>>7791490
There's definitely an excess of artists trying to make every page the most dramatic page ever.
From what I've heard, comic artists tend to make more money selling prints of their inks in isolation rather than the pay they get from the actual comic. So there is an incentive to make each page a marketable poster of their ink work.
And it's only the ink work, not the finished page as a whole. So there's even incentive for the artist to go all out on the inks with absolutely no regard to what the colours will be.
This has the negative effect that so many pages in comics feel lifeless, it's just page after page of the characters making dramatic poses, but the actual story and sense of immersion has been sidelined.
It also has the negative effect that the lines totally overstep and begin doing what the colorist ought to be doing.
pic related is a nice image, but the colorist, even though he appears to be quite amaeturish, has the ability to render the light and shadows of this image. The inker did not need to add so many hatched lines on the faces, the colorist could have handled that. And the combination of digital rendering and traditional inks is a muddled look that often makes the characters look like they're covered in soot.
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Finally now getting down to some of the more interesting issues that are not talked about as much and are not quite as obvious as the prior issues mentioned above
The art is shit
And I'm deliberately posting a pretty good looking page to express this point.
The anatomy is great, the linework is great, the composition is great, the atmosphere is strong, the colours are bold.
But it is complete shit, it's absolutely hideous to look at. That's not just me talking, that's what the average person thinks. It doesn't matter that it is drawn with skill in every aspect, it's just simply hideous. Nobody can stand to look at the damn thing.
There's no art direction, the typical comics style is an unfocussed amalgamation of a hundred little things that just simply don't go well together.
Finally now getting down to some of the more interesting issues that are not talked about as much and are not quite as obvious as the prior issues mentioned above
The art is shit
And I'm deliberately posting a pretty good looking page to express this point.
The anatomy is great, the linework is great, the composition is great, the atmosphere is strong, the colours are bold.
But it is complete shit, it's absolutely hideous to look at. That's not just me talking, that's what the average person thinks. It doesn't matter that it is drawn with skill in every aspect, it's just simply hideous. Nobody can stand to look at the damn thing.
There's no art direction, the typical comics style is an unfocussed amalgamation of a hundred little things that just simply don't go well together.