While drawing this I kept thinking the same thought: imagine how cool this would look if a pro artist were drawing it! The swirling ash, the blackened corpses…man, it’d be pretty swell.
In cheerier news, ComicPress tells me this is my 400th post in this comic, which is pretty cool.
It’d be the best comic ever. But you still do a good enough job.
What are these animal-like beings? I don’t think we’ve met this race before.
An artist satisfied with his skills is a dead artist. You are GOOD! And if by what a pro artist might have done you mean main stream, I can assure you it would definitely be a step down. Your art is hovering between “naive” (in the positive, stylistic sense) and “abstract”. Not many artists are capable of that, you have to be very good to draw so simple and not give it this inelegant “wanted but could not do better” look. More naturalistic clouds of ash would produce this effect you find quite a lot: “hey look what cool textures I found in photopaint, too bad I lack expression and style!”
If youl would like to hear an idea, maybe you would be more satisfied with structures like steam, cloud, soot and ash if you use just a little bit of line-art with it. Just a little bit here and there, so it blends more together with the figures, stylistic spoken. But do not get me wrong, I like your art as it is very much.
Dang, I hate it when beavers go to the darkside.
Run! The cast from the Broadway rendition of Lion King have run amok! And they’re stealing children!
I would totally watch Sherlock Holmes try to solve that one.
I think the’re shifters, like the ones that were servents to the Maklaks when Kawunei met with them. This could be connected, although those shifters did not where those masks.
How it would look with a professional artist?
Lemme put it this way, there’s room for improvement, but Rob “90s ew” Liefeld was (arguably is, off and on) a “professional artist.” The man who spawned his own memes about bad art, the man once described once as, “a pair of blue jeans with a backwards baseball cap on top of it but when you turn the cap around its still backwards.â€
All I’m saying is, perspective.