It's not from the first page, but early chapters, that they use as promo in their indegogo. Which makes it worse, because they think it's holding up and is good enough to promote the book. This is the sample THEY CHOSE as good.
But does it improve? Looking at this random mix of pages from the internet:
These are the newest covers, Kneon lines clearly became more steady due to amount he was drawin, but he lacks any kind of.... I don't know. Talent? Pleasant eye experience? Colours are terrible, use of light and shadow non existent, and WTF is going on with her hair? Composition? What is that? He became better draftsman, but not better quality artist. There seem to be no self reflection in his work and he repeats the same mistakes again again anad again. Which deosn't surprise me, because he is always selling himself to his audience as seasoned pro while shitting on others. With this.
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He clearly wants to draw and be an artist, but lacks the qualities that make somebody good at their craft - insight, analisys and being able to look at one work from afar and self critique. His skills upped in years not because he' went on a quest to improve, but he draftd more,. There is no selfawarness in his improvement, because my guess is, going how he presents him on YT, he thinks he's good enough. And that's the most cringey part.
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Or I can go into how boring their panneling is. Especially in their action scenes. Or the colouring with no awarness of colour theory to pop information on the page. Frankly the colours even managed to regress. Or the lazy ink work they'd shit on if it was a pro drawing.
Kneon clearly used to draw manga and he now suffers from what is dubbed manga nose syndrome, when yougo from manga to realism, but keep the placement of the nose and eyes which makes the chracters look like they have too long noses and eyes end up too high, because noses are bogger and eyes are smaller.
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It would be so easy to fix his work, but he doesn't even try. Even with their videos- they put zero effort into editing or presenting content in a coherent manner, and it gets worse with every Geeky's shriek. They stopped trying when their begging for new subs worked and they got to 100k.
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This is why they are my personal cows, even if they don't produce all that much drama, They produce work of this low quality and think they are better than other artists in the industry (they made what? 8? 10? vids on not Starfire and shat on it how far it would go).
Oh and because they look more like retarded siblings than anything else.
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I don't. At least not 100%. They work is really uneven and subpar in this comics and I have no doubt that really no publisher would be interested without major redraws and editorial input.
Here's the thing. Good work defends itself. Thier work, even if amazing writing and great storytelling, is superficially ugly at first glance. But it doesn't have great storytelling and I guess it doesn't have all that great writing. And publishers recognised it as having no potential in print. Given how adverse they are to any improvement, I have no doubt Clownfish'd have rejected any kind of editorial input too. So I do believe they are telling themselves that they were not a good polisocial fit, or even that someone could have said it to them, but more like in the context- leave us alone, please, we don't want your book here, but we're too polite to tell you it's shit.
