How to Ink Comics like Neal Adams - FanFaire NYC 2020

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During FanFaire NYC 2020, a lucky group of students attended a fantastic session with legendary comic book artist Neal Adams. At this event, Neal gave a masterclass demonstrating how he inks comics in front of enthusiastic learners of all ages, demonstrating the fundamental elements that made him such a renowned inker for decades.
This was filmed during FanFaire NYC 2020 at the NY High School for Art & Design, and was intended for students advancing towards college and/or careers in comics.
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  • @JacksonTaylorandTheSinners
    @JacksonTaylorandTheSinners3 жыл бұрын

    Do they even comprehend what a one in a million, once in a life time opportunity they are getting?

  • @FredMaverik

    @FredMaverik

    2 жыл бұрын

    no

  • @matthewabrahams8309
    @matthewabrahams83093 жыл бұрын

    That kid in the back taking this lesson to heart.

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg10752 жыл бұрын

    These kids have no idea the legend that sat before them.

  • @134zulureign

    @134zulureign

    Ай бұрын

    I was thinking the exact same thing.

  • @danieldeanallen
    @danieldeanallen3 жыл бұрын

    14:21 Girl "Its just so inspiring...wow!! Neal: "well its supposed to be I'm fucking Neal Adams" BEST LINE EVERRRRR!!

  • @bryanrickard7712

    @bryanrickard7712

    2 жыл бұрын

    He’s was a boss

  • @paulpolpiboon9535

    @paulpolpiboon9535

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂😂 His humour was always excellent, His concern for truth, kindness and fun was of the highest. His skills were mind blowing, he DEFINED the comic book art form. Even PHYSICALLY his power was great as he was a regular power lifter and could bench press the same weights as Lou Ferrigno + Mr. T. thats a fact, published in WIRE magazine. Even his scientific awareness disproved a few false theories in Geology. The guy was awesome.

  • @vietzscheallagard2129

    @vietzscheallagard2129

    2 жыл бұрын

    He muttered it low for the kids, too! Precious

  • @ClementsSan
    @ClementsSan3 жыл бұрын

    After years of suggesting that not being able to draw a straight line was simply 1 of the things I can't really do, this video appears, and 5 minutes later, I can now do it...Unbelievable, lol.

  • @Osigot
    @Osigot2 жыл бұрын

    16:00 The best explanation of why someone doesn't draw on the computer!

  • @melsgalleria
    @melsgalleria2 жыл бұрын

    I wish I would have gotten to go to a high school like this when I was a kid. I learned so much from this video that I wish I would have heard years ago.

  • @MystiqWisdom
    @MystiqWisdom2 жыл бұрын

    Damn lucky. This was right before COVID.

  • @druiz127
    @druiz1272 жыл бұрын

    “Well it’s supposed to be I’m fucking Neal Adams”, What a forkin goat lmao wish I was in that class room.

  • @BreeCRossi
    @BreeCRossi3 жыл бұрын

    "And like I say kids, it's ALL Bullshit" God I learned so much from this. Not just about comics but fucking life. Cheers Mr.Neal Adams! P.S. I was "that girl" with the beret

  • @NerdNewsToday

    @NerdNewsToday

    3 жыл бұрын

    Welcome Beret Girl!

  • @BreeCRossi

    @BreeCRossi

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NerdNewsToday Why thank you

  • @MystiqWisdom

    @MystiqWisdom

    2 жыл бұрын

    It seems like some of the kids in the room didn't appreciate who they were with. BTW, you look very different now!

  • @paulpolpiboon9535

    @paulpolpiboon9535

    2 жыл бұрын

    👍😃 Adams was truly the frikin Best.

  • @HelisandroKrepel
    @HelisandroKrepel4 жыл бұрын

    When a master speaks we must pay atention

  • @PC-iv5so
    @PC-iv5so2 жыл бұрын

    no joke.. just practiced the straight line with Neal's technique..and drew five perfect straight lines... insane. I've been drawing my whole life.

  • @kd2mill
    @kd2mill4 жыл бұрын

    Luckiest kids in the world. Getting art lessons from Neal Adams.

  • @anthonythomasexperience

    @anthonythomasexperience

    2 жыл бұрын

    So true very lucky 💕

  • @kcsnipes

    @kcsnipes

    Жыл бұрын

    Lucky would be finding money hidden in the walls of their home from a bank robbery by the previous home owner ?

  • @kd2mill

    @kd2mill

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kcsnipes Well, that too.

