I waited 5 years for this episode. Now...give me Part 2!

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

love you man, we gotta hook up. seriously. I'll e mail you!! I need you to come onto Blasterkid with me!! Rock and Roll and check out Chips channel he does awesome gameplay videos!!!!!!!

@vahn_of_the_art

Жыл бұрын

Hey !​@@RichardFriendartist! I've recently come back to drawing and started studying seriously...when I had to choose my main "master" I almost immediately looked at Travis. Your videos are so much informative and instructive that I'd watch a whole "history-channel-like documentary" of you talking about Travis Charest. Plus...Travis is so "off-social" that there's not really much to find to dig deeper into its art. DO MORE PLS! :D Anyway...as I said...I love your channel...you made me discover artists that I didn't know about them before! PS. Wildcats issue 4...you did a great job with Travis...so many beautiful panels! Thank you for your 'main' work too...I mean you are surely inspiring both as a penciler and as an inker

It's a shame that Travis isn't more active on social media or this video wasn't an ”interview”with him, he has to know there is a great fandom that supports him and we hope to know more about his work. Good job Richard!

Those recent sequential pages have me excited for the first time in years!

What I have learned about artists since discovering your channel is enormous!

The two poles behind the hidden wall is a recall to the Batman TV show with Adam West.. These three new pages appear to be a continuation of the style that I Know Travis charest was capable of I am totally and completely impressed and can't wait for the books to come out and for Travis to reclaim his crown..

The guy is just jaw dropping in talent.

Yesssss thank you for this 🙏

I was such a fan of his. You can see his later style influence in so many modern artists. Especially on that Steve McNiven Fantastic For Four miniseries

I have always said Travissss Charesssstt! Great talent!

As real as his art is, it's still got a lot of bounce and elasticity. I love Space Girl. I've got the first book in French and it's so much fun to pour over.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

those spacegirl books have gotten kind of expensive. I'd guess one day they'll collect it again but the first printings will always have a nostalgia!!

@Hum0ng0us

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichardFriendartist -- Is there a second one? He's up to 86 on his website. I read them there too. The first book is great. I want to futz with that format of comics as well.

@theodorevossen7890

Жыл бұрын

I have an English one that I want to say I bough through his website years ago along with a con sketch book. It's beautiful stuff.

Looking at the early Travis Charest art, his work could have turned really bad or really good, then he found different influences and his work took a turn to exceptional levels.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

that is true! hahaha...some didn't make it through their growth curves! Luckily he did!

Yay! My favorite comic artist of all time. Loved Travis's work forever now. Looking forward to this. EDIT: Interesting to see his evolution. Knew he had a prominent Jim Lee influence on his early work but a lot of this early work is new to me. Thanks for this! Also love your stories. The fact Travis drew a lot of his masterful work from his head blows my mind.

What’s up Dude!!! I remember seeing Travis work on the Card Game Wildstorm was making that promo piece you opened the video with blew my mind just like it did when I first saw it all those years ago just incredible his work makes you just want too see more n more

Have been watching your Travis videos all day at work. Thanks for all you’ve done

SUPER FUN! Thanks, Rich! :)

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

no problem!

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

belated super fun. ;)

I've long appreciated how he visually provides textures to materials such as fabrics. It really enhances what he's doing with his art.

keep up the amazing content. Seriously loving the great videos.

More than a Mignola-vibe, WildC.A.T.s #25 has Jim Lee/ Larry Stroman stylings.

After watching your videos for over a year now, that you're a big fan of his work and I can see why. Great stuff! I need to find some of those Wildcats issues! 😎👌

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

Travis is the bees knees. hahaha :)

Let’s do this!

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

ROCK!!

Travis is the freakin best!!!!

Travis in wild cats is is still my fave. I remember discovering that trade in the back of a books a million as a kid who wanted to draw comics, I saw what Travis was doing and I remember thinking “how is this even possible. I’ll never be able to do that”. Was a very discouraging and inspiring moment

One of the greatest comics artist ever💯👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️💗💖

Great video!

I LOVE Travis' work. His Wildcats was amazing. Now I want to pull my copies out

The character at the 29 minute mark is Christine Blaze, she was this resurrected special ops woman who had connections with Lynch and was tasked with helping Max and his friends.

Greatest comic book artist ever.

I think a cool video would be a comparison between Adam and Andy Kubert. I went to the Kubert school and always like Adams style better, but I was in the minority.

he has awesome technology in his art.

1:03:00 That's the character Phantasm. Originally from the animated movie Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

that's who that is! Thanks Mudbutt! :)

My copies of his Stuff Wot I Drew sketchbook and french edition Space Girl have pretty much fallen apart from looking at them so much.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

awesome. that's how to get good use of them. !!

