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Erin Anna Leach
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Posted: 16 April 2012 at 8:08am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Great piece of work. You have always had great compositition skills.
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John Byrne
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You have always had great compositition skills.

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For a long time, perhaps, but not "always". When I look back over my "old stuff" I am immediately made aware of the long, hard, uphill slog it was to get my pictures to do all the jobs they were supposed to do, and be clear, clean and well-balanced to boot. A lot of conflicting silhouettes and bad tangents in the early stuff.

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Rick Senger
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That's one of the biggest improvements I see comparing your very old stuff.  I still really enjoy the old stuff, but some of it, like Space:1999 (my first exposure to you) had some diagonal layouts and odd panel placement.  For me it is reminiscent of some very early Neal Adams, where he, too, was already a supremely talented artist, but hadn't quite mastered how to best position the camera and the players to capture the great stuff he wanted to show.   You shed all of that seemingly pretty quickly to become in my mind one of the cleanest layout and composition artists out there.  An amazing transformation!
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Andrew Hess
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Posted: 16 April 2012 at 10:41am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Love how Doom uses various heroes/villains in these commissions! 

"You are all tools for me to use against my cursed foes!"
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Matt Hawes
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AWESOME!!! Very nice!!!
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Darren Taylor
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Posted: 16 April 2012 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
A fabulous piece of art!
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John Byrne
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For me it is reminiscent of some very early Neal Adams, where he, too, was already a supremely talented artist, but hadn't quite mastered how to best position the camera and the players to capture the great stuff he wanted to show.   You shed all of that seemingly pretty quickly to become in my mind one of the cleanest layout and composition artists out there. An amazing transformation!

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That was a distinct problem for a lot of us who tried to emulate Neal. There was a tendency to skim off the surface, and not capture what was going on underneath. So, funky layouts and dubious storytelling abounded!

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Charles Valderrama
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Posted: 17 April 2012 at 7:51am | IP Logged | 8 post reply
Awesome commission!!! Another "homerun", JB.

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Bradley Dean
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I love the different inventions Doom has in each commission. I imagine the great Doom stories that could go with these commissions. 
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