As I imagine was the same with quite a few people, Doomboy served as my introduction to Mexican artist Tony Sanodval's work. He has a gorgeous, warm watercolour style- classically romantic in a sense, gothic romantic almost, amalgamated with his distinctive stylistic choices, such as disproportionate, large headed figures with flat moonafaces. The size of the head can shift and change, as can the features- they sort of look like those grotesque old Punch and Judy puppets, or those eerie porcelain dolls. Looking at some of Sandoval's other art, it's easy to see how those qualities easily lend themselves to more horror themed work- the sudden exaggerated changes in expression coupled with that po-faced inscrutability. So while I'm not especially intrigued by the premise of A Glance Backward, I do really like Sandoval's art, and blurbs are often unreliable indicators of a story, so I'm curious to see this.
Monday, 15 June 2015
Sizing up Tony Sandoval and Pierre Paquet's 'A Glance Backward' [preview]
As I imagine was the same with quite a few people, Doomboy served as my introduction to Mexican artist Tony Sanodval's work. He has a gorgeous, warm watercolour style- classically romantic in a sense, gothic romantic almost, amalgamated with his distinctive stylistic choices, such as disproportionate, large headed figures with flat moonafaces. The size of the head can shift and change, as can the features- they sort of look like those grotesque old Punch and Judy puppets, or those eerie porcelain dolls. Looking at some of Sandoval's other art, it's easy to see how those qualities easily lend themselves to more horror themed work- the sudden exaggerated changes in expression coupled with that po-faced inscrutability. So while I'm not especially intrigued by the premise of A Glance Backward, I do really like Sandoval's art, and blurbs are often unreliable indicators of a story, so I'm curious to see this.
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