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Hello, everyone! Haven't been to this forum in a long time, nice to see it's so active.
Actually very thankful for this forum as it gave me good useful feedback when I started out making comics.
Even if it was tough to hear that what I worked on so hard wasn't really that good haha.
Today I'm just here to promote the kickstarter for a little comic book I've made, maybe someone think it looks interesting.
The comics are free to read on globalcomix.com (click) which btw is a great site I recommend for uploading comics.
Any feedback is of course appreciated but I'm afraid of feeling like I did years ago, haha. Clicking opens the kickstarter in a new window
/Robin
Just read the first one and love the color and easy reading. Congrats.
Personally, I think you have nice use of black everywhere to define mass, but not in faces, making them flat and unfinished looking. For future projects, maybe try inking the inside mouth, pupils, thicker eye lines and such?
Would you look at that, I actually got some feedback, thanks!
While I did draw these a few years ago, I still have a tendency to draw eyes and mouths in this unfinished look. I guess I like the way it looks but I don't want it to come across unfinished and I think I can do them better so I'll work on that.
Glad you like the colors, I've never really worked with a limited palette like this but it was really refreshing not having a million colors to choose from. And it made the process faster. Even though the way I did it with different layers for different dot values was pretty tedious, although not in any way as tedious as it would have been doing it for real back when colors were made like that
I'll agree with HT on your faces being flat but I believe the problem lies in a lack of structure. Your features aren't set inside the head they're simply floating on top and often in the wrong location.
Same problem with your rats which I first mistook for wolves as. A rats head is convex not concave, ears are small and round rather than large and pointed, teeth are squared at top not pointed. This is exacerbated by the relatively natural looking bird.
I heartily recommend Preston Blair's ANIMATION as a primer on simplified construction.
On another note, very impressed with the hand lettering. A brave choice that fits the work in a way a computer font would never do
Thanks for the feedback I believe I've improved a little since I made these but I constantly have to remind myself to slow down and make the structure better (and use more references... let's say the rats are mutated :P). Glad you like the lettering. I basically just wrote on top of an existing font which helped it stay relatively consistent.
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