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Originally Posted by Captain Ash
@Red Parrot
Thank you for your awesome feedback!
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In an attempt to be even more constructive...
The best Shrinking art alternates between living in the big person's world and the small person's. Think of it as switching POV, even though I don't literally mean a POV shot. (Although you do have a literal POV in frame 4, it's not necessary to pull this off.)
The main mistake people make is taking a neutral middle-view where the viewer is just observing 2 characters from a removed position. If I'm not making sense, I'm talking about image #4 on the second page. There's
nothing wrong with using it occasionally! But it shouldn't be used in every image.
Which is what makes the final two panels of page 1 SO great because they swap from one to the other in a perfect textbook example of what each should be. We are in the Gypsy's world and then we're in Kate's world. There's no middle ground. And it's done without weird angles, curved wide-angle lens effects, or literal POV shots. Those all help, but pulling it off without them is a huge testament to your artist's abilities.
(And THEN there's the bonus fact that both images have parts of both characters' bodies in the same image! This really ramps up the effect.)
I could go on forever about what makes good SW art, but I don't need to. Just stare at these two pages and you'll see every concept and idea I could mention layered on top of each other in a wonderful tapestry.
If you continue these I'd humbly suggest that you explore the first few weeks of her curse where she's still not used to it. The time-jump here is a fun joke but I'm much more interested in what happens the following day!
You've got an extremely unique setup here; a character who COULD end this but is too stubborn to. I can't recall ever seeing this idea before. You should really milk that joke by raising the stakes of Kate's problems. Have her crash a car. Lose her job. Get kidnapped. Etc. etc. The worse things get for her the funnier her stubbornness will be.
I love new and unique concepts and you've got a golden nugget here.
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Originally Posted by Captain Ash
@qzar9999
My favourite shrinking panel is the one with her nude ass.  |
I'm not what you'd call a big ass-fan, but occasionally I'll see an image that makes me question myself. That one sure did the trick.