So it is with the artist known as Bone, whose entire contribution to the genre seems to be a single 16-panel fight sequence.
Whoever Bone is, he/she did not learn art from "How To Draw Comics the Marvel Way". I think this is a classically-trained artist, and I wonder how Bone came to create this one sequence of drawings, and apparently nothing else that was similar.
These fighters have a weight and a solidity that I don't think I've ever seen before in catfight art. In fact, I'm not sure I would even include these drawings in the genre.
They have an almost documentary feel to them, like something an anthropologist would have sketched because the tribe was frightened by his camera. I personally get no sexy or erotic vibe from these drawings at all.
But Bone has a solid understanding of human anatomy, composition and light and shade. Better than mine, that's for sure, and I wish I could incorporate his/her knowledge into my own stuff.
This work would be more at home in an art gallery than in an online collection of battling babes comics.
I feel the same about Bone's work. I do however feel it is ignored because of the subject matter, it is dismissed as kitsch, rather than studied for it's artistic merit. Much as the bronze I've spent my time trying to research.
ReplyDeleteI remember this so well. The series completely blew my mind when I saw it, more so than Eric Stanton's stuff (which had been the gold standard up until then). So raw, beautiful, filled with weight. Love the big woman's hair!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was looking at your Blog Archive, as soon as I saw the word Bone, I pretty much guessed it were these drawings. I think I still have them all somewhere.
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