If you were a comic book artist...

[BigSams50]

Would you draw the characters to look like the actor that played them in their movie?

 

[Spider-Fan83]

If you were a comic book artist...

the characters would all be a bunch of stick figures, cause, I can't draw worth a dam

Would you draw the characters to look like the actor that played them in their movie?

I am thinking probably not, unless the look of that actor really brought something new an/or interesting to the character that his/her original look didn't, I don't really see the point

 

[The Geek Vault]

I'm horrible at drawing but if I could draw I think it is kind of cool with what they did with the ultimates. Also I'm blanking who was Giant man drawn to resemble?

 

[Spider-Jay420]

It really takes me out of the story when they do that. When Deodato Jr was drawing ASM, and he drew Jason Priestley as Peter, Liv Tyler as MJ, Tommy Lee Jones as Norman Osborn, it becomes more of a game to figure out who everyone is based on instead of the story itself. For me anyway.

That said, I think it only works when Gary Frank draws Superman to look like Christopher Reeve.

So no, as a comic artist, I would try not to do that.

 

[Manic]

I'd probably draw the occasional character to look like an actor I think has the same look, but I wouldn't do it with every character, and I wouldn't make it too obvious.

For example, Scot Eaton jumped into the X-Men books during Messiah CompleX. Throughout that story, he kept drawing Patrick Stewart's face for Professor X. It was a little jarring at first, but I got used to it. Not something I'd recommend artists do too often. However, when Eaton was drawing those first few issues of X-Men Legacy, he started drawing Professor X to look a little like Leonard Nimoy, and that face was strangely perfect for Xavier.