Hmmm....style...

I didn't really read comics growing up. Sure I had the odd Spiderman comic stuff away in my closet, but I never attempted to imitate comic book style. I never did manga or anime either.

I learned to draw with DaVince, Monet, Rembrant, Michaelangelo, etc.

This is not to say that I have their talent. But I started out as an artist of other things, before I bent my brush toward comics. I draw architecture in my spare time.

So, I would classify my comic art style as cartoony. But completely home grown in the last 6 years. I'd never attempted comics before I got married.



I am big on perspective.



And I love poking fun of famous pieces of art!

Lol. I see lots of realistic manga styles here. I'm not complaining though, because they all look really nice! :D

My style...? Well originally, it was just cartoon. With my main influences being Sonic (the Hedgehog) and Stan Sakai.

Now, I would say that it's Dark Cartoon. I love thicker lines, bold, cross-hatching, and detail. I'm also beginning to like putting white along with the dark lines, to separate the different colors and make the contrast better/cooler looking.

Style? Hmm... "varied" I guess, haha.

I don't know, I try to cram everything into my art. Cartoony stuff, manga, realistic, experimental, weird, clean, dirty, stark contrast, shaded etc. whatever works. Recently experimenting with very sketchy art. Basically, I don't want any limitations in my art, save for those that I set for myself for a particular project (like "this is going to be a six panel grid" or "this is b&w only" or other things like that).


I was bored so I did this mosaic. Other than the upper left panel, everything was done this year.

Although a lot of people have compared Negligence to Peanuts, my biggest inspiration was Calvin and Hobbes.

Infantile dribble created by a man whose hand more closely resembles some sort of twisted claw. A freakish abomination admired by none, the very sight of which throws the average passerby into violent and ill fits. Some say Lefarce the "creator" of these mad etchings is mentally stunted, others claim he is trying to be unique through the grotesque nature of his work, but one thing we can all agree upon: its terrible.


There ya' go, I summed up my art style. Thank you.

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My style is definitely more on the cartoony side, and when I first began to sketch for comic making seriously (some several pages into Wolf's second chapter) I really was influenced by ligne claire (though I lacked the skill and time to actually implement it as I would have liked).

Now, for Without Moonlight, I'd say it's a bit more paint-like and much MUCH less bent on clean lines, but definitely still cartoony. Maybe with a touch of realism. That's a big MAYBE.

Here's a couple of the panels from WM for you to see what I mean ;)

Er...kinda vaguely manage like but trying to edge away from that so vaguely something else...often cel-shaded...looks better if you squint.





My stuff used to be very manga, but I'm trying to tear myself away from it to get something of a style of my own. So, generally smaller eyes and hair., and no mouths in the middle of cheeks.

I work from reality up. I managed to get myself some great reference material and I learned how to draw realistically before I decided to draw a comic. So yeah, everything has a base in reality but is made slightly more angular in order to both bring some life to the scene, take a bit of the edge off what would otherwise be some really disturbing images, and to allow for more expression in the characters. I chose to make my characters' eye sockets/eyes somewhat larger than real life and to allow their brow to be flexible specifically so that they could express some emotions.

My shading is a classic mix of pure black blotches in places where shadows are deepest and crosshatching. Lots and lots of crosshatching. On the one hand, it's a pain in the ass and takes a long time (just as long as colouring, it turns out); on the other, I can potentially hide things among the mess of lines and rendering different textures with lines alone makes for an interesting challenge.

I stopped colouring my current webcomic initially because it was really eating up my time, but now I find that having it in black and white helps select parts "pop" a little bit more (I used to use a muted colour pallete, and unfortunately sometimes things got a bit muddy or the wrong thing would pop out because the colour itself was just so vibrant).

This is just the style for "Carnies," though. I've got two projects coming up with different subjects and moods to them, so I'm going to work on a different style for each of them in order to better convey what I'm going for. I tend not to sketch the way I draw for "Carnies," either; my sketbook material tends to be either more angular and cartoony or more realistic.

Kinda manga influenced cartoon style.

I consider my style to be cartoony, but a lot of folks think that I'm trying to be realistic or just like what's done by mainstream super-hero comics, since that's what I draw. However, the truth is that while I do strive for some realism, I'm really just trying to do my own style that leans more to the cartoon side of drawing. I know that I'm not perfect and that I do make errors in anatomy and perspective, but I do my best and enjoy drawing and sharing my comics and characters with others.

It's... not the greatest, I don't think.
Obviously, it was heavily influenced by manga and anime, but a lot of the stuff is simplistic and rather thick-lined, definitely cartoony at its heart. I'm still working on finding a true style for myself, so right now I'm drawing and drawing and kinda hoping that I improve over time...



(hopefully these images don't kill the page for anybody XD)

I dunno.

My art heroes are the likes of John Byrne and George Perez. So I guess the 2 best ways of describing my work are 'old school' and 'classic western'.

i'd say mine is pretty much traditional comic style, with touch of realism. sounds like cooking ingrediants!lol!

i dont know how to describe it really. like if i were to use one word.people ussually compare it to 2000 AD type stuff, so i just roll with that, but i was wondering if there was a broader heading. retro? i dont really think so, maby a little. i cant put my finger on it.

PIT_FACE
2000 AD type stuff

2000 AD is more glam... you're hardcore thrash! ^__^

People have said Pinky TA is like the Heavy Metal comics...

ozoneocean
People have said Pinky TA is like the Heavy Metal comics...

People say exactly the same thing about my stuff, so I'm going to call my style 'European" for want of a better word. Unfinished detail:

I don't really know what to describe my style as. It's definitely not realistic, that's for sure; it's bits n' pieces from here and there.



