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Megalosaro
Banned
Yoshikawa Yasuhiko.
Gundam the origin is a masterpiece
Gundam the origin is a masterpiece
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
The increase in quality from weekly to monthly was pretty impressive for Farmland Saga. Too bad I haven't read it in years. Sigh, Askeladd...
TheRealTalker
Banned
I bunch of good artist already chosen and the beast artist Takehiko Inoue, Yoshikawa Yasuhiko, Makoto Yukimura and Kentaro Miura is in already a ton of posts so
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Spoilers
This series is weekly and the dude takes his time with his art
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Spoilers
This series is weekly and the dude takes his time with his art
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Ok, I thought of a few more that prob won't get a lot of repping.
Akira Hiramoto (Prison School, Me and the Devil Blues)
All around amazing art, able to portray the wildest ranges of themes imaginable.
Taiyou Matsumoto (Takemitsu Zamurai, Ping Pong)
Excellent panel work and flow.
Reiko Shimizu (Moon Child, Himitsu, Kaguyahime)
Her art undeniably has that shoujo style, but with great execution and use of colors.
Not true, the series got a continuation.
Akira Hiramoto (Prison School, Me and the Devil Blues)
All around amazing art, able to portray the wildest ranges of themes imaginable.
Taiyou Matsumoto (Takemitsu Zamurai, Ping Pong)
Excellent panel work and flow.
Reiko Shimizu (Moon Child, Himitsu, Kaguyahime)
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Her art undeniably has that shoujo style, but with great execution and use of colors.
Not true, the series got a continuation.
1st Course
Member
Early Akira Toriyama
not psycho
Member
Oh! great
Toriyama had some amazing paneling skills, the dinamicity he managed to give action scenes just using good paneling is still unparalleled imho.
Hiramoto has good range, amazing technical prowess, and experiment a lot with different angles (lot of fish eyes, incredibly close and angled shots etc...), shadings and styles to set moods.
Asano manage the best of the guys i know how to express emotions in his characters without using a single line of words. This is bizzarre because my favourite work of his, oyasumi punpun, has a main character that is represented by a stilized bird and not a human. And he STILL manage to show emotions.
Samura was covered in a post before me, but i still have to mention him. Him using details as a way to convey the timeframes (raw=quick scenes) is something i don't see often. As well as different kind of pencils/pens to further emphasize the mood of a scene.
Miura and Inoue are the most technically proficient i think. Miura has more detail but his work can feel "bloated" and static sometimes, while Inoue is nowhere as detailed but his pieces are much more variable in mood.
Hiramoto has good range, amazing technical prowess, and experiment a lot with different angles (lot of fish eyes, incredibly close and angled shots etc...), shadings and styles to set moods.
Asano manage the best of the guys i know how to express emotions in his characters without using a single line of words. This is bizzarre because my favourite work of his, oyasumi punpun, has a main character that is represented by a stilized bird and not a human. And he STILL manage to show emotions.
Samura was covered in a post before me, but i still have to mention him. Him using details as a way to convey the timeframes (raw=quick scenes) is something i don't see often. As well as different kind of pencils/pens to further emphasize the mood of a scene.
Miura and Inoue are the most technically proficient i think. Miura has more detail but his work can feel "bloated" and static sometimes, while Inoue is nowhere as detailed but his pieces are much more variable in mood.
Alcotholic
Banned
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
Samura genuinely changed the way I approach drawing. One of my favorite artist of all time
Immortal 4Eva!!!
Immortal 4Eva!!!
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
Holyshit at that shark pic.
Also seeing the mention of Kaguyahime made me read it as Kuragehime.
How could I forgot the bae?
Akiko Higashimura - Kakukaku Shikajika, Princess Jellyfish
Rockman Wright
Banned
didn't know prison school, watched some image.... man i'm sad that the guy had to go with this kind of ecchi popular artstyle to have success, don't know if it's bad or not, but i doesn't appeal to me.... well if it made me and the devil blues revive, i'm really happy! Do you have an article who talks about that?
