Hi Gary, ur art really influenced me as a 16, 17 year old kid, focused on drawing comics and struggling horriblly with it. In a short span I seen a Jack Davis Steelers beach towel, which blew me away. Then seen ur art a few days later and since then have been set free to do any ideas the way I wanted to do them.
I was caught up in the whole drawing "the marvel way" as that was Marvels big saying back then. Which I loved their art, but it was boring seeing the same type of stuff and frusterating trying to create in a way I wasnt having fun with. Thankfully now Marvel opened up to all styles of art. For those 2 or 3 years tho, I struggled until I seen ur work and realized I wanted to be doing more cartoon type of work over focusing on each anatomy part being correct. Still interested in drawing comics, but not as frusterating anymore. I liked ur sports stuff, do u do much anymore? Sports art/cartooning is y main focus now and hold out hope sports cartoonist will make a comeback someday.
I'm convinced that's the real reason magazines struggled. They just put photos in every article and there was no more imagination, inspiration in looking at magazines. Magazines still surviving use minimal if any art and I would love to see it get back to a time like the golden age of Illustration. Where all content was created by artist that knew how to make imagry interesting and worth seeing.
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Hi Gary, ur art really influenced me as a 16, 17 year old kid, focused on drawing comics and struggling horriblly with it. In a short span I seen a Jack Davis Steelers beach towel, which blew me away. Then seen ur art a few days later and since then have been set free to do any ideas the way I wanted to do them.
I was caught up in the whole drawing "the marvel way" as that was Marvels big saying back then. Which I loved their art, but it was boring seeing the same type of stuff and frusterating trying to create in a way I wasnt having fun with. Thankfully now Marvel opened up to all styles of art. For those 2 or 3 years tho, I struggled until I seen ur work and realized I wanted to be doing more cartoon type of work over focusing on each anatomy part being correct. Still interested in drawing comics, but not as frusterating anymore. I liked ur sports stuff, do u do much anymore? Sports art/cartooning is y main focus now and hold out hope sports cartoonist will make a comeback someday.
I'm convinced that's the real reason magazines struggled. They just put photos in every article and there was no more imagination, inspiration in looking at magazines. Magazines still surviving use minimal if any art and I would love to see it get back to a time like the golden age of Illustration. Where all content was created by artist that knew how to make imagry interesting and worth seeing.
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