/hyw/ - How's Your Webcomic? #398

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>>94730540
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

>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

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>>94730540
We are running our 4th hyw challenge! Now you have until the end of the month to do so, be an anonymous and do 1 page, 2 pages or 3 pages of comic! Check for other changes in the pic!

>THEME: Magic

>GENRE: (choose one to play around alongside the theme!)
>Lava
>Urban Fantasy
>Inventors

>DEADLINE: August 31

Remember that you can play with the theme as you see fit, we want to see how creative you can get!

>>94730567
Maybe I should specify that the end of the month bit means that's when the biweekly deadline ends, not that the challenges are monthly. Please understand.

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>>94730556
Thanks. I'm not really sure how I should change the hands honestly. I just tried to make them look slender and bony. And yeah, that hose is like a rubber covering for the joints. I'm thinking the higher end ones will have propulsion on the back so you have the precise front limbs and then the cybernetic legs are re-purposed as power lifter back arms.

Their anatomy in general is inspired by this model kit which has a similar "transformation" function involved where the legs become arms when it flies.

>>94730606
although if we did them every midmonth and endmonth it might be easier to remember and keep straight

Does anyone here draw their comic by hand and then scan it?

>>94730683
>Bony
they look more like what I would expect a living plant to have, leaflike fingers that form together into a slender blossom.. or something out of dr seuss. if you want them bony, maybe give them knobby knuckle joints. Personally I would imagine the galaxy's most dextrous hands to be something like a gecko's paws except each thick round grippy pad tip has a small pointy tip at the end for finer manipulation. I would also imagine a thumb on each side of the hand for a symmetrical grip and two-sided joystick action
also I love me some robots whose legs become arms. model kits are the best inspiration

>>94730740
if it's any consolation, when they're opened up their hands are radially symmetrical so it is kind of like a flower except each petal is a thumb.

>>94730719
The anon whose artist does the comic they write all in watercolor.

>>94730540
forgotten and rotting on the back end of the internet where it belongs

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Page came out kind of meh.

Trying to keep the story in small 12-page sections to avoid going off on long tangents. This is the end of a section. There's sort of two possible directions for the next section.

One is to move forward with her narrative, and she finds out about her father. The other option is his narrative, and him moving forward with the item she stole. I -think- it'll probably be his narrative first, and then hers after that. I have a few days to decide which.

I think maybe I should have had a panel with her handing him the thing she stole. Here it just shows her reaching into her bag, then he has it in later panels.

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What do you think about this character:
An egomanical monarch who wants to disrupt a decade-old ceasefire among warring kingdoms in order to "cleanse" royal bloodlines of weak members.

Too cliche?

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>>94730540
and now for my next piece

>>94731979
Not if it's comedy

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>>94732040
and a lil one for bad measure

>>94732192
>that shit eating grin in the second panel

Good stuff. But I don't really get the joke. Have all people decided for tricks or does the guy only go to this one house or what?

>>94732265
I might do a second house but I'm not sure yet. I guess if I have to explain the joke then there is no joke

>>94732265

He's wearing a stage magician outfit as his costume, so everyone says "trick" because they want to see a magic trick.

>>94731371
You need to work on perspective. Panel 5 is...oofadoof.

>>94733221
It's not that jarring calm ur tits

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gonna repost this one since it's been a while and i finished the second page

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>>94733393
and that's it.
bye forever 8)

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New Wilfreda the Wanna-Be Witch strip. Miss Mimi is just trying to teach Math, for crying out loud...

>>94733406
Autism befriends autism?

>>94733559
If that were the case coldfusion and dewd would be friends but dewd hates cf.

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>>94734567
We've also started work on the slightly smutty spinoff comic our Patreon patrons voted for.

>>94732832
Oh I'm retarded, this makes perfect sense. My bad.

>>94729931
Hey do you have a blog or something?
Anyway I do have her character worked out but I guess never had considered anything beyond what I initially drew her in (first concept was traveling alchemist working for a wizard but wasn't a wizard herself.)
I guess I'll do a character write up at my computer.

>>94730540
I noticed!

Weird question, but does anyone have some ideas for office themed super powers? I'm trying to come up with a cool super hero comic, where the main characters works in an office or some kind of newspaper publisher like the daily bugle. And he gets some kind of weird office based super powers. I was thinking something like whatever he writes comes to life could be cool.

>>94730796
oh that's perfect then

>>94736175
Something with fixing a printer, that would be godlike in the office. You should watch office space not just couse it's about a dude and his life being part of an office but it's also a very entertaining movie.

>>94736442

XD I think I may have just gotten an idea. Thanks for the suggestion. That movie looks like fun, I'll give it a watch.

>>94736175
Turning the water into coffee a la jesus turning water into wine, you have a worker and a coffee machine all in one!

>>94732040
This is so fucking trueceratops

>>94733544
>>94732192
lovin this earlier halloween every year.
>>94733239
it makes him look super tall, but as we see in prior panels, he IS super tall. Not that tall, but that does mean the error is less bad

>>94736175
I suggest watching SHINESMAN for inspiration and because it's just 2 episodes and is funny

Before visual development gets the better of me, is there anyone in here with experience as an editor? Not just in the dialogue editing bits but overall? (Story telling decisions and the like)

>>94737191

Thats that sentai parody anime right? Its been on my watch list for ages. Will have to watch it now for sure.

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Only get to work on this on the weekends, but I'm enjoying thinking about how different intelligent races would operate in the same world together.

I feel like the xenophobia we see in our world would actually end up uniting humanity against non-humans.

Also that Humanity's defining trait may be the unwillingness to just settle down and inhabit a niche in the world, constantly wanting to expand and change new lands to suit their needs.

I don't like the idea that any intelligent race would be "all good" or "all evil"- but I can definitely see massive culture clash.

>>94737203
Nobody uses editors anymore except the nips

>>94737221
My favorite part is that, aside from the requisite red leader, their colors are all acceptable office hues, like brown and olive green

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It's Friday, so Capeworld comics has another comic-this time with a bonus text story explaining some of the lore and backstory behind the "Metal Animals" world of B-7-O.

If you voted in the last /hyw/ challenge the comic will look familiar but the text story is entirely new, and I deeply appreciate any feedback and comments anyone can give on it.

http://www.capeworldcomics.com/

>>94737410
Why wouldn't I want an editor?

>>94730567
We're going to be entering this one as well.

Does anyone like the mahou shojo genre? We're doing a take on this where the world's first magical girl (called Magical Girl) grows up and becomes Magical Woman-one of Japan's strongest superhumans. When she's not being Japan's Dr. Strange she teaches and protects young magical girls.

Basically "what if Sally the Witch/Megu-Chan grew up and had to deal with the modern breed of "post-modern" dysfunctional magic girls as seen in Madokka and Yuki Yunna is a Hero."

The three page comic won't be that dark, but that's the direction I want to steer the character.

What do you think thread?

>>94737617
I myself am a fan of magical girls and like the concept of there being an elder roping them in rather than something like kyuubei.

>>94737274
>that art. giant head guys
Love it.
>uniting humanity against non-humans
really? you think that?

