Tell us about your newest page! Comment on the one above first!

[cbrubaker]

This is a thread on another forum that's actually pretty clever. C/P'ing the rules from it:

Rules: Post about your newest page, with a link so that people don't have to dig through (if you have multiple comics or whatever) or try to find a link themselves, give a small summary of what happened to draw the person in, but before you do so, make a comment about the poster above you's latest page. But make it something meaningful. Don't just put "Cool" or "Good job". Be nice, no flaming, etc. Now let's make this work!

For the next person who posts...

Smallbug Comics has an ongoing story at the moment called "A Royal Headache". Latest page is this (you might want to start from the beginning, tho)

[UltHamBro]

I knew about this thread: bringing it here is a good idea

Regarding the page, I like your style: it's a mixture between cartoony, comic-strip like drawings, and the additional details and textures which look like the things I used doodle while in HS. At first, they look like they've been done using a pen (that's why they remind me of doodles). However, it's entirely digital, am I right?
I'll be sure to take a look at the previous pages too, but it looks like a good lighthearted series

Here's mine (it's actually my second-to-last page, since I'm not entirely satisfied with the last one): http://tapastic.com/episode/90609
To fill in the details, the kid and the old man are playing poker as part of a training session to prove the kid's body language-reading skills (and also, to see if he's able to cheat, which in my comic is something perfectly acceptable and normal).

[aFistFull]

Cool. Good job. JK! LOL! OTHER RANDOM CAPITAL LETTERS!

I really like your colouring style. To be honest I've never seen anything like it before so that's defiantly a plus in my books. Also I love how you've drawn Grandpa. He's got that whole scary old wise man thing going. Also this is a very unique series. I really am intrigued with this.

I couldn't choose, but you can.

It's a Funny Old Universe

A gag a day comic featuring a number of one off and returning characters. Literally anything goes.
This 'gag' involves RC-92 (a humours robot) carrying out a hit that doesn't go according to plan.

Batman: Tales of Gotham City

A series of short stories featuring the citizens (heroic and evil alike) of Gotham City.
This story that technically ONE PAGE features Killer Croc looking for Christmas Dinner (I know, a little late.)

[cbrubaker]

The drawings are a bit rough, but you seem to have good ideas going. Keep drawing!

New Smallbug has towns pondering about the new "king"

[Cielle]

@cbrubaker I like your comic! The style reminds me of Garfield (and I love Garfield ^.^) The style is refreshing and easy to follow. I like the concise nature of each episode. Keep up the good work!

Here's the newest page of REUS, where the police commissioner experiences a very long day indeed.

There's only one episode before that though, so if you want to read it from the beginning, here it is!

[coreyconrad98]

@Cielle Read it from the beginning. The first page has a poetic feel to it, very clever. I like how you sneak humor into a very serious storyline, especially with the arrows and notes. These are not real flames, great stuff! Also enjoyed the music!

Here's Unnatural
Our latest page features Clarina, a living Cupcake, on the phone with Misty, an owl from Hoot Deliveries... she needs to know where her shipment is!!

http://tapastic.com/series/UNNATURAL

[elixiadragmire]

@coreyconrad98 read the whole thing, its super cute! (love owls) and the talking cupcake. Thou I'm interested in the carrot flinging flowers. Flora vs Fauna?

My newest page of Silversong is here Nosy girls and angry dwarves!

[PotooGryphon]

@elixiadragmire Oh, you know I'm a big fan of Silversong! And I actually got to see this page get made in a livestream ^_^

These pages are beautiful. I love your coloring and your playful panel shapes. I'm really looking forward to seeing where the story goes. Any critics I could give will be super small and nit picky, you can almost totally disregard these critics. The last page in the episode is very heavy in blues and purples, which makes the characters appear perhaps darker than intended, compared to the page where the characters had yellow splashes around them. And this one is just super nit picky, almost ignore it completely, in the last panel on the last page the tail of Teb's word balloon curves off way past her mouth, which might be confusing which character is "whoa"ing. Your pages are beautiful, your story is compelling, and I look forward to each new update!

