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Where do I go from here? Also, stickers. Now with COMIC
Pink Tentacle
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So it seems I can only really pull off cheesey B grade animu art, which is a shame because visual arts is the only thing I seem to be close to good at in life. Although I've by no means exhausted my potential in the area of impressing thirteen year old fangirls (I'm yet to explore the realm of shotacon, which is exactly why I want to move on to greener artistic pastures), I feel like I've had enough of this sort of art; the problem being that this is really all I know, and I can either go with it or leave it behind.
Where do I go from here? How do I start with new things?
Well, here's a few pickings from my collection of scribblings:
I also make stickers, if anyone is interested in a trade:
Where do I go from here? How do I start with new things?
Well, here's a few pickings from my collection of scribblings:
I also make stickers, if anyone is interested in a trade:
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Sorry about that. I instinctively used html tags instead of bbcode and had to go back and convert everything.
It all be sweet now.
As it stands right now i kinda like what you have going on, and i HATE anime. I do appreciate that you want to change what you are doing with your art. My advice would be to go back to basics and do some life studies. Draw a lot and draw often.
Be sure to stick around, you're cool!
Life advice you simply can't find in any of today's education systems.
I've been lurking here for a long while now, I just only recently decided to register, I'll definitely be hanging around.
Your stickers are fucking amazing, though.
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If you promise to put them to good use, you can have a package full of them in your mailbox in the near future.
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This is what I came up with...
Not more than a stones' throw from my old work, but I feel like I've improved and progressed even in this little piece so far.
What I've never understood is how people get styles, surely you just switch up styles whenever you need to?...anyway, I like the new style, but the whole no pupil thing can't last, the eye is as emotive as as the lips at times, it's pointless having them so large if they show no meaning. Assuming thats part of this style and not just this piece. Styles confuse me.
La la.
In any case though, endless_serpents, you've managed to flatter me. I'd offer a handshake or even a night of mutual spooning but alas, the internet has not progressed this far as of yet.
Also, bored @ 3am=
Fully functional samsung crt. Now in pink, courtesy of yours truly.
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The most gear shifting you can do is exploring different facial styles. The face is really what sets the tone for the rest of the character. If it doesn't have an anime face, its not really identified as an anime styled character.
So if you're looking to develop something different, I'd start with your faces. Eyes, noses, mouths. Look around and see what other people are doing and start doing the same things. Take a nostril from this artist, an eyelid from that artist, a pupil from this guy, lips from that girl, etc etc. Thats how styles are formed, by cannibalizing little bits and pieces of other artists styles.
But regardless, I like what youve got going here. Nice crisp lineart and good exadurations.
Also, I like what you said about drawing a model and started doing some sketches. I already feel like I'm confidently going somewhere.
This is probably the most useful thing I've read in a long while. I know I probably should have worked it out by myself already, but now that you've mentioned it it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the advice, I know where to start now.
However I've been doing a lot of experimenting in corel painter X and I can see myself replacing photoshop in favor of painter in the near future.
For colouring, just about any program in the vein of photoshop will have the same basic elements to allow you to colour pictures like I have mine, all you need is layers.
Attempt #1:
You might want to try putting normal-ish hairstyles on your characters if you're trying to get away from the anime thing. In the side-view panels, the "implied line" of your character's mouth is a little distracting. Implied line as a tool is useful, but in cartooning like you're attempting here, it's a little out of place.
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Did you pick a fight with a lawnmower?
Anyway...on to something constructive!
It's funny, but i agree about the first panel, i think you could get rid of it and you wouldn't lose anything. I'm glad you're not doing the classic anime profile, but i think you're squishing the features towards the bottom of his face a little too much.
That way you have: the setup, the door shutting, the smiling, the nodding off, and then punchline.
Also, avoid self-referential webcomics like the fucking plague. If someone's comic catches my interest, I check their archive and start from the beginning. 99% of the time if there is a *look at me, i make a webcomic* I stop reading immediately.
You could have something more entertaining... "I've got to... finish this paper/essay, fill on these TPS reports, construct this program." something relevant to the guy's background/job which for NO REASON should be webcomic-creator.
Is it a girl with stubble??
and the spring onion looking girl will come to life brilliantly with some big cute pupils.
Also, the drop shadows on the panels are a little distracting. But overall, nice one.
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I've always wanted to run a webcomic, but I don't think I've got quite the style for it. In any case, I made another strip purely for fun:
that hand is super wonky
but I laughed really hard at this.
Will post again when I'm back from work 8D
Not that I didn't like it before, but it is looking better and better!