>>94737742

Yeah- I think humans need to feel like they have a "us" and a "them". And of course in any group of "us" there will be infighting. But if the difference between you and another human is skin color, and the difference between you and a non-human is that they are 10 ft tall, 600 lbs, and can chew rocks- you may see the non-human as the "them" pretty easily.

>>94737845
yeah but we're bound to love some of them
Outlaw Star had the best alien layout, and explained "the Silgrians seem almost TOO friendly"

>>94737652
That's basically the idea. It's almost like Kingdom Come for magical girls except instead of the old heroes having to fight to get the new heroes under control the old heroes have to save them from cosmic predators seeking to stamp out hope.

>>94737845
>>94737845
I don't know. It seems to me that in the absence of a "reason" to hate a group human races tend to hate their own far more than another group.

The Japanese tend to hate Koreans and Chinese more than anyone. The British tend to hate the Irish and French more than anyone. The different states and subcultures in the US hate each other

The US largely didn't give a shit about Japan until Pearl Harbor. People in Europe didn't give a shit about the Mid-East until the migrant crisis.

Humans aren't really going to care about what a 10 ft tall giant does with his spare time unless they start causing trouble and give them a reason to hate.

And with there being so many different kinds of non-humans it's likely humans are only going to hate certain kinds.

It's something that's always bothered me about X-men. Realistically no one is going to lump a group as diverse as mutants together. No one is going to be terrified of people like Cyclops or Colossus whose powers essentially mean they're living artillery pieces. EVERYONE is going to be terrified of Jean Gray and Professor Xavier because our social structures disintegrate when someone can wipe your mind and make you forget they did it.

>>94738207
oh absolutely! There are of course humans and non-humans that can and do get along. Especially when the non-human doesn't seem threatening, or when there is commerce involved.

Goblins in this world are nomadic and constantly scavenging. They tend to find a lot of interesting items, and will happily barter with humans.

However another underlying element in this world is that humans can only use magic when utilizing the proper medium. The best medium to use is harvested organic parts from creatures with inherent magic in them.

Unfortunately for non-humanoids, almost all of them have inherent magic, and so to make a glyph of speed, or a wand you'll need something like a goblin bone, or orc blood, or dragon tooth, and etc.

And thanks to some breakthroughs in magic (and a few other background things going on) humanity is going through a magical (militaristic) renaissance.

>>94738207
That's my thoughts as well. Think aliens in Star Trek. No one there hates "aliens" in general. They hate certain types of aliens. The reason humans dominate the Federation is because they're smart enough not to piss other races off.

>>94738283
I agree- right now things have been pushed into a fever pitch thanks to a combination of humans attempting to colonize a new continent (new as in they only were able to access it a few hundred years ago), and the recent discovery of how to work very potent magic through the use of non-human essences.

(to clarify, humans have known how to work magic for a long time now, but it was all "unstructured" magic. Only usable in small amounts, or else it became too dangerous. It was the discovery of how to employ non-human essences to create "structured" magic.)

>>94738283
The worst thing in the world isn't someone totally alien, you can forgive that. It's someone who's ALMOST right, but fucking it up. For one thing, you see that others outside your group(s) will start confusing you with them.

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i think i just about got the anim right

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>>94734567
A friend suggested we caption this page "double penetration".

>>94740498
Cool idea

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I missed the update date, I'm closer to being a real webcomic artist now!

Welp done with this strip. Now that I got more motivation I will work more on this so I don't get caught by the schedule again -and I can already get that tumblr page done for these english ones-

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>back after weeks of traveling
>notebook full of panel sketches and further adventure ideas

I'M ON FIRE
TIME TO MAKE SOME MORE COMFY PANELS

>>94730567
Damn, I'll do my best to enter this time!

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Something about making my character into a scientist has made me eager to make my comic even more. I can just imagine how many goals and Sci-fi stuff I can come up with using this concept. Altho I feel the labcoat is an overused thing on Sci-fi characters I plan to remove it when she's doing normal stuff

>>94741763
>scientist
I bet he has only a bachiller and believes gender is a spectrum

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>>94742274
Nah, more like a Rick-tier Sci-fi crap. Using normal science isn't interesting.

>>94741763
Is she going to be another preachy scientist who can't control his euphoria? I'll be honest, there's a lot like that out there.
Also, is that down there her name or is the artist name (female)?

>>94730567
brainlet here
what is urban fantasy?

>>94742549
It's like Tolkien, but with more Hip-Hop music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_fantasy

Moar comics!

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>>94730567

Dracula's gonna make a comeback.

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>>94742866
okay

- Also, how great would it be if you could just not have any text in any comic pages? And still convey all the necessary information?

>>94742948
Yes, I hate those bubbles too. Mess up all of my composition!

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What do you think guys? I'm planning to make a webcomic about summer camp, semi-realistic, semi-magical with a creepypasta wibe.
Also do I have a chance on comissions market?

>>94743165
beautifully done!

Was this a sketch from your imagination, a study, or a combination?

>>94743210
Thank you! It's based on a photo from Artek, famous soviet pioneer camp. I'm going to draw from live figure or use photos. Maybe in color.

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>>94736016
Redid her actual clothes save for the pants but without the poncho, the silhouette feels a little bare. Plus not exactly knowing where to throw her potions belt.
Any ideas for clothing additions?

>>94741195
>Chun Li buns

good taste

>>94741609
>pic
Where can I read the rest?

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>>94743963
https://foxandcatadventures.tumblr.com

Be reminded I can't draw for my life.

Also, I got fanart by mail! Holy fuck, this is amazing!

Have you ever gotten fanart, /hyw/?

Would a four person cast for a horror story work well?
Some of the main cast is going to die, but I feel like leaving the main cast at only 3 people as early as I want one of the characters to die won't work out very well.

I also want the entire main cast to watch another person die from the threat in the comic just to establish it as a threat, but every time I try and think of a character to put in there as a jobber it feels kind of forced.

>>94740632
You and your writer fuck im sure of it...

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>>94744195
where do I find an artist for a relationship like this?

>>94743746
>the silhouette feels a little bare
I think the main robe is perfect. You could make the pants match by having a broad, unbunched ankle. Maybe little boots
>not exactly knowing where to throw her potions belt
part of it is that her legs are twice as long as they should be.

>>94744096
wow, a real actual postcard. that's awesome
I've gotten some fanart.. here and there..

>>94744582
Hah you're right they are. Always happens when I draw zoomed in. I'll tweak it later but they might also go there.

>>94744147
four is death, why not?
what if they have a dog and it gets killed? that's sad and threatening but doesn't hurt the story
>>94744232
>draw a neckbeard stereotype
>clearly a girl's room

>>94744627
>black butler
>pocky on display
>DRRR
couldn't be more obvious

>>94744096
I have got fanart from when I was in college, we would draw some OCs and then the rest of the group of friends would draw them in their style each.

Good times.

>>94744627
A dog getting killed is what alerts the MC to the threat initially, but the rest of the characters enter the story one by one as time goes on.

The nature of the threat itself is something that's very easy to dismiss, and the personality of some of the cast members would more than likely leave them skeptical about it, so that's why I'm kind of at a loss here. Basically, all they have to go off is a somewhat mentally unstable dude telling them that there's something that will kill them.

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>>94743746
>>94736016
Its ac120 on tumblr, by the way.

