All right, as the subject says, I wanna discuss about great comic artwork today. When I say "great", I really mean it, it's not just good but GREAT.
As an artist, I would love nothing more than to post my own art to showcase my superior skills and compels plebeians to worship me, but today is not the day, today is the day where I use my credential as an artist to worship another artist.
Enter Olivier Ledroit, perhaps most famously known as the artist to the comic Requiem:Vampire Knight. Olivier is not exactly an unknown, he is pretty well known in certain circles, especially among French artists. But Olivier is not exactly the name that comes to mind when weebs think of an artist. It was only recently that I came across Requiem: Vampire Knight (RVK) that my jaw was dropped due to seeing his art.
Basically, this is the art quality of the comic pages, ALL OF IT.
I don't want to show too many pages for the fear of spoiling it, but man.... in the category of the most detailed comic art, he is the no.1 spot, no contest.
Have you ever picked up a comic due to it's gorgeous cover and felt disappointed when reading it because the interior art is a far cry from the cover? Not only the quality is lower (which is ok, since it's comic), but the style is also very different?
Olivier does no such thing, every single panel is as meticulous as the cover, and it never drop in quality throughout subsequent volumes, but instead, it goes even more epic than the last. I could almost describe every volume as an artbook with a story (the author isn't him). Yes each volume does take a long time, but as an artist, even in the time he took to produce so much artwork, it's actually damn fast.
I rate his art objectively through the lens of effort, detail, consistency and style. Personally, I don't like his style of aesthetic, but it fits very well with the story & universe that he is doing. I could go on in detail about the pros and cons of his artwork, but it will be too long, so I'll probably write about it another time on my tumblr blog.
So, I just hope he gets more exposure here, as I find it a pity that an artist of his caliber is not too well known in the mainstream comic art. Such a talent is extremely rare, I've read too many comics, jaw dropped by many of the arts, but never in my life felt so overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of a comic art. Olivier Ledroit has no equal in the arena of details.
I wish I was rich enough, cause I will be commissioning him immediately if I do. He will paint for me until he dies.
As an artist, I would love nothing more than to post my own art to showcase my superior skills and compels plebeians to worship me, but today is not the day, today is the day where I use my credential as an artist to worship another artist.
Enter Olivier Ledroit, perhaps most famously known as the artist to the comic Requiem:Vampire Knight. Olivier is not exactly an unknown, he is pretty well known in certain circles, especially among French artists. But Olivier is not exactly the name that comes to mind when weebs think of an artist. It was only recently that I came across Requiem: Vampire Knight (RVK) that my jaw was dropped due to seeing his art.
Basically, this is the art quality of the comic pages, ALL OF IT.
I don't want to show too many pages for the fear of spoiling it, but man.... in the category of the most detailed comic art, he is the no.1 spot, no contest.
Have you ever picked up a comic due to it's gorgeous cover and felt disappointed when reading it because the interior art is a far cry from the cover? Not only the quality is lower (which is ok, since it's comic), but the style is also very different?
Olivier does no such thing, every single panel is as meticulous as the cover, and it never drop in quality throughout subsequent volumes, but instead, it goes even more epic than the last. I could almost describe every volume as an artbook with a story (the author isn't him). Yes each volume does take a long time, but as an artist, even in the time he took to produce so much artwork, it's actually damn fast.
I rate his art objectively through the lens of effort, detail, consistency and style. Personally, I don't like his style of aesthetic, but it fits very well with the story & universe that he is doing. I could go on in detail about the pros and cons of his artwork, but it will be too long, so I'll probably write about it another time on my tumblr blog.
So, I just hope he gets more exposure here, as I find it a pity that an artist of his caliber is not too well known in the mainstream comic art. Such a talent is extremely rare, I've read too many comics, jaw dropped by many of the arts, but never in my life felt so overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of a comic art. Olivier Ledroit has no equal in the arena of details.
I wish I was rich enough, cause I will be commissioning him immediately if I do. He will paint for me until he dies.
