Magistelle: You've got your brilliant coloring going in full effect here, shading is top notch and your expressions are even better. While their interactions are brief, I think the interplay between these characters and the way you both trended towards a similar chain of events proves there's more to Mammon than meets the eye.
Your efforts to humanize Mammon and show he's not a total heartless bastard are well done. While he's clearly a fractured soul, he's not incapable of a softer side and his conclusion with the females of MURPHYSLAW just proves what a facade he's got fenced up. Awesome lead ins toward future greatness.
AtomicFish: You upped your game significantly this round, churning out more and better work than before and even tho it lacks the inner monologued psychology of her character, we're slowly seeing Andy come out of her shell and put those stitches to good use. Your colors are simple but well executed for your last style and the environments are particularly well done.
Atomicfish, I liked your comic a little more, one thing that stood out to me that you could change would be to add something to the speech bubbles to make it easier to tell who's talking, although I guess the only real place I had trouble was on page four. Just adding color to the words or a tint to the bubble would do it!
You two showed me what you got. You're both improving after every match and I'm enjoying it. I love how you both sorta told the same story, which while it happens occasionally, I thought it was more interesting in this fight. Mostly because it showed that Mammon does have feelings. Made him seem more real.
Anyway, good showing you two. You both won, in my opinion.
Difficult to call this one, both entries were really fun to read and took quite a different approach to what I thought might happen between these characters, great stuff guys
Atomic: High-five for back-of-Azelle-head-cameo! XD
slothvert:
I've figured out the thing that bugs me about your art - it's the way you render hair. The hair is the only part of the characters that you've chosen to colour with soft edges, which I think is a little jarring next to the rest of the hard-lined cel-shading. I think if you simplified it, it'd be more effective.
I WAS ACTUALLY COMPLAINING ABOUT FINDING A NEW WAY TO DO THIS WHILE I WAS DRAWING THIS ROUND, HAA. I don't like how I rendered it either, but fortunately, I did find a new method to render hair that clicks more with how everything else is shaded. :>
oh my gosh I love how these ended so similarly. So freakin' cute!hahaha Mammon should not be so adorable and it makes me happy when he is. Great colours and expressions on both of these!
Mammon is cuter than Morrow. It's canon now.
Magistelle: I love the cover page, both in execution and concept. It's super misleading as to what the story actually is, and I'm actually really glad of that fact. I've figured out the thing that bugs me about your art - it's the way you render hair. The hair is the only part of the characters that you've chosen to colour with soft edges, which I think is a little jarring next to the rest of the hard-lined cel-shading. I think if you simplified it, it'd be more effective.
Atomicfish: Another cute entry, and more growth from Andy! I'm thinking your art has improved even within each round of this tourney. What bothers me most about this entry is the speech bubbles. I know you can do some cool things with text. I've seen it. Text spilling out of text bubbles is super distracting, besides looking pretty bad. Make those bubbles a little bigger, and see how it looks when you add borders around em!
both entries were so precious ;A; knit-wear makes everything better!
and thanks for the cameo Atomic! Wizzie really seems to be picking bad jobs lately! hahaha
Man, both of these rounds were adorable forsrs.
Magi, I really like the pacing there in your round and your quality can't be beat. Absolutely top notch! The interaction is smooth and I thought you did real justice for all characters involved. Bravo. I kind of expected to see an reflective panel on the last page somewhere either before or after he told the lie about stealing it ( IE; a panel that didnt really say anything but commented on his feelings about the item) to draw up how the reader should view his comment, but it works well without it too.
Atomicfish, your entry is adorable but in a very different way. I like how you tried some new things and stepped up on the colour. Your style in this comic is totally different than the last one too. Might be the jump from traditional to digital? I thought it was funny that in both comics he ended up with some variety of clothing because it was chilly ( I also saw it in another round? AzellexBhindi?); You guys didn't plan it that way did you? I might try and make some more consitancy with your lineweights throughout the comic and try to vary the angles you're using. At the moment it's very easy to follow but a bit flat. But keep it up, it's coming along nicely!
Wow, Magistelle, your comic is so good! Way better than mine. I really like the cover page and the Otis/Mammon stare-down. Funny that they have similar conclusions.
It's been a busy week, with tests and moving, but it's all uploaded!
The first meeting of the green jacket club is now in session.
Don't forget to play the inconsistency game...especially when Andy's bag disappears and reappears...
Poor, poor Andy; what'd she ever do to get paired up with nothing but scary things. xD Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to this and I'll give it everything I can!
Poor Andy! Space alien, undead clown, and now super-engineered mutant boxer! I think she needs to move to pleasantville or something.
Good luck to both of you, and have fun :3
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