Digital Art

Study anatomy. Go to live model drawing sessions. And draw, draw, draw.

To be fair, I think this nails the Early 2000s Newgrounds Aesthetic perfectly.

Practice. Focusing on proportions a bit. Tighten up a few lines here or there. But mostly practice. No one is just good in a vaccum. It all comes from practice and study.

Follow a drawing course like drawabox.com, then focus on anatomy. Find a good anatomy textbook and practice its examples a little every day. The fact that you’re passionate enough to do colouring and want to start a comic makes be believe you have the strength to nail down the fundamentals.

I think your “art style” looks great! But I’m guessing you really want to make it look cleaner, in that case, practice!

No one can just be perfect first try, if you look at the beginning comics of any webcomic, their art style barely changes, but they get more skilled with time. So don’t worry about how it looks for now, just make more!

Have you seen some of þe popular web comics? Randall has gotten good (or maybe always was) but he draws XKCD wiþ stick figures, fer chrissake.

Getting good at drawing is just practice. Sure, you can take classes and learn techniques from books, but in þe end, you just have to draw. A lot.

Like oþer people have said: just do it. Your skill will improve wiþ practice; if it's funny or compelling nobody will GAF about how fancy your drawing is; and þere are a ton of popular web comics which were started by people who had no drawing skill.

what puts you down about it? it's unique, at least I think it's unique.

There are a lot of tutorials online, on youtube, etc but you can quickly get frustrated because you end up drawing in THEIR style, not yours.

I started drawing again this month after like 20 years. I had a style before but I "forgot it" it took me a couple weeks to find it again. What helped with me was believe it or not pinterest. Just searching for poses and references and then adapting a character to that. Also the youtube artist chommang helped me alot not for the style but just for the ease of finding said style. just really simple lines to get everything looking good.

But overall just challenge yourself. For me I challenged myself to draw every single day for 30 days straight, right now I'm on day 19. Just draw whatever as long as you're drawing. It's like anything. the more practice you do the better you'll get at it. Like for example this was me on Day One

And this is me on Day like 17 or Day 18

That's just from drawing every day. you just gotta stick with it and gradually you'll improve and you WILL find your style.

My advice would be to "simplify* . You need to find a sweet spot where your art looks consistent and is not very hard for you to make, but you are happy with the result. For your characters, figure out their base look, make them recognizable with minimum detail.

Other thing I notice is the 2 character portrait panel, that's an actual painting in the background! Let the painting be it's own thing! It's so rendered compared to the characters it looks a bit out of place, and probably took a long time to make.

You need to figure out the scope of your comic, what's important, and put your focus on that. For example, in many cases authors can get away with doing stick figures if the message they want to convey is solid.

So experiment until you find a workflow that suits you. :)

Also, If you haven't read it, you should check out this book, helped me a lot when I got the "I should write a comic" bug XD.

https://archive.org/details/UnderstandingComicsTheInvisibleArtByScottMcCloud

Hope this helps.

Check out Udemy, they have regular sales every few months with classes as cheap as 15$. There are a few drawing courses that will teach you the fundamentals.

Other than that it’s lots of practice.

Webcomics are a great excuse to practice. I feel like a lot of webcomics have an "early style" that gets better as the comic goes on.