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Re: Feedback for Karamador, especially about if it has too much text
Dude the first chapter rocks hell yeah. Did you draw this on paper? Some of the shading is like actually crazy. I only read the first two chapters but I do have a few small bits of advice. In the second chapter, there is a lot of text. First and foremost, you probably want to reduce the number of words being said in each panel (because the readers only going to remember so much). Instead, focus on what sort of information you can convey through the visuals instead of text. Your first chapter does this really well! Another thing, break up the speech bubbles into parts. I try to limit each bubble to a single sentence max. Another thing is that you need to remember that composition isn't just about your art, it's about the way you lay out your panels and your speech bubbles. In the first chapter, since there's not text, the fact that the panels are so close together kinda works. But in the second chapter, the bubbles feel unnatural, like they were pasted over an image rather than drawn into it from the start. Other than that I don't really have any notes. I really like the style and again some of that shading is amazing dude. Keep it up!

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Feedback wanted for Black and Brown character designs
Hi I'm writing a fantasy/horror story set in a world that's vaguely based around the 17th and 19th centuries. As I was finishing the planning period, I changed the world-building so that the continents would move around a lot faster than they do in reality. (I'm talking crazy fast) However, I realized that since people in this world are moving all over the place all the time it means that features that arose after mankind left Africa would be a lot less common than they are in our world. This presented a problem because the majority of my characters were designed with those very features. So I immediately began to redesign them so it would make sense. However, I feel like I was a little lazy and didn't do the best job. My art style isn't the most complicated thing but I still feel like a lot of these designs are just the same with the skin color changed. Even if I felt like I did a great job I really don't know how good of a judge I'd be since I'm White. If I could get some feedback on this, ideally from POC creators I'd be more than grateful. 

TLDR;
I had to change a bunch of my European-looking character designs to more North/Eastern African and Semetic-looking character designs due to tweaks in the worldbuilding. Looking for feedback. 

Here's a Google Drive folder with the Character Designs. The first five images are the original designs, and the next five are the new designs.

There are also four extra images that expand a little more on the worldbuilding. I really want to avoid making an Orientalist story where all the cultures and different groups I write about just kinda blend together into something with no real depth. Of course, a consequence of the geography is that the characters all come from a diverse number of cultural backgrounds due to the way the land encourages travel. I haven't really gotten super far into the story so this may be harder to judge, but I want to know how my comic comes across. 
Thank you for any feedback you give me, I really do appreciate it! The comic is called Alexithymia Cannibal Club if you want to read it.  (Btw, the last extra image does contain a bit of nudity. it's not sexual in nature but I know some people don't wanna see that sort of thing) 
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