PROJECT COMIC (Help me improve!)

[Lilleen]

Greetings people of Reborn.

I am a girl who has way too many hobbies. One of them including drawing. I love to draw! You might notice that I've posted alot of fanart of Reborn. I am also on deviantart. I might not post too often, but I do every now and then. I'll give you a link in case your interested to see the drawings over there.

I have started a project I call COMIC. This is a project I just started with the goal of making me improve as an artist. Now, I haven't drawn comics for very long, but I know that I wanna improve on drawing comics, since its a hobby i do indeed enjoy.

Problem is ... I need help. My past comic pages have been lacking design wise and doesn't have any backgrounds, simply because I have a hard time drawing them.

Now I know what you're thinking: "Why not just draw a comic where almost every single panel has a background?" First off, yes I am a mindreader. Secondly, I have done so. Lastly, it isn't enough.

I need you guys. I need your experience. I need your critique. I will post a four page comic I created and I need you to tell me what I need to improve and work on. Not just with backgrounds, but with design, expressions and body-langauge. Please, don't hold back. Don't do it. I ain't afraid of no critique! If you could do this for me, I would love you all.

The comic I am about to post has a random setting. I do not plan to follow it up, although I might post a new comic with a different setting. This was all drawn by hand in a A5 sketch book (hence why it is small). I didn't cover up mistakes I made. None. What you see is what it looks like in real life.

My devinart profile: http://victoria2037.deviantart.com/

The Comic: http://victoria2037.deviantart.com/art/PROJECT-COMIC-Help-me-improve-629245879

Once again: THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Cyanna Cyril]

I recommend looking at some videos on Youtube from Mark Crilley, who makes commentaries on drawing in general and also on specific types of drawing. Listening to his opinions and thought processes might help you with your work. Other than that, I just recommend practicing and maybe trying to copy a style or two of another comic artist to get a feel for what other people do.

[Sir Waffles]

For backgrounds learning how to set down and use perspective guide lines are really helpful when you are figuring out where to lay down objects. For the composition it's best to draw them out in thumbnails before deciding where the panels should be, it lets the story flow much more nicely than it would when it's limited by panels set down before everything is planned out.