Punky Sketches
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(08-13-2015, 12:39 AM)Cyprinus Wrote: Hey, it's great to see somebody here drawing a comic!
I like what you did with the colours! The slight monochromatic look makes it interesting.
In general everybody has their own style of paneling and it's also a matter of taste, but I'd suggest that you could try and vary the form and size of your panels a bit more. I'm also surprised you don't have a gap between your panels. The flow of the panels influences the reading experience a lot. If you want to read something on the subject of making Comics, I highly recommend Scott McClouds books. He essentially made Comics about Comics: Understanding Comics and Making Comics. Both are really insightful (maybe you know them already). And about the font, of course it's cooler to to have you own handwriting for your work, but do you know Blambot? http://blambot.com/ There you can find a ton of great free fonts for independent creators, from dialogue to effect fonts, as well as fonts for the title. Maybe it's interesting for you (:

As for the bleeding watercolours, I use a lot of watercolour in my work, and the bleeding problem for me mostly occurs when I have used the eraser too much. I use a kneadable eraser for most of my watercolour work because I feel that it doesn't damage the paper structure as much. I do know the graphite problem a bit myself as well though. You could also try watercolour pencils for lines. I have a friend who uses them frequently. Like this you also have the advantage that you could match the colours of the lines to your subject a bit, which sometimes give a whole different look.

Keep up the good work! (:

Thank you, lots of great tips there! I hadn't thought about the eraser damaging the paper, but that would make sense, I redid the leg that bled most a lot, and probably automatically reached for the hard eraser - I'll have to hide it if I'm working on watercolour paper.
I need to get hold of Scott McClouds actual books, I'm pretty sure I've read stuff by him, but not his books, just articles, everyone keeps recommending him, so clearly I need to find the books!
I hadn't really thought about using a freeware font, I have a couple of thousand fonts on disk from my design days, but sort of thought I'd go with my own handwriting to maintain the traditional feel, but I'll go have a look, could save me a lot of work :D

I am really struggling with the panelling and pacing, my favourite graphic novels don't really use panels as such, they use whitespace, and I'd love to emulate that, just haven't gotten my head around how, I guess rather than spending time worrying about how to do the panels I just divided the page, it's something I'll have to work on. The more I read about how comics work, the more I realise I need to know, it's not just the writing, or the art, but so many different design aspects, I'm hooked!

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Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 07-13-2015, 01:53 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 07-14-2015, 08:19 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by badbaddog - 07-14-2015, 10:22 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 07-15-2015, 05:44 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Blunt Pencil - 07-19-2015, 11:54 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by meat - 07-20-2015, 12:22 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Zearthus - 07-20-2015, 12:30 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 07-20-2015, 02:36 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Olooriel - 07-20-2015, 05:29 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Amit Dutta - 07-20-2015, 05:44 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 07-21-2015, 04:31 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 07-22-2015, 02:49 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by smrr - 07-22-2015, 08:33 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 07-23-2015, 04:57 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Ursula Dorada - 07-23-2015, 06:36 AM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Amit Dutta - 07-23-2015, 06:47 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Fedodika - 07-23-2015, 06:53 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Nowio - 07-23-2015, 11:53 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 07-24-2015, 02:15 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Amit Dutta - 07-24-2015, 03:28 PM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by KurtJeremy - 07-24-2015, 03:56 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Amit Dutta - 07-24-2015, 04:10 PM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 08-09-2015, 06:11 PM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Cyprinus - 08-13-2015, 12:39 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 08-13-2015, 05:23 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by art44 - 08-13-2015, 02:07 AM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Cyprinus - 08-13-2015, 06:34 PM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Cyprinus - 08-15-2015, 06:21 PM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Bookend - 08-15-2015, 10:04 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 08-16-2015, 07:19 AM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Bookend - 08-27-2015, 08:26 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Cyprinus - 09-01-2015, 07:00 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 09-01-2015, 09:36 AM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Cyprinus - 09-01-2015, 05:30 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 09-05-2015, 01:20 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Amit Dutta - 09-05-2015, 01:46 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by RottenPocket - 09-06-2015, 11:38 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Bookend - 09-06-2015, 09:49 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by lurch - 09-07-2015, 02:27 AM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 09-07-2015, 04:32 PM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Bookend - 09-08-2015, 06:04 AM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Bookend - 09-12-2015, 09:21 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Olooriel - 09-12-2015, 09:28 PM
RE: Punky Sketches - by lurch - 09-13-2015, 03:36 AM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Bookend - 09-24-2015, 07:34 AM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by meat - 09-24-2015, 08:08 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Amit Dutta - 09-24-2015, 08:21 AM
RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 09-30-2015, 02:52 PM
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RE: Punky Sketches - by Punk-A-Cat - 10-09-2015, 12:30 PM
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