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« on: Feb 11, 2014, 10:35 AM »
Hell yeah bro, post those comics!
I like the hard, extreme light thing you're doing, but some of your lights/shadows get kinda messy, like the corner of the building where the dark side meets the light, or the back of the dude on the last panel. It's totally cool if you wanna do softer rendering, but try blocking out the shapes of your lights and shadows in solid cells first, then scumbling the edges by either pushing it out using the same colour, or erasing it away (which you could either do by doing the rendering on a separate layer then using a soft, textured eraser, or just using the base tone if it's all one layer).
You should also consider creating a selection area for the spot you're working in, so that you can't draw outside it no matter how energetic and haphazard you get.
There's a few issue with your backgrounds you could work on. The biggest problem, and also the easiest to fix, is that you place you're horizon line and vanishing point(s) waaaaaaaaaay too high, like completely off the page every time. If you're just doing a standard shot, the horizon line should usually be around eye level, and you move it when you want to shoot from above or below the subject matter. I can totally see the appeal of using a high shot on the second panel, but that horizon line is still way too high for the angle you've drawn the dude from. Place your horizon line down before you start working on a panel, it makes it easier to remember the angles you should be looking at stuff from, and keep it all consistent.
Also, try to remember that everything takes up some sort of three dimensional space. This is usually referred to as an objects "form". Always try to think about the stuff in your world as actually taking up space. Like, I should totally be able to see the side of that sidewalk if it's not flat, and that garbage can presumably should have a top and a bottom too. It can help if, during your roughs, you sketch out the unseen sides of objects/people. You just don't ink that stuff at the end, but it totally makes everything in your world feel more real and weighted.
Sorry for the wall of text, it's just always exciting to see new peeps, and new peeps posting comics is super awesome. I really, really love your flowings lines, it's so effortless. And all those transformations are super cute. Can he transform into like anything? That'd be so much fun to draw.
Don't disappear on us, keeping working hard!