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Feb 2019

I really like your art. It really has it's charm kinda like "The new Yorker". I would like to see you incorporate a few lineart techniques. Not too many that it changes the forms and outlines, but just enough to make it pop a little. Id guess and say adding line weights and experiment with thick to thin strokes. If you ever get a chance, check out Paola Riveras tutorials on YouTube.

As to my comic, Id appreciate any feedback

Thanks in advance, and happy arting

I dig the art and character designs on your comic. The square bubbling kind of bothers me, but that could just be a nitpicky thing. Here's my comic:

Wow!! THANKS FOR THE DETAILED REVIEW!! I have to confess i was in a hurry when i published the episode, so those things slipped from my view. I usually dodle with a pencil and then use ink and erase the pen (I probably will correct all in a near future). As i told you, i need to be more carefull.
Other thing: English is not my first language, so is a really good idea to show to a friend before, neither Puppie or I speak english as our mother languages. Thanks a lot!
So lets start With my humble opinion:
The simple things:
Slice of life is one of my fav topics, and this is not exeption. Your comic fills a lot of silly topics of life and thats cool. There is not always a punchline or a funny end, but thats not bad. Sometimes we just need to express a silly fact about life.
The draws: i think this comic coul have a little more of consistence in the proportions, but i think it will loose a lot of spontaneity, same about the calligraphy.

Witheboard Reviews: Im dont pass the gamer test since i have not played the 90% of the games you reviewed, I really apreciate the effort in review them and it really makes me want to play some of them (again, in just a casual gamer and by no meanings a hardcore gamer)
The draws: The line and color game are super rad! I feel like with a tiny bit more of effort in the composition and perspective this could be MIND BLOWING.
Thank you and good luck! (I hope you dont mind the commetns)

I never really read The New Yorker (im not native from Usa) so i googeled and it was a plesant experience, thanks. Also I will totally chech that youtube chanel! You really made me notice how I slowly did less and less lineart stuff, I have to fix that definitly.
Vicar: The style with no bubbles is nice,I really think the front you used at the begining was nicer than the one in the last parts. The draw with completelly black shadows and no grey undertone remids me a little to Mirage studios TMNT. Also very cool coloring game you have. I usually go for more expresive faces, and I think you shoud not abuse of the extreme face close up, they are nice to give intensity to a situation but they are a little repetitive. in my opinion. Keep the good work and i will see you in your next update!

Thanks, I would reconsider the idea of the square bubbles (they have no more reason to be that express the computer and phone messages).
Block Party: For beging just the first issue it has a lot of changes in every page, sometimes with lineart and textures, somethimes not. It can be a little bothering from my perspective.The characters look extremely diferent from one page to other and it can be a tiny bit confusing.
Good points: Very expresive characters,they feel like facing real issues, suspense is always welcome.
See you in the next update!

Thanks for the tip on the speech bubbles. I'm also definitely going to try to switch up my shots

This sounds cool!

You have a very nice, simple art style that I think is very charming and works well with the sort of comic you're making. Although I think that you could benefit from some anatomy studies. Even the most simple styles can be improved when they're well proportioned! Obviously there's no shortcut to becoming really good at drawing anything so you'd have to be willing to put in the time to improve. I recommend this website https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ if you want to try and get better with drawing people (it's really cool, it lets you pick the kind of people you want to draw!). Gesture drawings are super helpful when you're trying to improve anatomy/proportions so I highly recommend that you try some out! There's a million tutorials everywhere you could also look for that might be helpful. References are also insanely helpful so if you ever struggle with a pose or something, just look some up! Art-wise, I'd say you're doing pretty well but practicing basic drawing techniques would really benefit you (figure drawing, point perspective, etc.) :slight_smile:

Also, though this isn't really that important, I recommend changing the line weight on your panel borders so that they don't match the line art of your drawings. Someone mentioned it already, but messing with line weights would be beneficial. Having a thinner lineweight for the lines inside the form (clothing wrinkles, etc.) and a thicker panel border would show a good variance of line that would be aesthetically pleasing and more interesting to look at. Though these are just suggestions, it's really up to you! Good luck with your comic, it looks nice so far!

