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winglesscomic
May '15

Choose one thing you think is your best quality, then choose another thing you think needs the most improvement.
They can be for writing, art, or anything else involving your comic. Maybe it'll help prioritize your learning goals, or you can give other people tips to improve what they think needs improvement.

For my best quality, I think it's ... well.. rocks. I really enjoy drawing stones for some reason, and I always am happy with the way they turn out. I like looking up and saving reference pictures of stones near streams, waterfalls, etc. and drawing from them, it's strangely relaxing.

What I think I need the most improvement in is scenery. I've never had a grasp of 3D space. I have horrid spacial recognition, I bombed all my classes with 3D graphing & plotting, and I avoid 3D programming like the plague. So anything with a background is basically me screaming the whole time while drawing. Maybe one day my backgrounds will actually be interesting (⊙﹏⊙✿)

So what about you?

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L4213
May '15

usually the answer to scenery is learning perspective. its not hard to learn perspective, but its really tedious and tiring in my opinion.

i think my best quality in my works in my opinion is how i deliver the scene, jokes or story. i've always had a way of drawing a scene exactly how i thought it was in my head and im proud if that XD wether it be how dramatic the expressions to the dialouge of the text

and my weakest point would probably be my execution, drawing wise. i think i still need to work on my foundations more, anatomy, form, coloring shading DX i dunno i've always thought of myself to be always lacking in the polish department.

Cielle
May '15

Ooo I like this topic! I think the best way to improve is to practice, especially on the areas we know we need to improve on. For a long time, I never drew hands because I was always dissatisfied with how they turned out, but then I came to grips with the fact that if I never drew them, I never would be good at it haha. anywho.

I think my best quality when it comes to my at is environments. I make sure to have a clear idea of where my characters are and how that affects the scene. even though it can be a bit tedious to draw if there are a lot of details, I enjoy creating the backgrounds.

What I need to work on still is consistency. It seems to me that every time I draw a character/place, it's slightly different from the last time I drew it (even if the last time were 5 minutes ago =_=). It's not even a matter of "I drew it better or worse this time", it's just different. It troubles me, but I think it's something that will improve over time, especially since I'm aware of it.

AnnaLandin
May '15

My strength probably lies in character design - I've always had an easier time coming up with characters and the way they look than any other part of comics-creation. It's a lot of fun! And yes, I'd say this is my strong point, DESPITE the fact that I struggle with partial face-blindness (as in, I find it EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to draw a character's face the same way twice, unless I've drawn them literally hundreds and hundreds of times).

My main weakness, on the other hand, is architecture. I do okay with natural settings - forests, rivers, desert dunes, etc. - but man-made architecture, not so much. I get hung up on perspective and straight lines and angles and stuff, with the result that my finished pieces often look stiff and boring. I'm already working on getting better at this - a lot of it lies in getting the inking right, to avoid the stiffness - but I need a LOT more work.

scythe
May '15

I'd say my biggest strength is probably backgrounds, especially buildings and such. My biggest weakness would have to be gesture I think. It's hard to accentuate those poses and movements in just the right way.

igneriss
May '15

My best quality is probably expressions? Drawing different faces is so fun = u=

And what needs the most improvement is drawing buildings! And furniture. Oh my, I hate those 8C can't wait till everything in my comic take place outside XD

fanyart
May '15

Apart from doing research on perspective, it might be good to use the sfumato technique - think about your backgrounds as a series of elements put behind one another - like a stage set. Draw the front pieces in more contrast and the more in the background a thing is, the less contrast it has (and it's also generally a bit bluer than the front things). It gives the image perspective depth without worrying about complicated perspective rules, as you can see in this image:

(It's also great practice to just speedpaint random sceneries that come to your mind, like this.)

It definitely improves with every time you draw it, don't worry :smile:

I think my best quality is expressing atmosphere and generally creating images that catch people's eyes and give off some feeling.

