12 THINGS I’D PROBABLY TELL YOU IF I WERE LOOKING AT YOUR WORK IN PERSON
- Violating the 180 degree rule makes this sequence hard to follow.
- A few more incidental overlaps will make this foreshortening a lot clearer.
- Symmetrical compositions with a character dead center imply an important moment. Maybe don’t draw every panel like that?
- This (whatever) looks kind of fake. Take the time to look at reference instead of just making it up.
- An establishing shot would help the reader understand where this takes place.
- Find some life-drawing sessions to attend, or at least try to practice from photos online.
- Show these pages to someone who doesn’t know the story and ask them to tell the story back to you.
- Nudge this part over a bit to eliminate that tangency.
- You’ve flattened out the depth by rendering the foreground, middle ground, and background with the same values. You can create depth and direct the eye by organizing them into overlapping planes of light and dark instead.
- There are better ways to use your time than rendering every brick.
- These characters look like they’re floating (or falling.) Try to draw the figures and the background from the same eye level.
- Unless this is going to be a wordless comic, you’ll need to leave more room for the lettering.
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