I created this character of our dog, Marlow (RIP), who LOVED water. This is supposed to be a gouache painting for my wife but I'm not satisfied with the character design. I can't really pinpoint what is off so would appreciate any guidance. Thanks!

Big news today! I'm thrilled to announce that Proko partnered with none other than Marvel on a drawing and storytelling course for comic artists - Marvel's The Art of Storytelling. This has been in the works for a few years now, so it feels good to finally reveal it to you guys. I feel honored that Marvel chose to work with Proko on their big splash into online drawing education. It's validating to see our tireless efforts to create top-notch art lessons getting recognized on such a grand scale. We made a better course because of the expertise Marvel provided and the connection to the top talent to teach the lessons. For those of you who are studying to become comic artists, I hope this course supports you on your journey. Thank you to the whole Proko community. Your unwavering support and passion for art got us this ticket to the big leagues.

Posting some comic book sketch covers. We can make this a group thread so anyone can join in.

If you're studying to be a comic artist, don't miss @David Finch's course that came out on presale today - Creating a Comic Page. btw I'm giggling like a little girl right now because I'm so excited about today's livestream. I've been officially made into a superhero.. Drawing Superheroes with David Finch (LIVESTREAM)

A couple of pages that I filled during work.

So probably you guys have already seen my recent two spreads in this channel and I finally decided to push through the third one. Been tired and my allergy going on is getting me into a low energy state :/ I feel the texture is a bit finer than what I wanted so it appears a bit noisy at some places. However I feel it's my best looking so far in terms of contrast and layout. What do you guys think? I'm probably gonna do one or two more spreads like this and call it a series, so I could more or less solidify my workflow so to speak.

Hey, everyone! :) Here are some of the cartoons drawings I've been making lately. There's a few more on my website (liandro.art/portfolio) Feedbacks will be warmly appreciated!

Hi there! It's the first time I'm starting a thread out here. Made a little illustration of God creating a tiger. The idea struck me and I could not help drawing it

Hey, everyone! I’d like to know what comes to your mind when you think of the word “cartoon”. What concepts and ideas do you associate with cartoon? Do you have a clear definition of what’s a cartoon? Feel free to be as short or as long as you want in your reply. Thanks in advance! ☺️

A couple of months ago I asked you for help with the composition of some pages. Thank you very much, the result was far beyond my expectations. Over the next few days I will bore you with new storyboards since your help with these pages has been so valuable and useful! Thank you very much, it's nice to have a community to ask for advice! <3

Just some random sketching in the evening.

May his legacy bring about new strengthened artists.

I am going to Post here the more Cartoony traditional stuff from me. Feel free to give some serious feedback and critiques! First 4 Pieces done in Watercolor&Gouache+Ink

When I’m coming up with my cartoons, I usually find it easier to envision the drawing part, but I tend to have a harder time when attempting to create texts (for example, funny punch lines, witty captions etc.) And I’ve been finding it helpful to interact with ChatGPT for that. It doesn’t give me anything close to a great final text ready to be used, but it’s helping me get "unstuck" with more ease. Have you guys ever tried any AI tool for brainstorming, developing a rough idea or something like that? If so, what do you think of the experience?

I´m trying to find a very specific approach to digital paint, so I´m just gathering references of my favorite artists and art and try to apply something they did in a pleasant way :)

Hey guys I finally finished the 5th spread of this project, which concludes the planned sequence and I find myself more comfortable doing shading like this. I'm still not very comfortable with drawing human and clothes, especially regarding pose and folds. I think I should do some silhouette practice to get more comfortable with how a human look like when doing various stuff. As for clothes and folds, I'm not quite sure what will look better. I tried actually mapping out all the shadow area shapes and shade them accordingly but that looks pretty stiff, so I may need to look at more artist on how they do clothes. Otherwise I'm doing okay... Composition/value distribution wise, you can probably spot I'm lazy at some places and some shapes got muddled, but overall they turned out better than I expected. Please give some thoughts on these, and I do recommend people who is interested in drawing to do some more "lengthy" stuff than quick practices, I think I benefited a lot from doing this :D (I don't think I can re-order the image list...)

