Thanks for taking the time to check in and comment! It's not often enough that we get to chat as it is, these days, and it's good to have the chance to remedy that.
As to specific points...
I have to admit to becoming increasingly comfortable with those dip nib pens of late, as well as the brush-pens. I started getting serious with those in the last year or so, as a direct response to the line weight concerns which had been bugging me for ages. Why I didn't add that to the repertoire ages back, given all the influence I keep claiming the likes of Schulz to have had on my development...well, let's just say the logic that made sense to me then? It doesn't make sense now.
It was time, Mike.
As for any Hispanic influences...if they're there(and I won't gainsay you if you see them), they're inadvertant or third-hand at best. I can't say I've read all that much of European or South American comics art that didn't get funnelled through a USA publisher. At least not until recently. I've started getting into the habit of borrowing the odd OGN from the French-language fiction section at the local public library for studying various artists' inking approaches in order to remedy this.
Interesting that you should see "Bohemian" or "beatnik" sensibilities as clashing with my detail-oriented thinking, and/or my manners. I'll grant that I don't know much about the background behind those two terms, so there may be things I'm not yet seeing in this as well.
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Linework and Such
Date: 2005-11-25 01:11 am (UTC)Thanks for taking the time to check in and comment! It's not often enough that we get to chat as it is, these days, and it's good to have the chance to remedy that.
As to specific points...
I have to admit to becoming increasingly comfortable with those dip nib pens of late, as well as the brush-pens. I started getting serious with those in the last year or so, as a direct response to the line weight concerns which had been bugging me for ages. Why I didn't add that to the repertoire ages back, given all the influence I keep claiming the likes of Schulz to have had on my development...well, let's just say the logic that made sense to me then? It doesn't make sense now.
It was time, Mike.
As for any Hispanic influences...if they're there(and I won't gainsay you if you see them), they're inadvertant or third-hand at best. I can't say I've read all that much of European or South American comics art that didn't get funnelled through a USA publisher. At least not until recently. I've started getting into the habit of borrowing the odd OGN from the French-language fiction section at the local public library for studying various artists' inking approaches in order to remedy this.
Interesting that you should see "Bohemian" or "beatnik" sensibilities as clashing with my detail-oriented thinking, and/or my manners. I'll grant that I don't know much about the background behind those two terms, so there may be things I'm not yet seeing in this as well.