Your Favourite Comic Art Styles?

[Kayas_Kosmos]

Thank you! This comic I would like to be just over 20 pages or so. The comic series I am planning afterwards is much longer so I may need to simplify the art style or get good at speedpainting.

Ooh these are nice looking comics! Also, wow, I love the atmosphere in yours, you have a new sub now

[baasinsimple]

I just have a love for Yasuhisa Hara's art on kingdom. You can tell that all Hara really wants to do his keep your adrenaline pumping and I can really respect that.

I also really like Black Clover's and One Piece's art. They simplify things just enough and BC's artstyle has this floaty aspect to it that gives it a magical feel

While One Piece's is so positively organic and gives you the idea you're looking at real flesh despite the fact it doesn't look realistic at all

I honestly think watching the anime makes you miss out on a lot of the artistic merit these guys and most mangaka in general have and I think each of these guys need much better anime then they got so please don't watch the anime for any of these. While One Piece's artstyle has been easy enough to replicate, the organic feel it has is completely forgotten in the anime. Black Clover's anime can barely stay on model either long running or not it just doesn't justify the amount of bad in each episode, and don't even get me started on the Kingdom anime which got rid of one Hara's biggest strengths, his gore, his shading (even if his actual character color choices are not good) and his exaggerated grasp on anatomy, turning the whole thing into weird CG bullshit. These guys have artstyles, that in their current state, deserve to be experienced.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

@baasinsimple

Eichiro Oda is one of my all time favorite artists. His character designs are so interesting and bombastic. The anime has definitely tanked in the last few years. Too bad, because for a long time it was pretty good. The manga still impresses me with every new chapter. Oda's just got a good grasp on how to make dynamic scenes.

[baasinsimple]

Oh definitely, Hara has a similar talent but makes it dynamic mostly through his use of blood and weapons I totally recommend the read.

[Kittosaurus]

@Kayas_Kosmos You have a beautiful style and I think this is a great way to practice your art to get it to "blizzard standards". I love your use of color and light and I am excited to see where you take this! (I haven't even played Overwatch and I enjoy it).

*A word of caution with fan comics be careful if you monetize it in anyway - even accepting ink!

I have tried to achieve a retro golden books inspired look with my comic:

The Librarian Arachnid Slayer | Tapas

And here are some other comics with interesting styles:

I love their use of color in this one!

Living When Dead | Tapas

Humor me is beautifully illustrated:

Humor me | Tapas

Clink is just beautiful - love their style:

Clink | Tapas

You would probably like the style in this one - realistic painterly:

Angels Don't Live Long | Tapas

And finally Cucumber quest is probably one of my favorites:
http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/cq/page-1/

[Kayas_Kosmos]

Thank you! I'll be sure to check out Blunderland

[Pandastrophic]

I don't think I have a fav comic style but I always find any style that uses colours, lighting and shading really well as extremely beautiful!

I think the best example for me is Heart of Keol, beautiful colouring technique, use of colours and amazing lights and shadows and it's all used so well in the story telling and the emotions conveyed by the characters.

Heart of Keol | Tapas

Monster pop, I love the use of colours and lighting to show the emotions of the characters

Monster Pop! | Tapas

Hidden in Plain Sight, such a pretty style and I love the colour palette choices!

Hidden in Plain Sight | Tapas

[Kayas_Kosmos]

Wow, this really makes me realise that I've been thinking about manga the wrong way this whole time. With me being a bit of a colour nut, I've always turned away from most manga and not had as much of an appreciation for it as I should. With how eloquently you've described the ways these styles function, it does make me genuinely interested to check them out However I am fully aware of how anime can completely ruin the original tone of a manga. I love the film "Barefoot Gen" for example, but apparently the manga is even more hard-hitting and there is a lot of hidden symbolism that was never in the film. I am also intrigued by the original Akira manga because the film's plot feels rushed and messy even if the visuals are astonishing.

[baasinsimple]

Yeah, I can confirm that. Akira's story in the manga is actually quite good. same with Barefoot Gen, though I'd say that in B.G's case it's an amazing experience either way. I mean if you just look up anything from the Kingdom anime, at the very least you'd get nauseous, it's just that bad and Hara has only gotten to really know color theory recently even if he's always been good with methods anyway. Kingdom and Black Clover are manga that are quite enhanced by their styles of line art and shading that would be much less impactful if colored. The first picture I uploaded for Kingdom was actually fan colored. The Actual colored variation gives me a headache.

[Kayas_Kosmos]

Wow these are all stunning. Thanks for sharing them!

[Kayas_Kosmos]

Okay so out of curiosity I looked up the colouring for Kingdom and... wow, you weren't kidding. It definitely works better without the colouring.

[baasinsimple]

Yeah, he shouldn't have waited until his late 30s to finally start learning color theory.

[LCT_m_a_d]

Creative storrytelling

Un-Eternal | Tapas

Cenematic

Aegis | Tapas

Painting style

Horns - A Short Story | Tapas

[Kayas_Kosmos]

These are all fantastic, and I do indeed find the "Angels Don't Live Long" comic to be very impressive. Thank you for recommending them. I have also subbed to your comic.

And I'm really glad you like my work! I don't really plan to monetise this comic as it's only going to be short since I would like to eventually move on to doing my own webcomic, (one that has been in development hell since 2013). The only thing I really want to take from Blizzard is their level of polish

[Kayas_Kosmos]

These are really nice. Thanks for sharing!

[Kittosaurus]

No problem! Thanks for the sub

[OttoGruenwald]

Black and white forever! I love stark contracts and chiaroscuro!

The Power of Stardust | Tapas

[Kayas_Kosmos]

Oooh, nice! This gets an immediate sub from me!

[ivanmapbt]

For manga, I really really love Vinland Saga's art style.

For comic, they are Lore Olympus's art, Edith's art and ZomCom's art.

Lore Olympus

Edith

ZomCom

They are quite the opposite, aren't they?

[Kayas_Kosmos]

Oooh, Vinland Saga looks niiiice

I think we all have multiple styles that we like. I can never decide if I like more realistic and detailed stuff or highly animated work with strong gestures. Artists that can somehow marry the two always catch my attention, people like Norman Rockwell or Aaron Blaise.