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Buffy fans ... cover your eyes ...
Get a load of the "art" in this (the top preview, the "Old Wounds" one, not the bottom one for Spike vs. Dracula).
I thought I had seen tie-in comics in the past that went overboard with the photorefs, but ... God help us. It sort of reminds me of when I used to try to teach myself to draw by tracing on top of magazine pictures. I swear it looks like they got photos of the actors, pasted their heads onto bodies (slightly crooked, no less) and ran a Photoshop filter or two so that it sort of looks like a drawing.
There is something DEEPLY disturbing about that one shot of Angel standing in the courtroom. I know he's undead, but he doesn't normally look THAT undead!
The art for the Spike vs. Dracula one, on the other hand, isn't bad. It appears that the artist actually took the time to learn to draw the character and then put him in different positions, at least.
My big peeve with movie and TV tie-in comics (well, aside from the fact that most of them suck horribly) is that they go overboard with trying to slavishly copy the appearance of the actors. They end up either looking like bad caricatures or really, really stiff. The ones that work best are the ones that just try to relax and draw the characters as comic-book characters instead of caricatures of actors.
I thought I had seen tie-in comics in the past that went overboard with the photorefs, but ... God help us. It sort of reminds me of when I used to try to teach myself to draw by tracing on top of magazine pictures. I swear it looks like they got photos of the actors, pasted their heads onto bodies (slightly crooked, no less) and ran a Photoshop filter or two so that it sort of looks like a drawing.
There is something DEEPLY disturbing about that one shot of Angel standing in the courtroom. I know he's undead, but he doesn't normally look THAT undead!
The art for the Spike vs. Dracula one, on the other hand, isn't bad. It appears that the artist actually took the time to learn to draw the character and then put him in different positions, at least.
My big peeve with movie and TV tie-in comics (well, aside from the fact that most of them suck horribly) is that they go overboard with trying to slavishly copy the appearance of the actors. They end up either looking like bad caricatures or really, really stiff. The ones that work best are the ones that just try to relax and draw the characters as comic-book characters instead of caricatures of actors.
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