I'm super happy with today's latest page post. The page follows the character through a wild forest ride on the back of a giant gryphon/cat.

Jeramy and I really pushed ourselves on the horizontally formatted page and I really fought to get it to translate just as well in vertical format. Feedback is welcomed, let me know what you think ^u^

[Icelug]

@cindyfoster

It's hard to talk about a single page when I love the whole comic so far, I have a short reading list and Oops is in it. Every update is a new breath taking page. The story flows very nicely and the light pace adventure on it reminds me a lot of Duck Tales. But the best thing on it is ... Plague. I just love this lil guy and his grumpy and sarcastic mood.
This last page totally fits it's name, Wild Ride. It's a vertical speechless panel very well done and with lovely details on the background forest.

My last page (actually not a single page as I update 3-5 pages once a week) Accident, starts a new chapter. It's a flash backwards chapter and I'm being really careful about splitting it in small chapter, to not get very confusing.

[Eligor191]

@Icelug Okay i will try my best I read the last page and as you said its kinda a flash back. The story talks about a girl called Marie who have an amnesia and trying to get her memory back. So i am gonna make a theory is the new chapter going to show us how she lost her memory. going to read more XD.

Now the last page i uploaded. The page gives you a small explanation about the world of Acolyte hunters hope you guys will enjoy the manga.

[Exeivier]

Well i updated a whole Anterra Chronicles chapter today, but i'm playing along:

Acolyte Hunters: Explanation and diagram page!!! i love those, cause usually they add to the worldbuilding and deepness of the comic. in this case i've read a lot of stuff about the nephilims and this one adapted the concept in a really clever way, i liked it.

[FromFinn]

@Exeivier First things first, this comic... whew. Boy does this have action panels or what, I mean this comic pretty engage right off the bat. It may be black 'n' white type but the fine little details that the artist put time on is very neat. The story so far is a satisfying fantasy that pays homage to the kinds of animations you see on Television today. All and all, this is a fresh off the floor comic with just a few pages and it's a good read to anyone who are looking for adventure/fantasy. Take your pick.
Side note: New panel is great

((breath))

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On this special early-late week on ATC, Our special someone is a tad careless when it come certain obligations.

[ArtistHan]

@FromFinn Wow, I really, really like your use of colors! Really taking advantage of the digital medium! I know that there was a disclaimer at the beginning about the use of another language so I'm not sure if some of the things I read were grammar errors or intentional language construction. Perhaps make it a bit clearer in the next chapters? Also, some of the script was a bit too blurry on the last page so that I really had to strain to figure out what it said. Other than that, the only complaint I have is that I wanted to read more! (I read from the beginning after the last page because I was really interested). I'm genuinely curious about the world you've constructed and what's going to happen. Great job! (Subscribed~).

Dunno how to link certain pages, but here's the link to my latest chapter: The Underground
Tried to really up the quality of art in this chapter :3

[ippotsk]

@ArtistHan 3 words. LINKIN PARK YEEEAAAAHHHHHH! /shot/

And dude, this is epic. I'm curious about the way you drew the pages with black space and debris; did you take pages of black paper, drew on them, and joined them all together like that? It's a really badass technique, I must say. 8)
This might be commenting about your comic in general, but I'm fascinated by how the comic flows really nicely without any form of dialogue. Sure, it's a bit hard to tell what's happening (or what's going to happen), but it's what makes it more interesting to read. Their actions and expressions tell the story~

The boy. He is something. He is not to be messed with, haha.
At first I was a bit surprised when I saw the Military Police dude, but then I checked out the beginning, I realized that it's a fanproject. All is good. |"D

I liked that page; no words, no nonsense. Just straight on actions. I like that a lot! Great job!

