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1) As a small side note, one day, I really hope to be King Penis of Fuck Mountain.
2) No shitty anime or wolf-people, take that crap to deviant art
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As far as the action, I think a shot establishing that there are animals stuck in a hole would fix that easily. Maybe an extreme perspective of the animals pov looking up at nutty or the group up top looking down into the hole.
Hope that helps some :]
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Essentially you just want to ensure you are drawing the eyes of the reader intuitively in the right order.
— Robert Heinlein
Comments welcome.
— Robert Heinlein
Hi "Enc", thank you for inquiring, the comics is in fact a weekly comic, hence the logo on every page. I am trying to re-post most issues here. I hope you will enjoy reading them.
Great point"cpatten"! thank you very much for pointing that out. I was once told of the same thing not too long ago, so I started using white backgrounds in this upcoming story which I'll post here on Sunday. Thanks!!
Thank you "Iruka" again for your suggestion on the McClouds' books. I have been reading them, and have learned a lot about the craft since! Thanks!
A lot of new webcomic artists fall into this trap where they think that getting a trademark or a logo is critically important for leveraging a market, and in certain businessess (most that aren't webcomics) this is true. However when what you are selling is essentially a logo that changes every time you update (via your characters, comics, and other notable stylistic choices that remain constant in your webcomic) repeating your logo is distracting.
Let your comic sell itself. Keep the logo for your merchandise and the top of your website.
— Robert Heinlein
Here's for your daughter ('MagicToaster') and to you guys that made this issue better than the last. =D
We see Nutty flying about in epic awesome form. We see him do the "going faster, sound barrier explosion" which I absolutely loved. And we see the mountains as he approaches. Up to that point, everything is absolutely amazing.
Then the big action bit happens! Nutty starts falling. Only, we don't see him fall, not in any way that really grounds us to the severity or scale of the fall. Nor do we really see what happens upon landing. Since the camera angle is so close up, the reader has very litter reference for what is happening as he falls out of the sky.
But what if we pan back the camera just a bit on those last few panels:
While this is quick and dirty using my work mouse and paint, I hope you can see what I'm talking about. If you show where Nutty is falling, and pan back to see how far he is falling, even for one or two frames, it makes all the following ones make sense. You can use these big, wide paneled shots to establish where Nutty is, so you don't have to draw later scenes in as much detail.
Gunnerkrigg Court is amazing at this:
In the first panel we have a lot of detail on the background and the surroundings, but after that? Not much. Just enough to hint at what is going on behind without doing too much detail. Once you know where your characters are, you can focus on them and them alone. But establishing that location for your readers will draw them into your world, and allow them to better understand the adventures of our favorite pirate-eyed dog adventurer.
— Robert Heinlein
I think I am going to start posting upcoming issue's work in progress here, so good ideas like this won't become a hindsight.
— Robert Heinlein
— Robert Heinlein
enjoy!!
(One of the challenges I have now is background/stages...such as judging the amount of background information I should include in each panel.)