It's time to critic my art style again!

[TheBladeRoden2]

Sadly this took about 4 hours to make. So if I am going the way of the color I am really gonna have efficienize my methods!


However I won't be drawing my comic on notebook paper regularly.

[Glambourine]

Pretty awesome, but watch head size and the way the head and neck link up

[Kris X]

Detail is excellent. Same idea with the size that was mentioned. Hm. I really like it actually, nice coloring. Also, try avoiding the lined paper, it might have looked a little more better if you used a cream colored page. I dunno, take it or leave it. I still love the detail. 8)

[Rkolter]

Your hands only have three fingers and the foreground foot on the second guy is way off.

... but other than that, these are really cool!

[Faub]

Anatomically, your figures are very short. Their torsos are only two heads high. Their legs are too short for their torsos.

Body proportions:
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/body/sketch1.htm

I'm not sure whether you start from the head and work down or if you started from the feet and worked up. It looks like you stopped the character on the margin of the paper so they ended up short. While it's good that you're consistent about it, if you handle proportions correctly, you won't need to worry about that so much.

The pose:
Arms at their sides. Feet facing the same direction. Your characters are VERY stiff as if they're tensed and standing at attention. Next time you're in a crowded area, look around and study how people stand. How do they distribute their weight? What do they do with their arms? Notice that when they stand, their feet rarely, if ever, point in the same direction. Generally the feet are slightly less than 90 degrees apart.

A better way to draw the feet (only slighly better) would be to draw one from the side as you have it and the other pointing toward the viewer. This will give the characters a bit more depth.

Costumes:
Go you. You've obviously studied uniforms. Keep it up.

Wrinkles in clothes:
You have a few suggestions of wrinkles but nothing spectacular or for that matter, accurate. Wrinkles in cloth follow the shape of what's under the cloth. I would suggest studying the figure a lot more. If you haven't taken a figure drawing class, do so. Find books on anatomy and figure drawing. They will help. Draw real people whenever you can. Pay attention not just to their faces but to how they stand, sit, recline, etc. Pay particular attention to how the cloth stetches over their bodies.

Folds tutorial:
http://artcorner.org/tutorials/lessons/folds/laine/

[KathleenJ]

Faub's got it covered, as usual, but I'll just add:

If you're using those grey lines for reference at all in a comparative diagram of the different characters (which is a good idea), horizontal lines work better. That way, you can compare heights and ratios more easily, and see clearly things like (for example) "Oh, Person A comes up to Person B's shoulders, Person C has a longer chin and higher eyes, and everybody's knees line up".

[TheBladeRoden2]

You should have seen how big the guy on the right's head was before I photoshopped it.