Dante Navarro
Mexico
Im a 20 years old comic book artist that has a dream and one day i will realize it
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Gannon Beck
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4yr
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Looks good, Dante! You've got a lot of great foreshortening in these. Are you doing the figures form imagination or are you using reference?
Dante Navarro
4yr
Thanks man, i almost do everything from imagination, thats why anatomy is one of my strongest point and thats why i study a lot to be succesfull in the comic industry
Jared DiPietro
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4yr
Awesome stuff here, Dante! You're anatomy and forms look very solid. You're also capturing the action very well, the only thing I could suggest is to try capture even more of the energy . When I'm playing around with poses I like to keep pushing them until they "break" and then take one of the two before that. You might find that you like the way that you've already done the poses best (They are very well done) but you might find something you like even better!
One of the first images that comes to mind is Batman punching Superman in Batman: Hush drawn by Jim Lee (First image below www.instagram.com/jimlee ) If you look closely at Batman, his waist and chest are twisted so far to the point of anatomical error. Now this is certainly an extreme, and depending on your style you may not want to take it this far, but it does make for a powerful image.
Another thing to note are the directions of the line of actions (LoA) for each figure. This is a trend I see in a lot of comic action shots, I've highlighted them in the shots below (Ed McGuinness www.instagram.com/edmcguinness John Romita Jr. www.twitter.com/therealjrjr1 & Ryan Ottley www.instagram.com/ryanottley respectively) The two lines curve away from each other; JRJR's piece has a particular powerful bend. If you follow from the beginning of the line, it's like they started to approach each other and then veered off. Which pretty accurately reflects what happened if you think about it. Sometimes the LoA's interact differently, there are many more examples, but I think that this was the best one to highlight for the pieces that you have here.
You already have a little of it in some of your pieces, but try taking it further. In your first image, the way you've bent Bizzaro's body has his LoA converging with Superman's (See example below). One possible course of action would be to bend his torso and turn his head a little more so that it fits a line a little more like this (See second example).
On the topic of heads, one thing I see a lot is having the head snap backwards (or two the side) and sort of dragging the body behind it. You have this in a lot of your shots (pretty much all of them), but again, just try taking it a little further. A big part of communicating the energy in these shots is thinking about how the force and momentum moves through the body, which can change depending on where and how they were hit.
Before I forget, the green lines on the first two images are just to show the alternating rhythms on the figure and how that adds to the energy. Push the curves and twists, pack that energy in and see what comes out.
It's pretty clear that you know a lot of this stuff already, I'm sure very little of it was new to you. I hope that some of it proves useful, or sparks some new thoughts/insights for your projects going forward. Fantastic work, excited to see more!
A LOT OF THANKS, man. I really appreciate this kind of feedback. I understand everything you said and of course i will keep in mind the next times. I invite you to see the music video i made because all the pieces have movement that reinforces the trajectory of the force. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKfAYIjBMI2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Some sequential art i did for a music video in my instagram. Im open to any critique