Strange perspective

[benday-dot]

Somewhere on this forum is a thread about bad comic book covers, but I just can't seem to track it down...

So. I'll just throw this cover out here, until someone feels like throwing it elsewhere.

I was browsing the GCD, as is my wont, and came across the cover to Career Girl Romances # 65 Did the artist over compose the painter, and was then left with too little room in which to place the model on her proper plane of perspective? This strange composition looks like its got a barbie doll on its cover.

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/libre_08/career2.gif

[The Confessor]

Somewhere on this forum is a thread about bad comic book covers, but I just can't seem to track it down...


I think that's because the Search function isn't working properly. If you check out the "Questions & Announcements" forum, you'll see that the powers that be had to rebuild the search database (or something) and it's a long, drawn out process that is far from completed yet. The idea being that when it's done, the search function should work 100% properly.

This is the reason that certain threads aren't being returned in search results...they just haven't been added to the rebuilt database yet.

[Red Oak Kid]

I was browsing the GCD, as is my wont, and came across the cover to Career Girl Romances # 65 Did the artist over compose the painter, and was then left with too little room in which to place the model on her proper plane of perspective? This strange composition looks like its got a barbie doll on its cover.

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Dude, it's a Charlton romance cover. It would be more unusual if the perspective was correct. :biggrin:

[Jesse Hamm]

Yeah, since she's seated and he isn't, they wouldn't share the same eye level like that unless she were dozens of yards away, or we were looking down from a few feet above him.

This kind of mistake is common in comics, though it's more obvious (and funny!) when it causes the "doll" effect Benday-dot pointed out.

Here's some info on how to avoid it, for you artists out there:

http://sirspamdalot.livejournal.com/31520.html

[Roquefort Raider]

The cover artist also ran out of space for the painting itself: he had to squeeze the girl against the left size of the canvas for us to see her. That painting would look pretty odd once finished.

[Drusilla lives!]

That's one sad cover. :(

BTW, I think the thread you were looking for was here (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=235527).

[benday-dot]

Dude, it's a Charlton romance cover. It would be more unusual if the perspective was correct. :biggrin:

And that's why we love them.

[benday-dot]

That's one sad cover. :(

BTW, I think the thread you were looking for was here (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=235527).

Ah, thank you. I couldn't track it down last night. Glad to see it resurface.

[MichikoS]

Is the young lady's right arm a human arm, or a boneless tentacle? Try emulating her pose and then do what she's doing with her right arm. Uh-uh. Can't be done unless you are Stretch Armstrong.

Michi