The panel above, illustrates a certain pet peeve of mine and that is
the misaligning of facial features within the outline of the human head.
The panel was drawn by Daniel Boultwood, a British cartoonist and comes from his comic book
"It Came!"
One of my all time favourite comic book makers,
Paul Grist, who is also British,
has often done something similar
but without shifting the centre line of the face
towards the revealed ear.
In Grist's case, it is more in the way he draws a turned head as a "U" shape, but with the side of the face that is turned away from the camera, being flattened.
Usually, His alignment, for the facial features, is pretty good.
See what I mean?
It is a subtle difference but a significant one, from my point of view.
I guess that to me, Paul Grist is employing a form of shorthand, in his describing a face, where as Daniel Boultwood willfully distorts the description he is making, for no good reason.
My biggest criticism of the way Paul Grist draws faces, would be that they are always incredibly long! The accepted,
normal proportions, where the length of the nose is roughly the same as that of the ear, from lobe to tip, are also ignored but somehow that never seems to jar my viewing pleasure.
Almost the last thing, that Paul Grist had published, came out a few years ago, in 2000 AD and it was great.
For those of you who overlooked it, Demon Nic, is well worth the trouble of tracking it down.
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