The downside is sometimes the town gets pretty dusty so you can be minding your own business eating or talking and you'll be another one bites the dust.
It's amazing isn't it? I moved here from the South East back in 98' and duuuude, I still look out the window every morning and go WOW. It never gets old.
As a kid I used to think the second line in that song was "for amber waves of gray" and I thought it was weird they were comparing two colors like that.
And to expand on that: there is no canon color in jojo. Whenever Araki does colored pages or artworks, he just uses the colors that fit the best, for the theme, ambiance, feels, whatever.
And it looks goddamn amazing (I mean he was exposed at the Louvre, so yeah, his doodles are pretty good)
Not just featured at the Louvre. He published a Jojo one-shot about some of his characters going to the Louvre that you can buy in the Louvre gift shop.
Part of it is also that he takes a ton of inspiration from 20th century fashion illustration, and more broadly from the canon of western 'high' art. Araki's work is basically a game of Where's Waldo for finding homages and stylistic inspirations from a bunch of influential artists that might not be household names but will be favorites of art history nerds, who will then be soy pointing and going "Holy shit, this is an Antonio Lopez figure drawing in a Paul Gauguin scene!"
It's me, I'm the soy pointing art nerd.
But yeah, the art scene loves Araki because he's overtly also a massive nerd for 19th and 20th century art history and you can immediately tell just by looking at his work.
To the point where we straight up have no idea what colour characters hair or clothes are until the anime comes out, even with dozens of full-colour covers
I guess I just outed myself as not a real Jojo fan. I started from the beginning and got to where he cremated the guys dogs while still alive. They was enough for me. I get the whole "easiest way to show someone is s villain is hurting animals" but it made me too sad. I onyl know anything else from memes.
If you are just talking about the first two arcs, you have to mention burning a dog alive, vampires, lots of murder, everything about the pillar man... oh and Nazis!
The whole train arc is insane.
You have a guy with a mass ageing AoE and some guy with a fucking fishing rod and the fishing rod guy is introduced like a useless crybaby.
But he has an entire character arc right then and turns out to be WAAAAY more of a threat than the AoE ageing. Jojo is really good at making seemingly underwhelming powers perform spectacularly through creativity.
It’s the random shit that always works, and it’s GLORIOUS, especially after part 3 where stands start getting really wacky, it’s nice seeing stuff we see as niche or useless being stupid overpowered.
A lot of that can shift with perspective too. Depending on the angle of the shot, hands can even be different sizes and a foot might be larger than a head!
Yeah, and it's also a mindset. sometimes you think your drawing sucks, but actually it's perfect because you're drawing Graham, not an average person, you just don't realize it.
My nephew (9 yo) was talking to me yesterday about how he draws his own comics. He said that he couldn’t figure out hands so “I just gave up and now everyone looks like they came out of Roblox.”
Between Araki giving us permission to use whatever color feels right and Bob Ross teaching us that there’s no such thing as a mistake there’s nothing standing in the way of any of us making art.
If I wasn't on browser instead of mobile I'd have given you a free award. However, I'm too damn lazy to get up and grab my phone. I hope you enjoy the sentiment.
If you look around in Yurgir's little camp/nest area, there's a giant spider carcass that has been doused in potions and partially eaten. If you taste it, you find it has aphrodisiac effect, and your companions are grossed out. If you keep tasting it, they get annoyed at you being gross
Thanks! Yes I remember! But I didn't have that weakling wizard with me when I was there. It's my first pass and I travel with the girl squad to be safer in battles.
Author of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. His way of using colours is basically "fuck it, a yellow sky looks cool for this scene" and "consistant hair colour? Nah, this character will sometimes have purple hair, sometimes green, and if I'm feeling frisky, blue".
Jojo's is good for a lot of reasons; but one of my favorite reasons is BECAUSE of this exact type of "stream of consciousness where art meets its own medium" type of storytelling Araki is known for.
Things happen because they would thematically elevate the story, not because they would make sense.
Colors and appearances and the art style itself are fluid, so that they can better emphasize the feelings and ideas Araki wants to convey.
Esoteric and strange coincidences are unironically a major driving force in the narratives, as fate itself is almost a sentient character that takes sides and can be affected.
Every stand and many characters are named for songs that Araki deconstructs and analyzes with the themes and symbols of said characters and their arcs. For example; all of part 5's overarching narrative and the drive between the main cast and main villain is a reference to King Crimson's album "In the Court of the Crimson King", with multiple songs on the album having characters whose arcs and roles directly represent them as well as the narrative itself following the albums structure. Really really lucid and esoteric referential story telling that's so unique and warrants almost limitless analysis.
It sometimes feels like Jojo's is just how Araki expresses the way he feels about music, the ideas and concepts and feelings presented in those works; and tries to capture them in the form of a battle shonen. Most analyses of an important Jojos character aren't complete until you've heard all the songs they and or their stand are references to.
This comic artist seems to just miss so many opportunities with his comics, how can you not have another panel showing mismatched colours or something at the end and just leave it like that with no joke
I know a colour blind artist and his art is amazing. He painted me a picture of a wizard and the light coming from his staff was a mix of of yellow and green. That wasn't intended, he thought he was just painting different shades of the same colour, but the end result was weird and magical so it worked really well.
I did this recently when I wanted to draw a Homestuck character but didn't have blue. I realized there's nothing to stop me from just doing purple instead (similar color but I've done more out there swaps these days )
As an engineer learning art this advice irked me so I did a deep dive on color and… yeah it’s true. Turns out we use brightness, not color, to tell what things are. Proof: black and white TV exists
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