ArmouredNinja Comics

[ArmouredNinja]

I started my comic at the end of March. I've been trying different ways of doing things and different styles...but I haven't found a good style that I would draw oncee a week. I will though, and once I do I'll do shading and shadowing and such. I've been getting positive feedback about it though. I'm also trying to get a new host and setup and layout.Maybe a .com domain too. I'm going to fix EVERYTHING on the site. But for now, this is working. I'll update when I changed everything. Click here (http://www.armouredninja.tk/) or click here (http://www.drunkduck.com/ArmouredNinja/) for my comic.

[Mura]

Take the amount of work you had in mind, and triple it.

[ArmouredNinja]

Yeah...and...

[Ronald MacKinnon]

Copying & pasting = bad
MS Paint = bad
Breaking the 4th wall = bad
MS Paint basic colours = bad

Sorry, but you do need some work. The humour isn't really all that humorous. I suggest sitting down and really planning out your jokes. Saying to yourself "Why is this funny? Is this funny to anyone else but me? Would I read a comic with these jokes?"

Use a pencil and paper. 10 x better images. Backgrounds are unimportant if the foreground looks horrible.

[Recca Hanabishi]

As of my example, I always tend to use a lot of thumbnail drawings, everytime I'm doing a comic strip. Then, adding in the text of what to put in it. If everything's fine and dandy, I use another piece of paper, and draw it with a blue pencil, inked, and colored, making ink the balloons, too. I then proceed inking the text letters, sign my initials and date, and I'm done. Adn Ron's right, background and foreground is very important around the characters.

If you're stuck and/or wish for help with programs like Photoshop, ask Scott. I'm sure he'll help you. :wink:

[ArmouredNinja]

Well I'm trying to get a good style. One that I won't mind drawing, and that I won't dread having to do. I'm also working on shading and lighting.

[Ronald MacKinnon]

Work on the drawing and writing first. Shading and such are unnecessary in comparrison.

[ArmouredNinja]

Right

[Obie Trice]

You're getting better as an artist :)

What is up with that first comic though? Bad scan? Horrid compression?

It's just really blurry and hurts my eyes.

[ArmouredNinja]

Yeah, I don't know why that happened. I just left it though...maybe I'll do a redo.

[Ronald MacKinnon]

I must say though, you take criticism rather well and seem to actually want to learn from it. That gives you +10 cool points in my book, and those are hard to come by. Just keep at it, practice, and you'll improve in no time.

[ArmouredNinja]

Well, if you don't learn you'll never become good, and since there are a lot of good artists I figured they could help me. Thanks for the points too. :D