u/Few-Long9960

Hi everyone,

[I apologize in advance if this isn't the right sub to post this, and mods feel free to remove this if it doesn't fit here.]

I'm Elena, an intermediate level digital artist and aspiring illustrator. Currently I'm looking for a comic art mentor to guide me through the journey of illustrating my novel (yes, I write novels) The attached images are my original characters, the protagonist of my story and his love interest.

To clarify, I'm not asking anyone to draw my art for me, but I seek more of a motivation buddy and someone to suggest me the best way to frame and compose each scene.

My main weak point seems to be visual storytelling. while my fiction beta readers often seem to enjoy my novels' prose and story, I believe I get stuck in deciding how to illustrate each scene in an appealing way, in terms of composition and choosing the right angle and perspective.

In a mentor and art buddy, I'm looking for someone who can help me with choosing the right scenes to draw, and in a creative way. In return, I can help you with writing scenarios and comic scripts for your own projects.
I'm serious in this case, I really plan to improve in a time frame. While I'm not in a hurry, I belive I can't stay motivated and dedicate myself properly to making ibteresting comics without a second pair of eyes. And I'm totally willing to do homework and follow instructions. I also have a dozen hundreds of references (yes, right) that I'm interested in learning how to use and combine.

The style I'm aiming for is vintage inked and non-colored comic style, but done digitally in procreate. My current novel is set in the late-1940s (not about the ww2 though) so the retro feel is important to me, as the novel is mostly a pulpy noir story.

Please feel free to send me a chat message on Reddit. We can also move on to Discord later if needed.
Looking forward to starting an art project journey.

Thanks in advance!