12-13-2014, 08:25 PM
Ah ok, yea it's good to see the whole sequence before making too many criticisms, although maybe look at what your goals are here; are you trying to improve your comic book writing / layout or your comic book art style? If it's the second one, it might be more beneficial to work on the artwork side in a different way, in single panels / drawings / studies / imaginative single drawings. If you want to improve the first one, I'd say to not spend time on nice lines and colouring and focus more on the whole page and how all the panels, speech bubbles and art work together as one. In Manga they call it writing a 'name' - it's a super rough version of a whole chapter, very loose and gestural done in graphite that has to be approved by an editor before the artist proceeds to doing the artwork properly. Like this, little changes (even big changes) can be made without too much time having been invested, you're also more likely to make those changes than if you've done a nice drawing that doesn't fit - the temptation can be to just leave it as it is even though you feel it's not the best or most appropriate panel.
The expression is quality over quantity, but quality only comes with a high quantity! I'd say to focus on generating as much as you can - rough, loose, think about the whole page, (try marking out the panels and speech bubbles beforehand), get the drawing down without working in too many details - thinking about the big picture really, like with drawing you start with big shapes, comic book page approach is similar - then sit back and see if it all works together, with the pacing and the pages before or after.
Couple more links that show some comic book making approaches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csbgkb1vhp0 - Mark Crilley, very good narration and explanation of what he's doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-wIdaWSqTE - Marvel artist, he's got years of experience so skips a lot of steps but really informative still
Such a great thing you're working towards though, to create your own worlds and stories and share them with others is really amazing and I'm intrigued to learn about the characters, so good job with that : )
The expression is quality over quantity, but quality only comes with a high quantity! I'd say to focus on generating as much as you can - rough, loose, think about the whole page, (try marking out the panels and speech bubbles beforehand), get the drawing down without working in too many details - thinking about the big picture really, like with drawing you start with big shapes, comic book page approach is similar - then sit back and see if it all works together, with the pacing and the pages before or after.
Couple more links that show some comic book making approaches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csbgkb1vhp0 - Mark Crilley, very good narration and explanation of what he's doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-wIdaWSqTE - Marvel artist, he's got years of experience so skips a lot of steps but really informative still
Such a great thing you're working towards though, to create your own worlds and stories and share them with others is really amazing and I'm intrigued to learn about the characters, so good job with that : )