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I imagine most of my viewers look at me as though I know everyone on the block by name and we have secret underground illuminati meeting wearing black robes lighting candles and hailing a portrait of Lauren Faust. Surprisingly that's not true. We managed to wire our cave with stock fluorescent lighting once it became obvious that several flames in an enclosed space and a lot of people breathing oxygen makes for a terrible combination.
On a more serious note my social life on Deviantart equivocates that of an old man sitting no his porch yelling at kids who wander onto his lawn. Much like any other craft you can only get better by looking ahead or taking risks that have a feasible chance of paying off. Maybe I should browse more pony comic artists and break their method down. I know a thing or two about making fan-made pony comics.
Starting us off I present "It Looked Good on Paper" from Drawponies. He gave me the idea come up with this series, and in the worst case scenario viewers find someone new for their watch list.
Do you even generate lift, bro?
I think I'll begin with the storyboard. From all the comics I've read from Drawponies that focus on humour he often uses the standard rule of 3 a lot. Panel 1 sets the scene and the tone, panel 2 lets the observer pick up on a sort of tension, and panel 3 usually drops a simple pun. I imagine it's easier to draw 3 panels over 6 or 8... or 108. It can take a while to draw out a whole panel from scratch. I chose this comic on the basis that he deviates a little from the standard formula here, instead drawing out two separate narratives on Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash before playing off the pun.
The concept is something I never really considered. Scootaloo stealing Tank's helicopter harness in a last-ditch effort to fly; that's clever. Had I been tasked to edit this I would probably replace the skewed "CRASH" text with an image of Rainbow Dash entering the room asking what all the crashing and noise was all about. From there we can see a contrast in Rainbow's emotions and maybe it'll be a bit funnier. I don't know. Again, humour in general is a very subjective thing to handle, and there's a lot of variants and angles to this concept that haven't been covered and probably won't be mentioned. For instance this comic could stick to the 3-panel formula where the first two panels would remain unchanged. However, the third panel would feature Rainbow Dash's in shock/anger/hysteria as Scootaloo delivers her "I can explain" line. Drawponies just so happened to come off with a very minimalist approach approach that remains effective. So my only gripe with this comic is pretty much a nitpick.
Again, since each panel takes up a lot of time you have to be efficient with your time and space. Aesthetic means little to nothing when it comes to drawing comics so much as its function and tone does; his art style is something you would expect if your goal is to be clean and simple. Traces established poses of characters, and then everything gets easy from there. It works, it's straightforward; I've yet to see an objective complaint against it.
I was going to say something about wanting to see drawponies deviate from the standard 3-panel one-two-punchline a little, but he's already a step ahead of me in that regard. But I will be honest; I have no idea what "Adapting to Night" is supposed to be. Is it a comedy? Is it a horror? A sitcom? Romcom?! It's something alright; I'm not sure is there's any planning or focus to this comic series at all. Personally I've hit a huge bump making a transition between stand-alone comics and comic series, but I at least planned out the plotline. I've also made the huge mistake of giving zero focus to character development and transitioning from the middle to the endgame, but this seems subpar to his stand-alone works. Granted I will keep an eye on the comic series as it develops, but right now it's kind of firing blanks as far as I can tell.
Overall I think drawponies makes decent comics. Feel free to check out his dA profile, and let me know what you think about his work. Also, if you've enjoyed this critique let me know; I'll make more if you guys want more!
On a more serious note my social life on Deviantart equivocates that of an old man sitting no his porch yelling at kids who wander onto his lawn. Much like any other craft you can only get better by looking ahead or taking risks that have a feasible chance of paying off. Maybe I should browse more pony comic artists and break their method down. I know a thing or two about making fan-made pony comics.
Starting us off I present "It Looked Good on Paper" from Drawponies. He gave me the idea come up with this series, and in the worst case scenario viewers find someone new for their watch list.
Do you even generate lift, bro?
