I Am Completely Serious

re: Bizenghast: She does better when she has to draw things that are complex and full of detail, but she really sucks at perspective. I wouldn't have a problem with art-class perspective cut-and-pasted in if the perspective were correct, but it's not, and it doesn't work. I can see where in the hands of an experienced artist, a world like the one she's drawing would work with incorrect perspective, but that would also call for the "real-world"segments to be perfectly correct. She's also falling into the trap that plagues many American manga artists, which is relying on toning to fill space, and it's not doing it very well. It's possible for that sort of thing to work, but you have to have a better sense of it, and you have to nail the balance of blacks and whites in the inks.

I have yet to read farther than the first chapter of Labyrinth, because it read like bad fanfic to me. Not so bad that it's fun to read, just not good.