Hey, people! Here's a new batch of cartoons I've worked on recently, thought it would be nice to share them with you guys. There's also some more stuff at http://www.liandro.art/en :D

Hey, guys! 😄 I’m working on this piece now and would love some honest feedbacks. Idea, composition, style, gesture, shapes, forms, light, colors… anything feedback-worthy that pops up to you is valid! Hope to get some help. Thanks in advance! 🙌🏻

I've got a comic being published by CEX publishing that's going to be in stores on Wednesday. It was originally written as six books, but is getting released as three double sized issues. I drew it and co-wrote it with Bryan Richmond. Every book has a variant cover, so there are six covers in all. This coming out is a bucket-list thing for me. It's something I always wanted to do, and now it's happening. It feels good. I don't expect to make a lot of money from comics. It's a tough industry, and most indy comics don't garner the shelf space to sell well in comic shops. The effect comics have made on my career, however, has been profound, if more indirect than cash in hand. The chief benefit for me has been that comics have made me a better illustrator. It's one thing to draw a character once or twice, but it's entirely different to draw that character over the course of six issues in a variety of settings, while conveying different actions and emotions. In a recent podcast, Stan and Marshall talk about the book, "The Talent Code." In the book author Daniel Coyle, talks about how Brazilian soccer players play a game called Futsal to become dominant in soccer. Futsal is played in smaller spaces with a heavier ball, and less players. Futsal demands more control and precision than soccer and players get more reps. What futsal is to soccer players, I believe comics are to illustrators. A typical comic will have multiple characters and environments that have to be drawn from every angle near and far while conveying a story in an entertaining way. Making comics has forced me to obsess over fundamentals because that's where the solutions drawing problems can be found. I thought I'd share what my experience with it in case anyone wanted to give comics a try.

Someone on Twitter asked about process for this of us that write and draw our stories. In my case, I co-write the Space Corps with Bryan Richmond, but the process is the same when I'm doing it on my own. In this case, Bryan and I work out the outline together. This part can be on any scrap of paper. In this case the outline is from issue three, since I can't find what I wrote issue 5's outline on, but it would have looked the same. I then then type the outline into a photoshop document. From there, I start roughing in the comic page by page. I don't necessarily do them in order. I start with the ones I see in my imagination the clearest, and put off the ones I'm not sure about until last. I write the dialogue write into the document as I go. Doing it in this way, I can see from a global view how the pace of the story is working or not working. It's easy to move scenes around or revamp altogether if they're not working. I picked this up from Scott McCloud. He did a presentation on his process when he was doing his book tour for The Sculptor, have been using it ever since.

I've read tons of comics in black and white... but I'm looking to expand my library and see what else is out there. Do you have a favorite comic with beautiful colors? Striking colors? Ominous colors? I'm especially interested in comics that are produced by a single-person or small team! Flat or partial colors also work; what I am especially trying to study is the marriage of linework and coloring :) As an example, I LOVE Calvin and Hobbes (I know, not exactly an obscure pick). Bill Watterson's vibrant watercolors plus juicy inkwork packed with character -- they're a perfect combination!

Hi, I did this animation. Do you have any tips? https://youtu.be/W47jMm22Jhg I went through the Animator's Survival Kit last year and now I'm revisiting animation, to further develop my skills. I applied the disney flour sack exercise to a short story I have in mind. The location is a store and a girl comes to purchase an item. But as the owner of the store ascends the latter to get the item from the shelf, the latter breaks. The story revolves around him trying to get to the top of the shelf. The part I animated is when: he looks at the piece of paper, given to him by the girl, where the number of the item is written. He looks to the top of the shelf, climbs the latter, finds the item and reaches for it. After this the latter will break and he'll fall. My goal with the exercise was to practice the animation process suggested in the Animator's Survival Kit. The animation took roughly 10 hours, spread over two weeks, to make. Before this I practiced timing and spacing with bouncing balls. I started to feel more comfortable with it, so I moved on to focusing on process as well. I wrapped up my bouncing ball practice by doing this animation. https://youtu.be/miINF95TUAg Any feedback on it would be appreciated as well :) Thanks in advance!

