
Noel Sickles sketches
Reading
My Love recently has got me thinking about naturalism in comics. What do I mean by the term
naturalism? That’s what I call a bare boned observational (from life) drawing style. It’s not dissimilar from documentary
illustrations published in newspapers before photography was affordable. A modern equivalent would be
court sketches. And in comics the examples that come immediately to mind are
Noel Sickles, Alex Toth and Jaime Hernandez. A clear, observational drawing style based on a study of life as it appears to the naked eye. Stylized, yes, but accurate to life in proportion and feel.
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