Wednesday, August 26, 2009
I know me
In reading comic strips growing up, I couldn't help but notice the differences in artistic styles as far as cartooning was concerned. Why are there cartoons drawn realistically and others drawn more cartoon-like? McCloud asserts that this is for the sake of the reader. More realistic faces objectify the character and separate him/her from the reader while more cartoon-like faces allow many more readers to identify or relate to him/her.
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It could simply be a preference of the artist. The reason for that preference is, of course, a different matter. It also has to do with training. J. O'Barr, for instance, saw a lot of artists who were simply studying other comic artists and building off of them, so their products were an exaggeration of an exaggeration (I won't name names). This lead him to study the human form and the classic physiological artists (such as da Vinci) and to develop his own style from that.
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