Comments on: Legends of Tomorrow Art Swiped from Fantastic Four

By: HimAnI

HimAnI — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:41:20 +0000

I was taught, many years ago in one of my advertising media classes, “If you’re going to swipe something, better make sure it’s something great!”

By: Earth 2 Chris

Earth 2 Chris — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 13:12:06 +0000

Nice catch on the Superman pose Keith. I knew it looked familar.

I agree with Xum, this is common practice. Probably not really smart to swipe from a Marvel property, though. I remember seeing concept art from the first Batman film. There were swipes from Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Alan Davis, Todd McFarlane, Neal Adams…anyone who had drawn Batman in the last 20 years prior, basically. Of course, that was for the same property, so it made more sense…

Chris

By: Keith Samra

Keith Samra — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:04:13 +0000

I agree with Martin Stein Returns, good on you for calling this out Shagg!
I also agree with Xum Yukinori, that sometimes designers and artist have a short turnover with time…

That said, I’d like to add, that the head may be a “swipe” off of Human Torch, but the body is a “swipe” of Superman from the infamous Superman vs Spider-Man cover!

Still a very kool image!

By: Xum Yukinori

Xum Yukinori — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:51:04 +0000

Also, I do not believe the face was “swiped”, but actually “cut and pasted” onto the LoT piece and the touched up with a computer. Again, a fairly common practice in concept art development in order to save time…

By: Xum Yukinori

Xum Yukinori — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:31:23 +0000

In my experience in advertising and promotions, swiping is a common practice in regards to developing concept art, which usually has be be turned around on very short notice and in many cases is used as a visual aid in corporate pitches behind meeting room doors and not intended to be shown to the public at large…

By: Martin Stein Returns

Martin Stein Returns — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:06:40 +0000

Good for you, calling shenanigans on this.