Do you have any tips on how to draw more simplistic art styles? I wanna start a comic but I don’t wanna go detailed cause I know I’d give up for putting too much effort after 5 or so pages…

theredlinestation:

Oh, mama! 
( this is gonna be long ) 
I have been waiting to talk about this since forever. 
Developing and drawing for a comic is so much different than drawing for illustrations, simply prompting yourself to draw in a simpler style is only going to take you so far. However, there are ways to prepare yourself and your drawing skills for an undertaking such as comics and other formats of sequential storytelling. 

DISCLAIMER: I couldn’t find any comics that allowed me to grab enough behind the scenes content to discuss this topic properly, so I’ve gone ahead and committed a cardinal sin, and used my own current project for some of the examples. 


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