Being humble about his work is part of the reason I like Joe so much. But he should be a little more positive about past work I think. We all grow and get better in every activity. The early work we do is a valuable stepping stone to the better work we do later.
The Deadpool work he mentions is actually really good. Better than most pros ever get and the fact that he was 19 is mind blowing. He came into his own style over the years but he could draw extremely well right from the beginning.
I can relate to this. I've been having problems keeping myself interested in what I'm working on and when that happens it's better to just lay the pencil down and work on something else that you feel you can really put your passion into, and more often than not you will find a way back around to working on that other project. It's all a balancing act, honestly.
With how Joe's art is so filled to the brim with in-your-face, high octane energy and high testosterone awesomeness I didn't expect the man to be this laid-back and chill.
my fav artist by far....been enjoying his work since the first deadpool mini all the way to battlechasers and his lil runs on spidey & wolvie! keep it up man!
5:55 heartbreaking! Joe Madureira's X-Men artwork in the 1990's made me the fan of his work that I am today. i love everything about the physical characteristics of his renderings. it appeals to my penciling style. my artwork today is HEAVILY inspired by his work then. those images by him holds as much nostalgia for me as most tv shows, movies, and songs do for society. most artists critique their past works harshly, but he shouldn't. it was great artwork.
He left comics to pursue video games cuz obviously it pays better. He formed Vigil games and was the first to jump ship when it went bankrupt. Now he's like "oh gee video games didn't work out for me I guess I'll go back to doing comics." Fuck him.
sylvester1046 Then he decided to back on his original creations and he's like "oh hey I'll just release an anthology which is a collected edition with a new hardbound cover and some old sketches and sell it at a really steep price. Genius!" Fuck him twice.
As far as his style not lending itself to certain genres he can get past it by doing semi loose pencils and letting a good inker put their touch to it to help it blend better.
People who saying that his artwork is shit then you haven't seen his artwork on comic books he is one amazing artist if not one of the best you will know if you seen some of his artwork in comics
i love how he makes noises when he draws, i used to do that when i took drawing a lot more seriously in the early 90s. i always wanted to master his style but that was impossible
he is an excellent mimic, when he first emerged on the scene (at the age of16, I believe) he was emulating Art Adams in style and eventually evolved into the Manga influenced phenom he has become
I don't know what he's talking about. He's older work is awesome and imo, even better than what he does nowadays. Sure, he has improved and he's more skilled now, but I just prefer the manga influenced style.
it's hard being eloquent while you draw. For me personnally i can follow any conversation or audio podcast or whatever, but commenting as you do isn't easy at all.
He looks so humble and current, when he was one of the outstanding few concept draw influencers back in the 90's, globally speaking, when there was no commercial internet btw...
I'm an artist, and it's REALLY hard to talk and draw, or if someone wants to watch you (even a camera) you tend to be a bit nervous and kind of ramble. It's not easy to divide your mind like that, because the entire time you're drawing you're running this massive inner monologue of "no no, that needs to be here, shoulder goes like this, I don't think this is working oh wait now it is, I like this wrist joint, ooh and this muscle line, ect..." That inner voice never goes away.
I can generally relate to his embarrassment at his old work, but I cracked open the X-Cutioner's Song TPB recently (Joe wasn't in the creative teams for that crossover, just using it as a reference) and was reminded of the comic art trend at the time. Apart from Joe's earliest work, his art was different, distinct, exciting and aged better than even the other artists who entered "the manga style trend". That's why he kept getting work.
I also read somewhere that for a third Darksiders to be made Darksiders 2 had to sell no less than 4 million copies, and in which case they would focus on more scope than scale for the third, "which had worked wonders for Batman Arkham City". Yet another indicator of batman similar gameplay in terms of, among other things, character swapping.
Damn i want that drawing. I also want to draw like Joe Mad. I used to draw but never liked how my stuff looked once I put it on paper. I had ideas like what Joe Mad does but i could never get it to look as awesome as his stuff.
I totally agree, haven't you noticed how a lot of artists hold back during their interviews?, like they wont tell you any secrets of the trade, they need to realize that they were once noobs like us lol
I always felt that Battle Chasers is the Lord of the ring of the comic books universe. There is even an Unfinished Tales books series from Tolkien ;) The entertainement "paradigm" is changing. Women characters, creativity and colors are coming back. Money is less first priority right now in the business, indie development.. and just plain crowdfunding that please to the.. crowd. Joe says in the interview that he learns from the new guys but you know I think Battle Chasers is just magic.
Sometimes when I see these artists draw and then when I heard him saying he didn't like his X-men work ... I was like shit ,,, These guys are so modest sometimes u feel that u would slap them in the face for making you feel so miserable and shitty comparing to them !
