How to Ink Comics like Neal Adams - FanFaire NYC 2020

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 2020
  • During FanFaire NYC 2020, a lucky group of students attended a fantastic session with legendary comic book artist Neal Adams. At this event, Neal gave a masterclass demonstrating how he inks comics in front of enthusiastic learners of all ages, demonstrating the fundamental elements that made him such a renowned inker for decades.
    This was filmed during FanFaire NYC 2020 at the NY High School for Art & Design, and was intended for students advancing towards college and/or careers in comics.
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  • @JacksonTaylorandTheSinners
    @JacksonTaylorandTheSinners 3 роки тому +44

    Do they even comprehend what a one in a million, once in a life time opportunity they are getting?

  • @matthewabrahams8309
    @matthewabrahams8309 3 роки тому +18

    That kid in the back taking this lesson to heart.

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 2 роки тому +9

    These kids have no idea the legend that sat before them.

    • @134zulureign
      @134zulureign 11 днів тому

      I was thinking the exact same thing.

  • @danieldeanallen
    @danieldeanallen 3 роки тому +56

    14:21 Girl "Its just so inspiring...wow!!
    Neal: "well its supposed to be I'm fucking Neal Adams"
    BEST LINE EVERRRRR!!

    • @bryanrickard7712
      @bryanrickard7712 2 роки тому +2

      He’s was a boss

    • @paulpolpiboon9535
      @paulpolpiboon9535 2 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂
      His humour was always excellent,
      His concern for truth, kindness and fun was of the highest.
      His skills were mind blowing, he DEFINED the comic book art form. Even PHYSICALLY his power was great as he was a regular power lifter and could bench press the same weights as Lou Ferrigno + Mr. T. thats a fact, published in WIRE magazine. Even his scientific awareness disproved a few false theories in Geology.
      The guy was awesome.

    • @vietzscheallagard2129
      @vietzscheallagard2129 2 роки тому +1

      He muttered it low for the kids, too! Precious

  • @BreeCRossi
    @BreeCRossi 2 роки тому +44

    "And like I say kids, it's ALL Bullshit" God I learned so much from this. Not just about comics but fucking life. Cheers Mr.Neal Adams! P.S. I was "that girl" with the beret

    • @NerdNewsToday
      @NerdNewsToday  2 роки тому +4

      Welcome Beret Girl!

    • @BreeCRossi
      @BreeCRossi 2 роки тому +2

      @@NerdNewsToday Why thank you

    • @MystiqWisdom
      @MystiqWisdom 2 роки тому +1

      It seems like some of the kids in the room didn't appreciate who they were with.
      BTW, you look very different now!

    • @paulpolpiboon9535
      @paulpolpiboon9535 2 роки тому

      👍😃
      Adams was truly the frikin Best.

  • @ClementsSan
    @ClementsSan 3 роки тому +20

    After years of suggesting that not being able to draw a straight line was simply 1 of the things I can't really do, this video appears, and 5 minutes later, I can now do it...Unbelievable, lol.

  • @melsgalleria
    @melsgalleria 2 роки тому +17

    I wish I would have gotten to go to a high school like this when I was a kid. I learned so much from this video that I wish I would have heard years ago.

  • @kd2mill
    @kd2mill 4 роки тому +82

    Luckiest kids in the world. Getting art lessons from Neal Adams.

    • @anthonythomas659
      @anthonythomas659 2 роки тому

      So true very lucky 💕

    • @kcsnipes
      @kcsnipes Рік тому

      Lucky would be finding money hidden in the walls of their home from a bank robbery by the previous home owner ?

    • @kd2mill
      @kd2mill Рік тому

      @@kcsnipes Well, that too.

  • @druiz127
    @druiz127 2 роки тому +8

    “Well it’s supposed to be I’m fucking Neal Adams”,
    What a forkin goat lmao wish I was in that class room.

  • @Osigot
    @Osigot 2 роки тому +11

    16:00 The best explanation of why someone doesn't draw on the computer!

  • @PC-iv5so
    @PC-iv5so 2 роки тому +5

    no joke.. just practiced the straight line with Neal's technique..and drew five perfect straight lines... insane. I've been drawing my whole life.

  • @MystiqWisdom
    @MystiqWisdom 2 роки тому +7

    Damn lucky. This was right before COVID.

  • @mkAYY825
    @mkAYY825 3 роки тому +19

    if i had been fortunate enough to have gone to a school like that, i think my life would have been very different. my school undervalued and discouraged art... lucky kids

  • @HelisandroKrepel
    @HelisandroKrepel 3 роки тому +11

    When a master speaks we must pay atention

  • @jazzlehazzle
    @jazzlehazzle 2 роки тому +3

    HOLY MOLY, to be in such a small class with such a master teaching so well??? Life-changing.

