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Friday, 19 April 2013

Beauty in BD

I've come across a lot of Bande Dessinée artists who really know how give a sense of dramatic scale. Alex Alice for instance comes to mind because I have the Seigfreud books.  I've noticed it in the fantasy, horror but particularly in the action/adventure genre because knowing just how to use perspective to create a strong sense of impossibly tall buildings, mountain or even monsters makes all the difference. And there are a number of artist's whose work I've been meaning to pick up. Here's one of them:

François Schuiten
Belgian artist. He comes from a family of architects and judging by his art it really REALLY does not come as a surprise.








Incredible use of perspective. And from what I've been able to find online I've noticed he seems to often but not always utilise a very limited pallet that primarily uses oranges and violet-blues especially in series 'Les Cités Obscures' (which I definetly plan on getting my hands on).


There's an post on visual news which has a lot of good examples of his work. And bedetheque.com has a very up to date list of his work.

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