Official OT-Creativity Thread 1

[Feron]

its good, but the retina-burning red makes the white text quite hard to read.

[huZba]

Nice Helm. A lot of detail but still very easy to look at. I've seen some comic strips or drawings with half the detail and still going out of control and somewhat hard to read.

Heh, funny terley. You could box in the smaller texts to make them less blinding.

[Helm]

Thank you. I take pride in the more sublime aspects of structuring a comic that are not really apparent to most readers (at least consciously), and therefore in the absence of anime boobs and robot ninjas I am underappreciated.

[Terley]

Of course its gonna be hard to read, its resized for posting.. I've mimic'ed Spar's current design style, It wouldn't be true to Spar if I changed the palette.

the red doesn't look so blinding printed out.

EDIT- Or do you think I should leave the logo's the usual red and tone down the bulk of the box to a slightly darker red? may look better on your eyes.

thanks for your comments btw.

Helm, lookin great as usual

[Feron]

well it would certainly catch my eye on a shelf.  Printed up its probably nice, just as an atwork itself, i would tone it down.

[junkboy]

Do you meen you feel the rendered spaces overwhelm the whitespace? I am very careful with my black - implied midtone - white ratios in comics, balance is a big deal, so I panic a bit if I'm told I overdid something. Panel above the bed? Could you be more specific.

No, the balance is fine in my opinion. Then again, I'm absolutley clueless when it comes to composition, so don't take my word for it.
What I was refering to was these areas:


An amateur would probably have drawn those lines, but you omitted them because it emphazies the brightness. It's a nice touch!

[Helm]

ah you mean the negative-space outlines. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of doing ink-work for comics as if you're doing charcoal-life-study, but a few discreet tricks can be applied.

Looking at this helps. Drawn from a movie still, but look at Moebius' technique.

[junkboy]

Yeah, Moebius is a genius. I have a vast collection of old Heavy Metal magazines that I use as craphouse litterature and I'm always amazed by how he can make all those tiny busy strokes work so well.
Looking at that picture made me wonder if he uses white ink..

[Helm]

It's extremely clear that the above piece is made in an additive way, not substractive. So no white ink. Generally he uses highlights mostly in color work (or comic-tone). His inkwork is additive and very controlled.

[Xion]

How did he get those tiny white dots?