Also congratulations on being a big enough masochist to attempt more than 8 panels on a single page. Usually any more than 5-6 panels results in some unfortunate derp faces or QUALITY on my end. And you had the nerve to try not going entirely for close ups. Kudos on the challenge, it is not easy.
Yeah, it was difficult drawing that small. It was an interesting exercise, though, trying to simplify the details enough that what you're trying to draw is still clear even though most of the details are missing. There were a couple of places where I had to practice drawing a little Quark face until it was recognizable as Quark just by the silhouette, basically, because I didn't have room to put in much more detail than that.
I used to think that I needed every panel to be a work of art, then I remembered how much I'd skim through a manga. Action, action, action, be economical with words. Comics is a heartbreaking medium XD
Haha yeah. While I was drawing this comic, though, whenever I came across manga pages, I would study how they did action scenes and the like and I was always like, this is so much more detailed than my pages?? I was always kind of wowed by how many panels have backgrounds, even if it's just like a few lines indicating the floor and wall, and how much linework/crosshatching there was. These were pros, though -- maybe with some assistants too. But yeah, if I weren't drawing a comic, would I have even noticed all that detail?
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Yeah, it was difficult drawing that small. It was an interesting exercise, though, trying to simplify the details enough that what you're trying to draw is still clear even though most of the details are missing. There were a couple of places where I had to practice drawing a little Quark face until it was recognizable as Quark just by the silhouette, basically, because I didn't have room to put in much more detail than that.
I used to think that I needed every panel to be a work of art, then I remembered how much I'd skim through a manga. Action, action, action, be economical with words. Comics is a heartbreaking medium XD
Haha yeah. While I was drawing this comic, though, whenever I came across manga pages, I would study how they did action scenes and the like and I was always like, this is so much more detailed than my pages?? I was always kind of wowed by how many panels have backgrounds, even if it's just like a few lines indicating the floor and wall, and how much linework/crosshatching there was. These were pros, though -- maybe with some assistants too. But yeah, if I weren't drawing a comic, would I have even noticed all that detail?
Thank you!