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Egad, this took forever and a day to complete and for the life of me I couldn't tell you why. I had it all nicely planned out, whip this out in a week, do three or four character pictures, maybe another comic and then finish that one book cover I've been slaving at for a decade. 'Sigh'. Expectations should be sentenced to a painful death without a trial.
So the story here is that Slade dragged Tasha down into his basement lair, though I'm not entirely sure why. Tasha, of course, dubbed him insane as she usually does and Slade responded as you see above.
Anyway, this comic is what results when I take various random ideas and mash them together into something resembling a story, tortured and loose as it is. On top of those rambling notions, I wanted to practice expressions and some character perspective ( the imperative word being 'practice' because I've still got a mile to go
). On the whole I feel I met with success for my first real attempt in both area's, mixed success true but success nonetheless.
Lastly, let's talk about Tasha. I'm sure many of you will recognize her because I'm incapable of drawing her face consistently and her wardrobe changed rather dramatically. The reason for this change is that I didn't really feel like she was holding her own against Slade and was an almost entirely forgettable character despite being the only consistent guest on this here comic strip. In short, I'm trying out various outfits so that she's more recognizable and more deserving of that recognition. Feel free to offer up any suggestions, bearing in mind that she's relatively poor and a rogue like Slade.
Fare thee well my future friends
So the story here is that Slade dragged Tasha down into his basement lair, though I'm not entirely sure why. Tasha, of course, dubbed him insane as she usually does and Slade responded as you see above.
Anyway, this comic is what results when I take various random ideas and mash them together into something resembling a story, tortured and loose as it is. On top of those rambling notions, I wanted to practice expressions and some character perspective ( the imperative word being 'practice' because I've still got a mile to go
). On the whole I feel I met with success for my first real attempt in both area's, mixed success true but success nonetheless.Lastly, let's talk about Tasha. I'm sure many of you will recognize her because I'm incapable of drawing her face consistently and her wardrobe changed rather dramatically. The reason for this change is that I didn't really feel like she was holding her own against Slade and was an almost entirely forgettable character despite being the only consistent guest on this here comic strip. In short, I'm trying out various outfits so that she's more recognizable and more deserving of that recognition. Feel free to offer up any suggestions, bearing in mind that she's relatively poor and a rogue like Slade.
Fare thee well my future friends
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I quite like this little comic; I can definitely see how this took you very long to get done. Setting expectations based on the amount of work you want to get done in a specific amount of time is a surefire way to be disappointed in my experience.
To the image though, I like the sparse use of colors at times, it makes for a very interesting Sin City-kind of look. You're also very skilled at doing shading to show small details in the fabric that the people are wearing. However, for a larger view of the images, I still get a flat feeling. I think this is mostly because the shading you applied seems to hint at smaller details, but the larger forms of the piece are left pretty much without clear shading to describe their 3D forms. To put it a different way; it feels like you use your shading to indicate small places of occlusion shadows, but I lack the shadows thrown by a specific light source; and the lack of a clear light source flattens your image, which is a shame.
You have a great grasp of gesture and all of your poses are very interesting to look at and clearly show the action or emotion the pose is meant to convey. This really allows for a wonderful visual way to tell stories, which the comic takes great advantage of.
I do feel that some of the panels' impacts are somewhat diminished due to some mistakes in perspective and proportions. For example in the first panel Tasha seems to be a bit smaller than Slade even though looking at the way she's leaning on books in the foreground she should be about the same distance from the viewer as Slade is or perhaps even closer to the viewer; in which case she should be larger. Especially in the 'bad kind'-panel this is quite clear. Although this panel is really nice and has a nice way to compose the whole shot the proportions in this panel are all over the place. The person holding the club seems to be half the size of Slade and the woman holding the baby. Even if the club wielder is quite a bit younger the difference in size shouldn't be this drastic. The same goes for the girl lying on the floor in front of them; since she's in front she should be closer to the viewer and therefore appear slightly larger than she actually is through perspective.
Apart from that though, this makes for a nice little comic. I personally think the final panel could've been worded a bit shorter, making for a more striking punchline, though it works as it is, since the final 'Yeah, you're not insane at all.' is phrased very well.
I quite like this little comic; I can definitely see how this took you very long to get done. Setting expectations based on the amount of work you want to get done in a specific amount of time is a surefire way to be disappointed in my experience.
To the image though, I like the sparse use of colors at times, it makes for a very interesting Sin City-kind of look. You're also very skilled at doing shading to show small details in the fabric that the people are wearing. However, for a larger view of the images, I still get a flat feeling. I think this is mostly because the shading you applied seems to hint at smaller details, but the larger forms of the piece are left pretty much without clear shading to describe their 3D forms. To put it a different way; it feels like you use your shading to indicate small places of occlusion shadows, but I lack the shadows thrown by a specific light source; and the lack of a clear light source flattens your image, which is a shame.
You have a great grasp of gesture and all of your poses are very interesting to look at and clearly show the action or emotion the pose is meant to convey. This really allows for a wonderful visual way to tell stories, which the comic takes great advantage of.
I do feel that some of the panels' impacts are somewhat diminished due to some mistakes in perspective and proportions. For example in the first panel Tasha seems to be a bit smaller than Slade even though looking at the way she's leaning on books in the foreground she should be about the same distance from the viewer as Slade is or perhaps even closer to the viewer; in which case she should be larger. Especially in the 'bad kind'-panel this is quite clear. Although this panel is really nice and has a nice way to compose the whole shot the proportions in this panel are all over the place. The person holding the club seems to be half the size of Slade and the woman holding the baby. Even if the club wielder is quite a bit younger the difference in size shouldn't be this drastic. The same goes for the girl lying on the floor in front of them; since she's in front she should be closer to the viewer and therefore appear slightly larger than she actually is through perspective.
Apart from that though, this makes for a nice little comic. I personally think the final panel could've been worded a bit shorter, making for a more striking punchline, though it works as it is, since the final 'Yeah, you're not insane at all.' is phrased very well.