![]() The perfect storm of every Rob Liefeld criticism all sitting there in a jumble of tumorous musculature. No one looks at the bottom of drawings, right? Thought so." Whoops, no time to cross just "hatching" it is, then. Well, I’ll just sort of fade ‘im on out down at the bottom here with some crosshatching. Knew I shouldn’t have waited until the day before "YOUNGBLOOD: STRIKEFILE" #5 went to the printers. How does a shirt look where the arm meets the chest? What’s that? ‘Like a cat’s asshole’? Hey, makes sense to me! Crud, I’m getting kinda close to the deadline here. Hey, how do veins work? They’re all criss-crossy, right? Heh, what am I talking about? They gotta transport blood everywhere, right? So they probably just intersect and overlap all over the place. "Hey dudes, how many abs are on a guy? Like a million? Shit, wait, what do abs look like? They’re like those small, edamame-looking things, right? I’ll just stick those in there. What sort of reference guide so you suppose Liefeld looks at for drawing musculature and anatomy? Ha! I’m kidding, of course. This is the prototype of " that" Captain America drawing, and I honestly can’t decide if this is worse, or better. ![]() A philtrum you can store a cashew in and lips the texture of Red Vines. Skin like onion paper that’s been pounded with a meat tenderizer. A jawline you can slice roast beef on and eight-inch cheekbones. This is Liefeld’s idea of an ideal face, everyone. Cannonball looks like Morgan Fairchild looked into the Ark of the Covenant. There’s literally no way to tell any sort of age difference between these characters. I don’t know how old Soul Patch Jones is supposed to be, but I’m going to guess significantly older than Sam. The guy on the left, I don’t know, so we’ll just call him Soul Patch Jones. The guy on the right is Sam Guthrie, AKA Cannonball, who is supposed to be anywhere between 17 and 25, depending on who is editing the comic. Except that his version of "photorealistic" usually translates to "crinkle-faced, horse-skulled pig-snoutery." Modern-day Liefeld occasionally goes for what he feels is a more photorealistic approach. No one will even notice that he’s just sort of awkwardly standing there with his sword held over his ding-dong area and flexing the shit out of every muscle. "Hey! If I move him over HERE, I only have to draw one arm and just part of one thigh! I don’t even have to draw a second hand! Second hands are tricky, because the thumb is on the other side on the second one. The negative space suggests the offscreen character. At first glance, you think, hey! The sword comes to the foreground and gives space to the character in the reflection. Let’s take just a moment to talk about composition for a moment. Look at how many side-abs he gave Shatterstar. No person exists with that amount of striation in their muscles. Just keep adding lines and keep adding lines and won’t stop until his pen runs dry or his assistant comes by and wrestles Rob’s arm free of the drawing board. Rob Liefeld will just keep adding lines to shit. It would take too long and be too big of a headache and nobody cares (least of all, Rob Liefeld), so let’s just agree "lol" and move along to the next talking point. Let’s not deal with the angle of the sword and the angle of the reflection and exactly what course Cannonball is taking towards Shatterstar and/or his sword. I WILL FLEX SO HARD I WILL BEND THIS SWORDĪND ALSO CLENCH MY FIST IN SUCH A WAY AS TO HAVE THE SWORD HANDLE COME OUT OF SOME INDETERMINATE POINT SOMEWHERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT. Maybe have a couple of swords on his back and carry a gun that looks like a hair drier. He…he was holding his wang in the first draft, wasn’t he? Just pointing his peener right at the audience.Īlso what is going on with the blood in that guy’s mouth in the background? Does blood form in a web and I just never knew that before? Holy shit, I can’t believe Rob Liefeld never "invented" an "edgy" version of Spider-Man called "BLOODWEB." He could have a shitty haircut and pouches, or something. Once again, the blade of the sword doesn’t even come close to meeting up with the handle of the sword, but I guess when you’re adding it all in after the fact, it doesn’t matter. Clench fingers and thumb of left hand together like you’re making a chicken’s head with your hand.Extend index and middle finger of right hand.Here is a brilliant, BRILLIANT (read: catastrophically horrible) example of "Liefeld likes to draw shit out of order." In the original pencil drawing for this cover, do you imagine Warchild was ever meant to be holding a sword? Or that sword, at any rate?
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