Comments on: Theory: Olaf Gulbransson And The Magic of Drawing

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:19:48 +0000

I have been searching for this post since the first time I saw it a couple years ago and I finally stumbled back across it! I absolutely loved the work of the cartoonist posted here and the ideas about simplicity really spoke to me. I love simple clear styles and ideas. I hope to pare down my own scribbly drawing style to something as elegant and stylish.

Thanks for this blog!

P.S.
Don’t discount all comic art yet! Check out Cory Walker’s first run on Invincible #1-6.
http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/2879/Invincible-1

By: shakil

shakil — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:57:34 +0000

I really don’t know what I’m talking about, so I’ll just shut up and try not to seem too stupid.

By: Mckay Boxberger

Mckay Boxberger — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:54:53 +0000

I knew there is a reason why I’m not very impressed by todays comic art in the comic industries as I read comics! Thanks for posting this Steve!

By: Giacomo de Plonque

Giacomo de Plonque — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:29:36 +0000

When an artist works harder at drawing attention than drawing anything else, I tend to focus on the eyes of the smiling girl just over there.

By: uddip

uddip — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:46:59 +0000

The thing that I diliked most in the video is the artist’s attitude of making it sensational. He probably gave a lot of thinking before planning and painting that, but his execution in the video is nothing but a gimmic. Good art works in a deep psychological level, and average art just amazes us without producing any effect inside. That is exactly where the artist fails. I am quite sure after a week or two I shall remember Gulbransson’s drawing if I see them again or someone copying them, but the same I can’t say about the video or the comic pic. I feel that’s the difference between them. I have noted that today’s media and everything are interested in gimmics and sensation to make some quick bucks, but a real art will endure the time forever.

By: Stephen Worth

Stephen Worth — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:50:12 +0000

No, it’s moronic because the fella is putting on a big show of painting a picture, but he’s painting like he’s painting a house. Art requires thinking and making decisions. There is no thinking going on in that video, just slopping on paint like a paint by numbers.

By: bruce

bruce — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:10:17 +0000

I think it was called ‘moronic’ because it’s christian and the guy acts like a fool.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:49:11 +0000

One can appreciate the ceiling of the Uffizi without feeling as though one is satisfied with the amount of paint used relative to the price of admission.

The limited brush strokes in a zen painting are one thing, the Book of Kells, another.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:22:46 +0000

Gulbranssons drawings remind me very much of the line drawings of Jo Spier. A great illustrator, he also drew comic cartoons. He worked around the same time in the Netherlands, and later in the U.S.A.

By: Rooniman

Rooniman — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:03:02 +0000

Thats real talent right there.