Your Comic style


YarTzana-Serenade's avatar
I am starting to get interested in develop my own comic design, since as a child I've always been more attracted by the eastern world, which lately got boring, my style has more of a soft manga-ish kind of softness, which is a lot girlish-er than most western styles (As far as I know) And it limits my production quite a lot.  I now find myself in a weird kind of transaction phase. Basically, I'm interested into get some inspiration from your own comic style, and  maybe learn something from you.  :)
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KageLu's avatar
My main style is manga towards the modern clean lines shounen look.

Dream Demons by KageLu Dream Demons II by KageLu War of the Spiderqueen 16 by KageLu Perspective Line art by KageLu
StormWhiskers's avatar
I originally wanted to draw manga style years ago but I found it too difficult. Now my style is mostly inspired by western comics and cartoons. I definitely want the clean and crisp look that some comic book lines have and a nice balance of black and white inks before adding colour, but I also want my characters to be very expressive, especially with their facial features like the cartoons that I grew up with.
Chase 1/8 by StormWhiskersHome 1/4 by StormWhiskersHome 2/4 by StormWhiskersHome 3/4 by StormWhiskersBlue Beetle by StormWhiskers
I still have a lot of things I want to improve on (especially buildings.) If you want to look at some more western comic artists my biggest influences are; Tradd Moore because of his gorgeous detailed lines and dynamic scenes, Kevin Maguire for his fantasic facial expressions, Karl Kerschl for his almost cartoony characters, Stephanie Hans for her gorgeous colour choices, and Amanda Conner because I love how she draws the eyes on some of her characters.
SECONDARY-TARGET's avatar
Hahaha sadly my style is so manga-ish and anime-ish, if you don't mind to look ^^;

Route X : Page 3 by SECONDARY-TARGET Route X : Page 12 by SECONDARY-TARGET

I tried to combine real photograph too (since I'm lazy to draw BG) it really saves time but the result is quite ugly :p

I'm Not An Amateur, I'm A Specialist by SECONDARY-TARGET
shanepeters's avatar
I WANT TO BELIEVE by shanepetersLet's Rock! by shanepetersAnother Place by shanepetersImages in sequence by shanepetersBest of luck in your search.
ScottaHemi's avatar
I'm really not sure what to consider my style... over the years my art has changed so dramaticly that I have no idea anymore you know XD  I think my color art is largly inspired by the bright colors of many cartoons. though my lineart i have no clue on really, i think it's just a mix of everything i've learned over the years, not anime, not comicbook, not cartoon. 

anyways I have 2 comic series going right now :D Dan's Voyage and Rebel Cowgirls

Dan's voyage is my main comic series.  for now i'm doing it in a black and white lineart style. not much unlike a manga or more accurately old newspaper comics.  here's just a couple random pages from the first 2 chapters :) 
Dan's Voyage, Cover V1 by ScottaHemiDan's Voyage Ch1 Pg 1 by ScottaHemiDan's Voyage ch01 pg09 by ScottaHemiDV Ch02 Pg07 by ScottaHemiDan's Voyage, Ch02 Pg28 by ScottaHemi

and Rebel Cowgirls is similar in style, as it's a different series i'm trying to be a bit different with character and technology designs. here's all i have so far, coloring takes a lot longer... but i can definitely see a visual reward to it :)  might eventually revisit Dan's Voyage and color it to. or maybe just learn how to better do black and white imagery

Rebel Cowgirl on Robot Planet 1 by ScottaHemiRebel Cowgirls on Planet Robot, Ch01 Pg1 by ScottaHemiRebel Cowgirls on Planet Robot, Ch01 Pg2 by ScottaHemiRebel Cowgirls on Planet Robot, Ch01 Pg3 by ScottaHemi
DigitalRippleARTs's avatar
These are the styles I work with:
Tutorial - Anime to Non Anime Differences by DigitalRipple
Character Set 06 - Julienne Wereling by DigitalRipple  Character Set 05 - Garret Wereling by DigitalRipple
but I hope to create my own style that will become signature to me. :)
One Piece Redrawn - My favourite female characters by DigitalRipple This one is probably my favourite style.
littlegrotesqueme's avatar
For me, the manga style suited me the best. My comics are also read from right-to-left instead of the western, left-to-right style. In my comics though, I use only one color, red, to emphasize different things.

