
Blam by Roy Lichtenstein was originally All American Men of War #89 by Russ Heath. And here I present to you "Bang" by Aaron Kaneshiro. The memetic transmission of ideas from one artist to another lead to infinite redundancy and connectivity. Here I tried to draw a parallel between the world of Davey Crockett and Science Fiction. Boys with their guns in the wild, facing down adversities with violence and square jaws. Here I am trying to incorporate the EC/DC comics style of the 50's more. The one principle I stumbled on today was the fact that line widths express lighting and give objects volume through subtle variation. In Japanese work it is more common to see a uniform line that encompasses every object with the same width, and depth is created more through observed shapes. Using a brush more than not seems to help. There's a great sense of dynamics they communicated with in that era in the line widths and accents. I hope to obta...