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New Adventures of The Spirit : Pg3

As I said earlier, one of the things I liked about Will Eisner's Spirit was the way it carefully blended dramatic happenings and cartoon reality. This is exemplified by the way Denny Colt would get the most violent and graphic - though cartoonily graphic - of beatings from various denizens of the underworld on a regular basis, and suffer very little from it's physical effects afterwards, as if he'd stepped right out of Roadrunner. In this story and on this page, I had the opportunity to add my own depiction of a grotesque assault on the Spirit, which, as you can see, leaves him with a very small amount of damage. Great fun to do all that multi-action stomping and hammering though...
Brush and fine-liners on this. The fineliners to do squiggly, wriggly shading effects, etc. Oh, and a big mistake on this - Denny's right hand has not been twisted in the beating, I just drew it wrong...

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*TuesdayNightCompany Apr 7, 2010
I didn't know you drew The Spirit. I love Eisner's original. I love the motion in panel 4. I think it communicates better than the more common ghost outlines to indicate an object moving up and down.
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*Rin-Uzuki Apr 7, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I like how the blacks are not uniformly black. Lends it character and style.

The number of styles you have at your command is also commendable...!
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*LforLloyd Apr 8, 2010
Glad you like the effect, but it's an accidental blessing - it wasn't an art choice to have the blacks like that. With Indian Ink there's no need to make the blacks solid on the original art - the process camera will read it as solid if you're using the right medium. One late, great English artist you might have heard of - Frank Bellamy - didn't take any risks with that, though. He would put layer after layer on his blacks so they looked like veneers of ebony. But he was a true perfectionist. These days we don't have to worry much about using the right ink, because everything's more sophisticated and any black can be shot to be black in all the technical choices we've got at our command now : )
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*Rin-Uzuki Apr 8, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Ah, yes, technology--both a gift and a curse, huh?

So this Bellamy fellow would use several layers of Indian ink? I see! How interesting it is to learn of the different methods of creating art, particularly comics...
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*LforLloyd Apr 8, 2010
You should check out the work of Frank Bellamy. Do a search on him. I'm sure you'll find it interesting : )
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*Rin-Uzuki May 4, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Okay, I will! Thanks for the recommendation!
(Oho! A somewhat handsome fellow, this Bellamy...?) XD
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~Aledin Apr 7, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
It's the first I time I see "movement" represented as in the 3rd panel, with those kinetic lines, a middle way between a cartoon approach and japanese manga, and yet something else. Interesting and good solution.

I didn't notice the strange hand until you mentioned it. hehe
Very cool page. The grotesque characters are brilliant, especially the big guy fixing his own tie.
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