By Xesko
James began well. Showed us their influences and I really enjoyed myself with them because they were strangely familiar, leading me to remember the days of my childhood and adolescence.
On the screen of the showroom, we watched to a paraded of images from Rupert, Thor, Avengers, X-Man, The Pogles, Pippin, Fantastic 4, Robinson Crusoe, The Mad Magazine and a list of references from pop music of the 70 ‘, a lot of album covers from Genesis to Joy Division, from who stated ‘They Made the ordinary Seem Extra-ordinary’.
All went well until he began to present their work. Drawings of a blatant childishness and a low quality level, which lead me to wonder how someone who clearly is unable to draw, have dedicated to this kind of art, and more, how it is possible to have the acceptance he has in the market.
His explanation clarified my doubts. Due to their inability to write or draw, Pyman developed a technique based on copy photographs of low graphic quality to large-sized images, thus creating a market niche for him, just based on the emotion portrayed in the trace of their low quality designs.
This was evident when we showed some original illustrations, in which we could verify his inability to create a fully structured image, failure of perspective, clearly demonstrating the low technical quality. However, that low-quality conveyed an eerie sense of emotional engagement, which few artists betray.
On one thing, there was no doubt. Before us was an artist that instead of being a creator of Comics was in fact a Comic Artist. However…
Summarize it in one word. Strange.
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