  • @raendzel2630
    @raendzel2630 3 роки тому +12

    Learned more about bettering my line work from this than any of my art classes

  • @mattleanio8534
    @mattleanio8534 2 роки тому +5

    One of the best in comics. He will be missed

  • @noobartist3762
    @noobartist3762 3 роки тому +10

    its like listening to the kung fu master of drawing nerds

  • @FrankMahovlich
    @FrankMahovlich 4 роки тому +15

    Watched it. Thank you Mr. Adams. I am a man in my sixites and I probably got even more out of your talk than those wonderful kids did.

  •  4 роки тому +22

    Wow, I have enjoyed like if I was there. Thanks a lot for recording it. Smart, adorable, fun... I am speechless .Even when he hasn’t inked anything completely, I was learning listening him.

  • @pwnUgood
    @pwnUgood Місяць тому

    I did a couple of storyboard jobs for Neal's Continuity Graohics in Burbank CA back in 1988. He was great to work for, real confident, decisive and direct with instructions. He looked like a superhero bodybuilder in those days.

  • @anuradason9542
    @anuradason9542 3 роки тому +4

    Thanks for this. I enjoyed listening to his life stories

  • @ChimBrouer
    @ChimBrouer 5 місяців тому

    He would have been a great teacher .. and must have been a perfect grandfather.

  • @eliaswengiel6479
    @eliaswengiel6479 4 роки тому +2

    So wise! Thanks Mr. Adams!

  • @abacdse
    @abacdse 3 роки тому +3

    Inspirational great teacher

  • @tristanschneider2909
    @tristanschneider2909 3 роки тому +3

    good advice i'm gonna practice this method

  • @javierbahamonde3068
    @javierbahamonde3068 Рік тому +2

    So, that girl did the impossible, she took a free autograph of Neal Adams

  • @kirtburdick
    @kirtburdick Рік тому

    What a great guy! True legend.

  • @tonybondioli1078
    @tonybondioli1078 Рік тому

    This video is solid gold.

  • @mesasavage
    @mesasavage Місяць тому

    Besides being such a legend, look at that head of hair!

  • @craigdixon7138
    @craigdixon7138 4 роки тому +2

    Sir you are an inspiration to us all thank you for advice and sense xxx

  • @brunostracqua
    @brunostracqua Рік тому

    What a legend!

  • @Hyghlord777
    @Hyghlord777 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you; great advise.

  • @SebastianTinajero
    @SebastianTinajero Рік тому

    I would have killed to end up in a school like this where they appreciated and nourished the love for art

  • @ANovellover
    @ANovellover 4 роки тому +2

    Thanks neal

  • @user-xc8es5hj4u
    @user-xc8es5hj4u 7 місяців тому

    Funny as f..k, I love the honesty of our generations, yes we ain't quite designed for the classroom environment, but the point is made, bless ya, well done sir. X

  • @lansvsion9543
    @lansvsion9543 2 роки тому +1

    Nice!

  • @aanturnip5289
    @aanturnip5289 4 роки тому +1

    thanks for sharing :) btw girl on the background looks cute XD

  • @kanteannightmare
    @kanteannightmare 4 роки тому +4

    Where was this years ago?!

  • @rocketmanart7964
    @rocketmanart7964 Рік тому

    I wish I went to a school like this

  • @colbyrawiri
    @colbyrawiri 3 роки тому +2

    Holy shit thank you!

  • @realmetalhex
    @realmetalhex 4 роки тому +2

    Dude is a gem.

  • @MrMakingwavesmedia
    @MrMakingwavesmedia 2 роки тому

    I have always done this naturally just thought everyone did as well.

  • @agmart86
    @agmart86 Рік тому

    Wow thanks neal, rest in peace sir

  • @Leonizer13
    @Leonizer13 2 роки тому

    No wonder I've had such a hard time with the way I ink. I always rested my pens on my knuckle

  • @foxcellars
    @foxcellars 8 місяців тому

    Check out my Neal Adams collection in this video: ua-cam.com/video/dVQn8ZIe6G0/v-deo.html

  • @gallowsx
    @gallowsx 2 роки тому +2

    Can anyone recommend any place to get large practice sheets like they have?

    • @robd1329
      @robd1329 Рік тому

      I got mine cheap on ebay to trace comics

  • @b.p.m.5136
    @b.p.m.5136 3 роки тому +1

    👍🏾🏁

  • @therealkentarozero086
    @therealkentarozero086 3 роки тому +1

    What school is this

  • @aztro.99
    @aztro.99 3 роки тому +5

    that example he made of making money with traditional work against digital reminded me of nfts and i felt a little sick lol

  • @joshjerez3347
    @joshjerez3347 3 роки тому +2

    any one able to tell what kind of pen Adams is using in this video?

