Although the use of photographs as models is long established in comic. Greg has received criticism for his over reliance on other peoples work. Greg land is an executives idea of a good artist because they dont. Sure, id rather be stabbed in the leg than shot in the balls, but that doesnt mean that the leg stabbing is by any means a pleasant experience. In fact marvel could job their books out to a needy middle school and have a better book. Sep 02, 2019 land created a comic art portfolio in the early 1990s. Your premier source for new comics and related collectibles. My problem with greg land is practically 6070% percent of his work ive seen has been so obviously and poorly traced that it looks awkward. His first published work for dc comics was in 1995 on nightwing. His most recent cover art work includes harley quinn 25th special, phoenix resurrection, and dark nights metal starring the batman who laughs and metal harley quinn. He is currently working on xmenrelated stories, but has worked. Aug 19, 2018 greg land is a popular artist who has worked on some of marvels top titles like xmen and iron man. Greg land the online vintage comic book and comic art.
Marvel dc, marvel comics, marvel comic universe, marvel comic books, comic book heroes, marvel characters, marvel heroes, comic books art, comic art. Greg land is an american comic book artist best known for his work on and ultimate fantastic four. After impressing people with his art at the midohio con comic convention, land got a job with an independent publisher as the artist for stormquest. Apr 23, 2009 ive worked in illustration and design for over 25 years and this is nothing but collage. People complain that liefelds stuff faces always looks the same. Greg land is an american comic book artist, best known for his work on characters such as xmen, birds of prey, and fantastic four. Greg land traces images for his comic book art without altering almost anything. This comic, though, is pretty much one long extended fight sequence, and it was made darn near incoherent by greg land. Im not a big fan of his artwork and in this video i argue that his work has. I like my landlestein piece because its more traditional art, not stiffposed magazine lightbox swipes. Phoenix endsong, ultimate fantastic four and for various comic covers. Greg land is a popular artist who has worked on some of marvels top titles. He doesnt even try basically, and its insulting to other comic book artists who put more effort into their work. A comics reader on why marvel needs to hire artists who are not greg land.
Greg lands art, why i hate it, take 178 greg land comic vine. Dang how come when i tried to pass a trace off as my own work in art class i was gonna get. Apr 17, 2009 just because there are people whose art is worse than greg oface lands, doesnt mean his is good by default. He did his first comic book work with the independent publisher stormquest. Jun 23, 2008 yes, unfortunately with land he traces others work whether it be others comic work or photography. He followed this with jla volume 1, birds of prey volume 1, batman volume 1, and many more. Let me recycle old drawings and trace some other artist s work. He has since worked for companies like dynamite entertainment, marvel comics and liquid comics. Jim sent submissions to marvel and was hired shortly after. Exclusive comic book variants world renown digital artist greg horn offers his latest marvel comics dc comics convention exclusivesvariants. May 21, 2009 here, the story is absolutely killed by the art. Greg land is representative of the worst side of marvel the cashgrab, crossover summer event marvel.
Jul 25, 2019 a quote from muchlauded and critically acclaimed comic artist, wally wood. He has been known to copy other artists work for poses, or photographs. Greg land born 1956 is an american comic book artist, best known for his work on books such as uncanny xmen, birds of prey, and fantastic four land has been criticized for the extent to which he relies on photographic reference for his art, and for his repetitive use of certain facial templates and poses when rendering characters. Between 2001 and 2004, he was a regular artist on sojourn for crossgen.
In the end land takes the easy route and stands on the shoulders if. Land s layouts and poses were so distinctive, detailed and repetitive that critics suspected that land was lifting photos into his pages outright and using minimal photoshoping to alter the picture and make the work appear an original drawing. Fraction didnt even have a chance with this comic this is not to say that he is blameless for the story, but just that he did not have a chance to make this a good comic book due to the art. His humble beginnings started with marketing himself at midwestern comic cons and doing artwork for the indie. I was first introduced to greg land s pencil work back in 2001 with the breakout title sojourn from crossgen comics. He is a comic book artist, exclusive to marvel comics, and in a nutshell, he traces real life photos and drawings, that are not his, and he reuses the poses and tracings over and over again. Greg land produces work that is cold and digital, verging on photoreal.
