My art thread - Updated!~Print fun!

[rezo]

Thanks.


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dieses ist ein Stoß

genießen Sie Coca Cola.

[rezo]

updated.

"bump"

[Drewbacca]

You have design talent. Learn design.

[rezo]

uh, thanks. What do you mean by design?

[Drewbacca]

in a lot of frames you lay things out well. In a lot of them you rely on centering a lot but you seem to have a natural knack for organizing visual information well. You should study this and hone in on it. It would help you jazz up your panels.

[Mode7]

I dig your style, Rezo. Looking forward to seeing more.

[rezo]

Thanks.


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also, bump.

[Will]

I really like your inking style, it's superb. I wish to ink like that some day.

[FuryFox]

I'm impressed. It's good to see you've been sticking with it so long. I especially like the comics you did for the competition...not anything in particular, especially since it's not exactly my style of humor, but the fact they are so different from your typical drawing style. It's good to have diversity. Each one seemed to be done by a different artist.

My favorite illustration is totally the bunny pic; it's just great on so many levels. Conveys alot of emotion, and conjures alot too (somehow both creepy and fun). I like the picture of the girl sitting down with the baseball bat too. Many of your characters seem stiff, and she seemed to be sitting there naturally while maintaining your style.

As for the most recent painting, I have mixed feelings. The colors are definitely strong and fixate your eye (I mean, red, black, and white are kind-of hard to beat in that regards). The composition is interesting too, with characters looking different directions. I'm most struck by the center female...her rendering is spot-on, and the way she feels at the red tendril with on finger is both touching and unsettling. The other characters have strange anatomical things going on, almost abstractions. It's also not clear to me in the painting whether multiple moments in time are being represented, or if the people in the sky were sucked up by the red stuff already. Overall I like it, especially for that one character. Too many things are either bleeding off the canvas (weird tendrils, "fire"), or bleeding in from outside the canvas (trees). It gives the composition this sort-of self-framing, centralized feeling which seems at odds to me with the narrative of the piece.

[rezo]

I'm impressed. It's good to see you've been sticking with it so long. I especially like the comics you did for the competition...not anything in particular, especially since it's not exactly my style of humor, but the fact they are so different from your typical drawing style. It's good to have diversity. Each one seemed to be done by a different artist.

Thanks. I try to avoid working with a singular style. I think it's better to try and come up with a look that works best for the kind of story you're telling, rather than roughly applying the same look to every type of story. Of course, with the contest, by the end it was mostly just about drawing simple enough for me to actually get them done. Only had a few days to make each, and I suck at coming up with short strips =\.

Oh, the "bung nipper" bit originally had the kid saying "la la la la". For that round, we were supposed to take a section of our comic and use the phrase "bungnipper" in it.

For the painting:
I was trying to build the people in the painting up with broad brush strokes, and that's where the odd look to some of the people comes from. I decided that in the middle of drawing though. =\ I'm not sure of the framing myself either... but anyways, thanks for the comments.