I have an idea for a future challenge....

#1

Well one of the advantages of being sick with a nasty sinus infection is that ideas tend to float quite fast as part of the delirium of fever.

I was thinking of an original way of doing a comic book art challenge, and then inspiration hit me.
Why not make it so modelers should based their sculpts on the STYLE of an influential comic book artist?
Some artists I would suggest right from the top of my head:

[ul]
[li]Carl Barks[/li][li]Moebius[/li][li]Mike Mignola[/li][li]Alan Davis[/li][li]Jack Kirby[/li][li]Steve Ditko[/li][li]Jim Lee[/li][li]Herge[/li][li]George Perez[/li][/ul]So instead of doing the 6,002 model of Wolverine, we can do a comic book challenge that celebrates the art of the actual heroes of the comic book industry.
What do you guys think?

-R

#2

I’m all for it!:thumbsup:

From the top of my head, here’re some more artists:

Franquin
Uderzo
Serpieri
Mezieres
Silvestri
Byrne
J. Scott Campbell
Michael Turner
Greg Capullo
Todd McFarlane
Frank Cho
Joseph Michael Linsner
Steven Hughes
Jim Balent
Dan Juergens
Jerry Ordway

… geez, there’s so many…

Cheers!:arteest:

PS: Hope you get better soon! Try some “Fishermen’s Friends” for some real relief. All the best in the health department.

#3

I would like to partecipate to this challenge. I would like to share with you some really interesting artists that I’ve recently discovered. Also I just was considering them like a possible reference for a future work.

Get well soon Roberto! “TheRazorsEdge” thanks for your great contribution.

Matteo

#4

I think its a brilliant idea and it also gives a fiarly wide range of styles and subject matter to choose from !

#5

not sure I’d consider Shaun Tan a comic book artist :hmm:

anyway I love the idea - as long as it doesn’t mean we would have to make well known comic characters just with the style specific to those artists. I think original characters are more interesting - or allowing both.

#6

This is a great idea! Will have to pull out my comics from the shelf! So would it be making a character of our own in their style?

#7

I did promise that I would do 30 days 30 models first.

Anyway, that challenge goes live in two weeks.

-R

#8

Nice and open challenge idea. Joe Madureira’s style would lend itself well to sculpting. I guess it has already re: Darksiders.

#9

i second this question…it does indeed sound like a great challenge…you could also approach it as drawing a character in the style of a guy who never drew him…

i don’t know enough about comic artists to give a great example but its like a “how would stan lee draw batman?” kind of thing

#10

Hiya, Robo.
Hehe. You just confirmed that you need to get rid of your girlfriend and read more comics !
:slight_smile:

Stan was the creator and writer of most of Marvels characters, not the artist.
He created quite a few with Jack Kirby (X-Men, Hulk, Cap America, etc)
But Batman, for example, was first illustrated by Steve Ditko.
And Iron Man was co-created with his brother, Larry.
:slight_smile:

But that’ll be the beauty of this challenge, if we do it : Learning about the artists !

#11

see i told you!..i had a feeling after i wrote it that i’d stuffed it…lol…but you know what i mean…heh

#12

Intervain you have perfectly reason! I have one of the Shaun Tan’s picture books, and I don’t know why I always have considered it like a comic book.

to be forgiven, this is a great italian comic, by Emiliano Pagani. In my opinion this could be a great character to model.

Don Zauker

#13

yeah I’d just say he’s a children’s book illustrator… love his work and wouldn’t mind including him but I think it’d be stretching it :slight_smile:

#14

So, just so I understand the challenge correctly, the rules are that we can pick an already existing character, or create one of our own making, and design it to fit within the style of a well-known comic book artist? So, hypothetically, I could choose to sculpt Spawn if Jack Kirby had designed him, or Superman as drawn by Frazetta, or design my own character, setting, etc in league with a certain artist’s style?

What do you think about the prospect of also including live-action incarnations of comic book characters as a style? IE The Incredible Hulk if Tim Burton was behind it, or Iron Man in a 1960’s Adam West TV setting?

#15

I dont see why not.
The character is secondary, the style of the artist is what is important.
BTW we start this challenge in ONE month.
-R

#16

we are live
HCR MINI-Challenge #28: Comic Book Masters

#17

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