This will be a regular feature on my
page where I will talk about influences on my techniques and styles. Hopefully
I can introduce you to new artists, or give you a different way to look at
artists you already know.
Today, I am
going to take a look at Joe Madureria. I first saw Joe’s work when he did his
first issue of the Uncanny X-Men around 1994-95. It was different to most of
the art I had seen at the time, and I was taken with his unique style
immediately.
The first thing
most people notice about Madureria’s work is the Manga influence, he usually
has very expressive eyes, and his action scenes always seem to have a hint of
Manga about them. For me it was the expressions he put on his characters that
was the big draw card. I loved the way he could make the expressions so easy to
read, and in my opinion, moved away form the basic expressions that comic book
pencillers at the time tended to stick with (a criticism that was commonly
leveled at Liefield and Lee, fairly or not)
You can also
see an obvious influence from J Scott Campbell in his work, which I believe is
not a bad thing.
Make sure you
also check out the Joe Mad wisdom in these two posts!
Here and
Here
Make sure you check out the awesome Joe Mad art below!
Links
Another
Fanpage with some good samples
Comics DB so you can see all the comics Joe Mad has worked on.
