Critique?

OnyxSerpent · Post by **OnyxSerpent** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:53 pm

The panel is kind of tilty because I seem to hate right angles... But I think that the paper was tilted when it scanned. I'm not sure now because I took it off.

DGC · Post by **DGC** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:14 am

The pic you posted here is impressive. If most of your pages look like that, I really don't think you need to ink. You've got a nice tonal range there. (Not that you shouldn't learn inking, it definitely won't hurt to have that skill.)

The color page you put up for 4-15 isn't bad, but after the sample you just posted, it seems to me like the color actually drowns out of the neat little details you can see in the non-colored images.

As for inking pens, when I ink, I do it with a finepoint calligraphy fountain pen. It has a fountain tip, but you fill it with these cartridges. I tried the dip pen once, but it took a long time and it was messy. You could also mail order a similar one from the "how to draw manga" web store, but I've never used that one.

OnyxSerpent · Post by **OnyxSerpent** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:32 pm

Oo! I just remembered I have a dip pen that I *cough* borrowed from my art class during the summer. I think it needs a new nib, but it's still workable. Only thing is that, for whatever reason, the ink that I got with it now smells like wine.
Well, I guess I'll just have to poke around and see what happens ^^

Unless anyone else has anything else to say, thanks for all the comments, and I'll probably come bug you all again about it in three or four months or five or somethin' ^^;