Its really weird how some of the best comic books artists make some of the best 2D shapes and dynamic forms yet I never saw anyone describe how to achieve this result as you explained, great video
I've been looking for years on how they do it. It almost seemed like a trade secret. I managed to pick up some of it through observation, and looking at my favourite artists. However thanks to David now, I can now do this consistently.
for me its amazing how you can basically ''improvise'' muscles and their shadows even if you don't know the anatomy 1:1 and it still stays looking crazy believable, most people that look at the art wont actually know anatomy but if it looks believable then theyll think it is absolutely anatomically correct, i will never get over how incredible that is
To some degree, people view the human form like they read words. As you learn to read more qucikly, you actaually stop reading each letter of a word, and start just reading the first one of two and the last one or two and based on context your brain solves the equtaion and just fills in the correct word. As long as you get the external form of the arm/forearm right the eye is going to be OK with it, unless you're doing something really egregious inside there. Steve's upper arm muscles look wrong to me, but I wouldn't complain about it. The idea is that is a lean, but muscled forearm and the illustration conveys that.
@@sael5084 Watch it a few times and practice along, I bet after 3-4 watches you'll have it down. Some times studying requires ya to re-read a chapter a few times before it lands in your memory.
The line of beauty is simply amazing. It really showcases the real life thing and the composition is coming along so naturally. Great work and thank you for sharing this technique.
wow...this is a game changer. it took me a little while to get this figured out, but when i did it changed everything. it's difficult for me to draw the shape language from my head when constructing the form so i started with round curves ie: Bart Sears old "bubble figures". I use clip studio for my line art so I added another layer and used the line of beauty opposing curves to draw my shadow shapes. Even then it took me a minute to figure that out. I initially would shade like i always did but quickly got to changing the direction with the lines of beauty. it takes awhile to train your mind to perceive shadows and forms like this but WOW. Once you get the idea it's like getting a whole new set of keys to this style. Thanks Dave!
What a fantastic video! Most drawing tutorials on yt lack substance but you go the extra mile and demonstrate in great detail the points you wanna get across. Your stuff is always worth watching!
im a fine art student and i heard all these line quality, weight, cross hatching... for years and for me it was so complicated so instead i was just drawing with shading. good thing about comic art techniques or illustration is that you make techniques actually useful and workable so you have a lot more time and focus on creativity rather than fighting with mediums and techniques
This is really helpful. I’ve always envied comics for those defined yet stylized muscle forms. I’m glad I finally understand how they draw that way! Thank you so much!!
In short. It's a line gesture with opposing characteristics in Big, Medium, and Small forms to define the Outline, form, shadow and composition. OK Great reminder and good exercise in line drawing and shading.
It's amazing how the stars align. This morning I was drawing a female figure, and I was not happy with my basic shapes, even though I was working from a picture. I decided to block it out with hard, straight lines, and got my masses much improved. Now I can probably use this technique to finish my drawing. Thank you!
ok now this just changed my game. I've been very knowledgeable about a variaty of subjects when drawing figures, but til now I've never heard of this techique before! I think that is going to take my art to another level, thank you very much!
I find looking at pictures of bodybuilders helps in determining what is possible for shapes in a body. I don't ever redraw a single person's form, but rather combine the forms into one believable form that is pleasing to the eye.
Dave, I always look forward to watching along when you drop new videos. It's great to see you address shapes here. The concept is one of the toughest to grab in painting and also one of the most difficult to apply effectively. It's not at all intuitive and almost antithetical to the idea most of us have of proper painting technique, which is to just blend everything, early and often. it's so helpful that you are applying the concept to comic book pencilling here. Thanks for helping us level up!
I agree, you should combine both hard and blocky lines with soft and curvy. But you shouldn't be putting it in these mindlessly. Start with filling up all of the shapes and apply gravity. Remember things that are alive tend to bend outlines outwards. It is a sign of a healthy organism. So the soft tissue behaves like that. And also you have bones. Take their features to be your guides. Remember: joints are always visible. So this way you can combine hard bone and soft tissue, and also express these in line, curves vs angles. And in anatomically right places, so it is mindful. It requires practice. I am glad you show your way doing it. Nice video, man!
