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April 09, 2006
Sanity Project
Just got done flipping through that House of Mystery collection, Lorenzo Mattotti's 'Chimera' and Dave McKean's 'Cages' (yeah, those're enough to make you want to throw a brick at your art table, huh?), and it got me to thinking...
I would love to have one of those side projects, that I do just to scratch a creative itch, but that I can collect together at the end and hopefully have it stand as its own body of work. Play with just whatever style I want and have it work with the narrative. McKean did that brilliantly with 'Cages'. Lots of ink drawings with a splash of monochromatic color splotched in to help shape the figures or make the page layout work smarter, but then the occasional photo manip or painted work as the story goes. But all very smart and useful.
Or look at that Neal Adams HoM story, 'Games'. Adams obviously didn't have the time to do a whole Batman story in drybrush, but he was able to whip out a short story like that, just to play with the technique. I want that.
Or Mattotti, a very accomplished painter, doing a black and white ink-sketch book. Thirty pages done to meet a creative desire. Fanfuckingtastic.
So. This is what I want to do, and why. Now I just need to figure out 'how'. Story.
Posted by Schamberger at April 9, 2006 01:31 PM