/hyw/ - How's Your Webcomic? #382

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>>93552577
Scrub Authors GOODIE Bag
Here’s a short list of sites that any new webcomic artist or writer will find handy:
>*-Struggling to find that perfect FONT? Create your own using this link;
calligraphr.com

>*-Don’t forget to brush up on that ANATOMY:
http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/
http://www.quickposes.com/pages/timed

>*-What’s a list without some reference STOCK IMAGES?
People: http://senshistock.deviantart.com/gallery/
Scenery: http://www.shutterstock.com/

>*-Here's a big fat compilation of CHARACTER DESIGN REFERENCE:
http://www.pinterest.com/characterdesigh/ (surprisingly not a typo)

>Links to get a rough WEBSITE started up:
Easy to use tumblr webcomic theme: https://www.tumblr.com/theme/39018
Do’s and Don’ts for starting a site: http://pastebin.com/kNR2W5mV
>Contact sheet if anyone wants to put information down, like their site and webcomic:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwfOSHXfrgvcf--PkPz9jXL6p5RqIsrYvXYwgQpgT3k/edit#

>DISCORD CHAT going on:
https://discord.gg/rXMbdqP

>Wise words from John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g [Embed] [Embed]

>Invisible Ink:
http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_1.pdf
http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_2.pdf
http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_3.pdf

>Paper Wings
http://chrisoatley.com/category/podcasts/
https://web.archive.org/web/20140625035030/http://paperwingspodcast.com/

>Fonts for your webcomic on Blambot:
http://www.blambot.com/

>Writing Resources:
http://www.cienciasecognicao.org/rotas/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Robert-McKee-Story.pdf

>Guide to promoting your comic:
http://miss-melee.tumblr.com/post/143483233951/

>Comics for makin' comics!
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/9pf1nwwa92lbp/Comics_for_making_Comics

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+draw+comics

Let it die

>>93552577
Where would I start?

>>93552577

Fuck! It dies! I am too tired to make a comic.

I guess, I can talk about my side project. Anyone want to hear it?

>>93553319
No.

>>93553319
Maybe

So in today's world, why would you bother to create anything? Are you masochists? Literally everyone on the internet is looking to shit on any and everything they can find. Why fucking bother?

>>93553776
It was like that since forever. But before the internet creators were locked from the entire world and were mocked only by neighbors and relatives.

>>93553776
Because I'm good

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>10 posts in
>no actual comic/progress posts
reposing this page from yesterday

>>93553859
>mocked only by neighbors and relatives
That may be true but rarely to the creator's face. Nowadays there are literally entire online communities dedicated to finding your works and shitting on them. Why open yourself up to that level of masochism?

>>93553910
I can't name one thing that is never shit on. Even really good stuff has some dedicated team of people who will shit all over it every day. You don't even have to leave /co/ to find something someone worked their entire life to create getting fucking shredded by do-nothing talentless internet beados.

Hey, I'm >>93536759 from last thread, been making good progress and I'll be posting some stuff in a little more than an hour. I was considering whether or not I should post under my real name or a pseudonym, but I realized the pseudonym I'd use is associated with my real name through my portfolio website anyway so it really doesn't matter. I'll be posting under that name from now on. The title of my comic is going to be "A Desert Called Love", working on the first page/title page now. I really need to get around to downloading Discord soon, I'm probably going to need a fair amount of advice on art.

>>93553943
This isn't bad, how long have you been drawing?

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>>93555073
I got serious with drawing about 6 months ago,
before then I doodled shitty manga fanart.

>>93555102
How often do you post your stuff in these threads? What kind of feedback do you normally get on your comic?

Anyone have any good tips and stuff on type-setting?

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>>93555128
>How often do you post your stuff in these threads?
I try to post whenever I finish a page or doodle I like.
>What kind of feedback do you normally get on your comic?
most people hate my work, I think /hyw/ is a bit hard on people though.

>>93555196
>most people hate my work, I think /hyw/ is a bit hard on people though.

It's not just /hyw/ tho, see >>93553776
Everyone wants to shit on everything. So why create? What pushes you to keep posting your stuff despite the hatred you get?

>>93553776
>worrying about what people on the internet might do
90% of webcomics are forgettably bad at best. It takes a perfect storm of awful to be bad to the point where people meme on you daily

>>93555236
>Literally everyone on the internet is looking to shit on any and everything they can find
people who think this don't leave this website.

I post my stuff here cause I'm hoping to reach the point where people no longer hate it, and maybe find someone who enjoys it.
I only really make my comics to pass the time, so people complaining about the quality doesn't effect me too much.

>>93555293
wait, which is it? You make them for luls and don't care what people think or care and want to change until people no longer hate your work and instead enjoy it?

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>>93555467
I mostly make them for myself, but if others end up enjoying them, making it would be more satisfying.

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Twitter comic is going well.

>>93554796
Well, Photoshop just crashed on me and I lost an entire 2 hours worth of work. So much for my self-appointed deadline, literally all I have left from that crash is a page layout. I don't know why I forgot the #1 rule of doing creative work on a computer: press Cntrl + S every 30 seconds or you will regret it. Time to start over and try to have something by tonight, since I promised myself I would consider this page "done" by now, except the page doesn't even exist anymore. Fuck my life. Learn from my mistakes.

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Not a page but atleast I have direction

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Pam gets misgendered, and triggered in public.

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What is your opinion of webcomics that use photos/screenshots? Most of them are parodies of course, but still seem to be on a weird middle ground.

>>93556884
DM of the Rings is comedy gold if you play D&D.

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>>93553776
We do not do this because it is permitted. We do it because we are compelled.

The same reason you shitpost.

>>93556329
On a related note: back up your files.

>>93556329
Have you considered not using photoshop, if you don't -really- need to.

For general art purposes it's extremely slow and bloated; other programs like sai or clip studio do not crash nearly as much.

>>93557860
I briefly did, but I'm more familiar with Photoshop's tools and layout. Maybe I'll switch to SAI and just deal with it, I'm getting a little fed up with the performance issues Photoshop has.

>>93553776

Some people out there just want to tell a story, and don't give a fuck what other people think, and don't get bothered by what other people think.

>>93558013
sai is quite a lot easier to get into than photoshop

It's far lighter

>>93553776
If you're afraid of people hating on your content then you're a total baby bitch. If you have the heart and drive you just put your shit out there.

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Reposting this from yesterday. I want to start drawing my comic but gotta polish script first.

>>93558195
Just be careful with the polish. Don't be like me who just keeps polishing and never publishes anything.

>>93558239
Sure thing! I sometimes need translation help from anons b/c English isnt my first language.

where the fuck is lucy he said he was going to do fanart

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>>93557689
This is a good answer.

