General status update + some sketches.

Hey guys! I might start making posts here more often from now on. about what's going on, what am I doing, and why the hell it is not drawing more comic pages. Generally, whenever I’m not drawing stuff to post, pretty much all I’m doing is trying to improve some aspect of what I’m making. Perhaps knowing more details would be interesting to some of you, and I myself could always use some advice or simply a second opinion (more like third tbh, but still).

My general position about the comic is that I don’t want to make more pages until I know I’ll be able to do them well enough. I understand it’s sort of silly to care so much about quality in something like this, but it’s important for me, so I’ll keep trying to do it as well as I can.

Anyway, right now I’m working on a problem where, as I see it, my drawings sometimes don’t convey well enough what they should - the situation, the mood, the context - or fail to convey any altogether. The reason lies mostly with poses/faces not being natural and expressive enough, and sometimes with camera angles being boring and bland, or not showing enough details. To improve on that, I plan to spend some time drawing stuff with emphasis on expressing some kind of “idea” - for example, the few latest arts with Shy were a very, very simple example of that. Here is another one I’ve been trying to do:

https://imgur.com/a/HlYd2

I tried various poses and angles to see what would look best, and I ended up with the following two:

https://imgur.com/a/Gw5k9

The first one converys the idea well, I think; I generally like the poses and the expressions. However, the camera angle is boring and doesn’t add anything, the bodies can’t be seen very well, and there is a lot of not very needed background that takes space. The poses also are don’t work very well with pone anatomy as I’ve been drawing it. Compared to that, the second angle is more interesting on itself, shows the bodies much better, fits the anatomy, and cuts on unnecessary background, However, the poses themselves and much less natural or expressive, the face can’t be seen very well either, and the situation makes a bit less sense with a background guy sitting directly across them. Overall, I’m not sure which one of the two is better, or what I could do to make it better still. What do you think?

Oh, and also, have a bunch of other sketches from the last few days. I don’t think those came out very well, so I probably won’t be finishing most of them.

https://imgur.com/a/DD5Li