I like this one. Someone who understands graphics will have to explain why this is here.
red
8 years ago
When do we get to the ones by Harry Potter Lovecraft?
Catie
8 years ago
The art is good, especially for a comic. It’s what’s done with it that’s criminal. Cutting it out to look like a paper cutout makes it look crappy and cheap, putting it on a photo background makes it look even cheaper, and surrounding it with badly done metallic effects and fonts makes it look goddamn awful. If they had splashed a bit of color on the drawing (not colored pencils but perhaps Copics or some other markers/pens), put an appropriate drawn background, dropped the metallic crap and put a decent font on it – you know, make it look like a cover of a comic – it would have been a perfectly good cover.
I can see that now: It’s a mixture of comic art hand drawn by an artist over a generated backgroundj and surrounded by what is sort of a picture of a metallic “frame”. Just so that I understand, mixing drawn comic art and a photographed or computer generated background is a graphic no-no? If so, is it considered lazy graphics?
It can work, but in 99% of times it doesn’t. It usually takes a genius to make it look good. And it particularly doesn’t work if you cut it out like the laser shot bit is cut here. Maaaaybe it would’ve looked better if it were drawn directly on the photo (not with black ink, of course) but I wouldn’t bet on it. Lazy graphics, yes.
Yeah, when I zoomed in, I saw the art wasn’t the best. It’s a bit messy. But people are not going to look at it zoomed in, and it looks decent at normal viewing size. Not Marvel quality by far, but decent. A bit of color slapped on it might cover the messy bits and make it pop (of course, bad coloring could easily make it worse, so all of this is just my wishful thinking).
And it’s not “from” Howard Phillips Lovecraft. He had nothing to do with it. It may be “based on” or “inspired by,” but that’s the best the author can say.
I like this one. Someone who understands graphics will have to explain why this is here.
When do we get to the ones by Harry Potter Lovecraft?
The art is good, especially for a comic. It’s what’s done with it that’s criminal. Cutting it out to look like a paper cutout makes it look crappy and cheap, putting it on a photo background makes it look even cheaper, and surrounding it with badly done metallic effects and fonts makes it look goddamn awful. If they had splashed a bit of color on the drawing (not colored pencils but perhaps Copics or some other markers/pens), put an appropriate drawn background, dropped the metallic crap and put a decent font on it – you know, make it look like a cover of a comic – it would have been a perfectly good cover.
I can see that now: It’s a mixture of comic art hand drawn by an artist over a generated backgroundj and surrounded by what is sort of a picture of a metallic “frame”. Just so that I understand, mixing drawn comic art and a photographed or computer generated background is a graphic no-no? If so, is it considered lazy graphics?
In its simplest terms, putting things together that don’t look like they should be together is bad.
And the pen-and-ink artwork is, at best, amateurish.
It can work, but in 99% of times it doesn’t. It usually takes a genius to make it look good. And it particularly doesn’t work if you cut it out like the laser shot bit is cut here. Maaaaybe it would’ve looked better if it were drawn directly on the photo (not with black ink, of course) but I wouldn’t bet on it. Lazy graphics, yes.
Yeah, when I zoomed in, I saw the art wasn’t the best. It’s a bit messy. But people are not going to look at it zoomed in, and it looks decent at normal viewing size. Not Marvel quality by far, but decent. A bit of color slapped on it might cover the messy bits and make it pop (of course, bad coloring could easily make it worse, so all of this is just my wishful thinking).
And it’s not “from” Howard Phillips Lovecraft. He had nothing to do with it. It may be “based on” or “inspired by,” but that’s the best the author can say.
Somebody – please – shoot the guy responsible for the logo at the bottom.
Oh, look, it’s shitting rainbows! It must run on unicorn farts.