Is it Swiping or Homage if...?

[RocketBoy]

Soooo, my question is, if an artist copies a work that they themself did less than a year ago, is it swiping, homage, or just plain lazy composition?

[Jake V]

It's Land, so it's lazyness.

[Mr.Musgrave]

Lazy and swiping since it's Land. More than likely he traced the orignal image anyway so he's just tracing a trace. Plus you can't pay homage to yourself. The guy makes me sick.

[foxfire]

Ummmm... read has glasses in one and doesnt have them in the other! :D But yeah I see your point...

[EZMOHR]

Wow, it seems like everybody in the last week shows a post of the same topic from awhile back in a new post doing the same topic. Can't somebody just do that here, and end this thread quick. It's like the deja vu is becoming deja vu.

We get....people hate Greg Land because...
A.) He copies and steals things
B.) You wish when you did the same thing to hang in your bedroom/dorm room/basement, it looked 1/100th as good as Greg Land does it.

[Alan2099]

Wow, it seems like everybody in the last week shows a post of the same topic from awhile back in a new post doing the same topic. Can't somebody just do that here, and end this thread quick. It's like the deja vu is becoming deja vu.

We get....people hate Greg Land because...
A.) He copies and steals things
B.) You wish when you did the same thing to hang in your bedroom/dorm room/basement, it looked 1/100th as good as Greg Land does it.

C) The majority of his work lacks any kind of energy, looking stiffy posed even during the action scenes and even the style is distracting. The viewer's attention is drawn more to trying to figure out whether a certain is supposed to be Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt instead of jjust being able to look at the picture and see the artists own designs.

[Jake V]

I don't think jealousy has anything to do with it. Land was a good artist back before he started tracing fashion magazines.

The tracing and stiff posing robs his work of any sense of movement or energy that would have been there if he just drew without any photo reference. It's lazy and a waste of his talent.

[garin]

The expression on Ben's face in that first pic cracks me up.

[Sam T.]

wow no love for Greg Land,huh??

[EmmettHULK]

What happened to the Greg Land that did such beautiful, DYNAMIC work at CrossGen?

All his work for Marvel is completely devoid of energy...just horribly stiff, static traced drawings of celebrities...and he doesn't even seem to try to make it look somewhat different from the originals...


Ugh....why is this man a superstar again?

[Mr.Musgrave]

Because people are stupid and they accept his laziness and theft. Personally, I believe any editor that hires him should be ashamed of themselves. His "work" is a slap in the face to every actual illustrator out there.

[Micro]

I think it depends. If it is intentionally done as a tribute or parody then it is okay. If it is just copied with no referance or credit given, then it's swiping. Examples:

Homage:


Swiping:

[Micro]

and possibly this also:


althought it is possible you could argue those are tributes aswell...

[dingo]

Micro, that Land drawing is a homage, not a swipe.
Look at it again, he has given credit where it says "after McFarlane"

They are all homages.

[Micro]

Micro, that Land drawing is a homage, not a swipe.
Look at it again, he has given credit where it says "after McFarlane"

They are all homages.

Ya you are right, I didn't see that before. Those were the closet things I could find to swiping as far as a cover goes. I think swiping is more common in the interior of the books.