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[bunnyThor]

I read a lot of webcomics, and so I care a lot about webcomics. That's why I want every comicker I follow to read the page at this link:

http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333

The artist linked here addresses half of everything about webcomic art that makes me scream.

I don't twitter, so I hoping some of you will tweet this forward. We all know someone whose strip we love but needs to see this. Do the right thing.

[LTK]

Jeph already happened to tweet it out. Also, if you want to know more about comicking, I suggest reading Indistinguishable From Magic, the Dresden Codak blog. Good stuff.

[JD]

Alternatively you could read either of Scott McCloud's books on comix

[bunnyThor]

I just want more of them to read the "Things to Unlearn" section. Both the "Flounderface Disorder" and the "Generi-spressions" set my teeth on edge every time I see them. Especially when I see them done by artists who draw everything else with some level of mastery.

[J]

Alternatively you could read either of Scott McCloud's books on comix

he wrote three

[JD]

whoop

I only read two

[bicostp]

There's a set of images floating around that Disney animator was putting together for prospective new hires who didn't make the cut. It demonstrated many newbie mistakes like drawing flat wooden characters, poorly placed and excessively long speech bubbles, and applying perspective to backgrounds but not characters. For the life of me I can't find the stupid thing now.

In the meantime, have this excellent lighting tutorial:
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm

Basically if you're going to make a webcomic, don't be Tim Buckley.

[JD]

Don't be Girlz N' Games

[David_Dovey]

Oh thank GOD I have been waiting for someone to make a comic about gaming and pop culture!

[bicostp]

Uuuuugh. Written by someone who thinks a constant barrage of pop culture references is humor, the assembled art has barely changed in years, the artist perpetrator refuses to acknowledge any criticism... It's like CAD if it could somehow be even worse.

Don't be Girlz N' Games

Lucas Story is far superior to Girlz n' Games and CAD combined.

[Ikrik]

Errgh, that was awful, I got through seven strips of that and I was completely done. 

There have been a few webcomics I've dropped for several reasons but what they usually had in common was that their art-style never improved.   Revisiting them right now and still, absolutely no evolution.  I think the best example I have of this is Dominic Deegan, the guy has been drawing in exactly the same style without any real evolution for years now.