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for those who using csp
did anyone did succefully achive a tradional feel when inking ?
(pic reated is my comic )

>>93558045
I just downloaded it, seems pretty okay and it definitely runs better, but I have no idea where everything is yet. Also it seems like SAI doesn't have a text tool? How do you guys work around this? It seems like a huge hassle to have to do dialogue in another program.

>>93559444
>Also it seems like SAI doesn't have a text tool? How do you guys work around this?

Have not used SAI in ages so I'm not sure how the text works there.
That's where you use photoshop tho; to add text. Also please use antialiasing, it's kinda bothersome to see so many comics with aliased text.

>>93559316
If miura couldn't do it, nobody can.
You'll just have to adapt the inking.

Are any of you famous?

>>93559612
lol

>>93559612
Now why the hell would I want to be famous?
>tfw no niche cult following that will pay $$$ to keep you alive like Togashi

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funny thing you talk about him
i tried to trace one of his drawing yesterday
(pic realted )

>>93559666
damn forgot to reply
>>93559600

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Which of these looks better? For clarification the one of the left has higher contrast outlines and more shadows.

>>93559914
Left one

>>93559914
On the left everything stands out too much. On the right the background fades out a bit more.
Either it's too subtle to notice.

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Finished this page! I actually had to do this page on my old computer with Clip studio!

It still feels really good, but not too different.

>>93560561
>actual antialiasing on the text

I'm so proud of you dude although judging from what your post says I don't know if this a permanent fix or not

@Coldfusion, Bones and Dewd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v4R2ZcxPlA

>>93556553
I like the art style.

>>93558069
Fucking this.

>>93561048
Woah dude, nice satire.

But I usually just ignore hate comments now a days.

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>>93559556
I'm gonna stick a pin in SAI for now until I have a chance to play around with it. Still having some small issues with Photoshop, but right now I'm mostly just tired, frustrated, and I have this weird pain in my collarbone that won't go away. So rate my sky I guess? I'm putting off figuring out how to draw the characters for until the next page because I at least feel semi-comfortable painting landscapes and backgrounds. Then again I'm supposed to be making my peace with how shitty my art is so I can let it get out of the way of the story. At least my text is anti-aliased.

>>93561048
why do you keep acting like you're any better...?

>>93562036
this

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Well today I finished the design of a character

>>93562608
Is that a possum?

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>>93553776
If you do good work, people will care about it!

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>>93561854
Nice to see you progress
>>93562036
I don't need to be better in order to critic or poke with a stick

>>93559914
Right

>>93562672

Exactly

>>93563077
Is a very crazy looking possum, I like it.

>>93562925
>I don't need to be better in order to critic or poke with a stick

Well that's a good point, I mean we do it all the time here.

>>93563125
Thanks fella

>Finally sat down and written a satisfying plot.
Feels good.

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/hyw/ how do you guys feel about action words and using them. been experimenting with them in this page but I'm pretty sure I'm going to use them sparingly for the next one I'm doing

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OK I just finished updating West Tree and now all of Part 1 is finished and after that's all uploaded there's gonna be a week break where I will have my yearly guest comic week.

So if you wanna make a guest comic for me this year reply to this post and we can work some thing out, like a discord or something.

Or you could just reply to my post with the guest comic.

>>93555196
Everyone sucks in one way or another, you used to suck in the specific ways that internet knowitalls love to pick on while ignoring others. You have since become fucktons better (oddly I don't recall your transitional period, you seem to have just done it all at once)

>>93556329
Happens to the breast of us. everyone has their one big loss that teaches them
>>93557860
This. Clipstudio
>>93558013
My plan too. Too used to it for now.

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>>93565232
>oddly I don't recall your transitional period
I left after dropping my 3rd comic, came back when I started drafting my current one.
It's not updated with my new stuff but if you want to look back at my old cringe/progress you can here http://strawbles.deviantart.com/gallery/

>You have since become fucktons better
thanks anon <3

>>93559914
the left is "better", since this scene is meant to showcase the background
the right is what it should be like when you have characters meant to be the focus of the scene instead, so the background can fade a bit

>>93560561
their*
remotely*
cannot* though I get the impression her dialect may have rendered the words separate
disappointing* remember think of dis- the prefix, and appointment
troublemakers* (you can hyphenate here because it hits the edge of the panel)

stinky P is still amusing. wait, didn't he die?
>explaining the annabeth thing offscreen
>"has a crush on anything remotely girly"
why you little..

>>93562925
Yours its no critic its just being a jerk

>>93562036
Lucy is a kind of semi shitposter. The kind you have to just tolerate because at least he's using a name, and we have his word it's all just for fun.

>>93561932
I still recommend clipstudio since it's basically "like photoshop but better (except in terms of painting)"

So Im slowly improving my drawing each day Buuuuuut the only thing I'm drawing are hot women and their fine asses and tittes

Someone help I can't stop drawing fine women oh god what do I do?

>>93562608
rogue and possumry go together like peanutbutter and more peanutbutter.
>>93562749
This one took me longer to get than it should've

>>93564328
The shape of the words should match the shape of the sound, rather than the shape of the object making it. All that does (especially when it's this messy) is make it look like actual in-universe matter.
It's okay though, I can tell you don't really have the dexterity / pen control yet to make decisions like that. Just work on that. keep practicing.

>>93565718
Post some bitches, I'll judge

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does /hyw/ approve of the book store girl?

>>93565775
Is that a marriage ring?

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>>93565813
she's married to the towns lead farmer, later in the page someone comes and gets her so she can watch her husband do the harvest.

>>93565718
draw something else that appeals to your urges, like kickass action, explosions, monsters with nasty claws, and maybe some cool muscly flowin'-haired dudes you can self-insert with. Yknow, to go on dates with those hot women you already drew. Dates that involve killing monsters with explosions!

and then later think about some story plots that made you go 'whoa' and try to include those aspects

>>93565775
a cutie. I would look beyond her messed up hands.

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Subarashiiiiiii

>>93566227
how have I never once used that pose? saving for future ref.

>>93565747
What if I don't have a drawing program?

>>93565865
You got it boss!

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>>93552577
Page for4. Finished this like around a week ago.

>>93553943
>>93555102
>>93556553

These look pretty good, you have a blog or something where you post these?

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>>93566248
s-stop it you're stroking my ego

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>>93566293
Page 4*

And here's is WIP Page 5.

>>93565648
Nah, he came back in chapter 16.

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>>93566258
Oh shit yeah I'll just take a pic of it

>>93566376
closest thing to a blog currently is my twitter
https://twitter.com/Mabeldiyo
and my deviant art which I posted in >>93565368

once I finish this chapter ill make a site for this comic though.

