Uhhh. please critique on character design.

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KODAMA wrote:...not sure where to start. hmm..
It may help you greatly to purchase a comic book you enjoy and trace all the lines from the first page to the last page with a pencil. You simply need more practice holding and using a pencil.
That's an interesting approach and probably well worth the effort.

If you do that, though, blow the page up to about 1.5 times the original size, first. Many of the lines were drawn at that scale anyway. If it was done on the computer, it was probably done at 10-20 times what you see on the page.

I've seen many peoples' art suffer because they're drawing too small.

On the other hand, don't scribble either. The art you've shown us has too many lines. When you make an edge, draw one continuous line. Any other lines should add detail, not emphasize the edge.

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The tracing thing really helped, thanks. I think my lines were better for the newest and I tried useing some shading, but it isn't too good yet.

Yeah fun is good and I'm having alot.
Do any of you guys know how to add a border/background image to the comic area? It looks a little funny on a white background.

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Keep drawing. That is simple but sound advice. I was an athlete myself so keep playing sports, it'll make the times you draw more sweet. It doesn't matter how much natural talent you have whether it be drawing or sports, or even video games, talent withpout development is nothing. You already have a leg up on me on HTML. My page is quite bare. I think I can draw, but my page is boring. So hopefully it'll improve and the pages I make will post for people to see. 8-)
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Personally, I'd warn you not to be too concerned about making everything perfect. If you add too many steps that you aren't comfortable with all at once (inking, bordering, ballooning, etc.) then you may come to dislike comic-ing all together, and you won't do it as often. That's the worst thing to do, because practicing is really the best thing of all. Everyone has given you really great advice, and you should be grateful, but you don't have to use all of it. After all, <A href="http://boxjamsdoodle.com/d/19990426.html">Boxjam's</A> doodles made it into Keenspot without any of those things.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that everyone has an ideal picture of what they want their comic to eventually look like, but we all start out where we can, and the more we draw the closer we get to what we want.

I'm not really in a good position to be giving other people advice, but I guess I'm giving it anyway. :^)
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