That description is a good place to start. Have you decided on what an alchemist does in your story? Are they like potion mixers? Poisoners? Is your character traveling around? If so , what type of stuff does she do while she is traveling and and what kind of stuff does she need to carry to do them? Is she traveling in a cold or hot region? Does she wear ethnic type clothing and what kind of personal fashion sense does she have?

>>94737617
I am working on a magical girl comic, although the main character doesn't really view magical girl-ing as a good thing and actively discouraging up-n-comers to participate in something like that. She sees it as something more akin to child soldiering. Depending on which faction the girls join, there could be dire consequences.

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>>94730719
I sketch digitally and then print it to ink it traditionally.

>>94745108
I'm sure you've heard this before but it sounds like madoka.

>>94745256
Not him but If I read the wiki right, there isn't much that's the same, why do you feel it's like madoka?

>>94745344
Not that anon but maybe it's the zombie thing? Althought that's a bit of a stretch.

In the PSP game which has some extra routes written by the same creator of the show there is a route where one of the girls gets her soul gem (with her literal soul) too far away from her body too long, so the body becomes a corpse and decompose appropiately until they get the gem soul back to her. Thing is, the decomposition stays the same.

To be fair I like Madoka but damn if people overrated it too much on the whole "deconstruction of magical girls!" thing. Now anything that isn't just pink and cheerful is a Madoka wannabe.

>>94745415
i'd rather see the reconstruction of magical girls really. maybe going back to their 60s sitcom roots and including more go nagai kind of shit just to keep it peppery

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>>94745537
>we will never get a truck killing a magical girl again

>>94745537
Part of my Magical Woman series is a reconstruction When she's not saving young magical girls from being prayed on by cosmic hope-eaters she's teaching them and caring for them like a surrogate mother.

The tone of the story is generally comfy. The three page comic we're entering for the latest challenge is about her taking on a yokai wolf girl as a student and how shocked the wolf princess is at seeing that the mighty Empress of Croatoan that saved her parents and the entire Makai world...is now just an old lady tending her garden like a commoner.

>>94745758
What was this?

>>94745344
>>94745108

Madoka had a "lose your humanity get turned into a monster" thing for its magical girls. And every magical girl was also a lich on the side.

I do like how your webcomic looks. Do you have anymore?

>>94745415
My interest in Madoka is in the shape of Enron stocks. Once I suspended my disbelief for why no one got an adult and why no one ever really got creative with their wishes I enjoyed it mostly for how cool the witches were. My interest peaked at the lich reveal because I thought they were going to do something interesting with it.

Then it got to muh time travel. And muh heat death. And I didn't even bother watching the last two episodes and according to the wiki I dodged a bullet there.

>Deconstruction

I never got why people attach this to Madoka. It doesn't deconstruct anything because it doesn't actually confront the logical extremes of its genre's conventions and tropes like so say Watchmen did for superheros or Paranoia Agent with several escapist anime genres.

It was just dark and violent and dark and violent doesn't actually make a deconstruction.

>>94745887
>What was this?
Magical Princess Minky Momo (or Gigi if your country is European or Latinamerican). It was a magical girl show from the 80s that was kind of like the grandmother of the "Star vs" cartoon.

The truck bit was because at some point in production the toy company that was their sponsor pulled their support, so the guys on the show made a toy delivery truck kill her at the end of the first season. She reincarnated into an actual Earth human girl so it's fine. Kinda.

>>94746051
People think it is a deconstruction just because it became grim and dark and the magical girls meet dark ends. Most of this people forgot -or didn't know- that pretty much a lot of old school magical girl anime did this already. Sailor Moon had their cast killed a lot and the villains did a lot of deep shit, for one. But of course most of the people that say Madoka is a deconstruction only watched series that were really deep on the sugar side of the genre.

>>94745758
It was so weird when MLaaTR randomly namedropped that anime and made up a gibberish song about it

>>94746156
Yeah come to think of it didn't like all the Sailor Scouts die and come back to life with no memories after the first season?

An actual magical girl deconstruction would explore stuff like the constant duels and contests between magical girls to decide who is worthy of being the queen/heir of X (Magical Meg-Chan, Cardcaptor Sakura, Sugar Sugar Rune) and what kind of society that actually implies, the secret keeping from adults and parents and what a nightmare that would be from the parents' perspectives, the liberal use of memory erasure (Sally the Witch, Sailor Moon), stuff like that.

>>94746156
>>94746051
I would say that as much it deconstructed the "magical sidekick/the choser of the one" character but I can't even say it did it 100%. I mean Kyubey sure didn't tell the girls the whole truth but he was still working technically for a greater good, and other shows were doing this thing already even if they weren't magical girl shows (Bokurano for example has this going on).

>>94746156
The difference, as I see it, is that it's fucking edgy and cliche contrarianism to be like "oh being a magical girl SEEMS all sunshine and smiles but really it's a horrible thing that would scar you!!!" when.. nobody needs that in their superhero fantasy. Obviously that's what makes a hero special, that they can deal with it (or learn how) and it's not some fucking scarring vietnam-ass thing. It's doing the right thing with the powers you have because you're special or somejunk. but then they attack that like OHH NOBODY IS A HERO THERE'S NO GOOD AND EVIL BUUBUUBUU

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>>94745887
Man, I feel like that's a lot for a 3 pager.

>>94745256 >>94745415

Well, depending on how you break down the way magic works in difference fictions, it might not be too much of a stretch, but only in generality in my opinion. Although I have never gotten comment that my comic feels like madoka before. I suppose it might be inevitable considering how pervasive its effect on the genre in the last few years.

The girls will not turn into literal zombies in my story, they will lose their own "will" and become slave to whoever provide them the correct mana. The weaker ones just cast aside. It becomes sort of a problem to the civil authorities where they suddenly have a small influx of comatose young girl with no detectable medical problem with their body. What will save them is the bond they have with their family and friends, and the share humanity that arose from that. I haven't decided on precise form to that end but its the basic gist of it.
>>94746051
I see, I think that's a fair comparison. Although I want to be kinder to my character than what I understand Madoka did to theirs. Although in general I wanted more Nanoha than Madoka in my story.

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>>94737274

Those are some real sweet designs, especially the face-giant

>I feel like the xenophobia we see in our world would actually end up uniting humanity against non-humans

Oh man, fantasy-race relations is one of my favorite parts in world building; there's just so many examples one could think of where either humanity from across nations would band together against a single (or multiple) groups or for historical reason you have Human group A working with Races X, Y, and Z to fights against Human Group B.
I mean, would a Fantasy-European be more likely to relate to a fairy that looks must like them but fairer, or to a Fantasy-Mongol? Depending on your world's history, you could justify both!
Though really, I tend to like the trope o humans dominating over all the other declining races.

>>94746336
>Greater Good

>"Hey guys we're a few millennia away from heat death but we've found this awesome technology that converts emotional instability into raw energy (what). Let's trap a tiny population of female children of this alien race over here in a series of clandestine and horribly convoluted deathbattles because little girls produce the most emotions (what). We will gradually through the millenia to come save up enough energy to survive heat death."

No one sane could possibly think this was for the "greater good". Even at a purely "lets exploit the humans for emotional resources" level their plan was horribly stupid.