Here's my comic!:

1 year later

I really like stories a bout queer people in general and i really love the diferent body tipes you have! I would suggest a little more study of panel disposition to give it a little more ritm to the story (i have the sensation the story goes too "slow" in a narrative sence). You have obviously a great sence of cartoons, so i can only say i will be waiting for more!
If you dont mind reading my other comic i would apreciate some opinion :

So your comic Puppie and Sheep seems lovely. I love slice of life and I can really relate to the long distance relationship and how those work. I really feel connected to them!

The only nit pick I have is sometimes the text goes out of the bubbles and that bothers me. Otherwise I see improvement as you continue through the comic and I feel confident you will continue to improve.

If you want:

Haha what an amazing idea! Subscribed.

Biggest feedback I'd have for you is text size and talk bubble consistency.

Some of your text gets pretty tiny, which makes sense to fit on the page, but makes it hard to read (ex. cat on page 4). As for the talk bubbles, I'd be careful with the "tails" - some of them cover up a large quantity of your art (ex. final panel on page 4), which is a shame because I want to see that more than a talk bubble.

Also, this may be a stylistic choice - but why is the inking and shading different in your banner v. your comic? I like both of them, am just curious.

My favorite thing about this comic is the expressions. You have a good way of registering attitude. Considering the theme, i think thats where I'd like to see you experiment more. You've got a good project here.

I'll be doing one for The Three Pigs:

You have an interesting concept so far with a style that's easy to recognize. The speech box design is nice.
A couple of things to improve on:

  1. There are a few typos (that's always the first thing I notice for comics)
    Examples:
    Pg.1-Frame.1: stars -> starts
    Pg.1-Frame.2: coud -> could
    Pg.1-Frame.3: ophans -> orphans

  2. Some of your text is too close to the border of your speech bubbles / text boxes.

Besides that, your comic looks pretty good!


Here's mine! :slight_smile:

I will be reviewing otaku sama
I think the art is great, really clean and bright colors I love it, and a very cute style.
The only thing is I would say I was very confused from the prologue to maybe chapter 4.
I didn't realise that it was speaking from the pandas perspective, and it wasn't clear if chapter 1 was continuing from it.
until the purple hair dude came back in when the game died, I went back and understand the previous chapters.

It might just be me though but overall it was very good after that.
if you could review my series that would be great

Thanks for the compliments!

The prologue was intentionally written to mislead the audience into thinking that Ryoma, the human, was the one talking. :slight_smile:


First off, your artwork looks amazing and your characters are very expressive. The prologue to your comic is interesting enough to encourage people to continue reading and the pacing is good too (in my opinion). Though it's already obvious by your description, you might want to indicate that your comic contains mature content.

The only improvement I can think of is grammar and punctuation (always the first thing I notice, but still important :sweat_smile:).
Example:
Prologue-Frame.3: Well we better -> Well, we better
Prologue-Frame.5: Darren stop it... (I need grammarly because I don't know either)
Prologue-Frame.11: Your such an -> You're such an

I also found the bubbles a little awkward in some areas. Sometimes it is a smooth ellipse while others are really jagged, but you don't seem to be emphasizing anything when the speech bubbles are drawn differently. It distracted me a bit from your awesome art.


Great work so far!

thank you for the kind words and the corrections, I have changed the prologue now with the correct grammar, with the bubles its a hard one, these pages where originally done by hand and so where the bubbles, but im splitting up the comic page to look like a vertical scrolling format comic, and im adding text, the added text and speech are the perfect oval shapes. in the future I wont have this problem as I will be doing the pages without the bubbles then adding the bubbles after.

thank you so much for taking the time to read my series and review it

Nice initiative, I for one are having a hard time finding people who are ready to give some constructive criticism and feedback.

First of all, I do notice some improvements over the course from first to latest page/strip. Maybe you should focus more on the lineart to make it look a wee bit smoother. One thing I'm learning now is to think in simple shapes and create from them.

Your word balloons are my main concern. If the balloons look sloppy or boring, it affects the overall impression. Get yourself a better font (I did, and it does wonders) and have a look at some lettering tutorials :slight_smile: All in all, great comic otherwise! Witty and emotional.

My horror/comedy webcomic:
Check out "The Lonesome Ghost" from Curly the cursed con man
on Tapas https://tapas.io/series/Curly-the-cursed-con-man/ep1