Grrl Power #1413 – Discombobulate a dragon
The thing I’ve recently discovered about drawing big dragon guys covered in scales is that it rapidly becomes tedious to draw a big dragon guy covered in scales, on account of all the scales. His face doesn’t help either.
I already knew that, academically, but these pages have driven the point home. On top of that, I recently found some time to catch up on some comic reading – I’ve been supporting the Gold Digger “Colorize the first 100 black and white issues” kickstarters, and was reminded that I wasn’t really taking advantage of the medium of comics fully. Good art (or as good as I can manage) is fine, but if good art is all a comic can offer, it’s probably going to be a little boring. I love Joe Madureira’s art, but… I don’t care about the story in Ultimate Avengers at all. Battle Chasers better, but honestly, I think the art actually detracted from the few moments of levity in those books.
The ideal solution, IMO, is something like One Punch Man, equal parts fantastic and goofy art, and never takes itself so seriously that the humor is atonal. Obviously I’m a huge fan of Gold Digger and there are a jillion other examples, mostly in the manga genre.
So today we get… not quite Super Deformed dragon guy. I think proper SD is where the head is at nearly as big as the body. Also, I just like to occasionally take the time for a back and forth panel sequence, where you can see the gears turning in someone’s head, and the page isn’t 85% word bubble. Which I fully admit I am the poster child for that style of comic.
Kobold Sydney vote incentive! Is finally done!
So… you know, check it out. Oh, and as usual, Patreon has a scales only version.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
You commenting about the problems of drawing scales reminds of of what a fantasy artist once said about drawing piles of gold coins before he learned to ‘fake’ it. Before he learned that he didn’t have to draw every single coin and mastered the technique of making it look like he had drawn them, while in truth he only drew enough outlines to make the human brain see it as a pile of single coins.
The common dragon curse they see a lone adventurer in their cave and think , he’s harmless I’m about 10 times taller than him .
“But they are game for the munchkin an only a lunatic or a munchkin lurk alone in a dragon cave ” and lunatic population of given area is not extensible.
Maxima is a supemunchkin , superman level.
Does Digital Art Tools still not have libraries of ziptones like the sheet based ones Adam Warren used to get around repetitive ink patterns?
We all understand when the comic requires too much effort with a production deadline. Everyone around Dallas Fandom knows Fred’s Megatokyo initial issues over artwork obsessions that caused months of wastage and led to a domino downfall.