The thing about artists is that you have to leave them alone so that they can imagine their drawings a lot easier.. But its quite normal that everyone starts with a drawing out of nothing.. So you have to imagine a pose of the body and then interpret it on paper in a easy anatomy position and then fill it up with more sketching and then refine the lines in better detail.. At least that's how I do it..
If a fast learner . I haven't drew since a little kid. I'm 37 ,start to drew now. I'm pretty darn good. Got my skills still. I will get better in due time
He has a Portuguese sir name, but he is from America.He was born in New York maybe you might be thinking of Roger Cruz who drew just like Joe and used to copy art from Joe panel to panel.
I want dark siders on a mobile platform. Ps vita, vita tv, 3ds, android, ios. I loved the story and I think that I would do well, even look really close to the original. Sad.
He is a professional artist, so I think he knows what works for him... When I was in school just about everyone used regular pencils for their sketches. It doesn't matter since it's not the finished piece. I still won't use anything but a no. 2 mechanical pencil for my basic drawings. Not that that means anything, since I'm not a famous artist. But I don't think it's that weird for artists to use writing pencils. Whatever works!
ok...I think he just revealed that Darksiders 3 we'll be playing Fury. But I think cos fury and Strife aren't that famous compared to War and Death, they might include both i one game we can alternate between, similar to batman arkham city.
Inform Joe Madureira that they should continue more games from Darksiders 2 (Not One!!!). You can't get any better than Death playing the main role of the game because he just stands out so much. I love his character due to upgrading armour, and choosing a wide variety of weapons. Also secret doors you have to try and open. Also keep the bosses very much like DS 2 because DS 1 are to demonic for me to play. Make the next game he plans to create be called Death!!!
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I like that he is a realist in his thought process and lacks the ego so that he understands himself and his work. He seems very honest.
Compared to Todd McFarlane your right I mean I love McFarlane but joe mad seems real
Well art never lies. You can say you love someone but you cannot paint that you love someone, people who watch your art will see it immediately.
Bring back Darksiders so I can see more of this man's work!
Darksiders 3 got announced! :D
@@Garadares for real? Love that game. When I was into games
One of the best artist of all time. Love all his work! Can't believe he didn't like his X-Men stuff. So many artist stole his style. The GOAT!!!
FInish the damn! Battle chasers! love this guys one of the first guys that made me start drawing back in 97!
8 years later...
Pero mira con quien me encontre jajajaja
@Ledger Zavier shut up!
@@bargaintuesday812 nothing. wished it took his own work seriously.
How many issues are there now? I think I only have about 5 o 6
Being humble about his work is part of the reason I like Joe so much. But he should be a little more positive about past work I think. We all grow and get better in every activity. The early work we do is a valuable stepping stone to the better work we do later.
The Deadpool work he mentions is actually really good. Better than most pros ever get and the fact that he was 19 is mind blowing. He came into his own style over the years but he could draw extremely well right from the beginning.
by far my favourite artist
I love his cartoony exaggerated style because it's simple, badass and is easy for the eye at the same time. Joe is still my no. 1 favorite artist ❤️
I can relate to this. I've been having problems keeping myself interested in what I'm working on and when that happens it's better to just lay the pencil down and work on something else that you feel you can really put your passion into, and more often than not you will find a way back around to working on that other project. It's all a balancing act, honestly.
i love how he says "manga" right without the accent.
luly lulyanka o lord
I never appreciated art as much as Joe Mads iconic style. Darksiders art is so sick and colorful.
With how Joe's art is so filled to the brim with in-your-face, high octane energy and high testosterone awesomeness I didn't expect the man to be this laid-back and chill.
my fav artist by far....been enjoying his work since the first deadpool mini all the way to battlechasers and his lil runs on spidey & wolvie! keep it up man!
Mad Dog! Locked me on the XMen Alpha cover
He shouldn't be ashamed of his work on the X-Men. His take on it gave me life! Inspired me as an artist.
I miss the old days of this guy's art
The best, I love many, many artists in many mediums, Joe has always been my favorite, in a league of his own.
5:55 heartbreaking! Joe Madureira's X-Men artwork in the 1990's made me the fan of his work that I am today. i love everything about the physical characteristics of his renderings. it appeals to my penciling style. my artwork today is HEAVILY inspired by his work then. those images by him holds as much nostalgia for me as most tv shows, movies, and songs do for society. most artists critique their past works harshly, but he shouldn't. it was great artwork.
He left comics to pursue video games cuz obviously it pays better. He formed Vigil games and was the first to jump ship when it went bankrupt. Now he's like "oh gee video games didn't work out for me I guess I'll go back to doing comics." Fuck him.
sylvester1046 Then he decided to back on his original creations and he's like "oh hey I'll just release an anthology which is a collected edition with a new hardbound cover and some old sketches and sell it at a really steep price. Genius!" Fuck him twice.
