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>>2548112
Reads right to left by the way.

It sort of translates, but it could be more effective.
The first two panels feel kind of wasted. The first, nothing is really told visually, nor is the location established in a way that is made use of later.

The second panel sort of the same. I don't really know why we're looking at underwear when it's pants that are being exchanged, it might be more efficient to show the guest's discarded pants as he's picking up the friend's pants to hint at the size difference.
The sister's voice could also be place in this panel rather than the third, to create suspense for her arrival at an inopportune time, rather than having a panel of no text sandwiched between two panels of full exchanges.

The third panel, it doesn't do much visually. The pants don't look particularly roomy, and it's only context that tells us he's even got his hand down there.

The fourth panel feels a little redundant coming before two more extreme reaction panels. Rather than a closeup of the sister dropping her tray, another option might be to put it in a reverse shot of the boy with his hand in his pants at the moment they notice one another, as a pause before impact to give the dramatic reaction faces a place to launch from, as well as establishing that not only is the sister shocked but the guest understand what she thinks he's doing.

I don't really get the significance of the final panel, if there's a joke I'm missing (and stupid sister, water is not a snack!). An added punchline might be the guest getting soaked all over again, but idk if this is a set script or something.

Overall, I don't really get a sense of movement in terms of where people are/move and what they're doing, if you know what I mean. It makes the panels feel very static, rather than progressions of a movement and story, and creates an over-reliance on text to understand what's happening.
It might help to first think of the scene in motion, and then pick snapshots that best communicate all that's going on in between panels.

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>reads right to left

Christ.

I bought the artbook for this little animation made by an independent studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkAcGz1BJk and when I got it and found it was right to left the shit made me want to throw up. The art was fun and all but when you throw out a cultural/linguistic convention just to be "different" in a totally superficial way it's just a needless annoyance.

As for your comic, I don't know what the hell's going on.

No, because I want nothing to do with people in loony bins.

>>2548944
>Won't make it.

>>2548953

As an art therapist? No, probably not, but I wasn't aiming to be a touchy feely art therapist.

practice drawing faces in different perspectives

At some point you need to stop asking these broad questions and try drawing. There's no magic formula other than try, fail, learn,try,fail,learn

>>2548912
threads likes is why this board is shit, every fucking begginer makes a thread like this every 10 minutes. fuck off to the /beg/ thread.

>>2548707
>muh trypophobia

Go to /gd/. This is clearly a photo.

Also, that's not remotely how water looks (either the droplets or the actual pool of water), that wood paneling is artificial as fuck, and it doesn't look very good for anything other than a split second glance.

Then again, it's an advertisement, so I guess needing to look good is debatable...

>>2548719
Droplets? I thought she was covered in small diamonds, and I'm not shitting you.

I would be very much ashamed of calling something like this mine, to be honest.

Muhammad Ali

jack nicholson.

>>2548166
Metastasis.

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Go to artpal dot com. On top of making decent quality prints and having the most competitive net return per print, they also have suggested pixel dimensions for different sizes. Generally though, I just try to make my smallest dimension on any piece 4000 px minimum as a rule of thumb.

>>2548861
So the images do have to be very large.
Thanks.

I want to order a few X-large prints from Society6, but I don't know how large the original artwork is. I'm worries that it may come out looking pixilated.

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>>2548874
An important factor in print quality is the number of pixels per inch (ppi) used to make the print. The more pixels per inch, the finer the detail in the print will be and the sharper it will look. Probably the minimum value for reasonable print quality is 180ppi. For a better image you can go to 240ppi and for the best quality you may have to go to 300ppi.

So the math is actually pretty easy. Find out how many square inches you need the print to be, make the digital image as large as you need.

Wait another month, after 3 months, it's likely too late. 90 days is when e-mails are auto deleted generally.

Aside from that, do you speak Japanese, anon? How do you do freelance work in Japan and then just come back to U.S.?

Give him another week, do it before July. E-mail errors happen plenty, especially for old people. He might've missed it entirely.

also post you're work

>>2547913
>>2547917
Thank you for the advice. So I guess I could wait another 2 weeks combining these two suggestions?

As for how I got work there...it's kind of a "luck" story. Literally, all I did was walk into the store. The guy liked my outfit and he randomly asked me if I drew and if I had a sketchbook on me he could look at. I showed him, and he wanted me to draw some things for him. I speak very basic Japanese. I attempted to write my email both in Japanese and in English, but I am pretty sure I probably fucked up big time with the Japanese. Though at least I tried? When I was in Japan, barely any westerners even said "thank you" in Japanese or asked if they spoke English.

I had to come back because I am legally only allowed to be out of this country for a month due to being a NEET on SSI. I'd rather no show my art, because 4chan reasons. Sorry.

