In this scene
Trevor Khan: A great martial artist once said “I fear not the one who has practiced a thousand kicks once, but the one who has practiced one kick a thousand times.”
Leo King: “So if I practice a hundred reps a day, that’s going to take about a hundred days—so about 14 weeks, or a little over 3 months.”
Trevor Khan: “For each leg. Not including rest days.”
Leo King: “Ouch.”
Trevor Khan: “Yep. Now let’s get to work.”
Behind the Scenes
I decided to draw a pose that shows off different aspects of anatomy than I’m used to—the back muscles, black of the legs, and the soles of the feet in particular. I usually try to draw my characters as if they’re being staged in a theatre, and the cardinal rule of theatre staging is “never turn the back to the audience.” Of course, such rules are only guidelines, and if I’m going to draw good action poses (and good character art in general) I need to be familiar with the full figure, including the parts that usually face away from the audience/viewer.
I’ve definitely found a preference for Adobe Fresco’s Classic Comics nib for inking—Belgian Comics is a lot more sensitive to pressure and so is less forgiving when it comes to maintaining a more even line weight. Someday, when I get better at inking, I’ll need to use more dynamic line weights, but for now I want to go for consistent line width with a little tapering at the end.
Still working on shading. I need to figure out where my light sources are coming from and do some exercises with simpler geometric figures—mostly cylinders.
