The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings

[rhystuck]

http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html

This is hilarious.

[Dan]

And horrifying.

I knew that Liefeld is a hack, but I didn't know how incredibly fucking lazy he is. I mean, shit, that thing with the guns in the final entry? That's just poor. And the feet! Jesus, the feet!

[Bonesaw]

32, 26, 17, 10, and 1 are my favorites.

Or rather, they are the most horrid things I have ever set eyes upon in my life.

I think I've been stricken with a case of the ol' haemolacria.

[DrAwesome]

I got halfway down the article and gave up. I think it's a little over-critical, but I guess for hardcore fans of such comics these things are important. Don't get me wrong, I think a lot of the criticism is on point and justified-- I just wouldn't have cared so much if I was reading the comics.

[arabel]

I think Liefeld cops a much closer scrutiny than any other artist, mainly because he's the least skilled incredibly popular artist that most people can think of. Well, except for that pornography copying guy, what's his name...?

Oh yes, thank-you google - Greg Land. (http://iagainstcomics.blogspot.com/2006/12/my-greg-land-experiment-pt-1.html)

But yeah - I'm sure every artist gets lazy from time-to-time, mostly on deadline, but the sheer amount of laziness and bad drawing through this guy's career makes artists grind their teeth in horror and envy at his paycheck.

[Gina]

Oh sweet holy mother of jesus.

I can 100% honestly say thatI drew the female body more sensibly in the first proper vaguely-realistic drawing I ever tried. When I was 10. And hadn't even yet developed my own curves to compare with.
I could only get throught the first page. The spines! SPINES! They just don't bend that way, guys.

[Dan]

But yeah - I'm sure every artist gets lazy from time-to-time, mostly on deadline, but the sheer amount of laziness and bad drawing through this guy's career makes artists grind their teeth in horror and envy at his paycheck.

It isn't just artists grinding their teeth. Liefeld's hackery is so blatant that even people with no artistic sensibilities whatsoever - people like me, for example - can spot it easily. I think that's a big part of why he cops so much flak. Everyone can make fun of him.

[arabel]

Everyone can make fun of him.

He brings people together! It's a service to the community.

[rhystuck]

I think Liefeld cops a much closer scrutiny than any other artist, mainly because he's the least skilled incredibly popular artist that most people can think of. Well, except for that pornography copying guy, what's his name...?

Oh yes, thank-you google - Greg Land. (http://iagainstcomics.blogspot.com/2006/12/my-greg-land-experiment-pt-1.html)

But yeah - I'm sure every artist gets lazy from time-to-time, mostly on deadline, but the sheer amount of laziness and bad drawing through this guy's career makes artists grind their teeth in horror and envy at his paycheck.

OMG that is hilarious. It reminds me of the "make porn worksafe" photoshops on SA.

[Muz]

Ooh.. old topic, but I'll comment anyway.

I never really liked any of his art. It's a bit over-critical, especially on some points like not seeing feet and stuff. But really, the art is bad even without any mistakes. It's because of exaggerated drawings, lines, horrible proportions like that which make me not read comics.

[Amake]

Greg Land is remarkable. In some circles (my comic book geek friends) "Greg Landing" has replaced "tracing" as a verb. And Liefeld. . . it's funny that the two most well-known comic artists in history are both legendary for their bad work. >_>

[shMerker]

I'd hazard that Bill Waterson, Charles Shultz, and Gary Larson are all better known, simply by virtue of their work seeing much broader circulation. If you want to stick to people who make comic books as opposed to strips Stan Lee and Will Eisner are also probably more recognizable names than Land and Liefeld put together. And if I wanted to pull names of people still living and working I think Frank Miller and Alan Moore probably get more attention, having had a lot of their work made into movies recently.

[Beavis Saves]

I remember going into a comic book shop for my first time as a young child. I'd seen the cartoons of the Teenage Ninja Turtles, Batman, Xmen, Spiderman, and wanted more.

So I go in and look at an Xmen comic. The cover was an undecipherable smudge of crude tits and muscles. I looked around and saw all of the super heroes on display were like 38, and the art inside was worse. My childhood brain couldn't process this shitty art, especially after seeing the good designs in the cartoons.

Long story short, Ren and Stimpy comics kicked ass.

[Amake]

To clarify, I meant artists who only work as artists. The other more famous people also write comics. Okay, Liefeld is occasionally a (really bad) writer too, but his fame is based chiefly on drawing comics. As is Land's.

[shMerker]

Dang, here I go trying to cover all of the bases and you think up a distinction that hadn't crossed my mind.

[Amake]

Yeah, and it only took two months to think up! Well actually I forgot all about this board and my posting on it. Kinda weird. >_>

[liam3000]

Pah! Pah I say! If you want truly amazing comic artists, I'd advise looking at guys like Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Winsor McKay, all that kind of stuff - the guys who actually helped to define comics as an art, and helped it to progress - though from the artists you guys mentioned, Schulz and Eisner are definitely amazing as well.

[shMerker]

I was going for recognizability, not necessarily importance or artistic merit.

[Reasonableman]

I just dug out some of my dad's old comics; namely, Judge Dredd. Brian Boland's art is impressively sharp. The other artists, not so much.

[Valdez_Leel]

Argh! My eyes! The characters all look like they're about to explode at any given minute - like the failed results of some ill-concieved cloning experiment involving steroids. If these characters did exist they would be blubbering invalids incapable of movement - their strained internal organs would rip them apart them from the inside...ugh! The horror! The horror!

[Reasonableman]

Which characters? Where? LEMME AT 'EM!

[Valdez_Leel]

Which characters? Where? LEMME AT 'EM!

ALL OF THEM! - But in particular the ones in No's 40, 39, 34, 27, 21, 14 and 11. They all have like a million muscle lines each. I mean get the point that their mean't to be ultra athletic super heroes but there's butch and then there's just deformed and they look more like the later to me.

[Neen]

Sweet, sweet, vindication. (http://superfunadventuretime.com/2009/08/09/avengers-avenged/)

[Demaar]

Pretty sure I don't care about how terrible this guy is (though, man, that's some pretty terrible art). But yeah, giving him that book? Pure ice burn of epic proportions.

I think the execution could have been handled better, but that was still pretty nice.