UPDATE: Green Lantern Movie Concept Art By Alex Ross!

He's probably the only artist who brings back that old fashioned superhero vibe with style, love his work.

I'm not a big fan of his work. I'm not saying it isn't great, but I just don't see the big hype of it.

I've never benn one to jump on the internet bandwagon of bitchin' and moaning, nothing's ever good enough, spoilt brat nonsense.
But I've always hated Alex Ross.
The most overrated man in comics of the last 20 years. I loved Marvels and Kingdom Come was okay, but that was mostly because of Busiek. The novelty of Alex Ross doing old-skool comics designs as realistic paintings wore off SO long ago. He's not even that good at what he does. You could get a computer program to do his job. He probably does.

they used his battery concept.

I love Ross' work, I can understand if someone doesn't like his style but to just say his style "wore off" like it's a trend is just silly.

And to say that you can do that type of painting on Photoshop, sure can, just like any other hand drawn art form can be done on Photoshop. So does that mean all artists suck DuckAcureds? By your standards it does.

By the way, Ross works with water color and air brush with his work.

Agree with Wolverinedecade. Look at that last image! So f***ing brilliant! <--- worshipping at the temple of Ross.

Man I love Alex Ross. He is by far the most talented artist in comics.

You can always count on Ross to bring the classic vibe back to life, i hope he does the concept art for Man of Steel

@DukeAcureds
In fairness, he brings more realism to his art than most artists can achieve.
You can call that soulless if you want but most would say it's the very core of what's unique about his work, the fact he makes it look more life-like and genuine.

Pretty sure this is art for No Fear, not the movie

ZeroEthic@ There's really been no call for accurate realism in paintings since the invention of the photographic camera.
Can anyone tell me what it is about his art that you actually like? Because if the only reason you like him is because of his style, you'll probably get over it.

I love Alex Ross! I don't think his style is out dated. It is simply HIS style, and it will always be NEW to someone.

@DukeAcureds

For one if you were to compare him it would not be to Da Vinci but rather Normal Rockwell, . Number two he is both skilled and talented. He uses a water color like system called gouache. Very hard medium to master like kevberg stated and also hard to control. If you notice his shots are always tight and clean.

You don't have to like him, but to call him not talented is just plain ignorant and displays a lack of understanding, not even a rudimentary one, when it comes to more traditional forms of art.

And yes, I am an Alex Ross fan, love his style, met him a couple of times and he is a really nice guy.

ALEX IS A GOD AMOUNG THE COMIC BOOK WORLD!!! ALL HAIL ROSS!!!

DukeAcureds, oooh OK that makes more sense then. I can see what you mean. I like him as a cover artist but not a story teller because he's limited by his models' poses. You can't compare him to da Vinci though, two entirely different types of artists. Da Vinci helped move along the freakin' Renaissance, Alex Ross paints pictures for comic books, not really apples to apples if you know what I mean.

Photo realism always has a place, it adds something that cameras don't. Personality, the artist hardly ever draws exactly what they see but add and take out what they feel for their desired effect. You mean to tell me Chuck Close has no purpose with his art? Only Surrealism, Cubism, Impressionism, Expressionism ect. have a place in the art world? That makes no sense at all.

Like I said not like his realism I totally get, but I'd have some respect for his skills.

And I disagree about art cannot be done on a computer. It very much can, look up pretty much any concept art for a movie (besides this obviously) I betcha it's done on a computer with a tablet and stylus.

If you don't like photorealism, that's cool, to say it has no purpose is again, silly. That's like saying claymation has no purpose because of 3D animation or live action film. Or that 2D animation has no purpose because we have CGI animation.

@Bladerogers "tight and clean" true.
I'm still not hearing any true criticism of his art. Only of his craft. Two very different things. He is good at his craft. Maybe the best, in his field.
Neal Adams was photo-realistic, but evocative.
Kelley Jones is the complete opposite of photo-realistic. His drawings are hideously wrong. But they are incredibly soulful.

Ross is most definitely a G.