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I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

Bill Sienkiewicz

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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Artist Mean Style
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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Artist States World
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
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Artist Stuff Wanted
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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Artist Irrelevant Technique
Especially with Elektra, because I’m doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
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Artist Especially Versions
And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client
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Artist Assignment Clients
If you’re going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it
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Certain Levels Unreality
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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Artist Movie People
So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
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Artist Boundaries Pushing Safe
I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
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Guy Paint Stills
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
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Artist Blood Comic Respect
So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
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Artist Filled Missing
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
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Artist Stories Want
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It’s an avenue to say what you want to say
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Artist Avenue Want
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
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Artist Driven Media
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
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Art Illustrators School

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