I try to stay unique.

ozoneocean

PIT_FACE
2000 AD type stuff

2000 AD is more glam... you're hardcore thrash! ^__^

People have said Pinky TA is like the Heavy Metal comics...

huh, never just thought of calling it "thrash" before. huh....i like it! B)

and i def see a heavy metalesque connection to yer comic.

I've been working on my style a little more, and I feel that I have increased the realistic elements in it somewhat. Although it remains, of course, cartoony :) I feel that my characters can be more expressive now that I've worked on slightly realistic facial features.

Well I'm not an artist, but for my own comic, I'm shooting for a very realistic tone, while still maintaining the polished comic book feel.

I'll let my artist speak for me.
Keep in mind these are only sketches and not the finished product.
EDIT: Sorry for the huge first pic. Let me know if it violates any rules and I'll take it off.

DAJB
"Realistic but still recognisably comic book" and "comic book but not mainstream."

At least that's what I asked the artist to aim for!

This is actually pretty cool.
Reminds me of some pulp books, or SGT. ROCK.

Good work.
Link the comic?

Ironscarf

ozoneocean
People have said Pinky TA is like the Heavy Metal comics...

People say exactly the same thing about my stuff, so I'm going to call my style 'European" for want of a better word. Unfinished detail:

Lovin' this.
I want to describe it with a pretentious high society artsy adjective.

But all I'm going to say is 'fuckin' awesome.'
:D

Doctor Shadow
I don't draw at all, my wife on the other hand has stuck with a watercolour pencil and brush ink wash for the comic, works pretty well I think. Of late she's been experimenting with other styles, mostly to do with ink.



This is an example of a different take on the Cardinal.



This is a watercolour/brush ink of the Mist Reaver landing.



Finally the City of Wyrden, which is more brush ink art with a little watercolour pencil.

I like the pencils and shading you did in the last two.
Those are amazing.

I'm always skewed to a really good pencilled work with use of shading and texturing than full on color.

I think it just enhances the raw material of the pencils a lot more.

Style style syle style. That's not important. Learning to draw, that's important. I get so annoyed (ignore if you want, i'm just ranting to meself) when I see people trying to learn how to draw from "how-to" books. THEY'RE NOT GOOD FOR YOU. The don't teach how to draw, the teach you how to draw a style which is not good for a young artist.
I'm in my second year of college doing animation. We're taught the basics of drawing because we have to be able to draw other styles. This is hard to do if you've only learnt to draw one type of style, either your own or mainstream, and haven't learnt the basics such as Anatomy, perspective and colours.
Having your own style is good, don't get me wrong, (seeing as I do myself) being able to be reconised from your personal work alone is a great way to be noticed but if you can't be flexable then it's unlikely that any studio is going to hire you in any art bussiness.
Anywho I'm talking in circle, this person can explain it better >>>> http://www.drunkduck.com/No_Shutup/index.php?p=537348

Anyway, rant over, sorry about that I really can't help myself XD
Eh... my personal style well it's abit of a mix I guess between cartoony and realisc. I lean more towards cartoony for light hearted moments, more realistic for serious/darker moments.

Dustbunny studios
Style style syle style. That's not important. Learning to draw, that's important. I get so annoyed (ignore if you want, i'm just ranting to meself) when I see people trying to learn how to draw from "how-to" books. THEY'RE NOT GOOD FOR YOU. The don't teach how to draw, the teach you how to draw a style which is not good for a young artist.
I'm in my second year of college doing animation. We're taught the basics of drawing because we have to be able to draw other styles. This is hard to do if you've only learnt to draw one type of style, either your own or mainstream, and haven't learnt the basics such as Anatomy, perspective and colours.
Having your own style is good, don't get me wrong, (seeing as I do myself) being able to be reconised from your personal work alone is a great way to be noticed but if you can't be flexable then it's unlikely that any studio is going to hire you in any art bussiness.
Anywho I'm talking in circle, this person can explain it better >>>> http://www.drunkduck.com/No_Shutup/index.php?p=537348

Anyway, rant over, sorry about that I really can't help myself XD
Eh... my personal style well it's abit of a mix I guess between cartoony and realisc. I lean more towards cartoony for light hearted moments, more realistic for serious/darker moments.

Oh I totally know where you're coming from :) I resent the fact that I didn't learn the basics sooner! It's only within the last 3-4 years that I began drawing from photos and from life, and it's made such a massive improvement on my work! Honestly, just a year ago I was producing some really bad artwork, and even in just one year I can see a lot of improvement purely from going back to basics and looking at anatomy some more!

Also wishing I'd learned the basics sooner. I learned from anime first and it's been a very, very slow process getting to any form of realism. For Lady Unlucky, I've been leaning more towards realism, but I'm not quite there yet.

I still like the anime style, though, and I always pictured 20 Galaxies that way, so that's what I stuck with for 20G. "Anime screenshot" is what I was going for, and what most people call it.

I'd say my sytle is a little bit of moth western & manga. I'll let you decide.

I'd call mine anthropomorphic with some 80s western and manga influence.

My art style is a derivative of manga.



But then again... I've got my figure drawing down (not the best but the point is, I attempted to do realistic art)

I was influenced by Bill Watterson, Tim Buckley (Yeah I know the guy's a jerk, but I like his art.), Charles Schultz, and Andrew Hussie primarily, so the result is a stylized, cartoony look.



With my comic I have to simplify the process to keep updating consistently, so for it I've gone with a more Calvin & Hobbes-inspired style (big heads, simplistic outfits)