Monday, February 27, 2017

iPad artist turns his side hustle into official NBA art

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Strong, thick digital ink lines give Robert Generette III’s sports figures shape, while comic book-bright colors bring them to life. They’re not just sketches on an Instagram feed, but bodies in motion, pitching, shooting baskets, running, punching, yelling. Often at full-tilt. 

This is sports as it should be depicted and as masters like the late LeRoy Neiman have done before him. But where Neiman’s sports illustrations were bright, splashy and chaotic. Generrett’s are concise. The energy that Neiman tended to splash out is contained inside of Generette’s works, so that they vibrate with a barely-contained energy. Read more…

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