>>5738235i didn't like his work when i was youger. and i was absolutely sure in this. later as i got older and saw more of his work, i realized i must've been crazy and his work is beautiful. for some reason the same handful of paintings everyone cycles through when talking about him are my least favorite. the ones you never see are the wonderful ones. and i only truly appreciated him as a genius when i sat down and did some serious studies of my favorites of his work. goddamn he can compose. it was really difficult to even follow one to one, because it was like layers and layers of intellectual puzzles all built to synergize to create comps that if you just glance at look very simplistic but if you haven't solved every puzzle you'll shift a tone or hue incrementally or break a switchbacking eye-guiding line tracked through various objects textures or shift changes, or accidentally break a repeating pattern at a specific angle, or you won't recognize so make unharmonious a certain rule of texture intensity that applies to a specific yellow-blue colorshift consistantly everywhere in the painting, or you'll accidentally make a fiery area too red when its really a complex textured interplay of pink and purple (same value as foreground) lit gray clouds on desauturated orange the same value as the grey that will make your painting fall to pieces.
this guy is crazy. now that i'm older, i love frazetta.
tldr
