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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.

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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!

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