Dan starts posting again...

[venis959]

...and he posts a stinkin' meme?

Ganked from bettinamarie and maiteoida. Answer the questions in the comments, wipe hands

Comments

[mi_stabbi]

1- What artist(s) do you feel my art style resembles? Why?

Hmm... manga'ish, mostly because of the eyes. Lot of disney in there too though, in the proportions - Gummi Bears, for example, stuff from that era. Successful blend of Japanese/NA style? Something like that, though lighter on the NA.

2- What writers(s) do you feel my writing style resembles? Why?
("Writing" meaning comics, not prose X_X)

Not sure, I don't really follow a lot of comics. Tight narrative though, less rambly than most - strong characters and characterization...

3- If someone asked you to describe my art style to them, how would you describe it?

Clean, dynamic, rounded; more akin to illustration rather than traditional drawing.

4- If you had to pick something out as a trademark element of my style, what would it be?

The faces, proportions of the eyes to mouth etc, the heads, no noses, relativly thin necks, mouth that travels around the face a lot. Heh, the word to describe that is "Dan's style"

5- If you could make me draw a comic in any genre, what type of comic would you want to see from me? Why?

I like the tight narritives you have in Ishikaze - by constraining the story arc to 20 pages or so, you achieve a clarity that's absent from a lot of other works.

Type of comic I'd like to see would ideally be a series of one-shots, short stories/comics with new characters and designs per each 'episode. Like the "little things" but broader.

For example, a 20 page comic dealing with the theme of "grocery shopping" or "orphan" or "modern world without TV" or "stone age internet" - unconnected stories and characters in unique settings, stories that can't be told as well in long-form format, but are ideally suited to the shorter Ishikaze storytelling style.

6- If you had to guess who/what my 5 biggest inspirations were when I was learning to draw who/what would you guess they were? Who/what would you guess now?

Mmm, aside from a lot of manga/anime stuff, I'd guess Chuck Jones, again early disney stuff. As for now? Probably other webcomic artists in general, and learning from your own experience and growth.

7- What would you like to see more of from me in the future?

Heh, that short-format webcomic thing I mentioned above. I think it's something that could be fun, and would certainly never get boring.

[mi_stabbi]

"Type of comic I'd like to see would ideally be a series of one-shots"

By which I mean, I think that using "genre" to describe something is really too limiting. Using genre as a guide to a work can have the affect of cutting down on the story options you allow yourself, whereas just doing something like "space candy" or "vegetable people" doesn't have the same restraints as "western" "sci-fi" "mystery" "fantasy" etc, though it can of course contain elements of all those.