Does the last panel count as a reaction face?

Is her first creation some light vanilla romance?

I don't understand?
what do "more vigour" & "given in" mean?

Maybe it's a really lewd story of her and AdmiBro.

ALostRouter said:

Is her first creation some light vanilla romance?

What part of vigour means light vanilla? lol

thanghe said:

I don't understand?
what do "more vigour" & "given in" mean?

What I think is:
When you first start something you really like, you are driven and put all your energy into it to make something great. But soon you find yourself not as brilliant as you first thought. That's where you lose your passion and start cutting corners, making compromises and so on. In case of Akigumo, it'd be giving up on exquisite story and drawing something that'd simply sell. And the sad truth on top of that is, her current "lazy" works actually look better than what she used to do with all she's got, now that she's got the gist of things.

thanghe said:

I don't understand?
what do "more vigour" & "given in" mean?

Especially for something like comics, where you need to output a lot of art in a short period of time, you want to get into a routine where you create a simplified set of anatomy and use a few conventions over and over. Such an artist's earlier work would, relatively speaking, have lots of "inefficient" touches that were abandoned because they were too time-consuming, but, in spite of the overall rougher art, might make the artist feel that they were being too lazy in their current form.

Just as an example, in the Adventurers! comic, which notably had some very rough artwork (although it eventually morphed into a sort of simplified/stylized suck by about 1/3rd of the way through the run), the original few comics had "shiny" gradients on the armor on the main character, while later comics just settled upon armor being a flat grey. Those shiny gradients take a long time to get looking right, and especially for the lack of detail in the rest of the art, it just looked out-of-place, so it makes a more consistent aesthetic to have just taken them out, but it does still feel like it's being more lazy and making art that's more plain to not have a few areas of detail in an otherwise fairly flat strip.

thanghe said:

I don't understand?
what do "more vigour" & "given in" mean?

"Enthusiastic but stupid" and "learned to compromise for sanity" respectively.

People that start doing something often take it way too seriously and try way to hard. With time enthusiasm is tempered by the wisdom like:
"No one gives a shit you own a thesaurus."
"Sentences that are fifteen words are not inherently better then those that are five"
"Incidental characters do not need 15 page backstories"
"No one wants a thesis on the complex underpinnings of your system of made up magic and or technobabble in the middle of the story."

Among many others.

Tk3997 said:

"No one wants a thesis on the complex underpinnings of your system of made up magic and or technobabble in the middle of the story."

Sadly, most writers and artists never get to this part. Mahouka is the worst offender, but there's also plenty of other works, whether they be original creations or doujins and fanfics, where the story crams a ton of "worldbuilding" expositions smack dab in the middle of a scene, pretty much ruining the pacing.

oracle135 said:

Sadly, most writers and artists never get to this part. Mahouka is the worst offender, but there's also plenty of other works, whether they be original creations or doujins and fanfics, where the story crams a ton of "worldbuilding" expositions smack dab in the middle of a scene, pretty much ruining the pacing.

Another fun one is characters suddenly randomly narrating about the technical underpinnings of random objects they would have no in character reason to give a second thought to.

I climbed into my car, an ingenious contraption whereby the chemical energy contained in the decomposed remains of long dead animals is extracted by means of combustion to drive a series of intricately arranged pistons converting thermal to mechanical energy to drive a shaft and through it a series of wheels. As I inserted the key which would utilize energy stored in a lead acid battery to initiate the combustion process I recalled that I had forgotten to take my pills today and was rambling psychotically in my head as I'm want to do at such times.

Tk3997 said:

Another fun one is characters suddenly randomly narrating about the technical underpinnings of random objects they would have no in character reason to give a second thought to.

I climbed into my car, an ingenious contraption whereby the chemical energy contained in the decomposed remains of long dead animals is extracted by means of combustion to drive a series of intricately arranged pistons converting thermal to mechanical energy to drive a shaft and through it a series of wheels. As I inserted the key which would utilize energy stored in a lead acid battery to initiate the combustion process I recalled that I had forgotten to take my pills today and was rambling psychotically in my head as I'm want to do at such times.

A story with that sort of tongue-in-cheek fourth wall treatment could be pretty fun.

I remember back in my high school i produce like around 3-10 artworks everyday, just because i bored with classes. Now i draw really slow like 1-2 per every 2-3 days...