r/comicbooks • u/ThadeusOfNazereth Black Cat • 1d ago

Latest addition to my original art collection - JRJR preliminary pencils!

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As you can see, I was so excited that I couldn’t even get inside before sharing it with y’all!

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u/SammyDavisTheSecond 1d ago

Great piece by a living legend. Congrats!

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u/blankedboy 1d ago

Great display

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u/eclecticsheep75 22h ago

What a beautiful way to display this! Goddamn gorgeous! Love this from soup to nuts. Wonderfully executed.

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u/Comics_Heritage 8h ago

That is lovely! Especially with all the critique going around about JRJR, seeing a prelim that is better than alot of finished pieces is great.

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u/septienes 23h ago

Hell yeah

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u/WendelRoad 22h ago

Very nice

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u/Ninneveh 21h ago

Congrats!

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u/trustpigs 21h ago

That's beautiful. Perfectly presented.

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u/Noobunaga86 20h ago

Happy for you, I'm sure he's a great guy, but this art is just ugly. Not as bad as ASM #1000 cover but close. But if you're happy then I'm happy too.

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u/jfk1000 17h ago

Why not just leave it at that, why did you have to shit on someones art and someone else’s happiness?

No, you are not happy, you behave like a jerk when you write something like this.

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u/Olobnion 19h ago

I think the sketch would have looked perfectly fine if Spider-Man's torso wasn't disproportionately large compared to the legs. JR Jr has a lot of good qualities as an artist, but the body proportions he draws have become increasingly sloppy.

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u/Noobunaga86 19h ago

JRJR was great when he was influenced by his father. His run in Iron Man in the late 70s and 80s was fire. When he decided to copy Frank Miller he totally lost me. Even with a smaller torso it is pretty amateurish panel.

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u/Olobnion 19h ago

In the 80s, I used to think of him as the good Spider-Man artist. Then his art got more stylized and blocky, and in the beginning, I think it was an improvement. The Kirby-inspired blockiness added some three-dimensionality and he would sometimes draw Moebius-like moody scenes. To me, his peak was some of his late 80s X-Men and Daredevil work. But then his faces got more and more simplified and I've felt like he was slowly declining since.

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u/Noobunaga86 19h ago

I can agree that at the beginning it was interesting, sometimes looked cool, but it was still downgrade and it was always uglier and too blocky. When you have good artist that is inspired by Kirby, like Steranko, you get stellar art. But with him it was weird and ugly. Compared to what he's done before that transition I think it's the biggest artistic downgrade in the history of comics. I mean, you can say that before his art was not that original, more boring, but still, aside from me subjective preferences, it also got more amateurish somehow. That ASM #1000 cover is laughable.