Greg Land art thread . . .

[siren3-4]

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=134443

Saw this over at newsarama . . .

[myron]

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=134443

Saw this over at newsarama . . .

great find!

[siren3-4]

It's great right . . .

I think people may not bother clicking the link so I will paste the first post:

It's been a while since a good Greg Land complain-a-thon, so I thought I'd make it a little fun for everyone. Welcome to the Greg Land guessing game, where you must guess the answer to these particular questions such as:

What celebrity is that?

What emotion is that supposed to be?

Is that really the same character as last panel?

Let's begin, shall we?

1. What Celebrity is this?


1. Steven Seagal
2. Kurt Russel
3. Bill Pullman
4. That's no celebrity, that's Ultimate Fantastic Four Sue and Johnny Storm's father!

Answer: Hilight to reveal
2. Kurt Russel, but also 4

2. Which celebrity is this?



1. Kurt Russel
2. Bill Pullman
3. Phil Hartman
4. That's no celebrity, that's UItimate Fantastic Four's Sue and Johnny Storm's father!

Answer: Highlight to reveal
3. Phil Hartman, but also 4

Bonus question: What emotion is this character feeling?

1. Mild amusement
2. Bill Clinton Impressionishness
3. Terrible sadness at the apparent death of his only son
4. Squintiness.


Answer: Highlight to reveal
3. Terrible sadness at the apparent death of his only son

3. Which celebrities are these?


1. Anthony Hopkins and Justin Timberlake
2. Ray Liotta and Ben Affleck
3. Beardy Beardenstein and Big-Brow Bruno
4. Those are no celebrities, those are some random scientists!


Answer: Highlight to reveal
2. Ray Liotta and Ben Affleck, but also 4

4. Which celebrity is this?


1. Winona Ryder
2. Lori Petty
3. Gwen Stefani
4. That's no celebrity, that's, um...Wasp? Maybe? Ultimate Wasp?

Answer: Highlight to reveal
2. Lori Petty (of Tank Girl fame), and maybe 4. Who knows?

5. What emotion are these characters feeling?


1. Joy at being at a really great concert
2. Orgasmic pleasure
3. Horrified fear at being attacked by zombies
4. Great amusement after watching a particularly funny episode of Scrubs

Answer: Highlight to reveal
3. Horrified fear at being attacked by zombies

6. Which celebrity is this?


1. David Blaine
2. The guy who parodies David Blaine on youtube
3. That's not a celebrity, Greg Land surely drew that picture completely freehand!
4. That's not a celebrity, that's Ultimate Dr. Doom - Wait, that can't be right. That's supposed to be Dr. Doom? Never mind.

Answer: Highlight to reveal
1. David Blaine

7. What is this character's mutant power?


1. To manipulate probability
2. To extend their own torso by over 50%, while simultaneously missing many ribs that would be required to be a fully functioning human being.
3. To have the face of a swimsuit model that happens to be highly traceable. Just saying.
4. All of the above

Answer: Highlight to reveal
4. All of the above


8. What is sad about these three images?



1. They are all intended to be the same character.
2. They are all intended to be the same character and were (ostensibly) drawn by the same artist in the same issue.
3. The middle one is James Franco
4. All of the above

Answer: Highlight to reveal
4. All of the above

9. These characters are ______


1. Looking at each other in a mirror
2. From two entirely different comics, and yet are exactly the same image aside from coloring.
3. Winona Ryder
4. The girl who played Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Answer: Highlight to reveal
2. From two entirely different comics, and yet are exactly the same image aside from coloring, but I strongly suspect 4 is true too.

10. What has just finished happening to this character?


1. Just figured out the formula needed to recalibrate an energy shield to save the entire city.
2. Just realized she's sexually attracted to Reed Richards
3. Just confronted her cold and heartless mother who abandoned her many years ago, and has only just finished crying.
4. Just decided she was going to disobey Nick Fury and break Reed Richards out of jail.

Answer: Highlight to reveal
3. Just confronted her cold and heartless mother who abandoned her many years ago, and has only just finished crying.

11. I haven't identified these celebrities yet. Can you?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.


6.


Guess the celebrity for your very own no prize!

[myron]

#3...how true, how true...


that is soooooo Liotta and Affleck...

[MedicAR]

WARNING!
The following link, while utterly hilarious, is not intended for young readers or safe for viewing while at work. It contains crude humor, dirty words, and Greg Land art.





Ya know, just to be safe, PM me for the link.

[siren3-4]

WARNING!
The following link, while utterly hilarious, is not intended for young readers or safe for viewing while at work. It contains crude humor, dirty words, and Greg Land art.





Ya know, just to be safe, PM me for the link.

Your inbox is going to explode . . .

[MedicAR]

I think this one is the dad from American Chopper......

[Byrneout]

Hey, Land isn't so bad. Imagine, this could be Leifeld.

[greg]

Hey, Land isn't so bad. Imagine, this could be Leifeld.

You mean, if Liefeld realized he could be tracing photos, instead of making up body proportions?

[Tim]

y'know....Alex Ross does the same thing....he just takes his own photos.

[stone384]

so do a lot of artists...Land is just the one people have chosen to pick on.

m

[Cyberstrike]

so do a lot of artists...Land is just the one people have chosen to pick on.

m

I think a lot of it is that Greg Land doesn't even try to draw on his own
anymore which is a shame he's a great artist in his own right. Where as guys like Alex Ross and Bryan Hitch who do use a lot of photo references they not so blatantly oblivious about it in their final art.

[Heath]

Yeah, there's a big difference in taking pictures of friends and associates for photo references for your art and just tracing over still frames from movies and using the same traced images multiple times.

[ncameron]

so do a lot of artists...Land is just the one people have chosen to pick on.

m

I get on him more for his lack of consistency, Even liefeld could make a lame wolverine clone (pick any one from youngblood, brigade, knightstrike, etc) look the same during an issue, hyper extended muscle contortions or not.


Land buys a people magazine, an us weekly, and porn puts it on the light box and bam you have Ultimate Power.

-neil

[Byrneout]

I get on him more for his lack of consistency, Even liefeld

I'd still rather look at inconsistent artwork. Liefeld's is just consistently *bad*.

[Todd Luck]

so do a lot of artists...Land is just the one people have chosen to pick on.

m

I guess bashing Jim Shooter, Rob Liefield and John Byrne for the last 15-20 years was getting old. So has Land become one of the industry's newer whipping boys? I don't keep up with this stuff anymore.

[Byrneout]

so do a lot of artists...Land is just the one people have chosen to pick on.

m

I guess bashing Jim Shooter, Rob Liefield and John Byrne for the last 15-20 years was getting old. So has Land become one of the industry's newer whipping boys? I don't keep up with this stuff anymore.

For me, bashing Rob will never get old.

However, I don't agree with a lot of the criticism given to Land. So, I just compare him to Rob - which, admittedly, is much like comparing any given politician to a Nazi - it's not really fair.