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August 20, 2011
“Being literary by inclination and experience, fictional comparisons are often the first and most natural explanations that come to mind for any situation or indeed, person – so if you may permit me this indulgence – there’s no character I’d compare M. Seth Jones to so much as Sir Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.
Take for instance Holmes’ genius: those flashes of perceptive conclusion that leave others (usually Watson) startled, scrambling to make head or tail of their logic, seemingly pulled from the ethers with intellectual insouciance. It’s a quality they share between them: where Holmes deduces crime and character, Jones perceives those minutiae of technical and indeed visual logic that others may skim or miss altogether, to coax the most perfect aesthetic conclusion out of imagery. And while we Watsons may try to follow, dotting the dots, the seemingly effortless result is a product of many years training, of a marriage of technical excellence and a refined eye for colour and detail cultivated through years of fine art and commercial printing, to artistic wisdom forged through study and practice of media as diverse as illustration, animation, digital painting and photography.