2016 Invitational: Round 3

This is so close! I can't take it! Lol. Whatever the outcome is, I am honored to have been part of this battle. Thank you both. :)

i did try a little harder to put in backgrounds

@ Kizauto You know how to make me laugh, where have you been all my life? everyone's talking about backgrounds. I see what they mean. @ TheManWhoPlantedSwag everythings kind of hard to see, is that a gradient? besides that I really love your compositions, and that cute pose for Kizu at the beginning is hilarious and very him. @ Dumorte I can't remember if I read your round 2 entry but this is leaps and bounds ahead of round 1. I'm impressed and amused. all of these are awesome.

@Kizauto That was a real laugh, good job! For now, the only thing I'd focus on are backgrounds. I'm all about cuttin corners to get work out there, but backgrounds would really help unify your panels and really upgrade your whole deal! @TheManWhoPlantedSwag Pretty sick man! Nice goofy poses and flexes! Watch your action scenes though, especially in a wrestling-heavy comic. Don't be afraid to pull out a bit more to show as much of the figure as possible and make it 100% clear whats happening. I feel like ya kept it close and tight so you could avoid backgrounds, which, is an issue for another day. But just keep at it man! @Dumorte Oh man, what a good-weird aesthetic you've got goin on. You definitely use reference to your advantage to sell characters and work around complex things like parkour. Maybe look into using that same level of reference for backgrounds and scenery, since those read like a bit of an afterthought. Otherwise it becomes a bit jarring to believe the characters exist in the same space.

@Kiz I dont have a tablet or any of that stuff either. Just a pencil, paper, some pens and a scanner. Like Pyras said, I used GIMP which is free and pretty easy to learn. The basic stuff anyway. Anything fancy I just google for instructional videos lol. @Pyras Yeah man. I checked my comic so many times... also had a friend look at it and still wasnt caught lol. It's crazy when you can visualize all these cool things but your art skill is like "lol nope." With time and diligence, IT WILL HAPPEN!!! You know, I was very skeptical at first doing that one vertical speech bubble... but then I thought to myself, "you know what, I dont think I ever seen a vertical speech bubble, this should be unique!" Little did I know there was a reason for vertical bubbles not existing LOL.

no tablet, no photoshop, no nothing, just using what i can with the scanner. I'll look into those programs though. Thank you. Now I'm off to cry about steven universe

another round another 3-for-all, good on all of yall to deliver what you could Kizuato: Forgive my ignorance, am I correct in assuming you don't have any digital programs to work on your traditional pages? You don't need money, Dumorte here is using a free program (GIMP), and the artist sootball uses FireAlpaca. Don't get discouraged thinking this is the best you're capable of, you just need to broaden your horizons and learn new tools. Never stop learning! Swag: I have deep respect for people who go the extra mile to make sure they submit their work, so gold star for that. What you could have had here is alot of fun and I bet it would have looked terrific. The bigger weakness for me than the incompletion funny enough is the premise; It just feels a little expected, the 3-way wrestling match, it's not that it wasn't fun, I guess I just wanted to see a fresher twist on it Dumorte: Sucks about your pink mistake! Always double/triple check your pages when you're finished, that's pretty much the only solution. This is one of the stronger abrupt endings I've seen in a while. You have a clear and appealing vision and it's only a matter of time that your art will start catching up to your mind's eye. Keep on drawing, practicing, and improving! I'm not the biggest fan of Tod's pop culture references but I know that's part of the character. On Page 4, I would avoid doing vertical word balloons like that again, they're unpleasing to the eye and no one really ever does that professionally, you only ever see that in sloppily translated manga Keep it up you guys I wanna see all three of you producing more after this round regardless of the outcome!

Darn, it looks like I already hit the skill ceiling. I'll probably get third, it was a fun match anyway

@Swag "I would say that the pink background on the 6th page is a bit out of place. but all in all great job!" I.... CANT.... BELIEVE... I LEFT THAT IN THERE!!!!!! I went through it SO MANY TIMES to make sure it was good to turn in!!! UUGGJGHJGHGHGH. time to cry now T_T

The Man Who Planted Swag

@Kizuato real talk, I had a little panic attack when I saw your cover page. I was like "OH FUCK, did he do the same thing I did!" lol. but for realzy, your comic was fricken hilarious! I have read it like three times already. @Dumorte love your style, the harsh black and whites and selective colors looks really good. I would say that the pink background on the 6th page is a bit out of place. but all in all great job! this was such a fun match-up, and its cool that we all went in a different direction for it

i mean not to offense the other two participants of this three way battle but... colorado YOU ROBBED MAH HEART

@Kizuato holy crap. this is hilarious!!! i love it! lololol. thanks for this treat! @TheManWhoPlantedSwag !!!!!!!!! awwwww this is so great! this kinda made me shed a tear here. not gonna lie. i really really really loved it! thank you so much. I find it quite hilarious that I was the one to take it out of the ring! ME. THE WRESTLER. Lol. Good luck to us all!

The Man Who Planted Swag

ahhhhh finished, I didn't have time to scan the images in, so enjoy some cellphone photos. I really enjoyed doing traditional this time, but I wish I had more time to work on it. CURSE YOU VACATION!

Aaaaaand submitted! Way past my bed time too, haha. I really wish we had more than a week. Lol. Especially with a 3 way!! :X I busted my ass on this with the time limited I had. I hope you all enjoy it! Good luck to all three of us!

woo, submitted the drawings with only 3 hours to spare

a strange game, the only winning move is not to play

I had about four since i was in wisconsin but I have about one page left at this point, I'm more satisfied with this one's quality

@swag it's okay. I don't know about others but I can usually only work on comics on weekends. So overall I too get three days too lol.

The Man Who Planted Swag

Welp Im finally back from vacation, ah geez 3 days left to work on this *cries* I'm going to have to do the comic traditional this time, probably going to be black and white. Well lets see what I can bash out.

Yarrrrr and we're it! Lol

Wait there's three way matches?