I don’t often keep up with this channel but this topic has hit me hook and just wanted to say thanks I’ve been burnt out for a very long time and your videos is bringing back that spark
Very interesting! I'm not sure that the 'beauty lines' give a "more natural look" to the body. BUT they surely give much more rhythm to the drawing and convey way more energy to the lines. So, altogether it's more original and really pleasant to the eye. Great tip!
As an animator, illustrator and college foundation drawing teacher I love this video. What David is doing is illustrating the fundamental use of the principles of LINE. Line is one of seven principles of Art and Drawing: Space, Line, Shape, Form, Value, Texture, and Color..... And has within in many concepts of how it's used. There are organic Line, Geometric Lines (Which this lesson is going over) Invisible lines, Implied Lines, etc.... The main reason most professional companies only hire from University programs are further illustrated in the comments of this video. These principles he's explaining are basics which most amateurs Tend to overlook, or ignorantly avoid when they're doing a composition. At some point everyone has to learn the foundations, the sooner you accept that and get on with it, the sooner your work will start to take you where you want it too.
I didn't really feel this trick until I put it out of my mind. When I was following along with the guide, it didn't feel natural, but I kept at it a little bit. I just finished a sketch and I realized immediately after that I was implementing the beauty lines, and the figure and anatomy came out a lot better than I feel I have done. This tutorial is fantastic, and helped me understand the body a lot better.
I used to think that the main thing about drawing lines was being confident in laying down smooth and long edges, ideally while varying the weight along the way somehow. Breaking things up like you show here makes much more sense, and for pencil drawings it's far more realistic to go over a line again to give it value because the graphite has no spring to it, like a nib or a brush does. Thanks a lot, this is at once a technique for details and a general organizing principle that gives your drawings an intentional quality, tying everything together.
It's funny to hear shape language used this way. In animation shape language is the the breakdown of the character shapes to tell a story or let you know at first glance what kind of character you are looking at. Building Ben Grimm out of squares to denote the power and strength, the leader out of triangles to denote the sharp villainous character etc. You see this even in comics. Sharp features vs soft features to denote kindly characters. You also use shape language in the opposing line shapes in animation and illustration: Straights vs curves is a classic example. Offset curves as well to make the characters more pleasing to the eye. Now the funny thing is in that example character you drew, regardless of the style you use on your lines to create a more personally interesting character, you used a lot of the shape language theories I spoke about to build that character's anatomy. The offset curves of the forearm, the sweeping curve of the interior of the forearm to the wrist and the more straightened line for the backside. These are all classic shape language tools used in animation and illustration and present themselves in real life everywhere which is why we use them and why we like to see them. It makes sense that the concept of shape language could be applied to the stylization of the line so this is a really cool take. Nice video as always.
Using these techniques, learned pretty quickly after a few tries. It really is helping with a drawing I’m already working on! Love learning more and more techniques when it comes to comic style drawings 🫶🏼✍️
David, can you do a video solely for forearms? I mean, you explained it a few times in your videos but we need like an in depth and how to use shadows on it, I use some examples from other artists and anatomy books/photos, but if you can do a video, it’ll be more than helpful
David, this is the BEST channel! What you're teaching us is pure GOLD and you explain it at a pace that can be easily understood and absorbed. I'm definitely going to have to experiment with this technique! Thank you!!
Awesome. I experimented and tried breaking up the line to imply a line. Interesting effects as well. What I'm getting, in a nutshell, is try to avoid overly simple forms. Adding some "organic" element, like a line of beauty, creates a more visually appealing drawing.
This is absolutely uncanny. All day yesterday I was doing drapery studies of your work and then spent about an hour scouring penmanship tutorials and art history resources about the line of beauty. And here we are. Insane.
Awesome David, thanks! Two questions, 1. What type of drawing tool are you using? 2. (A bit longer) I was watching a video from Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg reviewing a collection book of the sketches of the legendary Robert Crumb. There was something that Ed said that stuck with me and if you could, I'd like to hear your opinion. Ed said the use of pens in Crumb's works may have been a method to develop precision in placing thought to paper, or in other words, hypothetically, it takes the "safety net" away of erasing, which I can even attest to being an encouraged practice taught in art schools/classes. But that statement made me pause and I really considered if that was a possible breakthrough for me and my work! Thoughts welcome and for reading!