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And here's my newest page of Trash Talk ! It's a small prelude to the current chapter, in case it confuses. :"3

[hehashivemind]

@ippotsk The whole style of the comic is very intense. I don't quite understand what's happening, but you have a lot of really close-up shots throughout the whole series so far, and I feel like it impairs visual conveyance to the reader just what's happening in terms of the physical space and volume that your characters occupy at any given moment. There aren't enough establishing shots. Everything is super fast and edgy, and feels like still screens from a really intense anime action sequence, but without any backdrops or sense of space of anything. I appreciate the intensity of the characters facial expressions, but it feels oversaturated with close-ups to the point where even the action feels cheap when it happens because we don't see the motions that lead into them.

To give a better analogy to what I mean, its the difference between a series of fast cut closeups in a Bourne film where the actors aren't trained martial artists, so the cinematographer compensates with exclusively close-ups, versus a single-shot camera pulled back, showing a setting and scene without cuts of an intense fight playing out with visual clarity, only cutting to a close-up to punctuate the intensity. This video about Jackie Chan kind of explains what I mean.

I'm not saying to decompress for quiet moments because you clearly do. However, there are certain panel shots that are sorely missing that would better illustrate the world you're creating. Simply implying the world your characters live in through characters, details, and coloration isn't enough. You should show the world, the benign, other humans. the cityscape, the entrance of buildings, the room that the characters see as they enter. Set the stage.

Its very pretty, but there's room for improvement from a comic-ing point of view since your story's setting emphasizes the dirtiness of the world so much.

Anyways, this is my comic, Time Fiddler. I've just begun Chapter 2. Samantha Fiddler has just survived both time traveling and not getting eaten by an Albertosaurus in 68 million B.C.E. And as a plus, she's now gainfully employed as an official time traveler.

[kitsuneonwheelz]

Looks good, with a calm,warm and sedated feeling of the beginning of a fun journey. eaasy to read expressions . sorry for short reply, sore hands. my characters fighting a demonic assassin

[ArtistHan]

Thanks for your review!

It's...actually snow, not debris OTL....T^T I promise I 'll draw better!!! OTL lol Anyways, about the black pages: they're actually those black clay-coated paper that you use a knife to scrape away at to bring out the white lines (got a lot of cuts on my fingers working on those pages haha). I had originally planned on using black paper or painting black and white on bristol or watercolor paper, but I just happened to notice the clay paper at the art store and I thought it would be a great idea/achieve the results I wanted with half the work. In that particular chapter, I tried to join all my pages together and really work with the webtoon format that Tapastic supports and which I personally really like. I did it by drawing my pages two at a time and including details that would run over to the next page. Tapastic's format then joined the pages automatically~

I'm glad you like the whole no-dialogue effect as it was quite intentional. I was worried that it wouldn't work but for the most part, people have been telling me that they get the overall picture of what's happening so I'm glad. Thanks again!!

Oh, and LP!!<333 haha

[ErithEl]

@kitsuneonwheelz I like how you're talking about "calm, warm and sedated feeling" in @hehashivemind's comic...and then you post this page, which is anything but! I am very impressed with your page: The fire effects and body language (and hair) really give the reader a sense of just how intense and how powerful this demon guy is. It also shows a great deal about the personality of the pink haired girl - how calm and in control she appears in the face of this power. Do you have a link to your comic? I'd be interested in reading

Here is the most recent page of Burning Bright.
Keela and Bran have just woken up in a dungeon cell, and are trying to figure out what happened and where they are...but the answer that is soon to come is one they could have never imagined. You know...based on the man with dog ears who has just opened their cell door...

[kitsuneonwheelz]

Thanks friend ! just finished color page 60.! http://tapastic.com/series/FW-Chaos uploading bw version weeksly.

[rosette]

@ErithEl I like the way how you portray their situation. The environment; the way how you blend and render was so fit that gives thrill and intensity to their situation. I like the the way you give expression to your characters. specially the calm guy, he was really cool By the way, he's so lucky... if you know what i mean lolol I'm going to follow your story. it's really interesting. I thought it's like the SAW movie.

Here is the most recent page of SUBJECT CODE: AION
ENJOY ^_^