>>2542126
Ah fuck me I didn't even see the dick when I grabbed the pic.

>>2542126

Overwatch fanart mixed with nazi latex uniforms, dickgirls and anal?

Is this what /ic/ wants to become?

what

>>2542126
This is fucking retarded, even by Shadbase standards

>>2539915
Post his work. I don't know why he's an inspiration.

>>2539919
Pocahontas, Lilo & Stitch, Chicken Little, Bolt, Tangled, and Zootopia to name his most popular stuff.

I just mainly want to know what the fuck was the quality of his work that he was able to go straight from college to Disney.

>>2540024
I had an animation teacher who got picked up during their 90's Renaissance. He said during the 90's, it wasn't as hard to be an artist/animator and get picked up by Disney because they were aggressively looking for people. Remember it was still recent that Don Bluth took their remaining good artists and ran and they had to start training all new people and re-assigning department heads. They almost couldn't find ENOUGH 2D animators just to meet the requirements they needed to pull off stuff like Atlantis. A shit ton of fucking art went into a project like that. Then you have to take into account Dreamworks and Warner Brothers as 2D competitors, Pixar was starting up and looking to re-train 2D artists into CG. The aspiration to work in animation was not nearly as big as it is now.

But now, everyone and their grandmother wants to work in animation. The application process is so goddamn competitive, you have hundreds of aspiring artists graduating every single year who want to work in animation. And since feature film has shifted to CG, 2D animators must resort to being storyboard artists or character designers, which means those positions are filled to the fucking brim with applications.

Basically, it's about fifty times more competitive now to get into Disney than it was in the 90's, which is saying something because it was still a big place to be working at. He didn't do anything special besides being at the right place, right time. Like Pete Doctor.

>>2547900
You won't get much specific help unless you actually post your image that you are struggling with.

If you are really stuck you can colour pick off an image that has the palette you want. Flat colours can look good on almost any inking style btw.

>>2547900
well if pic is related, dont make the lines black but a darker value off the colors they are attached to works well I think.

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>Colors
Color theory
>Inking
Translate the form, not lines on paper

>>2547782
Sure, there's lots of basic issues with this, but at least the artist is clearly pushing their boundaries and trying something different. I'd be interested in seeing their work in another 5 or 10 years in the hopes that they continue to pursue their own aesthetic while filling in the gaps of their technical skills.

Or you can be a dick and make fun of them.

>>2547787

You must be new here.

>>2547787
Nice totally reasonable response, shitlord.

The top one looks kinda badass.

>>2539660
I prefer the last red one. Something very elegant about a panther.
I'll try though.

>used to think cat had best design and seal worst
>final forms seal is best and cat is worst

I was trolled.

I work mostly in one or two layers for basically this reason. When I was using multiple layers it was infuriating, and it was distracting to have to regularly stop and make sure my layers were in order.

Nowadays I generally have a foreground and background layer, and generally use a lot of temporary layers then merge them down pretty soon after using them. I lock layers I don't want to merge into by accident.

I tend to paint rather than do detailed linework, though.

>>2539726
>open up sai
>computer blades
Cut open my face

>>2539726
Sketch looks better then that final product.

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it kind of depends on what you prefer and what art you make honestly.

I personally would take a multi-media sketchbook, micron pens, a white gel pen, something to color with. I guess colored pencils in your case, for me, those take too long to color in large spaces, so I use markers. Prismacolor markers blur your ink for sure though. it can have a nice affect if intended.

Or you could use good ol' pencil and eraser. I dislike anything lighter than 2B. A kneaded eraser is really fucking helpful too.

Buy all the things. A few sketchbooks and a pencil wrap with some graphite/color pencils, brush pens, markers, and a technical pen/rollerball/fountain pen/whatever the fuck you like. Maybe a small box with some watercolors or gouache and a waterbrush. If you're carrying stuff to work every day a big box of color pencils is probably going to be clunky.

Colored pencils are extremely time consuming. I prefer sketching with a pencil then doing line work with a pen and finishing it with markers and details on top with colored pencil.

Your lines wont run if you use the right kind of ink with it. Most microns and Fiber Castell inks are not dissolved by the alcohol. The markers give you a very quick way to lay down brilliant colors and then you can do detail work with the pencils.

The biggest down side to this is the cost. Markers, pencils, and paper with a smooth finish are expensive.

>>2545554
Draw it again.

>>2545559
/thread

Do a hundred more. Do a thousand more. Just keep drawing.
Most will be shit, that's a fact. But eventually they'll all amalgamate into a grey blurr.
The only ones you'll truly remember are the good ones.
You think studios are full of perfect, faultless art? No, they're full of trash. But they're absolutely filled to BRIM with trash.
You only see the good.

You'll also get better and they'll be less trash. Your trash will become another person's goal standard.