>>93566394
cute as balls
anyway if you need the opposite of ego stroking, it's clear you have some work to do on basic anatomy and stuff. You're not even at the point yet where I can make any real suggestions, but keep going. Good taste will get you far, at least in my book

>>93566404
ohh that was you. Neat. I like this page.
Not taking up residence in your rectum, but do you think someday your speed is going to increase significantly (perhaps when your spare time becomes more abundant)? Because the pacing of the individual pages is such that I think you will have unsatisfied readership if it continues to take this long to put out each page.

>>93566465
senpai*
she looks okay. She has a lot more personality than she does hotness, due to your lack of skill. But hey a lot of skilled people suck at personality, or never even develop it... so feel good, then start studying
Are those tears in her eye corners?
>Captcha: FINLANDIA SALES
now I want a Portlandia spinoff set in Finland

>>93552577

Are comics based on your D&D games too prevalent or cliche?

>>93566837
They are as prevalent as any tolkien-like fantasy setting I would say. You just need to give it a special spin so it looks less generic and "oh it's another one of those"

>>93566837
shit son, Lodoss War was based on DnD games. The key is you have to write the story it sounds good even to people who weren't there. You can't leave anything that requires knowledge of that either to get, or to appreciate (kinda like how a lot of what improv shows put out is technically substandard to a normal scene or skit or song, it's just the context of knowing it was come up with on the spot that makes it so good)

Unless of course the comic IS about DnD in which case... that sounds cliche but I don't know that I've ever actually seen a full story that interweaves the players' lives and their game. Like that bit in Eltingville Club, or that Dexter's Lab episode. That would be really hard to do well because you'd have to develop them into legit characters AND make the game not boring (when usually watching someone play something is less interesting than 'being there')

There's a lot of comics that are meant to be the game-as-made-into-a-comic and those are more straightforward but a lot less interesting since they're so predictable and generic.

>>93566797
Those are tears, I was trying to do some anime thing but yeah I have no idea what I'm doing. thanks!

>>93566775
Between working fulltime, on weekends, and doing freelancing at night, as well as getting married, I actually could crank them out a page a week, especially after this page where the coloring will be more simplified cell-shaded to help. But I love my family and sleep too much.

Not really looking for a fanbase to cater to their every whim when making this comic, I just want to make it for fun and see who wants to read it.

>>93566920
ah well, when you get there, what you wanna do is draw a shape kinda like a horizontal MnM or skittle or contact lens viewed from the side, placed at the eye corners. It should overlap the eye, and you can erase the lines where it overlaps or not, depending
>>93566923
Your priorities are in the right spot. Just letting you know then, it's going to be a "this comic is better binged than waited for" situation.
aside from that whole overworking aspect, I'd still rather be you than a professional comic guy. Unless the professional comic guy gets to get married too.

>>93566973
Yeah I can see some people getting mad if it uploads slowly. But I'm doing it my own pace for right now until I can find a grove. Plus, I have connections in the animation industry online who view my stuff so that can help with getting more freelancing.

Yeah, I wanted to be a pro comic artist, but changed my mind, unless I do a few arcs for fun or something. Feels much better and less stressful having a study income.

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>>93566749
my only weakness is eyes

>>93567194
>mfw no face

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>>93567194

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started reading Manga in Theory and Practice and it has inspired me to try to make a comic again. Here are the main characters. I'll work on more and hopefully post some pages soon. Thanks for these threads. The sense of rivalry is pushing me to try to be the very best!

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Last bit of work for the night.

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Instead of pinning down the story I have thought through for 2 years I'm procrastinating by reading books on screenwrighting.
I'm a coward.

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Working on bio page portraits for each of the main characters in their finalized designs. Here's 3 that I sketched out so far only 1 left to go. I may do some secondary characters as well later. I tried to make hyla's face look less weird.

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>>93559975
>>93559976
>>93563025
>>93565599

Since I couldn't really get an objective answer but did get some good points I made a sort of in between. I feel like it looks better.

>>93568570
It may be hard for reader to relate if most of your chars are aliens. You'll make them extra squishy-stretchy perhaps?

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>>93568601
Hyla is a human hybrid, CIN is human cyborg, the missing main cast member, Tobie Jr, is an earth hospital droid. Trype is the only alien and is mostly played for comic relief.

I've actually been worried about having too many humans in my cast (pic related is a handful) I don't think they'll be hard to relate to really. Most pixar movies don't use humans at all and are still relatable.

>You'll make them extra squishy-stretchy perhaps?

I don't really know what you mean.

>>93568671
Stretchy enough to make a human face with that goo and metal bits they are made of.

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>>93568789
Ohh, ok. Yeah CIN has a complex array of lights under the glass his head is made of that convey expression. A lot of characters have it in universe to communicate feelings among alien species. It's called UVACS and stands for Universal Visual Attitude Communication System.

As for trype I'm going to have some trouble with expressions but she has a mouth and her face can contort like a muppet so it should be ok. Here's an old pic of her where she's scared. She might get some UVACs later on down the line in the comic though.

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>>93559817

>>93566917
>I don't know that I've ever actually seen a full story that interweaves the players' lives and their game

For what it's worth, Table Titans jumps between the in-game story and the players real lives.

Beep boop have an asian bump.

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This is from my latest comic page, I've been on the fence about whether or not to use text sound fx or to leave it clean, I've used it in previous pages, but sometimes I worry that I'll ruin the art, any thoughts?

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>>93565662
ORLY? I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS BEING A JERK?!?!?!
>>93565672
Basically this^

>>93567194
They are tricky, but you can figure it out. My main tip is to think about them in 3d and how they bulge outwards and tuck inwards. This took me forever to get. also pay attention to the spacing, generally you want one eye-width apart or more unless it's a super googly eye style

>>93568593
yeah that works

>>93572765
Fucking gorgeous
This definitely needs some kind of sounds for things like the sixth panel though since I have little idea what's going on. If you don't wanna do text sound effects though you could make them sort of .. flashy sound marks

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>>93569974

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Been really busy, had to rush it, and still missed the correct update day. Hopefully next week will go better.

What if I can't draw? I'd really like to make webcomic. Does quality drawing really matters?

>>93575452
No and if you want examples go read the original One punch man web comic

>>93575452
It matters if you are artist first.
If you are a storyteller it doesn't matter. If you ever get popular you'll just hire assistant artist anyway.

>>93572765
Oh boy the art is really pretty.

But yeah you need to add some sounds of sorts, otherwise it looks like it's all muted. You can always use fx-less version of the pages as previews or something.

