Testing speedlines

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I like to craft some features, among them… speedlines. I made a lot of them in the past. However, I didn’t know if they were suitable for use in webcomics.

From what I’ve researched, half a page of a webcomic would measure 720 x 640 pixels: I created the page twice that size in Krita and made the art in black and grayscale. I didn’t apply screentones at the moment, what interested me most was having an art for tests

Most of the old speedlines failed the test… :slight_smile: and I’m producing some new ones. At the same time, I’ve been testing different shapes and effects. These are two of my tests.

In this first one the speedline effect came out more like an explosion:

skull2022a
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In the second, I took another speedline and applied a line filter to it:

skull2022b
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So… what did you think?

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I like it with the speedfilter a lot

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The top looks more dramatic to me.

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The detail of the first background draws my attention away from the skull and I keep wondering what to look at. So, the second one is better for concentrating on the subject, for me.

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It’s pretty good I’d probably read it if there was a full book of it

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Thanks for the feedback, guys! I made other experiences, with the same arts. I applied transparency masks and edited the speedlines using the “Canvas”* brush, from RapidFire.

So that the images don’t weigh too much on the forum, I’m posting them on my blog, here.