Phoenix endsong, ultimate fantastic four and for various comic. Greg land comic artist the most popular comic art by. One of a kind art works created from nails and sometimes other metals. There, our heroine arwyn goes in search of parts of a lost arrow that would bring down the evil sigilbearing ruler, morgath. He is perhaps best known for his creatorowned comic phonogram, created with artist jamie mckelvie, published by image comics.
His first published work for dc comics was in 1995 on nightwing volume 1. See more ideas about comics, marvel comics, marvel. See more ideas about marvel comics, marvel characters and comic books art. He attended princeton university and received a degree in medicine, but he couldnt shake his true passion. Land created a comic art portfolio in the early 1990s.
People speak often about the ethical issues of someone copying a drawing directly from an image, and those concerns are likely fair enough, but when i think of greg land, my problems are not so much ethical ones, but the fact that his. Sandoval gerry conway gerry duggan giada marchisio glynis oliver goran parlov grace randolph grant morrison greg land greg pak greg rucka guiu vilanova guru efx guruefx harvey talibao howard chaykin ian hannin ian herring iban. Working primarily as a digital painter, he is well known for his pinup paintings of female characters. Greg horn is an american comic book artist best known for his work as a cover artist for marvel comics and various other publications. Artist greg land symbiote spiderman, hulkverines, astonishing xmen, incredible hulk, iron man, and many more appears at shonuff comics on friday, november 8, 2019. He then joined dc comics where he illustrated the covers for birds of prey. Greg land s career is like a slap in the face to aspiring artists. Its lazy, insulting to the reader, and poisonous for any writer that gets saddled with this albatross. Greg land is an american comic book artist, best known for his work on books such as uncanny xmen, birds of prey, and fantastic four. Gillen recently has written numerous projects for marvel comics. Porno, crooks, and comic books ive been aware of marvel artist, greg land, for quite a few years. He is currently working on xmenrelated stories, but has worked on ultimate fantastic four and the ultimate power miniseries. I wonder how much porn this guy has to watch to finish one comic book. Greg land started his career at caliber press, working on the series stormquest, but left after the second issue after being approached by dc comics.
A super hero among comic book artists, greg land will return to his hometown and alma mater friday and saturday for a gallery exhibition and book signing. Anthonys comic book art original comic art greg land. A quote from muchlauded and critically acclaimed comic artist, wally wood. What role does ruby summers have in the plan for this dangerous rebellion. Greg land attended indiana state university and had his first job at a screen printing firm. Although the use of photographs as models is long established in comic book art, land has been accused of going beyond the accepted bounds of photo use. See more ideas about marvel comics, marvel and comics. Land was born and raised in indiana, eventually attending indiana state university. Land has been criticized for the extent to which he relies on photographic reference for his art, and for his repetitive use of certain facial templates and poses when rendering characters. Is john gallagher the greg land of transformers artists. During his junior year, land began working at a screen printing company, and subsequently worked. For all those blissfully unaware readers, greg land is a 20 year veteran of the american comic book industry. And he reuses his own work so much its almost like pure cutnpaste.
