New Art Style – Cami August 19, 2009
Posted by camid98 in One-Page Comics.trackback
I finally finished my 1-pager. Mostly I was working on my style. Pencil alone didn’t seem to look that great, so I tried inking with thin sharpy & leaving the pencils. I like the results & hope to take it further in my next comic.
-Cami
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Have you thought about including this page in your next mini? It might be neat to have a few ‘bonus’ 1-page vignettes in the back (similar to your pencil drawings in your last one).
Also, forgot to say this at the meeting, but I think the closeup panel (third row, third tier) is your most effective one on the page — somehow the expression, the clean lines, and the solid blacks, all work really well together. Not to mention, the visual distinction (where most every other panel places the viewer at about the same distance from the figures in the foreground) really draws the eye.
Good idea, I should put it in the mini as a little one-off.
I like the close-up panel the best too. I want to practice getting more perspectives & zoom levels on my characters. I do have a tendency to draw them all at the same distance. Also, that panel was the only one I redrew separately & pasted in, so it had fewer erase-lines to fade the image.
I really really like the transparency of your word balloons. I don’t think I’ve seen that done anywhere else. It would be a neat addition to your style if you decide to keep it.
Overall, your style is really consistent in this piece. The characters are wonderfully expressive and distinct.
After the meeting, I wondered if you had thought of using a gray wash (ink wash?)to get the same effect as your pencil shading.
Dylan Meconis has similarly transparent word balloons in some of her work — also, extremely beautiful grayscales. Definitely a worth-paying-attention-to sort of comic.
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/dmeconis/familyman/series.php
I like the transparency too, I’ll definitely keep it. I just hate it when the speech bubbles pop & don’t feel a part of the art. Seems like the “Family Man” also had that goal – those bubbles even seem a darker gray to blend with the atmosphere.
Glad you like the expressions & consistency. I enjoy drawing faces and the challenge of keeping characters looking the same.
You’ll have to tell me more about this “gray wash”. Looking it up online I’m mostly finding tattoo’ing and watercoloring techniques. I haven’t messed much with watercolors.