Alex Ross

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Film & Animation

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• alex
• ross

[DrunkenRonin]

What kind of idiot dislikes this?!

[RedBlueBlurForever]

do we all agree that Alex Ross is TOO amazing? ...ya, i thought so :0

[eljuli1003]

@tddavis mmm, no necessary. it doesn't matter how realistic your art is, what really matters is the sensation that you feel when you watch it. this is the fucking problem with art, people think that something hyper-realistic is the best of the best. just look at james jean art, he is a complete genius, in his own way just like alex ross, but no one is better than the other, the different is that, without models, james jean draws incredibly awesome, in my opinion, he is more creative than ross

[wgpencil]

If you see Alex Ross layouts,you´ll they´re good enough for the page.BUT he uses reference because he wants it to be perfect.He doesn´t trace the photos because he doesn´t copy the photo.He just uses it as reference.The models don´t look like the characters in the pages.Scott Campbell don´t draw from the imagination,nor Frazetta did.Theys used/use to meke sketches and sketches based on photos or live models befor they go to the final draw.

[playamadetexan12]

yes reference is an aspect of art as is imagination, but to when it comes to the talent of putting it to paper or canvas is what you fail to look at is that he has mastered it. I am an illustration student and to tell you every artist used reference to some extent if only u look at a broom or an animal and draw it to some degree to transform it. The man dose what alot of us yes even artist wish we could do and that is draw and paint with the abiltity to look flawless.

[NorteRed206]

epic!

[Dalen77]

copying everything with models is not necessarily a higher standard, they look so similar to the photo he might as well just trace the photos. If you watch Hayao Miyazaki's movies he draws from experiences and imagination, he doesn't use models or reference and you can see stunning animation by him with life that some of the rotoscoped Disney movies don't offer. There is no reference to make Kiki fly and fall through the air on her broom, but some how Miyazaki did it.

[Dalen77]

@tddavis Ive seen some of his drawing out of his head, I agree they look good, but I really just don't think its the same when you reference every panel with a model. John Buscema drew almost everything out of his head, at one point he even said he was so sick of drawing from his imagination he just wanted to copy something, even a still life. Frazetta drew almost everything from his head. Hal Foster drew all the figures out of his head, Miyazaki draws from imagination, Scott Campbell.

[Dalen77]

@tddavis What I'm saying is that it is sort of a secret that a lot of artist don't know, I'm not saying you don't study and be inspired you have to, but what I am saying is you can learn if your talented as Ross to draw almost completely out of your head. What I'm saying is Ross is so used to reverencing everything that if didn't have that reference he may struggle a lot to complete the painting because he is trained that way.

[Dalen77]

@sharingancopyinninja I think hes studied Andrew Loomis but it still looks like classic comics thought.

[tddavis]

Alex ross could pull out a half decent sketch from his head. looking at his work I know he can do that. He holds his art to a much higher standard than just drawing out of his head. If you actually watch his process he draws up his thumbnails and rough sketch out of his head and than shoots reference for the finished piece, like every great artist/illustrator does.

[tddavis]

@Dalen77 Man you have no concept of how art works. no artist learned to draw everything from their head. Do you know why they can draw from their head? its because they carry sketchbooks all day and draw from life, building up a memory of visual information. The study is one of the greatest tools used by an artist. I have never met a great artist who hasn't used reference. No one just knows how to draw something. Every person I have ever met that devalues reference never made it professionally.