A suggestion was made to me recently that it would be good if I were to do some kind of a post here that displayed a number of different styles together, all at once. So this is what I came up with: a series of head shots, of different types of characters in different styles.
It’s a pretty good exercise for an artist, I found. It makes you stretch a little bit, and it can be fun to see what you come up with. I think I may try this again at some point. Or maybe even a variation on the theme: one character, different styles. There’s a whole lot you can do with this idea.
Nicely done, Mark. You will get good “marks” for these drawings, and you may even go to the “head” of class.
Ouch!! 😕
Thanks, John. Glad you like the post.
Going way out on a limb.… This is what style each box reminds me of:
First Row: Harvey Pekar, Jaime Hernandez, , Will Eisner
Second Row: John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Mike Allred , Bill Everett
Third Row: Harold Gray, CC Beck, Iwao Takamoto, Bruce Timm
Fourth Row: Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky ‚Dan DiCarlo, Tom Yohe
I make no guarentees about being right, in fact, I am probably wrong. But it was fun to try this as much as it was to look at. It’s a very interesting post, Mark!
Thanks, Lyle. Glad you liked this!
The interpretations are interesting. I didn’t actually approach this from the angle of trying to do specific individual artists’ styles. What I was going for was a little looser than that: a realistic style, a semi-realistic/comic book style, etc. But I can see how some of those associations could be made. And I certainly don’t mind being placed in such illustrious company! 🙂
I guess it was the easiest way for me to describe what I was looking at.….you belong in said company, as far as I am concerned!
That’s exceedingly high praise. Thank you.