Title: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 January, 2021, 06:24:59 AM
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 January, 2021, 06:24:59 AM
Word for this vote - HARD
This time round rather than try to express the difficulty of each vote will be as ad nauseum I'll just add a different synonym for difficult at the start of each vote in the Quarter Finals and you can make your own sentence from that.
Two artists with classic clean lines here - but whose work do you prefer?
Ron Smith - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=RSMITH)
OR
Alan Davis - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=ALAND)
Alas we have to pick our favourite and to do so just pop the name of the art droid you'd most like to go through to the Semi Finals, but please add anything else you'd like to say as well.
This one will close and be counted on the morning of Thursday 28th January
What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys and Quarter Finals (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47294.0)
Who made the 32 in both tourneys?
Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47044.msg1042917#msg1042917)
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47044.msg1042893#msg1042893)
Rules for what they are worth (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47294.msg1050982#msg1050982)
Anything else just ask and I'll make something up.
This time round rather than try to express the difficulty of each vote will be as ad nauseum I'll just add a different synonym for difficult at the start of each vote in the Quarter Finals and you can make your own sentence from that.
Two artists with classic clean lines here - but whose work do you prefer?
Ron Smith - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=RSMITH)
OR
Alan Davis - more info (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=droid&page=profiles&choice=ALAND)
Alas we have to pick our favourite and to do so just pop the name of the art droid you'd most like to go through to the Semi Finals, but please add anything else you'd like to say as well.
This one will close and be counted on the morning of Thursday 28th January
What the hell is all this? Find out more about the Art Droid Tourneys and Quarter Finals (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47294.0)
Who made the 32 in both tourneys?
Entrants in the Current Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47044.msg1042917#msg1042917)
Entrants in the Classic Art Droids Tourney (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47044.msg1042893#msg1042893)
Rules for what they are worth (https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=47294.msg1050982#msg1050982)
Anything else just ask and I'll make something up.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: broodblik on 25 January, 2021, 06:48:24 AM
Post by: broodblik on 25 January, 2021, 06:48:24 AM
Ron Smith
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Sean SD on 25 January, 2021, 06:52:14 AM
Post by: Sean SD on 25 January, 2021, 06:52:14 AM
Ron Smith for me
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: broodblik on 25 January, 2021, 06:59:49 AM
Post by: broodblik on 25 January, 2021, 06:59:49 AM
DR vs Dredd:
vs
vs
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: abelardsnazz on 25 January, 2021, 07:13:52 AM
Post by: abelardsnazz on 25 January, 2021, 07:13:52 AM
Ron Smith, for so many classic Dredd, including the Daily Star strips.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: rogue69 on 25 January, 2021, 07:24:39 AM
Post by: rogue69 on 25 January, 2021, 07:24:39 AM
Ron Smith
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: BPP on 25 January, 2021, 08:37:59 AM
Post by: BPP on 25 January, 2021, 08:37:59 AM
2000ads very own Smith Machine.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Magnetica on 25 January, 2021, 08:41:04 AM
Post by: Magnetica on 25 January, 2021, 08:41:04 AM
I did love Alan Davis's art on Harry 20 and especially DR and Quinch, but Ron Smith is an absolute legend and easily gets my vote. His rendition of the craziness of Mega City One is unsurpassed.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: IndigoPrime on 25 January, 2021, 08:58:08 AM
Post by: IndigoPrime on 25 January, 2021, 08:58:08 AM
Smith.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Huey2 on 25 January, 2021, 09:05:05 AM
Post by: Huey2 on 25 January, 2021, 09:05:05 AM
Ron Smith.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Tomwe on 25 January, 2021, 09:14:51 AM
Post by: Tomwe on 25 January, 2021, 09:14:51 AM
Ron Smith
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Link Prime on 25 January, 2021, 10:12:13 AM
Post by: Link Prime on 25 January, 2021, 10:12:13 AM
Ron Smith.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Bolt-01 on 25 January, 2021, 10:30:53 AM
Post by: Bolt-01 on 25 January, 2021, 10:30:53 AM
Alan Davis.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: ming on 25 January, 2021, 10:38:48 AM
Post by: ming on 25 January, 2021, 10:38:48 AM
Ron Smith!
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: AlexF on 25 January, 2021, 01:12:24 PM
Post by: AlexF on 25 January, 2021, 01:12:24 PM
Davis is something special but it's hard to beat the combo of sheer numbers from Smith, + the amount of weirdness he brought to the world of Dredd, with his Uglies and Crime bosses and just generally dynamism.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: The Mind of Wolfie Smith on 25 January, 2021, 03:29:33 PM
Post by: The Mind of Wolfie Smith on 25 January, 2021, 03:29:33 PM
well, there are only two artists left in this who i revere more than ron smith for their work on the prog.
and alan davis is one of them.
and alan davis is one of them.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Rogue Judge on 25 January, 2021, 04:12:40 PM
Post by: Rogue Judge on 25 January, 2021, 04:12:40 PM
Ron Smith, easy one for me. I absolutely love his depiction of MC1!