You are my hero. I WISH and pray to God that I am able to draw just like you. I LOVE your channel and watch your videos religiously. Thank you for sharing your content. I even bought majority of your videos, which are VERY helpful.
Thank you for sharing another great video David! Your lessons are very good and I have learned a lot from them. You explain your information in a very clear and comprehensive way. Not too much info and you repeat the important parts of your lessons many times (auditory and ofcourse visual). I also appreciate the length of these video's (15 to 20 minutes). It encourages me to draw, practice, and try out after watching the video. Keep sharing, you make a lot of people happy and greater in their work/hobby ❤. I hope I can score some of your comics on the Dutch Comic Con next saturday!
Every time I watch your video I learn so much that I couldn’t find in a typical UA-cam art video… thanks for sharing your knowledge and helping many people like myself … thanks again 🫡🙏🏻
Very helpful video. I enjoy your art, and I appreciate your teaching style. You've got a terrific knack for breaking down your process into simple terms. Thanks for sharing!
Something that struck me while watching, during your examples of opposing curves, before you started adding shadows, the lineart was very reminiscent of Freddie E Williams' work. I'd have never thought you guys had similar techniques and approaches based on your final outputs, but watching this shows me your styles share a lot of DNA.
Like, Jeff Watts says draw what you see, ehat you know, and what you want to see. Idealization, and I have had a tough time simplifying from realism into more graphic shapes (better shape language), and this video really helped offer a path to solving the shape-line-language problem, so thank you for your instruction!
Not sure if you read these, but can I request for something? For the last 8 years I've been trying to polish my technical art skills, and recently made it to an art career And I discovered that I neglected completely a crucial part of art which is, making art with sense (With purpose) It's nice to have a muscular, anatomically correct, nicely designed guy standing in some cool dynamic pose and all, but what good does it make if it doesn't tell a story Even deeper than that, abstract art (which I suck real bad at it) has the power to boil down concepts, sensations and feelings, and I would say that it doesn't require so much control as in these type of drawings Could you teach us how to communicate through abstraction? As in, for example, teach as to draw "Fear" in a way that it's universally understandable in every situation.
Its really weird how some of the best comic books artists make some of the best 2D shapes and dynamic forms yet I never saw anyone describe how to achieve this result as you explained, great video
I've been looking for years on how they do it. It almost seemed like a trade secret. I managed to pick up some of it through observation, and looking at my favourite artists. However thanks to David now, I can now do this consistently.
Another great teacher you might want to check out is Rodgon
for me its amazing how you can basically ''improvise'' muscles and their shadows even if you don't know the anatomy 1:1 and it still stays looking crazy believable, most people that look at the art wont actually know anatomy but if it looks believable then theyll think it is absolutely anatomically correct, i will never get over how incredible that is
To some degree, people view the human form like they read words. As you learn to read more qucikly, you actaually stop reading each letter of a word, and start just reading the first one of two and the last one or two and based on context your brain solves the equtaion and just fills in the correct word.
As long as you get the external form of the arm/forearm right the eye is going to be OK with it, unless you're doing something really egregious inside there. Steve's upper arm muscles look wrong to me, but I wouldn't complain about it. The idea is that is a lean, but muscled forearm and the illustration conveys that.
Wake up everybody, new David greatness on the timeline.
Yeah boy!
Wake up!!!!
me too it was a welcomed surprised.
If only my brain could retain this information ❤
@@sael5084 Watch it a few times and practice along, I bet after 3-4 watches you'll have it down. Some times studying requires ya to re-read a chapter a few times before it lands in your memory.
The line of beauty is simply amazing. It really showcases the real life thing and the composition is coming along so naturally. Great work and thank you for sharing this technique.
One of the best videos about line and shadow shapes that you can apply right away on anything.
Thoroughly explained!!! 🎯🔥🔥
You deserve it don't worry ❤❤
wow...this is a game changer. it took me a little while to get this figured out, but when i did it changed everything. it's difficult for me to draw the shape language from my head when constructing the form so i started with round curves ie: Bart Sears old "bubble figures". I use clip studio for my line art so I added another layer and used the line of beauty opposing curves to draw my shadow shapes. Even then it took me a minute to figure that out. I initially would shade like i always did but quickly got to changing the direction with the lines of beauty. it takes awhile to train your mind to perceive shadows and forms like this but WOW. Once you get the idea it's like getting a whole new set of keys to this style. Thanks Dave!
