FRANK FRAZETTA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ธ.ค. 2024
- man this video went way longer than I expected...but that is how great Frank is!
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Brah! Your passion & love of Mr. Frazetta is infectious and I LOVE your sound effects.lolz.
Ive got a print of "The Silver Warrior" framed in a white frame placed at the top of the staircase to get all guests' reaction.
Can't get enough Frazetta!
Luv this video, went to the Frazetta museum a few years before he passed away ,his paintings are beautiful in person
so lucky and you saw the FULL museum too I bet...it used to be absolutely INCREDIBLE. Did you snap pics?? let me know!
I didn’t actually have a cellphone at that time so no pics, but my girlfriend at the time took a bunch and I only have pics from outside the museum. I did meet Ellie Frazetta and she was very nice . I being dumb actually set off the alarm cause I got to close to one of the paintings ha
@@deaddude7835 haha nice!! Lolol
You mentioned that you didn’t understand why an 11 minute flip-through would get so many views when you put in so much more effort in your videos. Simple explanation could be that his viewers are looking to explore and learn more about Frazetta’s body of work and which books to purchase. That’s what I did prior to selecting my next book. A quick flip through set to music if fine for that, but, to get useful insights and a deeper dive into Franks art…your video is much more valuable. Sometimes we just don’t have an hour to invest but today I did…and it was worth it, thank you.
Frank’s Characters look powerful from toil, not from weights. It’s crazy. No one shows more buy showing less and one had more power and energy. He still gets me pumped up like when I was 12 at Ron’s Coin and book looking at old book covered from the 60’s. He’s where my fascination and obsession with art starts and ends. He also had to learn to pain with his non dominant hand after a stroke and f’ing nailed it and he was drafted by the Giants I think or maybe the Yankees, and turned it down because he didn’t want to travel and be away from his kids and he was the toughest SOB in Brooklyn, back when Brooklyn was one of the toughest towns in the county. He was just profoundly Greta at everything he did.
Oh and he’d paint a masterpiece in one f’ing night. 🤯
Anamazing thing about frazetta was his foreshortening, making certain things 'pop', as well as his uncanny ability of portraying the action while it is happening, vs Boris, who is posed. afrzetta knew about how to bring energy through movement into his pieces.
I copied 3 or 4 of Frazetta’s works & gave them to my now ex-husband. Truthfully they were the best things I’ve ever painted. He’s amazingly easy to copy. And what I learned was how much he loved the human & animal forms. His females are like goddesses.
Goods afternoon Mr. Friend - Your critique and insight into Mr. Frazetta’s process and art has increased my appreciation and respect for his enormous artistic talent, creativity and skill. Thanks you.
Haha, on the constructive criticism side, I think about how his family makes him sound like everybody else does, like this god who gets everything right the first time, but then he's constantly tinkering and applying so much paint that it cracks. Like his behavior proves he disagrees. The one at 2:06 always makes me chuckle, for example, because even knowing that foreshortening is supposed to be involved it looks like you got this horse with stumpy little legs. I wonder if he ever even thought about it.
It's nice knowing that even people who have a reputation for "flawless" work right out of the gate can make weird decisions like this sometimes. And it works out anyway.
His pen and ink is legend and his watercolors are just tasty as hell. I saw an interview with Sara Frazetta on Norman Rockwell TH-cam channel and she’s got more stories and working habits for him under her belt. She said there were some urban legends that weren’t true, like painting his stuff in one night and using photographic reference.
My older brother had all the Conan paperbacks and that got my art obsession going ( mid 70s)
If a book had his cover , you grabbed it off the rack no matter what the story:) same went for the Neal Adams Tarzan paperback covers. Amazing time when legends roamed the earth.
Thanks for posting this! Always great to see an artists' thoughts on a Master such as Frazetta. I can remember being at a B. Dalton or Waldenbooks (yep, I'm old) back in the day and seeing the Art of Frazetta paperbacks ( Boris had a few books as well) and saving lunch money for weeks to buy a copy. I like that you showed the diversity of skill he had; you could literally do a vid on just his caricature/movie work, or his comics, or his black and white illustrations, and the man crushed it at every level! Another thing was his use of composition, he always put your eyes right in the action, especially using the triangle. Again, great vid, keep 'em comin'!
thank you for this video! learned about frank this week and now I'm in love with his work. he is definitely one of my new inspirations
oh man what a great channel, so glad i found it thanks so much for this amazing content. just spent the whole hour with you, frank and your cat
Yeah “cool story bro!” Totally wicked video ... brought back so many childhood memories, snow giants for me too as well as death dealer...my dream piece! I should at least look into getting a print of it
True.. one my inspiration when i was a kid
The Best drawings of feeling*-*
Thanks for the amazing art and review.
