i totally know what people are getting at when they’re like “wow ONE is great because hes not the best artist but they dont let that stop him from storytelling and not giving up” bcuz like yeah ok yes theres nothing wrong with saying this and he does have lots of room for improvement, but on the other hand, i legitimately, absolutely think he’s a good artist??? like besides his storytelling and writing skills which are Fucking Legendary, he actually communicates emotions and imagery suuuuper fucking well. so well that sometimes BONES had a hard time keeping the fuck up, which i find hilarious
when the show started airing, guess which version of this scene most people actually preferred, hands down?
Yep, ONE’s version. It got the emotions and message of that scene across 500% better. To be clear, in n o f cuki ng way am i dissing BONES; god knows they just created an animated masterpiece. but im a little bummed about ONE always getting the short end of the stick on art.
what i find the most impressive about ONE’s art is the sheer MAGNITUDE of emotion and intensity that he can get across through the artwork.
These are great on their own but its a completely unique experience to READ through the story and get to these moments where there’s nothing but pacing and imagery to propel you through these scenes, some of which being the most powerful scenes in the story for those reasons.
like idk damn dude. if i put some of my work next to some of ONE’s work, some people might say i was the better artist, but i would have to absolutely disagree. some of my best works don’t come CLOSE to this stuff. honestly a lot of published graphic novels don’t come anywhere near to delivering a story through the art as well as mob psycho does.
i guess this is a ONE art appreciation post because goddamn dude, look at this.
I think when unexperienced artists/ non-artists see ONE’s art, all they are seeing is the very non-traditional, not “prettied up” style and presume ONE is just not a very talented artist and his popularity must come from his storytelling abilities. But pretty much any artist who knows their shit can see there’s genuine skill in these panels. You have to know what you are doing to achieve an art style that looks naturally messy and loose, while preserving the basic elements that make your art readable (anatomy, lighting, expression, etc). And it’s clear from these examples that ONE knows very well what he is doing, as his art style shifts wildly from moment to moment, evoking emotion from the reader dependent on how detailed, how sketchy, how dark, how flat, etc the drawing is.
More example of this type of purposeful messiness would be artists like Taiyo Matsumoto (creator of tekkonkinkreet and ping pong)
Dave McKean (well known for his illustrations in books such as Coraline)
and my personal favorite, Mortis Ghost (creator of OFF and Dr. Cataclysm)
basically what I’m saying is, do not assume messy and loose automatically equates to unskilled art. Artists like this go so underappreciated because their art isn’t cutesy or realistic like what everyone is used to. If you love ONE’s work, and you find that reading his comics evokes an emotional response in you, understand that is just as much of a result of his art as it is his writing skills, and it’s likely something he’s worked on just as hard!
i’ve said this before but….more stories where being gay is what saves and heals a character. more stories where a girl meets a nice girl and develops feelings for her and these feelings are the source of her happiness, her freedom, her escape, rather than her suffering. more stories where a guy’s boyfriend is the reason he is able to leave an abusive home and why he doesn’t self-harm anymore.
gayness not as a curse, but as a blessing. gay characters’ partners as heroes. a character’s gayness as perhaps the one and only thing that even ties them to reality. more stories like this. please.
Being a good person is a choice. Don’t let people fool you into believing that truly good people never have bad thoughts, are never tempted by the easier path, by the low road, never mess up or act out selfishly. Never believe a person can be good without making a conscious effort.
Every single time you do something good, you’ve made a decision to make the world a little brighter.
Goodness is not an inherent trait, it is a choice. Keep making it! I see you, I’m proud of you, and I’m rooting for you!
if you ever need a creative pickmeup remember that the administrator in tf2 was just this random disembodied old woman voice who announced match info in the game
but then a young lady did a fan design of her for kicks on her blog and da account full of fanart, and valve loved it so much that they bought the character design from her, and they eventually hired her to draw official tf2 comics for them, and now the administrator’s this big developed character through multiple oneoffs and arcs and stories in the canon and the fan is now an inhouse comic artist working ft for valve
you never know where your artistic and fandom passions will take you, if you love it and exercise your creativity in fun interesting ways, you never know what could come out of it
Out of curiosity, I went out to find Makani’s original fanart. Here it is:
And here’s her first official appearance in the comic, made only one year later:
Funny thing is I was the worst student when I was in Korean Art School. I still remember my teacher told me that I don’t have any talent of art and I should give up to go to art college. She said like that just because I didn’t follow her education like sitting on the chair and sketch an apple for a whole class. She didn’t even teach me how to use materials, she just gave me a sample drawing and copy it exactly the same for two months. I thought it wasted my time, so I quit it and started to learn by myself.
Of course, I’m not a perfect teacher or artist. It’s just my opinion.
It disturbs me how many people don’t know the anatomy of a pen/pencil/brush/stylus/tool of choice when held by an artist. I would have thought this was common knowledge!
There is a tube inside your tool of choice that is filled with art. When you first pick it up for the day, there’s a very small blockage (the red part in the diagram that I have helpfully provided for you) of bad or awkward art that has sunk down and settled near the tip. The only way to get rid of it is to draw it out onto a page/canvas.
Once you do that, you can get to the good art! It’s totally normal. It happens to everyone. That’s why people do warmups before they draw – they know that awkward art is lurking right near the tip, so they’re getting rid of it.
New artists especially seem to not know that it’s there, and sometimes they might think their bad art blockage is never ending, but if you keep drawing, you’ll get to the good art. Sometimes that awkward art blockage can build up a little bit if you go a long time without drawing, too. Just keep going, though. I promise you that you can break through it, if you just keep going.
“There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that’s all some people have? It isn’t much, but it’s better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.”
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