Rob Liefeld 1996 - Rob Liefeld 2019

Always improve your craft.

Character (artist) arc.

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Does anybody out there know how old Rob was when he first started comic books professionally.

He was fucking 16 with no formal lessons.

He was a fucking undisciplined 16 year old making Marvel Comics money hand-over-fist and they didn’t give a shit about his quality as long as he kept making them money.

Ain’t nobody trying to push him to be better when they could just gas him up and use it for everything they could get out of him.

Also for those who want to talk about him being arrogance I once again refer to the fact that he was fucking 16 and already living the dream and like I said before there was no shortage of Yes Man ready to use with what they can get.

Also how hot were any of you at 16.

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Lmao the last argument is gold🤣👌🏻

Believe it or not that’s none of my concern. However I would still take 10 of him over what we have now.

Yea , y'all got that shit.

Linkara’s gonna need to update his theme song, because Liefeld is absolutely an artist compared to this^^^

And I think someone at the beginning of this post already pointed out the big difference.

An actual artist will work to improve themselves.

While and egotistical hack will make excuses and blame everyone else.

some Black and White photography that I enjoy.

the Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright Portfolio

the Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright Portfolio

These are selections from a portfolio of Frank Lloyd Wright's studies and architectural concept drawings. The full portfolio contains 100 plates and was published in 1910. The majority of the English Language versions were destroyed in a fire. This edition, in German, has the highest resolution scans that I have been able to find. I recommend viewing these images on a laptop, a desktop, or a tablet. The level of detail is hard to appreciate on your phone.

Dracula Yoshitaka Amano

the Hubble Deep Field.

some Black and White photography that I enjoy.

From the October 3, 1949 issue of LIFE magazine - Fashion Extremes—Here are 10 of the most startling in 1949. The original caption for this image: “FULLEST SKIRT is a rose-decked steel-gray Traina-Norell gown in newly popular chiffon. From a 22-inch waist it spreads to a 40-yard circumference.” (Nina Leen—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #fashionfriday #NinaLeen #1940s

THE INFLUENCE OF ALEX TOTH ON CHRIS SAMNEE’S ‘BLACK WIDOW’

This is a pretty good analysis, and a good look at how a legendary artist has influenced a modern one.

There is a whole school of Toth disciples out there, including, for example, @evandocshaner and @corenthal , of which @chrissamnee is maybe the most prominent (right now), so it’s good to see a piece formally acknowledging that.

It would be interesting to see a series of these, examining which prominent modern artists are influenced by absolute masters: your Eisners, Ditkos, Coles, Herges, Moebii, and so on. (Modern artists influenced by Kirby are legion, of course, and generally obviously so, but not always.)

I also think it’s interesting to find out the artists who had an influence on peers that you wouldn’t guess right away. For instance, when I found out @chrissamnee was a big Jaime Hernandez fan, all of a sudden I saw a ton of that in his work, but I don’t know that I would have ever spotted that if he hadn’t mentioned it first. I’d be curious to hear the same for @corenthal.

Well worth the read. I see some Wally Wood influence in Samnee, Shaner, and Corenthal's work too. Just pointing it out.

This Man With Severe Cerebral Palsy Created Mind-Blowing Art Using Just A Typewriter

Last year, 22-time Emmy award-winning reporter John Stofflet posted this news video he created for KING-TV in 2004, featuring Paul Smith and his artistic talents.

See the full video to see more of Smith’s artworks and to learn more about his inspiring story go here. 

truly gifted and inspirational work often comes from people who have experienced extreme hardships and difficulties. these people find that the very act of expressing themselves is a challenge, yet their perseverance is shown in the final product.

Jimi Hendrix played a right handed guitar, and he was a lefty. He did that because he grew up so dirt poor that the only place that sold guitars was a pawn shop he had to walk to, and they only had a right handed guitar. by playing the guitar in that way, he developed his style.

Ray Charles went blind before he was a teenager.

Adele wrote her album '21' after breaking up with her boyfriend. She won an Oscar for 'Skyfall' the same year she won the Grammy for '21'.

William Shakespeare was a traveling performer in the Middle Ages. He was pretty much working class until his talents were recognized. His plays are about life, and he used the medium of his choosing to tell them.

There is NOTHING that you cannot do. Nothing.

Your brain is a problem solving device. That is the main function of the human brain: to figure out solutions to the problems with which it is presented.

That does NOT mean you NEED to be unhappy in order to create.

It means that WHEN you are unhappy, USE IT. When you are Happy, use it.

Use your life experiences to inform your creativity.

And when people tell you to stop what you are doing or change, keep doing it until they shut up and offer you money to own some of your work.

Injustice: Gods Among Us #30

this kind of reads as commentary on Superman in comics today

holy shit

This reads EXACTLY like that. I am surprised that DC published this.

Wow.

Legends of the Blues by William Stout

These are just five of the COUNTLESS reasons I hate Elvis. I don't want to hear the homogenized, white-people-friendly versions of the Delta Blues anymore. I want to hear John Lee Hooker take a break in the middle of singing Boom Boom to take another drag on his cigarette. (I love the blues.)