The Art of Radical Comics

[NexusOfLight]

One of the major things Radical strives to achieve is in putting out top notch artwork to match their high end story telling. Since the company's inception, I'd say they've done that quite well. With artists like Stjepan Sejic, Patrick Reilley, Steve Pugh, Greg Toccini--dawg, I could go on and on through every single title Radical's put out and easily say that they work with only the best artists in the league.

But enough of me hypin' them up, just take a look for yourself. Turns out they just so happen to have a deviant art page. Take a look at some of the pages from their books, and you'll see what I mean. radicalartdirecto.deviantart.com/

And here're some of the profiles of artists who've worked with the company at one point or another.

artgerm.deviantart.com/gallery/
crisbolson.deviantart.com/gallery/
flowcoma.deviantart.com/gallery/
nick-percival.deviantart.com/gallery/
nebezial.deviantart.com/gallery/

[ckal]

I've noticed their books have a similar style. Is it a lack of inks? It doesn't strike me as traditional comic book art, but I'm not saying that is a bad thing.

[NexusOfLight]

Digital painting's the style. It's how most of their artists color over their lines. It's pretty much mimicking things done with traditional painting, things like watercoloring, oil, etc with a computer. You usually find that kinda art done for conceptual things like video game or movie promotion, at least that's what comes to mind when I think of it. I've always had an affinity towards that kinda art, and thought it as an amazing idea to employ it in a comic book. Gives you a quasi-photo-realistic look with still enough vibrant colors to make you feel like you're a part of a surreal setting.