My weakest point is definitely drawing humans. I don't mean anatomy (I draw anthro instead), but the fact that they are human. It's a psychological problem originating probably in the desire to make original stuff. When I draw a human face, I always have the feeling that someone else already uses this style. And the older the character is, the more distinguishing characteristics they need to have, the more this feeling increases. A lecturer from mineralogy department keeps asking me to draw a family for his presentation but I always have to decline and feel really bad about it. I don't know how to overcome this block...

One thing I have more or less overcome, and might help people with similar problems, is horrible laziness and impatience when drawing straight lines or paralel curved lines etc. I hated drawing interiors but love nature scenes and broken things like fallen skyscrapers, as you don't need a ruler for that. Then I found the amazing Manga Studio which allows you to draw along various rulers which are really easy to set up. This was drawn in a trial version and I can't wait to get enough money to get the full version!

gateofselidor
May '15

I think my best work is definitely landscapes. Cityscapes, mountains, forests, that sort of thing. I love drawing them, and it probably shows in my work. I put excessive amounts of detail in, and I'm pretty good at creating interesting textures using nothing more than a hard round brush.

For improvements, I think facial expressions is an area I need to work on. I like drawing backgrounds more than people, and I feel like my character art probably suffers for it. I do love my characters though, so I'm going to keep trying to improve on them.

UzukiCheverie
May '15

I consider myself strong with character design and story-writing, when it comes to creating a world, its lore, and the people that inhabit it, including their backstories.

I'm not so strong with environments and backgrounds. It's not so much that I can't do them, it's just that I'm too lazy to be bothered to do them well stuck_out_tongue So I always end up half-assing them just because /lazy

blastryoku
May '15

My strongest point would be character designs and my weakest would be buildings, cities, perspective.
I have no problem with natural backgrounds as i like to draw them.

jonsaintamant
May '15

Good topic! My strength is character design. I love coming up with new characters to populate the worlds in my stories. I went through a wizard phase where I designed 23 really odd wizards (Jacuzzi Face Wizard, Hind Legs of a Horse Face Wizard, etc.) in about a month.

My weakness is interior design/ furniture. I find it really tedious to draw straight lines and things lined up in perspective. I don't like using rulers, so when I have to use a ruler twice for the same line (pencil and inking stages) it gets boring. I will definitely try the Manga Studio ruler mentioned by fanyart:

Zannen00
May '15

My strength probably lies in story making;i got the idea in my head thats ready for a few chapters ahead,
which in turn lies my weakness...drawing the damn thing frowning

Well,luckily i got some awesome advice from the people here,we'll see how it goes from here wink

Spinester
May '15

I think my strength is probably in character interaction and dialogue. I really enjoy bringing characters to life through conversation. My big weakness at the moment feels like coloring and picking color palettes. I'm trying to get better at it but I'm not quite sure how to go about it.

purrlpankras
May '15

I think my best thing is doing portraits...

Weaknesses

Animals / Keep away
Spelling / Not my fault I'm special
Plots / What even...
Story / They don't even make sense!
Motivation / Oh
Cats / just because cats

joannekwan(ง ˙o˙)ว here to help~
May '15

Strength: Anything about my characters, their design, development, and my actual execution of them. I just really love to draw people/people-like things.

Middling ground: Backgrounds. I mean I can do them okay, but there are tons more people who can do better than I.

Weakness: Colors, but I'm getting better I think.

jessiepolfliet
May '15

My strength is designing, though the backgrounds and perspective could be better at times, the art is were I am most proud of.
However a good comic isn't without it's dialog and story, in which I absolutely suck!
It always sounds so cliche when I write either a story or dialog between characters or in general.

bmacbride
May '15

My strength is pretty much exclusively in the human form, faces, organic things like bugs and plants, and drapery/cloth. I don't even have any particular issues with hands or feet. The price is that I'm shoddy at everything else. Backgrounds, interiors, furniture, scenery, animals, architecture... I've got no natural knack for any of those things, and so I tend to really half-ass them haha.

SpavVy
May '15

My strengths would definitely be character design, personality and backstory for the characters it's just starting to write for it that can be a challenge xD so I tend to sometimes have me roommate help me out a little or give me some good tips.