Hey, everyone! :) I've been living parenthood very intensely for about the past twenty months or so, and it has inspired a lot of my recent drawing ideas. So, just for the sake of sharing, here's a bit of what's been coming out of my mind lately. Hope you enjoy! (...but I draw about other stuff too, so please check out my site in case you'd like to see more: http://www.liandro.art) :D Thanks!

So I just finished another spread of my helicopter thing... I'm basically doing this as some sort of test to see if I can do shading comfortably with some painting knowledge. Some of you guys may have already seen my last one. I think I did this one a bit too dark, maybe I could use some lighter shapes to better hint the structure of that helicopter. And I'm not very proficient in representing various textures, otherwise I think I did okay :D. Any opinions on how I should look to improve? I'm kinda struggling with more "free form" textures as seen in a lot of Toppi's works, but I don't think I visualize that very well. And sometimes it's good to leave lighter areas in shadow, like the one I did on the blades, but it's more of a hit or miss for me tbh. Any ideas?

When you look at full length comic books/series, manga, or similar, it seems that in addition to the actual author or creator of the work, there is always an army of people behind them to actually produce the work, long before the publishing process even starts. Assistant artists for certain pages or frames, inkers who go over the original creator's rough or penciled sketches, colorists, artists who specialize in things the creator does not such as environment (since few artists are masters of all...seems comic artists either need to master "everything" or have others contributing to the work) etc. I was hoping someone could point me to some kind of successful series of comics (not quick draw webcomics, like full length detailed comics) or otherwise that were produced by a single creator (excluding the publishing process). Or is the stuff I described above part of the publishing process, and the original creator typically will just submit rough drafts of the art and writing? As someone who does not have an army of people working with me, I would still like to eventually create my own series for submission to publication, but it's pretty discouraging when I see so many examples of that not being possible with only a single person behind the work :)

So I’m back to creating cartoons, and this is the most recent one I’ve done. 😁 Hopefully, there will be more of this kind coming soon. If you have any thoughts on it, I’d love to know about! Thanks!

A comic I worked on as a webcomic is about to see print. The story itself has been done for a while, but the cover is new. It just got announced this week, so I can finally share. Thanks for looking!

Spidey drawing I did recently in procreate. Here’s both the inks and colors.

I wanted to show these boards because I got a kick out of David Finch's class. It motivated me into getting back into drawing comic boards once again. My passion and love for this industry has never left me. Thank you David for making this fun again.

Drew this recently at a patio cafe. I would like to know your very first impression. The thought that leaped into your head when you first looked at it. One thing that is working, one thing that is not.

Hello everyone, my name is Yiannis and I'm a 3D Student from Greece. I have been passionate for comics ever since I remember myself. This is a short comic book story I created for a local magazine in July 2019. All done traditionally. This is the first part of the story, the second part unfortunately was not continued. This is the story of a misunderstood scientist , who, disappointed at the univeristy's narrow-minds, decides to create the perfect assistant, of course by creating the perfect artificial life form....always with the help of his new butler. Enjoy!!!

Haven't done any grey marker sketching in many years, but it was always a favorite medium of mine back at school. A little rusty, but it feels a bit like seeing an old friend messing with them again. :)

Hey, everybody! I got such helpful feedback that I decided to do a complete makeover of this piece (before, it was like this: https://www.proko.com/community/topics/interrogation-cartoon-illustration-looking-for-feedback) In this new version, I decided to go even more graphic ("comic-style") and drastically reduced the use of colors. Also, I made several adjustments in construction and composition. Many thanks again to @Jo Sheridan, @Matthew Manghi, @Mary Verzosa, @Tiger Gayle-Walker and @Jason Arizona for your precious comments in the first post. Best vibes to you all!