Seeing him drawing motivated me as fuck
As far as his style not lending itself to certain genres he can get past it by doing semi loose pencils and letting a good inker put their touch to it to help it blend better.
...still read his uncanny x-men stuff. favorite artist.
God I love that sketchy rough style...it never fails to blow my mind.
People who saying that his artwork is shit then you haven't seen his artwork on comic books he is one amazing artist if not one of the best you will know if you seen some of his artwork in comics
Fernando Ramirez dude is a fucking legend with the pencil period!
Darksiders character aren't shit lol whoever said that is probably shit
i've noticed that most artists are very well spoken and intelligent. Joe is a perfect example
i love how he makes noises when he draws, i used to do that when i took drawing a lot more seriously in the early 90s. i always wanted to master his style but that was impossible
i love him, he's honest and he drew Death so quickly!
awesome interviews, keep up the good work :)
he is an excellent mimic, when he first emerged on the scene (at the age of16, I believe) he was emulating Art Adams in style and eventually evolved into the Manga influenced phenom he has become
I don't know what he's talking about. He's older work is awesome and imo, even better than what he does nowadays. Sure, he has improved and he's more skilled now, but I just prefer the manga influenced style.
I love this artstyle, its one of my favorite parts of the game, it really inspires me :3
he sounds high af
Maybe he is...
I think he had smoked like two blunts lol
it's hard being eloquent while you draw. For me personnally i can follow any conversation or audio podcast or whatever, but commenting as you do isn't easy at all.
did he just drew a perfect circle like it was nothing?
Yeah, he did. You know his background, right?
It comes with practice. I'm not quite there yet, but when I warm up for drawing I fill a page with circles and ellipses.
that was NOT a perfect circle dude
Yea it's not like it's his job and he has spent hundreds of hours drawing.
lol perfect? btw, this guy is amazing
True, when you talk about characters with mask, I agree with that you say, I love you art, keep going Joe Madureira!
Your work kicks ass.
Darth Vadar taking off the mask is one of the best moments in movie history.
He looks so humble and current, when he was one of the outstanding few concept draw influencers back in the 90's, globally speaking, when there was no commercial internet btw...
Dude ripped a big bong hit before this interview
joe regan How can u tell?
I can't believe he said he didn't like his xmen work.That's what made everyone a fan to begin with. I hope he'll appreciate the fact we all like it.
omg I just love his style!!!
i love the work he did on Inhumans. the pages he drew were my favourite pages to read!
God bless you, glad you enjoyed the tone.
Joe Mad is damn LEGEND!
He sees it in his mind and he makes POOF and it is on the paper. Amazing
Wicked! I would like to say war reminds me a lot of Jackie from the Darkness with his long hair.
Ha, I have it hanging above my desk!
I'm an artist, and it's REALLY hard to talk and draw, or if someone wants to watch you (even a camera) you tend to be a bit nervous and kind of ramble. It's not easy to divide your mind like that, because the entire time you're drawing you're running this massive inner monologue of "no no, that needs to be here, shoulder goes like this, I don't think this is working oh wait now it is, I like this wrist joint, ooh and this muscle line, ect..." That inner voice never goes away.
Not for me
he sounds so blazed
I can generally relate to his embarrassment at his old work, but I cracked open the X-Cutioner's Song TPB recently (Joe wasn't in the creative teams for that crossover, just using it as a reference) and was reminded of the comic art trend at the time.
Apart from Joe's earliest work, his art was different, distinct, exciting and aged better than even the other artists who entered "the manga style trend". That's why he kept getting work.
Joe Mad has one of the most stylish art styles ever...I wanna know how to draw like that
Umm, practicing lol
at the end, the artwork looks really cool. i want to see how what it looks like if he had time to render and color.
He is a great designer!!
he's strokes are so stronger!!!
Exactly! This guy totally expressed how I try and draw based on moods!
Being as Joe made him, he can say whatever he wants.
He's awesome. I wish one day to become a concept artist this good.
Great drawing of death and what he said about masked characters is so true.
I also read somewhere that for a third Darksiders to be made Darksiders 2 had to sell no less than 4 million copies, and in which case they would focus on more scope than scale for the third, "which had worked wonders for Batman Arkham City". Yet another indicator of batman similar gameplay in terms of, among other things, character swapping.
I like his features, unique style very good designer
Damn i want that drawing. I also want to draw like Joe Mad. I used to draw but never liked how my stuff looked once I put it on paper. I had ideas like what Joe Mad does but i could never get it to look as awesome as his stuff.
