project:artstyle
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Art Style
For now Glider Ink doesn't have a set art style. The only hard requirement is supporting the project's themes:
Requirements
Realism - all the characters should be people, someone you could meet in a real world. No basement goblins or tech elves.
Optimism - which implies a full color palette, not only washed-out cyberpunk grays underlined with bright neon signs.
Up for discussion
Glider-Specific Needs
IRC Bubbles. Many characters communicate via
IRC protocol (
sample irssi screenshot) both on their computers and phones. This can be solved as a rectangular box between panels, on a panel's top or bottom. Can be used as a narrating technique, for example with
Cynic or
sh0dan commenting other character's actions.
References
Strong Female Protagonist webcomic used to be my personal benchmark for simplicity and realism. It may have a little too much text - something this comic will have a problem with as well.
Stay Still Stay Silent has a beautiful, varied art style, it's own style for speech bubbles. Some characters are realistically plump, which is quite seldom in comics.
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