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Prison School is...unique. I don't know how else to describe it. Hiramoto's art majestically carries over into this grotesque and sexual romp. It's not for everyone but goddamn is it an amazing series.
Inio Asano's actually just the best.
I'm really fond of Kaoru Mori's stuff too though. The clothing detail in Otoyomegatari is insanely pretty (this isn't even her best work in this manga either, couldn't find the ones I really love):
Yeah, they've both been mentioned already, but they're really super talented.
I've been reading Homunculus lately and while not quite up to par with the above two, Yamamoto Hideo has really great panels. His faces are very distinct too. I'll give him a mention just to throw a new name in this thread out there.
His homunculi conversations are really something else, too. Very creative.
I'm really fond of Kaoru Mori's stuff too though. The clothing detail in Otoyomegatari is insanely pretty (this isn't even her best work in this manga either, couldn't find the ones I really love):
Yeah, they've both been mentioned already, but they're really super talented.
I've been reading Homunculus lately and while not quite up to par with the above two, Yamamoto Hideo has really great panels. His faces are very distinct too. I'll give him a mention just to throw a new name in this thread out there.
His homunculi conversations are really something else, too. Very creative.
You can troll better than that, he can't even do proportiond right. :/
The best have been named already on thw first page.
True Savior
Member
Miura/Samura/Inoue are all crazy talented. The level of consistency is amazing.
It's hard to choose something from Berserk. Them at the beach. Young Guts looking at the stars. Dozens of kill panels. SkullKnight stuff. Eclipse ,or Hill of Swords. Griffith and Zodd interactions. It's endless.But our protagonist's birth more or less sums up what is Berserk
I want to say one thing. Hiroki Endo scene direction in action set pieces is probably the best i've ever seen in drawing panels.His art is good but not great , but goddamn he knows everything about scene composition and how to convey information.
It's hard to choose something from Berserk. Them at the beach. Young Guts looking at the stars. Dozens of kill panels. SkullKnight stuff. Eclipse ,or Hill of Swords. Griffith and Zodd interactions. It's endless.But our protagonist's birth more or less sums up what is Berserk
I want to say one thing. Hiroki Endo scene direction in action set pieces is probably the best i've ever seen in drawing panels.His art is good but not great , but goddamn he knows everything about scene composition and how to convey information.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Hayao Miyazaki
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind said:
Rockman Wright
Banned
i can't find any info on this, it must be really recent, cause the last volume was release in 2007, i'm glad it will continue
Anyway, while i was searching for some image of osamu tezuka (not the greatest artist in term of drawing, but cleary one of my favortie of all time in term of manga in general)
i remembered this guy, and wondered if it was an inspiration for skullface in MGSV
Kaoru Mori & Hiroaki Samura come to mind.
Also Douman Seiman & Satoshi Mizukami.
But my all time favorite is Tsutomu Nihei
I love his art style.
Especially when he does color pages.
I really hope no one comes here on a data plan.
Also Douman Seiman & Satoshi Mizukami.
But my all time favorite is Tsutomu Nihei
I love his art style.
Especially when he does color pages.
My desktop background and all time favorite thing he's drawn.
I really hope no one comes here on a data plan.
Frozenprince
Banned
For as AWFUL, and I mean awful, a writer as Tite Kubo is sometimes, the man is a brilliant artist.
Everybody else I can think of has basically already been said.
Everybody else I can think of has basically already been said.
ColossalLazy
Member
I love Katou Kotono art in Shoukoku no Altair
vainglorious
Member
Hayao Miyizaki and his magnum opus Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
The line work in this manga is incredible. Nothing has matched it since its completion.
EDIT -
Twins!
Rockman Wright
Banned
ho yeah this one is great too, is only real manga since he focused more on animation, but damn that was good, i have all of them :
Frozenprince
Banned
Oh man I forgot about Boichi. Probably because of all the fucking he likes to draw.
