shortie paperback-style comic to find my art style and set a baseline for my understanding of art fundamentals too. my first clean comic in years! <333
♡♡♡♡♡making of notes below♡♡♡♡♡
takeaway 1: have a much easier time if you clean up your sketch really really well before doing the lineart. had to do a rough sketch, then a detailed sketch after sometimes.
takeaway 2: maybe try setting a time limit for sketching, no time limit for lineart.
takeaway 3: remember to save the color palette (values of grey) to pick from later on using a layer above all clipped adjustments. the paperback comics use multiple shades of grey, it's not just grey, black, and white.
takeaway 4: try one of those 3d modeling sites for references. note: the hair is going to appear more on the outer arms, not the inner arms, and the background lineart is thinner than the subject's outer lineart.
takeaway 5: I added noise / grain effect over grey only. in future, try adding barely visible grain to the white and black layers too (SAVE PRESETS FOR HIGH GRAIN AND LOW GRAIN).
♡ time taken: around 12 hours? took me 2 days to complete the comic.
♡ I didn't use references this time. "I dont want to hunt for them." remember I have those websites where you can pose a 3d model, maybe try one of those next time.
♡ drew a comic border using the ruler tool in photoshop for each panel
♡ gradually started giving more fucks about the comic the more I invested, I find that the first panels of the comic are probably going to have less effort put in
♡ I need to figure out with practice how to pace myself because I start out wanting to finish an entire comic in one sitting but, that's NOT the way to go about it! gotta practice discipline by returning to it, committing to a comic, and find what works best for resting my eyes, hand, and rest of my body from sitting so long.
Don't you mean classist Typo, as in discriminating against poor people, and not classicist, the type of academic who studies antiquity in southern Europe?
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