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queensthiefOk, so I've been meaning to make a small comic or something for a while, seeing as it's been a few years since my last attempt...
(which failed. Miserably.)
The main purpose is to hopefully get better at drawing scenes and different poses and, of course, have a lot of teeth-gnashing, laughing, cursing fun. ^_^
So, while in search of something to make a comic about, I saw my copy of The Thief lying innocently on the desk.
As with all fanart, this is merely my interpretation of them, please don't eat me TT_TT.
I really hope you like it, and you're my editors by the way, please tell me if anything needs to be changed as this is still the rough draft. I just realised I'm rambling, so, onwards!
Sorry about the mother of all watermarks...
No. Stealing. I eat stealers for breakfast. (Except Gen, of course.)
Link: kilalah.deviantart.com/art/Thief-Comic-128833702
P.S - I am currently repeatedly headdesking because the LJ cut wont work. Please tell me what I could be doing wrong...
(which failed. Miserably.)
The main purpose is to hopefully get better at drawing scenes and different poses and, of course, have a lot of teeth-gnashing, laughing, cursing fun. ^_^
So, while in search of something to make a comic about, I saw my copy of The Thief lying innocently on the desk.
As with all fanart, this is merely my interpretation of them, please don't eat me TT_TT.
I really hope you like it, and you're my editors by the way, please tell me if anything needs to be changed as this is still the rough draft. I just realised I'm rambling, so, onwards!
Sorry about the mother of all watermarks...
No. Stealing. I eat stealers for breakfast. (Except Gen, of course.)
Link: kilalah.deviantart.com/art/Thief-Comic-128833702
P.S - I am currently repeatedly headdesking because the LJ cut wont work. Please tell me what I could be doing wrong...
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Date: 7/9/09 09:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/9/09 09:39 am (UTC)I'm pretty sure it was "cleaned", but I can imagine the magus having it burned. XD
Close ups are good. There's no background required, heh...
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Date: 7/9/09 09:48 am (UTC)Hmm if ever there was a background for that scene wouldn't it be mostly shadow and soft outlines of certain items...it was pretty dark, but I wouldn't know. I'm not an artist of any kind (unless you count photoshop).
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Date: 7/9/09 10:10 am (UTC)Well, it is night time, but i'd imagine they would have a pretty effective lamp system or... something. o_O
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Date: 7/9/09 02:20 pm (UTC)I think the Magus said "clean" then at the end when Gen is in bed recovering, he tells the Magus he'll have to "burn" but I could be entirely wrong and am too lazy to go check.
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Date: 7/9/09 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/9/09 03:20 pm (UTC)And man, I have not gotten over that animation icon, either. SO CUTE!
(Is that one stealable, if credited?)
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Date: 7/9/09 04:13 pm (UTC)Only thing: You might want to up the contrast a little. It's a bit faint.
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Date: 7/9/09 04:29 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing.
I agree with
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Date: 7/9/09 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/10/09 12:06 am (UTC)(But fix the spelling of "Thief" in the character credit at the end.)
LJ cuts are a PITA. They don't go over [div]s, which includes indented stuff the way LJ does it. I don't know just what you were trying, but if you put in an image and then put just it in a cut, it should (I hope) work.
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Date: 7/10/09 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/10/09 01:56 am (UTC)I do love the way you planned the panels, too. It all flows well.
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Date: 7/10/09 02:11 am (UTC)I love how you are one of those artists that understands too much detail in the background distracts from the characters and story. That is the issue with most American graphic novels. Same with how you zoom in on what is important, and change perspective. Nice touch!
One thing I will say, is that I see you are going with the more squared out and blockish panel layout of American graphic novels. Personally, I prefer how the panels bleed in to one another and off the border as they do in manga. That's just my personally preference, and I do understand how much work and planning panel layout takes.
I'm not not one to talk, because I'm not an artist.
I assume your user-name is a tribute to "Full Metal Alchemist" as well as "The Thief"?
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Date: 7/10/09 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/10/09 04:58 am (UTC)No seriously. In that big close up of him on page 7, that is MY NOSE.
This is so much win - I love Gen's stance, especially when he says, 'some things take time'. Hee hee, I love Gen. He's so cute in TT.
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Date: 7/10/09 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/10/09 06:02 am (UTC)'Tis indeed stealable when credited. :)
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Date: 7/10/09 06:07 am (UTC)I will try and fix that when I do the clean lines...
I have always had trouble with middle aged characters, I can do young and old, but in betweens, nada.
Any suggestions/ references?
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Date: 7/10/09 06:10 am (UTC)I had checked everything else for spelling mistakes except that...
Thanks for the advice on the cuts. I'll try that next time.
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Date: 7/10/09 06:22 am (UTC)I'll post the next few (dark) pages soon, along with better versions of the first pages.
I'm pretty sure I get what you mean, but could you point me to an example page or something. Thanks heaps for the feedback. :)
Hell, artists wouldn't be successful artists if they didn't care what the audience liked. XD
Yes it is, I needed a username. I like The Thief, I like FMA, Bob's your uncle. It's a bit of a weird combination, eh?...
*imagines Eugenides doing alchemy* O_o
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Date: 7/10/09 06:28 am (UTC)I was trying to get the "high bridged" nose that Gen so lovingly describes. ;P
I kept forgetting to draw him with the prison bling on in that chair... TT_TT
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Date: 7/10/09 06:29 am (UTC)Never too much love can be gushed for these books.
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Date: 7/10/09 06:31 am (UTC)Hopefully I have succeeded :)
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Date: 7/10/09 06:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/10/09 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/10/09 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/10/09 08:52 am (UTC)Same quibble as some of the others: the Magus looks too young. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to seeing it in its more advanced and colored stages. :)
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Date: 7/10/09 01:39 pm (UTC)I guess I imagine him something like Sean Connery in First Knight.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/arthur%20sean%20connery/MilkywayKitten/ppl/celebs/Sean-Connery---First-Knight--C10101.jpg
Or maybe R'as al Ghul.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rasalghul.PNG
R'as al Ghul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rasalghul.PNG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LiamNeesonRa%27s.jpg
Hope that helps!
And, since I've decided I have no shame: I posted a new fic! Everybody read it!
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Date: 7/10/09 02:33 pm (UTC)Working on the magus. :)
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Date: 7/10/09 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/10/09 10:05 pm (UTC)Well, that's one more person I can add to my list of people who have my nose - Helen, Ortiz, Snape, Ceasar, and now the Magus. It's a popular nose.
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Date: 7/11/09 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/11/09 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/12/09 11:39 pm (UTC)Thanks for the feedback. :)
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Date: 7/13/09 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/23/09 01:48 am (UTC)*does a dogeza*
Sorry for not being completely clear. I'm talking about how in manga, a character's feet can sometimes dangle into another panel, or a character can be featured on the division border between two panels, flanking the character for effect. You do it once towards the end, where the magus's head is slightly in the panel above the one he is actually feature in.
Again, that is just my personal preference. They way you are already arranging the panels is perfectly clear and flowing. I'm just being annoying.
*gets a strange image of Gen shouting, "It's alive. It's alive"*
*shudders*