He's BACK
Wow! I followed along and produced one of the best anatomically-focused figures I have ever drawn. Thank you for this!!
What a fantastic video! Most drawing tutorials on yt lack substance but you go the extra mile and demonstrate in great detail the points you wanna get across. Your stuff is always worth watching!
im a fine art student and i heard all these line quality, weight, cross hatching... for years and for me it was so complicated so instead i was just drawing with shading. good thing about comic art techniques or illustration is that you make techniques actually useful and workable so you have a lot more time and focus on creativity rather than fighting with mediums and techniques
Such an "Ah HA!" Moment here with the use of the line of beauty...LOVE THIS! Thanks Dave!
I love your artworks. Especially what I love is your style to shadow anything like muscles.
Definitely! Dave's shadow drawing is so dynamic
i love your videos Dave. No pretentious art speak just matter of fact and incredibly helpful.
This is really helpful. I’ve always envied comics for those defined yet stylized muscle forms. I’m glad I finally understand how they draw that way! Thank you so much!!
Glad to see you back with a new video, sir. 😉👊🏻
Haha nice timing, just yesterday i was praticing it from some Ryan Benjamin videos!!!
In short.
It's a line gesture with opposing characteristics in Big, Medium, and Small forms to define the Outline, form, shadow and composition. OK
Great reminder and good exercise in line drawing and shading.
Omg David..I'm blown away by this line of beauty video..
It's amazing how the stars align. This morning I was drawing a female figure, and I was not happy with my basic shapes, even though I was working from a picture. I decided to block it out with hard, straight lines, and got my masses much improved. Now I can probably use this technique to finish my drawing. Thank you!
ok now this just changed my game. I've been very knowledgeable about a variaty of subjects when drawing figures, but til now I've never heard of this techique before! I think that is going to take my art to another level, thank you very much!
Wow! Here we turn the key! Thank you master!!!
Can’t wait to watch and learn!!
It’s always a joy to watch David Finch work. 👍🏼👍🏼
Your work fascinates me.🎉🎉
Thank you David for always being awesome!
I find looking at pictures of bodybuilders helps in determining what is possible for shapes in a body. I don't ever redraw a single person's form, but rather combine the forms into one believable form that is pleasing to the eye.
it's good to know that there are still those that truly love true art.
This is amazing! Best drawing channel on UA-cam. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
Wish I could get as inspired too ❤
1000%
Dave, I always look forward to watching along when you drop new videos. It's great to see you address shapes here. The concept is one of the toughest to grab in painting and also one of the most difficult to apply effectively. It's not at all intuitive and almost antithetical to the idea most of us have of proper painting technique, which is to just blend everything, early and often. it's so helpful that you are applying the concept to comic book pencilling here. Thanks for helping us level up!
I agree, you should combine both hard and blocky lines with soft and curvy. But you shouldn't be putting it in these mindlessly. Start with filling up all of the shapes and apply gravity. Remember things that are alive tend to bend outlines outwards. It is a sign of a healthy organism. So the soft tissue behaves like that. And also you have bones. Take their features to be your guides. Remember: joints are always visible.
So this way you can combine hard bone and soft tissue, and also express these in line, curves vs angles. And in anatomically right places, so it is mindful.
It requires practice.
I am glad you show your way doing it. Nice video, man!
This is probably the best art lesson I’ve ever seen.
David you are the best teaching all these techniques!
David Finch is my art hero!
I don’t often keep up with this channel but this topic has hit me hook and just wanted to say thanks I’ve been burnt out for a very long time and your videos is bringing back that spark
Very interesting! I'm not sure that the 'beauty lines' give a "more natural look" to the body. BUT they surely give much more rhythm to the drawing and convey way more energy to the lines. So, altogether it's more original and really pleasant to the eye. Great tip!
I randomly saw you at a booth at comic con and immediately got you to sign my comic. Keep up the good work!
Best comic artist ,I swear I love your art so much
This might be the most helpful art video I’ve ever seen.
