Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Kirby dots
Kirby dots are an artistic convention in superhero and science fiction comic books and similar illustrations: a field of black, roughly circular dots that are used to represent energy of a powerful but unspecified kind. They are typically found in illustrations of explosions, the blasts from ray guns, and outer-space phenomena.
Kirby dots are named after Jack Kirby, the highly influential comic book artist whose superhero art frequently featured them. They were developed from the use of a pattern of round black spots to depict smoke or flying debris from explosions, or as a way to manually generate the random patterns that depict the path of lightning strikes.
External link
- Kirby dots on the Penciljack forum.
Last updated: 05-27-2005 09:18:22
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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