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GHOSTS!

Greg Ruth

Of all the seasonal and year long creatures to be spooked by, for me personally since I was very young and menaced one night by a deranged and nightgown-barefooted granny on our dark neighborhood street, it's always been about the ghosts for me. I'll digest anything on the subject, and have lived 5 years in a certifiably haunted old building in Brooklyn... all of these cornerstones happily in the past. I still adore them as…

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Composition Junction, What’s your Function?

Greg Ruth

September 26, 2025 -   Composition is the quiet workhorse of any piece of work, fine art, cover illustration, key art, etc... it is the contextual energy that guides the eye and steers it across the scope of the image. It does the lion's share of the work on a piece but also often works best when it's buried a little bit behind the hedge making magic in the background. You can express compositional energy with simple graphic layouts as with say splash page style action shots, or use furniture and light, or even the way characters in your image gaze at each other or elsewhere. Composition is the absolute most quiet and potent workhorse on the canvas or page.     Because of my comics background I was forced to grow a limb that always thinks about how…

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