But yeah no his stuff is just stunning at points.
I really love his use of shadowing and heavy inking to frame his characters.
LegendofDragoonLives
Member
Takehito Inoue is my current favorite, but I change opinion every few months or 1-2 years. I'm in love with Slam Dunk, but his work in Vagabond is also gorgeous.
Rockman Wright
Banned
yeah thanks, i just saw the cover of the volume 5, hope it will get released in my country
OniBarubary
Banned
Fuck. Everyone already took mine.
My favorite of all time is Nihei but a lot of these are also favorites.
A big current one of mine is Hanazawa Kengo, who I do not think has been mentioned yet.
I'm trying to find "I Am a Hero" scans but latest chapters of "Boys on the Run" might be a good indicator of his art style. He's less about grand backgrounds and beautiful detail and more about incredibly expressive and unique faces and movements. You can tell his work at a glance and his character's range of expressions are incredible.
Edit: Man, it's hard finding good shots.
My favorite of all time is Nihei but a lot of these are also favorites.
A big current one of mine is Hanazawa Kengo, who I do not think has been mentioned yet.
I'm trying to find "I Am a Hero" scans but latest chapters of "Boys on the Run" might be a good indicator of his art style. He's less about grand backgrounds and beautiful detail and more about incredibly expressive and unique faces and movements. You can tell his work at a glance and his character's range of expressions are incredible.
Edit: Man, it's hard finding good shots.
Pro from Dover
Member
Toyokazu Matsunaga with his work Bakune Young.
Hardly a comfortable style, but I dig it the most.
It's like a crazy rubber monster movie where the cast are the rubber monsters.
Hardly a comfortable style, but I dig it the most.
It's like a crazy rubber monster movie where the cast are the rubber monsters.
Ganzlinger
Member
I really love Kiyo Kujo works. Especially on Trinity Blood manga:
EvilKatarn
Member
Don't say that. Prison School chapters 162-164 are the greatest pieces of modern art there is.
shadowstar
Member
My first thought reading the topic title. His attention to detail is insane.
Talking about pure style here
Hirohiko Araki - Not too much to say here, truly iconic artist that goes beyond the simple format of manga, and his style is just in a league way higher than mere mortals
Yoshihiro Togashi - I love his sketchy style with few details and heavy outlines, prefectly conceives the adventurous feel of HxH, but sometimes he goes full on a more detailed and realistic look
George Morikawa - the one that i did not expect to like so much in the beginning, this is probably the only artist i've ever read from which i can feel raw energy.
He's great at conceiving power, speed but also more intricated compositions
Hirohiko Araki - Not too much to say here, truly iconic artist that goes beyond the simple format of manga, and his style is just in a league way higher than mere mortals
Yoshihiro Togashi - I love his sketchy style with few details and heavy outlines, prefectly conceives the adventurous feel of HxH, but sometimes he goes full on a more detailed and realistic look
George Morikawa - the one that i did not expect to like so much in the beginning, this is probably the only artist i've ever read from which i can feel raw energy.
He's great at conceiving power, speed but also more intricated compositions
Ryoichi Ikegami
Yeah! I really like the movie poster look to his characters (I think he started out doing movie posters) some of the background art and secondary characters can look pretty iffy though, aside from that he's a class act!
Oyasumi Punpun is such a bizarre manga. it brought up some strange emotions when reading it.
Another recent underdog, Masuda Eiji "Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa" has an absolutely amazing artstyle that it took me a long time to figure out whether I liked or not. The true crime is that the anime for the manga completely removed said art style to go with a more traditional moe blob styling. It's a real shame because it really does feel like all of the soul was stripped out of the project.
I liked that about that Manga.
Finishing it left me geniuly confused, about the Story, but also about myself.
I like Titles that can shake me up this much, and Oyasumi Punpun has been the most effective with that. by far
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