>>7617245 To each their own I guess. To me, the masterfully done line work and rich detail with the exaggerated art style makes it grotesquely beautiful to me. Nothing quite like Baki's art out there that fuses beauty and "ugliness" so perfectly together.
>>7617000 (OP) I wonder how long this took the artist to draw. For me this would be several hours and most of the time would be spent fixing and editing and adding details that I think of one at a time.
post some normal fucking line art I can realistically aspire to, not these 50 hour godlike masterpieces.
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 9:57:47 AM No.7617808
>>7617641 1-2 hours probably, if you include the sketch phase these artists draw pages like this every day, and have been doing so for years. they are extremely fast
>>7617293 >To me, the masterfully done line work and rich detail with the exaggerated art style makes it grotesquely beautiful to me Bro, I'll give you that Itagaki is a good mangaka but solely as a lineart/B&W artists he is kinda mid. And not even due to anatomy but due to everything else.
Calling him a master when guys like Itoh Sei exist is just bullshit. I'd say even Miura is better.
>>7617885 >Calling him a master when guys like Itoh Sei exist is just bullshit. I'd say even Miura is better. When I called him a master, I wasn't comparing him to other artists; I was calling him a master based on my own taste in art. Although I still admire the skill and style of masters like Miura and Itoh Sei, I find something especially appealing about Itagaki's work.
>>7617885 You might like other guy's art more but Itagaki IS a master. Ain't nobody drawing anything like he does. He's got some insanely good gesture, and his linework IS very very good. It's not intricate, but it is very good at conveying weight and motion.
>>7621534 Discovering his art may be the death of me. I feel like now I HAVE to have lines this clean and I just can't fucking do it. I'm digital so I have that help from stablizers and rulers, but he does it traditionally and I just don't get it. Maybe I need to copy his caveman grip.
>>7617885 You guys are weird. One masters doesn't diminish the skill or value if another. The master hunter is not less valuable because there is a master fishermen
>>7617956 I agree that Itohโs work has amazing gesture and weight, which are both required for an manga about fighting and exaggeration. But I really canโt get over how fucking ugly his characters look. When the muscles are deformed to complement the โflowโ of movement, it looks like an amalgamation of eldritch fat blobs grafted together like Frankensteinโs obese brother.
Are there any mangaka (or stylistically manga-adjacent artists) who use almost exclusively lineart? Like little to no extra grey brushing or screen tones. Been trying to find some examples (besides Miura) since I like to work with microns.