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So I'm doing a school project on the history of comics, and I decided to do a comic with that, exploring the various trends of graphic storytelling through the years.
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P.S. Kilgore Jones is not abandoned, I'm just waiting until I have more time to worm on it. Also the thread got pruned. Sadness.
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P.S. Kilgore Jones is not abandoned, I'm just waiting until I have more time to worm on it. Also the thread got pruned. Sadness.
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Also, I like hand lettering, but sometimes you squish letters and the bubbles aren't confidently drawn.
Anyway. ink.
But did anyone comment on the Silver Surfer?
Noooooooooooo
well, six people did. One or two twice. There were six replies total, maybe four or five people replied. Dunno.
Anyway, I do ink.
Thread is now an art dump for me.
OCTOPUS TIME!
Earlier:
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In fact, I believe we had this conversation like... this morning, somewhere between the gigglefest and the crab battle.
OLIOLIOLIOOOOO!
Also reiterating that inking would be good. And I see that giant squid and I saw your silver surfer, but to be honest, those aren't doing it for me. Most of this is probably just because you haven't done a lot fo inking, not used to the materials or whatever, but it feels more like traced lines than honest-to-God down and dirty inking.
I mean, a lot of the appeal of your pencils comes from the energy you work into them, getting the feeling of motion. But in the inked pieces, you've got a lot of thin, wispy lines that define a contour, sure, but not in a way that embellishes the line with any dynamic punch. Throw in some bold lines! Sharp lines! Vary them like a motherfucker! I want to see some inking appropriate for the depiction of punching dudes in the mouth, into space, not this... thin-line bullshit. Spend the time to make the inks worthy of your pencils.
Exampled, although I have to admit I'm not exactly the best inker in the world and it probably wouldn't have hurt to push the lines variance even further, yadda yadda yadda.
Not saying that this is the best style or anything, but I'm just trying to get across that what you're communicating with the pencils should be emphasized even further with the inks- you can't assume that tracing good pencils will result in equally good inking. Every step of the process should be adding some new take on the work that didn't exist before, and not be simply a repetition.
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I missed this? Aw man.
Also, first post is updated with another page. Points to whoever can identify the strip I'm referencing.