/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Different teachings
Different environments
Different upbringings
Different design philosophies
It's not that difficult to figure out.

Shut the fuck up, you West*ids are exactly like trannies, trying to compare every single thing they do with women.

You will never be a Jap, get over it, just draw.

Also lmaoing at those badly placed 3D phalanxes around the hill.

>>5218793
>thin lineart with less line variation throughout
>heavy use of tone
>some shading achieved through crosshatching
>the shape of the word balloons and right-to-left reading order
All of these are typical of manga. If you've never read manga then, apart from the last point, you might not be able to tell whether it was done by a Japanese or non-Japanese artist, but if you're familiar with the techniques used you can spot them instantly.
American comic books, by contrast, tend to use thicker lineart with more line variation, rely less on tone, tend to use fill blacks for the darkest values, and obviously have word balloons and reading order oriented for the English language.

>>5218798
you're a spaz, here's a (YOU)

>>5218793
There's more to the standard manga style than just the faces. But if it weren't for the characteristic way they use line art and greyscale shading and the vertical speech bubbles this would be very hard to tell apart from something drawn in Europe.

>>5218793
Source?

Doesn't look manga like to me.

>>5218844
Ad Astra - Scipio to Hannibal

>>5218798
>West*ids
Why do faggots censor themselves?

>>5218793
It’s a monochrome ink drawing with thin lines and no shadows that wasn’t drawn with a chisel point and there’s nothing but white for the background. A westerner would have inked the shadow shapes black or used a letterer or there would be color, depending on lineage.

forget about the drawing, it’s the filtered/traced 3d and speech bubbles that give it away instantly
pic related, there’s literally no context here and you can instantly tell it’s japanese, it’s like seeing a tumblr nose

>>5220757
M*d?

Thin lines
Restrained hatching
stock texture overlays and cel shading

>>5218793
The same way you can tell that a westerner drew anime

>>5218793
>I can still tell this Is "anime". Why Is It like that?
you're kidding yourself, the tall speech bubbles is a dead giveaway of being jap, if this page didn't have speech bubbles you would think it was western at first glance.

>>5218793
The softer lineart, western comics tend to have a much stronger line weight and starker lights and darks.

the fact that words aren't covering 90% of the page

>>5218793
>Testudo formation
Do they also call the legions the army Romanus?

Tell me who is a jap and who is a westerner in picrel

>>5223033
A picture to end all asian jeans threads

>>5223033
Trick question. Those are all Japanese.

>>5218793
>How can you exactly tell something was drawn by a jap so easily?
Stiff, almost medical use of reference usually gives it away.

Weebs should go through the Recent tab on pixiv from time to time, that shit is worse than deviantart.

>>5223033
/beg/s of any culture are just going to look like /beg/s

Even though I'm not much of a weeb I'm tempted to draw comics in this kind of style simply because of how low effort it seems while still looking sort of cool

Vertical speech bubbles, no western person would write that much text in those type of bubbles.
And I don't think they'd use that pose for a character explaining things, he'd be standing or doing something vaguely connected to strategy. That's some "old martial artist" pose that doesn't convey wisdom or competence here.

I don't care about your question op but what's the source for the comic, looks dope as fuck.