Howdy, everyone! My name is William and I'm brand new to this Proko community! I've been drawing for 8 years and mostly focus on cartooning. I'm a tad bit nervous since I don't tend to post my art on socials much but I hope you enjoy some of these sketches I've made throughout the year.

Hey, @Struggler! You originally requested my help in another post (https://www.proko.com/s/CFaT), but since there was a different discussion going on there first, I’m creating this new separate topic so we can focus just on your demands here. To provide some context, I’m attaching your drawings, and here’s what you originally wrote: —- Hi sir,  I need your help to improve my work. I want to do cartoon style work but i am unable to simplify it, and that's exhausting. I am not able to making those gorgeous shapes that speaks of life. When I exaggerate something it feels to me that I am doing it wrong. So I want you to give me a honest review of my work so that I can know what I am doing wrong. Thank you —- So, as requested, I’ll share some thoughts! My personal gut reaction to your drawings: I honestly like them. To me, they feel cute and adorable, and I think they also have a nice sense of appeal and storytelling. One thing I like to have in mind is that there is no “wrong way” to draw - art is vast enough to withhold various valid types of expression. And in cartooning, I think this is especially true. But I also understand that we, artists, often idealize a particular style we wish to have, or envision techniques we want to grow upon. With that said, I think it can be important to reframe the question, not so much as “what am I doing wrong?”, but more like “where do I want to get?” I can certainly tell that you are, in fact, already drawing in a cartoon style, since your drawings do have a degree of simplification. The thing is: would you like to simplify even more? If so, what is it about each drawing exactly that you feel you’re having trouble simplifying? You also mention you’d like to make “gorgeous shapes that speak of life” - could this be a hint that what you’re struggling with isn’t exactly simplification, but shape design? (I’m thinking of exaggeration as a part of shape design too, by the way) Let me know if any of this rings true to you and if you might have anything else to share, then we can keep discussing in this thread!

Hi I'm Yiming... I love doing line art and also some paintings. I've been practice traditional painting with gouache and gradually applying stuff I learned back to my ink drawings and I think I'm doing okay as an amateur guy who dabbles around XD OH and I love Sergio Toppi!

I love Gundam robots and I want to learn how to draw them from imagination and come up with my own designs. Is there anyone experienced with Gundam art to help me with feedback or give pesonal lessons for a fee? If you are please post your art and an email I can reach you to. Thank you.

Finished up another practice page.

Newt.

Hi guys, i'm french (sorry for my english) and i finally decided to start drawing two month ago. I draw everydays (4 or 5hours per days) and i try to learn everthings i found. I found Proko and thought that it was a really good website to share my progression and discuss with other people. What do you think ? Any suggestions to progress ? Thanx and all the best for all of you ! Tony

I've developed a love for mangas lately and been asking alot of my friends and teachers what mangas they recommend. Now that i just joined Proko i might aswell ask here too. Would anyone like to share who/what are their favorite mangakas and/or mangas? if you have any share it here and as importantly share what makes you love them so much? Is it the story, the artstyle, the inking, paneling, or anything?

I was watching the Draftsmen "Scribble to Discover" episode, and I felt kinda encouraged. Because the way I like to draw is to roughly map out attractive and gestural shapes when designing, and then refine. I do digital as well, so I can get clean lines if I want to refine for a full illustration. (The second image is the Grinch, haha)

Here's a one off comic page I'm working on. I got some loose figures in and I am interested in your thoughts on the gesture and composition. In case it's not apparent, she's bouncing off of clotheslines while falling into the alley below (There will be more clothes bouncing on the lines/flying through the air). If there are any additional things that standout to you, or you have something cool to suggest, feel free to share those as well. Note: The initial preview is pretty hard to look at, but if you click "open original" it should be pretty sharp.