Cuz u suck.
I've always been a fan of this guy, Surprised to learn he's gone into games though!!
Joe Mad is my Favorite Artist ever
Will there be more of Joe Mad!? I, personally, hope! :)
This guy is a genius!
nice to see people at work. As I am as well some artist, love work in progress
His comment about Darth Vader had me rolling, hella funny! xD LOLz "Ew...that's what he looks like under there?!"
Joe Mad is my biggest inspiration source since i draw.
This man is absoluty incredible.
I wait this next projet with a big impatience.
PEACE :)
I don't know if you saw the way his office was arranged, but I didn't have much of a choice.
So he finally stopped playing Dreamcast? Cool...
The one of the best :D
He is one of the best artists from Brazil!
So he's Brazilian
I totally agree, haven't you noticed how a lot of artists hold back during their interviews?, like they wont tell you any secrets of the trade, they need to realize that they were once noobs like us lol
I always felt that Battle Chasers is the Lord of the ring of the comic books universe. There is even an Unfinished Tales books series from Tolkien ;) The entertainement "paradigm" is changing. Women characters, creativity and colors are coming back. Money is less first priority right now in the business, indie development.. and just plain crowdfunding that please to the.. crowd. Joe says in the interview that he learns from the new guys but you know I think Battle Chasers is just magic.
One fantastic artist.
What irks me is the fact that im in Cali and ive never been to ONE Comic Con. I wanna meet these kinds of artists
5:50 I knew it,hes high
I LOVE YOU!!! You're amazing Madureira!!! Alongside Whilce Portacio!!!
Sometimes when I see these artists draw and then when I heard him saying he didn't like his X-men work ... I was like shit ,,, These guys are so modest sometimes u feel that u would slap them in the face for making you feel so miserable and shitty comparing to them !
One of the reason I became a fan of the X-men was because of Joe Mads run on the x men comic.
Always wanted to meet this guy!
The thing about artists is that you have to leave them alone so that they can imagine their drawings a lot easier.. But its quite normal that everyone starts with a drawing out of nothing.. So you have to imagine a pose of the body and then interpret it on paper in a easy anatomy position and then fill it up with more sketching and then refine the lines in better detail.. At least that's how I do it..
If a fast learner . I haven't drew since a little kid. I'm 37 ,start to drew now. I'm pretty darn good. Got my skills still. I will get better in due time
What The Pencil! Nice work
His tone changed when he was talking about the woman Horseman...I wonder if he already had doubts about any sequels happening due to THQ's troubles
Sadly Virgil Games is now working for Crytek and Darksiders is on sale. Not sure i can see Darksiders 3....:(
Hes so good, it comes so natural to him lol.
He has a Portuguese sir name, but he is from America.He was born in New York maybe you might be thinking of Roger Cruz who drew just like Joe and used to copy art from Joe panel to panel.
Awesome work. He is my hero!
I still love his Age of Apocalypse & later X-Men comics! (More than even his Ultimates 3)
I'd like to see his special mechanical pencil.
love Joe Mad.
I want dark siders on a mobile platform. Ps vita, vita tv, 3ds, android, ios. I loved the story and I think that I would do well, even look really close to the original. Sad.
this is completely awesome
He is one my favorite artist,I still all battle chaser comic.
I didn't know that you yourself were the one filming and using the camera. Props.
His is basically my dream job.
one of the last great ones to hit the industry...
A Western comic book in Joe Mad's style would be f***ing amazing.
He is a professional artist, so I think he knows what works for him...
When I was in school just about everyone used regular pencils for their sketches. It doesn't matter since it's not the finished piece. I still won't use anything but a no. 2 mechanical pencil for my basic drawings. Not that that means anything, since I'm not a famous artist. But I don't think it's that weird for artists to use writing pencils. Whatever works!
Don't do what everyone is doing when it comes to drawing
I hope to see his work in future Darksiders games.
FANTASTIC!
ok...I think he just revealed that Darksiders 3 we'll be playing Fury. But I think cos fury and Strife aren't that famous compared to War and Death, they might include both i one game we can alternate between, similar to batman arkham city.
Still love that song at the end...
Inform Joe Madureira that they should continue more games from Darksiders 2 (Not One!!!). You can't get any better than Death playing the main role of the game because he just stands out so much. I love his character due to upgrading armour, and choosing a wide variety of weapons. Also secret doors you have to try and open. Also keep the bosses very much like DS 2 because DS 1 are to demonic for me to play. Make the next game he plans to create be called Death!!!
It was a good game
catch him at the Cons, I have an awesome Vampirella sketch of his framed
This was brilliant, Nuff said.
Cool insight.Thanks