I rather enjoy the comics work greg land, currently drawing symbiote spiderman. He followed this with jla, birds of prey, batman, and many more most recently, land has been working for marvel comics on some of their most iconic titles. But it helps when hes on point, and being challenged by a writer. Greg land has been a barnacle on the ass of marvel for decades now because, as far as i can tell, he has a large audience dedicated to the type of plastic, expressionless, tracedfromadirtymagorfashionadormovieposter art that he pumps out. Marvel, dc, dark horse, image and dozens of hard to find smallpress comics. Comic art community gallery of comic art a 1919 marcio abreu, aco, daniel acuna, arthur adams, neal adams, charlie adlard, ron adrian, david aja, sabrina alberghetti, mario alberti, rafael albuquerque, jason shawn alexander, mike allred, alp allen altiner, di amorim, jay anacleto, brent anderson, kalman andrasofszky, kaare. Greg land work history work includes harley quinn 25th special, phoenix resurrection, and dark nights metal starring the batman who laughs and metal harley quinn. Greg land born 1956 is an american comic book artist, best known for his work on books such as uncanny xmen, birds of prey, and fantastic four. He has a very particular style of drawing especially when it comes to facial expressions and body positions. In 1999, greg land was doing covers of birds of prey based on the sketches of brian stelfreeze. Illustrator reacts to good and bad comic book art 2 youtube. All artists with an insane skill set working as some of the top industry professionals out there for marvel, dc.
Greg land comic artist the most popular comic art by greg. Watch dark knight comic book artist john romita jr. How to draw a beautiful woman by greg land greg lands. His humble beginnings started with marketing himself at midwestern comic cons and doing artwork for the indiepublished stormquest. Published on aug 19, 2018 greg land is a popular artist who has worked on some of marvels top titles like xmen and iron man. Ive been aware of marvel artist, greg land, for quite a few years. But im happy hes getting got a job and making a living. Greg landwork history comic book network wiki fandom. See more ideas about comic books art, marvel comics and marvel characters. If you have any specific questions or requests, please ask us prior to ordering and well get back to you as soon as we can. Greg land born 1956 is an american comic book artist, best known for his work on books such as uncanny xmen. A good number of those traces are from porn, meaning characters end up in ridiculous poses and with expressions that do not fit the narrative at all. With work on stormquest completed, greg land went to chicago and did his first major comic book convention.
Nov 27, 2018 and many comic book artists based their character drawings on real people. Read on to see what brothers thinks of greg land and jerome openas takes on the character. Later, land began to work at crossgen comics, on a series called sojourn. What do other comic book artists think of greg lands. Ive seen plenty of comics where the artist was not a particularly good storyteller. Brian cronin of comic book resources remarked that lands art in uncanny.
Greg land first got a job with an independent publisher as the artist for stormquest after advertising himself at a midohio con comic convention. Hes cutting and pasting a library of images into a comic panel layout. Comiclink is the online vintage comic book and comic art auction destination featuring comic book auctions spotlighting the most desirable cgc graded examples of key comics, as well as comic art auctions featuring the biggest names in comic book illustration from the. Greg land is a popular comic book artist, recently working on spiderwoman and currently working on a new xmen series with cullen bunn for the allnew alldifferent marvel relaunch. Read their bio, check out their credits, and discuss their work. Nov 29, 2019 for all those blissfully unaware readers, greg land is a 20 year veteran of the american comic book industry. His figures tend to the soft and fleshy rather than. Milo manaras art is more stylized and is typically lush and organic. Im also a huge fan of comic art that is original and unlike anything ive seen before.
Jul 28, 2015 greg land is a popular comic book artist, recently working on spiderwoman and currently working on a new xmen series with cullen bunn for the allnew alldifferent marvel relaunch. Notes greg has received criticism for his over reliance on other peoples work. Now granted, the comics industry is a certain amount more profitable for the work put in that it was in woods era when it comes to artists. Jun 22, 2019 i rather enjoy the comics work greg land, currently drawing symbiote spiderman. Greg land is a professional tracing artist marvel comics. Possibly the most harmful art ive seen in a comic cbr. You can kind of tell the difference between his lightbox swipes, and his more free hand art. The ultrarealistic artwork drew in readers to the fantasy world of quin. He began his career in 1994 working for caliber comics on stormquest. There he met with dc comics editor pat garrahy, who liked his work. Dang how come when i tried to pass a trace off as my own work in art class i.
Cronin from comic book resources, states about lands work on uncanny. Get the jump on new items at anthonys comic book art. This is the second comics alliance column by david brothers on comic book artists approaches to drawing women in oversexualized ways. The maestro rules but there are those who want him dethroned.
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