Mae Tala artwork

MaeTala

Mae Tala is a webcomic I've been writing with a friend for 2 and half years and as with most comics it hinges on artwork, which I produce alone. I'm in production now but that doesn't mean critique of my work should become stagnant. However when I spend at least 10 hours a day looking at sketches and painting I find I lose any pretence at objective assessment, mostly I think I need to improve my proportions (perpetually to be honest, I've never been good at that) however I'm sure there's other things that I'm missing or could be improved upon.





























Any constructive critique is very welcome, thanks for looking.

Martin.

Agentflit

Hello friend, welcome to the PA AC! I'm out of shape myself, but here's a quick crit that I hope is useful.

I think the main thing these drawings lack is a sense of defining volume with values. I made a paintover to show what I mean (pardon the sloppiness):



Maybe not perfect, but by emphasizing the highlights and shadows, I've made the figure readable even at a small size:



I think your tree dude (#2) and centaur dude are the strongest pieces of the lot, both taking advantage of values/contrast (but could be pushed further) and have interesting poses. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you post more .

MaeTala

Hey Argentflit, I hadn't thought of that as they're 'just' concepts but it does make a great deal of difference, thanks for taking the time to paint one up and show me, I'll get on it, experiment, see if I can make them all more readable using values and contrast. I'll post more up when I get them finished.