tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147228.post7804200524300128500..comments2023-12-20T04:59:07.043-08:00Comments on ink destroyed my brush: Meditations on Women's Faces and Difficulties Thereuponinkdestroyedmybrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037083364689982443noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147228.post-54569354946001466472010-01-31T18:24:29.373-08:002010-01-31T18:24:29.373-08:00Hey, great post, very well written!Hey, great post, very well written!Inkshttp://www.inkandmedialtd.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147228.post-60242432832179454332010-01-05T01:10:54.407-08:002010-01-05T01:10:54.407-08:00Hear, hear! If you're inking in the more moder...Hear, hear! If you're inking in the more modern, "rough" brushwork style that essentially is a resurrection of 1920's illustrative styles particularly beloved of illustrators of stuff like Tarzan, you can also get the shadows and angles of faces without the thin lines that can look scratchy and "aged" as well. But Gustav Dore (or rather, his etchers/inkers!) also managed to get both softness and spiky sculptured effects from the same array of multitudes of very fine lines....<br /><br />What it is, is (at best) laziness by artists who don't want to go to the trouble of drawing bone structure, and at worst, don't want to look at *actual* women (instead of photoshopped fashion plates) who - surprise, surprise! - have as much variation and prominent bone structure as men do. <br /><br />But then, I was trained in life drawing classes, not drawing-from-airbrushed-fashion-mags classes...bellatryshttp://bellatrys.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147228.post-73923107371735842062009-12-30T16:22:52.948-08:002009-12-30T16:22:52.948-08:00there are other ways, but they usually require sub...there are other ways, but they usually require subtlety and that is typically in short supply around comics, and sometimes even around illustration. The use of color can convey the change in a woman's face sometimes better than lines. I just think that too many people buy into the old line that you age a woman's face 5 years for each line you use.inkdestroyedmybrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09037083364689982443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147228.post-41084976652660092712009-12-30T04:45:19.036-08:002009-12-30T04:45:19.036-08:00I'm not an artist and wouldn't know where ...I'm not an artist and wouldn't know where to start when drawing anyone.<br />With that in mind, my comments are such:<br />Surely an artist should be producing honest work that depicts emotion and characters with depth, and as you pointed out, if you treat male and female characters differently because to include lines will make the women less hot, this becomes not only a sexist move but makes for a bad piece of work, because the female characters will be stale and like plastic mannequins.<br /><br />I didn't know about the reproduction techniques, thanks for including that. Still, even with the use of less lines artists could still portray characters at different ages, right? So there must be other techniques, which I don't know, because I'm not an artist.Sarangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03545162612237984546noreply@blogger.com