Hello its been a while...do you remember me? XD
im not doing much now, sprite work take all my free time, however i do sometimes try new things here and there, i also decided to improve my drawing skills a bit by practicing perspective and comic art proportion ( like in marvel or DC comics) even if i mainly draw in Manga style, it dosent mean im interested in broadening my repertoire, so right now, i bough some "how to draw comic books" by Stan lee and Cristopher hart, in fact at the moment im typing this i have one under my nose and im litterally devouring the knowledge contained inside , haha!
as much as i like manga style, there are some aspects of drawing that isnt covered in that style, i have trouble making my characters look solid, and aligned with perspective, as much as it is covered while learning in how to draw manga books, its not explained well enough or not in a way i understand it...
the techniques used in comic art however , is more based on realistic drawing than figurative drawing, while manga is purely figurative...movement and expression is based on representative figures and not necessarily based on live models, i sometime have trouble figuring how a head or an arm or a whole body mass should be represented in the angle shown, i dont think i need practice much its just i lack pointers and tricks to express what i really want to draw
so far, from christopher hart's books alone, i just learned enough that my mind is already blown enough. i also like his more realistic drawing style, that is less exaggerated than marvel's comic style, I already practiced drawing faces, wich Im gonna show below.
what i like about comic art composition its its based beyond simple forms, its like after buliding your basic shape and forms there is an in-between step that is not covered in manga art, wich add the form of the skull behind the skin, as insignificant this detail is, it totally change the way i used to bulid faces, now it become easy to show where the skull lines show under the skin, giving a more realistic way to the face, there are other useful things i learned about buliding bodies, ultimately, i wanna merge both western comic with manga style to create my own hybrid style, by incorporeating the esteticism of the manga style and the realism of the western style.
the picture shown below is a montage made of four quick sketches i drew, each of them made in less that 5 minutes... the one in the lower left corner is an example of what im trying to archieve by mixing manga and western comic, if you saw my other art you would recognise a familiar face XD
