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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

A beautiful drawing of Wonder Woman by Adam Hughes...

Saturday, November 11, 2006

A new sketch of Birdy...

It's a new pic of Birdy over at Yuki Masami's site.

(And it's a new post over at this site!)

Friday, August 18, 2006

Damn Jasmine eyes...

I was one told that I have "Jasmine eyes" -- that is, eyes like that of the Disney-animated character Jasmine of "Aladdin".

Which explains why I get a festival of women when I tried that Celebrity Lookalike generator from "My Heritage"...

in order...

Lauryn Hill, (71%)
Kyoko Fukada (66%)
Oprah Winfrey (64%)
Missi Pyle (64%)
Tyra Banks (63%)
Kristin Davis (62%)
and then finally Ben Johnson (62%) is the first male to appear on the list.
followed by Holly Marie Combs (60%)
Kate Bosworth (60%)
and Lil Wayne (58%)

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OK, following my friend's advice, I found used a photo from last year as opposed to my senior year of high school... that list...
Spike Lee (63%)
Mohandas Ghandi (59)
Jamie Foxx (56)
Rani Mukherjee (54)
Vivica A Fox (54)
Bow Wow (52)
Kate Beckensale (52)
Coolio (50)
Ibrahim Tatlises (48)
Denise Richards

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

More galleries

Another gallery worth checking out

Soldier1941

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Wonder Model...

me
Originally uploaded by wonderwomanyank.

Not Wonder Woman, but could maybe model as her..

Saturday, November 19, 2005

More comic art galleries I like...

Comic Art Fans

Jason Chau

Carlos Simoes

Richard Friend (great name)

Brent Woodward

Royce Thrower

Links sent to me:

Joel Adams

some fan art

Dragonberry art link directory

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Why is Rob Liefeld so popular? He can't draw.

When an artist draws something like this, you'd think he'd earn a permanent ban from the industry. So why do people keep hiring Rob Liefeld? Or better yet, why does he beloved by some fans? This was a comment posted in a long running thread at "The Drawing Board" by Chris Knowles.

I think the massive size of this thread speaks somewhat to Rob's hypnotic powers. I mean, you have to admit that it's a lot of fun deconstructing his work. If you want my take on it, I've always felt that the reason he and Todd and Michael Turner and the rest were/are so popular is that they draw like fans. They draw like precocious high school kids. Betty Edwards has said that adolescent boys are fascinated by intricate surface detail and complexity. It's part of the way their brains process visual information. I think you see in Comics that slick artists who have weak basic drawing skills but have a knack for decorative detail are usually the fan favorites. I think the fact that the superhero audience is getting older accounts for the growing popularity of photo-tracing and "widescreen" artists- older fans are more sophisticated in their visual tastes and want the patina of film and photography (and perhaps "maturity") in their comics. Younger readers are drawn to Manga, which of course the Image crowd borrowed heavily from. Perhaps if there were more younger ( and I mean 13-20 yo) readers for superhero books, Rob Liefeld would still be very highly in demand. Carmine Infantino had said that Neal Adams never had any big sellers in comics because his style appealed to older readers, and it was the younger kids (7-12 yo) who were still the overwhelming bulk of the audience. The Adams style mutated a bit when Byrne synthesized it with Kirby and Ditko and made it popular with teens.