FA+
Shop
Mutt in the Middle (pg 86)
by Grill_Weaver
All-Around Nerd
10 years ago
Apologies for the late updates recently...
This page took a little more time than first anticipated. Can you guess why? >.<
I really love trying out new ideas with different pages, and this is a layout concept that had been floating around in my brain for a while now. Taking one giant image and placing all the panels on top of it, rather than my traditional white, negative space. Setting aside the huge amount of extra work this requires, I think it's a cool idea. Personally I think it would work better if the other panels had simpler backgrounds or nothing at all like the top four panels shown here.
Also some of the shading got a little loose towards the end of this page since I was so tired, but I hope it's still decent enough.
<<< PREV | FIRST | NEXT >>>
Mutt in the Middle ©
Grill_Weaver
Check out my official site for this webcomic HERE
This page took a little more time than first anticipated. Can you guess why? >.<
I really love trying out new ideas with different pages, and this is a layout concept that had been floating around in my brain for a while now. Taking one giant image and placing all the panels on top of it, rather than my traditional white, negative space. Setting aside the huge amount of extra work this requires, I think it's a cool idea. Personally I think it would work better if the other panels had simpler backgrounds or nothing at all like the top four panels shown here.
Also some of the shading got a little loose towards the end of this page since I was so tired, but I hope it's still decent enough.
<<< PREV | FIRST | NEXT >>>
Mutt in the Middle ©
Grill_WeaverCheck out my official site for this webcomic HERE
330
Views
10
Comments
1
Favorites
General
Rating
Category
Sub-Category
Species
Resolution
File Size
Artwork (Traditional)
Comics
Unspecified / Any
900 x 1166
535 kB
I've been constantly trying to improve my details as the comic has progressed.
If you want, I can give you a critique on this page, it could help you improve.
I rarely go back and redo pages, but I love taking what I learned from each one and applying it to the next page.
Increase your values and step away from the page as you are drawing it. Does it read from 3 feet way? Can you still tell whats going on? Or is everything a mushy blur?
Right now, its very detailed, but you need to increase the darkness and let some white show though to have a good range of values.
Your panels and speech bubbles look fine and I don't notice any flaws. I love how you showed motion with the titled panel to add to the effect that she is falling/tripping. Overall, this page is great and it shows that you can draw really well and plan out your actions in the page.
How's that?
I totally agree with your point about increasing my values. Currently the setting is at night, so I always struggle with how dark I should make everything. If I made everything black, there really wouldn't be anything to look at :(
After I shaded the whole page I went back with my really dark pencil to darken up portions, and my eraser to lighten up some other spots, but I think those darks and lights can still be stressed even more...
I tend to use the 2H-2B range, with a few areas of 4B.