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Any artist you prefer pencils only, no ink?
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4 minutes ago, Blastaar said:

Meaning do you have an artist you collect where you prefer just pencils without being inked over?

SanJulian, Tomas Giorello, Boris Vallejo, Norem, Byrne (especially beginning from Namor on!) So many more, those off the top of my head.

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I am a Ink Lover,
I have a list of artist I have to have in my collection.

Alan Davis come to my mind
I have found a couple of pencils samples
beautiful pieces;
but they really need Mark Farmer or Paul Neary

So; until the right pencil + Inks show up I will wait...

 

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2 hours ago, Blastaar said:

Am I alone in thinking that Grell's art suffers from being inked and colored? Tends to make it look flat. But his pencils are fantastic? 

I tend to lean this way too. I'm getting a Penciled Flash bust done by him currently that I'll be picking up later this month that I can't wait to see how it turns out just because it'll be his pencil work. 

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2 hours ago, Blastaar said:

Am I alone in thinking that Grell's art suffers from being inked and colored?
Tends to make it look flat. But his pencils are fantastic? 

I agree.

When Grell Inks his own pages,
he put a lot of details when he use pencils
but when it come to Inks, he mostly use markers.

Grell is his own worst Inker...



 

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Bryan Hitch is one artist who comes to mind. When he first started inking himself I liked it. I have a great example of his pencil and inks but within the last decade or so when he inks himself, the inks are very muddy, dont care for the style. Prefer Paul Neary or P Craig Russel inking him.

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1 hour ago, MagnusX said:

 

Alan Davis come to my mind
I have found a couple of pencils samples
beautiful pieces;
but they really need Mark Farmer or Paul Neary

 

If pencil art you like is available, why not just have Farmer ink it?  He takes commissions

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1 hour ago, stinkininkin said:

Not surprising coming from me, and avid Neal Adams collector, but Neal's pencil line was always so lively and nuanced, like painting in graphite.  I've bought Adams pencil pieces BECAUSE it was still in pencil form for just this very reason.

Yeah, this is pretty!

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=27286

adamsconan.jpg

 

There was an article about Neal's prelims and pencils in either Rough Stuff or Comic Book Artist or one of those. It was really enlightening and made me appreciate his work all the more. (I just went digging in my boxes, but I couldn't find it.)

TwoMorrows is great like that though-

https://issuu.com/twomorrows

https://issuu.com/search?q=rough stuff

Colan-

https://issuu.com/twomorrows/docs/colanpreview

 

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Below is a nice Grell pencil I loved.....but just sold. It's from a book he did the art for called the Mongoliad.

 

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Here is a random example I pulled from the bay of how the ink tends to muddy his talents and flatten his art.

 

 

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