I think clover is a really good example i mean it got soul but some characters at the beginning don't even look human
Manga that change Art style completely
You mean
>get better
>hire background artists
Akira's cityscapes were drawn by Satoshi Kun.
He had Kubo syndrome early on.
He still kinda does it later in fight scenes but instead of the pure Kubo he uses action lines and paterns for the backgrounds
Tite Kubo didn't change artstyles in the traditional sense but rather he sat down and actually learned while drawing. You can see in early chapters he was very much into the
>I wanna draw cool shit
Phase. He was extremely good even as a kid but he drew things he wanted, not things he had to. This led to him taking influences from things he liked rather than what would aid him best as a manga creator. Things like proportions, angles and the clothing depth are things he wasn't essentially making up but things he wanted to draw.
Contrast this later where you can tell he sat down and pulled outside inspiration from not only other genres such as sienen but even American comics in shape design. He may not have wanted to draw like Joe Mad( although I don't think he actually studied Joe) but you can see he studied American proportional styles etc as a way to differentiate ages and face structures. He essentially was a guy who loved home depot who realized he needed to go to Rona even if he did love home depot.
This board memes on Kubo but he was an artist first, a designer second and a writer third and it definitely shows.
This is peak
>infinite deadline
vs
>2 days to deadline
Bakuman was right when it said Chapter 2 and 3 are miles more difficult than chapter 1.
>he was an artist first, a designer second
I thought it was the other way around? It always struck me that Kubo draws covers and title pages like how the characters would look like in a fashion magazine
Design is a very complex process that doesn't look appealing 99% of the time. The dude loved fashion illustration and it shows but actual design work 9 times out of 10 is for an artist to look appealing. That's why 80% of internal concept art looks like shit as an illustration. Kubo is more like JC Leyendecker in my mind. He doesn't draw it to design it. He designs it to draw it. He's more focused on drawing on drawing things he thinks looks cool than something that's clever design. His skill is marrying the two so well that it's hard to tell his priorities between them. His writing however is a distant third.
For reference for the Jc Leyendecker comparison. Look at illustrations from Hugo Boss vs JC. One is a designer first and an illustrator second. The other is the reverse.
That makes sense, I am now a little bit more enlightened.
You're mental. Kubo has never, ever grown out of
>I wanna draw cool shit
And the biggest problem with Bleach is that his desire to draw cool shit is the biggest driving motivator for everything he does with the story and the characters, and if anything, it gets worse over time. How many times does he write himself into a corner, throw his hands up and use it as an excuse to draw some cool boys posing with cool swords even if that drives him further into the corner?
He has very shallow ideas of what's cool, and honed in on easy ways to achieve them, both visually and storytelling-wise. Bleach is basically a repeating sequence of the same 4-5 setpieces that Kubo likes and doesn't find too challenging.
Retard
He hasn't grown out of it but he has improved on how to differentiate ideas of cool.
whats your opinion on saiyuki?
I'm not the one trying to pass Kubo going from having style to drawing the same 2-3 samefaces in 3/4 profile incessantly as growth.
Reasonable, but I would be far from alone if I said earlier Kubo was cooler. Even if early Kubo was just trying to draw cool shit, it had some interesting punk elements, late Kubo is just over-refined repetitive nonsense. If anything, I wouldn't say he improved on differentiating ideas of cool, I'd say he isolated a few very specific ideas of cool and only used those.
> t. midwit
>same 2-3 samefaces in 3/4 profile
Blind retard
More like 9-10 years later, damn.
soremachi changed a lot for the better
Art got more simple to allow for less pen strokes, eyes got a bit wider, a few other differences. More noticeable on less detailed panels though.