Comic inspiration

 I've already talked about a few comics that influenced my comic project but now I'm going to talk about a few that influenced me in unique ways, be it a none typical layout, different materials or a non traditional style.

Low, Reminber, Tocchini

Low is interesting because of Tocchini's loose art style. Visually the work is striking and very interesting but the looseness, almost ethereal quality of the line work can make the comic not as clear as it could be at time. I think the uniqueness of the style is worth this though as it has such a strong aesthetic quality

Sculptor, McCloud
I have talked about Scott McCloud in a few posts, mainly about his comic understanding comics, in which he looks in depth at the history and structure of comics. Sculptor is his latest comic and I had to read it as he is such a knowledgable guy when it comes to comics. The first thing I noticed about Sculptor that is different to most comics is that it is all black white and blue, the blue being uses as shading. This gives the comic depth and variety that can be hard to achieve with just black and white but maintains the strong, clear, graphic quality generally best encapsulated by pure black and white work. The use of blue also gives the comic a sort of subtle sadness or melancholy atmosphere throughout that fits it's tone.
Also notable is the variety of paneling. McCloud often uses lots of little panels, sometimes this is to work as a sort of montage but also can be used to create tension or slow down important moments. Essentially it comes down to controlling time. This is something Scott McCloud is very good at as he understands every panel effects how the viewer reads time as well as the type of panel transition being used.


Snowblind, Masters, Jenkins

I haven't actually read Snowblind I've just seen it around and because of it's unique, strong style it stuck in my mind. The art style looks very traditional for this day and age, I don't know how the illustrations are actually done but it looks like it's coloured with water colour or something similar. More importantly to my project the line-work looks like ink, what I use, this is because there is an inconsistency of the line thickness and that the lines seem a bit insecure, loose but in a different way to Tocchini's style. It gives a kind of sketchiness to his work which I really like, to me this line-work is more visually interesting than the normal well defined but plain line-work found in most comics. I don't really like the colour work though as I find it too weak and wishy-washy, it's not intense or bold enough.


Mirror, Rios, Hwei Lim

I have never seen a comic anything like Mirror before, and I doubt there is one. Everything about it is unique. The panel shapes, page layouts, colouring and line-work are all unlike most other comics. Panels are cut up without any structural reason to separate elements, act as windows and certain ways of framing. Elements are constantly breaking out of the confines of the panels, characters appear multiple times in panels showing movement and time progression, their is also a large amount of imagery outside the panels completely. The line work is very sketchy a lot like a pencil drawing and the colouring is very like Snowblind in it's water colour like paintly style. All these elements together make it truly a unique experience, even if one aspect doesn't work all that well it still sort of fits with the style because their isn't anything else like it. This comic is good proof that there doesn't have to be any rules when making a comic, you can be as experimental as possible.

Sources
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