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To Greg and all... Posted By: MACK! In Response To: Has Mack
always been like this? (Greg) Hi Greg,
Thanks for reading Kabuki. I appreciate that you gave it a try and
enjoyed it.
In a lot of my work I like to contrast the page and storytelling with
both abstract design and some realism. When I'm going for a very
realistice piece in painted art, I often start with photo reference. In
Kabuki, it is fairly easy for my to take photo reference of my girlfriend
and other friends, and use photos that I have personally taken in Japan.
And the script is taylor made for me to make up the rest. And sometimes I
like to bury more Japanes Pop culture in there as well.
In Daredevil, I worked from someone elses script for the first time, so
I wanted to make sure I was able to fulfill all the requirements that the
script called for. I wanted to make sure that I had enough on site photo
reference to pull off everything that Brian asked for.
I shot about two hundred polaroids of my next door neighbor who plays
the little boy. The other kids in the story are also my neighbors, and the
kids on the playground are from photos I took of kids playing in Spain.
I had a friend pose for a lot of the Ben shots, and I modeled for a
bunch more of them myself. I even bought the trenchcoat from a second hand
store. I also modeled for a lot of the Daredevil shots. You may see a lot
of these when the story is collected as a trade paperback.
However there are a lot of shots that I took from my "reference file".
When I was younger, this is the first thing that professional comic
artists would tell me to develope. They will tell you to make files from
magazine photos for objects, places and figures that will aid you in
drawing those things realistically. All artists in comics that I know use
this as a tool.
You always pull out photos of guns, cars, buildings, horses,
trenchcoats etc. Because you may not always have those things at your
immediate disposal to draw from.
So after first reading Bendis' script, I started keeping a collection
of NYC buildings, men in trenchcoats, and people that might fit the bill
of the cast in his script.
He asked me to draw the teacher as Laryn Hill. So I filed away several
shots of her. When we started this project, Decaprio was up to play Parker
in the Spiderman film, so we elected to put a little of him in the Parker
likeness.
So that's how I approached this DD story. I'm sorry if it detracted
from any of your enjoyment of the story. If it did, maybe I haven't
learned to handle the "reference file" as a proper tool yet. I'm still
learning. I probably used more reference on the DD story than usual,
because I wanted to make sure I served the script properly.
: I picked up Kabuki last year and thought that David Mack ------ Messages In This Thread ------
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