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Kaito26
Jun '18

How do people have such consistent art quality? My comic goes from really poorly drawn, to a very detailed drawing. Is my comic consistent enough in art? Here's my comic for reference.

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joannekwan(ง ˙o˙)ว here to help~
Jun '18

It really just comes down to drawing it over and over again.
It also helps to make active decisions, like using thinner lines for the background as opposed to your characters, the closer a shot is, the more detail there is on the subject etc.

yondoloki
Jun '18

I haven't really seen any webcomic with consistent art quality. I don't think that's something you need to think too much about, as long as the quality goes up :slight_smile: We all develop over time, and our comics often takes years to make, so total consistency is near impossible. If you look at many mangas, and european comics, it's the same.

storytimebiondi
Jun '18

Consistency should be mostly just in the shapes and recognizability of the characters. I find that sometimes my quality dips a little, depending on my mood/ability for that day. It happens. It's a comic after-all. It's about speed of art, rather than quality, really.

craftymarten
Jun '18

The advice I've heard is to choose the 1 or 2 most important panels on the page and put all of your effort into those and then fluff the rest of them! That way you can still get pages done quickly and people are less likely to notice if a panel doesn't look great because it's less important,

gh0stcr33p
Jun '18

use the same methods consistently and keep consistent proportions.

ericsalinas149
Jun '18

I don't have consistent art (unless I am copy and pasting to save some time). Usually, I strive for failure when making new art, because if I am not failing, then I am not making any chances and I am preventing any growth. My art has improved a lot in the past three years, but that doesn't mean I drew something horrible a week ago in my attempt of trying something new.

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Luminosophy
Jun '18

This is something that's really achieved through developing your style. And it's not something you should force yourself to settle on right away. Expose yourself to many new ideas, experiment with them and settle on the few aspects you like of each. Once you've put it all together everything from this point onwards will look consistent (coupled with enough fundamentals to also achieve character consistency, too.) I wouldn't really stress too much about it, your first pages /should/ look different as you experiment and improve.

yonseo
Jun '18

It's common to see a comic quality increase because the artist gets better over time.
Once you reach your peak you can create consistent art. Of course this all depends on what you consider 'Good Enough'.

Given that comics are in a way similar to cartoons:
Take Adventure Time for example, it's extremely consistent because it is an animation, but sometimes the quality or look can change. Johnny Test is one that changed from hand drawn animation to flash animation. People weren't happy about that change. Why? because the animation had already developed, grew, and established a style that became consistent and then they changed it.

When is it done right? Pokemon and Pokemon Sun and Moon. Clearly the style has changed but the important thing here is that it did not change halfway through a season.

Here's a consistent quality comic

beta1042
Jun '18

Embrace the inconsistency. My comic is like a documentation of all my progress, I wear that inconsistency with a badge of honor- it's my way of going LOOK LOOK- I've grown this much!!

Since I can't seem to consistently draw my characters tho, I just made them all so wildly different than eachother and that makes up for it. As long as people can identify who is who, I think we're all good.

craftymarten
Jun '18
storytimebiondi

Yes! I'm pretty sure it was one of Ursula's videos here
https://www.youtube.com/user/Darkenedavo

I remember a few years ago a professional comic artist posted a panel on twitter and said it was the worst one they'd ever done and you could tell it was really bad compared to the other ones but she basically said she was working to a deadline, it was one panel of hundreds, and nothing you do will ever be perfect. It really stuck with me that sometimes it's better to just bad panels slip through rather than sinking hours in to something most readers will barely glance at!