domination, love, power

powertothemasses

I am starting a new webcomic at khesa.com thank you for your feed back.













I draw the characters from people i meet on social networks :



Thanks for your feedback and any suggestion of improvement.

NakedZergling

Are you going for humor? I think the audience of S&M, bondage crowd, may be limited. Its not really general humor....seems more like a bumper sticker or ad for an on-line dom site. like collarme .com

i don't know if this is what you're intending, but i feel like it is lacking in both writing and art.

Let me know what direction you're trying to take this please.

Indica1

You should try it without the jokes.

Also the faces are scary.

Michael Vox

I'm not really sure where you're going with this. If you're going for a "theater of the absurd" kind of angle I can kind of see it. Are the characters going to be ongoing or is it more of a "hit an idea for a few comics then on to the next thing"?

FANTOMAS

You shouldnt copy paste so often, the image of the two guys on leashes, you have used it 3 times in what I can see displayed here. Repeating like that, unless its used as a resource, it tends to give the idea that the artist is being lazy, or that he doesnt care too much for his product. On a diferent note, I like how the big image of Gracie looks, but (and this personal opinion here) I dont think it works for the other sizes, like the ones in the comic strips. The vector thing I can see how you can make it work perfectly for backgrounds and such, but it may detract from the characters expression or details, like the male characters mouths, and the one with the closed eyes, the blonde female fingernails, I havent worked with vectors, so I have no idea if it could be somehow fused with other method or export it and retouch it with another program.

powertothemasses

The idea was not really to be joke oriented. If it give this feeling i guess it i have done something i did not mean. The idea was to detail the opposition between two different characters: Khesa (open to others, wants to help) and Kyliegh (more in opposition with her environment). So the S&M part is only for Kyliegh. This difference of characters shows betters in strips which i have not released yet, so i think i did not made clear in the beginning, thank you for the advice.

NakedZergling wrote: »

i feel like it is lacking in both writing and art.

I am sorry if you feel like it is lacking in both writing and art.

powertothemasses

Indica1 wrote: »

You should try it without the jokes.

You are right, i guess i did not managed to make clear the path i wanted to follow.

powertothemasses

Michael Vox wrote: »

Are the characters going to be ongoing or is it more of a "hit an idea for a few comics then on to the next thing"?

The idea was to have characters who last for a long period of time. The main thing was supposed to be the tsshe opposition of the two characters Khesa an Kyliegh who have the same goal, try to find a meaning to their life, but have different strategies, Khesa wants to help, Kyliegh wants to fight. I guess i should have done something clearer. Thanks for the advice !

powertothemasses

FANTOMAS wrote: »

You shouldnt copy paste so often

Thank you for the copy/paste remark.

FANTOMAS wrote: »

On a diferent note, I like how the big image of Gracie looks, but (and this personal opinion here) I dont think it works for the other sizes, like the ones in the comic strips. The vector thing I can see how you can make it work perfectly for backgrounds and such, but it may detract from the characters expression or details, like the male characters mouths, and the one with the closed eyes, the blonde female fingernails, I havent worked with vectors, so I have no idea if it could be somehow fused with other method or export it and retouch it with another program.

You are right, when changing size, the feeling is not the same. I tried to play with line thickness but it did not worked as expected. Maybe, as you noticed vector graphics are not well suited for characters.

powertothemasses

Thank you very much for all of the contributors who spent time replying to my original post.