/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>7155212
You are thinking of the right person.

>>6853722
Take >>6853532 for example.
The drawings aren't bad at all, but they're not very compelling. The pages are a bit crowded, the shots are too tight to really intuit what's going on, there isn't a very strong application of value throughout the compositions -- overall, it's not a very easy read. It doesn't pull you in like it needs to, and it doesn't give any of its sequences room to breathe.
Furthermore, the style is, to put it bluntly, kinda weak. I'm not really getting much of strong sense of personality from the work, it kinda just feels like a pastiche of "cool dark fantasy stuff I saw". That can work on its own when it feels like there's a unique spin being put on it, but nothing really jumps out to me here. In a word, it's generic... which isn't necessarily a death sentence on its own, but this first chapter does a pretty poor job of introducing us to the characters and conflict.
It's starting with some kind of ritual combat (can't read french), which does tell us what to expect, but it's not really doing a good job of providing us something to latch onto other than our broody title character. It does a poor job of showing us what's going on, why and why we should care. There's no clever twist on events either. It all just feels unmotivated. There's a bunch of grody monsters, a badass girl shows up and kills them then stares at the camera. Then a saint guy (lol) shows up and is just a giant foot thing. What's to latch on to here? We're not given a single good reason to read chapter 2.
And finally, they picked a terrible platform for what they're trying to make. Webtoons is tailored around digestible brainless reads, not stuff you have to squint and think about to even make sense of what you're looking at. Then there's the obvious demographic issue of creating a series that appears to be aimed at male teens and young adults on a platform that's found its audience primarily with teenage girls.
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Ausfag here, I have absolutely no connection or interaction with the art scene. I draw comics, and from what I've dug up there was once a comic scene here but it's long dead. I just make stuff on my own. I don't make enough money to uproot and move somewhere more prosperous for my career, so for the time being I just have to make do with what I can do online (which, thankfully, is a lot).

>>6524223
>How long have you been drawing manga?
Started around the beginning of 2014, but there was a ~3 year period where I didn't make much at all from 2017 to 2020.
>Did you finish any projects?
I've finished one-shots and chapters, but none of the series I've started thus far have I managed to complete.
>What are you working on at the moment?
I'm the lead artist (paid) on a series, and there's always side-projects in my pocket. Though lately I've been spending my spare time playing video games rather clocking off after drawing for work all day just to draw more stuff. I'll likely go back to doing that at some point though.
>Why drawing manga instead of any other storytelling medium?
Comics is one of the mediums where the primary cost of production is time. When I started, time was all I had for currency to tell stories. It's made me pretty time-poor as a result though. As for why manga specifically? No real reason, it's just the natural result of taking a quantity over quality approach with your pages, and since it's a well-established industry it simply made sense to follow the same approach with my own stuff.
>What is you favourite manga?
The answer changes all the time. I'd say the manga I think is probably the best I've read is Kokou no Hito, and it's sometimes my favorite, but other times my favorite might be Blame!, or Fire Punch.
>Who is your favorite manga artist?
Again, my favorite changes all the time. I like Togashi's line work and layouts/storytelling a lot, and his character design is pretty good too. Blame!/Biomega-era Nihei is contending for some of the GOAT art in manga IMO, though Masanori Morita is pretty damn difficult to top. Then of course there's Obata, and Inoue, Shirohama, Hayashida and so on... Plus Shinichi Sakamoto during Kokou no Hito was really going above and beyond (though after that he went a bit off the deep end with his style/approach IMO).
I think if there's one I always come back to as a favorite it's Blame! though.