I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
BILL SIENKIEWICZDo the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it’s still about respecting the story
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To me, that’s one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that’s a completely different approach
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There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work.
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But with comics you’re reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
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Cartooning is an honorable thing
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Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
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Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident
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So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
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One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much
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For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
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Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it’s still about respecting the story
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I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
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Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
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And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client
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To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
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