Same artist? Looks awfully familiar

Written by Auntie Sahar on 09.02.2015 at 16:38

Same artist? Looks awfully familiar

The guy has done lots of band artwork, and frankly they all look pretty similar. Lycus, Manilla Road, Inquisition, Artificial Brain, Truppensturm etc.

Written by [user id=4365] on 09.02.2015 at 16:41

The guy has done lots of band artwork, and frankly they all look pretty similar.

Going from your convo in the SB, I'd take it that you mean that as a bad thing. Skimming through some of his work now and I'd suppose you're right, but all artists I think shouldn't have too much of a diversity between their pieces, otherwise they could easily lose a sense of a core delivery that maintains their own identity. Is this guy relatively new on the scene? Because if that's the case I guess this sense of too much similarity could be forgivable, all art needs time to refine itself after all.

*Agree with you that a greater variety of color use from him would help a lot though.

Written by Auntie Sahar on 09.02.2015 at 16:59

Going from your convo in the SB, I'd take it that you mean that as a bad thing. Skimming through some of his work now and I'd suppose you're right, but all artists I think shouldn't have too much of a diversity between their pieces, otherwise they could easily lose a sense of a core delivery that maintains their own identity. Is this guy relatively new on the scene? Because if that's the case I guess this sense of too much similarity could be forgivable, all art needs time to refine itself after all.

*Agree with you that a greater variety of color use from him would help a lot though.

I really like quite a few of his artworks, but a good 50% of them seem to be mountainous landscapes littered with skulls. Compare this one to say, this and I know which one I'm going to remember more. Using the same colours is pretty risky if you ask me as it's important to establish mood and such. As it stands a lot of his stuff doesn't really do much for me as a result.

Written by [user id=4365] on 09.02.2015 at 17:02

I really like quite a few of his artworks, but a good 50% of them seem to be mountainous landscapes littered with skulls. Compare this one to say, this and I know which one I'm going to remember more.

Yeah, I see what you mean. And even though that one is different in terms of what he's drawing, it still does use a lot of the same shades and hues.

Written by Auntie Sahar on 09.02.2015 at 17:53

Yeah, I see what you mean. And even though that one is different in terms of what he's drawing, it still does use a lot of the same shades and hues.

Either way, he's still vastly better than the majority of what gets put on cover arts these days.