It’s been a long time coming, but Volume 3 of Expressive Comics is finally here.

Drawing on suggestions from fellow deviants and through my own continuous searching, Expressive Comics features deviant’s work that I believe represents an incredible amount of originality and diversity within the world of Comics.
In the vein of Comic book artists such as Dave McKean, Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith and Raymond Briggs to name but a few, these Deviants demonstrate in their work a new and inspiring innovative style within Comics - These special gems that break the boundaries of what is often seen as the ‘typical comics style.'

Expressive Comics works with the aim of encouraging others to try something new, by inspiring them in their own work with the incredible range of both traditional and digital skills featured here.
These artists are largely unknown, with some Deviations having no comments or favourites whatsoever, which brings me to the articles other purpose - bringing to light these fantastic unknown artists to the community!



1. ~SpyrosVerykios-ComiX
Superb traditional painting skills, rendering original and otherworldly characters with a realistic believability.





2. ~BkawaiN is one of my favourite artists on DeviantArt. With such an original style of drawing characters, ~BkawaiN mixes traditional acrylic painting to create organic textures and digital effects, bestowing his pieces with a surreal and other-worldly style, just as his  mystical characters exist in their seemingly decaying modern world. Hair tendrils and intricate patterns and details are picked out against the overall image that shows a keen sense of design and knowledge of negative space.








3. ~enemydownbelow
Introspective words accompany striking high contrast images rendered in brush and ink. The characters are full of both emotion and energy.






4. ~kitton was suggested to me by ~KaneMotri
~kitton’s highly original Mac comic is feminine and personal, and uses a diary extract and scrap book style to intimately recall the thoughts and feelings of the protagonist. It is as if we’re being given the delight and honour to search through Mac’s secret book. Girl's magazines are used for collage, mixed with hand drawn details and text.

You can read all of Mac here:
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5. ~EmegE
A fantastically talented painter, ~EmegE creates beautifully toned and coloured panels with bleeding, seeping ink and pencil crayons.







6. ~socke-scheusal presents a beautifully rendered, touching story of Lamont Gotthart, a homeless busker with a secret power.
The panelling and pacing is excellent, and the minimal colour scheme works wonderfully to bring Lamont out from the surface as if he is the only one truly attuned to a world that can often seem bleak and empty.



~socke-scheusal’s character designs are also very impressive and original, and show a great collection of influences and a keen sense for design and detail.





7. ~ushirou
~ushirou makes use of digital and traditional mediums within his work. His traditional work has a definite impressionist quality, which he uses to his advantage to represent an out of kilter world full of shadows and nightmare.








Please send me your suggestions for inspiring Comics work!
I often stumble across some fantastic work through you guy's favourites, so I know you've got some good stuff hidden away there

If you enjoy this article, don’t forget to give it a to get these artists the exposure that they deserve

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This is a Comics feature celebrating the work of artists whose work I believe represent a beautiful and original diversity within Comics, and whose work can inspire others to try something new.

In the vein of comic book artists such as Dave McKean, Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith and Raymond Briggs to name but a few, these Deviants demonstrate in their work a new and exciting style within the world of Comics.
Not sticking to clean-cut lines and clear colouring that is often seen as the typical ‘comics style’, they make use of a huge range of both digital and traditional techniques, creating highly original and rich comic book pages. Their painting and drawing often has a definite impressionist and expressionist quality, and they make use of working over textures, combining collage, using mixed media, ink, charcoal, pastels…
It is rare to find artists who utilize such techniques within Comic and Cartoons here on DeviantArt. This is a subject very close to my heart, and I love to see this diversity within this art form. I hope that their work can inspire others.


This month I've tried to focus mainly on collage, but as always have sought to collect together a range comic formats that can inspire both the digitally minded and traditionally minded deviants.



Now to celebrate these largely unknown artists:


1. Beautiful, tonally aware black and white paint and ink comic pages. With the softness and yet fearsome passion that Frank Auerbach puts into his work, !iandseniff creates the most beautiful, stirring portraits, that just won't let you go...


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2. ~soheildanesh makes use of etching, digital work, and beautiful bleeding and painterly traditional techniques. His work has such a dangerous and fearsome atmosphere about it, and his lines create such a sense of movement and energy within his pieces. He really is one to keep an eye out for, just incredible work.







3. !raighne's work is one of the most creative digital comic pages, and indeed digital work that I have ever seen. Making use of layers upon layers and removing and re-cutting out sections, !raighne produces some of the most exciting and visually interesting and stimulating pages that you'll see around. So very rich in their texture and colour, and in the way that he utilises his techniques, these are really something worth paying some concerted attention to And he does traditional too!


