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
BILL SIENKIEWICZBut with comics you’re reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
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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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I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
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Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
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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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Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
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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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Especially with Elektra, because I’m doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
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I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
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And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client
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But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
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I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
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So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
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Cartooning is an honorable thing
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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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