My Hero Comic WIP ( fully digital) (Patreon)

Sooo I had intended to take a break from the comics this week but I got sucked into practicing in procreate. I decided the best practice would be to work on a comic in the same format as I’ve done before and I figured I might as well use the My hero comic as a starting point.

There’re still a lot of issues I have with this though. I know that a big appeal of my work is that I’m able to match the art style and look of any characters pretty effectively. I’ve always done this by eye balling reference images very closely to match the style and incorporate my own original details and aesthetics. But since I’m just starting out in procreate, when I get frustrated, it’s too tempting give up and to straight up trace over a face or pose and change a few details to get the same effect (which is just copying and we don’t want that). For example, the first bubble of Deku and Mt. Lady’s face in panel 4 were instances where I got frustrated just looking at a reference and I traced over the majority of the reference features and changed the expressions ( the rest of the comic was either based on reference images or drawn completely from scratch). Now I don’t know where we draw the line between additive art and plagiarism, but either way I want to avoid that line at all costs. And I know with practice in digital art, I won’t feel so tempted to do this sort of thing and I’ll manage to better define my own style as well as maintain the appeal of matching the styles of the characters that you all suggest. Sorry, Injust wanted to get that off my chest.

On a brighter note, no more sloppy lines and pencil smudges!