They had the technology to turn emotions into raw energy and grant perpetual time travel and godhood on a wish and THIS was the best plan they could come up with for beating heat death.

What the hell was plan B? Like when the alien cats all sat around and planned out ways to beat Heat Death what were the plans that didn't wash out?

>>94746417
>Lot for a 3 pager

We're working on shaving off some panels, but it generally goes

1-Introduce wolf princess whose told how incredibly awesome Magical Woman is

2-Wolf princess goes to Earth, is shocked to find her teacher is an old lady in farmhand clothes

3-"You want me to dig in the earth? Like a prey animal?"

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>>94746342
>Obviously that's what makes a hero special, that they can deal with it (or learn how) and it's not some fucking scarring vietnam-ass thing. It's doing the right thing with the powers you have because you're special or somejunk. but then they attack that like OHH NOBODY IS A HERO THERE'S NO GOOD AND EVIL BUUBUUBUU

Grant Morrison actually touched on the decay of the hero in pop culture from someone who saved people, to someone who struggled to save people, to someone that failed to save people, then to someone that didn't give a shit if he saved anyone.

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>>94746623
I didn't say the plan wasn't stupid, just that the motives were actually for the universe's survival instead of some random evil thing. Again yeah the plan was stupid but hey nothing can be perfect.

>>94745108
Just saw this response.

I'll try to go down it like a question list then.

>Have you decided on what an alchemist does in your story? Are they like potion mixers? Poisoners?
The title of alchemist is very broad, and like wizards there are different uses for their works, such as literally bottling spells, making medicine, transmutation or just straight up explosives via chemical reactions.
The new hot popular thing for them now is actually finding out what this mysterious new blight is on the land and what they can do with it. Many of them have altruistic intentions while others have other (more harmful things) in mind.

> Is your character traveling around? If so , what type of stuff does she do while she is traveling and and what kind of stuff does she need to carry to do them?

She's been doing some light traveling (IE She goes from her home wizard tower to a town- not too much like regular exploring at the moment.)
If she is out and about, she would have her chemistry vials and some prepared firebombs with her. She's also a minor wizard but isn't the best at it.
In the early parts of the story she's been collecting samples around a small town and lost all the research she had obtained + her memories of it. So she's just trying to target
research laboratories to stay on the safe side,

>Is she traveling in a cold or hot region? Does she wear ethnic type clothing and what kind of personal fashion sense does she have?

She hails from a place that borders the dunes/desert. Maybe some grassy steppes. It's pretty hot in the sandy area, but her master's tower is by the sea.
I guess I'm pulling turkic/central asia traditional looks but the weather doesn't bother her too much.

Right. I should also mention she's a homunculus, race wise.

>>94746466
It is interesting how at some point you have to acknowledge that the sort-of-human-looking fantasy races look... rather like the humans in their area.. and that kind of stops making sense if it's genuinely the case and not just because local artists drew them that way.
I gave it some consideration once when drawing a lot of half human things.. if people in europe say some critter with a human head is from mongolia, but then depict it with a rather caucasian-looking face, shouldn't I mongol it up a tad when I draw one?

>>94745108
Also oh so that was you who drew that? I'm going to give you a follow because I like the pages you have posted here already. Haven't gotten far in reading your comic on SJ so far though.

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>>94742436
That's her name and it's my current artist name

She's not a preachy atheist know-it-all scientist like all I've seen
She's a tomboy that had a thing for math and science, but instead of focusing her career to science, she does it as a hobby and sports teacher is her main job. She does this to avoid being locked up in her lab/house all day and keep a balance in her emotional state, since she knows she'll start to lose her sensitivity sanity if she aislates from society too long.
Also for that reason iswhy she lets her roomate to stay without charging her for rent.

>>94749573
a scientist that cares about maintaining perspective? that's witchcraft

>>94749573
Sounds like you're swinging too far over into christfag territory.

>>94749573
that sounds fairly original and she's a cute. Good luck with the character

>sports teacher
>tfw I imagined her wearing an adidas tracksuit and performing slav science

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>>94744232

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I remade the first page of the comic I posted a while back.
I simplified and diversified the designs a bit as many anons on here have requested.

>>94749774
It's called being aware that you're a human

>>94750070
christfag? Never have I mentioned she believes in anything, she's deist, belives there might be a god but doesn't associate it to any religion

>>94750182
>slav science
kek
Not that original,But she's still my character either way

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>>94751143
for reference here's the original.

I'd like to thank all the anons who've helped me in these past few months. Without your generous advice I probably would still be floundering around not sure if I'm doing anything right.

Most of the changes between the two were as a direct result of the advice people here gave me.

>>94751197
I wasn't talking about the character.

>>94751485
Care to explain?

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>>94746672
Sounds fun, looking forward to it.

>>94747976
Well, I was just suggesting things to think about. Maybe she can have something that carries spell bottles, think about how those things can be attached to belts for easy access. Are they single use or that they will be salvaged after use. How are they used?

Even for day trips she still should pack something, so maybe she can have some sort of backpack? She is collecting samples, depending on the kind of samples she is collecting, she might need to have some sort tool or kit to do so, and containers? Does she put them in some sort of back pack? Fanny packs? Does she bring lunch? Does she buy food in town while she is out and about? Does she have a coin purse? What does that look like and how are these thing attached to her? Does she have to conceal things she is carry or certain aspect about her? Does she wears different things on different days? what components of her outfit might change from day to day? So many things one can think about when deigning a character, just pick things that interests you.

>>94748300
Yeah, and thanks, although you are not missing out on much so far.

>>94752046
I've been pretty keen on giving her a backpack, since they're less obstructive to arms so she can still gesture and do stuff with it on. The questions help a lot though. I did consider maybe putting the other outfits I have thrown on her into the wardrobe of other outfits she wears on different days, since they don't have to go away completely.

>>94751143
looks a lot better now!
inherently*
quintessential*
sick of* grilled grass

>>94746672
wolves dig all the time though dont they

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>tfw your girls are loli small and your men are big guys
sexual dimorphism is so hot fug

>>94752283
it really is

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>>94752283
>tfw manlet
if I were only smart enough I'd create a virus to turn the world short. then no one would suffer

>>94752331
I'm a manlet myselfm, never struggled with it, if anybody called out my height I would call out any of their physical or psychological defects. Which in their case would trigger them.

Looking for writer desu please no bully desu

>>94752442
What do you want to do with your art?

How much referencing/interconnecting old shit is too much?

So I want to draw pieces of the Blue Oyster Cult "Soft Doctrines of Imaginos" lyrical cycle, including the Four Winds Bar, Instruments of Time, and Desdinova/Imaginos himself as recurring plot-points. I figure one or two left-handed mentions is one thing, but to have plotlines revolving around them seems like it would be too much.
I also want to include, as a minor supporting character, an aged version of India McCray from Michael McDowell's "The Elementals". She's never mentioned by her surname, but unmistakably the same character. Toss in a few Dark Tower references too.

Is there a resource you can all point me towards so I can figure out how much I can get away with before I get sued? How much reference can I get away with before it just becomes Fan-fiction in your eyes?

