Some of my comic pages
2yr
Jakub Ziomek
In order to learn drawing comics and develop a style 2 years ago I decided to cooperate with a screenwriter on a full graphic novel (100 pages). 3/4 is done and I see some progress - lines are more confident and i simplify face expressions more, also it begins to feel like fun to draw (at the beginning it was nothing but struggle). I cannot show this work, however here are samples of pages from some short personal comics (finished while working on a main project). My goal is to draw in a kind of minimalistic style. Began with realism (attached black and white pages) and I was inspired by Magnus (he drew for Max Bunker) The colored work shows the direction I try to go into. In my opinion it is still not enough stylized yet, sometimes a bit cartoony, but in other pages to much real. I like John Romita and his thick lines, and he was one of my inspirations for drawing these. I don't know if this way of progressing by just drawing is enough, maybe i should need to do some fundamentals course again, for example to break characters into primitives. Really don't know right know. Any advice would be helpful :) Here is another post with my sketches to show my life drawing https://www.proko.com/community/topics/sketching-critique
Steve Lenze
One thing you are doing really well is maintaining character likeness and proportion. The reason to break characters down to primitive shapes would be to work out a difficult pose, such as the girl on the balcony with the rifle. Use the fundamentals when you need them, but I think you are showing nice skill in general. Cool stuff :)
Jakub Ziomek
Thank you :) I'll keep doing these, hope finally will progress to something I'm happy with :)
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