Rob draws most-all things badly: feet, physiques, weapons, faces, scale. Remarkably he does hands rather well, which are supposed to be the most challenging thing to draw. But here the joke is that Rob frequently does in fact set up panels -- esp. big splash pages -- with some kind of lower obstruction so that he does not HAVE to draw the feet.
Rob draws most-all things badly: feet, physiques, weapons, faces, scale. Remarkably he does hands ra
He was young and enthusiastic at a time the comic industry was going stale, so he injected new life into it. You don't need to be a good artist to make a mark, comics are a lot more than the drawings alone. I guess he did something right at the right time and the right place. He also has an attitude of embracing criticism with humor. For example, he likes to draw characters with lots of pouches, when people made fun of that, he made a character named "The Pouch" who is entirely covered in pouches and started giving away autographed pouches at conventions.
I personally don't like Deadpool. Breaking the fourth wall is the lowest gimmick used by a writer too lazy to come out with a real joke. Is dumb enough when used as filler, but the whole character of Deadpool is based on him constantly talking to the audience and showing awareness of the fictional nature of his surroundings. But I guess I'm alone in that since people seem to like that enough to justify stretching the joke to three movies. My wife loves him ( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )
He was young and enthusiastic at a time the comic industry was going stale, so he injected new life
Pouches on super-hero costumes make more sense than not, in that a super-hero's costume is their de-facto field gear so having some place to store whatever accessories is better than just constantly relying on hammerspace. The work Kieth Giffen did on Legion of Super-Heroes with this look is my easy favorite. And super-hero costume design is like RL fashion in that it goes through its phases: trunks over tights and high collar capes, then seamless unitards then pouches, belts and pads, and now it's all blatantly seamed and segmented body armor. And then Todd McFarlane's Amazing Spider-man tooned out anatomy and esp. his famous floppy feet, while jacking the detailing through the roof. But Rob's stuff is just ... bad. It does not age well at all, and it was dubious then. And illustrative art skills are the very foundation of comics. Story-telling without pictures are called literature. Rob's stuff still looks like what we would draw while in high school, just embellished with tons of digital coloring and effects. I'm not going to knock him for all his Same Face because that seems to be just what happens with comic artists anyways.
Pouches on super-hero costumes make more sense than not, in that a super-hero's costume is their de-
I think what made Rob's comic career so popular was Rob himself. He has an infectious attitude and very positive attitude about comics and the art in general. He truly loves comics and it shows so I think a lot of people back in the 80's ad 90's were willing to overlook a lot of his shortcomings just because he was (or so it seemed) sincere about his feelings toward them. Unfortunately he made a LOT of bad or at the very least uninformed decisions while at Image and along with his co-founders had no idea how hard it was to actually run a business. The cracks began to show early and just got bigger until it all fell apart not only for Image but for Marvel and DC as well.
I think what made Rob's comic career so popular was Rob himself. He has an infectious attitude and v
Rob HAS kept his Baby Face for an awful long time. He's two years older than me, and he still looks like a blonde Opie Taylor. And I suppose that all that bubbly childlike charm has legs for a while. But just go look at his stuff! Tons of it are online. It's all just ... yuuugh! That's what Peak Performance is supposed to look like? We had McFarlane, Lee AND Portacio all rocking the pages at this same time. And this kid gets all the longevity. I've been scrolling down through the image searches of these artists while this Journal is up, and just sitting here looking at all the Super Hero portraits and one sheets and splash pages and the rest. Damn, these things look so silly.
Rob HAS kept his Baby Face for an awful long time. He's two years older than me, and he still looks
There is also a thing, that people make all these "10 worst Rob Lielefd drawings" lists on the Internet and cherry-pick the lowest points of a career that extended for decades. He may not be the best artist, but he knows how to make a comic that works.
Walt Disney was not very good at drawing either, but he had the right skills in other areas and delegated the animation part to other artists.
There is also a thing, that people make all these "10 worst Rob Lielefd drawings" lists on the Inter
Only ten? That's a lowball number. Why stop there? And Disney was 1000x a better business manager and promoter than artist. This is universal knowledge. No single comic book artist can approach what he did over the forty-odd years he ran his company. Few corporate heads can. The topic of this Journal is art. Art is to be judged 100% subjectively because of its inherent spiritual nature. There is no artist that I must like or accept merely because of their popularity elsewhere. And this is my Journal. So what I say, goes.
Only ten? That's a lowball number. Why stop there? And Disney was 1000x a better business manager an
I was not defending the guy because he is popular. I myself don't like his stuff, as I mentioned. I was just pointing out that sometimes someone can triumph despite sucking at art.
I was not defending the guy because he is popular. I myself don't like his stuff, as I mentioned. I
