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Feedback and critique request for retro sci-fi adventure strip
UncleRobot
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I'm a writer first and artist second. I've been kicking around the concept of this strip for years now. I've actually been drawing it for about 6 months and have about 25 in the can. I'm going for an old Sunday paper style feel, and have been inspired by work like 'Terry and the Pirate' and 'Flash Gordon'. I know that my anatomical drawing needs work. I'm also working on consistency in the figures. Part of that has been me settling on a look for a few of the characters. I'd like to know what people think of how it stands as a strip, writing and art taken into consideration together.
Not sure how much of the work I should post for this conversation. Let me know if I should post more.
I look forward to seeing what you have to say. Thank you for taking the time to look at it.
Not sure how much of the work I should post for this conversation. Let me know if I should post more.
I look forward to seeing what you have to say. Thank you for taking the time to look at it.
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I have a soft spot in my heart for pulp sci-fi.
@Halen. I have considered it. I'm hoping to eventually publish a collection in print form, and will probably vary the breaks when I do.
@Amateurhour. It's a half-tone effect in photo shop. I've seen it used to much better effect in other work where the artist has used more solid lines. In my stuff, so far, I've just layed it over the entire strip. I've seen other artists who apply it here and there within a frame or strip, and it looks really great. Eventually I'll get there with it.
Have a look at these layout posts from Frank Santoro at the Comics Journal. You seem to be harkening back to the days of Caniff and Foster. Cartoonists of that time appeared to have used these methods of laying out their pages, influencing the movement of the eye perfectly. Of course this sort of pre planning/structuring go back further than comics and appear far more recently than the golden age too! Frank covers some of this in his other posts, but I found the structures he makes over these old pages really enlightening!
http://www.tcj.com/layout-workbook-9/
http://www.tcj.com/layout-workbook-11/
http://www.tcj.com/layout-workbook/
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