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Thursday, October 6, 2005

Alex Ross

Posted by Charley Parker at 7:20 am


Ask comics fans about Alex Ross and you’ll get mixed but strong opinions. Many think his highly rendered watercolor and gouache comic illustrations “inappropriate” for comics storytelling, others find his work exciting and beautiful. I fall into the latter camp and have a tremendous respect for his water media technique. I also have no problem with his extensive use of photographic models. I feel that practice falls squarely in the tradition of great comic illustrators like Hal Foster, Alex Raymond and Al Williamson. Much of the most interesting art is to be found in the Ross Report newsletter section of the site.

    • Site Quirks: Navigation is inconsistent and it's easy to find yourself in a dead-end with no link back to the main body of the site.
    • Link: www.alexrossart.com/
    Posted in: Comics, Illustration, Painting   |   7 Comments »

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    1. Comment by Nita Leland
      Wednesday, October 19, 2005 @ 9:54 pm

      I loved Alex Ross’s magazine illustrations years ago, but really liked his later fine-art watercolors best.

    2. Comment by Charley Parker
      Thursday, October 20, 2005 @ 9:31 am

      If I’m not mistaken, that’s another Alex Ross. I’ll dig for some information on that.

    3. Pingback by lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts » Christopher Moeller
      Thursday, December 15, 2005 @ 2:48 am

      [...] Christopher Moeller is an illustrator and comics artist who is one of the foremost proponents of fully-painted comics art. Rather than the traditional um… lines and colors format, each panel is a painted image. Many painted-comics artists use watercolor (see my post about Alex Ross), but Moeller uses an opaque medium (it looks like acrylic or possibly gouache). There are only a handful of artists who can really make this work and Moeller is superb at it. [...]

    4. Comment by Ryan
      Tuesday, October 3, 2006 @ 6:28 pm

      I love Alex Ross’s artwork. He is amazing! Genius!

    5. Comment by Matthew
      Sunday, March 28, 2010 @ 5:04 pm

      Could anyone tell me what comic book/graphic novel the above image was taken from?

    6. Comment by rupam
      Friday, December 24, 2010 @ 3:37 am

      @Matthew: It’s the scene from the 1st installment of a 12issue comicbook (limited) series by DC, called JUSTICE.
      You can get more info at this wiki-entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_(DC_Comics)
      Also there’re ISBNs for the collectible editions of the book, in case you wanna have’em. All the best.

    7. Pingback by Alex Ross at NRM | Uber Patrol - The Definitive Cool Guide
      Friday, November 9, 2012 @ 10:20 am

      [...] Ross, who I profiled briefly in 2005, is an American comics artist and illustrator known for his work in the “fully painted” [...]

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