my art isn't as good or polished as some of the people here. maybe it's not as "realistic", or as smooth. but i have one thing over some of the people here, and that's that i'm putting my art to use for more than just a hobby. it's my passion, and it burns me that people who are better than me in this game are wasting their talents.
that said, i don't want this to get bitter. some of you requested that i post my comics "raw" (meaning i haven't cleaned or coloured them), since it was taking me so long to clean them up. since speedy's back up for the moment, i figured i'd take the oppertunity to finally get around to that.
i try to stick with canon for my stories, and anything that falls outside of it or that doesn't exist ("human" names, CE-kun and XPMCE-kun, etc) i've consulted you all about. so without further ado, here they are.
(note: the last page of issue 1 was incredibly messy, so that page has been cleaned and a gimp brush effect was added.
also, these were drawn about 2 years ago. i've since improved, lol.)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page1issue1-1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page2issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page3issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page4issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page5issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page6issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page7issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page8issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page9issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page10issue1.png)
(http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page11issue1cleaned.png)
I want to see where this is going. Post more, please :)
Also, the artwork is pretty good. Considering the goofy nature of the comic thus far, the oddities like the long fingers give it a more cartoony feel, which works in it's favor.
eh, yeah, it's a bit too cartoony for my liking. as for the long fingers, that's just my art style, lol.
i wanted to save the other pages till that chapter was finished, but i'll scan and post them in a few minutes.
EDIT: took a couple hours, but here's everything i've drawn thus far. most of these aren't even completely inked.... >>;
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page1issue2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page2issue2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page3issue2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page4issue2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page5issue2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page6issue2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page7issue2.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i98/Chocofreak13/page8issue2.jpg
Pretty good so far. Hopefully you'll find the time to finish this chapter
i am, there's another page in progress, and i have plot lined up for 4 more chapters. it's just that my pigment liners have dried up. :\ (almost all the work on the page is done with a .25mm pigment liner, so they dry up the quickest. i could use my .35, but i typically reserve that one for speech bubbles. :\ )
This looks really good Kari. ^^b Visually, these are amazing to behold ... it's rare to see amateur (sometimes even professional) manga with SO much detail put into the panels; a lot of artists tend to laze out when it comes to background/detail work, instead focusing solely on the characters. While it doesn't quite fit the form of "traditional" manga, I find your style delightfully refreshing.
Can't wait to see where this goes. :)
what is "traditional" manga anyway? :3 i think that manga is a style, not just a regional thing.
or if you're talking about the left to right format, that was to save my own brain. ^^; one of my comics is read right to left, but i tried that with Ace's High (first comic i ever 'officially' wrote/drew), and it ended up a big mess, so i decided not to lie to myself. once i was more adjusted, i went with right to left format on Shoji Seven (the third of my three current comics).
as for detail, it's like a game to me; being able to stick random faces into a crowd scene turns it into a game of where's waldo. xD there was a scene in Ace's High where ace was going off to have a pit fight with his rival, Slim. there was a crowd of people watching the fight, and i managed to stick all sorts of characters in there, including the OS-tans, various vocaloids, some characters from Teenage Robot, and even Ace himself. xD
that said, i'll do my best to get the next pages up within the next few days. ^^
I'm so happy to see this posted! Your art style is very cute, and while it's distinctly manga, it doesn't look derivative like a lot of amateur manga does. It has an original flair to it, and it suits the tone of the story well! The characters are sooooo in-character, their reactions are over-the-top yet believable.
yaaay, thanks for shoring up my confidence. ^^ alot of times when i write these, i wonder if they're good enough to be posted as webcomics (of course that'd be after cleaning and colouring). thanks for believing in me. ^^
Quote from: Aurora Borealis on August 27, 2011, 04:07:16 PM
I'm so happy to see this posted! Your art style is very cute, and while it's distinctly manga, it doesn't look derivative like a lot of amateur manga does.
THIS!!!!!
I am so sick of seeing super-derivative amateur manga artists, whose work looks like it was copied from a "How to draw anime" book. It always ends up looking so.... fake. But your style is gorgeous, lighthearted, and cute, and best of all your own. : D
i think that has to do with me learning from multiple books (from multiple publishers and authors) as well as studying life, the classics, and learning from class and friends.
plus, i started attempting anime style when i was 5 and got my first "how ton draw manga" book at 12. :3