Scott McCloud discusses the complexities of how an artist’s usage of lines can drastically affect the viewer’s idea of tone. It is in this way that artists can express language without speaking, and dictates the emotions of a reader. At the core, when comparing artists’ lines to the closest degree, there is ultimately no difference, thus there is heavily importance on their use. Since there is a large allowance of variety, this provides artists with the means to even change the personality of a character simply by the way they’re drawn. Poison Ivy is an iconic character in the Batman series and DC universe, and thus has been portrayed in many styles. In the two images I chose to compare, she is depicted very differently, one conveying a darker
