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can't decide if I'm goin with black and white or colorshadows

with colour u need to think about what the colour meeeaans

I'm pretty sure you mean to say 'wanders' not 'wonders', right?

yeah. To be fair it was about 1am

Is this too wide? If it is, I'll have to rehost it.

I felt like practicing inking today because I'd been watching comic artists drawing on youtube. I'm pop flyin' with it, but I know I could do a lot better. What better to act on that inspiration than The Hulk? I know the head is more angular than it should be.

I've been putting up a lot of artwork in other places lately, hopefully tomorrow I'll get around to compiling a proper post here.

In the meantime, feedback?

Wow
The only thing I can really think of is that the fist on the ground should maybe be turned forward a bit if you ever draw it again. Everything else looks great to me.

The head's too big; Try reducing it in size by about a third.

First rule with making something seem more bulky/hulky is to make the head smaller - the same rule applies to drawing giant mecha.

The veins aren't quite right - they feel a bit too long/spread out - they look more like cables than veins.

Instead of having them run the entire length of an arm or leg try restricting them to just the forearm or the upper arm - also have more branches coming off of them and make them more 'squiggly' than straight.

Other than that it's looking good; I'd advise having another look at some reference of the Hulk or look up some bodybuilder photos for the veins - and read up on some Hulk-drawing theory in regard to the proportion of the head in relation to the body (there should also be some pointers about making the limbs thick and short if you look in the right place).

Gotcha. I knew something was keeping him from seeming properly large and I knew the head was a bit too big, but I hadn't made the connection.

I'm planning on giving it another go when I get more pens, so I'll take this all into account then.

EDIT: Nothing to show just yet, but I got some brushes to hae a go at brush inking. So far, my ink seems to be more watery than I'd like it to be. I'm using plain old Speedball black ink; is it normal for ink to be a bit light? Do I just fix this with adjustments when I scan the image? Or should I go looking for a darker ink?

Is it the large filled areas that seem too watery? Or even just line work?

I usually use india ink I dunno what speedball is like but on large areas it always ends up washed out. The only ink I've ever known to not do that is chinese calligraphy ink. Beautiful stuff.

Even on small areas with the tip of the brush, unless I go slowly or layer it on, both of which cause a lot of bleed. Wide, filled areas are almost better, because they can only bleed on te edges.

Maybe I'll look into some better calligraphy ink; mine definitely isn't cutting it.

Oh, the bleeding actually sounds more like a problem with the paper actually. Or maybe both paper and ink.

If you have to layer it on there would definitely be bleed on normal paper.

Can you recommend any specific papers, then?

I have a bit of watercolor material lying around, but one time I used a regular micron pen on it and it bled like hell, so I don't expect that would be much better.

The pros use bristol board which almost never bleed, but personally, I use a high quality printing paper by a brand called 4CC, its the best paper Ive ever used. It looks like this

Is that a region-specific brand, though? because if it is, blocks of paper are so heavy that the shipping costs would be a nightmare

I dont think so, the text on the containers are in English, not Swedish