Artcow Ken Penders - Former Archie Sonic Comic Writer/Artist

Newman's Lovechild said:
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The inked art... is not too bad, actually. Maybe he should stick to humans instead of uncanny valley funny animals. The coloring brings it down a little, though.
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It’s 8 out of Ten for me since he is better with humans rather than sonic
 
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Newman's Lovechild said:
The inked art... is not too bad, actually. Maybe he should stick to humans instead of uncanny valley funny animals. The coloring brings it down a little, though.
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That the most confusing aspect about his art, it only works at being competent in this narrow field of 1960's - 1970's super hero comic book aesthetic and only when drawing human characters. That in itself is not necessarily bad, it narrows its appeal but it could find a niche audience and only so long it is done in black and white. Which is why it is so baffling to me that the hill he has chosen to die on is a comic with anthro characters he draw like uncanny abominations and done in color. The moment he puts color to his work it doesn't just "brings it down a little", it shits the bed. He has some of the worst understanding of color theory I've seen and his shading is not good either.

I'm going to be honest, even his "best" line and ink work is average. Nothing he has drawn is the type of stuff that would make me stop and take notice, there is nothing awesome or jaw dropping about it. "Middle of the road" is how I can describe his best, which would be fine if at least his writing made up for the shortcomings of his art, but we all know how terrible his stories are as well. Add to that the fact that he is petulant, arrogant, has an unwarranted sense of self-importance and cannot shut up about his political hot takes. What audience would want to support such person?

Furthermore, the crass entitlement with which he expropriate other creator's works and claim it as his own and then becomes litigious about even the slightest similarity found in any tangential piece of media makes sure that no sane creator who values his work would collaborate with him.

It doesn't matter how much he tries to peddle his art, his NFTs or license "his" characters, his actions have ostracized potential audience and professionals in the field. Someone has to be completely ignorant or out of their minds to support him in any way .

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I blame 90s animators.
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Belvedere said:
That the most confusing aspect about his art, it only works at being competent in this narrow field of 1960's - 1970's super hero comic book aesthetic and only when drawing human characters. That in itself is not necessarily bad, it narrows its appeal but it could find a niche audience and only so long it is done in black and white. Which is why it is so baffling to me that the hill he has chosen to die on is a comic with anthro characters he draw like uncanny abominations and done in color. The moment he puts color to his work it doesn't just "brings it down a little", it shits the bed. He has some of the worst understanding of color theory I've seen and his shading is not good either.

I'm going to be honest, even his "best" line and ink work is average. Nothing he has drawn is the type of stuff that would make me stop and take notice, there is nothing awesome or jaw dropping about it. "Middle of the road" is how I can describe his best, which would be fine if at least his writing made up for the shortcomings of his art, but we all know how terrible his stories are as well. Add to that the fact that he is petulant, arrogant, has an unwarranted sense of self-importance and cannot shut up about his political hot takes. What audience would want to support such person?

Furthermore, the crass entitlement with which he expropriate other creator's works and claim it as his own and then becomes litigious about even the slightest similarity found in any tangential piece of media makes sure that no sane creator who values his work would collaborate with him.

It doesn't matter how much he tries to peddle his art, his NFTs or license "his" characters, his actions have ostracized potential audience and professionals in the field. Someone has to be completely ignorant or out of their minds to support him in any way .



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funny story you can actually blame Japan and to an extent regan for bringing their animators to American with regan it’s for loosing the tv restrictions it was for both better and worse
 
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Belvedere said:
"Middle of the road" is how I can describe his best, which would be fine if at least his writing made up for the shortcomings of his art, but we all know how terrible his stories are as well. Add to that the fact that he is petulant, arrogant, has an unwarranted sense of self-importance and cannot shut up about his political hot takes. What audience would want to support such person?
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I don't know. Ask comicsgate. :smug:

Belvedere said:
Spoiler: Ya think!?
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JamesFargo said:
I, for one, look forward to the live-action remake of Great Mouse Detective
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Bingo.

For once, Japan was less weird about these things.

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Newman's Lovechild said:
Well it was nice while it lasted.

Did Ken get the SJW memo about NFTs? Or was the lure of one kind of green too much to stay loyal to the other?
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No he did not
he is entrenching himself in the NFT problem 16B2689B-171E-4948-9B9A-A317ABC790D1.jpeg
 
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Newman's Lovechild said:
Translation: mediocre artists with unsellable skills are suddenly presented with an audience of indiscriminate paypigs who'll throw money at anything associated with the three letters 'N' 'F' and 'T'.

Small wonder Ken is interested.
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He is scamming people in mass and now he is facing the price for it
 
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Josterman said:
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Art sperging time! His lineart isn't bad at all, even if his style isn't super exciting to me. he's got good variation of lineweight and interesting details. My only qualm would be that with a black and white illustration it would benefit from better contrast. Your eye kind of goes straight to the lady's pants and hair, whereas if there was more solid black worked into other places your eye would be drawn throughout the composition.
The full colored illustration, hoo boy! I think one major problem is the background has too much shit going on and doesn't match the visual aesthetic of the characters. I think our boy Ken is of the school of thought that if he crams a bunch of realistic looking background shit together it will look good. His Lara-Su cover is the same way, but it ends up being weird with the more stylized characters.
The title and the issue name are getting lost with the background, with the former being too dark and the latter being almost the same color as the background. The coloring on the characters kills some of what was nice about the lineart, particularly the laser-blast thing.
With the crop I get that you might have to change things to work with the cover but it takes away a bit of energy from the pose if that makes sense, her line of motion was nice in the lineart but you no longer see that in the crop. I don't know if that was Ken's idea or not though.

I might do a recolor just for fun, after Andrew Dobson left the internet I need to project my art-sperging at another lolcow, lol.
 
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MerriedxReldnahc said:
Art sperging time! His lineart isn't bad at all, even if his style isn't super exciting to me. he's got good variation of lineweight and interesting details. My only qualm would be that with a black and white illustration it would benefit from better contrast. Your eye kind of goes straight to the lady's pants and hair, whereas if there was more solid black worked into other places your eye would be drawn throughout the composition.
The full colored illustration, hoo boy! I think one major problem is the background has too much shit going on and doesn't match the visual aesthetic of the characters. I think our boy Ken is of the school of thought that if he crams a bunch of realistic looking background shit together it will look good. His Lara-Su cover is the same way, but it ends up being weird with the more stylized characters.
The title and the issue name are getting lost with the background, with the former being too dark and the latter being almost the same color as the background. The coloring on the characters kills some of what was nice about the lineart, particularly the laser-blast thing.
With the crop I get that you might have to change things to work with the cover but it takes away a bit of energy from the pose if that makes sense, her line of motion was nice in the lineart but you no longer see that in the crop. I don't know if that was Ken's idea or not though.

I might do a recolor just for fun, after Andrew Dobson left the internet I need to project my art-sperging at another lolcow, lol.
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So as some said before he does humans better than sonic
 
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