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Today's generation of artists love photo-referencing - sucking the life and dynamics of comic art - two qualities that separated it from photography. Many also love using too much shadows and contrast just to waste everyone's time that they got the light source perfect.•• When the camera was invented, it came as a real wake-up call to artists everywhere. Suddenly "anybody" could do what they did -- create a realistic vision of the world. Almost immediately, so-called "Modern Art" was born. Impressionism. Abstraction. Cubism. Artists looked for ways to still be relevant, to still have something to say. In an odd reversal of this, in the past twenty years or so we have see the American comic book become less about stylization and energy, and more about "realism." And, of course, when it walks into that arena, it is dead out of the gate. Movies can do what these artists think they're doing, bigger, louder, and "better." The job of an artist -- even a "realist" -- is to do what the camera CAN'T do.
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