Comment on Cartoon Printemps by ~christwriter

That's really amazing for something made in such a short amount of time. O.o It would have taken me days to get that good of quality at this point in time. Your anime style is awesome, too!

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Thanks. I did a webcomic for a while (and need to get back to it) So that experiance helped...a lot.

CW

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[link] My webcomic. Doesn't everybody have one?

Your welcome.

Oooo, *just started reading your comic* it sounds interesting so far!

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Speak not of what you have done or are going to do; just do it and let it speak for itself.

"Friends are like balloons; if you don't hold on to the string that keeps you together, then they will float away." ~ Eleanora Hoshi (My personal quote.)

Oh, god, now I'll have to get that thing going again...

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"Lay down this book and reflect for five minutes on the fact that all the great religions were first preached, and long practiced, in a world without chloroform."--C.S. Lewis

[link] My webcomic. Doesn't everybody have one?

Lol, hope you have fun with it. I'll keep the page bookmarked for updates.

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Speak not of what you have done or are going to do; just do it and let it speak for itself.

"Friends are like balloons; if you don't hold on to the string that keeps you together, then they will float away." ~ Eleanora Hoshi (My personal quote.)

It did come out very nicely. So what did you learn from this experiment? Your thoughts on the anime/manga style now?

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You know I only love you for your.... big.... long..... hard...... pageviews ~ =ShapeStrong

You do manga better than most manga people do manga. I'm serious. Looks good!

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Well...that most of the books most newbies learn from suck; those nice, shiny titles with the flashy covers and the pretty illustraitons don't explain the things you need to know to make it work. It's still basically simplified realism, more difficult than it looks because it's simplified--you have to know which details you can drop and which ones you have to keep, what proportions you can exaggerate and when you've gone too far... I think the biggest thing I noticed was that it's probably easier to get consistant characters through manga than American comic styles, which might be one reason why it was developed. I've never minded manga style...and like well-done pictures quite a bit. It's just never really been my thing.

CW

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"Lay down this book and reflect for five minutes on the fact that all the great religions were first preached, and long practiced, in a world without chloroform."--C.S. Lewis

[link] My webcomic. Doesn't everybody have one?

ahahah you just expressed my thoughts on tutorial books in general right there. They almost never give you advice that you can take and apply on a broad level, usually it's just how to mimic *one* particular character/design/etc. And then people wonder why everything they draw looks the same *coughs*

And that's an amazing point. I think you've hit the nail on the head about consistent characters. One thing that always drove me crazy was that you can TELL when a company switches artists, because their way of drawing them is unique to each artist... so often it's hard to tell who's who until you read the comic. But with the manga it's always pretty consistent. You know the title, you know the basic hair style of each char, it's pretty easy to match each one up.

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You know I only love you for your.... big.... long..... hard...... pageviews ~ =ShapeStrong