As a sort of early New Year's resolution I played around with inking some scribbles yesterday. Very clumsy attempts. I've never done much professional inking and it's been years (and years, and years) since I've attempted anything. The inking I've done previously has been more in the thick-to-thin, brushy-cartoony style. The color cartoons attached are some examples of my work like that. I had never really put much effort into renderings that address shadow masses, figure planes, and what all. So, these first few scribbles are pretty awful in the technique department. Heck, in the drawing department too. I used a variety of cheap fine tip and brush markers. 'Just dipping my toes in :-) This coming year I will be doing some serious study of ink illustration technique. I'll probably start by doing close studies of artists whose inking I admire: Joe Kubert, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo. More as I discover them. And I'll be experimenting with different tools; possibly adding some dip pens. Anyway, these scribbles are posted for future comparison. And as always, much more study is needed :-) Blue prismacolor pencil, various fine tip and brush markers on white copy paper, 11 inches x 8.5 inches

shading? line work? structure?? what can i do to improve my drawing?? please help

I'm 48 (in June) and feel like the proverbial Dog starting a new trick! My Wife and Family have been behind me in my art dreams. I have the 3rd bedroom as my studio; A drafting table; And few years ago I bought WACOM Cintiq 13HD, and a few after I got that I bought a Cintiq 22HD from some money my Dad left in his will. If there is a good book on art recommended by anyone on YOUTUBE I buy it. I own a A3 printer/scanner. I have spit load Pencils and Paper... BUT I have two problems: PROBLEM 01) I suffer from G.A.S. "Gear-Acquisition-Syndrome" I bought the Cintiq 13HD and 22HD thinking it would make me better Artist. I feel like The Narrator from FIGHT CLUB: I there is a gimmick tool I had to have (Not saying the Cintiq 13HD or 22HD is a gimmick tool.) if someone like Proko showed an artist's book or something like that I bought it. I have a heap of Art Text Books. I know I am a Gear-Head its my curse! PROBMEL 02) I lack self confidence, and feel mediocre in my art skills. Every morning I wake up and feel like I am wasting time. My Question is, with all this in mind, can this Old Dog learn a new trick?

Drew the armored titan from aot and hanami from jujutsu kaisen traditionally with some anatomy knowledge from @Stan Prokopenko's anatomy lessons. Feel free to critique or give suggestions

So which one do you think is better?

Hi guys 4 months drawing now (with a teacher since two weeks) and so happy to share with you my new works based on Moebius, David Finch, Jim Lee, Travis Charest and Jean Baptiste Andreae. What do you think ? Any artists to share here? All the best Tony

Hi everyone, I did this piece a few months back. To me, it looks ok, but I'm sure there are problems with it that I'm not seeing. Any feedback would be really appreciated. Cheers

Some random characters I drew. Critique if you can

I took a writing class at the Comics Experience recently. During the class all the students produced a script for a five page story. These are the roughs layouts I did from my script. I did these on 3x5 cards with Pitt pens and Copic markers, with the lettering done in Adobe Illustrator. I like to letter my roughs so that I can see how the whole story is working. I'll make any adjustments at this stage before I take it to full pencils and inks.

These were posted to the assignments page before deadline Thoughts?

I’m working on some practice pages. Here’s the first one. Written/illustrated/lettered by me.

 this idea just kind of came to me. I started drawing it just as a doodle and it turned into this. Got lost in it and had a ball creating the scene and character! I would love to hear your thoughts about what you think is happening in the scene.

I did the color sketch with airbrush and then scanned the image for re-touch/experiment in PS. I think I do a larger painting in some point. What do you think about the background white or red? Red version is the original airbrushed and white is digital version.

