Short but sweet! I think your spider family has really cute designs, and having them be supportive of her career instead of being critical like most families would be gives you a chance to focus on other parts of her journey as a character. I look forward to seeing what's next! As far as critique, my main suggestion is to look into Blambot for more professional-looking comic fonts. The one you've chosen isn't bad, but it does make the comic look a little cheaper than a font made by a professional comic letterer would. I also highly recommend making your own handwriting font if you think your handwriting is good enough. It adds a nice personal touch! My other suggestion is to play around with color schemes a bit more. Color is something I struggle with personally, so this is just what I'm trying myself, but maybe play with more limited palettes where everything is different shades of one or two hues instead of using all the colors of the rainbow. Go for mood more than thinking about the literal color of each thing you're coloring. Obviously, if you want to go full color, that's totally valid too! But it's been helpful for me to limit my colors and focus on mood, so I thought I'd recommend it to you in case it helps you too. Can't wait to see where Lacy's story goes next!

(I completly forgot to submit my comment on this) This is such a wonderfully wholesome family. It's nice seeing how the kids take different aspect of their parent! Also love the cobwebs in the first page. It truly is a spider home

I respect all the critique. All I can really say is I was trying to just introduce this character who has a really supportive family who was a little offbeat.

It is a sweet comic, but I wonder what it introduces other than that Lacey is a young exotic dancer with a good relationship with her family (will they be recurring characters?). This is the sort of conversation that I think should come after we really get introduced to Lacey, her inner thoughts and feelings, her history, etc. Other than that they're adorable spiders, we really don't have much to go on for what to expect from them. Does Lacey have a reason to doubt them? Is she the first in her family to be an exotic dancer? Is this something she hadn't expected herself to gravitate towards?

Don’t have much to add that hasn’t already been said. The thing that stood out to me the most was definitely the mom’s smile on page 3. It completely shifts the tone of the whole scene to make it seem like maybe the parents are into her being a stripper in like, a creepy, inappropriate capacity. The main reason for this effect is the cropping of mom’s eyes. It’s a very intentional blocking of that shot to omit the eyes of the mom, the windows to her soul. To show only a curled, sinister, fanged grin just screams, “villain”. Looking forward to seeing where you go from here and how your storytelling skills sharpen, keep at it! I also just want to say it’s awesome to see so many in-depth, serious critiques on this comic. I learned a thing or two and thanks Will for the Kuler recommendation! Very cool.

The parents may have been a tad too accepting and supportive of not only the career choice but also the city Lacy has moved to. Great line work and colors on the characters. Nice work InvaderDiz! Keep it up!

this is a HUGE leap in quality control from your battle with me, Diz! just hanging out and asking for help teaches us a lot and working digital just makes that communication so much easier! I will say I liked the earlier draft where the dad looked shocked/dissapointed just before the little brother called her a slut/the dad yelled at him for it, because that was funny. I thought there would be some conflict / resolution in how the parents viewed Lacy's job or with whether or not Lacy thinks she WILL be accepted for this - but it's also sweet to just see this is a unusually supportive sex-positive family, too. good work!

Another character in the stable. Not often we see new faces quick to make a second character! Looking forward to seeing all the comics

I love these character designs so much!!! Their expressions are all so great! Also loving the whole supportive family thing. A few things I noticed: Is it just me, or does the art in the bottom two panels on page 2 seem stretched? I think building up the confession would have made the story play out a bit stronger. The first panels on page one are prime real estate for thought captions. Maybe the first panel has an internal monologue about the fear of telling the family, then each subsequent panelwould have like "i don't want to embarrass dad" "or disappoint mom" "and curtis? Well, he'll probably just call me a slut regardless" or something. Just to give the reader the same sense of dread and anxiety that the main character feels. Setup>Pitch>Punchline. Lastly, it's clear you're a Zim fan. I'd recommend googling "invader zim background art" and check out some of the coloring.They use a lot of gradients, harmonious color pops, and the occasional texture that I think would play well to your style. Maybe even trying more of a warped cartoony perspective to match the personality of your character style could give your scenes a bit more life. Other than that, you have really strong foundations and should definitely be proud of this! Can't wait to see more!