>>93575452
No it doesn't matter, but then you better be able to write good. You could also always partner with an artist too. I noticed that's been really popular with Korean webcomic artists lately.

>>93575452
>Does quality drawing really matters?

You can manage with average drawing skills if your storytelling is good.

If you are pandering to SJWs then you can manage even without storytelling skills.

>>93575332
Maybe is to late for giving this kind of advice but I think it would be better to have some pages done in advance instead of working with literal deadlines

>>93577311
That's fantastic advice that, unfortunately, is impossible if you're working at top speed

>>93566920
Come to think of it, that's how Cyberman eyes look

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You are such a naive child if you actually think that art is important at all in comic. It's all about writing, plain and simple.
Let's face it, comic needs writer because artists are too dumb to write anything worthwhile.

All you artists can come up with are just Shonen reject/cape comic craps with unimaginative writing. For god's sake, try doing something new, something revolutionary like urban fantasy comic or something?

Not replying to any post, simply because none of you doo doo head deserves any (you) from me.

>>93578150
I do agree that writing is a very important part if your comic, even more so if it's plot-driven or it has to be funny. But you can't deny art plays an important part, if anything because you will look first at comics that have art that is pleasant to the eyes.

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how is my klanman

>>93577311
I had a buffer about 18 pages ago. But it's slowly decreased.

A problem is that I made some major changes to the story a few weeks ago, and it made a lot of my buffer invalid. There are a few pages upcoming that I may be able to salvage parts from though.

Typically the problem with most comics isn't making a buffer, it's keeping the buffer long-term, and keeping it if you make changes. I've never managed a buffer for more than a few months myself. I always end up down to having to make a page between one update and another eventually.

>>93578254
Stop basing your character on Ben Garrison

>>93558195
Hey man. Love your art style. I've saved one of your other drawings as inspo

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not my best page, but i'm just happy i'm done with this one.

>>93575686
>>93574271
See, I never get this. Why do people want sound effects? I personally never notice them when reading comics, and prefer not to have them so I can see mre of the imagery. I just put the sound effects in my head.

>>93579332
I usually don't notice sound effects in professional comics, but in webcomics they're extremely important to fill the gaps where the art fails to get across the action

>>93579332
>Why do people want sound effects?

Immersion. Kinda like why mute movie had text for stuff like "Ouch!"

>>93579332
SFX are such a ubiquitous element in comics that leaving them out seems like an odd and eerily silent choice. It's like if you saw a video of a horse walking without a clip-clop sound effect, you're so used to those sound effects that the absence of them is uncanny, even if the sound effects themselves were unnatural in the first place.

>>93579371
So if the art fails to get the action across, then should they just rework the action in the panel(s)?

>>93579432
Sometimes you can't. Or it's unnecessary to go that far out of your way, because the way you're depicting it is great, or gains something in the process

>>93579421
>It's like if you saw a video of a horse walking without a clip-clop sound effect, you're so used to those sound effects that the absence of them is uncanny, even if the sound effects themselves were unnatural in the first place.

Kek got reminded of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFXG3r_0B8

>>93579421
Again though, would you get have the sound of the horse clip-clops in your head, or just have to be spoonfed the effects? Like you wouldn't know what sound them generally make?

But I can maybe see if the sfx can be used to help visuals instead of just to know what the sound is.

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>>93579421

>>93579488
>>93579527
oh, hehe, you already...

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>>93579495
>But I can maybe see if the sfx can be used to help visuals instead of just to know what the sound is.

That's pretty much what it is for, really. It's a visual aid.

Take this page for example. The sound effects in the last panel foreshadows something that will happen in the next page (someone bombs the wall to get in). If you left the page without the fx, it would look like a beat panel and wouldn't really make the transition to the next page well. It works as a stinger as well.

>>93579495
What I meant is that the absence of sfx seems like a choice in itself, because people are so used to seeing sfx in comics A lack of sfx often indicates silence, rather than just assuming the audience will assume the sfx from just the pictures.

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>>93579641
And then the next page has a sfx for the bomb as well. Of course it would be self-explanatory what happens even without it, but it's still an aid. As odd as it may sound, not all explosions sound the same, which can be reflected with a specific sfx.

>>93578254
Remove the cross from his chest, I feel It would look way better without It.
If you need more inspiration for your klansmen I suggest you to google "semana santa España" on google images, lots of great designs.

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>>93574967

>>93578764
Aww thanks anon.

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here's another.

>>93581101
are those neggs?

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Why do so few webcomics feature 3D characters, 3D backgrounds, or both?

>>93581951
because 3D looks terrible when it's not in motion

>>93581951
because 3D takes a lot of work until it becomes good, and it never looks that great
if one would do something with 3D they should do it like Gantz

>>93581951
3d uses the same models and just reposes them. that's just a step above 8U

>>93582032
>3d uses the same models and just reposes them.
And this is bad because... ?

>>93582059
it ends up making things look robotic and stiff

>>93582059
it isn't, inherently, but it's a lot less work.. or at least, it's DIFFERENT work than drawing is.
Now if you carefully drew over it, fixing the things 3d models suck at, like making joints and the fleshy parts of a body deform properly as they move, then that'd be fine. the 3d would just be there to use as a pose and perspective model
>>93582128
also this. you can't do fucking gamu gamu with 3d

>>93582128
But surely you squash and stretch your models, build a library of alternative limbs, heads, and torsos for your characters, etc.

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This is all I got...and what I'm workin' on

https://tapas.io/episode/397072

>>93582232
have you ever used 3d? what you're suggesting is significantly harder than just drawing, so nobody does it

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>>93558069

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>>93566465
Part 2; extra long neck edition

>>93583121
already improved since the last one, though you shouldn't worry about that right now since you're likely to swing wildly in quality at this stage

>>93583160
Would you say being consistent in quality the hardest thing in drawing?

>>93583336
yes but thank god it's also one of the least important.. look at any professional
it's better to be inconsistent but consistently good, then consistent but consistently bad

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Ahoy

if i want to say, drop a PDF for critique, would this be the best place to do it?

hell, would /co/ even be a good place to do it?

thanks!

>>93583847
it's not preferable, but sure.

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>>93552577
ive lost motivation

I have a webcomic pitch but it's really stupid and I'm probably not going to do anyway. You want to hear it?

>>93584511
sure. go ahead, we won't mind.

>>93584110
try masturbating. if you stop in the middle of masturbating, you may realize you have better things to do than hands-on-dick.

>>93584110
Did you draw this? because... if you did, you're my hero

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>>93568570
Redrew some of Trype and added the final character. Now that the sketches are done I'll start working on the actual drawings.

