2004-10-24, 03:54
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Who do you see as the best artist?
Post here brief introductions (and maybe post his/her links and works) of your best comic/manga/anime artist. Since this is a fan art forum, it is preferred that we all try to showcase talented artists world wide for their skills in art only.
Don't forget to post the genre that the artist falls under. I'll start with some of my favourite ones... Wing Shing Ma (Hong Kong comic artist)  Wing Shing Ma has gotta my most favourite artist. He first achieved fame with "A Man Called Hero" in the early 80s, while working under the godfather of Hong Kong comics - Wong Yuk-long. At the end of the decade, he founded his own company and began "Storm Riders", which is still serialised on Ting Ha and is widely hailed as Hong Kong's greates comic.    The most praising aspect of Ma's art is his incredible color jobs. His blend of colors are so rich and protray the mood so well that nothing less than glorious is fit to describe them. Ma's works are relatively hard to find on the net, the ones posted here are not the best he has done, but I feel they represent his quality of work quite well.  Below site has got a good collection of Ma's work, as well as a brief biography, it's all chinese though. http://www.comicsworld.com/ |
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2004-10-24, 04:22
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Joe Madureira (American comic artist)
 Joe Madureira became well known for his works as the pencil artist for the Uncanny X-Men during mid 90s. After almost three years working for Marvel, Joe left to start his own series "Battle Chasers". He's currently working on Street Fighters for Udon.  I'm drawn to Joe's work for his distinctive style. They're undoubtly American but showing manga/anime influence (Michael Turner seems to show that same influence in his works), and I find them very cool and unique.  http://www.joemadfan.com/ |
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2004-10-24, 12:17
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^^mangaka^^
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: brasil ^^
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i love nobuhiro watsuki and akira toriyama ....they're the best ....the newest nobuhiro manga is busou renkin (really cool) ,and akira's is kajika.... i don't have the official site
 ...if someone has it .pleaseeee post here i would be really thankful ^___^  ........
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2004-10-24, 15:20
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: EST
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i don't know what or whose the best..but surely this artist here is my favorite. .. Yoshitaka Amano (yupyupp) his artwork is known through some of the Final Fantasy series such as FF tactics...and then theres D the vampire, etc....greatlyy a wonderful artist way ahead of his time....
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2004-10-24, 18:00
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Well there are alot of them, but my favorite up till now is probably Yoshitaka Abe (Lain, Haibane, Texhnolyze, NieA_7)
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BTW, Shoeshefied, I dont know if you have heard of this game but have you played Kartia for PSX? Its a strategy game that went unnoticed by most, that looks like the same art in the game so I'm guessing Yoshitaka Amano did it, its a very unique style. |
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2004-10-24, 22:30
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now with 20% more ego!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
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And the grandaddy of modern sequential art Spoiler for Will Eisner:
:Topicoff: It would be great to see more of non-Japanese/Manga-Ka artists
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2004-10-25, 21:30
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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I concur! Shu-fen does the best protrayal of Xiao Long Nu [小龍女]. You wouldn't happen to have that picture done by her do you, get a life?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Gerard (American freelance illustrator)  Justing Gerard is a member of Portland Studios, a company devoted to illustrating children's books and animations of related themes. Justin is influenced by classic children's/fantasy illustrations and Disney's.  Justin's works really capture that magical feeling for me. They seem so warm and friendly and cuddly. Call me childish, but I would find myself looking at them again and again just to indulge in my childhood nostalgia. www.portlandstudios.com |
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2004-10-25, 21:34
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is dime-a-dozen
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Rich., VA
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my vote is for Hiroaki Samura absolutely beautiful work from him, currently switching b/t the two following in desktop formats just cause i like them so much... Spoiler:
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Last edited by fenrihr; 2004-10-25 at 21:45. |
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2004-10-25, 21:38
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i'm in love --- :O
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: L o n d o n
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Yoshitaka Abe, Range Murata < Agreed
Capcom Design Teams << nuff said. they are the gods Yoji Shinkawa << Metal Gear Solid? everyone knows Akemi Tadaka<< Maybe not every youngster knows her, but her work range from Kimagure Orange Road to Patlabor (character design only. truely nice classics. Some of her old artbook goes up to $700 on ebay I saw it the other day. ToT i want it~~) example of her work(image from her work "patlabor - now or never" artbook $120. purchased by me from Japan. image from the work in progress DVD included from the artbook:  Yoshiyuki Sadamoto << Evangelion's main artist. nuff said They are my fav and in fact, they are always holding the first place. Master level stuff |
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2004-10-25, 22:37
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and the guy who did art for the CastleVania series |
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2004-10-25, 23:18
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hentai! banzai!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: pasadena, ca
Age: 39
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wasnt the artist for the castlevania series a girl? ayami kojima? i forgot to add her to the list too!
  now that is fucking pwn sk1ll!! not like those korean artists... no offense though but i dont really like the style all that much. someone show me a korean artist thats up to par with the japanese and chinese artists so i can shut up
Last edited by get_a_life; 2004-10-25 at 23:33. |
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2004-10-26, 01:05
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i'm in love --- :O
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: L o n d o n
Age: 39
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both chinese and korean animation team (studios) handle request from Japanese animation studio. due to the cheap budget they were offered (on both side) sometime the animation quality would turn out considerably poor but artists from both countries are still making great effords on improving their skills (not the animation team though. they just total lack of skills) I found some lineart work from korean artists the other day when I was browsing this chinese forum but unfrotunately they didnt state the artist.   
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