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RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Leo Ki - 05-11-2023
George and ShinOkami - Thank you! ^^
So, not being able to continue my ever-growing comic sagas, I remembered an unbridled totally improvised comedy comic I made at the time, which I had plans to transform into something during prehistoric times and keep it as very short episodes. Here is the first attempt.
Yup, I know the technique and quality is totally inconsistent, please bear with me while I try to settle into something. And the big text is intentional, it's for tiny vertical phone screens from hell. No landscape :(
Also, when AI is too smart for its own good:
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Leo Ki - 05-14-2023
I never knew I would enjoy animating things until I tried. Here are the key frames, or what I believe are the key frames, of a draft sequence. There must be a bunch of things wrong with it and I only perceive some of them.
The frames:
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Leo Ki - 05-18-2023
This one is terribly bad but hilarious, so I'm sharing it:
Another one:
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Bookend - 05-31-2023
Lol, loving your work :D Yay comics and animations!
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - cgmythology - 06-24-2023
Nice work with the animations. They look... alive!
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Leo Ki - 12-18-2023
@Bookend & George - Belatedly, thank you!
So I haven't done any illustration or concept for the last seven months because I've been working on a comic which eats up all the free time I can devote to creation.
The goal of it is to focus on improving panel composition and line art.
Colors are mostly ignored, I had a hard rule of doing only flat colors, although I started breaking it awkwardly in night scenes.
I post it page by page on Comic Fury.
Here's the "make-of" of the first page:
And here is the latest page:
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - JosephCow - 12-19-2023
This is looking really good! How many pages do you have on comic fury so far?
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Leo Ki - 12-20-2023
Thank you Joseph! I have 47 pages up. I gave myself a year max to finish the story, so I keep a fast pace and sacrifice a lot on the way, but it's still good training I think.
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - cgmythology - 12-28-2023
Great job with your latest, very well drawn and inked!
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Jephyr - 01-11-2024
(12-18-2023, 01:21 PM)Leo Ki Wrote: So I haven't done any illustration or concept for the last seven months because I've been working on a comic which eats up all the free time I can devote to creation.
The goal of it is to focus on improving panel composition and line art.
Hi Leo,
Just had time to look over the last page and am happy to see you working so had on you comic pages (and flirting with animation — I try my hand at that too sometimes).
I agree panel composition is sooo important and humbly suggest adding more over-head and low POVs and staggering characters in the panel.
There's a good article here about that https://www.clipstudio.net/how-to-draw/archives/160963
and this image from that article is a good example of what I'm trying to say:
https://www.clipstudio.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0118_014.jpg
Anyway — I'm glad to see all your new work and that you've made some impressive goals for your comic.
Please keep sharing!
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - darktiste - 01-12-2024
Due to some issue related to file size and other issue related to the corruption i am having i can t send you the file directly here so visit my sketchbook https://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3737-page-53.html in the section #1050 of the page you should see the character sheet that include a turn around of the character and it weapon.
This should be a very interesting exercise if you decide to stick to the reference. Otherwise feel free to adapt what you see to what you can draw.
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Lege1 - 01-17-2024
Very cool story boarding and overall sketchbook here, the animations are really cool too. Keep up the great work!
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Leo Ki - 02-12-2026
Thank you guys! I figured I could share a bit of wisdom I learned during those years working on the comic, now inching toward the 200 page mark. By keeping a steady, fast pace, I learned to work faster, but not better, as I don't have time to study. Don't be like me!
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Ortani - 02-13-2026
Nice experimentation in your sketchbook and your comic work is wonderful! I really love your line/panel pieces, It's nicel that you are trying animation too! I hope I can find time for myself as it is super inspiring to see other artists do it! :D
RE: Leo Ki's skbk - Leo Ki - 02-25-2026
Thank you Ortani!
Sadly, my animations date back from three years ago and I haven't had time to do more. It's very time consuming but also very fun :)
I wanted to post a few comic pages from the last three years but I see that the attachments don't take webp images. Exporting one to jpg for now but the file is twice as heavy.
This is an extra page, not part of the story but related to it.
