Comic drawing goals

I have several goals that I want to be working towards in Comic BVA615 this year. These include:
-Working on shot composition and panelling
-Working on background composition, details and texturing.
-Focus on clean, detailed linework with varying line width and the use of motion and effect lines.
-Focus on accurate lighting and shading to give a realistic depicition of depth and rendering

Some of the comic inspirations I have include Kohei Horikoshi (My Hero Academia), Betten Court (My Hero Academia: Vigilantes) and Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland). All three artists publish works in the Shonen jump magazine and I read their chapters regularly
One thing I really like is the use of screentone in many manga series as I feel it adds another layer of texture and depth to the illustrations, which is something I am considering using in my comic as well as having it be fully coloured.

In my spare time I sometimes colour manga panels as a way to exercise and practice shading and colouring. I think having really clean lineart with depth helps a lot with shading and colouring.

A page spread from My Hero Academia Ch227 I coloured for practice

Original B&W manga illustration
©Kohei Horikoshi 2020


©Posuka Demizu 2020



A handful of the online artists that I feel have been an influence on my personal artstyle are artists Mametchi, Karina Farek, and Hayley Newsome.
I like their simplistic yet highly expressive art work and styles. Hayley Newsome has a very effective and efficient style of shading her comics which is similar to how I colour my artworks.


https://twitter.com/dilfosaur/status/1220415705931288579?s=20
Karina Fareks artstyle and body proportions are something I really like, as well as her clean art style and shading. I find she has a nice balance of more simplistic expressive comics and more detailed illustrations.



https://twitter.com/MAMETCHl/status/1237092412092276737?s=20
Mametchi is an artist who really inspires me with her creative character designs and colour palletes. I think the slightly desaturated colour pallettes work really well. I also like some of the animal traits she tends to put into her character designs, and how expresive and dynamic her poses can be.



https://twitter.com/lavendertowne/status/1192614122845687810?s=20
Hayley Newsome/LavenderTowne