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BlueStormGeo — Geo Volume 1 Cover
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Crap Crap Crap CrapAgain scanner?! Why must you always destroy light blue and ice blue's colors?! Whhhhhhy!?
But yeah
New Cover thingy
I like it.
...Well I like the real version anyway.
Scanned version......meh
EDIT: Did some much needed tweaking on Terra's outfit in Photoshop. Hooray Photoshop
Characters © to me
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I'm a contributor from the a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/n/a… " alt=" " title="AnimangaArtists"/>, and since you requested a critique, I'll do it here (like you asked).
Despite the scanner misbehaving, I don't think the colors look too bad in this. The girl in red actually looks pretty good, and the highlights in her hair look the nicest. The blue guy at the top also looks pretty good.
I like the group shot, with the mysterious figure in the back and the action lines, which gives an otherwise stagnant shot some movement to it, but I see several mistakes you might consider fixing in future covers.
1. Posing your characters -- Don't hide all their hands behind their backs!! That shows laziness (because hands are hard for a lot of people to draw). Vary their poses a bit-- give them some originality. Especially for a cover, it's nice when you can get a sense of what each character is like just by looking at them. Here they are all essentially the same to me. Also, I didn't even notice the... the pokemon? The little critter at the bottom at first. You put a blue character over another blue character which is on top of a blue background... I think it would have been wiser to position the animal over the redhead, since the colors would make him stand-out a bit more. Also, I would have given the blue head a body... unless he really is just a floating head, because that's what he looks like.
2. Anatomy -- you went with a pretty easy pose for all the characters, but I can still see some anatomy mistakes. The blue-shirt guy appears to have teeny tiny shoulders, and the redheaded girl's torso just keeps going and going (maybe a belly button would have looked good).
3. The title -- Make your title bigger! It's soooo small, and there is so much extra space up above that it would only make more sense if the title of your comic stood out a bit more. That's very important for a comic-- you want people to remember the title!
I see that you have your own style, and that's great, but be a little more aware of things like composition, because good composition is key to comics. Good luck in the future!
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This was a neat and solid critique! If you ever feel like doing these on a regular basis, I hope you'd consider joining the critique team at #Critique-It . We're always looking for thorough and thoughtful critics.
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Thank you! I do critiques over at , but if the workload isn't too too heavy I'd love to help out with your group (my other group gets about 200 submissions a day). If nothing else, we should definitely affiliate!
Do you have specific critique givers for specific genres?
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200 a day! 
We'd be happy to affiliate - the big requirement for us for accepting an affiliation request is that the group should be actively engaged in helping artists improve. Does #AnimangaArtists focus on improvement as well as sharing?
Do you have specific critique givers for specific genres?
Yes and no. We encourage all our members to offer comments and critique on the items posted to our gallery, but we also have staff critics who leave critiques on deviations and different ways in which the member can request critique. For example, we have a Request-a-Critic journal for a more personalized conversation between artist and critic, and the staff's working on implementing an improvement feature journal for artists who have taken the critique and used it to make version 2 of their submitted piece.
We're also especially interested in seeing (and attracting) more visual art critics and members.
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AnimangaArtists has pretty high standards for the art submitted and turns down about 70% of what's submitted, the reason being we want people to post more than doodles, sketches, and copied artwork. We want people to really push themselves and try to overcome their art hurdles, and we offer critiques to anyone who doesn't make it into our gallery to anyone who asks (we used to give them to everyone, but people got... angry 
I will probably get back to you about helping with critiques when I'm a little less busy... I'm doing a bunch of commissions and then July will be me working on my debut comic (wish me luck!). If after I finish these commissions I think I have a little time to spare in my schedule, I'll gladly join your group 
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Yeah, when egos are on the line, people can get rather defensive. We try to have protections for our critics and create a kind of safe zone in our group - ideally, the only people who submit and are accepted are those who show that they truly do want feedback. So far, we haven't had any bad reactions to critical responses. Hopefully, as our group grows, we won't in the future either. Fingers crossed.
Oooh, good luck on your comic! Have you found a venue to publish it? (It is called "publishing" right? I know next to nothing about comics. 
I look forward to seeing you around (and hopefully lurking around the group too!)
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Well, I live in Japan and showed the rough pages to an editor at a manga magazine called Young Ace. She liked it and asked me to bring her the finished version... so I may not get published, but hopefully she likes the finished work! If not, I'll still shop it around. I had luck with an editor last year, but he was young and didn't really know what he wanted, and after being told last minute that my work couldn't run in the magazine (I only had a month to do 48 pages and they were kinda sloppy... but what were they expecting with only a month's notice!?) I eventually left to find a new editor. Hopefully this one works out and I can finally get published for doing my own stuff!
I am supposedly getting published in the US in an anthology, but I don't know the details and I think it's Indy and not pro, like what I'm working on now.
Yeah, I'll definitely pop my head in once the work load lightens a bit. If I can be of service, I'd love to help! (if I'm not too busy >_<)
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Wow. Sounds like a quite the ride. Is situations like this what I should expect when I try to get published?
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Depends on if you try to get published in America or Japan. In Japan it's near impossible for foreigners, and I'm not overly familiar with the American system.
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Oh, okay. I'll make sure I find out more about getting published. Definitely something I need in-depth knowledge on
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Whoo
Thannnk youuuu
Now this is a Critique! Truly you've left me something with which I can improve on in the future. I wish more people would critique when I request it. Thanks again for taking the time
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No problem! I think if you fixed some of those basic problems (poses, composition) you'll be doing great cover art in no time
Anytime you submit to and it gets turned down, feel free to ask for a critique!
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pretty cool. nice having all the characters in there. i think though you sould try to fill the page a bit more. apart from that it's nice xD
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Thanks. Yeah I'll definitely need to think it through more in the future
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I really like how this cover turned out. Each of the characters stand out pretty well thanks to the seemingly well-thought out character designs. The color scheme works out very well.
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I love it!
It looks so professional. >.< The girl on the far right is my favorite. Completely AWESOME shading. I really love the bg too! Keep up the awesome work!
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Or did I misunderstand, and you actually meant the rightmost girl?
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OH PFFT I'M RETARDED. left i meant!
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Far left actually.
And thanks a bunch
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Great pic, your manga seems interesting from the looks of it. I give the cover 10/10
P.S. what did you use to color it, i'm curious because it looks so amazing!
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Thank You very much. I'm very glad you like it.
And that is quite the Coincidence.
I used my standard coloring weapons of choice, Copic Markers
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