Rob Liefeld...

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-25 08:03pm

I've read about Rob Liefeld, a famously bad comic book artist who was none the less successful and popular back in the mid to late 80s and early 90s, but fallen out with fandom in recent years and a couple years back out with Moore, and is now being seen as a low benchmark for hack mediocrity.

I found this article very funny and I myself have taken p*ss out of Liefeld's drawing style here (note the convoluted female torso, bent out of shape).

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2008-09-25 10:32pm

Your drawing is actually much more realistic than many of his. Try to make the woman's spine bend back more than 90 degrees, and make sure the man's muscles are so large that he can't fully move his arms.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2008-09-25 11:02pm

Also you shouldn't draw people's feet, you should use every trick you can think of to avoid it.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2008-09-25 11:47pm

Use hatching or add pouches to conceal anything you can't be bothered drawing.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2008-09-26 02:17am

That gun isn't enormous enough, and it looks like it has only one barrel.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2008-09-26 03:00am

I'm not going to click that link. I did enough damage to my eyes and my soul working in a comic shop in the 90s and laughing my ass off at that article once before, assuming it is the 40 worst article I am thinking of.

However, while your attempt at Crapfieldism is admirable, I will now have to throw my hat into the ring to show you how it is done son...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! SUFFER!!

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2008-09-26 03:55am

The latest issue of Deadpool had this gem:

"The more pouches the better... right Rob?"

"Who's Rob?"

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-09-26 07:11am

I used to have a joke about Ffolro the Rob Liefield rip-off of Hellsing Manga, (featuring the Nosferatu Vampire)

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2008-09-26 08:45am

pff. Package isn't big enough AND he's only got 4 pouches. Where is the bandolier with EXTRAS? WHAT IF HE RUNS OUT OF WHATEVER IS IN THERE?! CATASTROPHE!

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-26 09:37am

Here's my next attempt at aping Liefeld's style:

Liefeld Check List

*Giant bulging codpiece

*Giant swords/knives sticking out the back with no straps

*Oversized elbow and shoulder pads

*Tiny head relative to size of body

*Lots of pouches around the waist

*Oversized legs

*No feet

*Magic crayon background

*Tiny face cast half in the dark with a glowing left eye socket

*Poorly drawn hands masked by oversized lazer rifle

How was he so popular, even though there is relatively little craft behind his work? But his style is certainly distinctive and drawing like that is rather addictive.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-26 03:15pm

Two more pieces of Liefeld-ish rubbish:

Covenant · Post by **Covenant** » 2008-09-26 03:36pm

Havokeff fails! You need his thighs and waist to be larger than his shoulders, and those guns and swords are facing correctly--this is an error. You must have the hilt facing forwards but the blade flat on, with balled fists clearly in punching form that then have strange little guns drawn on top of them, that bend and point the wrong way.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-09-26 09:48pm

Strangely enough I think Rob Liefield must have seen that first squad of plastic Space Marines I assembled....

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2008-09-27 01:38am

Covenant wrote:Havokeff fails! You need his thighs and waist to be larger than his shoulders, and those guns and swords are facing correctly--this is an error. You must have the hilt facing forwards but the blade flat on, with balled fists clearly in punching form that then have strange little guns drawn on top of them, that bend and point the wrong way.

Dude. You can't turn off actual skill. I can't HELP but make his crap look better.

Orange. It is time for you to stop now. If you don't, I will be forced to reach through the intranets tubes and beat your drawing hand to a pulp with your own testicles.

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2008-09-27 01:52am

this thread is made of pure win. guys keep those drawings coming, they are cracking me up!

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2008-09-27 01:59am

So can anyone create my joke of Rob Liefield's Nosferatu inspired Hellsing Pisstake?

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-27 11:17am

havokeff wrote: Orange. It is time for you to stop now. If you don't, I will be forced to reach through the intranets tubes and beat your drawing hand to a pulp with your own testicles.

You just try and stop me...

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-09-27 11:28am

What... an... asshole.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-27 03:06pm

Shroom Man 777 wrote:What... an... asshole.

He really has plagiarized stuff quite blatantly (making you wonder if he is using tracing paper).

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2008-09-27 06:36pm

Big Orange wrote:He really has plagiarized stuff quite blatantly (making you wonder if he is using tracing paper).

Is that Shatterstar stabbing Magneto? How would that even work? How would a dude who carries a sword around even get within a hundred yards of Earth's Mightiest Mutant?

Also, yeah, a lot of that stuff seems to have been traced. The airship in top center just corresponds way too precisely to the original to even be drawn from reference.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2008-09-27 07:23pm

Wow, that's blatant.

Must be a bunch of artists wandering around with hopes of eventually punching his lights out...

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-27 09:16pm

Pablo Sanchez wrote: Is that Shatterstar stabbing Magneto? How would that even work? How would a dude who carries a sword around even get within a hundred yards of Earth's Mightiest Mutant?

He seems to be worse at writing than at drawing, which seems too terrible to contemplate.

Well somebody who types "Yabba-dabba-doom! What a rush!!" needs to be kicked in the balls.

Also, yeah, a lot of that stuff seems to have been traced. The airship in top center just corresponds way too precisely to the original to even be drawn from reference.

Huh, at least I don't use tracing paper, I'm not so lazy and tacky. My Liefelcation of the Clown Biker from Akira includes pouches and sixty exposed teeth.

How has he not been sued or/and fired?! And why the heck did an artist who not only stole original (& superior) works of comic book art, but with such fundamentally repetitive, garish, derivative and scrappy drawing skills become so successful?!

Anyhoo, since I like to kill Death from the Sea with laughter and incur a anger induced stroke in havokeff, I've posted one last Liefeld-style work of 'art' (note the silly female body proportions and pigtails writhing around for no reason):

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-09-27 10:54pm

Big Orange wrote:
Shroom Man 777 wrote:What... an... asshole.
He really has plagiarized stuff quite blatantly (making you wonder if he is using tracing paper).

No, I'm talking about you.

Drawing atrocities just for shits and giggles...

Academia Nut · Post by **Academia Nut** » 2008-09-27 11:45pm

Bounty... is the one on the left a man? Because aside from the rather strong chin... there's something seriously wrong with the crotch down there.

Gah!

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-28 07:50am

Shroom Man 777 wrote: No, I'm talking about you.

Drawing atrocities just for shits and giggles...

Well I find it hard to stop and at least I'm not being paid millions or given my own studio for my atrocious crap.

Academia Nut wrote:Bounty... is the one on the left a man? Because aside from the rather strong chin... there's something seriously wrong with the crotch down there.

Gah!

That's Big Orange to you.

Well it is a woman but she took too many body building steroids (Rob Liefeld drew bulging patches on some of his female characters, while steroids making a penis actually happened to a WWE female wrestler and East German athletes).