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>As Really good as Alex Ross is I feel that he overuses photos for his artwork. It always looks perfect but sometimes looks lifeless.
I prefer the cartoonier artists to the realistic ones. If you're not trying for realism you can get a LOT more expression, feel and emotion from your designs. Plus, you can usually tell when a realistic cartoonist isn't using a model 'cos everything not refrenced gets skewed.
ASIDE: One thing I find really strange is how a lot of realistic artists will refrence characters, and then sort of crib things like backgrounds and hardware. I think Ross was one of the few that put some work into the inanimates; but most of the rest don't seem to. Which is weird; since the REST of the world seems to do it the other way around: cartoony characters, realistic hardware:
Don C.
I prefer the cartoonier artists to the realistic ones. If you're not trying for realism you can get a LOT more expression, feel and emotion from your designs. Plus, you can usually tell when a realistic cartoonist isn't using a model 'cos everything not refrenced gets skewed.
ASIDE: One thing I find really strange is how a lot of realistic artists will refrence characters, and then sort of crib things like backgrounds and hardware. I think Ross was one of the few that put some work into the inanimates; but most of the rest don't seem to. Which is weird; since the REST of the world seems to do it the other way around: cartoony characters, realistic hardware:
Don C.
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