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BeckKeep — Bulletproof Test 2
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Another test trying to get the Bulletproof style. Whatcha thing?Original test: [link]
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Hmm.. The cross hatching on the hair starts to make it look really busy but the rest is nice. The sketchyness adds movement, especially in the shadows, where movement is good. It makes it seem like the light's dwindling. I love that effect.
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I like the red lighting and coloring outside the lines. It's all scratchy but it looks cool.
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Hmm, well I guess this style makes everything grittier and more serious.
So...messy but effective
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Um.... what Holylancer9 said. X'D I'm really liking this!
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Here's my two cents.....actually, it's going to be more like a dollar, so grab a snack.
In a lot of ways, I think it is really, really fitting. I like the grittiness and sort of "incompleteness" to the lineart. As others have mentioned, you have really great, thick, flowing lines in the main comic, which works really well for the cartoony style you work in.
However, I know for a lot of the extra/side comics, you like to work in different styles (especially Vagabond, Crossbones, etc.) That said, I think that for the most part, this is a GREAT style for the book that will be told opposite of Crossbones. Crossbones was very crisp, clean, and colorful.
I like how in both this style, and even the older Bulletproof tests, the colors are a bit "washed" looking. Again, it adds to the grittiness of the Mysteel side, and also gives it that sort of dream-like/nostalgia/reminiscence quality, since this is about past events. The style actually reminds me a bit of the Final Fantasy Tactics character designs. They had that gritty look to them, which really worked for the setting and story.
The only negative thing I can think of, is this; For me, this style looks slightly less cartoony than some of your other styles (which I like) but for some reason...his face still looks so silly and cartoony. For me, it looks a tiny bit odd in this style. It's kind of a minor thing, and I don't mean to nitpick, because I really like the way this looks. Even though I think the characters looked great as a whole in the old test style, I like the way this particular style looks too. Once you're actually drawing up the pages, and settle into this style more, I think that minor issue is something that would probably be cleared up and work anyway.
Really though, I can see how both styles would work. I actually like the fact that the coloring in both styles isn't as "solid" as in your other styles (like you said in the other one, you wanted the coloring to convey the mood/emotion, rather than necessarily representing the actual color of something.
I hate to confuse you, and I hope I haven't. XD I can see Bulletproof working both ways.
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while the previous is more visually pleasing to me because its what im more used to because of your style > thick lines and such.
I think this style would deffinately give you room to explore variety within your styles and also within your comics, the more detail you would have the more important/seriously it will be taken? idk, i really like this style for bulletproof.
ultimately it is up to you though haha.
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