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How Not To Start A Webcomic #21
Contributed by Jason Bryant of Quest Of The Silly
Jason says:
What's wrong with it?:
- Characters don't have real dialogue in the first comic, they just start saying their names.
- Massive variations in art style before the reader has a chance to adapt.
- Stray pencil marks.
- Sloppy panel borders with no gutter.
- There's no point in drawing chibi when you can't even draw regular characters. :)
Phalanx says:
- Image size. Image size. If you have to scroll sideways, your reader is going to be really PO'ed.
Saving graces: No uh... lined paper?
Terotrous says:
Just beacuse you scanned it at 6400 dpi doesn't mean it
has to stay that way. Resize!
mcDuffies says:
Hehehehehe... no lined paper...
Well, who are they talking to? They're not aware of readers except if you break 4th wall in first panel, which is, as we constituted, bad in general.
I can imagine them talking to readers in one panel, then in next engaging in sexual activity as if there's not aware of the same readers looking at them.
Drawing is pretty lazy and un-crafty. Is that Jim guy going shirtless or he's just wearing turtleneck? (on account of that, end of sleeve shows on one hand, but not on other. Meanwhile, Sly's hands are thicker than his body and Sally can hardly be called human character.
Erasing pencil-lines: good. Not erasing pencil lines: bad. And, as pencil lines are usually preliminary sketches, with drawing like this, you wonder why did author have preliminary sketches anyway?
