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[Domen Finžgar]

I started this topic, to ask you, how certain artist do their works, which materials do they use, etc.. So I really want to know how Danijel Žeželj draws his works (specially his comics) , and which formats are the classical formats for drawing superheroes in the 70' and 60' (I heard that they where not standard such as a4/a3)

Žeželj homepage
Žeželj in action on the big canvas

Thanks,

Domen

[xadrian]

Well, I'm not the comic lore person here, but I know a lot of people who are. If you went to penciljack.com and asked that, you'd get a lot of good replies.

I'm pretty sure the 11x17 board has been standard for a long time. If you go to conventions or buy art off of eBay you can see that even Kirby was drawing on boards of that dimension. I would also hazard they were using pretty much the same tools as today; lead holders or regular pencils, ink from either brushes or pens & nibs. I think the only thing that's changed much over the years is the advent of coloring with photoshop and inking with Illustrator. There's been smaller advances like brush pens and boards that don't yellow as easily, but over all I think the tools have remained consistent.

[Jeremy Dale]

Ben's right-- the A3 (11 X 17) board has been standard for a long time now, but back in the 60s and before that artists like Jack Kirby used a larger board. Even now, Bryan Hitch, Arthur Adams, and Frank Cho are known to use larger boards than the standard A3.

Really, the tools used vary from artist to artist. I just use .7 and .9 HB mechanical pencils, an electric eraser, and Photoshop to get my work done. Others use lead holders or non-photo blue or red pencils, wood pencils, etc etc-- whatever floats your boat artistically and gets the job done, so be it.

[Israel]

I've heard that Cho and others use a larger board. My question is this, how do they get their art scanned in at such a large format? I read somewhere that Cho uses something like twice the size of the standard 11x17.

[xadrian]

They probably just stitch it together, unless they can afford a giant flatbed.

[Israel]

Do they make flatbeds bigger than 11x17?
What about Alex Ross and guys like that who paint on large canvas. How do they get those huge things scanned in. Same way you think? Or do you think they use some kind of camera to shoot the artwork?
Stuff like that fascinates me.

[Schlitzie]

I'm not sure about Alex Ross but a friend of mine does huge paintings,and she uses a 10 megapixel camera i think it is.And her prints are pretty high quality.She did alot of the work in the MGM Grand hotel in Vegas and alot of other big name places.But i've also seen a pretty massive industrial scanner that a friend of mine uses,that owns a gallery/Giclee print shop.But you're talking thousands of dollars for a beast like he's got.