I love this style. It appears the jokes weren’t any better then than they are now, but if Marmaduke still looked like this, at least it would have something going for it.
Marmaduke, like a lot of classic comic strips, gets a bad rap these days as an all-too-easy punchline (and sure, the recent movie didn’t help) for unfunny comics, which always strikes me as a bit unfair. Because isn’t it great that today’s world of comics has enough material to cater to such a variety of tastes? Marmaduke-lovers included.
Regardless, I don’t think I had ever seen the strip’s earlier incarnations. Its bold clean lines barely resemble the loose scribbly Great Dane we know today.
Very appealing simplicity in Brad Anderson’s early Marmaduke strips.
Admit it, this art is pretty dope.
by Goro Fujita
I stumbled upon his work on one of the art tumblr’s I follow and I am blown away by his talent. Fujita was born in Japan and was raised in Germany, where he graduated from film school. He’s worked on both Megamind and Madagascar for Dreamworks and has done a lot of work on his own.
His lighting and colors are brilliant and reflect the style of artwork that I aspire to have someday. From one simple image you get the essence of an entirely different world. Even though the things he draws are not “realistic” they exist soundly inside of the artwork.
I am going to be engrossed in his drawings and tutorials all morning.
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I love things like this.
Dope. So dope.
