Hot Topic: Styles of Comic Artwork

[Orphangrinder]

That's the short list?

[penciljack]

Just a quick note .... the lack of options was a deliberate method to spark conversation ...

Carry on!

[Juggertha]

I wish there were example pictures

[celes]

I've always had an affinity towards manga (Captain Obvious saves the day again), though really, I'll go for anything that isn't too realistic. If it looks traced or too heavily referenced, I'll pass. I guess it's a little strange, but I'd have more fun reading a comic drawn in stick figures than I would a comic with incredible photo-realistic artwork.

[ScottEwen]

I'm somewhere between old-school and cartoony. Artists like Mike Allred and Darwyn Cooke do it for me.

[Spidey]

I'd say firstly, I love "modern stylized" artists like Khary Randolph, Jason Pearson, Stuart Immonen, David LaFuente, LeSean Thomas etc. Where the art is very dynamic and open(lines) and has some animated sensibilities.

Second, I'd go for a pulpy European style art like Juanjo Guarindo, Francesco Francavilla, Ramon K. Perez, Cameron Stewart, etc. Where the art has a lot of brush strokes, heavy blacks and unruled lines.


I'm mostly against hyper-realistic stuff like Tim Bradstreet, Brian Bolland, and Alex Ross.

[Orphangrinder]

Just a quick note .... the lack of options was a deliberate method to spark conversation ...

Well, it's certainly sparking conversation!

Like, for instance, the fact that "manga" being one category lumps this:

...in with this:

[Bruce Lee]

That's the short list?

It absolutely is my short list. There are hundreds of fantastic artists working in comics whose work I like. I never mentioned Brian Bolland, or Frank R. Paul, or Ryan Ottley or, or Amano, or countless others. Those were simply a few of my favorites from 35 years reading comics. The main list would be pretty frikkin' large!

A shorter list would be: Wally Wood, John Buscema, Mark Schultz, Don Newton, Jack Kirby, Bruce Timm, Berni Wrightson, Dave Stevens, Steve Rude, Doug Wildey, Alex Toth and Darwyn Cooke.

Shorter still: Wally Wood

[Huerta]

I like styles with ENERGY. I want motion, exaggeration and taking realism to another level. Anyone can copy, but those artists who can twist and interpret reality and show you something different. That is where it's all at.

[dfbovey]

I gravitate to more detailed styles. Doesn't have to be realistic, but I've always been attracted to art that I notice something new everytime I look at it.

Artists that have that along with what Huerta described are always at the top of my list. Motion, detail, artists that are masters at guiding their viewer's eyes through a piece.