I started reading comics some time in the late 1980's, and aside from a short break, I have been interested in them ever since. The art has always been what attracted me to a book, more than the writing. I guess that is to be expected with my interest in drawing always being strong. (I am not saying that good writing isn't important, but a good art team can cover up a lot of warts in a story line, at least in my opinion)
My favorite artists in the comic book world have at one time or another pretty much all worked for Marvel Comics -
Jim Lee,
Joe Madureira,
Andy and
Adam Kubert,
Todd McFarlane, and
J Scott Campbell are probably my six favorite artists. I am sure they are a lot of peoples favorite artist.
I also like to take influence from far lesser known artist. I am a member of
DeviantArt - and through DeviantArt I have discovered many, many greta artists that have inspired me to try new techniques as well as collaborate with. Two artists who I have taken great pleasure in coloring line work are
JK5-Inks and
DevGear - the inking these artist have done has given me awesome work to color, and has also given me the inspiration to try my hand at inking. I have posted an example of work I have done on both artist line work below.
Over the coming weeks, I will be doing entries about each artist who has influenced my work and what about their work has influenced mine. I will also post about more traditional artist who have inspired my work - such as
Larry Elmore,
Keith Parknison,
Frank Franzetta and
Boris Vallejo.