>>93584158
holy shit, anonymoose. you're a leg-end. wish I was still in the 'scord now.

>>93584605
Alright.
>Takes place in this fictional college town
>MC's parents both work at the R&D division of a private military organization
>As a going away to university, MC was given a small piece of MagiTech, which was recently discovered by his parents.
>MC has no idea what it does and sees it as just a neat little trinket.
>Story begins characters are introduced, yadda yadda yadda, MC forgets about the MagiTech.
>Time passes, then flamboyant gay villain tracks down MC and tries to take the MagiTech
>Turns out that the MC has the spell core Immolate
>Spell cores are things that allow people to "cast spells" but are functionally useless without a channeling device, which flamboyant gay villain has
>After a very narrow fight, MC nabs the channeling device and flamboyant gay villain fucks off
>MC gets a phone call from his roommate's parents about the incident
>They explain that the channeling device was stolen by an unknown group of people
>MC puts two and two together and figures out that by taking the channeling device from flamboyant gay villain, his pisses of this group.
>MC's parents send each of the MC's friends each a channeling device as well as a few spell cores and bring it upon themselves to stop the unknown group and find out their motivations.
>Also at some point the main cast cross universes and recruit their alternate selves for their cause.

Bonus lore:
>There is actual magic in this world, but people who display attraction towards the opposite sex have access to it.
>The gayer you are, the more magic you have
>The government supports the gay agenda because they don't want an army of magical people rebelling and rioting
>That being said, flmaboyant gay villain's reasons for trying to take the MagiTech is unknown.
>Asexual people are different in that they are fully immune to any magical effects

Thoughts? I honestly have no idea what I was thinking when I came up with the rules for magic in this.

>>93585110
what connection is there between military R+D and advanced magic technology from another civilization entirely?
anyway flamboyant villains are always fun, as are villains who hold the other halves to something useful.
>cross universes
ohh I see.
>everything else you wrote
no. bad anon. *newspaper*

>>93582283
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gH-eBfgj1E
Genndy Tartakovsky does. What's your excuse?

>>93585170
>no. bad anon. *newspaper*
I remembered what I was thinking when I made the magic rules. Because it's funny. But seriously, I think that was inspired by the whole "vegans get psychic powers"
thing from Scott Pilgrim. From there I made it that way because I knew it would make /pol/ mad and I genuinely thought that it was funny.

>>93585291
Yeah I was rounding down when I said "nobody"
Genndy did it, and whoever directed cloudy with a chance of meatballs did it and then some.

>>93584634
yes. its a sticker design. Im glad you like it

>>93585297
okay but that actually ties in to how vegans think they're healthier despite cutting out huge umbers of important nutrients vital for functioning. the equivalent would be.. gay people having the ability to make perfect matches based just on what feels best shoved up your butt. I think that is actually a real kind of fortune-telling..

>>93580555
Is it published online, your web comic, or is it still in planning?

>>93585110
>gays is magic.

ok. tumblr as fuck, but ok.

also, i assume you said:
>but people who display attraction towards the same sex have access to it.
when you said:
>but people who display attraction towards the opposite sex have access to it.

either way, Fredie Mercury would be the long lost hero of this world. he's got a certain kind of magic after all.

>>93585110
>The gayer you are, the more magic you have
>Asexual people are different in that they are fully immune to any magical effects

>>93586570
>ok. tumblr as fuck, but ok.

I'm sure this may not be the intention of the actual story but imagine the damn lampshades you can do with that.

>Being gay is the hot shit because it gives you magic
>You have all these people pretending to be gay in an attempt to get magic points
>People pretending that they are asexual to feel special

It should lead to some hilarious takes

>>93586570
>>93586713
Less tumblry as you might think. Consider this: Transgendered people have magic.
I'll leave the implication of that for you to figure out.

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>>93578254
dunno how I feel about the taller hood.

what do you guys think? I looked up that spanish holy week, pretty neat. I'll definitely have to incorporate some of those ornate staves and the flags into an alt design or a higher up member- like a dragon or grand wizard or whatever.

>>93586991
That cross on his face maked him look like he is doing a sad smile.

On a more serious tone, I personally like his other hood better.

>>93586873
Tumblr is going to interpret that as "gay" meaning "anyone who is non-cishet" and you know it

>>93587159
Perhaps. Sometimes the best way to explain something is to be as blunt as possible.

>>93586873
most trannies I know are into their "same" sex, so that doesn't work. but good job.
anyway this sounds about as valid a comic as that lol cute nazi girls! comic

>>93587029
I think it's the eyeholes that do that
this klansman is bringing back memories of old ghost and wizard enemies in videogames who were all vaguely patterned after the ancient iconography the klan got their imagery from. It's pretty neat

>>93587029
I kinda like it without the cross, I forget where I saw a uniform with one on it- I know I saw one though.

>>93587348
they're definitely very ghostly- I'm glad I nailed that a bit. I kinda want to put little mouth holes that'll make it look more like a skull but I know it'll end up looking silly instead of sinister.

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>>93587455
whups, forgot to post

>>93587455
ah yeah, sad eyeholes are a lot more ghostly.
i think that a perfectly circular mouth hole would be pretty creepy, but only with perfect round eyes. seeing as you have the sad eyes, yeah.. no mouth
also the fucking neckless thing you have going on is even more unsettling. who is this fucker anyway?

>>93587527
klan grunt in my post-civil war medieval america

at least, that was the plan- but if I'm gonna give him a flaming sword I should probably make him someone of note.

>>93587719
yeah he looks like a kinda.. like not a general but like henchman 21 after he got buff.
medieval fantasy and civil war shit might work nicely together. especially if the north has like, african shamans

>>93582204
Yeah, I really want to see if there's any type of mocap device that's good with fingers and use that for chord references. I've always wanted to animate a Yin & Yang & the Flowerpot Man video.

>>93588153
>mocap device that's good with fingers
Wait are you talking about what I think you are? because I've always wanted to use some kind of mocap-finger input for moving 3d objects in 3d space..
>and use that for chord references
... for what?
>video
ohh you're talking about.. oh that's clever. guitar fingering 3d reference.

>>93588835
>>93588153
nigga go study some hands u lazy fucks

>>93589285
there is nothing wrong with having references. Especially with something as complex as guitar playing.

>>93587474
Now looks more spooky ghost.

>>93590453
maybe I'll make him an actual ghost- maybe a sort of walter sullivan situation from silent hill 4 where he's gotta complete this strange christian ritual

>>93590717
That would be cool actually.
You talked about doing designs for higher ranks tho, didn't you? So a ghostly order?

Where'd I put my pages? Own page or better start off in some social network?

