Thinking about what I wanted to produce for a final piece I decided to look into doing another version of Bubble-Gum Girl, this time in full colour and more realistic.

A look at a comparison of art styles

  - Steve Ditko

To the left are 3 panels from Steve Ditko's work of batman while he was at his time at DC comics. Here you can see the difference in his work to other drawings of batman.
Here he looks more mysterious and has a less typical heroic and handsome appearance along with Steve Ditko's noteable claustrophobic feel within his panels.

To the right is a piece of work by another comic book artist that was a possibility to look into during this assignment "Neal Adams". Here you can see his drawing of Batman is much more like the typical view of him in comics and movies today. Here he looks very heroic and has that handsome hero look in general. He also seems to look more physically strong in this version and quite different to Steve Ditko's work. Although it is a quite different style I very much appreciate Neal Adams work also.


One reason i decided to choose Steve Ditko's work was because his looks very different to the designs and artwork you would see in comics today and so it was unique in that sense. His background was also very interesting as he had worked with Marvel as well as DC (The two major comic book companies) and other small independant groups.

Another image i produced for the character bubble-gum girl.
I feel it has the element of humour to it.

While Looking more into Steve Ditko's history, i came across this documentary that i thought was very interesting, heres the 1st part of 7 that i watched.
Its obvious he had an enormous fan base from his and stan lee's co creations of Spiderman and another slightly less famous Doctor Strange.

 Just looking more into Steve Ditko's history, i find it quite interesting that he left Marvel for reasons never specified although he use to reject interviews saying that his work was what he wished to share and not his personality, i guess he was quite a private person.

Then moving onto DC comics as well as working with independant publishers.

But very cool how he contributed to the creation of spider-man, creeper, doctor strange, hawk and dove, Mr A and question.

Typography

Here I decided to produce various types of font styles for the title of the hero Bubble-Gum Girl.

MoodBoard

I had been finding it sometimes quite difficult to replicate Steve Ditko's art style at certain points and so I decided to produce a moodboard with pieces of his work to emphasize his art style.