My hierarchy comic cover from "The Hook: Anatomy of a Comic Book Cover" taken at SAIC in Spring 2025. This cover is for the manga "Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi." This course was taught by Dijana Granov.
This piece is unfinished, it needs to be completed in order to add it to my portfolio or sell it as a print!
Critique notes:
- Really love the texture of the lion's mane
- It's what makes it look finished as it is
- Fan of the thick lineart
- The Winged Lion is a very imposing force
- Table doesn't read as a table because they don't look like they're standing on it because of their positions
- Really like the pyramid Shape they're in
- Falin looks like she's being stabbed by the fork (tangent)
- Wings coming forward implies action
- Dijana's notes:
- Also didn't read it as a table
- Adding the fabric pattern with help it
- Line quality is great and implies distance
- Don't need to do full color
- Can just color where the line hits (Actual color of the food being the lighting)
- Don't want to lose clarity by over-rendering
- Remove the raised nub on the table, make it a sharper corner