iconography
Jun. 15th, 2003 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashI've spent time this weekend browsing through my stack of back issues of Those Annoying Post Bros., Savage Henry, and other Matt Howarth comics.
It's made me realize how much of the way I handle my art owes some debt to him. The graphical treatment of crosshatching and stippling, often not contained by any sort of outline, has its analogies in my current use of solid areas of color without outline. Seeds of my coloring are also contained in the covers of the earlier issues of his comics, back when he was clearly drawing each plate by hand, rather than doing a picture in markers and having that separated.
Howarth is also an influence on my musical tastes. It was in the back pages of his comics that I first heard of Skinny Puppy. Of Ozric Tentacles. Of the Residents. Of FLA. Of Barry Adamson. And of sundry other electronic/industrial/ambient acts. His capsule reviews of weird bands, in text and comic-strip form, have given me lots of interesting directions to explore in listening.
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perlandria made this morning made me decide to waste some time making a user icon from a panel of his work. It's the one that decorates this entry. The original was stark B&W with lots of stippling, which didn't really work any more at this scale; I abused it a little in Photoshop, adding some color. I have no idea what sort of mood or reaction an image of Hiroshima, the rogue nuclear earth mother turned self-proclaimed goddess, rising gleefully out of a mushroom cloud, will be used to indicate, but it's there now.
It's made me realize how much of the way I handle my art owes some debt to him. The graphical treatment of crosshatching and stippling, often not contained by any sort of outline, has its analogies in my current use of solid areas of color without outline. Seeds of my coloring are also contained in the covers of the earlier issues of his comics, back when he was clearly drawing each plate by hand, rather than doing a picture in markers and having that separated.
Howarth is also an influence on my musical tastes. It was in the back pages of his comics that I first heard of Skinny Puppy. Of Ozric Tentacles. Of the Residents. Of FLA. Of Barry Adamson. And of sundry other electronic/industrial/ambient acts. His capsule reviews of weird bands, in text and comic-strip form, have given me lots of interesting directions to explore in listening.
An entry that
perlandria made this morning made me decide to waste some time making a user icon from a panel of his work. It's the one that decorates this entry. The original was stark B&W with lots of stippling, which didn't really work any more at this scale; I abused it a little in Photoshop, adding some color. I have no idea what sort of mood or reaction an image of Hiroshima, the rogue nuclear earth mother turned self-proclaimed goddess, rising gleefully out of a mushroom cloud, will be used to indicate, but it's there now.
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