The Void. / Britta Alastair

The Void. — Britta Alastair

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Kame Studio
Artist
12 comments
# 8   Posted: Sep 28 2016, 02:55 PM
Alrighty now that it seems like most of the critiques are placed I feel I can respond appropriately I didn't want to do it all individually knowing there'd definitely a lot coming from people. So first thank you all for the critiques they are really helpful and much appreciated!

@PyrasTerran I totally agree with your observation and critique. Easily my anatomy and styles are my weakest point in art and I definitely hope to improve. The more people that call me out on it the better XD So thank you for that! I'm trying to push the envelope with my facial details plugging in and out the things I like and seeing what works and doesn't so I hope you see this as a WIP of a style and I hope to show a much more refined one in the future! Thank you!

@Dumorte Thank you so much, I've been trying to learn color theory as much as possible this year as well imitate more cinematic shots. so I'm very happy you said that :)

@Le Fred I see your point about emoting with the body and you have a great point about why you should care and that is important. I can't make you care about my character very easily since I tend to come off and on Void as often so its a bit hard but I can easily agree withy you on that. As for the face and emoting I can also understand that, it did bother me how many face shots and close up there were. I think I easily over committed in terms of my quality vs time, I actually cut more content then I wanted to make the deadline (Two extra pages). So that is a definitely something I will watch out for in the future (No excuses) Thank you!

@Kozispoon This is definitely something a big no no for me. I feel like I must have failed to convince you of overall small tidbits of Britta's past. Honestly my whole objective of the comic was to reveal a small detail of her and interconnect to the next void comic. It was a bit of a challenge in terms of conveying a bit of past without another character and or speech to add some context to the scenes. So I'm sad to hear that but I will get better hopefully at conveying! And that chapters should stand on their own is a very valid point, I will be sure to keep that in mind for the next comic! I agree with you on the backgrounds, I tend to add lots of details to the backgrounds I make but this time around as I had said previously I ran out of time and I'm paying for it obviously XD So thank you for your critique! it means a lot!

Once again thank you all for the critiques I will take it and push myself even more!

Kozispoon
Artist
1211 comments
# 7   Posted: Sep 26 2016, 12:41 PM
Wooow, where did these colors come from? This almost looks like it was done by another person. Way to come back to Britta guns blazing!I just wish you'd packed in more elements to be enhanced by those colors. What room is she in? Is it hers? Where are the signs or tells its been lived in? Or possibly just a place she's drifting through? I have so many questions and the environment is not answering it for me XD
I'll be the first to single myself out and say I have no idea whats going on. At all. Which is doubly surprising as you 'wasted' a page doing a recap which I feel doesn't help in explaining what we're seeing here. I feel I stumbled into this characters private moment and was privy to something secret that I didn't have any context for. Definitely prompts me to read your previous battles again to see whats up, but as I usually tend to say, I think comics with compelling plot should be able to stand alone as an episodic stanza in your orchestral tale. Not everyone will do their just studying to figure out whats what and honestly, the recent comic itself should be answering those questions for us.


Fred
Artist
550 comments
# 6   Posted: Sep 23 2016, 04:50 PM
hmmm, yes, that's some crunchy aesthetic. Tasty. Sharp, hecka good colouring and lighting. The narrative you try to convey here is pretty straight forward, and it's clear to get, but not as much to feel. You've got about the right beats to make it work, so I know what I'm MEANT to be feeling, but I just ain't. Nothing here is quite... expressive. Not the page, not the colour, nice as they are, not the faces or bodies. Sure there are expressions, but it's not the same, they're more like the idea of how that emotion should look, like a mask, presented very flatly and stiffly by the character who just stands there, emoting directly at us, which is, well, a bit awkward. Why is that girl shoving her gross crying face at me? why me??? But yeah, she just suddenly explodes in our face and then she's okay again. There's not really any easing in or out of it, we don't get to ride it with her. Let it build up, study how the body hold itself, add some subtlety to the presentation and think of the face as more than a vehicle to transport identity and emotion, as an object that molds itself on these things rather than bears them. Like I said, the colours are pretty ace, but they don't convey the mood, they're very muted and grey, cold. It would work fantastic for something where she's be keeping an absolute cold calm, almost sinister-like, but it doesn't have that emotion that you're trying to work it embedded into it. She's feeling. She's feeling a LOT, by the amount of tears jetting out of her face, let that tint her world a bit more. The flashbacks thingies are good on that, they're peaceful but vibrant and convey those better times, and perhaps you were trying to contrast a more dreary present, which sure, that works on that, but it's more than just dreary because, at least for a moment there, it's painful. One last thing I'd like to touch on is the backgrounds. They're very adequate, but I'd just be careful of the line tool, as well as those empty rooms, they're pretty common issues, which just makes them that bit more obvious and they're not hard to work out. I actually quite like that last warped panel, even if the perspective isn't quite right, it feels a lot better to me. It don't ned to be that warped all the time, but just try to keep some more flow in your lines. Anyway, that's all my picking I had, it's a really good effort for sure. Keep it up yo.

Dumorte
Artist
76 comments
# 5   Posted: Sep 23 2016, 06:43 AM
jesus what is this? I feel like i was looking at stills of an anime! This is !@#$%^ amazing!!!!!

PyrasTerran
Artist
1513 comments
# 4   Posted: Sep 22 2016, 05:42 PM
So what definitely is working here is colors. Coloring and polishing is definitely your strong suit, you've got work here that wants to be anime screenshots. There's very little background but the ones that are there are also very well made. What you need the most work on is your character art and anatomy. One of the traps that happen with Japanese art inspiration is that many of the characters end up ambiguously aged; I honestly can't tell this is a woman in her 20's vs a teenager though some of that is because she's not around other types of characters of different ages to contrast. As you work on your anatomy, continue to think of ways to push your character design into something fresher and better defined, variation in faces and eye shapes, etc

Kame Studio
Artist
12 comments
# 3   Posted: Sep 21 2016, 06:18 PM
The comic is all set and ready to go! I definitely didn't get to work on it as much as I had liked to but thats what comes with deadlines! This fills a bit more of Britta's storyline, I hope ya'll enjoy it! I look forward to some critiques!

PyrasTerran
Artist
1513 comments
# 2   Posted: Sep 9 2016, 03:04 PM
that's exactly the spirit i like to see

If no one's around to do a battle, just make a comic yourself!

Cracking Skulls
Artist
354 comments
# 1   Posted: Sep 8 2016, 11:53 PM
aaaayyyy she's back! Can't wait!

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