Wonderfull Richard Friend!!!! Thanks
Great analysis of Frazetta, Friend 👍
I was at Frank's memorial, I knew someone who was close to the family. It was an all-day affair. They were giving away rare prints but since I hadn't been invited I didn't take one (I wish I had, now!) although I kept the program. It was kind of awkward, I really shouldn't have been there, but his family was very nice. I left after about two hours, a lot of his extended family were arriving and in the evening Rakph Bakshi and a lot of other animators, illustrators and artists were supposedly coming - of course I wanted to meet them, but I kind of felt like I was pushing my luck hanging around and eating their food! But I'm glad I went and paid my respects.
Thanks for rerecording!
no problem. It had to be done. :)
My favorite piece is his work he did for the film The Gauntlet.
Hey man that was a good video; I really enjoyed it. I’m in the studio painting now and it’s making me to stop painting boring.
Man, great and fantastic work. Thanks for the video
I like your comment in his competitive streak. He was an amazingathlete and competitor all his life. He was even offered to play professional baseball at one point in his 20's but he didn't want to be "pidgeon holed" as you put it. Being a ball player back then often meant weeks of travel and he knew he wouldn't be able to do much else. Plus he didn't want to leave his wife behind.
Much appreciation for doing this twice. Frazetta had a way of watering down his inks when he drew comics that made his line really sinuous. There's a look at his work in process in Russ Cochran's reprint of Shock Illustrated; Frank's story was unfinished when the EC picto-fiction line ended, so Cochran assembled the pages in various stages of completion. His pencils were so beautiful back then. If you haven't seen it, here's some examples: www.null-entropy.com/2014/11/frank-frazetta-came-the-dawn-shock-illustrated-4-1956/
thank you. I have seen a few of those...but always awesome to see them again!! Thanks Russ!!
Very Beautiful Art
if the light areas of oil paint are flaking off, its probably the fault of zinc white. A favorite pigment of illustrators in non oil paint mediums in the old days, (and still popular) but prone to delamination in oil paint. Some artists seem to have had more problems with it than others. (weirdly some report no problems at all) Edward Hopper noticed it's faults and decided to stick to lead white afterwards.
Theres a surprising lack of content on creators on youtube, especially 2 years ago. Your channel might be the only one that does this much detail on such a variety of creators. So an 11 minute slideshow of a lot of Franks work would've been one of the top searches when typing in Frazetta and would've been the most accessible for people trying to get a feel for his work.
Generally, if a channel has a ton of views on a video with not a lot of subscribers its not a good thing. People judged the channel to be unworthy to subscribe too after viewing it. Your channel seems to get people to subscribe after viewing it.
So sick. Master vs Master. 26:04 - I think Frazetta was paying homage to DaVinci's Battle of Anghiari.
cool thank you for the insight. I wasn't sure what painting it was...but I have seen the comparisons. you rock Andro!
that's nice info, thanks!
Another great meal of inspiration
Where did you get these high res images of his work?
Yeah he never talks about it....................probably never will
Just something to make you think... what if on The Destroyer piece, the small skull was that of a child instead of an adult? Makes it even creepier.
too true. I said also(in a comment below) it could be like the men fighting are beyond human and a normal human skull is tiny compared to these human beast men! haha
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I'm wondering if I've seen it. Let me check it out right now. thanks!
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The frequent cracks on Frazetta's oil paintings ere probably due to 'excess of freedom' in his working methods and to his impressive working speed -- he would rework a piece without making sure the thickest layers were drying at the correct speed relative to each other. I wonder what kind of white paint would he use: lead, titanium or zinc? Does anybody know?
so many vans in the 70's had Frazetta's works airbrushed on them. I'd by Eerie comics just for his amazing covers!!!!!!!
I love Conan's grim countenance in the Destroyer piece. He looks like he's a laborer getting to work on a difficult project.
Lol
Thanks for posting the video and talking about your personal response to the work. Earlier today I saw some guy going through the same books and he just flipped the pages in silence. As a fellow artist, I want to know what you think and see if you have any interesting anecdotes and useful information that might help me progress in my own work :).
A restorer would only match little bits of missing paint. They really work at not changing the original.
i have 2 Franzetta test prints they are naturally slightly under saturated.
LEGEND !!
Hunz is awesome… the morningstar weapon was not a real weapon and has been shown to be impractical, but looks effin cool
Tengo 2 cuadros de el, ¿quien puedo ayudarme a saber si son originales y su valor?
