Just a scene of one character waiting in a restaurant for another character to show up. (She won’t.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nLook at the details. The textures. The shadows that the evening sun makes on the floor (which has a sort of wood parquet treatment). This level of effort in webtoons is VERY appealing to me. And is spoiling me a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if\/when the characters are highly stylized in unnatural ways, the rendering of the world they live in – backgrounds, the interior design, the furniture, the foliage – these have some remarkable details. Some appear to be produced by specialists who just create castles, modern cities, European rococo ballrooms, etc. Others appear to be photo-to-illustration conversions of some sort (but that works only for places based on real settings).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drawings produced at this level when I was still in architecture would have been award-winning marvels of the profession: now they are the routine product of manhwa studio artists! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I admire the effort (and artifice) that goes into producing these scenes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI have other favorite scenes to express my admiration for, but I haven’t reviewed those particular manga yet, so they’ll likely turn up in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know I write often of comics, manga, and manhwa, but I wanted to make a fuss about how digital illustration has really changed how comics look now, and has made manhwa (comics from South Korea) in particular so attractive to me as a person who used to work in architecture. I previously wrote about … <\/p>\n
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