How's Your Webcomic? /hyw/ #270

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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;
http://www.myscriptfont.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/

>*-Finally, here are some 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

>*-Here’s the contact sheet if anyone wants to put information down, like their site and webcomic:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwfOSHXfrgvcf--PkPz9jXL6p5RqIsrYvXYwgQpgT3k/edit#

>*-We also got a SKYPE CHAT room going on,
To join the chat, seek out 'starlinemike' or 'scribblehatch' and they'll add you in.

>Wise words from John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0lck7oo4A

>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/

>>82679263
Pretty sure this is #271

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I cannot wait to push this damn comic out. I've been backtracking and redrawing so many pages because I fucked up. I'm at the point where I'm telling myself 'fuck it' and halfassing the last two pages so I can work in the next chapter. Pic related, it's not done but it's 90% there.

CUT MY COMIC INTO PIECES
NO ONE BELIEVES MY FEELS
LOSING PASSION
AND READERS
WANT TO HANG MYSELF WITH THIS STAINED WIFE BEATER

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Wip

>>82679624
cute as fuck babe, keep it up.

hope i finish this page tonight.. i've got porn commissions to draw when it's done!

>>82680955
post wip

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>>82681001
no 'arm in it i s'pose
this is how i usually go when i have a reference to use, just paste it in there and remove it later, when i've decided on the final length and moved the bottom bar up

this is also the last chance to have a villain cameo in that last panel. though there'll still be a little room in the next one. but at this point that one anon's advice is helping me fill them out.

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Finished this page!

Trying out not shading, tell me how it looks.


>>82681200
Thanks man, that looks pretty good!

>>82681900
i really don't think it hurts anything not to shade in one like this. and if it means you could use the extra time to beef up the background a bit, all the better. maybe draw in some tufts of grass.
if you do go back to shading, you could try just skipping the highlights except on heavily shiny things like hair and metal

>>82681900
better. it seems the trend is the less you draw the better it is

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Yeah sorry for posting this again but I need help with something. Anyone have any idea of what I could do around the door area so it doesn't look so bare? Any kind of devices I could include that would look good/functional? The area I'm talking about is highlighted in green. I'm stuck on what to do with it.

>>82682200
lights are good, even if they're unlit. just little rows of lights.. or multipurpose slits, possibly with slightly raised edges
i think you may be overthinking the details honestly

>>82682200
Fans or something, y'know for flies I don't know

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>>82681978
>>82682045
Sorry about posting this again but, I made some little touches to the backgrounds and some shadows, what do you guys think?

Hey guys. My main computer is down for mysterious reasons. On this computer I don't have skype, and more importantly don't have my password. Dunno what's gonna happen.

>>82682384
well see, the shadows don't really make sense. you've gotta think about the shape a person would make by blocking the light source. also the 'whack' should move out of shadow

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Welp, not much of an update, but I started this month crossover, that will be two pages long, luckily, because the next one to this is gon' fuck me over.
First panel is yet to ink because I didn't find the character to look consistent to the others that are shown.

>>82682610
sora's such a damn cutie

ーそんw>>82682572
Words of wisdom
Dont make shadow make sense b UT look good

>>82682610
Oh boi, hype for what happens next.

And thank you for doin' this.

>>82682639
this is also good. sometimes i fudge shadows by just drawing irregular shapes under characters. also grass will fudge up the edges of a shadow anyway (and blades that overlap the shadow help it look natural)
but at least anyplace touching the ground should have a shadow touching it, like that chair leg

>>82682200
>>82682363
Yeah, I feel like just having some vents on either side of the door should be sufficient.

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>>82679624

>>82682903
next time change the opacity on the white so it looks more transparent, then go over it again to make shines
anyone this funny deserves tips

>>82682903
nice

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>>82682942

Way ahead of you anon

>>82682974
Gingers are litttterally so disgusting ughhh i cant even right now -_-

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>>82682951

thanks ^^

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i have a few chapters of my story ready but right now im just drawing my characters to determine how they will look in the comic

i just finished drawing the support cast and i wanted to see what people think of their designs,

i don't know if i should describe them here since this is not a donut steel thread

i just hope all of them have the fantasy/adventure cartoon feel i wanted to get for them

>>82682974
Please tell me thats a cis girl?
Or am I forgetting some pronouns?

