Mark Making #7: John Hicklenton; part II

Back on the 'Mark Making' odyssey James Newell; http://meanwhiletv.blogspot.com/ contacted me as he has some original Nemesis artwork by the late, great John Hicklenton. James was kind enough to send me a high quality scan of the piece so I am showing it here in glorious detail.

 The real plus here is that the level of detail is so high that we can see the techniques used, different pen line qualities, varying inks, the use of photocopies and white paint. All these things are normally hidden, married into one smooth two-tone, black and white, high contrast image.

It is only when you see the original artwork that you can get a real sense of the artist at work.


As usual I have cropped a load of close-up images but this time they are in pairs so that you can see the original art, warts and all; then the finished high-contrast print version.

Enjoy!

Mark Making #6: Mike Dory

Mike Dorey started in 1979 on the short lived Tornado and 2000ad. He instantly struck me as being apart from the other artists in his ability to portray muck and grime. Hence he was the natural choice to draw The Ro-Jaws Memoirs.

Dirty marks, rough brush stokes and stippling.

Mark Making #4: John Hicklenton

This mark making blog is on John Hicklenton, a truly original artist who sadly died in 2010. I first saw John's work in 2000ad when he took over drawing Nemesis and Torquemada with his visceral and visually intense style.

John's work is packed with so much detail that you have to look at it hard sometimes just to see what the hell is going on, especially when he drew Nemesis who is a weirdly shaped character anyway. His mark making skills are incredible, simultaneously beautiful and strange. Take a closer look...