LGM-- The Tooth Fairy [Bo-Boxu X Usa] by littlegrotesquemeASYLUM no Monogatari: Cover Page by littlegrotesquemeASYLUM no Monogatari Preview by littlegrotesqueme
beejazz's avatar
The Arm by beejazz  TheArmPage2 by beejazz  The Arm Page 3 by beejazz

If you're looking for harder or more masculine stylistic elements, you could do worse than to take your cues from a lot of western comics. Black Hole, Hellboy, Queen and Country, anything by Kirby or Moebius. Also old illustrations, back when they did things by etching and litho, have some amazing work. George Bellows, John Sloan, and Heinrich Kley are some of my favorites.
Inspector-Spinda's avatar
Mercenary Inn Vol 1: Mercenary Roundup by Crimson-OathMercenary Inn Vol 1 Page 1 by Crimson-Oath
i went with a manga/cartoon style. hopefully i can get around to redrawing everything when i get really good :D
ZamberZT's avatar
For some reason i don't think my comics style would go too far. HAH! I just like the idea of one being like this.

I guess its mainly a One panel Comic. I like Having to write a short story explaining what is depicted .
EarthWorm Adventures: Informant for the blind by ZamberZTEvery EarthWorms Dream - The war rages on! by ZamberZT
DaphfloconMojo's avatar
here's mine.

HOAIM - page 0 by DaphfloconMojo daphfloconmojo.deviantart.com/…
WATDT - page 0 by DaphfloconMojo daphfloconmojo.deviantart.com/…

I've working on it for three years.

this is the current comic I am working on right now ;

FIABW - page 0 by DaphfloconMojo daphfloconmojo.deviantart.com/…
AltairSky's avatar
Some Borderlands 2 comics I made:
If you played borderlands 2 you'll probably have some laughs, if not there are spoilers and you probably won't understand what is happening lol. But they might be hilarious anyway.
Duels at Terramorphous Peak (YT video attached) by AltairSky I run into things (Part 2) by AltairSky Story behind a Screenshot by AltairSky DLC4 - You skipped. by AltairSky Nerf by AltairSky Zer0's Valentine's day by AltairSky Hyperius have had it by AltairSky 
The-Infamous-MrGates's avatar
As much as I like particular manga, My style as been rooted mostly in the western sense.  I take a lot of inspiration form Graphic novels and films.  I'm not sure if I can other anything inspirational, but I'll allow you to pick my brain :) lol

Dante and Kasdeya pg. 8 by Art-of-the-Seraphim  Dante and Kasdeya pg. 9 by Art-of-the-Seraphim  Dante and Kasdeya pg. 10 by Art-of-the-Seraphim  Dante and Kasdeya pg. 11 by Art-of-the-Seraphim  Dante and Kasdeya pg. 12 by Art-of-the-Seraphim   
TheOuterDarkness's avatar
Here are a few pages from my comic. Its exact style is... actually, I'm not completely sure what the style is. I guess it's just sort of something I made up.

The Outer Darkness (cover) by TheOuterDarkness The Outer Darkness Chapter 1, P.1 by TheOuterDarkness
JamieWiles's avatar
I haven't been doing comics for long but my style is, I guess, an experimental type of deal. But my drawing style all around is American style cartoony type of deal. I was mostly inspired by various cartoon shows and animated movies, mostly Disney movies plus comics which is for the most part, Sandman by Neil Gaiman and Batman. 


A Grand Day Cover by JamieWiles A Grand Day page 1 by JamieWiles A Grand Day page 2 by JamieWiles
YarTzana-Serenade's avatar
Thank you for sharing :) this is really creative and singular, I could see these pages in a wreck my journal kind of book. Keep it up!
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KillThePaint's avatar
to be honest i dont want a comic. i want the music video.
YarTzana-Serenade's avatar
A music video? What do you mean? :)
KillThePaint's avatar
google 2ne1´s hate you MV - that kinda stuff :la:
YarTzana-Serenade's avatar
Oh, yes , I know that video, that would be real cool, but that is animation, which would be my dream, but I have to start from something easier first :) Since I should probably take classes to learn something that haaard! 
KillThePaint's avatar
i feel like doing animations itself isnt that hard when you just learn it but getting started and actually studying gotta be a bitch :ohnoes: like as example all the brony fan vidyas, if doing animations was so hard there would be significantly less content right?
Rayaroja's avatar
I was a weeaboo when I was much younger, and I stupidly tried to learn drawing from how-to-draw-manga books and to this day people still think I "draw anime."
 I use a different style for every story I work on, but my go-to style is my black and white, noir style inspired by Frank Miller's Sin City. I'm currently working on a new manuscript with a style inspired by Bernie Wrightson. Below are the first pages of two manuscripts I've completed, the descriptions have links to the ones that follow.

Masquerade teaser - Pg 1 by Rayaroja Callidora P.I. Teaser- pg 1 by Rayaroja