Sprotchymon wrote:
The main font (Tempus Sans ITC)... takes some getting used to. The way it is thin and crooked is alright for captions, headers and short paragraphs, but reading entire pages full of it is making my eyes burn. (Maybe I've just been staring at the computer screen too long.)
Actually, Tempus Sans ITC has been the primary font for my website since its inception last year, so I didn't see the need to change it. I would be tempted at this moment to say the problem is more to do with the latter bracketed factor than anything else (
Heh!) but it's a matter of opinion really.
Sprotchymon wrote:
Still, the addition of your in-depth walkthrough of how you create a piece, with pictures highlighting each step, is a really nice touch. Perhaps you could take it a step further and outline the steps you take between visualization and sketch? I've heard of some artists who start by drawing everything as stick figures or a bunch of ovals, leading to a lot of erasing of faint lines... do you do something like that or do you trace it exactly how you want the finished product to look like before coloring? (That's what I do, but only because I don't want to waste time erasing stuff on purpose.)
The character-themed banners are all quite appealing. I'll get around to reading the new (and improved?) character bios some other time. Overall, stupendous job!
The walkthrough is not quite as in-depth as I have posted in the Artwork KnowHow Forums over at Eccentricities, but it is a sort of concise version of that. I haven't mentioned anything about visualisation though. In truth, there is very little to tell - I adopt what I call the Matt Groening approach to cartooning - sod the circles and guidelines, just draw the character! Lol!
It means my characters often come out looking different from one image to another and I frequently find myself having difficulty getting them right first time, but it's a method which I think is imperative to the style.
No pressure to read the vast reams of text on that site, but if you want to, by all means! It'd be nice if at least a few did! Lol! If nothing else, you might find a few errors that I haven't spotted or something.
Thanks mate.