What do you guys think about my latest piece? I did it for Max Gerecke's Art Challenge. What do you guys think about the anatomy of the face and stylization of the anatomy and the clothes? Also is the lighting correct, does it read clearly? and can the background be improved. Constructive criticism appreciated. Thank you :D PS I have also included the reference that I used.

Here are a couple commissions I finished up recently. Rogue and Cap. These were pretty fun to do!

First of all, I want you to know that it's very hard for me to show this storyboard because I'm so ashamed of the way I go about my work (but it's what I'm most comfortable with, and since I work alone on the pages, no draughtsman, inker or colourist gets hurt in the process ^^;) So, I've been working on a webcomic for a couple of years at the insistence of a writer friend who was desperate to adapt one of her novels. I took a year to study and prepare myself for the task (in comics I had experience ONLY as a japanese graphic adapter, layout artist and letterer), I'm literally learning one page at a time. In the beginning I used to ask a friend of mine, a professional comic artist, to help me correct the storyboards, I did it for the first 40 pages, but I didn't want to bother him any more and from then on I did it myself, following his advice. The problem is that now, after more than a hundred pages with a quiet atmosphere, we're starting with the action pages and there will be a total change of mood, which I'm afraid I won't be able to handle without help. Since there's this forum, therefore, I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask for some advice. What I'm posting here is a draft of the page I'm working on: it starts with a vertical vignette that ends a short flashback. The character is the Captain of the Royal Guards (we are talking about a fantasy/fairytale setting) and he is standing on the spot where in the past he defeated the Cuckoo (the villain of the story, a kind of anti-Christ) with some of his men in order to help a stableman recover a precious foal that had fallen into the same cliff where the Cuckoo was thrown. He tries to banish the anxiety caused by the coincidence but the situation is about to get worse and on the next page he discovers that the men who descended into the cliff have been killed and something is coming up for him. How can I best express the atmosphere? The scene takes place as the sun goes down and I have tried to show the light fading fast as the sun goes down, but I would like to make it more effective through the shots. Any advice?

Hello you wonderful art-people out there :) A friend of mine asked me to draw a rabbit with a smug and little mean facial expression. I am goint to spray the image with airbrush as a logo on one of his belongings. He wants the rabbit in a comic-style drawing. I started to create a rabbit and want to ask if you cound give me any tips for the expression on his face and if you have any critique? I tried to indicate the expression with the direction of the fur around the eyes. Still need to add the snake in the rabbits mouth.

Looking for some honest feedback on my "Frankenfro" piece. Made this in procreate.

Big goal this year is to get better at figure drawing and not get discouraged working through the gesture stage... as you can see there is a lot to be discouraged about XD. My goal is to spend an hour with it a day. Typically I burn out after a week. But New Year! New me! ... hopefully.

hello everyone, this is the first time I post here, I'm starting in digital art, I've been practicing seriously for a year, and I'm making comics, not because I want to dedicate myself to it, but because it seems like a good way to practice, since it forces you to think about several aspects simultaneously, I leave you here some images of the last comic I did, I hope you will give me your feedback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJOrtJU9Zs This is the kind of videos that really inspires me to draw. I think Jim Lee is awsome! It seems to me that there is not a lot of comic fans in this community. Am I right? What do you guys think of some action packed comic art? Do you see it as "less valuable" than fine art? Or "same thing, just a different style"? I'm still a beginner, but are there anyone better at drawing the figure in any (often extreme) pose seen from any (often extreme) angle than comic book artists? And everything done from imagination.

