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I like it as long as the story is good and usually are. Personally i'm sort of a minimalist. white tee's or white button ups. slacks or dark blue jeans. two pair of wolverine boots both dark brown and a leather jacket.
I want MORE books that look like this! Anyone love this minimalist style?
I like all of these artists' styles, but none of these are really examples of Minimalism or even minimalist illustration.
They're just great examples of artists with especially tight, clean, and interestingly stylized approaches. The lines are used efficiently, but the figures and backgrounds are rendered with just as much detail as most mainstream comic art.
I don't mean this to sound like a dig, because it looks to me like you've got a good appreciation for some really nice art. And you're right that the qualities that these artists share in their comic styles is a big part of what makes them all look so good. It's just not Minimalist (or minimalist), that's all.
I want MORE books that look like this! Anyone love this minimalist style?
I like all of these artists' styles, but none of these are really examples of Minimalism or even minimalist illustration.
They're just great examples of artists with especially tight, clean, and interestingly stylized approaches. The lines are used efficiently, but the figures and backgrounds are rendered with just as much detail as most mainstream comic art.
I don't mean this to sound like a dig, because it looks to me like you've got a good appreciation for some really nice art. And you're right that the qualities that these artists share in their comic styles is a big part of what makes them all look so good. It's just not Minimalist (or minimalist), that's all.
They're all minimalistic compared to tradition comic book art, or at least share minimalist aspects. I'm not saying they're completely minimalist art(I really wouldn't enjoy a book full of silhouette outside of a Noir story :P ), but have that same focused feel you get from minimalist art with just enough detail and minimal levels of shadow.
One of the things it was hard for me to accept when I was studding art in school was you can really shoe horn what is an isn't considered this or that kind of art for anything thing really, because art is dumb like that. What ever you prefer to call it. I love this clean solid look.
Works for the tone of a few books, but I hope it doesn't get much bigger than it is now. Personally it was a big turn-off for the Moon Knight series and I'm mixed about New Warriors.
I really can't imagine any other art being more perfect for the flow and style of the current Moon Knight run.
"They're all minimalistic compared to tradition comic book art, or at least share minimalist aspects. I'm not saying they're completely minimalist art(I really wouldn't enjoy a book full of silhouette outside of a Noir story :P ), but have that same focused feel you get from minimalist art with just enough detail and minimal levels of shadow.
One of the things it was hard for me to accept when I was studding art in school was you can really shoe horn what is an isn't considered this or that kind of art for anything thing really, because art is dumb like that. What ever you prefer to call it. I love this clean solid look."
Minimalistic might be a more accurate way to describe these artists, but I still wouldn't consider them to be more minimalistic than traditional comic art. They might not be as accurately lit as the works of Alex Ross or as overly rendered as stuff by Geof Darrow or the popular styles of the mainstream 90's, but they're still rendered with far more detail than classic comic illustrators like Dan Decarlo, Steve Ditko or Jaime Hernandez (even if their sensibilities seem to lean more in that direction), and even what those guys did wasn't actually anything like Minimalisim.
I mean, I get where you're coming from, and a lot of the terms used to describe different qualities in art can seem fairly vague without a great deal of training, but using terms strait-up incorrectly doesn't really help describe the qualities you appreciate as much as using more generally descriptive terms. Clean and solid certainly work, for example.
again, not trying to be a d-bag, and I really apologize if I am; it's just that since you seemed so charged about this work, I thought I'd point out that there are more accurate and descriptive ways to talk about it without confusing the issue.
@oldnightcrawler: Depending on the medium you're talking about a term like minimalist can become more broad. Saying it's wrong is a stretch and goes against a lot of what art theory is all about. The way I see these drawings is they focus on just the essentials of what needs to be there to show the world and characters without losing their identity. Like I said before one of the biggest thing I'd had issues with(and so do most people) when I studied art is accepting that people are going to see things differently from you, and things can be defined nearly an infinite amount of ways.
I think it's really cool. The style wouldn't work on just any series but it often seems to be paired with a slice of life approach to superheroes like Daredevil, Hawkeye and She-Hulk.
Depending on the medium you're talking about a term like minimalist can become more broad.
Saying it's wrong is a stretch and goes against a lot of what art theory is all about.
The way I see these drawings is they focus on just the essentials of what needs to be there to show the world and characters without losing their identity.
Like I said before one of the biggest thing I'd had issues with(and so do most people) when I studied art is accepting that people are going to see things differently from you, and things can be defined nearly an infinite amount of ways.
1. yes, but in the realm of representational art it does have a specific meaning, which is why people came up with the term minimalistic, for basically the use you're applying to it.
2. I don't want to get into a debate about art theory, I was just pointing out that your use of the term was inaccurate and that, for the sake of expressing your point more clearly you might want to know that.
3. And that's an astute observation that isn't really illustrated by applying the term you've used, since in the realm of representational art a minimalist interpretation of the characters would essentially reduce them to mere symbols, and not the fleshy, weighted characters these artists have depicted.
4. Hey, I feel your frustration; I spent over a decade in art school and dropped out twice for basically those reasons. I'm just saying that, while art should be open to completely subjective interpretation, the same doesn't apply to the language we use to describe it. If it did, what use would there be in describing it at all?
Depending on the medium you're talking about a term like minimalist can become more broad.
Saying it's wrong is a stretch and goes against a lot of what art theory is all about.
The way I see these drawings is they focus on just the essentials of what needs to be there to show the world and characters without losing their identity.
Like I said before one of the biggest thing I'd had issues with(and so do most people) when I studied art is accepting that people are going to see things differently from you, and things can be defined nearly an infinite amount of ways.
1. yes, but in the realm of representational art it does have a specific meaning, which is why people came up with the term minimalistic, for basically the use you're applying to it.
2. I don't want to get into a debate about art theory, I was just pointing out that your use of the term was inaccurate and that, for the sake of expressing your point more clearly you might want to know that.
3. And that's an astute observation that isn't really illustrated by applying the term you've used, since in the realm of representational art a minimalist interpretation of the characters would essentially reduce them to mere symbols, and not the fleshy, weighted characters these artists have depicted.
4. Hey, I feel your frustration; I spent over a decade in art school and dropped out twice for basically those reasons. I'm just saying that, while art should be open to completely subjective interpretation, the same doesn't apply to the language we use to describe it. If it did, what use would there be in describing it at all?
You're just wrong.... There anyway this can be argued. You're saying something is inaccurate when it's not.
Art is subjective anyway and whilst I don't mind this kind of stylized artwork, I hope the trend doesn't continue to grow too much. I do think that sometimes this kind of artwork looks lazy and downright amateurish.
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