As an animator, illustrator and college foundation drawing teacher I love this video. What David is doing is illustrating the fundamental use of the principles of LINE. Line is one of seven principles of Art and Drawing: Space, Line, Shape, Form, Value, Texture, and Color..... And has within in many concepts of how it's used. There are organic Line, Geometric Lines (Which this lesson is going over) Invisible lines, Implied Lines, etc.... The main reason most professional companies only hire from University programs are further illustrated in the comments of this video. These principles he's explaining are basics which most amateurs Tend to overlook, or ignorantly avoid when they're doing a composition. At some point everyone has to learn the foundations, the sooner you accept that and get on with it, the sooner your work will start to take you where you want it too.
I didn't really feel this trick until I put it out of my mind. When I was following along with the guide, it didn't feel natural, but I kept at it a little bit. I just finished a sketch and I realized immediately after that I was implementing the beauty lines, and the figure and anatomy came out a lot better than I feel I have done. This tutorial is fantastic, and helped me understand the body a lot better.
David you're channel provides endless value for us.
Without a doubt best comic art tutorials on UA-cam! ✍️ great vid!
This was insanely helpful. I’m such a fan. Thanks for doing this video.
There was a moment where he connected the bottom of the delt and I said out loud “ohhh” because it clicked for me😂😂
I used to think that the main thing about drawing lines was being confident in laying down smooth and long edges, ideally while varying the weight along the way somehow. Breaking things up like you show here makes much more sense, and for pencil drawings it's far more realistic to go over a line again to give it value because the graphite has no spring to it, like a nib or a brush does. Thanks a lot, this is at once a technique for details and a general organizing principle that gives your drawings an intentional quality, tying everything together.
Perfect timing. I've been making this mistake and couldn't figure out my my figures looked a bit off. Thanks!!!
So glad a new videos out tired to watching the other ones over and over
It's funny to hear shape language used this way. In animation shape language is the the breakdown of the character shapes to tell a story or let you know at first glance what kind of character you are looking at. Building Ben Grimm out of squares to denote the power and strength, the leader out of triangles to denote the sharp villainous character etc. You see this even in comics. Sharp features vs soft features to denote kindly characters. You also use shape language in the opposing line shapes in animation and illustration: Straights vs curves is a classic example. Offset curves as well to make the characters more pleasing to the eye. Now the funny thing is in that example character you drew, regardless of the style you use on your lines to create a more personally interesting character, you used a lot of the shape language theories I spoke about to build that character's anatomy. The offset curves of the forearm, the sweeping curve of the interior of the forearm to the wrist and the more straightened line for the backside. These are all classic shape language tools used in animation and illustration and present themselves in real life everywhere which is why we use them and why we like to see them.
It makes sense that the concept of shape language could be applied to the stylization of the line so this is a really cool take. Nice video as always.
Ah, this technique/trick is really going to help me...thank you!
Using these techniques, learned pretty quickly after a few tries. It really is helping with a drawing I’m already working on! Love learning more and more techniques when it comes to comic style drawings 🫶🏼✍️
David, can you do a video solely for forearms? I mean, you explained it a few times in your videos but we need like an in depth and how to use shadows on it, I use some examples from other artists and anatomy books/photos, but if you can do a video, it’ll be more than helpful
Man's a bloody genius
Just tried it, love it. Thank you.
David, this is the BEST channel! What you're teaching us is pure GOLD and you explain it at a pace that can be easily understood and absorbed. I'm definitely going to have to experiment with this technique! Thank you!!
Thank you Mr. Finch.
This video is so jam packed with info that I could only absorb by watching over and over for hours.. Great lecture! Thank you!
I love ur art 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾please post consistently 🥺
Awesome.
I experimented and tried breaking up the line to imply a line. Interesting effects as well.
What I'm getting, in a nutshell, is try to avoid overly simple forms. Adding some "organic" element, like a line of beauty, creates a more visually appealing drawing.
Also, I'm experimenting by drawing non-humans as well. That opens up the creativity. Try drawing some elven wizards or eleven warriors. :)
Now that I've seen it I can't unsee it. This is AWESOME!!! Going to apply this technique today. Thank you
This is absolutely uncanny. All day yesterday I was doing drapery studies of your work and then spent about an hour scouring penmanship tutorials and art history resources about the line of beauty. And here we are. Insane.
I like to mix sharp and soft based on pose and form. sometimes shadows and negative space are better than drawing in the details too.