So here you go, my latest spread of this rescue helicopter sequence thing. I think the "big shape" is a bit weak compared to the previous one, maybe because it's the messy nature of the interior layout. It's rather hard to place the camera in such a narrow space, while not occluding too much, and being physically feasible, so it kinda looks nasty... Maybe If I continue darken the back wall on the left to the same extent as the right side, the shape may speak better. I kinda took liberty for the shadows because I still want to show some structures in the shaded areas. And... I think I'm more confident with drawing a "generic human" now, but I'm still thinking of a way to represent shading on skin and clothes better. because if I shade it here, it will immediately get too dark than what they should like compared to the rest of the scene, so if any of you guys have experience in this kind of shading, especially for facial and skin features against a already filled background, would love to hear some of your thoughts there. Thanks! :D

Here's my first attempt at a full comics page. It was a lot to try to work out, but I definitely found it interesting to work through. I'm not sure I've every attempted anything this complex before.

Getting back into digital work and did this little owl for halloween.

Drawing of Wolverine I did yesterday. Figured I'd share it.

This site seems great for learning art and I'd love to bring the animation community here. No mp4 or mov unfortunately so testing if gifs will work.

Dear Community, i am a first time poster in this community. I am a bin fan of promo since a long time! I wanted to introduce myself by posting a few recent pictures of mine because I finally have gathered the self confidence to do so. I am not a hired artist yet but I hope to be able to have sustainable living soon. The journey ahead is still… maybe long? I hope to make many friends here! Will take part in the community challenges from now on regularly. :-) with best regards, Proud Hands

Here is my assignment for the penciling part of the coarse

Been dealing with some back trouble (Yoga is helping a lot), so not much drawing lately aside from just some doodling in my sketchbook.

This year I made a lot of redraws so I will be posting them on this topic thread.

Some of my recent exploration for this character, a little girl and her friend and alligator. I was trying to explore different styles for that. Any feedback is appreciated :)

Hello everyone! I will post digital portraits on this Topic. First portrait goes fro Frank Sinatra.

I've done a few satirical Batman comics with a buddy of mine. We have come up with a character that's not Batman, but close enough to a Mad Magazine take on the character so that the jokes work. Here are a couple of sketches of the character, called the Night Guard.

Hi everyone! Does anyone of you know which book will be a complete guide to beginners for drawing cartoon characters or drawing from imagination? I would really appreciate any recommendations.

A cartoony dose of motivation for the day :D

Hello everyone! I designed this character at the beginning of the year for a Character Design Challenge theme.

Some sequential art i did for a music video in my instagram. Im open to any critique

It's been a while since I've done on-demand comics, but recently I had a few comics printed of my rough draft story. I like to letter my roughs so that I can get a good idea if the story of is working or not. It's easier to make changes at this stage when I've only spent an hour or two on a page. At this stage, I'm looking to see how it fits together, make edits, and see what I want to change before the polished draft. I'm not associated with them in any way, but I have to say that the service at Ka-blam is pretty great. There are no minimums, and it was pretty easy to follow the templates and instructions to get them the files. I'm not sure what other companies are out there, but on-demand is a good way to get your book into print.

here's a sample of the current comic world im building and trying to nail down the cast of characters and style treatment. the lighter-toned image is the most recent page inked and scanned into clip studio. but I feel like it lacks the life that the other page does and the underlying pencil work that influences more of the other full page. I'm not sure how the color treatment will truly be as I Feel the full-color digital drawing is also a bit stiff. and critiques would be great and to just add clarity his non-human arm is that of a tree-like Groot.

Some examples of construction lines being used to build up cartoon figures. I generally almost always use construction lines when cartooning (unless I'm just sketching for general enjoyment) or for doing an illustration that requires perspective, lighting, and or objects to be involved with characters

I had a comics series come out this year through CEX Publishing. The original series was in black and white, but the publisher suggested coloring it for the trade. I couldn't afford to hire a colorist, so I did all 138 pages myself. I'm happy with how it came out. The painting studies I've been doing helped me in approaching the project.

Anyone who enjoys retro sci-fi and fantasy stuff let me know what you think.

