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Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?

Started by Sacrosanct, March 16, 2013, 07:32:09 PM

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Sacrosanct

March 16, 2013, 07:32:09 PM
Sorry for the long thread title, but are there any modern artists who still do work like Mike Ploog and Bill Willingham?

This is the style I'm referring to (heavy rounded b/w lines, deep shadows)

Mike Ploog:


Willingham:
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March 16, 2013, 07:38:45 PM
To be honest, on Willingham I don't think it would be terribly hard to emulate it (I'm less clear on teh Ploog example, perhaps a few extra samples might allow me to isolate what, exactly, defines their technique?)

Willingham's style just looks like sort of quick comic sketching, and appropriately, the first artist that sprang to mind was Wendy Pini of Elfquest fame.
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March 16, 2013, 08:48:26 PM
I wouldn't have a clue, but there are SO many games which would benefit from it. Barbarians of Lemuria, for sure, its art being a big pile of shit.
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March 16, 2013, 10:29:23 PM
Ploog is not too different from Dave Sim

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March 17, 2013, 12:08:32 AM
Quote from: Mistwell;637764Ploog is not too different from Dave Sim

You mean Gerhard.  Sim wrote, Gerhard drew.
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March 17, 2013, 12:18:13 AM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;637779You mean Gerhard.  Sim wrote, Gerhard drew.

Gerhard did the backgrounds (starting in issue #65). The characters were always drawn by Sim.
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March 17, 2013, 12:24:51 AM
Quote from: Justin Alexander;637783Gerhard did the backgrounds (starting in issue #65). The characters were always drawn by Sim.

Ahh.  Okay.  Did not know that.
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March 18, 2013, 03:55:06 AM
I love this style!
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March 18, 2013, 10:03:54 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;638034I love this style!

So do I, obviously :)

I also just found out that Bill Willingham is going to be at Stumptown Comic convention in Portland 4/27-4/28.  I am definitely going to have to make that trip.
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March 18, 2013, 01:27:19 PM
I think there's a definite Ploog influence in Aaron Lopresti's work. You can see it mostly in his work on Sludge (for Malibu) and more recently Garbage Man for DC. Most of his work is more "good girl" stuff and so doesn't have the deep blacks.

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March 19, 2013, 06:43:32 PM
Its definitely comic-book-ish, but not "four-color" style. Its got a kind of edge. It was really some of my favorite old-school art.
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#11
March 20, 2013, 01:36:44 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;637785Ahh.  Okay.  Did not know that.

Yeah, Sim drew the characters, and after-inking, many looked similar to the Ploog style.  
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