/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2865076
Yes, you can't express the panel from 2015 without fundamentals. Yes fundamentals support what an artist wants to express. But, you can't get rid of the fact that an artist wanting to express something different is also what drives the gaining of skill and has great influence on the appearance of their comics.

Anyways, I don't really get why you chose the 2015 panel to demonstrate control over fundamentals. What I see is an image he spent a lot of time on in order to get a certain feeling. It's not a difficult image to draw fundamentally; it's a technique based image. He could have drawn it in 2009. He already had strong control over movement, and foreshortening which really can be fundamentals; and those techniques for drawing backgrounds he was already using. Those dustclouds are not difficult to draw, atmosphere can be created by using a eraser that fades out the lines, it's a 1-point perspective image, so what exactly is fundamentally difficult about the image that he would require more mileage on fundamentals? In my opinion you are mistaking that a more nuanced and finished image requires high level fundamentals.