Aron also manages pacing with detail, to keep us lingering on quiet scenes or flying along with action (note: action scenes have multiple panels and light detail, quiet scenes have spotted blacks more info) he controls viewer throughout the book. amazing 3/3




warmup study of Jeff Daniels's Frank Griffin from GODLESS. Daniels really went full on Cormac McCarthy with this baddie... Anyhow, trying to see how much i could leave out and still communicate the idea.

Thinking about my first book and daydreaming about what a live action version Lizard would be like...Where you at Hollywood? This has it all, hip Zoot Suiters, monsters, Pachucas getting into fights and family drama!





Take a Toppi Break with me won't you? Master of texture, design, use of negative space and scale.

Today's inspiration Rodolfo Damaggio's Captain America Storyboards

Some Rodolfo Damaggio to end your week right

As comics get more "widescreen" I've really come to appreciate the sweet, skinny, vertical panels of Miller's DD

we do not spend enough time gushing over how great John Bogdanove is. Great Cartooning skills, amazing draftsmanship and gestures. From a new mutants annual and X-terminators

Kurtzman. I want comics to be colored like this again

Urasawa's celebrity portraits are the best

my favorite Neal Adams stuff was his comic strip work...what a legend

Toth famously said " Strip it down to the essentials and Draw the hell out of what's left". Calling something "simple" because of a lack of (over)rendering implies that less lines = less work. Here's Toth keeping it Simple

Little Breakdowns of the "hellboy style" made by @TadStones for the Hellboy animated shows to capture the @artofmmignola magic. So great https://t.co/wiUceHtiKC

Let's spend Monday gushing over Barry Windsor-Smith, shall we? This is the closest we will get to seeing how Michelangelo would've drawn comics. Classic draftsmanship and beautiful storytelling

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