Queen Kong is a joke to his wife. That’s her
Noticed you changed your channel pic to Blaster Kid. I'm gettin' excited!
I am too. I love the surprise factor. hahaha
Thanks for messaging me back Richard . Are you familiar with the B&W "poem" Cimmeria ???
no worries. I try to field as many questions as possible on these. I have seen pages 4 and 5...but didn't remember pages 1-3. I know I went through one of those pages in a video because I remember making a reference to the Wolf. It might have been in a Conan magazine reprint. I can't remember but those pages are really cool. Looks like later Red Nails work.
In regards to the skull at 27:00, you’re absolutely right that it doesn’t seem far enough back to warrant it’s small size, unless...it’s the skull of a badly behaved child. O_o hmmmm...
my other thought has always been it's a human skull and all the guys fighting are like "beyond human"
It's crazy how the butt cracked, and then he wiped it off... lol...
Yes!!!!
Holy shit. ⚜️
I think the Conan portrait one is a left handed painting after the stroke. Not his best.
The one with the “ swiped figure” was reworked and the original looked better. As did a few others. Egyptian queen face was reworked.
Enjoy all your videos . You need to check out Barry Windsor Smith's ---Weapon X , as well as his covers for Conan Saga , and an amazing old piece called Cimmeria ( I think it might have been in Savage Tales ) I believe you were mostly familiar with his early Conan and his Machine Man stuff . Check it out , you'll like it .
no I have a huge Barry Windsor Smith collection. I've done both of the Opus Books (up on the channel now) , The Studio book a few times, and I think even a few others that were patreon exclusive videos. Bu I can for sure come back to him. He's amazing. I've for sure touched on some of the Conan Saga covers, and then Weapon X I avoided because I felt like it was kind of the most known...it's awesome of course....but I sometimes try and grab things maybe people haven't seen. I have black and white copies of some of the Weapon X work actually. if I find them I can do the video with those! Thanks Henry/
Frank Frazzeta, Italian illustrator....huh?
Could you maybe scrolling the picture back and forth every second? It makes it really har dto look at your video.
Transition from cartoonist ......to God lol 19:32
it's the little things I say that are magic. hahaha :)
Frazetta is an amazing artist but what an awful way to show his work. You keep clicking and scrolling his art work witch makes it unwatchable.
He was not Italian , born in United States, citizen of it , stayed there his whole life
maybe you already have them but make sure your videos have enough tags and good titles for more views. great video all around though!
you moving images around way too much
Thanks for the video. I had a friend named, Skip Olsen who was a big Frazetta fan. Not being exposed to much of Frazetta's work I could only acknowledge that he was pretty good, but after seeing your video I see that he was great and a true master.
I do have question: was all his work violent oriented? Did he ever do a Norman Rockwell style painting? I would like to see one.
And did he ever get in trouble or get static for rendering 90% of his figures naked and or being inaccurate? For instance: I noticed in the World War II paining that the soldier in the foreground is not holding a browning, a springfield or a Thompson, but what looks like a Russian made gun. Also he is carrying a revolver in a western style holster instead of a Colt 45 automatic. From what I know the only American that carried revolvers was General George S. Patton.
WOW! You really are reading way too much into the artwork!
Frank Frazetta was an Illustrator! He was paid to illustrate comics and movie posters and fantasy and science fiction bookcovers! He wasn't one of these so called "fine artists" who agonized over every detail depicted in his paintings!
He went for dynamic composition, emotional impact, imaginative visual interpretation, absolutely exciting illustration!
If you would rather see Rockwell or Wyeth or other such artists then look at those artists!
We Frazetta Fans love looking at the raw power, the PASSION of his subject matter!
Frank Frazetta's works were meant to jump off the newsstands and bookracks by being more visually appealing than the rest of the books and magazines surrounding them! They truly did that very successfully, which is why he is considered the Grand Master of Fantasy Illustration!
Your perspective view is incorrect. In truth, it sounds kind of 'wishy washy!" A really vanilla viewpoint, uninspired & dull.
Tell you what, look for the video, "Painting With Fire!"
It will give you a better idea on how to view the legacy of Frank Frazetta and why he is still so popular more than 10 years after his passing.
It might even inspire you to think differently!
(One can only hope!)
can you say some modern guys that try-to paint in this style ...i really love Franzetta style the anime Fire and Ice hook me on it!long time ago0o
You are awesome, great skill , but to say frazetta is just great is wrong, he was the best. He was wasnt just a fantasy artist,you can clearly see the brush work, just take a look at A.Zorn.
Aum.. Eee.. makes you a poor talker.