I think I'll begin with the storyboard. From all the comics I've read from Drawponies that focus on humour he often uses the standard rule of 3 a lot. Panel 1 sets the scene and the tone, panel 2 lets the observer pick up on a sort of tension, and panel 3 usually drops a simple pun. I imagine it's easier to draw 3 panels over 6 or 8... or 108. It can take a while to draw out a whole panel from scratch. I chose this comic on the basis that he deviates a little from the standard formula here, instead drawing out two separate narratives on Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash before playing off the pun.
The concept is something I never really considered. Scootaloo stealing Tank's helicopter harness in a last-ditch effort to fly; that's clever. Had I been tasked to edit this I would probably replace the skewed "CRASH" text with an image of Rainbow Dash entering the room asking what all the crashing and noise was all about. From there we can see a contrast in Rainbow's emotions and maybe it'll be a bit funnier. I don't know. Again, humour in general is a very subjective thing to handle, and there's a lot of variants and angles to this concept that haven't been covered and probably won't be mentioned. For instance this comic could stick to the 3-panel formula where the first two panels would remain unchanged. However, the third panel would feature Rainbow Dash's in shock/anger/hysteria as Scootaloo delivers her "I can explain" line. Drawponies just so happened to come off with a very minimalist approach approach that remains effective. So my only gripe with this comic is pretty much a nitpick.
Again, since each panel takes up a lot of time you have to be efficient with your time and space. Aesthetic means little to nothing when it comes to drawing comics so much as its function and tone does; his art style is something you would expect if your goal is to be clean and simple. Traces established poses of characters, and then everything gets easy from there. It works, it's straightforward; I've yet to see an objective complaint against it.
I was going to say something about wanting to see drawponies deviate from the standard 3-panel one-two-punchline a little, but he's already a step ahead of me in that regard. But I will be honest; I have no idea what "Adapting to Night" is supposed to be. Is it a comedy? Is it a horror? A sitcom? Romcom?! It's something alright; I'm not sure is there's any planning or focus to this comic series at all. Personally I've hit a huge bump making a transition between stand-alone comics and comic series, but I at least planned out the plotline. I've also made the huge mistake of giving zero focus to character development and transitioning from the middle to the endgame, but this seems subpar to his stand-alone works. Granted I will keep an eye on the comic series as it develops, but right now it's kind of firing blanks as far as I can tell.
Overall I think drawponies makes decent comics. Feel free to check out his dA profile, and let me know what you think about his work. Also, if you've enjoyed this critique let me know; I'll make more if you guys want more!
Let's Critique My Little Pony Friendship is Magic
I haven't really been keeping up with My Little Pony; not after Season 6 first aired. Last week I decided to check out the first episode of Season 6, and... it was kind of okay. All that really stuck out in my head was how this show doesn't really grab me anymore. It took a while for me to piece it together, but I think I know where this show falls short. I may come off terse, but that's only because I'm going to treat this show as though it was aiming to be this revolutionary game-changer in its field. It kinda was... and isn't.
A lot of my criticisms will focus in on the writing. It's not bad, but there are times where the show has written
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I'm going to mention a website. I urge everyone reading not to visit this website because it is rumoured that simply visiting this site will slip phishing software onto your computer. I'm not entirely sure if that claim is valid, but that's probably a good reason not to visit the site at all. I'm only mentioning this website to generate awareness on this matter, and to protect my own copyrights while giving fellow artists a chance to protect their own.
Many deviant artists have complained over the last several months that a site named Wallpart has been stealing their artworks to sell as prints without their consent, let alone their knowledge
No news to report. Have some owl.
SotG
I know over the past while I haven't been putting out as much content. I guess an owe an explanation.
First and foremost I feel burnt out. I feel like I have reached a dead end in my craft. Making comics feels tedious to me. At this point almost every idea I come up with feels like something similar I've already done. I keep running into ideas uncomfortably similar to what I've already done before. I run into a lot of ideas that are overly complex and long, but barely any payoff. As a result I can't dedicate myself to a single idea; I can't settle with something mediocre, even if my readers see it and get a kick out of it.
At one point I wa
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I think Drawponies has had great stand-alone comics, but Adapting to Night never was my kinda stuff. Tried reading it but nah, not for me. I'm glad that there's still those stand-alone strips now and then.