Aw… she chickened out.
I like how this page turned out.
Lip biting is hard to draw.
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Guys, thanks for all the support lately. It means the world to me.
Next page is due next saturday.
Cross your fingers.
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Root Rot Comics
A webcomic by David Herrick
Oh, I almost forgot…I’ve been meaning to ask you: do you actually read HP Lovecraft? I’m getting a feeling your comic is partly inspired by his work. If so…GO LOVECRAFT!
I love Lovecraft.
I love him good.
Hail to the Herrick.
On a technical note: Good maneuvering. The way you positioned the character-panels, the dead-panels, the gutters and the characters and their speech bubbles makes efficient use of space and readers’ natural eye movements. One little quibble— unless you intended for Elliot to whisper or mutter, the third panel’s speech bubble is missing its tail.
Yes, agreeing with L4UR3N there. The pose and the lighting combine to shape up Evelyn’s figure, there. Unless it were exaggerated and repeated, wouldn’t quite call it a “problem” yet. Yet. I see that Jessica was mentioned— well, for her, it seems that really is her figure, as well as her personality. Squat, muscular, busty, snide, snarky, nasty alpha-dog type. Evelyn? If and when she’s to be more assertive [or athletic, for that matter], that’d be appropriate points for character development on her part, appropriate for its own slice of plot-space. Though… such a pose isn’t all that uncommon, for certain shy folk who are either embarrassed or otherwise put into a corner.
One last note…
ELLIOT! You’re the muscle, she’s the mage! You know her purpose in in-field group-dynamics is to discern mystic matters. Also, as her friend, you know she’s got a tendency towards second-guessing herself and shyness. Somebody with abilities such as hers Do Not Simply Say Stuff For Kicks And Giggles. Put some ranks in Sense Motive, man! Or Spellcraft!
Gah I always forget something. Good eye nexus.
The issue with Jessica was’t that it didn’t work so much as that it didn’t work out as intended. After I added the shading there were some somewhat significant changes to her body shape. Again, not necessarily bad for the character, but it is part of the larger problem of keeping characters on model. My characters do tend to slide on and off model pretty often, partly due to style but mostly due to inexperience. It something I’m getting better at with practice though.
Anyway, thanks for the lovely comments, Nexus. A treat as always.
I’ve come to this page to look at Evelyn for a few minutes about twice a day since it has been posted. If you ever want more time to work on a page, do it! I love your art!
Aw shucks. Thank you so much!
Great shadowing and backgrounds, as usual. Looks fantastic.
*Thumbsup*
Awesome as always.
Thanks.
would it be possible for you to do a wallpaper of Evelyn in the pose from this page? If you can I’m sure a number of us would appreciate it ;)
See, every time something like that happens what they were going to say doesn’t get said.
I’m assuming the white-text is what she didn’t-quite-say? Because I like that.
Let others say how awesome your art is, I like the effect on the 2nd panel.
Well thank you seros.
That actually is what i was going for with the white text. I’m glad it came off that way. A lot of things were a bit shaky on this page.
Thanks again for reading!
Mind if we get Evelyn in a dress? preferably one that she would actually wear mind you XD
Unfortunately, probably not until the next chapter witch is about fifty pages off still.
Fear not, though. I am eager to speed up the production so Evelyn in a dress might be sooner rather than later.
I had a dream the other night about the last comic page, and I was looking at the comments. I got mad and broke my Nook because you hadn’t answered my comment but you answered everyone elses. Then my dream ended…. I have no idea why that happened XD
Well, anyways, come on Ev! Eliot wasn’t THAT scary! I mean, he was kinda attractive! ~leans over to David and whispers~ No, no he wasn’t, it was horrifying.
Ha. Oh man I’m so sorry for snubbing you in your dream, Makenzie.
It doesn’t take much to scare Evelyn off.
Thanks for reading!
Fuuuu! Evelyn is so cute dammit.
Hm, any chance we’ll catch a glimpse of Elliot’s school life again?
Yes we do actually.
Good guess!
Great job! I like how the first panel can be used to be easily compared to the last panel of the previous page. As impressive as this page is, I do have one minor crictism (did I spell it right?): the large picture of Evelyn looks kind of too shapely, like most of the women in superhero comic books, it just didn’t seem to suit her.
Yeah I know what you mean. She initially started out more stick like in the line art, but the way the pose worked out after I worked in the lighting shaped her up quite a bit.
I remember having a somewhat similar problem with Jessica.
Anyway thanks again for reading.