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Started by marko10174, 23 April, 2017, 09:52:14 PM

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JoFox2108

Quote from: marko10174 on 23 April, 2017, 09:52:14 PM

but I'm not a fan of Carlos Ezquerras art work on Judge Dredd. Compared to the the beautiful work of Greg Staples, or Nick Percival's incredible art work on "Good night kiss" CQ just doesn't cut it. His work on Dredd just seems so basic and cartoony. America is my favourite JD story and Colin macNeil's work again is better than anything CQ has contributed. Apologies to any CQ fans in advance.

My feeling is that different art styles appeal to different people.  I think it would be a bit odd to expect any one style to be universally liked.  I like Carlos Ezquerra's style quite a bit but I do find it difficult to read sometimes.  That said, I think it was Carlos who came up with the design for Judge Dredd and Mega City One - which is, for me, absolute genius!
I also really love Brian Bolland's stuff.  His art just blows me away every time.

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Fungus

Well, outside of that Megazine cover, 80s Kitson is the Kitson I'm familiar with. It's clean, but anatomically correct isn't how I'd describe it. I know it's subjective but the facial expressions felt weirdly flat and the anatomy sub-standard, jarring.

Could just be these comparisons feel unjudtifiable. Carlos isn't my favourite, but he's up there, and he makes drama and action look so deceptively easy...

Goaty


Arkwright99

Quote from: Robin Low on 24 April, 2017, 06:49:16 AM
When it comes to Dredd, it's either Carlos Ezquerra or Ron Smith. I struggle to put one ahead of the other because their styles are so different, but they're both definitive Dredd artists (as is Mike McMahon).
There was a time, at the time, that I didn't much like Ron Smith's Dredd; not because it wasn't great art (although I didn't really appreciate it as such at the time) but because at the time (mid-ish '80s?) it seemed like every week had a Ron Smith Dredd strip! In hindsight I realise now what a nonscrot I was being. I think it's true what they say though: when miracles become commonplace you stop seeing them as miracles and regard them as merely mundane, but they're still bloody miracles and Ron Smith's Dredds were bloody classics.
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radiator

I kind of get people not liking Ezquerra's art - it's a little idiosyncratic and rough around the edges - not for everyone. He isn't a 'showy' artist and I think he's more interested in storytelling than clean lines and polish.

I must admit, I don't always dig his stuff all of the time (I find his digitally coloured stuff a little bit hit and miss), but when he's on he's pretty hard to beat, as some of the examples in this thread show - and he's inarguably responsible for so many of the most iconic 2000ad images ever created.

I feel that way about a lot of the great 2000ad artists - say McMahon or Flint. I adore their stuff, but I can understand why others don't.

JamesC

Ezquerra is up there with the very best in my opinion.
He excels at character design, storytelling and composition. He can also use body language in a way that few artists manage.
I really can't think of another artist I'd rank higher as an all-round great creator and storyteller.

By the way, MacNeil's work on America is great but for me his best work was on 'The Town That Died of Shame'. Really lovely, gritty Strontium Dog art (he did a Chopper story in a similar style too).

ZenArcade

Jeez, McNeill on the Supersurf strip was engaging, to put it mildly, as well.  A visceral, randomised slaughter, set  to the soundtrack of a banal mid Atlantic formula one commentary. Z
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The Legendary Shark

It's Carlos all the way for me. He's a great artist and, having met him twice, a perfect gentleman.

Colin MacNeil's second on my list - though the work of his I like the best is his black and white Shimura stuff, which I think is just beautiful.
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IndigoPrime

There's very little Ezquerra I don't like, bar that colouring period. Anatomy is occasionally a bit off (even in that otherwise iconic Alpha/Dredd pic), and he does too often have a tendency towards, shall we say, a certain type of female figure across much of his work, but otherwise the style is for me visually arresting. I really loved those massive chunky lines around foreground figures in classic Stront and Dredd. Really interesting for focussing the eye/frame.

Quote from: JamesC on 24 April, 2017, 07:01:49 PMBy the way, MacNeil's work on America is great but for me his best work was on 'The Town That Died of Shame'. Really lovely, gritty Strontium Dog art (he did a Chopper story in a similar style too).
With that Stront, it almost felt like he was channeling Ezquerra, and although I liked his colour Final Solution output, I wish that had have been in black and white.

radiator

Got to admit - I never liked the chunky dotted outline thing. I now get what the intended effect was, but imo all it did was draw attention to itself and make me wonder what the reasoning behind it was.

Steve Green


radiator

As I say, I understand what the intended result was now, but when reading his Dredd and Stront stuff as a kid me and my friends always used to think it was a really strange quirk.

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Steve Green

Quote from: radiator on 24 April, 2017, 08:29:39 PM
As I say, I understand what the intended result was now, but when reading his Dredd and Stront stuff as a kid me and my friends always used to think it was a really strange quirk.

Apologies - missed that bit.

The Adventurer

Carlos Dots are like Kirby Dots. You just accept them as the man's calling card.

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