Awesome David, thanks! Two questions, 1. What type of drawing tool are you using? 2. (A bit longer) I was watching a video from Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg reviewing a collection book of the sketches of the legendary Robert Crumb. There was something that Ed said that stuck with me and if you could, I'd like to hear your opinion. Ed said the use of pens in Crumb's works may have been a method to develop precision in placing thought to paper, or in other words, hypothetically, it takes the "safety net" away of erasing, which I can even attest to being an encouraged practice taught in art schools/classes. But that statement made me pause and I really considered if that was a possible breakthrough for me and my work! Thoughts welcome and for reading!
I think he's still unaware that his forearm construction was something that got a lot of us hooked onto his art lol
You are my hero. I WISH and pray to God that I am able to draw just like you. I LOVE your channel and watch your videos religiously. Thank you for sharing your content. I even bought majority of your videos, which are VERY helpful.
Yeah, the first one with the curved liines still looks the best.
Awesome Dave , gonna give it a try
Thank you for sharing another great video David! Your lessons are very good and I have learned a lot from them. You explain your information in a very clear and comprehensive way. Not too much info and you repeat the important parts of your lessons many times (auditory and ofcourse visual). I also appreciate the length of these video's (15 to 20 minutes). It encourages me to draw, practice, and try out after watching the video. Keep sharing, you make a lot of people happy and greater in their work/hobby ❤.
I hope I can score some of your comics on the Dutch Comic Con next saturday!
Every time I watch your video I learn so much that I couldn’t find in a typical UA-cam art video… thanks for sharing your knowledge and helping many people like myself … thanks again 🫡🙏🏻
Thanks so much for this excellent teaching video. I will definitely do this exercise. ❤
So well explained . Thank you !
Another great tutorial by the master himself ! Awesome ! Thanks Dave.
Very helpful video. I enjoy your art, and I appreciate your teaching style. You've got a terrific knack for breaking down your process into simple terms. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome. Thanks Dave! This has pointed out something substantial in addition to the things we've learned from your process so far.
Спасибо, дядя Финч!🥰
Something that struck me while watching, during your examples of opposing curves, before you started adding shadows, the lineart was very reminiscent of Freddie E Williams' work. I'd have never thought you guys had similar techniques and approaches based on your final outputs, but watching this shows me your styles share a lot of DNA.
Dude! This is a game changer…thank you so much!
Sir your drawings are so satisfying and fascinating, thank you very much for all your efforts.
This is pure gold!
Nice to see another tutorial! Love your art!
simple but very cool. thank you!
This video is amazing and such a good explanation of shape language and how to apply it well! Thank you for sharing!
This is really helpful to see how you design shadow shapes.
Like, Jeff Watts says draw what you see, ehat you know, and what you want to see. Idealization, and I have had a tough time simplifying from realism into more graphic shapes (better shape language), and this video really helped offer a path to solving the shape-line-language problem, so thank you for your instruction!
Lovely to see a new tutorial from you Dave! Great video
Thank you for sharing this video. This one tip is one of the greatest. The Golden line of beauty 😊
This is exactly what I needed
Great to see the new content. Wonderful, Dave. I hope Monday Night Draw returns sometime soon!
Thank you so much for this David so helpful
I wish I would have learned this when I was a kid. Awesome. Thank you.
Love it! Thanks Dave!
Drawing along with this video was very helpful, thank you :)
Thank you David
dave is amazing
Excelente proporción, gracias por compartir tu conocimiento gracias saludos desde Colombia ❤
This reminds me of old ZHC, I missed this type of stuff so much.
I tried it for two minutes and I feel like it’s already ingrained in me ! Thanks a lot ! Love your channel :)
A golden idea, thanks!
Thank you this is what I was missing !!!
Not sure if you read these, but can I request for something? For the last 8 years I've been trying to polish my technical art skills, and recently made it to an art career
And I discovered that I neglected completely a crucial part of art which is, making art with sense (With purpose)
It's nice to have a muscular, anatomically correct, nicely designed guy standing in some cool dynamic pose and all, but what good does it make if it doesn't tell a story
Even deeper than that, abstract art (which I suck real bad at it) has the power to boil down concepts, sensations and feelings, and I would say that it doesn't require so much control as in these type of drawings
Could you teach us how to communicate through abstraction? As in, for example, teach as to draw "Fear" in a way that it's universally understandable in every situation.
He's back. ... HES BACK!