  • @mkAYY825
    @mkAYY8253 жыл бұрын

    if i had been fortunate enough to have gone to a school like that, i think my life would have been very different. my school undervalued and discouraged art... lucky kids

  • @raendzel2630
    @raendzel26303 жыл бұрын

    Learned more about bettering my line work from this than any of my art classes

  • @noobartist3762
    @noobartist37623 жыл бұрын

    its like listening to the kung fu master of drawing nerds

  • @FrankMahovlich
    @FrankMahovlich4 жыл бұрын

    Watched it. Thank you Mr. Adams. I am a man in my sixites and I probably got even more out of your talk than those wonderful kids did.

  • @jazzlehazzle
    @jazzlehazzle2 жыл бұрын

    HOLY MOLY, to be in such a small class with such a master teaching so well??? Life-changing.

  • @mattleanio8534
    @mattleanio85342 жыл бұрын

    One of the best in comics. He will be missed

  • 4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I have enjoyed like if I was there. Thanks a lot for recording it. Smart, adorable, fun... I am speechless .Even when he hasn’t inked anything completely, I was learning listening him.

  • @paulpolpiboon9535

    @paulpolpiboon9535

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mesmerizing

  • @pwnUgood
    @pwnUgood2 ай бұрын

    I did a couple of storyboard jobs for Neal's Continuity Graohics in Burbank CA back in 1988. He was great to work for, real confident, decisive and direct with instructions. He looked like a superhero bodybuilder in those days.

  • @eliaswengiel6479
    @eliaswengiel64794 жыл бұрын

    So wise! Thanks Mr. Adams!

  • @kirtburdick
    @kirtburdick2 жыл бұрын

    What a great guy! True legend.

  • @anuradason9542
    @anuradason95423 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this. I enjoyed listening to his life stories

  • @tonybondioli1078
    @tonybondioli1078 Жыл бұрын

    This video is solid gold.

  • @tristanschneider2909
    @tristanschneider29093 жыл бұрын

    good advice i'm gonna practice this method

  • @abacdse
    @abacdse3 жыл бұрын

    Inspirational great teacher

  • @craigdixon7138
    @craigdixon71384 жыл бұрын

    Sir you are an inspiration to us all thank you for advice and sense xxx

  • @javierbahamonde3068
    @javierbahamonde3068 Жыл бұрын

    So, that girl did the impossible, she took a free autograph of Neal Adams

  • @brunostracqua
    @brunostracqua Жыл бұрын

    What a legend!

  • @Hyghlord777
    @Hyghlord7774 жыл бұрын

    Thank you; great advise.

  • @ANovellover
    @ANovellover4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks neal

  • @ChimBrouer
    @ChimBrouer6 ай бұрын

    He would have been a great teacher .. and must have been a perfect grandfather.

  • @SebastianTinajero
    @SebastianTinajero Жыл бұрын

    I would have killed to end up in a school like this where they appreciated and nourished the love for art

  • @mesasavage
    @mesasavage2 ай бұрын

    Besides being such a legend, look at that head of hair!

  • @realmetalhex
    @realmetalhex4 жыл бұрын

    Dude is a gem.

  • @rocketmanart7964
    @rocketmanart7964 Жыл бұрын

    I wish I went to a school like this

  • @lansvsion9543
    @lansvsion95432 жыл бұрын

    Nice!

  • @MrMakingwavesmedia
    @MrMakingwavesmedia2 жыл бұрын

    I have always done this naturally just thought everyone did as well.

  • @user-xc8es5hj4u
    @user-xc8es5hj4u8 ай бұрын

    Funny as f..k, I love the honesty of our generations, yes we ain't quite designed for the classroom environment, but the point is made, bless ya, well done sir. X

  • @aanturnip5289
    @aanturnip52894 жыл бұрын

    thanks for sharing :) btw girl on the background looks cute XD

  • @kanteannightmare
    @kanteannightmare4 жыл бұрын

    Where was this years ago?!

  • @agmart86
    @agmart86 Жыл бұрын

    Wow thanks neal, rest in peace sir

  • @colbyrawiri
    @colbyrawiri3 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit thank you!

  • @Leonizer13
    @Leonizer132 жыл бұрын

    No wonder I've had such a hard time with the way I ink. I always rested my pens on my knuckle

  • @aztro.99
    @aztro.993 жыл бұрын

    that example he made of making money with traditional work against digital reminded me of nfts and i felt a little sick lol

  • @therealkentarozero086
    @therealkentarozero0864 жыл бұрын

    What school is this

  • @b.p.m.5136
    @b.p.m.51363 жыл бұрын

    👍🏾🏁

  • @gallowsx
    @gallowsx2 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone recommend any place to get large practice sheets like they have?