Hello. Here are two pages I drew that I'd like to share and get feedback on. I'll take any critiques you may have for me. Don't worry about hurting my feelings, I work in the service industry so I already hate everyone and am bracing for the worst. But if you don't immediately know what to say, you can answer a few questions I have about the art: 1. Do you know what's happening? There's no dialogue on purpose. I want the frames themselves to be enough to tell the story. 2. Is it boring? I did what I could to vary the angles of each shot. I just finished watching David Finch's video on dynamic composition so I had that in mind. 3. Do you have any emotional reaction looking through it? I was trying to make the end feel both funny and creepy. Did I pull it off for you? Did you instead get bored and jump right down to the comments to let me know I suck? That's cool too. I need to know so that I can get better.

I watched with interest Ryan Benjamins video on inking in Clip Studio. It's been awhile since I tried any inking, and tried to follow Ryans advice as best I could. Included are pencils by Proko contributor David Finch and my digital inks. It took me about 4 hours and I had fun. Any comments welcome.

Hello everyone this is my first try in comic art!!!!!!!! I aspire to be a comic book artist I have the following questions!!! *Please tell me what do you understand from the story *I was having a hard time with the floor tiles * What areas should i focus more on to be a comic book artist * Tips on drawing hands as i struggle with it a lot

I did this today as a show of support for the staff in the middle school is sometimes sub in (Their mascot is the Gator). Figured I'd post it here too.

Hey! I'm a 16 year old aspiring comic artist, I would appreciate any critique or advice, what can I Improve? and how close do you guys think I am? from the script of Lucifer(2000) #4

Hello, I did another comic, it's based on the touhou series and when I post this, I would probably already post the comic elsewhere, but I hope to get some criticism so I can do better on my next comic >_< For this comic, I didn't had a specific style in mind, I was looking at Andrew Wyeth's work and Takehiko Inoue but most of the time I was just looking at pictures of Marissa, Rhinosuke and Rumia (the witch, the guy with the glasses and the little girl that cry respectively) and just trying to get their characteristic right, halfway through, I got kinda tired of using Andrew wyeth's palette of mute yellow and green and experiment a bit to see if it could fit the story, I'm not sure if it works and would like to know if the color shift is too abrupt. I also tried using manga screen tones technique, specifically for page 4 and 5 (and also page 14 to an extend), I really like them, since I found the abstract pattern pushes the emotion, but I found it quite hard to integrate them to color work since most of the time I only see them use in black and white manga. (I also tried using crosshatching technique, specifically one page 3 and 14 on Marissa's neck, I would like feedback on both of this to see if they work or not) The writting was inspired by Samuel Beckett and Marcel Proust (I would also add Nabokov and Melville but with the exception of the passage where Rumia spell her name like humbert humbert spelled Lolita, I wasn't consciously thinking about them as much as the first two example), though this part doesn't really have to do with the art, so apologies for making this longer than it should >_< Anyway, other than that, I would also any critism on anything that doesn't work and further suggestion. Thank you for reading my post and thank you for the reply in advance :D (Also @Liandro any thoughts?) P.s. read from right to left

Hey all! I'm fairly new to this community but I've had a fascination lately with the technique of using screen-tone or half-tone (physical/digital) in comic books like some of the stuff seen in manga. I was wondering what your perspectives and knowledge were on this, as it seems like it's a way to enhance color work or make B&W work pop. Let me know what you guys think! Here's a couple examples of the stuff I'm studying where I've tried my hand at coloring under the B&W works that have that soft grayscale shading already set up for it (all credit goes to DC Comics' Jorge Jiminez, who happens to be one of my favorite artists to follow!)

Looking for a critique on this

these are mainly for practice and are intended for being funny. also i love pandas so. 😁✌

If you don’t mind I will use this topic to share my daily art with you guys! Here comes the first by Reddit user Gold_BonniePlayz

Drew this traditionally a while back, but decided to ink it in Procreate the other day.

So this is my 1 hr of work... I will start coloring it now But before that.. What should I change? Whats the prob with this drawing?