What Do You Think of These?

These are a sample of what I'm considering doing for my final project for a class. Essentially, it's one comic for each chapter of the epic Japanese tale Genji Monogatari. Each comic is supposed to be a parody of an event or events that happens in the respective chapter. If I finish the project, there will be about 55 comics, so you can see why I am hesitant to go through with this.

I picked the style and format because I get the feeling my teacher is a closet weeaboo, so I tried to make it as supa kawaii animu as possible. I feel like the first jokes are a little... off... I may re-write them, but I'm curious about you guys' opinion of this as a project and also your feelings about it considering you probably haven't read the book. Is it still at least a little bit funny -- do you smile when you read it? Just curious; you won't hurt my feelings if you say "no," they are rather dependent on context.

I drew them up pretty quickly; the art isn't supposed to be breath-taking (Each panel is maybe the size of a Post-It, c'mon!), just kind of funny and amusing. I tried to adorn the comic with more exaggerated expression rather than pinpointedly accurate anatomy and so on and so forth. I hope you'll understand that at a potential ~23 pages of comic, I'm not going to stress too much over that sort of thing.

This post has been edited by Mrs. Aforcer on Sep 9 2009, 12:30 PM

These are great, the art and plotting are in the right places.

Chapter 3 was a little confusing, I didn't get what the sister was upset about...

The art is good, but I can't exactly tell what's happening.

Me likey! Some of the weeaboo faces turn me off, but that's not your fault so Imma let it pass.



THIS TIME.

I think it's great, but the gradients really bug me.

I'm going to redraw the second comic at some point; I had a better idea for it today.

Just so you all know.

In case you care at all.

I'm only using them because my entire class is filled with weeboos and they like get off on that sort of thing.

Gotta appeal to your audience, right?

Gradients are like lens flares.

They are literally a shortcut to cool.

All the women in this book are impossible to understand. One moment she's completely infatuated with Genji, the next she's like "OMG DONT BRING ME LETTERZ FROM HIM ITLL RUIN MY REP!!"

I don't even know, man; it's Japan.

yeah the weeaboo faces bug me a lot

but your style is unique and I like it

In Japan, people express love and affection by getting angry and offended each time either of them does anything.

I think it's a pretty good idea, but quite ambitious. I mean, I've not actually read the source material, but 55 pages comics? That's quite a few; how long do you have to do them in? If it's the whole year, you can probably do it 2-3 a week, but if not, I'd suggest picking something a little smaller...

BTW, why exactly does anime-ish style make so many people upset?

It's not close to cool. It's annoying, and it looks better without it.

cool 4komas

i feel like i'd have a better understanding of them if i read the book, but they're pretty good otherwise

i think you'll do good on the project

"Wierd"
Thats what I think of those.
Regardless of what I first though this is some quality art coming from a quality artist.