Spirit is a character created by Will Eisner back in the 1940s, he can’t fly like superman (or leaps) and he doesn’t have super-human strength. Spirit is one of those characters that connect to everyday people, and because he is so “normal” it allow the readers to believe that they can do it too. We can’t connect to things we don’t understand or not familiar with, and that’s why Spirit as a character can raise alone with Superman and Batman at the time. Spirit had way deeper story lines and thought than most of the comic at the time, as its hero can’t just fly to the criminal and solve the crime with his laser eyes. The story goes through the process of thinking and mistakes before the hero can reach success, and most of the time it ends with the hero making a joke. The spirit defiantly brings the comic in to another level of narrative storytelling, and many others soon fallow its style. As a reader reading it today I won’t say the Spirit is a comic with deep thought and ideas, but I am sure it is compare to the other comics back in the day.
Eisner believed that we need to show the emotion using every parts of the character in order to connect that emotion to the reader, and not only using the face but the clothes he is wearing as well. However, how do we show emotion using clothes, or a hat? I think what we can use is the expression of the lines and shapes of the objects to farther enhance the character’s emotion, and everything must be seem as a whole not as separated objects. That means what’s important is the shape, lines and colors of the character instead of his facial expression, and what the face is doing is just enhancing the emotion that’s already in the character. A good drawing should be able to show emotion without facial expression or words, as the body language and lines connect to people in a deeper way.
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