>>94752442
writer here, please respond

>>94752331
just do like that guy in that twilight zone episode. i'm sure it'll go well for you

>>94752449
half assed ebin fighting manly muscular men panty shot panty shot panty shot overly sexualized wimminz escapism panties.
>>94752544
i artist am responding

>>94752509
it's best if you think "themes"

>>94752264
Fuck. I didn't catch those typos.
Well at least it's legible this time.

>>94752615
I'm in for writing men with pantyshots.

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Don't judge me...

>>94752849
wait, is it money or boogies? or is "30,000 money" just the way people phrase prices a century from now

either way this is fucking hilarious and i still don't actually know or care to know what fidget spinners are

>>94752862
Thanks Im glad someone else actually found it funny

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>>94752798
post contact already

>>94752275
...Do they?

Well at any rate she's offended that she's being forced to learn to grow vegetables-stuff that her food eats.

>>94752442
>>94752449
>>94752544
>>94752615
>>94752798
>>94752907
This is the most adorable thing. Someone needs to write a story about you.

>>94752924
Wolves dig to hide their extra hunt or to get their prey out. Or just because they heard/saw something moving and they want to find out. They are kinda like dogs in that regard.

>>94752950
Ah, but do MAGIC wolves dig?

>>94752948
are you a girl?

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>>94752987

>>94752990
No, but I like cute rom-com stuff. Those anons are going to work together for a month or two before realizing that they are estranged childhood friends, then a weird love triangle with develop with a coworker or a publisher and there will be some climactic clearing-the-air scene in a snowy city plaza on Christmas.

This is cute. I want this to work out.

>>94753053
This won't work out. They are two neckbeards who prefer talking to walking. They will maintain contact for a while before one party loses motivation faster than the other, and inevitably drops off. No real bonds will be made, just another moment to be buried beneath the mountain of mundane moments in these losers' lives. There will be now snowy city plaza, only dark solitary rooms with trash bags full of frozen dinners and instant ramen.

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>>94753079

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>>94753079
stop that

>>94753053
Well uh. I guess if you wanna view it that way.
I am busy with my current project but would not object with helping with another.

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>>94730540

I've recently made a new short comic. Hope to get some helpful criticism ou of this thread.

http://pearsonplains.tumblr.com/post/164264532377/person-plains-mewie-desert-2017

>>94753404
In a last row, I think, guy should turn his head to our right.

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>>94753404
my superior neet brain thinks the comic is about "a guy who ate something bad"

>tfw to intelligent for artsy comics

>>94753533
>tfw NEET with infinite time
>tfw just shitpost and vidya most of the time
send help

>>94753533
>>94753630
Take a very simple concept, and expand on it, exaggerate it until you find a higher concept in it. Shakespeare began writing King Lear by asking himself: So this guy goes senile and he's got some cute daughters and hijinks ensue".

>>94744195
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hi2PrOCQ7E

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>>94753533

I've been trying to imagine the scenario and where the guy would actually turn. It was pretty confusing to me, but thanks for noticing the detail.

>>94753533

To be honest with you it's just a bunch of nonsense I had in my mind that I really wanted to see in comic form. I'll think of a plot and a more grounded story in the near future if I focus and practice enough, and have enough free time of course.

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What are some good ways to give a comic or animation a "comfy" atmosphere? I've decided I really want to slow down the pacing and make the universe feel a little more peaceful and inviting but I'm curious of good ways to do that.

>>94754332
A lot of establishing shots, just for showing things around. Every-day activities.

>>94754332
Study Nichijou. What I find out is less cloth wrinkles and soft color palette will make your art extremely comfy. Especially the soft color part.

>>94754332
What is your comic even about? All I've seen from you are characters and one cover page(?)

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>>94754395
That's a good idea. Make all the crazy space stuff seem more mundane and humble.

>>94754671
It's a sci-fi adventure comedy done in a "Quest" style which is why all the resources are being done in a modular reusable fashion.

The setting is a play on the sci-fi trope where everyone is divided between two major factions (one red, one blue usually), except in here there's a tiny faction in between the two that survives off the perpetual stalemate between the two larger ones. They lack any kind of home planet and are referred to as the "Vegabond". People within the Vegabond are constantly helping and sabotaging each of the larger factions to perpetuate their equal power and balance so neither one of them assimilates the universe.

The story follows 4 noobs who recently left these 2 giant extremist factions for different reasons to join the vegabond. Through unfortunate circumstance they all are forced to share a small ship after their initiation goes awry and the comic focuses on them learning to put away their inhibitions and prejudices they've cultivated from their their original factions and learn to understand eachother and become more balanced as individuals just as they are trying to balance out the universe itself.

Throughout the comic they go on various commission jobs by the different factions that gradually get more complicated and they come to find out most of the problems they've been solving for people are connected to a larger harrowing conspiracy.

The audience commands will be given to the characters via a glitchy guidance AI and all the dialogue will be displayed via an alien translation device they get near the beginning. The plot is more or less planned out as well as lots of key scenes but the audience will still direct it pretty heavily.

>>94754332
washed out pastels, and as few corners or sharp points on your characters as you can. round off everything

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Greetings, fellow basement dwellers.

>>94755280
don't you ever remind me of my pitiful situation again

>>94754395
This and spaces that look like there lived in is very comfy

>>94730719
I do

>>94755280
Nice Eva reference

Do you guys have anything special planned for Inktober?

I know I have.

Any tips other than 'draw more' to help get used to my first tablet?

>>94758302
The common thing I draw for Inktober. My webcomic.

how did you guys come up with a name for your comic that wasn't boring or dumb?

>>94758329
Draw primitives. Draw what you like to draw on paper and can do it very good. Dont be tight on a grip.

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>>94758461
>MFW Mine came from a song.

>>94758329
ctrlpaint.com - video library - digital painting 101

>>94758461
Don't find a title before writing the story

The title will come from the story

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finished another character, nothing too interesting

>>94758329
There really isn't anything else you can do other than try different programs and drawing settings/tools. What kind of tablet is it?

I drew for hours on end with a screenless tablet for about 4 years and got nowhere. Then I took a gamble and bought a screened tablet for $300 and it was dramatically easier, best purchase of my life.

>>94758461
Depends on the tone of the project. I would avoid going for a one word title unless that word is made up, and your title should tell the audience something about the subject matter while still staying concise. I named my comic "Vegabond" because it's a pun on the words vega (star) and vAgabond (homeless) already from that title you could probably guess it's at least somewhat comedic and is about space nomads so all the bases are covered while staying short and catchy.

For my more click baity youtube series I chose the name "Forgotten Gaming" because it's enticing, gives you an idea of the subject matter (really obscure video games) and is still short and catchy. If you can't picture the name of your project on a t-shirt you should change it.

>>94755280
I don't like this Ziril guy, marvel.
Bring gurihiru back.

>>94758768
>Then I took a gamble and bought a screened tablet for $300 and it was dramatically easier, best purchase of my life.
Oh shit, my birthday's next month so maybe I should splurge then. I just got a shitty monoprice one since I have a habit of not following through, but I've been drawing for more than a few months now so I think I may end up actually sticking with it this time. Especially if I have a large purchase to guilt me into using.

Is the difference really that noticeable? I don't think I can justify four figures on an actual drawing screen tablet, but I spent about 500 bucks on amiami last month, so I can live with a few hundred dollars for a good tablet if there's a big difference.

