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Jim Lee instructional video

Started by zuludelta, July 07, 2007, 02:10:34 PM

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zuludelta

Just found this site today. The original videos are out-of-print (and have been for at least a couple of years), so I don't think this falls under the "illegal downloads" prohibition we have here. I haven't been all that interested in Lee's art since after high school, but he still manages to bring up some pretty good points, and he shows that he's a solid draftsman.

Oh, and you really need to download the Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld vids, I give it a 10 out of 10 on the unintentional comedy scale  :lol: 

You'll have to move fast, though, as the videos will be taken down at the end of the month.

MJB


zuludelta

You're welcome MJB. It's funny how, in the Jim Lee videos, Stan Lee keeps butting in and even offers some backhanded compliments along the way (the sequence where Jim's drawing two contrasting panel styles and Stan prefers Jim's "bad panel" over his "good panel" is hilarious). One of my favourite lines in the interview is when Stan looks at Lee's drawing of a bad guy and says "you know he's a villain because he's got big thighs." Awesome.

An important thing to keep in mind that this video was made a few months before Lee left Marvel to co-found Image Comics with Silvestri, Portacio, McFarlane, Liefeld, Larsen, and Valentino. If you watch the "How to Create Comics" videos (the ones with Liefeld and McFarlane), it's fairly obvious that they'd already met and planned the whole thing... towards the end of the show, with Lee and Portacio guesting, everybody laughs whenever the word "image" is mentioned, and it's mentioned several times. And it's obvious even then that Liefeld was the odd man out... McFarlane keeps ripping him for his poor anatomy (and Rob gets back at him by saying that Todd can't meet deadlines).

psychopanda

Nice, I've been looking for those. My brother actually bought them on vhs back in the day and...probably still has them! :P

For those who use Netflix, they have the Kevin Smith one (Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels) and also "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Away". The latter is pretty cool because it has the late John Buscema.

MJB

I had seen the Todd McFarlane video when it first came out. What is/was frustrating about these is that the production value was so low that they couldn't take multiple takes and actually edit these. Todd barely draws anything in his video and in the "How to Create Comics" one they mention that they will show the coloring process and other stuff but run out of time to do so.

This is why I like Youtube. You can fine multiple "how to draw" videos on that site that actually teach you things.

-MJB