Loved his run on the Wildcats and Wolverine books. not sure about this new MILLAR book, looks completely digitally inked even though there''s a ton of detail. We'll see when it comes out.

thnx for this.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

my pleasure. I would love to have Travis on one day and just hang out with him and talk about whatever he'd want to kick around. I think it would be cool for sure

@MREWOKONE

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichardFriendartist for real, hes very elusive to me... I know guys glorify him for just drawing out of nowhere with no real blue line sketch or whatever, but I know al ot of the guys who do that are formulaic underneath the mystique. Kim Jung Gi etc... But I'd love to hear his reasoning for things or where he looked for texture inspirations etc.... hes always been a fave of mine... If you get a sec, have a look at my time lapse vids of my illustration, i think youll dig it. thnx my man...

There is a video out there on KZread of famous comic book artists drawing. Bill Sienkiewicz is second, majestically drawing an Elektra portrait and then third is this guy I now know as Travis. He illustrates an amazing Superman on grey paper with pencils and maybe a wash of paint? Glad I now know who he is. Has he ever made an art book? Or will he? Would love to own...

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

he was very popular and famous for his art at that time. But I have seen it. He was working on the Metabaron book when he did that and the video was more likely shot while he was in France. so around 2003 I would guess.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

google him. There's a lot of comics and even sketchbooks and the spacegirl books out there. maybe even check e bay for wild cats comics with his art!

Very slippery the way you avoided calling out his new work: using overblown 3D, strange rendering, awkward proportions, all stuff you would call out if it weren't Travis. If you had been intellectually honest: you'd have to call that stuff out.

His level of detail is insane 😳

48:31 that first panel has a couple really cool composition choices. The lost edge on the rightmost foreground rocks. And the lack of rendering around the character. It's a great panel.

14:50 iconic work for those that know

I always got a Jaimie Hewlett from Tank GIrls vibe from Travis as well.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

interesting....totally possible!

Travis needs to put out an oversized artist edition of his work.!!!

wow ... he is great :0

I remember when Travis first got to the studio. He didn't sketch anything out at all... He'd leave for the day and his unfinished page would remain on his table in the old Pit area in the Mira Mesa office. There would be the head fully finished, and a hand and arm over here... and a foot at the bottom of the page or something. You'd come back the next day and see it sitting on his table fully finished and everything was connected properly... no problem. It was some serious 'pact with Satan' kinda shit. I guess a little later he started fully sketching out his pages before he started. I really kinda hated that guy-- too goddamn good. Should have both his fuckin' hands broken! LOL.

Had no clue he was working on an actual comic again.

i remember reading about 20 years ago that mark millar was pissed about americans mispronouncing his name. it's funny to see it still happening even with comics proffesionals. it's not mill-arr. it's mill-er. like frank miller.

Pretty sure that's Christine Blaze with the rubbery pants.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

That's right. ! Thanks

Hey Rich, do you know what Travis painted the Metabaron pages with? Both the graywash and the color. Is it copic and wash? colored pencil? Watercolor? Airbrush? It's astounding, some of it looks like oil. Thanks!

Travis supposed to have some stuff coming out next month with Mark Millar from Netflix Comics?.. I saw 3 pages on bleeding cool... Its different from his Catwoman Batman artwork.. It seems to be another new style.. two of the pages are extremely detailed.. You're welcome...

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

there's 3 of the pages in the video.

@brianarrington4569

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichardFriendartist okay I didn't watch it yet...do you have any idea when it is supposed to come out and what the name of it is?.. I'm getting ready to watch your video now.. they look as if they're sliding down the old Batman TV show with Batman and Robin going into the Batcave.. which pages are the official Pages for Travis?

I was one of the yahoo group!🤓

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

what username did you use. I am not sure I even remember that funny enough. ! I remember you more from deviant art! I wish the yahoo groups still were up even if they were dead but you could see the old posts...that would be so cool to go back and check it out!

@Jameswindsorsmith

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichardFriendartist jhames34, nothing that would stand out...I remember there was a contest to draw metabaron without using reference, I remember participating in

You could do a video on Magnus (Roberto Raviola), who did Milady 3000. I'd suggest Manara and Serpieri too but I don't think KZread would like them very much

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

I've done Serpieri before actually. I don't care what youtube likes. hahaha :)

His "Jim Lee" looks more like Dwayne Turner.

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

interesting. I will check that out. I love Dwyane's art...in fact he need to do a new video on him. I think he's in one video I did but I'd wanted to do a video on him for a while now!

1:03:09 it's moon knight lol

@RichardFriendartist

2 жыл бұрын

nope. Phantom. Why would a marvel character be on a DC cover? haha

@samankucher5117

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichardFriendartist lol just kidding but he looks like moon knight with that mask 🙂

5:55 he had stiff figures, and boring layouts. So, no, he was not one of the best comicbook artists. He was a good illustrator, not a good sequential artist.

To me, his peak is Space Girl and Metabarons. His "90's Image Comics" style phase is not to my taste at all

Finally, after 27 years, the mystery of the Copic Marker on WildC.A.T.s/X-Men was revealed. We have discussed this among fans, artists, animators, painters. There were theories of how much strange material exists, but we never thought of marker.