>>94758603
>mfw bands name themselves after songs now
>mfw tv shows are doing it too
>mfw i should just do this

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>>94759031
The tablet I got for $300 was a parblo coast10 when they very first came out last year. Cheapest screened tablet you can get. Since mine was part of their first shipment it had some bugs after using it for 6 months but they replaced it for free in under a week and haven't had even slight issues with it since. At the risk of coming off as a shill I'd really recommend it for digital artists that don't have much money.

>Is the difference really that noticeable?

I actually gave up with my screenless tablet and just started tracing pencil sketches with the line tool in paint.net for a while. This drawing on the right from only one year ago was made using that method. The one on the left is after one year of using the tablet regularly and getting critique by these threads.

Why do we have so much teaching material on creating story, but most webcomics are so banal? Zombies, magic girls, game-based stuff, etc.
Did anyone ever had intent to do something completely new and different, people?

>>94759324
300 bucks for a screened tablet? Shit, I thought you were talking about moving up to a fancy Intuos or something. That is very tempting.

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>want to draw 3 different comics with 3 differents artstyles
>only the faces look slightly different

>>94759647
Use different line thicknesses. make things sharper or rounder, change how you shade things, use colored lines instead of black. Change how realistic or detailed you do things. It's not hard.

>>94759916
not him, but you say it isn't difficult because you've probably got experience with branching out. i remember a few years back trying to do something that wasn't "my" look, took a while to unlearn what i was thinking was "default" techniques. it's as much of a mindset change that it is a style change.

some great shit in this thread

>>94760230
Exactly which, pitteo?

This could be a bit weird, but, someone would be so nice to make for me a few tutorials to draw a few certaind kind of characters?

>>94760383
we can't help if you don't tell us what exactly you need. be specific

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>tfw you're trying to make a depressing slice of life style comic in a similar style to Inio Asano's work but you can't write for shit but you can draw okay :|

>>94761654
If you want to collaborate, it's pretty easy to find a writer if you're an artist.

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>>94761767
It's just hard to get excited about an idea that's not mine so I'd want to work with a writer from the very beginning through to the final script and the last few times I've tried to collaborate, the writer ended up ghosting during early script writing. At the same time, I really just want to get something into the world. Whether the writing's shit or not I know the art will at least be half decent and I can put my name on it lol. Also it's tough to just find someone who has experience writing comics and has nothing to do.

>>94761924
Hm, my other idea would be simply commissioning a script or something. So it's still your story and you don't have another person to worry about during the process. Might even be kind of a neat gimmick if you commissioned a different writer for each segment. Most webcomics tend to be done by a single creative team throughout, so it'd make for something a little different.

>>94760383
What kind of characters?

>>94758461
I'm just using a working title currently (BlightLands/The Gilded Record) until something better comes along after I finish writing it.

>>94758461
>Implying I'm not going for dumb names on purpose

You just have to find the right ring for it I guess.

>tfw somewhat planning the story but mostly it's ongoing and about exploration
>tfw exploring the world almost at the same pace as your characters do

Writing and planning ahead is fun but sometimes I just want freedom from storylines.

>>94730540

How do you make an immature character likable?

>>94763775
Just be careful, you could potentially write yourself into a corner or be forced to retconn your story and both of those are some of the worst things you can do in a story.

>>94763786
Let them learn and grow. Just because they start immature and naive doesn't mean they have to stay that way. Alternatively (if it's an adult character who you'd expect to be mature), give them a reason/justification to themselves for being immature. If you understand why a character acts the way they do you can frame almost anything as a protagonist action. Also, let them fuck up, let them be unlikable at times, but let them redeem themselves.

>>94763786
I make them cute and make them suffer and cry a lot.

>>94763875
Retconning things is a fundamental part of how the universe in the comic works.

>>94763786
Either lots of fun visual gags or let them experience the world with wonder.

Oldfag here, does Bones of Ruin still frequent this thread?

>>94763786
I think the key to it is making them some measure of vulnerable.
Like we shouldn't feel annoyed that they didn't know something but watch them come back from falling down over their own stupidity. Immaturity doesn't have to come in the form of edgy behavior (IE Okabe from Steins;gate but he also gets over it), but it can come in the form of not judging things correctly as well.
There can be some moments where they say something dumb and we get second-hand embarrassment from it but don't hit us over the head with it.

>>94763978
Not as much since he now plays Warcraft apparently.

>>94763978
someone took over for him as honorary thread supervillain, his name is dewd.

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FUCK
I JUST WANT TO RIP OFF RIYO'S LEARNING WITH MANGA
FUCK ORIGINALITY I JUST WANT TO BE AS SUCCESSFUL AS RIYO AND GET NENDOROIDS FROM MY FANART
MY KNOCK OFF WILL SAVE ME FROM 5 YEARS OF NEETNESS, PLEASE JESUS

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>>94764663
Don't fool yourself anon! Riyo's success is in part thanks to the monster Fate has become lately. Sure Riyo's manga is fun but you would need to get to work with some company that let's you make fun of their fuck ups and jewishness first.

>>94763786
Make them funny.

>>94764745

...I don't get it.

What are some techniques to slow down reading speed? Or inversely techniques to speed up reading speed?

>>94765189
The game gave jackshit for New Year's. Riyo makes fun of it by showing a really good bunch of free stuff from game materials as just a dream.

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>>94765520
What do you mean? How quickly someone reads through the story is dependent on what they like to stop and look at while reading a comic.

You can make action scenes last longer by peppering in more dialogue and drawing more of the actions happening (man raises his fist then goes in for the punch, panning to a different pov before the punch gets delivered while throwing some of his thoughts in.) This draws more attention to something happening. Alternatively, you can just have a quick succession of stuff happening and adding more text in to serve as a slow down too.
Putting in text ultimately can slow something down to your liking if your reader is assumed to stop and read something. Others will stop and look at the art if it is detailed as well.

This doesn't have to be completely closed to fighting, but anything that's going on. Another thing that affects this would be the panel layout- you can probably reference general art composition to guide where your reader's eyes are going and can also make them slow down or speed up the pace that they're processing the page at. Dynamic transitions/less panels on a page with fewer words is easy to go right through. BLAME! is probably pretty fast to skim through due to the lack of dialogue and at times pretty simple backgrounds (in the way that it isn't telling us much other than how empty it is or whatever weird organic growth there might be. It's great for setting the atmosphere.)

I dunno. That's how I've always processed it.

don't let this shit die nerds,
I'll come back later at night. I have to shitpost IRL.

>>94764661
you mean coldfusion

>>94742948
treat the bubbles and sfx as part of the art- and not just something to be added as an afterthought

>>94767680
Coldfusion is not a villain. He's just a misunderstood and tragic hero. He's his own villain.

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>>94658090
feels like forever since i posted (when really it was like 5 days ago) but i think i'm going to post multiple pages twice a week (instead of trying to post every day) not that it really matters

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>>94768836

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>>94768858

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>>94768879

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>>94768911

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this is the first page of my comic
uh, how am i doing?

>>94769116
My eyes like it but my gut feeling says there's something wrong with the page and I can't put my finger on it.

>>94769116
Has a Doug TenNapel vibe.

