Comments posted by deenekingston

It is like a soul treading the path of death. The softness of the pencils here lends it that dreamlike quality. Masterful.

Crisp, charming style with wonderful characterisation. Highly proficient graphics. No too much, not to little. Just so.

A very skilful piece. The oblique verticals make one feel like they are sinking with the ship and the painted washes make everything feel like it is drownding in the sea. You can almost taste the salt. Very atmospheric piece. Superb.

Hovering somewhere between cartoon and illustration. Both yet neither. Such an intriguing style. I like it!

This does seem to present a rather heavily romanticised version of the neolithic lifestyle with its portrayal of what seems to me to be a gift presented by a father to his 'nuclear' family unit? The venus figurines were most likely religious 'fertility' totems and society at this stage was most certainly tribal. But as you say it is 'nascent' and we must play fair and allow for its age. Regardless of the historical romanticism it is a very fine and beautiful painting nonetheless.

A charming 'atmospheric' that captivates like the mood of a dream with the colour of the light.

Depends on your perspective I suppose, but I think this is really 'classy' regardless of whether some might consider it 'trash' pulp culture. I love the beautiful old style cover paintings. Now most covers are photographic or hyper-realistically painted in photoshop and, for me, distinctly lacking in the charm and artistic expression, the 'mood' and 'persona' of these beautiful old paintings. I would love to hang this on my wall. Simply gorgeous.

It is only my personal preference of course, both profiles are wonderful! But I have to say I favour the second the most. It is less realistic than the first, true, but it is precisely the exaggerated dimensions of the huge horse with its more angular composition that makes it look almost as if it were hewn from stone, offset against a more expressionistic background that lends this version a much more 'legendary' feel.

I'm not familiar with this artist but I do like this image. It is simple but very well drawn, composed and poignant. It summons a multitude of questions and story possibilities.

I like the way the artist has subdued the background here, almost vaporous, in order to lend the knights greater weight and power with the dark heavy inks. A clever graphic strategy coupled with the dynamism of directional linework and skewed perspective that makes the image work so well.

The feel of Tardi's expressionism is powerful in this board loaded with potent atmosphere. Fantastic research too. I love to read when people follow up like this with great depth of understanding and appreciation.

A very nice 'noir' by Torti, cleanly delineated and beautifully composed.

Yes, it does remind one of Charles Burns work, who was obviously heavily inspired in his style by the old school romance comics. But, of course, Burns wasn't born until 1955 and harkens back to this style of drawing. Someone else has suggested this might be Matt Baker. Maybe? I can't be 100 percent certain either but I'd put my money on this most likely being the work of Robert Hayward Webb. Looks a lot like him to me. Any other theories most welcome.

The artwork here is really large. Not quite, but very nearly A2 size and it looks to me like it was drawn on CS10 paper. For those of you too young to know this, CS10 was a very 'tough' glossy paper that was so hard you could ink on it and then use a scalpel to scratch lines out over the inks. A bit like scratchboard only it was thin enough that you could lightbox through it as well which made it very popular for use by artists in the 80s pre-digital era. Alas, I'd give an arm and a leg for a pad of the stuff now but they just don't make it anymore!

I commissioned this from Alex only recently via his etsy store. 85 and still going strong.