How do you prefer Supes is drawn?
Wide Chin:
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Narrow Chin:
View Poll Results: Preference in Drawing
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Wide Chin
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Either is fine with me
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Thread: Wide or Narrow Chin?
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10-22-2006, 01:46 AM #1Junior Member
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Wide or Narrow Chin?
Last edited by CapFan; 10-22-2006 at 07:12 PM.
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10-22-2006, 02:44 AM #2Senior Member
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I prefer it right in there.
Originally Posted by CapFan
How do you prefer Supes is drawn?
Narrow Chin:
Some artists make his chin WAY too wide, resulting in a meat-head look that just doesn't work for Superman.
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10-22-2006, 12:21 PM #3All Roads Lead To Hell
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I'm fine either way. I think it's not only the chin, but the overall result.
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05-10-2008, 02:15 PM #4Captain America
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I will agree with you. It's the overall result what matters. Originally Posted by 666MasterOfPuppets
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05-10-2008, 02:22 PM #5Veteran Member
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Ass-Chin FTW!!!
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05-10-2008, 03:59 PM #6Veteran Member
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Originally Posted by 666MasterOfPuppets
Ditto. It's less about the size of the chin and more about the overall figure being able to convey emotion and power and dynamism.
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05-10-2008, 04:04 PM #7Heavy Metal War Machine
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I like the wide chin in styles where everybody has one, ala McGuinness.
Prefer the narrow chin and the high hairline (ala Swan) in general though.
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05-10-2008, 06:22 PM #8Mr. Wizard
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Whoever is drawing Action Comics at the moment has Superman down as far as I'm concerned. Chin and all, haha.
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05-11-2008, 02:16 PM #9Fan of Steel
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Ironically, both of those examples were drawn by Dan Jurgens.
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05-11-2008, 07:50 PM #10All Roads Lead To Hell
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Originally Posted by Supermancho
I will agree with you. It's the overall result what matters.
Exactly. It's about what the image evokes: Power, majesty, awe, all that stuff that comes with the word SUPERMAN. Originally Posted by The Batman
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05-11-2008, 11:48 PM #11From putty 2 orange
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The original was a more narrow chin, but the creators broadened it out in their newspaper strip, and it was done more widely by Boring and Plastino. I'd go with the original thin though.
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05-12-2008, 02:52 AM #12Member
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There are certain superheroes that to me will always need a broad chin to convey their mythic image. Superman and Captain America come to mind. So yeah, I gotta go with the wide chin.
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05-12-2008, 11:36 PM #13@stargazer0118
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Wide/butt chin FTW!!
Actually, Routh does have a pretty wide chin, even wider than Reeve. That pic in the first post doesn't really show it well. Maybe someone can post a better pic.
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05-13-2008, 12:05 AM #14Bloggity blog blog
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Just ask Alex Ross. THAT chin. :)
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05-19-2008, 03:33 PM #15..................
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The wider chin gives him an appearance of strength and charisma, while the narrow chin makes him look sickly. Of course, an extreme in any direction can set the character off balance. The thickness of the chin has to mesh smoothly with the rest of drawing.
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