Alex Ross

Alex Ross has been an artist I have admired for quite some time, but since I am heavily studying art, I have discovered new aspects in his work. If you are unfamiliar with Ross, he is one of the top illustrators for Marvel, producing polished works that are so vivid. He mostly uses watercolor, adding additional polish with airbrush layers toward the end of each work.

The strength of Ross’s work is the realism they contain. Each character that he creates retains a personal element to them, as if they were real people. His illustrations are believable, almost diving into hyperrealism, in the sense that they aspire to something higher than photorealism into a lucid fantasy.

There is a notable disadvantage to Ross’s work that is a direct consequence of the advantages. The biggest knock against Ross is that his work is sometimes static. His sense of acute realism can sometimes stifle any sense of movement in his pictures. Below is a link to his website.