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: SmallBlueThing(Reborn) on 25 January, 2021, 05:35:01 PM
Post by: SmallBlueThing(Reborn) on 25 January, 2021, 05:35:01 PM
Oh Grud, Ron Smith. That was easier than I feared!
SBT
SBT
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: TordelBack on 25 January, 2021, 07:18:07 PM
Post by: TordelBack on 25 January, 2021, 07:18:07 PM
Ron Smith. We're into dangerous territory with this tourney now, true titans clashing in the mIst, but it'll take an even bigger colossus then Alan Davis to topple Ron Smith. As with a lot of the big boys, there are single pages by Ron that tower over the entire careers of other artists. The Black Plague. A Case for Treatment. Lurgan Pazazz War Wheels.The Graveyard Shift. Cap'n Skank. Citizen Snork.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 January, 2021, 09:44:28 PM
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 25 January, 2021, 09:44:28 PM
With no disrespect towards the greatness of Alan Davis, Ron Smith is the easy choice for me here. Remember that Dredd story about the immigrant kid with pyrokinetic powers and the delinquents who exploited him? Now those were Mega-Citizens at their ugly, spotty finest.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Trooper McFad on 26 January, 2021, 09:54:20 AM
Post by: Trooper McFad on 26 January, 2021, 09:54:20 AM
Smith for me
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Andrew_J on 26 January, 2021, 05:39:13 PM
Post by: Andrew_J on 26 January, 2021, 05:39:13 PM
Ah here, Ron Smith without a doubt.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: sixmo on 26 January, 2021, 08:22:51 PM
Post by: sixmo on 26 January, 2021, 08:22:51 PM
Ron Smith has given us so many iconic mega-citizens. I speculated that he must have drawn by far the most citizens of Mega-City 1 of any artist on Dredd. The remarkable thing is that so many are really unique looking. Mega-City One in my mind's eye is populated by Ewins style-criminals, McMahon style-buildings, Bolland Judges, Ezquerra Dredd, and Ron Smith doing millions of regular (and irregular!) citizens.
However good Smith's citizens are, and however good his Dredd is, I was always thrown by how oddly he drew Dredd's hand holding a Lawgiver. It's a quirk of his art, but it jumps out at me as looking kinda janky.
I am a big fan of Alan Davis's clear lines in DR & Quinch and Harry 20. If we were to do a switcheroo of artists, I don't think that Ron Smith would have been a good fit for either of these stories at all. On the other hand what would an Alan Davis version of Otto Sump, or Dave the Orangutan look like? Pretty good, I think. I don't think Davis could produce the volume of citizens as Smith, but they'd look great.
I'm picking Alan Davis in this one.
However good Smith's citizens are, and however good his Dredd is, I was always thrown by how oddly he drew Dredd's hand holding a Lawgiver. It's a quirk of his art, but it jumps out at me as looking kinda janky.
I am a big fan of Alan Davis's clear lines in DR & Quinch and Harry 20. If we were to do a switcheroo of artists, I don't think that Ron Smith would have been a good fit for either of these stories at all. On the other hand what would an Alan Davis version of Otto Sump, or Dave the Orangutan look like? Pretty good, I think. I don't think Davis could produce the volume of citizens as Smith, but they'd look great.
I'm picking Alan Davis in this one.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Daveycandlish on 26 January, 2021, 08:51:02 PM
Post by: Daveycandlish on 26 January, 2021, 08:51:02 PM
For my money, Davis' best early work wasn't in the prog, so I'm voting Big Ron here.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: DrJomster on 26 January, 2021, 10:51:16 PM
Post by: DrJomster on 26 January, 2021, 10:51:16 PM
What's this? An easy-ish choice? Ron Smith for me on this one.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: maryanddavid on 26 January, 2021, 11:01:01 PM
Post by: maryanddavid on 26 January, 2021, 11:01:01 PM
Ron.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 26 January, 2021, 11:20:24 PM
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 26 January, 2021, 11:20:24 PM
Ron Smith
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 January, 2021, 06:37:22 AM
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 January, 2021, 06:37:22 AM
This one seems to be pretty clear cut, but if you want to get your voice heard vote today and I'll count up in the morning.
Title: Re: Favourite CLASSIC art droid - QUARTERS - Ron Smith or Alan Davis
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 January, 2021, 06:29:54 AM
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 January, 2021, 06:29:54 AM
VOTING CLOSED
Think are getting mixed up a bit in this round. At least in terms of what I expected. This one has been straightforward and as you'd predict... well I'd predict I'm beginning to think I'm rubbish at knowing which artists are most popular! Anyway here there were no surprises and
Ron Smith
Is through to the semi-finals but who will he meet?
Think are getting mixed up a bit in this round. At least in terms of what I expected. This one has been straightforward and as you'd predict... well I'd predict I'm beginning to think I'm rubbish at knowing which artists are most popular! Anyway here there were no surprises and
Ron Smith
Is through to the semi-finals but who will he meet?