Nir Levie

17 July

COMIC ARTIST AVAILABLE FOR PAID WORK Available for covers, interiors, posters, and illustration. Published by Heavy Metal and Métal Hurlant. Inkwell Award winner. Portfolio: www.nirlevie.com Email: nir.levie@gmail.com #ArtistForHire #ComicArt #ComicsJobs #PortfolioDay

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Pris Pietà. Blade Runner reimagined through Michelangelo’s Pietà, with Roy Batty cradling Pris. #BladeRunner #Pris #RoyBatty #Pieta #Michelangelo #ComicArt #Illustration #OriginalArt #SciFiArt

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THE ART OF NIR LEVIE is coming to Zoop! My first full-length art book is getting a deluxe oversized hardcover edition! Featuring high-resolution scans of original artwork. zoop.gg/c/theartofni... #NirLevie #ComicArt #ArtBook #Zoop #ComicBooks #OriginalArt #comicartbook #originalartbook

Found some reviews on league of comic geeks for Razor Gray - Thanks for the wonderful comments! leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/838635...

Pris Pietà. Blade Runner reimagined through Michelangelo’s Pietà, with Roy Batty cradling Pris. #BladeRunner #Pris #RoyBatty #Pieta #Michelangelo #ComicArt #Illustration #OriginalArt #SciFiArt

youtube.comNir Levie Razor Gray #1 & Daft Punk Live Art SaleYouTube video by CAF+

Join me tonight! youtube.com/live/-8uoUP1... #comicart #comicartist #comicartfans #daftpunk

Parkour Catwoman Absolute with a sports theme A tribute to Monia Moula, drawn live on Whatnot show and sold at auction #Catwoman #MoniaMoula #DCComics #ComicArt #ComicArtist #Whatnot #LiveDrawing #OriginalArt #Parkour

whatnot.comnirlevie is live · Modern Comics · DC Universe, Comic Art🇨🇦 LIVE Absolute Martian Manhunter Cover Inking + Sketchcards, Prints & Giveaway

whatnot.com/s/I8naLsoU LIVE ON WHATNOT TONIGHT! ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER #1 blank cover live. The finished original artwork will go up for auction! Wednesday, October 14 6:30 PM ET #Whatnot #AbsoluteMartianManhunter #DCComics #OriginalComicArt #SketchCover #ComicBookArt #Inking

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Mot, the Canaanite god of death, decay and famine, from Age of Canaan. In these ancient stories, the gods gave shape to the forces that governed survival, from rain and fertility to drought and hunger. #AgeOfCanaan #CanaaniteMythology #ComicArt #FantasyComics

Climbing montage from Helix Sky. I wanted the page to read as sustained motion rather than a series of separate beats, letting the repeated figures build rhythm and pressure across the climb. #HelixSky #ComicArt #SequentialArt #Comics

You know that feeling when someone sings a note out of tune? That’s what your reader feels when a comic sequence breaks in the wrong place. A brain study found similar responses to broken structure in comics, language and music.

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThe grammar of visual narrative: Neural evidence for constituent structure in sequential image comprehensionConstituent structure has long been established as a central feature of human language. Analogous to how syntax organizes words in sentences, a narrative grammar organizes sequential images into hiera...

Want to confuse the reader without making the comic unreadable? Keep every panel clear. Mess with how the panels connect. A study found that readers process a comic’s meaning and its narrative structure separately. Confuse the sequence, not the image.

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Panel shape isn’t decoration. It’s traffic control. A study found that tall panels, overlaps and big gaps can make readers abandon the normal Z-path. Change the shape, change the route.

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Your gutters are more important than your art. A study used completely empty comic pages and readers still knew where to look next. Align the panels for easy flow. Break the alignment when you want to redirect the eye.

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govNavigating Comics: An Empirical and Theoretical Approach to Strategies of Reading Comic Page LayoutsLike the sequence of words in written language, comic book page layouts direct images into a deliberate reading sequence. Conventional wisdom would expect that comic panels follow the order of text: l...

Want the reader to move fast? Show, don’t tell. Want them to slow down? Tell, don’t show. An eye-tracking study found readers look at the image first, but spend longer on the text.

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govIs Comprehension in Comics More Effective Than in Traditional Texts in Skilled Adult Readers? An Eye Movement‐Based StudyReading comprehension has been mostly studied using traditional texts and very little is known about reading comprehension in comics. We wanted to find out whether comics could enhance comprehension p...

