http://elysianorchid.deviantart.com/
she's been one of my best friends for 6 or 7 years now. she got me back into drawing. she's a true inspiration.