Demon Battles Gets a Makeover

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I plan on revamping the style of Demon Battles a bit, well it's more like a makeover than a revamp. I'm changing the line art and toning. I'm going to keep working on the areas I already know I have issues with and have been working on (such as hands and stiffness). Going to keep improving all the technical stuff.  As for the line art it would be slightly thinner, like this (it's incomplete, but I was just practicing before work):

Inktest by Gabby413


 And for toning I'm going to try to do it more like I did this drawing:

Dinah by Gabby413

I'm going to only really shade in dramatic lighting and not have everything colored in, except dark areas. I already exported the most recent Demon Battles pages from this chapter showing the tones so it can be more consistent with the new style when I submit it to Twelve Gates. Here's an example of how it looks:

DemonBattles Chapter09 Page12 by Gabby413


I finally figured out how to save it right while still showing the tones. It still looks a little busy in some areas, but when I do it with less shading, it would look better.

And as for the issues with Angel, I think it's more that I just haven't gotten around to exposing her personality flaws or go in depth with her as much yet. The first Volume was more of a prologue to the series. I told one of my friends who is an excellent writer and has two webcomics about the plans I have for Angel and how I was going to show her as being not so perfect. She really liked my plans for her and is interested in seeing her character development coming up in the series. So please be patient with me when it comes to Angel. More shall be reveled soon.

And as for my objective for Demon Battles, it is a series about the spiritual battles we go through growing up, the internal struggles between doing the right thing vs the wrong.  The teenage years can be kind of rough with trying to discover who you are and how you fit in the world and dealing with hormones.  Demon Battles is not only an action, but a little bit of a romance too.  The story follows Angel and Malachi and the spiritual battles they and their friends face as they go through the final two years of high school, but also shows the budding relationship between Angel and Malachi as well as their spiritual growth. Angel and Malachi were specifically chose to physically fight demons cause of their gifts, but we all go through the spiritual battles as Christians. And that's what DB is all about.

Please let me know what you guys think. I'm trying to make sure I'm going in the right direction with this.

Edit: I'm also making some slight alterations to some of the character designs. Here's an example of some practice sketches.

Db Newdesign 001 by Gabby413
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LongTom's avatar
You might want to see an example where a cartoonist compares his old drawings with his later ones:
www.foresthillcomic.org/comics…