Adam Hughes sketching tutorial: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
I loved comics as a kid. I was a Batman fan. The stories and the old campy TV show were what originally captured my imagination back when I was 6 or 7, but when DC Comics' brought in Neal Adams to overhaul Batman's new, more realistic style comic book, it became more about the art to me. By my early teens, I was choosing comic books not by their stories or characters, but by their artists. If Adams penned a Green Lantern, it was mine. If I stumbled on an older Nick Fury by Sterenko, I couldn't pass it up. It led me to try to copy their style and I developed an interest in art and illustration. I favored pencil, and pen & ink.
Although I outgrew comics in high school and my interests migrated to sports, drafting, and architecture, I continued to pay attention to comic book art. Guys like Adam Hughes and Jim Lee [blog] are my favorites of today's crop of of comic artists.
It's stuff like this that get's me thinking about digging out my old pens.
(I wonder what ever happened to all my old comic books anyway. Hmmm...)
tags: comic art, adam hughes, neal adams