tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293319073550947163.post6081292734272177462..comments2024-03-16T17:43:25.784-04:00Comments on DanielMaidman: Edges and Edge Detection Part 3: The Funny PagesDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15597234920324948705noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293319073550947163.post-76587908382828680182010-04-01T22:49:55.230-04:002010-04-01T22:49:55.230-04:00wow! thanks, i felt like that little piece on line...wow! thanks, i felt like that little piece on lines revived my brain. got the wheels turning again. and very interesting, i'll be thinking back to what you've said. and its true how so often i'll look at a piece of art and have a sense of it being "annoying" to me, though not always taking the time to discern why.<br /><br />cool blog, i'll be checking back!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293319073550947163.post-8847527242540307622010-03-26T16:14:17.034-04:002010-03-26T16:14:17.034-04:00I would also like to point out that uniform-weight...I would also like to point out that uniform-weight lines also play well in comic art when there is a certain disbelief we are expected to suspend for the sake of the story. It's part of the idiom. Like when Xaime portrays Maggie with pointed teeth when she gets angry.<br /><br />In such instances, I am not demanding verisilimitude. Study the art in Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson, a perfect example of comic art. The head shapes of all the characters are absurdly disproportional. But it works because they represent characters and their character traits, not what they would actually look like in real life.<br /><br />I guess this is why I never have a problem with uniformly weighted lines in comic books.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05849861360366054701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293319073550947163.post-86613962911087661362010-03-26T16:09:11.763-04:002010-03-26T16:09:11.763-04:00It's interesting how you describe your relatio...It's interesting how you describe your relation to Moebius: 'No matter what narrative topic these artists treat, there is something airless to their drawings after a while, something without vitality.'<br /><br />I would agree, but I think Moebius deserves props for select a subject matter (often bleak futuristic landscapes) that would suit his style of art. Within this perview (which is admittedly not my thing) I think he does pretty well.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05849861360366054701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293319073550947163.post-10775221253261176632010-03-26T10:42:51.678-04:002010-03-26T10:42:51.678-04:00Oh, man, you're going to love that movie. Nico...Oh, man, you're going to love that movie. Nicolas Roeg at his very best. And, oddly, it's extremely faithful to the book. The alien in the book is very light, in part because he has hollow bones. Whom but Bowie could you cast? <br /><br />I need to go back to Watchmen and take a look at the actual per-se coloring. So weird - it never bothered me at all before. I mean, not just the loony palette, but the coloring itself.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15597234920324948705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293319073550947163.post-8219969466921124412010-03-26T10:24:12.629-04:002010-03-26T10:24:12.629-04:00Now you made me need to resume my commitment to fi...Now you made me need to resume my commitment to finally see THAT movie.<br /><br />The colors themselves are great. There are just some places where they weren't, well, colored very well.pengohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06159516848217178336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293319073550947163.post-82360035330859256442010-03-26T09:50:40.822-04:002010-03-26T09:50:40.822-04:00Pengo - Wow, I really didn't mind the colors a...Pengo - Wow, I really didn't mind the colors at all! Now I have to go back and think it over again. When you say color, I immediately think of the reflections in the puddle when Rorshach goes out the window. I actually liked the movie more than the book! Why? Sure, it was an insane mess, but to me, it took flight with inspiration, a very rare thing. It seemed to me a kind of crazy monument to the book, a completely obsessive love letter to it. And this was more fascinating than the book itself. It had, for me, a similar zigzag quality to "The Man Who Fell To Earth," a kind of gravity-defying lunacy that, for some reason, never looked down after walking off the edge of the cliff, and therefore never fell.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15597234920324948705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293319073550947163.post-28178425100749256082010-03-25T19:03:47.950-04:002010-03-25T19:03:47.950-04:00Love WATCHMEN - except for the colorist. The pale...Love WATCHMEN - except for the colorist. The palette of secondary colors (slavishly stuck to in the weak film adaptation) was an inspired decision ... if only the execution didn't look like the artist performed his work over a drunken weekend.pengohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06159516848217178336noreply@blogger.com