ProtC Prologue: Page Three

Thanks for the commentary. Now this is what I like to hear on dA. :3 I hear you about lines of action. I've actually felt myself struggling with that while I was working on this, and you're right, it needs work. I've drawn my tikedi many many times, and I've played with different poses, but nothing so deliberate as I find that I'm facing in this comic. There's a huge difference between drawing a pose that conveys an emotion or a mood like I do in my stand alone art, and drawing a pose that actually follows the narrative. For example, in a lot of my sketches I find it easy to draw a character in an action pose if I want that feeling of motion, but getting just the right action pose here, one that makes sense given what the character was doing before and what they're about to do... whole other ballgame, I find. There's a page not too much further on that I know I'll have to come back and redo someday when I have a better handle on this. Jahrd is standing in a doorway and then turns around to talk to someone, and with the weird tikedi odd-jointed legs and all, it was a real mind bender to draw that pose where he's turning. Showing that action clearly was difficult and even now that it's finished I don't think I came quite close enough to getting it right.

These definitely won't be the final versions of these pages, I'm sure. I'm still very much learning how to think my way through sequential art. But man do I appreciate the feedback there. I'll keep it in mind. :3

As for the next and previous links.... all I can say is durr to myself. I don't know why that never occurred to me. You're exactly right. That would make things a heck of a lot easier. I'll implement those ASAP. Thanks!

Eee. I was happy with this page, too. Watercolors just have so much transparency to them. The effects are nifty when you're trying to make an artsy mess.