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It seems all your strips are about one person saying something seemingly ordinary, and the other one getting all freaked out by it.
You could try to vary the theme of your comedy a bit.

You've started in the wrong end of this portrait, I think.
You need to build up the face better, start with the basic shape, sketch up eyes, nose, mouth etc, and then start to "model" out the shape with shades and highlights.
Right now it looks like you randomly applied dark and bright areas without any real system.

Latest milestone...various changes. Might do one last version if people still have ideas.

Oh, it's time for the annual plan-an-aussie-meeting.
Let's see how far they get this time!

Work in progress:


Major edit. Doesn't look very major, but the whole scaling up of the boat and its passenger took several hours.
Improved water texture, changed monsters' appearance, added more highlights, more details over all and cleaned up the whole lower half of the image.

This a bit paradoxal: If you trade away freedom, then you don't have the freedom to trade it back again.
There exist real examples though; certain casinos can let you choose to put yourself on their ban-list, to prevent addicts from gambling away their money. Of course, once on that list, they're not free to remove themselves until after a long period of time.

I take a certain delight in locking threads.

This would a good opportunity, comedy-wise, to lock this thread. But....nah.

The typical freedom debate always struck me as rather artificial. There is no absolute freedom; one freedom takes away from another, at least in a macro perspective. Certain nations advocate the freedom of carrying guns. In return, their citizens miss out on the freedom of walking down a street without risking being gunned down. (Please don't turn this into a debate on gun-laws, I was just picking an example.) The freedom of personal integrity versus the liberty of press, etc, etc. Laws will always be compromises.

It's a completely different thing with the strife to attain personal freedom, but that has to be regarded more as a philosophical pursuit and not very applicable in a society. Submitting to various external procedures does not reduce your chance to actualise yourself, unless it's a matter of some sort of intellectual abuse.

If it makes you feel any better, you didn't strike me as gay when we first met back in...whenever that was. You did however strike me as a person with a weakness for booze.
To be so sensitive about ones sexually hints at a rather wounded self esteem. Especially for a person who, just a few years ago, claimed to be a great lover...yes, I keep track of your threads, buddy.

The stuff in the end of your posts seems like pretty common panic attacks, which typically come with age. It's normal to be angsty about life and death when there are lots of changes in your life, and just the experience of having gained and lost a lot of body fat (people who read about those 10 kg should know that Kandyman is like 160 cm tall or something, so it's actually not so little...) affects the mental state more than one would first think.

Although you should never accept advice from the internet, here's some advice:
Begin with taking some really mild nature medicine to help you fall asleep. Good sleeping habits are alpha and omega.
If you start to feel depressed, seek out a shrink and get some anti-depressive.

Beautiful paintovers, Progzmax and Krysis, and I also agree on your points.

The faces of the monsters were deliberately made so they wouldn't express the ordinary human kind of wrath, but some sort of spooky, excited expression. Some inspiration taken from the Shadow of the Colossus, if you've seen those monsters.
Now that I've seen Krysis' version, I understand it would still work better to have them pissed of in the regular sense

As I said, this was first intended to be a sort of sketchy speed-painting (allthough it was around 6-7 hours work to begin with, not exactly speed...) but now I think I will give it a serious revamp, looking at the nice feedback

Like if I need to reach something. You don't need a broom with a hook. A bottle will work.

And what do you do with the bottle? Tie it to said broom and dip the whole thing in glue?

There's already a thread for these clips, right?

Added a face to the oarsman.

Good points Loomy.
If this was a commission piece I might take the time to repaint it according to most of your points. This is more or less a "speed painting", and most of the elements were added as I went along, and I'm probably not gonna bother remaking too big chunks.
I agree that the men in the boat look very calm, and I can only blame bad planning of the picture. A more dramatic viewpoint would be closer to the archer, and much lower, to give the viewer a frog perspective towards the giants, just as you mention.
I may consider changing the person rowing so that he looks over his shoulder, in the direction of the boat.

I sat with this one last night and today instead of preparing my lesson for tomorrow as I ought to be doing.

I wanted to create something old-school, like a comic book cover illustration or something, with a handpainted feeling.
Something corny.
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Still not done, but I'm posting it here to get some ideas on how to go on with it from here. There are probably heaps of anatomy issues, as I couldn't be bother to search for good reference photos. Also, the imperfection of pure freehand sort of fitted the style, in a way. Maybe.

There is still much to be done. I'm guessing that you're pursuing a cartoonesque style with bent lines and angles and stuff. However, this has to be carried out consistently, or things will just appear to be actually crooked or skewed.
If you look at a background from e.g The day of the tentacle, you don't really think the buildings are falling over, you think they're actually straight, but that they are just depicted very flexibly and dynamically. The problem with your "church" is that it actually appears to be falling over.

Secondly; there's no need to be sloppy. If you're gonna fill something with a colour, don't colour outside the lines. Make your outlines (if you wanna have outlines) clear and clean, and don't just sprinkle colour all over the picture carelessly; take your time and do things properly.

You're ignoring the fact that most of the decisions that your government is making for you, also protects your society from you.
It's unlawful to drive a car under the influence of alcohol not only because you might kill yourself, but also because you might kill other people too.
You have to attend school up to a certain level, because it's mandatory that you have a basic insight in how different aspects of society work in order for you to vote, as a citizen in a democratic system. To rephrase this with a twist; you're not free to be as ignorant as you want.
If you are a potential carrier of a contagious disease, you may have to undergo vaccination to prevent a spreading of said disease.

PS:
Now don't get me wrong here, I'm generally strongly opposed to governmental big-brothering. I'm against constant camera-surveillance, I'm against that the authorities can eves-drop on any individual cintizen, record their phonecalls, emails etc (wherever they can) and patriot acts.
But vaccination doesn't sort under this practice. It's not like they insert a beacon or a bug or anything.

[Mandatory vaccination is wrong because huge corporations, kneedeep in corruption, benefit from it in shady fashion.]

This debate is moving in circles so much I get dizzy from reading it. Please choose your argument and stick to it.

Mandatory vaccination is wrong because huge corporations, kneedeep in corruption, benefit from it in shady fashion.
This is a pertinent argument, but it should be aimed at society at large, at the system which allows for such back-scratching practices. Everything you consume, medicines and hamburgers alike, fall under this category.
Mandatory vaccination is wrong because it violates the citizen's right to make their own decisions etc
There are numerous thing that people wouldn't do if it wasn't mandatory. It's naive to think that if everything was optional, people would always do what's best for them and their fellow humans. People are generally uneducated, uniformed and most of all lazy.
Mandatory vaccination (in this particular case) is wrong because it encourages people to have sex more casually.
This is how conservative islamists advocate the wearing of the Burqa.
The religious belief that sex is sinful leads religious fanatics to regard STD's as a fair punishment from God himself. If you break the connection sex-STD's, you interfere with how God carry out justice.

If God didn't want us to have sex all the time, he shouldn't have made it feel so damn good.

This is a public art-forum, not a help center for people with Tourette's.

cuss words are one thing, but depicting rape is a bit over the line when it's the matter of a public forum.