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  • Old school, Golden-Age

    48 26.52%
  • Manga manga manga

    24 13.26%
  • Hyper-realistic

    68 37.57%
  • Cartoony and super-simplified

    41 22.65%
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    Is Michael Golden a genre of art???? cause that dude has inspired all my favorite artists lol
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    In between hyper-realistic and cartoony for me.
    An ideal art style for me that I would like to see from an artist and hopefully something that I will be able to achieve someday, a cross between Glen Keane and Travis Charest

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    I like good art, pretty much. Which displays skill, emotion, energy and originality.
    That said, I usually lean towards comic art which contains a certain amount of detail, whether the figures are simplified or not.
    Which goes from Dave Cooper to Bisley, from Peter de Sève to Akira Toriyama, with hundreds in between.

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    I don't favor styles. I favor craft.

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    Quote Originally Posted by F! View Post
    I don't favor styles. I favor craft.
    Yeah, I don't understand that unless it's some kind of inside joke. You would think it would be the opposite

    Style is everything that makes an artist who they are, all there flaws,and all there experiences/emotions. It's what sets them apart from everyone else.

    Craft is more skilled work that is passed down through the generations with very little deviation from the original, and pertains more to guilds of people doing basically the same thing.

    To me that is boring imho...

    Maybe you are saying you like very skilled artists, but honestly a skilled artists is one that can break the rules not one that adheres to ones he didn't create himself. And that is style..

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    I've always been a sucker for more cartoony styles but I wouldn't call them over simplified. Super stylized maybe but never over simplified. Here's my short list in chronological order that I discovered them:
    Mike Zeck
    John Byrne
    Mark Silvestri
    Jim Lee
    Larry Stroman
    Todd McFarlane
    Greg Capullo


    Nowadays though, I have way more of a mixed taste. If I like the art, I may just pick it up but it will be the story that keeps me buying it unless I REALLY like the art. Blacksad is a good example of books I've bought simply for the art since the stories weren't all that great (the second one was the best but even that one was pretty weak). Sometimes you have a big missmatch where the art will suck but the story is awesome or vice versa and I just have to have it for one or the other.

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    I like a good story first and foremost. As much as I appreciate the art, the story is what keeps me coming back. I don't have a 'favorite' style of art, as long as it's drawn well and services the story.
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    Gotta chime in....
    Voted Old school/golden age, but, like Loston, I lean towards guys like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John and Sal Buscema, Nestor Redondo, Jim Aparo, Alfredo Alcala, Gene Colon, JL Garcia Lopez, Dick Giordano, Irv Novick, Don Heck, Dick Dillin, Walt Simonson....
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    Golden Age for sure. Not that I don't like the others, and I tend to draw more cartoony stuff but I love the old comics. I periodically read through the Crawford Encyclopedia of Comic Books just to read about old artists and comics.
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    Any art that can effectively tell a story is art I gravitate towards, but give me a book by Dustin Nguyen, Paul Grist, or Humberto Ramos over something by Bryan Hitch any day.

    That's not to say that I don't like realistic work. Frank Quitely's We3 pages are beautiful and sad and all kinds of other conflicting emotions, but for every Lenil Yu or Jim Cheung who consistently hit those high notes, you have a Greg Land photocopying his older work to rush-job some X-Men book that won't matter next month or Steve Dillon scrapping together some of the most boring, static, and mis-proportioned superhero "action" over in Ultimate Avengers. I'm sure it took days and days and days to make sure he drew every whisker on Frank Castle's face, but I just don't care.

    One of the biggest problems right now, as I see it, is people focusing on that kind of thing, and failing to get across the fact that they work in comics and that they should be fun. Not all comics, mind you. Spiegelman and Satrapi did amazing work in Maus and Persepolis using "cartoon-ish" art to tell dramatically grounded stories, but there was still a sense of joy in their art. You could tell they were doing it because they wanted to, not because they knew that it might get them a paycheck drawing Captain America somewhere down the road. Expressive characters and well-portrayed action make for better comics than making sure every ledge of every window in the background is perfectly rendered. I don't read comics for window ledges.

    Also, Loston, that Weird Science cover looks a heck of a lot like the work Mike Ploog did on J.M. DeMatteis' Stardust Kid, which kinda makes sense considering he and Wood were friends. That debut Werewolf By Night run and the handful of Ghost Rider's first appearances Ploog illustrated are legendary.
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