>>94769116
>>94769274
it should be colored
there's a lot of good black and white stuff that makes use of being limited to b&w
but a lot of artists who do it just have their art look unfinished

>>94754137
>>94753404
now we're talkin

i'm very much feeling these - both the art style and the plotline. nice touch with the panels of the two characters standing, i'm guessing that was an intentional visual throwback to the first page?

i wouldn't worry too much about what that other anon said about having a concrete and accessible storyline - there are plenty of very good comics that have plots that deliberately leave their plots open for interpretation. obviously you should have a plan for what is going to happen, but that doesn't mean it needs to be immediately obvious to the reader.

keep it up man

>>94769379
>nice touch with the panels of the two characters standing, i'm guessing that was an intentional visual throwback to the first page?

clarification: i'm talking about panel 11 on page 1 and panel 8 on page 2.

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still working on episode 4 of my gloryhol comic.
My ethan implosion as been reworked, as it was said before, his face was too all over the place.
Now he's closer to the source material, while retaining his distinctive look.

Also smaller tits are easier to work with, i see that now.

Hope you'll like this sketch page. So i can proceed with inking when i'm done.


Also, Which platform is best for fanart? I wanna put together an artist place where i can share my fanarts and attract more readers to my shit.

>>94769116
can't tell from 4 panels but the anatomy of king frog is kinda wonky, feels rushed. However the portraits on panel 2 and 3 are alright

>>94769641
you might want to change that diagonal line in the guy crotch for a vertical line. It bothers me that it looks like he has a vagina.

>tfw hate drawing
why is comics so hard

>>94769926
Drawing is kind of satisfying if you're confident in your skills.

>>94769947
>being confident in your skills
NGMI

>>94769965
Well, think about what you want to draw for your comic.

One of the important things to my comic I'm going to write, is, I want it to include people doing a variety of different things, instead of just standing and talking, so I try to draw things like a person holding a phone, and make an effort to try incorporate props.

Think about what's most important (eg, colour, detailed backgrounds, shadows) and practice that.

>>94769926
>tfw I hate coloring

>>94743165
>summer camp
Yes
>semi realistic
Yes
>semi magical
YES
>creepypasta vibe
FUCK YES

>comission market
Most definitely. Even people with a fraction of your skill make good money if they're willing to accept any fetish. Don't undersell yourself with art like that!

>>94737274
This is amazing, you didn't get enough recognition itt. I really hope your writing doesn't suck, it seems to be a curse among hyw regulars with good art...

>>94769116
The art is fine aside from lack of shading but the paneling doesn't work at all, especially for a first page...

>>94770789
could you elaborate?

>>94769116
it's nice i saw a very similar style yesterday on another place

is your name nemesis?

>>94767773
coldfusion is an anti-villain if you think about it.

>>94770789
>>94770811
i think he wants to see an establishing shot

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>>94770811
It just doesn't flow very well imo.
First you should show the characters and the scale. Maybe the backs of the grunts against the towering shadow of the frog, then the fist coming down, then the reactions (the split screen feels kinda awkward), then the reveal.
Something like pic maybe...

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This is my first attempt at character design. He's supposed to be wearing a mask. How did I do?

>>94771531
You did good, A bit generic looking maybe.
Are you going for a realistic look? What's the setting?

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>>94771525
like this maybe?

>>94771872
I like this a lot better.

>>94765637

I meant the part where she was hanging from the tree with the word "eggplant" stuck to her head.

>>94771872
Much better, yes. The character expressions are improved as well.
Maybe make the first panel a bit smaller compared to the last.

>>94771795
Setting is a bit complicated, but in a nutshell it's basically a fantasy setting about a merchant from a hated empire disguising himself with a mask and bandages and going on edd ed n' eddy adventures with his mercenary bodyguard and alchemist friend. I suppose I'm going for a somewhat realistic look.

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>>94772490
>merchant from hated empire
>mercenary bodyguard

I-is this a satire about Israeli lobby groups manipulating US foreign policies?

>>94772136
It's a Japanese tradition of the New Year

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

>>94772745
oh shit that's pretty funny. I hadn't made that connection. Nah there won't be any jewish references, don't want to turn the story into a political commentary.

>>94772960
>>94772136
Also "eggplant" as stated on the wiki page there has "nasu" on it's japanese name, which is also the name for the main writer of the game and creator of the franchise (Nasu) so those are a lot of puns which desu are a bit hard to localize.

How do you keep your character consistent when out of your comfort zone?

I'm a huge fag for villains having a soft spot for loved ones and the like and I feel like I can pull that well. Thing is I actually want to write villains that remain despicable with or without a loved one involved in their personal life, and I have a hard time writing them because I keep coming up with the other kind of development I'm more used to.

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how is it now?

>>94770937
nope

>>94775369
I would make the two characters smaller in the bottom panel

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Should I write a proper ending for this?

A boy falls in love with a girl. He is mysteriously gifted with her phone number. He calls her and finds out that she likes him as well. But the next day, she doesn't remember the confession. The girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn’t exist in this universe at all. She is the girl’s alternate universe counterpart, who likes his own alternate self. Hijinks ensue as the two tell each other their darkest secrets to conquer the hearts of their other selves.

See: http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/keit-ai/list?title_no=36825

>>94775981
You should go back to >>>/a/.

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Apart from these threads do you guys have any other group of drawfags you talk to?

I started animation school a week ago my class made a faceook group and they started posting their donut steels, it looks like apart from me only 2 girls understand color theory and line weight so i feel like im on the top 3 right now mostly because im the only one who has animated something

i don't post here often but here i feel just about average level since there is a bunch of variety here and i've seen plenty of animated pages too

Then i have a friend who lives in the united states, that guy surpasses me in almost every way since he has been practicing seriously for a long time i can only help him with a bit of my animation knowledge, who knows maybe i'll catch up someday f i stop animating funny stuff and i really start getting into loomis

>>94776498
>Apart from these threads do you guys have any other group of drawfags you talk to?

Group of drawfags as /hyw/, you guys are the only ones.

I do have a lot of fellow artist friends but I don't share much stuff with them nowadays, mostly because we just finished college and so we don't show our stuff in the process like we used to. I also get my not-artist feedback from other friends to get more perspectives into account.

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>>94730540
Heres my latest. 1/3

Romanpen.tumblr.com

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2/3

>>94776742
slutshaming I see!

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3/3

>>94776768
>You mean you're just like some kind of tick?

This is way too amusing

>>94776861
>>94776771
thanks! and i would never slutshame...without sluts i'd never get any lol :P

>>94776788
This is fucking incredible.

>>94775981
Already a thing.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVGDV67L-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rz1bluG_k
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keit-ai-finds-a-way/
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebOriginal/KeitAi

>>94776788
this is a fetish thing isnt it

>>94775981
Wasn't the last chapter a "The Adventure Continues" kind of ending already?

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>>94775981

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>>94769116
might need to play around with panel shape and where characters are positioned

>>94775369
Maybe its more "proper", but the first try was more fun.

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progress

>>94770489
Thank yooou!

I didnt mention, that stylistics of summer camp story is soviet/postsoviet. Is it interesting for someone in the West, anyone?
Also, the ending is supposed to be heartwrenching.

