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TALKING TO GEORGE PEREZ @ MOTOR CITY COMIC CON 06
05-22-2006, 12:04 PM
by Vaneta Rogers(excerpt)
NRAMA: Do artists get references to work with now?
MOTOR CITY COMIC CON 2006 (19-21 May 2006 )
George Perez: Well, sometimes when they send references, they send references of another person's interpretation where they've jumped a little far off the diving board, or they send you two references from two artists where there are contradictory elements. So there has to be someplace to start.When I mentioned it to a fan, he suggested, and it was very smart, that characters who wear hoods -- what's their hair color? Those are things you should know.
There were things like when I drew Superman and the Golden Age Superman. The Golden Age Superman looks like he's wearing socks -- there's no heel, there's no seam to show that there's a flat to his boots, yet the current Superman does have a seam so he does actually have, like, a flatness to his boot. There's little things like that I've picked up. There's a slight variation in the insignia, of course, in the two Supermans, but even when I drew Superboy Prime, I noticed that Phil Jimenez drew his insignia and I made sure it was drawn that way. Little things just to give you cues.
