Looking back on it, I think I got an unusual amount of drama and energy into the figures all through the sketches and unfinished pages.
As I mentioned previously, I grew up in the Swan/Schaffenberger/Boring era of comics, and my early art self-education was heavily inspired by those artists, and others like them. I picked up a lot of bad habits I never shook. As a result, my drawings often have a kind of stiff, static quality to them.
Comic books are not a good place to learn art, even if your intent is to draw comics. Comics are full of artists' shorthand representations of reality, and you end up learning what the shorthand representations look like, rather than how to depict reality. Once you've learned to depict reality, you can develop your own shorthand representations.
This piece is amazing. I can't put my finger on one thing so I will gush..showing the victims jawline instead of her face, her hand contorted in pain, the girl on top looking at her opponent's face instead of her target. Without any words you get the impression immediately that she is going to "punish" the other gal rather than finish her. All that from a few lines on paper. I'll take a few of your "bad" habits please.
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