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McGibs

Ey all. Making this thread to post the eventual progress of a comic I'm doing for my narrative class.
Its roughed for 48 pages (will probably go up a few more), and there's about 40-ish days left until I graduate. This means I gotta crank out at least 1 page a day, and a couple every other day and weekends. Hopefully this thread will help me keep on track, and maintain my sanity.

315 is a simplistic action-oriented military fiction, following the adventures of four-man crew of a tank destroyer. 315 uses very little to no dialogue (I have yet to figure out exactly what format to use, but ill run that past you guys when I get there.) It's the spiritual successor to the series of war comics I made last semester.

Current pages




















And for those who missed 'em, here's a few development pics.

The 315 crew.


Unit 315 tank destroyer.


And a bunch of grunts killin each other.

D-Robe

That first page is looking good, cept I can't really read those sounds.

Nastyman

I didn't even notice there were sounds. I thought it was kinda cool without them. I love your style though. That first page looks amazing.

Leggraphics

looks really good. Going to be fairly stressful pumping out a page a day i would think though

Kendeathwalker

I guess a page a day is really kindve the industry standard. Ive watched my roommate deteriorate into a sleep deprived maniac trying to do 26 pages in 19 days. But that was from lay out to final.


Good luck man. It looks good so far, and youve already got the hard shit out of the way.

This will be a very impressive portfolio piece when you get around to showing it.

Tam

I doubt any of us works as hard as you, McGibs. I wish you the best in everything you do.

McGibs

I think its mainly the fact that I work really fast. Because honestly, I'm a HUGE slacker.

Tam

well now you've just made me look a fool

D-Robe

Like thats hard. *scoff*

Tam

Don't you start, mister. Besides, this is McGibs' thread. Let's keep it on the level.

D-Robe

You're right, you're right. McGibs deserves better.

You're awesome McGibs.

PROX

Did you intentionally leave some room for speech bubbles. overall you are communicating things well. I would exaggerate facial features on the males, like noses and ears, so they fit better with their mini bodies. it's how they get metal slug to work.

Grenn

Sincerely awesome work.

I'd love to see some of your process -- is it mostly drawn straight to tablet from scanned pencils, or do you ink anything by hand?

McGibs

I do pretty much everything 100% digitally.

Except for that bottom house-fight scene, that was inked by hand (but drawn digitally)

NibCrom

Looks good as usual sir. I don't have much to say besides that, so I guess my critique is kind of lame.

Any chance we could get a quick rundown of your process? Is this all done in Photoshop with a tablet? Size? Brand?

bombardier

McGibs wrote: »

I do pretty much everything 100% digitally.

But your sketchbooks are always totally awesome.

jpeg

I saw these in the hall at school on display (I go to Sheridan, I'm a fundies student). I liked that you had a whole display case to yourself, haha.

Nappuccino

I think i said this last time you posted some of your comic stuffs, but the size of their head just seem to be in this weird limbo between just right and too large. I think this might be way too late in the process to change it and it would probably be for the best if you continued with the current style until this project is over.

But this is something that just irks me because the characters don't quite feel cartoony and they don't quite feel real either. They're stuck in the middle and I don't think I like that much...

But, if the writing is as good as the set of comics you posted awhile back, I'll be more than forgiving for now.

McGibs

Today's page. with the first, because its burried way up there with other images.

NightDragon

The sound effects in the 3rd panel are still really hard to read, especially the one that's against the sky.

Kendeathwalker

To me those effects read as sounds in the distance. .Things are harder to hear from far away.. Look at the panel. You are looking over the shoulder of a guy a pretty good distance from the hill top. All the firing is coming from the top of the hill.



Doesn't bother me.

McGibs

the contrast is just buggered up. ill probably just axe 'em.

Fletcher

i am not going to critique anything because i love it all

especially the explosion the FOOM is attached to

earthwormadam

!!!

ps3 post

Prospicience

That "foom" rocks my world.

earthwormadam

Ah now that I'm on my computer I can elaborate I bit more.

Your style is just so well suited to comics, I would buy a book of this stuff so damn hard. Now that I think about it, it's kinda strange there aren't tons of Metal Slug type war comics because that would be rad.

The muted colors are perfect for this type of project and the line variation you use really makes the forground elements pop out at my eyeballs.

I don't mind the small sound fx in the first page because they're off in the distance as someone mentioned. They could probably be outlined in a darker color though because the yellow makes it pretty hard to even notice they're words.

fOOm!

Prospicience

Seriously, your lines are incredible; which brings me to the scene with the line break where the tree is being shot... awesome.

McGibs

KAPOW!

earthwormadam

Whoa awesome blood and guts!

So are the dimensions of each of these images different? How come you didn't just do a book style format?

McGibs

Theyre half pages. I do them at 11x7.

If and when I get this printed into a book, there will be two per print, then I can just cut it in half and get 2 books.

Grenn

KOW!

Rankenphile

mcgibs

can you do one about Voytek the Soldier Bear?

You see, he's a soldier

that is also a bear

also, he is true

(more info)

NakedZergling

GIBBS did you ever play "Ring of Red"? for the ps2? Your stuff sometimes reminds me of that game. Even though most didn't care for it, i loved it.

NakedZergling

I feel silly for just noticing now the playing card symbols....love it.

McGibs

missed yesterdays due to retarded school classes. hopefully try to get another one done tonight.

D-Robe

I love the last panel.

Kochikens

That last page is great. I guess he like, shouted his cigarette into oblivion.

McGibs

he swallowed it by accident.


hes actually choking on it in the last panel.

Awk

fucking epic

Tam

"Why didn't you train any of these clowns to do the HEIMLICH MANEUVER!?"

McGibs

guh, these are taking entirely too long.


But how is the lack of dialogue working for you guys? is it clear whats going on?