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well, I would have to say that I like both. But I like the cell shaded style better for the characters, and the softer shading for backgrounds? :3

Refresh the image to see if that looks good on screen to you.. Im a lil unsure about it.

I like it :3

I LOVE the soft shaded. It looks more natural. :)

The right side one is better cause you can see the fur , the left seems to smoothed out .
Honestly I perfer the right over the left .
I like it alot more.

It is quite a bit smoothed out, but its something I am sure I will be able to work on in time. If it was not as smoothed out, would you prefer the left over the right?

Well I like what you do right now for the comic .

I actually like the 2nd type, the one on the right.

I like the top Left, the darker one.I think it looks nicer for some reason :)

I like the left character art but the right background art

i like the right for the caracter definition and the left for the natural elements being more smoothed, so i'd say take the right for the characters and the left for the background.

id say right one too.
and i think that that water should be like semi-transparent, so part of her upper body that is below water should be partly visible. (dunno how to explain it, hope you understand )

I will work on that, thanks.

I gotta admit I like the style on the right side. The shading is much more precise and clean, a very unique shading.
Where as the style on the left looks too blotchy and almost muddled.
The soft shading looks great on larger pieces and would be fun to mess with in ways with backgrounds and elements.
But the original shading style makes it easy on the eyes. I feel like i follow the characters line of flow more with the cell shading style.

BUT this is not to say later on the newer shading with practice would look great. But for now I really love the one on the right for character.

Personally, I prefer the right. The left one is just a bit TOO smooth for me.

I'd say use a mixture of them The right looks nice for background effects, but I like the left for characters.

I like the right one, but the softness of the left is great if theres a way to intermingle but left seems to Dark and a bit To smooth almost as if her coat is oily

I think I like option 3, makes the characters pop a little~

Could also see how soft characters and funny-shaded backgrounds work together...

I do like both but prefer the right one because it looks more stylized.
I don't think the mixed one works that well, makes the sharper colored character clash with the smooth background too much imo.

Go with what you like the most, it's your comic after all =)

As it stands, the one on the right works best. The one on the left could work for the comic, but it needs more. Like you said, the contrast is off, and its too dark, but apart from that, the complete lack of detail takes way too much away from it. For example, on her hand, there is no visible bone structure and looks like a hand of a 200pound woman, not a skinny adventurer like Kinar. Also, detail creates texture. On the one on the right, the shadows and highlights lets us know that her body isn't smooth. It gives us a semblance of texture, which turns into fur in our minds.

How will it work? Well as it is, it works extremely well as a base painting (With the contrast balanced, ofcourse) On top of this base coat, you would add sharper shading and highlights to balance it out. I might be biased, since if you look at my gallery, im clearly not a fan of soft coloring :P

If you dont mind, and if I find the time, tomorrow I'll snatch this image up and take it into photoshop, to show what im trying to say more clearly.

In the end, it's your comic, and whichever style you choose wont keep us from following it. :)

Thanks for the input as always. I would love to work more on the soft coloring, however when I do add texture to it, it seems to take a lot of time... doing so would take away from the frequency of the comic updates. While I am sure I would get faster with time, its not something I am sure about. The concern comes more from my husband who would like to see a change in the comic. He does everything non-art related for it, such as updating the news, site creation and management and all that... so I kinda feel like he has some say in it... Though in reality, I like the one on the right. I can always improve it and make it even better without taking up a crud load of time, but I feel like a lot of people have come to love this textured/sloppy look as its kinda unique to the comic.

But either way I would love it if you could take the picture into photoshop to show me what you are talking about. I am always willing to learn. ^.^

Hey! Here's what I meant.

http://i.imgur.com/xM3zt.jpg

I might've been wrong about the contrast, since I just saw it on another non-HD screen, and it looked fine...

So basically, now that I went ahead and did it, all I did is reduced the contrast slightly, and added highlights and over-shadows. Just lines really, you dont have to go all out and render fur lol. After all the cropping, it took me 2-3 minutes to add the highlights with a small brush.

Also, I went ahead and defined the knuckles a bit... :3

Ahh I see now, thanks for that, it really helps to show what you were talking about. I will try to work on this on future pictures. However it seems that most people like the comic the way it is.. so I guess I will ask again once I learn how to better define fur trying something similar to this.

Haha yeah I like the style it has now. Its unique, and it completely stands out.

Still left

My vote would have to go to the combination. While I like the water on the left, the character detail on the right is much more clear.

Keep up the amazing comic.

well I like the soft shading one but I also like your "weird textured one" but really there are things I like about both like how your one on the right has the lines in it making it look like there are slight details to the fur but I also like the left one in how it looks just as much. but really I say it's up to you as the artist which you use.

I have to say that I love both the right and middle ones. Either of them would be perfect for this comic. Thanks for asking us btw!

Well, I'd personally love the right and middle ones. Because you can see more of the fur and more details of the face overall.

Also it looks very sexy on Kinar :)

So yeah, I'd probably go with the bottom middle option.

Hard choice really. All three look good. Hmm, I guess I would go with the left one.

just go with the one you want to do after all your spending the time doing it

for a comic i really would prefer the right one.
The left ones is looking great (though its a bit too dark) but for a comic with panels i would prefer art in which you can see the lines. Its just the standard comic style in my opinion.

I love the dark one C:

i prefer the second one most, you get more detail to look at on the characters... but i think the third option would work well enough

I love the left side coloring.. o.o

I'd stay stick with the right. That way you can get a little bit more immersive in a way that everything has a texture :3

right side its unique and i love it the left looks to common though its nice and dark it loses the feel you comic has

I love the right version =3

I really think you should keep the style that you are using now, it looks amazing

right->

I really like the style of the right panel

3rd's better.

about your droids comic, why does it start with the female black worgon waking up with that tauren there? seems random for it to start that far ahead.
what's the story on the world they live in? there was no summary or info on the website.

It seemed more dramatic to start that way. So you question what happened, and wait to find out the answer.

As far as the world they live in, they are a part of Blizzard's Azeroth in the MMO known as World of Warcraft. To make a summary would take a very long time. So I suggest looking at the WoW wiki for questions about the world they live in.