10-11-2019, 01:05 PM
Right, in the first version I hadn't realized the woman was in free fall - the background was too rough and I thought she was stumbling on 'something' while attacking and the grapple and rope were focal elements. Now it all makes sense, and I agree that cropping the rope is not a problem. The man's hand is not necessarily too big but the space between the knuckles might be a bit too much, unless you want to go really non-human.
So you like to try every visual art trade but you tend to lose motivation. You need to dig deep and find out why, if you want to persist. In my case, the stories I wanted to tell were the motivation, they pushed me to study everything I could. When I abandoned the projects realizing it was too much of a time investment for no return - non-mainstream-minded comic artists don't make a living - I lost the motivation for drawing.
My impression that you are increasingly merging realism and cartoon may be wrong and just due to the samples that you posted. I find this a good direction but if you aim for more realism I know you can do it, your have such pieces in this thread. And I think that making cartoon can actually be more difficult than making realism. The comic author Zep says that he can somehow rest when he makes realistic comics, as compared to his main cartoon series.
So you like to try every visual art trade but you tend to lose motivation. You need to dig deep and find out why, if you want to persist. In my case, the stories I wanted to tell were the motivation, they pushed me to study everything I could. When I abandoned the projects realizing it was too much of a time investment for no return - non-mainstream-minded comic artists don't make a living - I lost the motivation for drawing.
My impression that you are increasingly merging realism and cartoon may be wrong and just due to the samples that you posted. I find this a good direction but if you aim for more realism I know you can do it, your have such pieces in this thread. And I think that making cartoon can actually be more difficult than making realism. The comic author Zep says that he can somehow rest when he makes realistic comics, as compared to his main cartoon series.