Posted: 14 November 2007 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | 1
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Andy Mokler wrote:
I think I know where you're coming from though. For me, I've always tried to find out what "it" is. What's the secret formula or process that artists like JB use to make those wonderful pictures. There's got to be some equation or secret to what these guys do, right? I don't think so. You can know all the rules and still not be able to come up with what these guys come up with. |
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Bzzzzzzzzzzttttttt!!! Wrong answer! Sorry, try again. ;)
Thanks anyway Andy, but since we're fortunate to have access to the guy who created the characters, I figured I'd just ask him instead of pulling out old comics or doing a Google/wiki run.
I could have just as easily used six feet as a measuring stick for Guardian (and probably should have), but since heads are commonly used as units of relative measure, that's where my head was at. Ba dump bump. Nothing hard and fast or rigid about it. That's where the word "relative" comes into play.
So, if Guardian is a smidge over six feet tall, and Sasquatch is nine feet tall, and you use a head to equal each foot, Sasquatch should stand three heads taller than Mac if they're standing next to each other on the same ground plane. Box gets around two more than Mac.
In Loomis' teaching, the heads are used more to demonstrate the arrangement of the body, including landmarks and lengths of forms, at different ages for each gender and for different purposes; hence the "traditional," "fashion," "heroic," etc. They're just a guage so you don't have the wonky kinds of anatomical distortions prevalent in many popular comics (no names, please; we all know the guys who draw the teesy waists with the small heads and impossibly long legs, etc...or the heroes who appear to be nine feet tall while normal people next to them appear unnaturally stunted). That occurs because they lack an understanding of proportion.
The error in your example for Sasquatch is that you have him standing alone without any other person or object next to him. I'm not concerned with how tall he stands in comicbook space; I needed to know how high would the other characters be in relation to him if they were all in the same space next to one another. I think John understood the gist of my question. I could have left out any units of measure, but again we're talking about relative proportion drawn in a two-dimensional space, not actual feet and inches.
That's all I was going for. Funny how these discussions can spin out of some of the most inoccuous questions...
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