    • @NerdNewsToday
      @NerdNewsToday  3 роки тому +7

      It was a refillable pentel brush pen. Nothing fancy, he was using the exact same pen everyone in attendance was given that day.

    • @NerdNewsToday
      @NerdNewsToday  9 місяців тому

      @@JohnDoe-zo8wj Ah correct, the class was given the Pentels (brush pens or ballpoint with refillable ink), not sure what he was using but I don't think it was anything special or fancy.

  • @robd1329
    @robd1329 Рік тому

    ..wish someone had told me as a kid how to hold a fkn pencil correctly! He was right!!!!

  • @michaelbrittain7445
    @michaelbrittain7445 4 місяці тому

    "Your body is made to do art....all your bones & everything that works up here is made to do art. You just have to learn how to use it." (31:10)
    "It's amazing the delicacy you can have with this instrument [the hand].....God has given you the greatest possible instrument you can ever have, to do artwork, & that's this delicate thing." (26:11)
    "Look to the past for your skills & build your skills forward, rather than ignore them & let them drop." (33:48)
    "That's how you get Adam Hughes [etc]....they get to be the best guys because they study the past." (34:20)
    Wow! This was such fun! What a character!
    You can see how THIS was the one who stood up to the big comics companies & led the fight for artists rights to their own work etc. I wish he'd toned down the language, especially for the school class, but an inspiring encouragement all the same.
    I wish i could have been there! 😏

  • @bobsmith3931
    @bobsmith3931 2 роки тому +2

    It would’ve been hilarious if he farted when they were grabbing his fingers.

  • @fabianarnaldi4986
    @fabianarnaldi4986 2 роки тому +3

    Wrong kids for Neal Adams , they look like super lazy.

    • @robd1329
      @robd1329 Рік тому +1

      He should have been talking to a college art class

  • @bakedpootetoo
    @bakedpootetoo 3 роки тому +13

    16:58 computers are not stupid. Respect the guy, but that made him seem like a dinosaur. There are pro and cons to both digital and traditional. I know this is about comics, but for animating, no one animates on paper anymore, it's too inefficient. This is one way computers aren't dumb. I know he meant, computer doesn't make you draw better.
    23:42 no one inks on cells anymore. we use computers. LOL but computers are dumb.
    "i can get twice a much work done with a pen than dipping."
    student aks, "How do you get grey tones"
    "Use a brush."
    I just thought it was funny, when he was bragging about how much better a pen was, I was just thinking some people use dip pens and brushes for grey tones, that you can't get with.a pen. Just saying. Again, pros and cons to each.
    Thanks showing how to hold the pen correctly and the Mr. Yang (sp?) story. It really made me smile. Along with the cultural difference of western and eastern, and white culture difference with the handball story.
    BTW art isn't always about reselling for more money, but I heard him out, the original if done traditionally is worth more than digital. I tend to see his stuff on Heritage Auctions, a lot so that is a plus compared to digital work.
    Cool and lucky students. Wonder how many will go to SVA,

    • @8tiveeye
      @8tiveeye 3 роки тому +4

      I agree with you on these points. Traditional is best but not cost effective for Animation. I've been working at animation studios for years, and every studio has switched to digital for a reason. BTW he is able to sell commissions and original artwork at a high price point because he is one of the legends in the industry. Not every artist has the luxury of being able to sell their traditional work for the rates he mentioned in the video. In theses cases digital prints from computers make it affordable for the buyers, and can make a new artist a decent amount of income. One last note at the FanExpo I attended he was selling digital prints of his artwork.... you can't say computers are dumb if they're bringing you extra income ;)

    • @danieldeanallen
      @danieldeanallen 3 роки тому +18

      You missed his point. The sub text is 'computers still need a talented artist'

    • @cyrus138
      @cyrus138 2 роки тому +4

      *swoosh*

    • @michaelbrittain7445
      @michaelbrittain7445 4 місяці тому +2

      Actually computers ARE stupid,.
      ie; they are an INSTRUMENT, like any instrument they are inherently inert.
      The artists input can use the computer, or pen or pencil to MAKE something clever, but the objects themselves remain, in effect, "stupid", until the human mind influences them.
      Neal is spot on.
      The computer is just a tool, which he was perfectly willing to use, as he admits, but he was concerned that they might be used as "shortcuts" to artistic success. He was not, therefore, contradicting himself at 23:42 at all.