@Krilik, sounds interesting- what about comment attached to individual comics? I wouldn't ask you to go out of your way to do this though.
@Zaibatsu, hmm, interesting. He's supposed to be a cross between Roland and a Moderator.
@Aikicat, well, you've said a lot, so I'll try and address as much as I can. The main issue with line work here is that I'd switched over from using normal ink pens to a calligraphy marker, which I dropped after these three because like you said, the line quality sucks and it's also hard to work with. I went out and got an actual calligraphy pen, and I'm using that now. The first thing I drew with it is the comic on this page. It's hard to tell because the image is so shrunk down, but the line quality is a lot better. The art style does lack polish right now, because I'm new to drawing people with the correct skeletal and face structure, as well as to cloths, which is basically these entire comics. As I said though, this is practice for drawing graphic novels, so this it the comic I'm using to refine my new style. That's also the reason you're going to see a lot on inconsistency in the first story arc, because the world they're in does not exist yet, and I still know little about any of them. The free style stories will become more in tune once I understand what I'm doing. It's not a new approach at all, it's just the fun approach, because this comic is me having fun.
As to the jumbled layout, that's me fooling around again. I get horribly bored drawing basic layouts, so I toy around with layout all the time. I basically started on the first one with just the idea that I'd have the comic flow through the page, and started developing the form from there. You can tell by the third that it's starting to turn into something. The two comics I've drawn after these are huge improvements, and I'm getting the hang of sort of overflowing the page with images, or whatever you'd call it. The story element, will of course stabilize over time like I said. I'm just drawing whatever idea comes to mind right now, but I do have a general gist developing of what will happen. I know this method works because I've used it many times before, but it wont be immediate. As for the funny, my sense of humor seems to appeal to some people a lot more than others. Usually because of this I try to include enough that I'm certain others will find funny, but right now I'm experimenting. I'm still only 5 comics in, and don't know what the humor is exactly. Originally, I just wanted to have things so ridiculously awesome they were funny, but I think I'm going to reserve those jokes for the MODslinger. As for his MOD-ness, I don't think he's a forum moderator, because by the fourth comic I made up some sort of plot line, and it has something to do with mutant ninja pirate zombies infecting the internetz, which as far as I can tell is just a huge forest full of castles and cities. The original idea was to have a sort of internet version of the Dark Tower, But that disappeared by the second comic. By the fifth, I've started adding a real Internet references, so we'll see what happens from there. And as I said in my first post, I'm now doing the text bubble separately, so they're much easier to read now.
Now put your claws away.
And thanks for the crit and comments.
@Mr Z, thanks.
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