I also totally accept the criticism of the mom being cut off and having a creepy smile not reading the way that I wanted to, but I’d like to at least explain the thought process. It’s not supposed to be a very serious intro, it’s supposed to be kind of funny. I thought making her look sinister, but making her totally not sinister would play as charming and fun. Apparently I was wrong with that, so like I said before, I’m still learning.

Yeah, I was trying to make the family seem offbeat. It’s supposed to be a joke that Lacy is so nervous about telling them, but the parents treat it as just another job. I agree colors need work. I’m still learning.

It’s refreshing to see a character who’s family is (for the most part) totally okay with them working in the sex industry. This also looks a lot better than the first pass, I’m super glad you’re taking people’s advice to heart! The cobwebs are a little touch I liked personally. Lacy’s expressions are also very cute, especially when she reveals her new job and in the last panel. Be careful of your proportions and perspective though, and consistency in general. I notice Curtis suddenly looks huge compared to the dad and seems to be clipping through the sofa on page 2 panel 4, the dad also looks very tiny in some panels and very large in others. The mother’s wine glass suddenly materialises in a single panel and isn’t present anywhere else. I’m not sure what the point of the first few panels were? If it’s to show off the cast of this story... why? They’re all shown in full immediately below. They’re all just facing the camera too, apart from Lacy looking nervous I don’t get any sense of what the characters are feeling or anything about who they are. The cropping is odd too, with Lacy and Curtis filling their panels while there’s a lot of dead space for the dad and the mum’s head cut off. Also the way you framed the mum makes her seem kind of sinister. In the second panel on page 3, the way only her mouth is shown with the rest of her face cut off or in shadow, the way she has her hand on the dad’s chair and the angle of her smile with those sharp teeth makes her look very ominous. If this is foreshadowing for her later on, then great, but if that’s not what you were going for you should probably practice on differentiating creepy smiles from more genuine ones. Writing-wise, I agree with William in that even though this attitude is nice to see... the reaction is a little TOO convenient? Admittedly I haven’t been paying that much attention to VRG, but I got the impression Lacy’s mum was also involved in sex work to some degree? That would be a nice reason for her to be okay with Lacy’s job. Maybe she’s excited that her daughter is going into the same line of work as her or something. You could hint at that through dialogue (pride, or maybe tips on how to stay safe) or maybe an old poster from her heyday on the wall.

So I'm gonna start with some basic stuff first. You can obviously put a comic together and you've got enough of a base to tell a story. On the technical side, there is definitely more to work towards when it comes to coloring. These are all very saturated digital colors and I'd work with some online resources to experiment more with color theory. In fact Adobe has an app online, free of charge, called Kuler. It's a color wheel that can help you put together complementary colors. This can be invaluable for helping to choose colors that can work together better. And to further your understanding of color theory I'd look up Lemen Aid who has a lot of resources on his site when it comes to color theory. Because your shadows are functional but very simple and you can do a lot more by learning about warm and cool colors and how to vary those shadows up than just adding a darker shade of whatever color you're on. It would work better to choose a color that would tie all the shadows together. As far as backgrounds, you don't vary angles much in your work. It is good to use resources. Find pictures of couches and chairs and develop them at more interesting angles. It is not as exciting or as realistic when everything seems to face the camera directly. And about the subject matter, I have been thinking of how to approach this talk. I understand that you want a more positive spin on what can be a sensitive topic but I don't feel that you are approaching the subject with enough nuance or research. It currently reads like a dream sequence in how unbelievable it seems. If this is a subject you really want to do justice to, I would look up the experiences of sex workers who have been in this situation. Believe me that there are articles and interviews online of sex workers relating their experiences and even talking to their parents about their line of work. Regardless of the outcome being positive, it is a tricky and anxious conversation to have. And even the best of parents are concerned because they are not well versed in such a world. So I think that unless you are playing it for laughs or trying to make this family offbeat that you'd work a little more towards approaching a few real world sentiments on the subject. My only other thought could be that you are implying the parents are already involved in sex work which could be fine and humorous in it's own right but there's not much sense of that here.