>>94769869
Which panel? Which character?

Anyway, it's just a messy sketch phase, everything's gonna be corrected when I'm inking the chapter

>>94779442
I would like to read the rest. Link, maybe?

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>>94779442
i redrew this for you for no reason at all

>>94776788

shit man make more, this is hot

>>94780806
hes right, this is actually pretty good

>>94769641
>Which platform is best for fanart? I wanna put together an artist place where i can share my fanarts and attract more readers to my shit.

Tumblr - be sure to tag appropriately, and often.

>>94780196
http://laserwing.tumblr.com/

>>94780774
:D thank you!

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Not happy with the pose on panel 3. Suggestions?

>>94780885
well, I guess i might open some tumblr now, on top of my deviantart.

>>94781052
by the way, completly unrelated to your comic, but you might want to drop by kiwi farms. Something huge happened about something from a while ago.

i don't know how to feel about it.

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>>94781066
Yeah I've been keeping an eye on it, but I'm staying on the sidelines. Assuming we mean the same thing.

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>>94780806
>this is hot

We hitting dubson levels of disgusting.

>>94779585
It's a good premise, the location's not that crucial although summer camp is usually associated with the US. It just matters how believable you can make the setting. Personally, I know jack shit about life in the soviet union, but if you do, why not...

>>94781118
Yup. We mean the same thing.

>>94781167
this, these threads were a mistake

I was trying to find an artist to work with on a comic collaboration forum, and got the following feedback for one of my scripts.
"As an artist I'd say your scripts didn't flow easily, they were kinda clunky to read. I'd suggest taking out the panel numbering specifications completely and only put them in if your artist asks you to."
Saying a script is clunky and lacks flow makes sense and is a valid complaint; however, getting rid of panel numbering goes against all I've learned about comic writing. I'm honestly quite baffled about how you're meant to write a script without numbering the panels.

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Aw man. I was so close to finishing this weekend, but my tablet decided to die. I've already gone through the usual fixes, but this time it's honestly and truly fucked.

Fortunately I had some cash saved up, so replacing it wasn't too much of a hassle. I all I can do now is wait for my tablet to come in.

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Still doing storyboards for pic related, I have three chapter of 30 pages each so far.

Would you read a comic about a military combat unit of magical girls going on missions in an all out war on alien Aggressors?
It will feature lots of /k/ommando babble, cronenberg-esque gore, psychological horror and a sci-fi plot inspired by the works of Stanislaw Lem.

test

>>94784468
I didn't study

>>94784622
anon all you have to do is write your name

>>94783062
damn dude that suck. You could always scan some inkings done on hand. You can find cheap good markers on art stores. That's what I do when my shit's broken.

>>94758302
Is there anything special about Inktober? Any contests or the like?

>>94768836
For half a second I thought this was a spoiler image.

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>>94781054
I think it's both the pose and the orientation. I would first try and see if having her lean the other way won't improve it. If not that then, making sure she faces towards the right, have a pose closer to pic related.

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Feels weird knowing this is the last time these moves will get used. I considered making Riv's attack in nihongo for one time's sake (also because it sounds a lot better that way).
these 'ultimate' techniques sure did become disposable, and their effects were always vague. Still, I think I drew the feathers and grass coating better than usual (the shedding-exoskeleton part maybe not as much). also Riv was only up on an ice pillar because I forgot to make her aim upwards. Then I couldn't fit her in the next scene without the pillar being so high that she clearly should have aimed downward.
meh. I don't do that very often anymore. Used to be every fucking panel of every comic. Always propping people up on sudden rocks or hills so they'd be lined up right.

>>94779585
postsoviet stuff is a lot more interesting than people know. All kinds of neat movements... some of which started earlier... I'd definitely check that out.
>>94774877
it's possible to be incredibly selfish and cruel and still look out for your OWN loved ones. Mafia, etc.

>>94783951
I feel like heavily regimented military stuff tends to take stories in a direction that's less fun for me. It's all orders orders orders, no room for individualized heroics. that's why 08th MS team was the best gundam from the original setting, they got to just kind of go off on their own and guerilla it up. now if your magical girl army was more like the foreign legion, we might have something.

>>94785696
Inktober is just a selfimpossed challenge so you can practice your inking abilities. Some people like to make it thematic or make entire comics for it.

>>94785850
>#1018

Jesus Christ, dude

>>94783062
Man, You are just like me, but stronger.

>>94783062
>tfw Bamboo tablet from 2008

Some days I wish it would die already. But then again I should be happy I have it.

What tablet did you buy now?

>>94787036
if you think that's bad, I'm over 600 pages and i've only gotten through the first 6th of the story!

>>94787447
Hey, me too! Mine finally died after my abuse though. Sometimes I'd use it as a coaster. Probably shouldn't have done that.

I got a Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch Tablet. Got next day shipping for free, which is actually today. I might be able to get back in action by tonight.

>>94787583
Mine fell down with the USB cable attached and I thought it was finally done for but then found out it still worked when I used a different cable. One day, though...

What size did you get? Wacom doesn't even look too expensive. I had read earlier someone bought a screen tablet for 300 bucks. All of this is very tempting.

>>94785850
Got a good chuckle outta that punchline.

>>94787702
I got small, around $100. The one I used was small and I don't have much desk space to spare anyways. I was tempted to get a Pro or a screen tablet, but the Pro was out of stock and a screen was out of my price range.

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I was gonna wait for a new thread, but I'm pretty excited!

http://boysland.thewebcomic.com/archive/#ch_101344

We're done with the first arc of Boys Land, so if you were waiting off to get a solid read, now's the time to get started. It's 264 pages of material.

It's time for a break...been going nonstop since November.

>>94787447
Dang got me the same tablet.
I wanna upgrade to a cintiq so bad, it'd make line art much easier.

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>>94782860
Post script so we can see and give our own feedback too, because it sounds like you are giving other specifications on the numering and unless we see it we can't follow what is the problem the artist had.

weird question to ask here, but would we look any different with different color blood? flourescent lime green to be specific. character development thing is why i ask here

>>94788887
i mean i know the skin would probly tan the same, and veins would look different. but anything thats not obvious?

>>94782860
Very odd, I work on my own, but I number the panels.. I also make note of the pages.
I suppose it varies on the artist, whether they feel they would be more comfortable doing their own paneling. If they're good at it, and it pleases you, I say bend to their will. If they're shit, but the art is worth it, consider getting an editor or another writer to serve as a third person, and if they're sane they'll reconsider it in a 2vs1 sort of way. And if they're shit and not worth it, get a new artist.

I'm also a little curious to know what your script looks like.

>>94788887
Star Trek's Vulcans have copper-based blood (instead of human's iron), which gives them a greenish tinge.

So I guess bright lime green blood would make you a pale green? It'd certainly be more obvious on pale skinned people.

>>94788887
>>94788935
Sulfhemoglobinemia, apparently green blood is a thing. And as >>94789006, mentioned, greener hues in places where it would normally be pink-ish. Blushing would be greenish, your gums would be sort of green, under the nails, albinos would have green eyes - bruises would be complicated (which are apparently green from the breakdown of hemoglobin to biliverdin).
The Green Blooded Skinkhas green blood due to this biliverdin thing.