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DD Review of the Urban Knight
Eggbert at 8:38AM, Jan. 27, 2006
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Pffffff.

Pff.

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Weaselon at 3:34PM, Jan. 27, 2006
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pff?

You can also check it out on the Duck...
I removed the fillers to a separate section, so it flows better: The Urban Knight
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ccs1989 at 7:14PM, Jan. 27, 2006
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Alright, the art in the beginning of this comic is pretty bad. Wait, no actually it's very bad. The characters don't have any sort of decent proportions and they don't look very well adjusted on the background. Also the coloring is pretty crappy. But let's read on...

Okay, I really have a hard time telling what's going on here....geez these pannel layouts don't add to it much. But maybe the story will reveal itself after a while...

To be frank, the early part of your story is very badly drawn, there a plot points that are unclear, and there is bad pacing. The place where the comic seems to be getting better art wise is here.

However I'm going to skip ahead to your later art here. The main part of this comic that really interested me is how much you've improved in the course of drawing it. It went from a comic with crappily laid textures to resemble ground with people with no proportions and badly done text to a comic where color is many times used in an interesting way, the layouts work, and many of the backgrounds are unexpectedly detailed. One weakness this comic shows is in it's perspective, where it looks like no ruler is used. I really advise against that, because using a ruler could really be the one thing you need to make your work look more professional. But overall if you've improved this much from chapters 1-5 I think you're on the right track. Keep it up and I'm sure you'll improve more. And while the early parts of the story didn't attract my attention too much, these later parts are at least organized in a way that works.

For example the flash back where he remebers his mother and the part where he meets his dad are covered with control of the story that did not exist a bit in the early part. And this character is growing in depth, through art and story, and becoming more interesting. Really, I'm amazed at the improvements.

So keep it up. Working on perspective and with a ruler would help, and some of the positions of the arms looks awkward, but I'm sure you'll fix that over time. Good luck.
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magickmaker at 7:12PM, Jan. 30, 2006
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Um, wow. That covered a lot of what I was going to say.
You've improved very much, art-wise, and, as a superhero buff, I find your stories fascinating. The area I think you need to work on is art. Propertions, shading, etc. (Note: I need to work on these things too, so don't reference my comic for this.) Other than that, I throughly enjoy your comic.
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Rev_Danno at 1:25AM, Jan. 31, 2006
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OH YOUR GOD!
This is a great peice of work.
I've never seen MSpaint been used this well before in my life!
I enjoyed the story, I like the art (yes, it's bad. But think about this, the graphics are bad in FFVII, but did that make it a bad game/story?).

This is what having a comic is about expressing your self, and telling the story you want to tell.

Draw how you want to draw, say what you want to say.

But, if you don't want people making fun of your comic...
Follow the advice of those whom have posted before I.

I did enjoy your comic, it was fun in a sloppy way!
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LostPriestess at 7:25AM, Jan. 31, 2006
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The way the art has improved throughout this comic is pretty amazing and inspiring. For advice I'm tempted to just say keep doing what you're doing; becuase that lookks like it's been a learning experience and great practace. There are parts of the figure drawing that still need work, but the imporvement being shown here is clear.

One thing that I would advocate is the use of a ruler and linear perspective. A little of that goes a really long way for adding depth. It may take a little longer, but it pays off.

I lack the skills as a writer to say much more than I like the overall story. As it's been said, it's really growing in depth and becoming really interasting. Overall, I really like where you're going with it.

Good luck and keep up the improvement!
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T_K at 11:58AM, Feb. 1, 2006
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I pretty much always enjoyed this comic before, but I think the inking could need some work seeing as how its rather dull and plain, Artwork is pretty good but as the others said some proportional errors here and there, the story is very humerous I think personally. The only think I'd have you work on would be inking maybe a bit on proportions and also try bringing in a bit more of WOW perspectives, like far out perspectives not just birdseye or wormseye and all of those try to pull some others in aswell.

I'm not very good at giving rewiews so thats mine mostly.

heck I can't even spell Review apparently!
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