>>93591177
I would recommend to get your own page (be it of your own hosting, tumblr or from one of the free webcomic hosting sites) and use social network for promoting.

I have seen a few friends posting their comic in facebook for example, but they do post one or two pages behind of the actual schedule they have on their main pages, so they can get people with "check the main page to see the next strip!" and stuff.

It all mostly depends on what you want to do. That and idk if facebook has some sort of good ad revenue system.

>>93591127
having them all, or at least a large part of them be ghosts would be really interesting- maybe the head honcho could be a crazed necromancer who's also a racist Jesus freak

yeah I'm really feeling this

>>93559316
its possible, but youre going to need the correct brushes.

don't worry about that though. your stuff looks great. keep going.

>>93559316
If you're going for the look of traditional inks, why not just do traditional inks?

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Hey everyone! Just sharing my comic "The Sprawl" and looking for feedback.

It is a sometimes NSFW sci-fi/horror comic.

"An impossibly ancient artifact is discovered buried in the ice, unleashing terror which spans generations. Phantasms, murderous cults and shambling, cybernetic horrors inhabiting the massive, ever growing megacity known as The Sprawl."

http://www.thesprawlcomic.com/index.php?c=01&p=001

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I also write bad poetry and short stories.
Since I'm too embarrassed to post on /lit/ but do have a webcomic in development, do you mind?

>>93568570
>>93584649
I like your character designs, but some detail like Cin's "ribs" will be tedious to draw every time. Do you already know how you're going to simplify them for normal comic panels without losing the personality? You _are_ going to simplify them, right?

>>93585297
Play your cards right, and /polgbt/ will enjoy it.

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>>93555196
Your attitude is the problem.
hyw gets pissy when people reject advice or make blatantly retarded statements. That's why The Dewd and Coldfusion are hated so much.

hyw can be very constructive if you can deal with criticism and actually intend to improve.

>>93592433
lmao no, most of the "criticism" here is just an excuse to bully

>>93559646
>niche following

Foreign markets don't matter.
HxH is one of the biggest WSJ comics in overall sales of all time. That is the opposite of niche.
His comic is so tremendously better than all the other WSJ stuff that people comic back to it even after endless hiatuses stretched over more than a decade.

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>>93592379
I'd say you should either just type it up and post on /lit/ or add a substantial visual element to your work and git gud at handwriting to make it appropriate for /co/. Don't be embarrassed to post on /lit/, by the way; it is a worse board than /co/.

>>93592494
Almost everyone here is at a level where the most immediate advice should be "please learn the basics of drawing and writing". The people with ongoing, intelligible webcomics have all left.

>>93592379
DEEP trash, I would really lay into it but judging from the writing you're a teenage girl so it wouldn't do anyone any good. just be yourself i guess

>>93586991
>>93578254
>>93587474
It seems like it would be inappropriate for your setting, but I'd love to see you remove the front of the Klansman's hood below the nose and give him a gas mask. It'd look pretty cool with that overall design.

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>>93580166
This guy is all ham all the time

>>93593094
I like your character art, but the page is just not pleasant to navigate with your eyes. Consider having more traditional panels. They can be as complex in shape as your current ones, just separated and with simple, clear lines around them.

>>93593094
I have to agree with >>93593270

The main issue is where the page is drawing the reader's eye.

Your characters are coloured with very subdued tones, but so is the background, which causes them to blend together.

In contrast, you use these dark, wavy lines to separate your panels. These dark, saturated lines are drawing the eye away from your characters. So instead of my eye immediately going to the upper left corner, where I should begin reading the page, I instead find myself drawn to the one large word balloon that is surrounded by a nexus of swirling dark, saturate lines. That's the "searching for a hint of hidden longing" word balloon.

After that, my eye wants to follow the river of dark swirling lines to the nexus to the right where it is then drawn sharply down to the inexplicable use of hot pink for the womans lips only in the next ot last panel and the ribbon in the final panel. Essentially, my eye is being draWn away from your characters, and away from the porogression you intend the reader to follow, this is what, for me, makes the page unpleasant to read. I have to fight against where you've drawn my eyes to read the page.

You could solve that problem, at least in part, by either making the characters darker/more saturated, using more colours as deepand eye catching as the hot pink in the lower right of the page, or alternately by making the background darker so that the characters pop out.

1/2

>>93593094
But another issue is the panel composition. Even if you used traditional panel borders, does this arrangement read well? You've got a lot of empty space in the upper right part of the page, and it's uncertain if I should start in the upper left then go to the upper right, or if I should start in the upper left, go the panel below that, THEN to the upper right. This is because, together, the top two lefthand panels are horizontal with the upper right panel.

I feel like the arrangement of the word balloons is also working against you.

All that said, I like to see experimentation, so don't be discouraged. It's just that there's a few things you need to work out here to make this page work. If you had more traditional panel structure then the other problems maybe wouldn't be so bad. But if you get a handle on those issues then you can get away with being more creative with the panel structure.

2/2

>>93579332
I agree with you 100%. I've seen so many great pages ruined by way to prevalent sfx. If your Comic breaks conventions, this is a good one to start.
Your page works just fine without Sound imo.

>>93581951
Because even hugely talented and successfull artists like Oku can only make it work 70% of the time and for the rest the Comic rolls down the uncanny valley...

>>93572765
>non-linear paneling shenanigans

yes, please

>>93586155
In planning. Just a series of short plots and simple world-building because I'm going for a more light-hearted tone. I'm about to finish the script!
I'm still very new to doing panel layouting tho. Can't wait to start drawing.

>>93593753
What if you only use 3D for the backgrounds/architecture/vehicles/robots?

>>93590717
>actual ghost
awesome
>christian ritual
.. wait what?

>>93592370
bunny boobies! Dig it. This is really high quality.

>>93593577
I could not disagree witht his post more

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>>93552577
How do i make this design better?

Also feel like there is something wrong with the line-art

>>93597098
it's mostly anatomy. Plus the childish face is a little odd on the manly buff body, though hardly unrealistic.
I'd spread his neck out wider, more Cardassian-ish, so the gill slits have more real estate to show from the front.
The lineart itself looks okay except for the places like the calves where it's just sort of erased for some reason, but I get the feeling you aren't quite comfortable with your art program yet, given how the text on the right is unreadable
>squint
oh he's supposed to be piranhalike, not shark? You might consider red eyes, an underbite, and gills that look like piranha gills instead of shark gill slits

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>>93592380
Yeah, to a degree. This is a "quest" style webcomic so some things will be reused regularly. Most of the characters are made up of separated shapes so arms, legs, torsos, heads, etc can be saved separately as a parts bank and rearranged similair to using symbols when working in flash. When it comes to simplifying you can see how complex I'm going with each character in the actual comic here >>93568671 The closer they are to the "camera" the more detailed they'll be.

