Art Inspiration: Tony Moore

I would say that one of my influences on my current style would have to be on Tony Moore.
I ready Robert Kirkman's first volume of the Walking Dead comic series and I really enjoy seeing Tony Moore's art style. I liked the simple gray tone artwork while it used realistic proportions. While incorporating exaggerated facial expression and head shapes. I feel that his art style like make me think of the walking dead because I have also ways of affiliating zombie themes with dark and realistic styles aimed at adults. However there I found it to be quite a contrast where there were realistic elements in he character's anatomy but the expression the characters made it feel a little bit cartoonish with it being aimed at that audience demographics. I particularly like the approach does to make the heads show unrealistic and exaggerated traits while maintaining a realistic proportions in the overall anatomy of the character. Some of the thing I like was the ways he drew heads and the eyes. they are not larges but small in relation to the realistic proportion of the human head. The use of expressions helps make the body language more readable as expressions in realistic styled comics are not so readable. In his work, there is great sense of detail and emphasis the line work despite the limited lighting and colouring in the comics pages. However he does other work. His male characters can have large square chins and jaws. The line work incorporated exaggeration style allowing the drawings to be more dynamic. When he draws animals he incorporates more realistic proportions bust allow room for expressions. He works using traditional inks and markers but he has also done proper colouring. He uses the soft tones to suggest lighting and depth to his two dimensional drawings.



The style has been adapted to The Walking Dead games by Tell Tale games (2012).

Deadpool #1 Cropped Preview (Moore 2012)

Tony Moore – The Walking Dead (2013)

Fear Agent (Moore and Sollazzo, 2008) 

In an online interview with Optimiumworld (2008) he talks about his processes and techniques and uses. When inking Tony Moore used sharpies pens when focusing on negative drawings and to make small corrections in his work. He uses traditional method sinking his work. He explains his production process when creating a comic page. First, he reads his client’s brief/script then creates a 2 by 3 inches drawing. Second, we then scans into Photoshop to adjust the panel and gutter layout. The reason he works in a small scale is to allow to him to concentrate more on the story itself and not on the minor details. Third, after he has printed out the sketch onto a 10” by 15” inch sheet, he goes over the printed lines in pencil. There have been occasions where he just does the penciling then gives it to an inker. Once the inking is complete he scans them onto the computer. Here I manged to do a small test to see if I could apply his style to my work.

Tony Moore Visual Style Test

References

Moore, T. 2016. Original Art. [online] TONY MOORE ILLUSTRATION. Available at: http://www.tonymooreillustration.com/shoporiginalart/ [Accessed 25 Jan. 2016].

Moore, T. 2013. Tony Moore – The Walking Dead. [image]. Available at: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1044856 [Accessed 30 Nov. 2015].

Moore, T. 2012. Crop-Deadpool_1_Preview41. [image]. Available at: http://geek-news.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/geek/2012/10/crop-Deadpool_1_Preview41.jpg [Accessed 30 Nov. 2015].

Moore, T. and Sollazzo, A. 2008. Fear Agent. [image] Available at: http://alexsollazzo.deviantart.com/art/Fear-Agent-90723765 [Accessed 30 Nov. 2015].

Thibault, J. 2008. Masters of Ink #10 - Tony Moore answers 12 questions - Optimum Wound. [online] Optimum Wound. Available at: http://www.optimumwound.com/masters-of-ink-10-tony-moore-answers-12-questions.htm [Accessed 25 Jan. 2016].

Thibault, J. 2008. Words and Pictures with Jacen Burrows - Optimum Wound. [online] Optimum Wound. Available at: http://www.optimumwound.com/words-and-pictures-with-jacen-burrows.htm [Accessed 25 Jan. 2016].

Thibault, J. 2008. Masters of Ink #10 - Tony Moore answers 12 questions - Optimum Wound. [online]. Optimum Wound. Available at: http://www.optimumwound.com/masters-of-ink-10-tony-moore-answers-12-questions.htm [Accessed 30 Nov. 2015].

Kirkman, R. and Moore, T. 2004. The Walking Dead. 12th ed. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics.

The Walking Dead: Season One. 2012. [computer game]. Xbox 360. Telltale Games.