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Pen & Paper Roleplaying Central => Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games (RPGs) Discussion => Topic started by: Sacrosanct on March 16, 2013, 07:32:09 PM

Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: Sacrosanct on 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:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OLjX3Oy30MI/SsTFP9H6e1I/AAAAAAAAAVE/umOJM2s6Xk4/s400/800px-Wizards_Avatar_Blackwolf.JPG.jpeg)

Willingham:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JWWjlx7KwFU/T074OgssXSI/AAAAAAAAB00/7hTqb1cj9Ps/s400/willingham12.png)
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: Spike on 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.
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: wirecrossing on 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.
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: Mistwell on March 16, 2013, 10:29:23 PM
Ploog is not too different from Dave Sim
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: thedungeondelver on 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.
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: Justin Alexander on 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.
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: thedungeondelver on 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.
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: RPGPundit on March 18, 2013, 03:55:06 AM
I love this style!
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: Sacrosanct on 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.
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: Grymbok on 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.
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: RPGPundit on 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.
Title: Are there any modern artists who emulate this style?
Post by: Mistwell on 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.  (http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/images/blog/cerebus.gif)
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