The Obi-Wan Kenobi comic book adaptation is gonna be illustrated by Salvador Larroca, whose art I despise.
So here's me venting, real quick.
It's not because he traces. It's because he's sloppy about it. A lot of Star Wars artists trace, or at least use references. But they also try to hide it a bit, y'know?
Larroca's so blatantly just taking pictures, tracing the lineart, then keeping that picture but lowering the opacity of the original image, sometimes blurring it too for good measure...
... and finally adding some soft-shaded colors all around it, hoping to make the original pic blend in with its surroundings.
The result? Images where the FACE of the character is hyper-realistic, but the rest of the body is shaded like a comic.
So it's not just tracing. It's copy-pasting.
When I draw, my process is like this one too, for the record. Tracing, lowering the opacity, the whole shebang. But:
I try not to make it as blatant (and even include my references sometimes).
I'm not a trained professional artist who does this by trade.
What kills me is that he knows how to draw, read his Iron Man or Wolverine stuff, the tracing is not as obvious there, sometimes it's not there period!
Like, he COULD do better, he just doesn't fucking wanna 😃
Also, I mean... originally the Star Wars comic book adaptations also offered insight into characters thoughts, included or re-adapted deleted scenes, maybe added some new scenes, maybe showed old ones through a different POV.
Now they don't do any of that (probably because they wanna add as little lore as possible to then avoid as many retcons as possible), it's just "the movie/show but now it's a comic".
If the action will be the same as what was in the show, and the images are traced from the show... what's the point of this adaptation???
