Simone Bianchi: X-Men interview(talks about his art style process)

[Joe Franklin]

Bianchi discusses how this is his dream job, and how he and his inker go about laying out and completing their pages. Just shows you how talented this guy really is.

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/120948851413635.htm

[Beast]

He enjoys drawing Beast the most. Good man. He has passed the first test. :biggrin:

[Beast]

If those three pages down at the bottom are the art after the ink wash process, I wish they'd left it off.

I prefered them before they went through it. The art was crisper and not so... muddy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/MasterSplinter/AXM253.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/MasterSplinter/AXM251.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/MasterSplinter/AXM252.jpg

[Joe Franklin]

He enjoys drawing Beast the most. Good man. He has passed the first test. :biggrin:

And he makes Cat Beast look ok, considering that Cat Beast is the worse thing to ever happen to the great character that Beast is.:frown:

[DeniseXfrost]

Alot better with the new color/ink. This guy is focusing too much on the smaller details.......I smell delay.

[Anna]

Mostly nice; but Wolvie's hair is a bit...disturbing.

[steve2275]

Alot better with the new color/ink. This guy is focusing too much on the smaller details.......I smell delay.
8 weeks per issue to do all the art

[ThePhenom]

Does anyone else see the resemblance between Aaron Stack and Cyclops in the picture where he's looking at Storm?

[Flâneur]

I wonder if Ellis and Bianchi will finish their first twelve issues of Astonishing before I hit 25. =/

[DeniseXfrost]

8 weeks per issue to do all the art
Damn!

sdfasd

[Saturius]

Alot better with the new color/ink. This guy is focusing too much on the smaller details.......I smell delay.

Well. at least he'd be keeping up the Astonishing tradition.

[rwsmith]

Mostly nice; but Wolvie's hair is a bit...disturbing.

I agree. I hate the long "Flock of Seagulls" hair-do which Adam Kubert used to draw on Logan in the 90's. It worked in Barry Windsor-Smith's 'Weapon X' mini, but in anything else it just looks ridiculous to me.

Frank Quitely's shorter-haired, more modern looking hairstyle was the best I've seen on Wolverine:

http://www.omelete.com.br/imagens/transfer/wolverine/new_x-men.jpg

Either that, or I'd love to see him start looking his age a bit more and go with the graying tight hairstyle that he'll sport in Old Man Logan:

http://i.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Millar/Wolverine66pg5.jpg

[Christopher O]

I'm also not a fan of Wolverine's exaggerated hairstyle nor of Bianchi's general over-embellishment of like everything. Also, eight weeks? I don't usually mind art delays, but this looks so uninspired that it may just annoy me.

[rwsmith]

I like Bianchi's art otherwise (especially his Beast). Wolverine's hair just sucks IMO.

[RafiShai]

The art does look good (even though I still feel like gauging my eyes when I look at that Storm costume), but if this book starts getting huge delays a-la Whedom/Cassidy - then the art isn't worth it.

The delays are what ruined AXM for me, I can't get into the story again after a two month delay...

Also, the "Wolverine in a tree" scene is very odd to me. Maybe it's cause he's drawn so "long", when I'm aware that he isn't a tall character.

[rZi]

I agree. I hate the long "Flock of Seagulls" hair-do which Adam Kubert used to draw on Logan in the 90's. It worked in Barry Windsor-Smith's 'Weapon X' mini, but in anything else it just looks ridiculous to me.

Frank Quitely's shorter-haired, more modern looking hairstyle was the best I've seen on Wolverine:

http://www.omelete.com.br/imagens/transfer/wolverine/new_x-men.jpg



....are you serious?

He looks like a retired ex-stripper bro..

[rwsmith]

Also, the "Wolverine in a tree" scene is very odd to me. Maybe it's cause he's drawn so "long", when I'm aware that he isn't a tall character.

Nobody really draws him that short anymore because of the movies. They really ought to just go ahead and make him officially taller IMO. Not tall, but taller than 5'3". Like 5'9" or 5'10" or something, because that's pretty much how everyone draws him.

If nothing else it would get people to stop bitching about him being drawn too tall. For that alone I'd say it would be worth it for Marvel to do this. :tongue:

....are you serious?

He looks like a retired ex-stripper bro..

Just the hair, dude. Just the hair. Not talking about the outfit. :wink:

[RafiShai]

Nobody really draws him that short anymore because of the movies. They really ought to just go ahead and make him officially taller IMO. Not tall, but taller than 5'3". Like 5'9" or 5'10" or something, because that's pretty much how everyone draws him.

If nothing else it would get people to stop bitching about him being drawn too tall. For that alone I'd say it would be worth it for Marvel to do this. :tongue:


I usually don't mind it, but in here it's really giving me a strange vibe!

In most of his scenes with other character's he's drawn as a tall guy, they could just change it. But it is a part of his character, being short'n'hairy-stabby guy; kinda what makes him who he is.

I know he isn't very short, but I know Storm and Cyke should be taller than him, much taller. I have this panel from a 90's issue stuck in my head (possibly the one where Storm takes out Marrow's heart), in which he's standing next to Storm and you can really see a hight difference.

[Brett P]

ALL that lead time, signed to the book LAST SUMMER and only ONE issue is completed so far?!!

Alot better with the new color/ink. This guy is focusing too much on the smaller details.......I smell delay.

8 weeks per issue to do all the art

Three months till the run starts + only one issue in the bag + 8 weeks per issue + him finding it more hard going than he realised?

I am officially worried - this is not looking good for a timely schedule at all.

If it comes to it - forget the extra details - send the pencils straight to the colorist!