Also usually CIN's robe completely covers his arms and body. The occasions you see his arms at all will be rare.

In pic related you can see how everything except for the hands and mouth are just rearranged for the sake of animation. The comic will have similar methods.

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Should I add some sound effects or keep it silent?

>>93598164
The firelight should be more front on for the characters; you have the lightsource coming from the side.

>>93598164
I think it would be funnier with sound effects like rubbarubbarubba and FROOSH
meanwhile in the first panel, the CLACK would let us know he's smacking rocks together when it isn't otherwise super obvious (since the motion lines are really subtle)

>>93592567
the closest thing in my setting to a gas mask would probably be a plague doctor mask. I do kinda wanna slap a gas mask on just to see how it'd look

>>93596043
http://silenthill.wikia.com/wiki/21_Sacraments

I guess it isn't christian but still, I dunno- definitely wanna tool around with some ideas for the guy

>>93572765
I want to read this.

Or look at it, whichever.

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Bumping with villains (sorry for discord pees who have already seen, i forgot that the threads still exist)

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>>93599075
>I do kinda wanna slap a gas mask on just to see how it'd look
You can make it a plague doctor mask later.

>>93553776
if you actually get outside you'll see that for every person who can create stories/draw theres around 100,000 who do not and are willing to read, enjoy creative media. dont let yourself be fooled by closed internet communities anons.

>>93600904
for some reason I really like this. the popped collar and soft gray phantomy body..

bumpo

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>>93600904
You should practice thinking about your figures more 3-dimensionally. Try breaking down your characters into simple 3d shapes, spheres, boxes, and cylinders, and add muscle/clothing from there.

>>93601685
yeah construction kills me but thanks, this helps a lot!

>>93578254
an upside down cross implies satanism it can also mean the cross of saint peter but thats esoteric
you could try inverting the cross and have it above below or even on the eye holes like a crusader.

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glad to see this thread's still running gentlemen.

I took a long break from my comic, since i played too much overwatch but i decided to continue my work on it after going to the hellfest, a nice heavy metal festival. I got to talk with phil campbell and showed him a page of my comic. He said "these ladies have big breasts."

Also, here's a page, how's the layout?

I try to follow that anon's advice by constructing a character with simple shapes. I hope you can see that here.

>>93602751
yeah when your tits dip below navel level, those are some pretty huge tits.

why do artists here only draw triple D with anormally huge butts only?

>>93602774
Yes, she's got big tits.

>>93602839
No fucking clue mate. Me, I just like drawing them.

>>93602839
Some of us still like slim hips, tight, round butts, and DFC, anon.

>>93601685
Nice.

>>93597296
So you're making a comic or an animation? At one point I though you were thinking about making an animated review show on yt.
Anyway, still pumped by your designs.

>>93582259
>https://tapas.io/episode/397072
i got an iron maiden cover feel to that shit. I like that! Nice use of negative inking here, but really, too much text on the first three pages. And wasting a page to put just one quote is too much.

>>93597296
Hello, not-Sollux.

>>93602751
I'm guessing "Say that again" is the final speech balloon of the page? If it is, then having it so close to panel 3 could lead people across into the big panel, instead of down the column. If it's Goatee Guy who's saying it, then maybe have it towards the bottom middle of panel 6. Perhaps show more of Goatee, so we can see his body language, instead of just a profile. Should Goatee be the focus of panel 6, and not Lady DD?
Maybe move speech balloon 3b to the left a bit, to make more of a diagonal to lead into panel 4 (and away from panel 6).
In panel 5, move Lady DD to the left and balloon 5b into the acute corner, to lead up into panel 6.

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putting together a comic called rock paper scissors. dont have much of a script yet, but i plan on having a similar dynamic and theme to the og ppg

>>93603727
Now that's some cartoon kinda fun I can get behind.

>>93603727
i love those Chowder eyes

>>93603727
love thisone, do you jave more designs?

>>93552843
I got five frames to talk, make it quick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d6qoEUzWS0

>>93553776
>>93553948
>Worried about being critiqued and mocked on the internet

Grow a pair numale. Seriously get some testosterone shots or something.

>>93604827
we wonder why shitposters shitpost.. this fucker gets TEN replies despite it being as obvious as it could be.
jesus, someone say something you like about some comic in here. Some character you like.

>>93604947
Well someone tell us what their latest story arc is first.

>>93604985
don't see what the two have to do with each other, but mite b fun. kinda everyone give a catchemup refresher

>>93605086
I laughed despite myself. I know that feeling.
is that girl footless, or just kinda in peg-feet mode like the cat is?

>>93605384
The foot thing is... You ever play Fire Emblem Awakening? The models all have these adorable
hooved feet. So I just kind of adopted that.

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>>93605086
Fuck I just realized a typo.

>>93605455
whoa, you are not kidding
but they're also chibified somewhat. Not enough to justify that, but.. more than your characters here.
apparently the reason they did that is it saved on animation. baffling.

>>93605521
oh wow somehow I didn't see the last word bubble at all. I straight up thought there was no dialogue in the last panel
the typo I noticed, but forgot to tell you, is the "let's" part. no apostrophe for verbs

>>93605675
*Checks the "let's*
Fuck.

>>93605714
fortunately, pretty easy mistake to fix. just a little erase.

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>>93605086
>>93605675
fixed. Now it's perfect.

>>93605810
You should work on your line quality, it's looking pretty confident and chicken-scratchy right now. Use long, single strokes to draw your lines, and avoid going over them multiple times unless you know what you're doing. For shorter stokes, go faster. Don't be afraid to ctrl+z if you mess a line up.

>>93606034
>confident
I meant "unconfident"

>>93606034
this. however, this technique is fine for sketches. gives you something to put the long, single stroke on top of, as a guide.

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>>93606151
>however, this technique is fine for sketches
It's still a bad habit and is really bad for your wrist. Plus, it makes your sketches messier and harder to create lineart from. Save yourself the trouble and try to make confident brushstrokes the norm for your lines.

>>93574271
>>93575686
>>93593722
>>93593773
Thanks dudes, interesting perspectives.

>>93599658
http://davidsgatecomic.com/

If any of you have any critiques, I wouldn't mind hearing them.

>>93606424
not at all, it's a great way to achieve precision in things that are tough to get right on the first try. only some people can do confident sketches and make them look great like this.

>>93606428
so how does it feel being this good? like, even framing and direction and all that, on top of good art and artsy stuff going on in the comic?

