Our Comic Lab in the Playground: An experimentation class

[Darklord Bright]

Just tossing a couple character designs in here that I will probably end up using in unrelated things at some point.

[Lord Raziere]

the cover of my upcoming webcomic Age of the Arcane

[Fin]

Originally Posted by Dogmantra

I love this idea so much. Please make it!
If you do I will e-marry you... if you'd like.

Hehe! With this kind of response how could I refuse

[Dogmantra]

Question: I am considering a comic based on the lives of kids in a fantasy setting. One question: how the earth do you make a teenager/child look like a teenager/child without looking like a short person/halfing respectively?

[CrimsonAngel]

This thread needs more pretty pictures.

[Keveak]

Originally Posted by Dogmantra

Question: I am considering a comic based on the lives of kids in a fantasy setting. One question: how the earth do you make a teenager/child look like a teenager/child without looking like a short person/halfing respectively?

weren't there some goblin ones in the early days of OotS?

[Mad Mask]

Originally Posted by Dogmantra

Question: I am considering a comic based on the lives of kids in a fantasy setting. One question: how the earth do you make a teenager/child look like a teenager/child without looking like a short person/halfing respectively?

Have their proportions be roughly the same as those of adults. Halflings and dwarves just have flattened bodies, their width and heads are the same as humans.

[Maximum Zersk]

Well, I just managed to get that book by Scott McCloud. The one called "Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels".

I'm hoping it'll help me work on the Mecha-Kitteh Comic idea I had a while back.

[Herpestidae]

Originally Posted by Herpestidae

Don't let me interrupt the worldbuild going on, but I've been recently working on an adaptation of "Burlew" Style.



I'm thinking of making the head a bit bigger, probably giving him fingers, but what I really need help with is eyes. I want them to have colors, but realistic eyes launch it into Uncanny Valley. So... Help?

Remember this guy? I changed him up a bit. It's still rough, but those accursed eyes! He's not supposed to look like the main villain. Something is obviously wrong with this.

[CrimsonAngel]

Originally Posted by Herpestidae

Remember this guy? I changed him up a bit. It's still rough, but those accursed eyes! He's not supposed to look like the main villain. Something is obviously wrong with this.

I have some eye samples on my main computer, i'll send you some when I get on my art computer.

[CrimsonAngel]

Some expressions and the characters me and my friends made up.

[Herpestidae]

Thanks Crimson!

[BRC]

A simplistic Art style I'm working on. I may turn it into an interactive comic thingy

Spoiler

[Silverraptor]

That is awesome, BRC.

[BRC]

Heres Another

[Silverraptor]

Ack! It's the Stick Ninjas! Everyone, run for your life!

[Herpestidae]

Alright, fixed the eyes somewhat. Now I need to tweak the arms. How should I go about doing the feet?


I think I'll call him Bai Mao.

[CrimsonAngel]

Oh dear, I don't think those eyes work in your style. Maybe try eyes like this picture's:

and change the iris color for different characters.

Also make a different kind of hand for grasping.

[Dvandemon]

How do I make alt text?

[Herpestidae]

I've been going through the comic and tracing a few of the expressions it's harder to make:

[Keris]

Originally Posted by Dvandemon

How do I make alt text?

Specify an alt attribute. But what I suspect you really want to do is add a tooltip, for which you should use a title attribute.
Unfortunately, there isn't an option for either in vB code.

[Dvandemon]

Oh Noes

[Darklord Bright]

Decided to redesign my old character, Katya.

Here is the original, from maybe a year or so ago. (yes, this is an example of how badly I once drew.)

Spoiler

And here is my redesign, both with my new style and a new concept.

Spoiler

She's still a Russian planehopper chick, but now she planehops with a magic motorbike, because it's sexy and badass.

[BRC]

Damnit DLB, stop making us look bad.
Just today I was happy because I accidentally stumbled upon a good way to draw the standard male hairstyle (Which I then made all distinctive-like for James).
Then I look at your art, writing, and the way you're able to put out eight comics a day.

I'm serious, somebody get this man a crown.

[Darklord Bright]

Originally Posted by BRC

Damnit DLB, stop making us look bad.
Just today I was happy because I accidentally stumbled upon a good way to draw the standard male hairstyle (Which I then made all distinctive-like for James).
Then I look at your art, writing, and the way you're able to put out eight comics a day.

I'm serious, somebody get this man a crown.

It's not that big of a deal, but I appreciate the praise all the same. I do what I do because I like to do it, and that's about it, really.

[BRC]

So upon recieving some helpful criticism, I've decided to make the uniforms my character's wear slightly less...well...uniform, I'm wondering what people think of the new models.

Here's the old design for the task force codenamed Foxhound

They are all in standard DSF street uniform or riot gear
Here's the new one (Minus Elizibeth Valrine, who I havn't done anything with yet)


Comments?
In case you are wondering, Marcus and James are wearing slightly modified uniforms of the DSF records department (Which they are officially transferred too while they are working on Foxhound because Records is boring and nobody pays much attention to it). Robert and Dave are just wearing bulletproof vests and whatever sweet gear they scrounged up.

[Darklord Bright]

It's definitely easier to tell Marcus and James apart now, but they're still awfully similar. Not sure how you'd get around that, though.

[BRC]

Originally Posted by Darklord Bright

It's definitely easier to tell Marcus and James apart now, but they're still awfully similar. Not sure how you'd get around that, though.

Well Marcus doesn't wear the tie ( might have him drop the vest and keep the tie though), and his skin color is different. The Big problem was telling James apart from other DSF officers. By putting him in a different uniform and keeping records department guys off-panel for the most part I can probably avoid that.

Really, you won't see more than 3 people regularly wearing that uniform, two of them are James and Marcus, and the third will be Elizabeth, who will obviously be neither of the above two.

If the lack of tie and/or vest, skin color, and hair color arn't enough, I'll have one of them grow a beard a few chapters in.

[Szilard]

Robert looks a lot less menacing now with that cap.

[Rae Artemi]

Originally Posted by Szilard

Robert looks a lot less menacing now with that cap.

But now he has a big-ass shotgun. so it's all good.