Comics aren’t movies. Your reader has a rewind button: their eyes. A study found readers often jump back to earlier panels. Use it. Plant something early that only clicks a few panels later.

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tandfonline.comHow readers navigate comic book pages: evidence from eye movementsWhile a z-path is intrinsically part of how typically formatted text is read, it is less clear that this same approach is used when reading comics. Previous evidence for the z-path is limited to se...

Want to get weird with your layouts? Your word balloons are the GPS. An eye-tracking study found that when panel layouts get confusing, readers use text placement to figure out where to look next.

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onlinelibrary.wiley.comNavigating the narrative: An eye‐tracking study of readers' strategies when Reading comic page layoutsIn multimedia stimuli (e.g., comics), the reader must follow a narrative in which text and image both contribute information, and artists may use more irregular layouts which must still be followed c...

Your comic-shop reader can probably handle more chaos than your bookstore reader. Eye-tracking found experienced comic readers make bigger jumps around the page. Bookstore GN? Keep the flow obvious. Single issue? You can get weirder.

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Don’t make the balloons do all the work. An eye-tracking study found that when the same wordless comic panels were put in a confusing order, readers slowed down and backtracked more. Test: remove the lettering. Can you still follow the story?

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onlinelibrary.wiley.comReading Without Words: Eye Movements in the Comprehension of Comic StripsThe study of attention in pictures is mostly limited to individual images. When we ‘read’ a visual narrative (e.g., a comic strip), the pictures have a coherent sequence, but it is not known how this...

More detail and better art don’t keep readers’ eyes on a comic panel longer. More text in the balloons does. A study of 99,000+ panel views found exactly that.

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18 Sept

Feathering is a six-page story originally published in Bliz Magazine #3. It came from a dream as a complete experience with its own visual language and emotional logic. Drawing it meant translating the atmosphere, symbolism and rhythm. Color first, original ink second.

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23 July

I’m looking to connect with a comic retailer interested in working together on exclusive variant covers. Would love to find the right shop and make some cool things together. Know someone I should talk to? Send them my way. #Comics #VariantCovers #ComicRetailer #ComicArt #ComicBooks

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4 Sept

Behind the scenes at drawing the last page of my story for the Metal Hurlant: Daft Punk Special. From rough layouts to final inks, here's the complete process behind the page. Hope you enjoy the peek into my workflow. #DaftPunk #MetalHurlant #ComicArt #Process #Inking #MakingComics #Illustration

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11 Sept

This Frankenstein double-page spread was created in ink on two A3 sheets. I focused on the modern “monster”: AI. The lab hides references to Metropolis, Turing’s Universal Machine, Babbage’s Analytical Engine, the Jacquard loom, ENIAC, the Antikythera mechanism and more. How many can you spot?

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10 Feb

Nobody talks about failures. I tracked every comic pitch I sent. 98.2% failure. Every book I’ve made came from that tiny green slice. Persistence isn’t strength. It’s a flaw that sometimes pays off. #comics #comicbooks #creativity #persistence #rejection #artlife #comicspitch #comicart #art

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28 Aug

Absolute Martian Manhunter - inspired by Redon's The Cyclops. I wanted to capture the dreamlike, mysterious quality of Redon's painting and reinterpret it through the lens of DC's enigmatic hero. #AbsoluteMartianManhunter #MartianManhunter #DCComics #ComicArt #Commission #OdilonRedon #Symbolism

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The whatnot show is tonight!

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I’m inking this Absolute Catwoman cover live on Whatnot Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 6:30 PM ET. The original cover will be auctioned, with sketchcards, prints and a giveaway too. Join me: www.whatnot.com/live/86c781d...

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21 Aug

Doctor Doom - inspired by Zurbarán's Saint Francis of Assisi. Reinterpreting Doom through the solemn atmosphere and dramatic lighting of this classic painting made for a fun blend of superhero and art history. #DoctorDoom #Marvel #ComicArt #Commission #ClassicalArt #Zurbaran #Illustration

14 Aug

Human Torch - inspired by Heinrich Füger's painting, Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind. I loved reimagining Johnny Storm through the lens of classical mythology. #HumanTorch #FantasticFour #Marvel #Prometheus #ClassicalArt #ComicArt #Commission #Illustration

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14 Aug

“A Sci-Fi Spectacle From Visionary Creator Nir Levie” – Read an Exclusive Preview of RAZOR GRAY #1, Available September 23rd From Panick Entertainment dailydead.com?p=315878 @timetopanick.bsky.social @nirlevie.bsky.social