>>93606428
I notice pages 1 and 3 are able to be clicked to get to the next page, but no other pages are.

holy shit pangolin!!
Yeah this is good. David is a fine young man, both cool and cute. I kind of need him to have a cute sister to be my waifu. Kind of.. need that.
I see from the 'about' that he's a herdsman. He does have sheep hair! does he herd sheep or pangolins or something else entirely?

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>>93603207
Thanks, I'm doing those animated reviews of my collection of videogames with no records online to attract some kind of audience for my work before starting my comic. They have the same style and are basically in the same "universe" I just have a character I can talk through that's basically a universe version of myself.

The reviews should be out soon but I haven't had much motivation for them recently.

>>93573247
You also suck at anatomy crapfish. And before you start.
>its muh style!
>im lurning still lol jk!
>sarcastic retort
>daria fetish shit is behind me, im better now!

>>93607341
I can't complain about his butts

Had an idea for a heroic fantasy adventure with /ss/ elements. Not sure how serious it would be

> a young prince is the sole survivor of the royal family after a raid on his kingdom. He ventures out into the world to look for survivors/get revenge/restart his family line. Fantasy kitchen sink setting with a waifu of the week, rival kingdoms, and plenty of monsters of all types.

>>93608723
hmm, it'd be nice if for once the shota prince isn't the one being kinda led around by his big lady bodyguard.. you're suggesting he just meets a sequence of hot older ladies and each one finds him charming and helps him fight something and then something something and he gets back on track to find the killers?
yeah i'd read that. especially if every so often a loli had a crush on him instead and maybe one was too quiet to voice it, and intimidated by the bigger boobier lady who's taking charge and being his sidekick this week

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LOka hoes back it's clown Kock!
Here with another RELABle comic. Ah hope you can no my fee;ings broes.

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Anyone have action/fighting poses i could use for reference? Pic related is my art. It looks stiff.

>>93608925
holy shit I love that girl on the right. she's within spitting distance of one of my characters, and I demand fanart at some point

for now, this is my go-to for action shit
http://www.slideshare.net/bruno13marques/how-to-draw-manga-vol-23-illustrating-battles
in this case, isn't it MEANT to look sort of stiff? because she's effortlessly blocking that huge hit?

>>93609022
>a how to draw manga that doesn't look like something out of faber-castell

what is this sorcery?

>>93609057
There are multiple series by that title, since it's so generic you can't trademark it
This one is by far the largest, and is done by actual mangaka with real actual skill. They teach useful basics of construction and motion and all that there.
Plus there's stuff like "how to frame scenes to provide different emotions" like this one https://www.slideshare.net/isshinstark/how-to-draw-manga-vol-7-amazing-effectsr
It actually points out stuff like
>Once upon a time, manga consisted of abstract features practically symbols in nature, resulting in abbreviated artwork. The artwork within a given panel was flat, and the compositions repetitive. Today, manga has dramatically evolved, and the majority of works on bookshelves exhibit both a high level of artistic skill and heightened realism. A likely major cause of this development in manga was "space" in the panels, which gave the characters freedom of movement, expanding the breadth of artistic expression.

>>93592370
>http://www.thesprawlcomic.com/index.php?c=01&p=001

This is the most boring sci-fi setup I've ever read. Go back to making nsfw furry art.

>>93609644

Update on my reading;

This legitimately sucks. There wasn't an ounce of creativity in any part of it.

>>93592370
>thesprawlcomic.com
>next page turns into drawholic.net

this bugs me way more than what it probably should

>>93606428
This looks so damn good, keep it up!

>>93609644
>>93609699
at least it has bunny boobies. I just can't into stories like this because they're so dry and straightforward.

Hey need a wee bit of advice
how, in my comic's style, would you depict ghostly images of someone appearing to provide someone imaginary backup, a la that simpsons where Homer's 'political powers' were confronting Burns' snowman army?
I can't just do 'transparent' exactly, since this is an overhead view and the floor they're in front of doesn't have enough detail, they'd just look kind of dull instead of transparent.
maybe like... desaturated and lightened? lookin a little like ghosts?

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>haven't drawn in 8 months
>the burning passion is there, but i do not draw
>pick up pencil and decide i'm going to fucking draw something
>draw for 6 hours straight
>have been drawing 4 hours everyday for the past week now

>>93610701
high five

>>93610701
godspeed anon

bwump let's keep the thread going

>>93605810
This is cute and all, but why does that person not have feet?

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>>93593577
>>93593595
>this much sperg when you don't even know the situation behind the page

here's a regular page >>93593270

and the page before >>93593094
is a dude putting a fucking whammy on the chick. Her mind is being messed with.
God, it took me two seconds to google that. You fucking hack art class 101 critics.

>>93610701
post work

>>93605086
>catcucking
art sucks but great concept, very cute

>>93556553
>>93555196
>>93555102
>>93553943
>it's a tomboy carrying a bat in public

this looks too innocent to me,but it looks good.

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>>93605810
>>93605086
>>93605086
This is one of the most 2017 things I've seen on /co/. Good job! (Unironically.) May this reaction image immortalize your work.

>>93610552
Desaturated, with a slight blue tint, maybe even a glowing outline.

Question,

What's a good name for amnesia caused by magic? I was going to go with "Awe Struck" but I think it might be too generic.


Any suggestions?

>>93614387
White Dreams

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Two new Wilfreda the Wanna-Be Witch strips, all part of the current story arc.

Victor looks for a friend, claims he can bake, is startled by the creepy serious girl. Agatha is a forced to be reckoned.

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>>93614821
Aaaaand this is the newest Wilfreda strip.

Wilfreda invited Julian to her house so he can see how her mom prepares her homemade treats. Then Julian does his thing. Poor kid.

Read more at http://wilfredacomic.tumblr.com/

>>93606956
I wouldn't really say I'm 'good' yet, but to give an honest reply, while I've gotten to a point were I can look at my art and feel quite proud of it, it also instils a lot of fear in me. I've spent all these years improving my drawing and visual ability with an end goal in mind (create epic fantasy comic universe with stories that can compete with my favourite mangaka/writers), but in terms of writing a great story, I have little to no experience, this is my first attempt. As far as I'm concerned great art with a bad story will always be worse than bad art with a great story.
If I was simply a fan artist, or was satisfied making sketchbooks, life would be a lot easier I think.

>>93607025
I'm using the simple webcomic theme for tumblr, the page click function only seems to work when you post a single image per post, which I'm not really fond of doing because it lowers the dashboard quality, I haven't found a way around it yet :(

Yea pangolin are greeeat. David herds something else entirely, I won't get to that for quite a long while though.

>>93610227
Thanks, ill try!