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4. These wonderfully aged, textured and collaged pages by !akenoomokoto are really something. The beautifully inked and intricately detailed old document style fits perfectly with the vintage style cars and fantastically eccentric characters that he depicts.






5. ~kiati2000 has a sea of beautiful comics in her gallery. Making use of an impressively time consuming paper cutout collage technique, she tells the narrative beautifully through these cutout frames.
And then a more dark side to her work, an ominous, atmospheric story using harsh black and white contrast, about a girl’s journey into a mystery forest.



Arethusa shows a beautiful use of dry brushing and ink work, and an excellent knowledge of narrative, transition, and layout.





6. A beautifully simple, well laid out collection of pages that make use of a wonderful range of traditional mediums including acrylic, gouache, oil and car paint, and pencil and biro. Rich in texture and style, !robotmonster666 has displayed a wonderful piece of narrative here.


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7. Such a gorgeous page by Deviant ~hallu Appealing characters painted cleary and calmly onto the piece, which uses brown paper as a collage base for the clouds. So heart warming ^^

And a wonderfully bizarre, surreal tea-pot story! Done in an equally gorgeous style.






8. One of the most amusing and original comics strips that I have seen! Bizarre, wonderfully laid out and well presented, these are silhouettes that make you laugh and chuckle with delight! By ~artchetype


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9. A beautiful collage, creating a comic book cover made from old magazines and painterly textures with hand made text.  By !stoantje






10. And to finish off, a Comics Dress by ~i-am-god-la-dee-da, because this is awesome:




I received very positive feedback last time, and I'd still love to hear of any more Deviants and their Deviations that you think would make an excellent and inspiring feature.

If you enjoy this article, don’t forget to give it a to get these people the exposure that they deserve.
See you next month

Expressive Comics:

This is a Comics feature celebrating the work of artists whose work I believe represent a beautiful and original diversity within Comics, and whose work can inspire others to try something new.

In the vein of comic book artists such as Dave McKean, Ashley Wood and Ben Templesmith to name but a few, these Deviants demonstrate in their work a new and exciting style within the world of Comics.
Not sticking to clean-cut lines and clear colouring that is often seen as the typical ‘comics style’, they make use of a huge range of both digital and traditional techniques, creating highly original and rich comic book pages. Their painting and drawing often has a definite impressionist and expressionist quality, and they make use of working over textures, combining collage, using mixed media, ink, charcoal, pastels…
It is rare to find artists who utilize such techniques within Comic and Cartoons here on DeviantArt. This is a subject very close to my heart, and I love to see this diversity within this art form. I hope that their work can inspire others.

I think it’s time to celebrate these largely unknown artists:


1. Almost ghostly comic pages, executed in a near photo realistic but soft and expressive style, by ~sneedd



2. Beautiful sepia ink wash and black ink outlined comic, about a little girl called Celest, her elderly relative aptly named Aunty Grim, and Celest’s five pet monkeys, by !maggiekat
Learn more about her comic ‘Monkeys on the bed’ at her website: [link]

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3. Inky expressive comic pages by ~bersinar

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4. Absolutley beautiful pencil crayon, biro, pastel, watercolour and acrylic works (you name it!), featuring semi-abstracted and distorted figures on pages that are truly a feast for the eyes.
!jacquesvieux

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5. Gunnmgally is pretty well known here in DeviantArt, but I think that it’s important to show her work here, and to note her expressive use of mediums within digital art. Her use of colour is also brilliant, along with her brilliant diversity between each frame. *gunnmgally




Although these two Deviants haven’t been active in months, their work is still incredible and worth noting; and of course remains inspiring. Let’s hope that they come back one day.

6. Wonderfully expressive Graphic Novel stills. This guy literally has 9 page views.  His work of dribbling colour and splashes and spattered ink create close to home and often unnerving images. Just beautiful work, showing an interesting and varied use of traditional techniques. ~idleheist



7. Incredibly dark and poignant work, often relating to important worldly issues and terrifying historical events that we will never forget. A brilliant worker of traditional formats, and combining these with digital and collage, his work comes together to form a dark and twisted, and overall thought provoking atmosphere, by ~johnfsebastian




I hope to make this a regular feature, so please let me know your thoughts and if there’s anything that I can do to improve this article.
Please also send me your suggestions for more Deviants and their Deviations.
If you enjoy it, don’t forget to give it a to get these people the exposure that they deserve.

Thank you!