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DickButt Shitlord
Oct 14, 2012

Boba Pearl posted:

Hey I've been scouring the forums, and the next at large for advice on my comic, and help in general. I'm a new artist, I started drawing about 18 months ago, but I didn't start taking it seriously until december, when I started spending an hour or two doing studies every day. I've fallen off that wagon a bit, because I learned that taking a break when doing intense practice is actually really helpful. My webcomic is in my avatar, but I have the latest page here, and was wondering if I could get some critique or feedback? I'm pretty thick skinned, and can handle it. Though in my experience people who say that generally can't I really can, and every piece of advice I got from a new artist has helped me grow so much. I'm crossposting this to the comic art thread as well, so yeah! Let me know what you think!

Specific criticism I'm looking for (besides general things that you think I might be missing entirely!) Ways I can tighten up the style I'm going for, whether the textured canvas works well or not, thoughts on the textured multi-colored lines. Brushes that might do the same thing or better! The one on the left is the size I upload at, and the size on the right is my original working size.


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So I liked what you had going on in the dialogue. The art, it shows promise but you just started and it takes years to develop your identity as an artist and you need that in order for the art to stand on its own. The background, where are they exactly? Does it tie in to the story they are walking in a hollow void? You have characters, give them something to stand on

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DickButt Shitlord
Oct 14, 2012

Boba Pearl posted:

That was something I really struggled with for awhile, and I think I've been doing better grounding my characters, from the last two weeks here's some more recent stuff I've been trying. I've grounded them more, but definitely do a mix of featureless voided and grounded. I tell myself "Oh it's just a wall" but honestly, I need to do more to ground them. Here's some stuff from the past two weeks.



If you click the blue link in my avatar, you can see all of them if you want to see more, people I think tend to be really polite, so they don't want to point out a lot of the glaring flaws, but I'm always happy to here more on how I can improve.

Good work, just keep going and don't let anyone get you down.


Remember that the environment is a character just as much as your characters are. They are equal, two sides of a coin etc. They can reinforce the traits of the other.

Like complimentary colors I suppose

Oh and interesting characters tend to be a total product of their environment, or a subversive driving force that changes the environment around them

DickButt Shitlord fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Aug 27, 2021

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