  • @robd1329

    @robd1329

    2 жыл бұрын

    I got mine cheap on ebay to trace comics

  • @joshjerez3347
    @joshjerez33473 жыл бұрын

    any one able to tell what kind of pen Adams is using in this video?

  • @NerdNewsToday

    @NerdNewsToday

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was a refillable pentel brush pen. Nothing fancy, he was using the exact same pen everyone in attendance was given that day.

  • @NerdNewsToday

    @NerdNewsToday

    9 ай бұрын

    @@JohnDoe-zo8wj Ah correct, the class was given the Pentels (brush pens or ballpoint with refillable ink), not sure what he was using but I don't think it was anything special or fancy.

  • @michaelbrittain7445
    @michaelbrittain74455 ай бұрын

    "Your body is made to do art....all your bones & everything that works up here is made to do art. You just have to learn how to use it." (31:10) "It's amazing the delicacy you can have with this instrument [the hand].....God has given you the greatest possible instrument you can ever have, to do artwork, & that's this delicate thing." (26:11) "Look to the past for your skills & build your skills forward, rather than ignore them & let them drop." (33:48) "That's how you get Adam Hughes [etc]....they get to be the best guys because they study the past." (34:20) Wow! This was such fun! What a character! You can see how THIS was the one who stood up to the big comics companies & led the fight for artists rights to their own work etc. I wish he'd toned down the language, especially for the school class, but an inspiring encouragement all the same. I wish i could have been there! 😏

  • @robd1329
    @robd13292 жыл бұрын

    ..wish someone had told me as a kid how to hold a fkn pencil correctly! He was right!!!!

  • @foxcellars
    @foxcellars9 ай бұрын

    Check out my Neal Adams collection in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/loqF0JqTecicd5M.html

  • @bobsmith3931
    @bobsmith39312 жыл бұрын

    It would’ve been hilarious if he farted when they were grabbing his fingers.

  • @fabianarnaldi4986
    @fabianarnaldi49862 жыл бұрын

    Wrong kids for Neal Adams , they look like super lazy.

  • @robd1329

    @robd1329

    2 жыл бұрын

    He should have been talking to a college art class

  • @bakedpootetoo
    @bakedpootetoo4 жыл бұрын

    16:58 computers are not stupid. Respect the guy, but that made him seem like a dinosaur. There are pro and cons to both digital and traditional. I know this is about comics, but for animating, no one animates on paper anymore, it's too inefficient. This is one way computers aren't dumb. I know he meant, computer doesn't make you draw better. 23:42 no one inks on cells anymore. we use computers. LOL but computers are dumb. "i can get twice a much work done with a pen than dipping." student aks, "How do you get grey tones" "Use a brush." I just thought it was funny, when he was bragging about how much better a pen was, I was just thinking some people use dip pens and brushes for grey tones, that you can't get with.a pen. Just saying. Again, pros and cons to each. Thanks showing how to hold the pen correctly and the Mr. Yang (sp?) story. It really made me smile. Along with the cultural difference of western and eastern, and white culture difference with the handball story. BTW art isn't always about reselling for more money, but I heard him out, the original if done traditionally is worth more than digital. I tend to see his stuff on Heritage Auctions, a lot so that is a plus compared to digital work. Cool and lucky students. Wonder how many will go to SVA,

  • @8tiveeye

    @8tiveeye

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree with you on these points. Traditional is best but not cost effective for Animation. I've been working at animation studios for years, and every studio has switched to digital for a reason. BTW he is able to sell commissions and original artwork at a high price point because he is one of the legends in the industry. Not every artist has the luxury of being able to sell their traditional work for the rates he mentioned in the video. In theses cases digital prints from computers make it affordable for the buyers, and can make a new artist a decent amount of income. One last note at the FanExpo I attended he was selling digital prints of his artwork.... you can't say computers are dumb if they're bringing you extra income ;)

  • @danieldeanallen

    @danieldeanallen

    3 жыл бұрын

    You missed his point. The sub text is 'computers still need a talented artist'

  • @cyrus138

    @cyrus138

    2 жыл бұрын

    *swoosh*

  • @michaelbrittain7445

    @michaelbrittain7445

    5 ай бұрын

    Actually computers ARE stupid,. ie; they are an INSTRUMENT, like any instrument they are inherently inert. The artists input can use the computer, or pen or pencil to MAKE something clever, but the objects themselves remain, in effect, "stupid", until the human mind influences them. Neal is spot on. The computer is just a tool, which he was perfectly willing to use, as he admits, but he was concerned that they might be used as "shortcuts" to artistic success. He was not, therefore, contradicting himself at 23:42 at all.