Jorge Jimenez, DC's new "upcoming artist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osjjo6ncf_M
The first thing that set a red flag for me is that he has been working digitally all this time (and with a fucking regular intuos lmao). As another hispanic who is aware of how our "work" culture is, I fucking know how we manage to climb up the ranks, and it's usually not by legit means.
Not only that, his "teachers" are literal nobodies and now mostly dedicate themselves to coloring shit. Look at this, this one of the guys: https://www.comicartfans.com/comic-artists/javier_aranda.asp
If you actually go to his wikipedia page and read what he has said in interviews before: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Jim%C3%A9nez_(dibujante), he was as fucking PE teacher until 24 before he "had a mid life crisis" and decided to become an artist, obviously he was always a fan of drawing but unlike literally every other artist ever, he's the magical jock who became a literal god in less than 5 years?
The video that sealed the deal for me was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjeb2H-TCM
Just look at that fucking drawing, I don't need to explain it for anyone else. Even parkinson and legally blind mangaka do a better job when given a pencil and paper for fucks sake.
Is this what the future of western comics looks like? Is there hope for art in the west?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osjjo6ncf_M
The first thing that set a red flag for me is that he has been working digitally all this time (and with a fucking regular intuos lmao). As another hispanic who is aware of how our "work" culture is, I fucking know how we manage to climb up the ranks, and it's usually not by legit means.
Not only that, his "teachers" are literal nobodies and now mostly dedicate themselves to coloring shit. Look at this, this one of the guys: https://www.comicartfans.com/comic-artists/javier_aranda.asp
If you actually go to his wikipedia page and read what he has said in interviews before: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Jim%C3%A9nez_(dibujante), he was as fucking PE teacher until 24 before he "had a mid life crisis" and decided to become an artist, obviously he was always a fan of drawing but unlike literally every other artist ever, he's the magical jock who became a literal god in less than 5 years?
The video that sealed the deal for me was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjeb2H-TCM
Just look at that fucking drawing, I don't need to explain it for anyone else. Even parkinson and legally blind mangaka do a better job when given a pencil and paper for fucks sake.
Is this what the future of western comics looks like? Is there hope for art in the west?
