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Robt. Williams is one of the most popular artists in America today.
His dynamic work — which often includes women, cars, food, and 1950’s Americana –embodies the movement known as Kustom Kar Kulture.

Robt. masters the so-called “lowbrow” art-forms: rock album cover art, comic art, hot-rod art, etc.

*note: Robt. Williams created the cover art for Guns n’ Roses: Appetite for destruction in 1987.

In mid 1960s San Francisco, Robt. became art director for hot-rod hero Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. Robt. quickly became one of the most important West Coast underground artists – creating psychedelic posters and contributing to comics like Zap.

Robt. Williams is one of the most sought-after artists of the 90s and is considered the founding father of Cartoon Surrealism.

*note: Nicolas Cage, Leonardo diCaprio, Johnny Depp, Jesse James & many other celebrities have purchased Robt. Williams’ paintings.

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I am an animation student that is interested in selling art work at different conventions. I noticed that most people were selling fan art at Anime Expo and I am just curious as to how this is legally possible. Would it be best to try to sell my (completely unheard of) original artwork or create some fan art? I never create fan art normally but I would like to get my name out there and show my ability and it seems that usually people swarm the fan art.

It is considered a copyright infringement to sell work depicting characters like Naruto, Batman, etc, since you would be using someone else’s creation for profit. From what I’ve heard, you can get sued for doing so.
However, companies tend to turn a blind eye towards such a practice, and some conventions have regulations upon the topic. I’d suggest researching the convention website and look up their policy about selling fan art.

(Considering cost and simplicity of photoshop), Like I’ve heard that CS and Adobe Photoshop 6 and 7 are good, except i don’t know which one to get. (And CS2 is very complicated to use…)

Illustrator is probably a better bet than Photoshop for doing cartoon art. As noted by imajinn, Illustrator is much easier to work with for drawing because it is vector based.

Vectors connect points on a line using algorithms. This allows the program to manipulate lines (paths) just about anyway you choose. You can bend, shape, merge, subtract and colour them pretty much at will.

Raster images, like in Photoshop assign values to individual pixels. In a sense it "sees" an image, inteprets it and then decides how to map it out.

Here is a good explanation from Mustek:

http://www2.mustek.com/Class/bit_vec.html

The best solution would be CS3 – you could take advantage of both programs. Don’t forget that there are huge discounts for CS3 if you qualify as a student or teacher and can buy educational.

I begin to dive you into my world of creating crappy looking comic art. Muhahahaha! Um. Ahem. Yep. Here’s the link to Part 2 when you’re done with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3b9L_oKh-0

And by the way, I do use a 12 inch ruler, so even though it looks like I don’t, I do. I just couldn’t find it when I made the vid. I even use it later on in the tutorials when I find it.

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I am currently working on an extensive end of the year project where we take many different pieces of art and analyze it.

I want to include one page from a comic book I like as one of the pieces of art. My question is, can this comic book page be considered conceptual art? The page is unremarkable and stylistically does nothing new in comparison to other comics, the focus is the dialogue happening in the piece and the facial expressions which take up almost the entirety of each frame

Sorry to say it but no, comic book pages aren’t conceptual art in and of themselves. (Though in my opinion they ARE works of art in their own rights.) Conceptual art is more a physical thing, if you took a whole bunch of comic books and used them to form a piece of artwork, like say a sculpture of a person and called it "The Soul of Man" or something then that would be conceptual art. One good example of conceptual art to help you figure it out is in 1962 an artist named Christo created a piece called "Iron Curtain" which consisted of a barricade of oil barrels in a narrow Paris street that caused a large traffic jam. The artwork was not the barricade itself but the resulting traffic jam.

Hope that helps!!

This is geeky stuff, If you don’t draw comics it may be really boring, but then again maybe not? A rambling attempt to talk about my current working philosaphy//approach to page layout in comic art.
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Is comic book art a real form of art?
I am a comic book artist trying to start my own comicbook.
I just moved around richmond Kentucky were there
is alot of art galleys and it seem everone in in these galleys
seem to think that comic books are not a real form of art
it kind of upset me..I just want to ask what you guys and gals think?

I will use the old maxim "Art" is in the eye of the beholder. For example many modern comic artists produce a quality of examination of the human form which meets or exceeds the quality of illustration in the sketches of Leonardo da Vinci. Many "Art" galleries would have no problem calling Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches art, while turning away a "comic" artist of higher quality.

The reason is that private "Art" galleries are not in the business of supporting the "Art". They are in the business of marketing a rare commodity. If your "Art" is already commercially available, commonly accessible, and/or of similar quality to many others in your field, then it is not viewed as a rare commodity, and thus not "Art" by their standards.

As a consumer of the product of comic books, I however, am not looking at it as a rare commodity. I am looking at it as something which appeals to me in terms of story, and visual impact. I think that while some comic books are just interesting to read, there are others I feel are definitely a form of "Art". The common term is "Sequential Art", and I personally feel it has as much validity as "Art" as the works of the great masters of the Renaissance. It just doesn’t have the same commercial viability as a rare commodity.

I hope this helps.

HI! For English I have to write a 3 page argumentative essay. Well I was going write my essay on the controversy about mass vacinations and the mercury based preservent being the under lying cause of Autism but last min. I feel Its jsut to much for this short essay project and I’d like to write soemthing alittle more fun and playful.
I would love to try writing an essay on the conflict between Americans who draw in the American comic style and Americans who draw inspired by the Japanese comic style (manga).
It almost seems alittle war on here and i hear constant bickering about this subject. People also have strong thoughts on the subject.
I will refrance you and the ideas you express, in my essay.
I would like everything and all thoughts you have. Negative, Postive. How one side treats the other.
Is on style better then the other? Why? Why do you think theres such a controversy? Whats the Difference between the two styles ( Narrative, Drawing etc)? I could really use you help!

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http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp

http://www.aresearchguide.com/

http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/886…

http://www.studentresearcher.com/search/…

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I’m an aspiring comic book artist and I’m thinking about self-publishing an art book. I was wondering: it is legal to publish an art book that has characters from marvel or dc comics that I drew?
Or do I have to make up my own characters and publish that instead?
My art book would simply be to get my name out there.

Those characters are copyrighted so publishing a book without getting the rights from the publisher would be illegal. Usually they aren’t going to give you permission to use their characters.

You might want to consider making a collection of your own concept art for a series that create yourself.