>>82683163
Did you post here before? I remember saying she's very cute and I didn't understand her story at first but you described her as being a teleporter or some shit.

>>82683163
I actually really like these. They look straight out of a late PS1 platformer. There's really not enough of that kind of stuff out there with that sort of twisted whimsy.

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just in the nicholas nickleby of time
this was a bit cleverer in my head, but whatevs, i used it.
next time: some real shit happens finally

>>82683310
i think you kind of hit on what i don't like about it
but i sorta like everything else about it, so maybe this is a nice compromise
>>82683163
also.. aspects of this look really familiar.. the girl especially.. did you used to post here, but with way worse art? if so, good job, you got better

Anyone out there happen to be familiar with startup errors? Particularly 0xc0000001?

>>82683898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Eq23d5xAc

>>82683259
>>82683888
Yeah i posted Taffy before in a donut steel thread , i didn't tell any story about her last time i just wrote a little bit about how her power worked

She is not one of the main characters so the story doesn't really focus on her until later parts

but i guess i can tell you that the other guys are her family

The grim reaper found her when she was little, he couldn't find her parents so he ended up adopting her, he didn't want to scare her so he painted a part of his hoodie to make himself look more silly and friendly

the guy made of wood is kind of a butler and scientist at the same time, so he is just in charge of the place where they live

and the frog is an old mercenary that got hired by the grim reaper as a bodyguard for Taffy


oh and yeah the last time i posted her i had no idea of how to color stuff digitally but i learned a few things and the art got a bit better

>>82683850
Looks like you put more effort into this page than usual, good going.

>>82684049
a lot of parts of it, yeah. though other parts i rushed at the end (As seen by the WIP earlier)
the whole time I was thinking what I should have been thinking all along. not 'what can i cut corners on and it still looks okay' but 'what are people going to notice, and what do i want and NOT want them to see when they do?'
backgrounds get a lot less daunting when i realize just a little suggestion goes a long way. i'd still like to have included more, I definitely will in subsequent comics in this same location

>>82684106
oh and I forgot to say thanks
and also add 'and this is because the threads have me in a better mindset' which has been true of a lot of things actually

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>>82682276
alright I went with some burnt out tube lights. Thanks for the response I think it really helped.

>>82683888
What's wrong with early 3D platformers?

>>82684141
just not my cuppa tea. i find them really goofy

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>>82684183
Well the first thing I thought of when I saw Taffy was that new touhou that had a thread on /u/.
Also the goofiness is fun.

>>82683962
Oh christ.

>>82684294
yknow what? don't look at that result. the other results on google look... less terrifyingly hopeless? also that video has equal up and downvotes.

but yeah just google your error message, that's what i did.
>>82684265
now see that's my teacup! more touhou less spyro please.

>>82684368
I've been googling it for a little while, and unable to find 2 solultions that seem enough alike.

Sometimes when I start my computer I'm not even fortunate enough to see the bluescreen message.

Apparently I might need the installation DVD in any case though..?

>>82684486
generally yeah, if all else fails you can reformat using the disks it came with

>>82684638
I haven't seen any mention of what will happen to my c drive..

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Ninth page of Lido finished.

>>82684664
wiped, m8. hope you backed up.
it's possible you can slave it to another computer to extract the important shit first though.. but if you are infected..

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>>82684486
>>82684664
>>82683898
This isn't the place to discuss that even vaguely.

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>>82684702
And page 10 underway.

>>82684762
no it isn't, but you can't not feel for the guy. and it could be any of us

>>82684780
happened to me a few months ago on my hard drive as well as my backup on the same fucking day. One of the reasons I've been having to recreate so many assets recently. I still didn't go spamming /co though. I asked for tech support where it actually made sense.

>>82684760
Really it just wipes it every time?

>it's possible you can slave it to another computer to extract the important shit first though
How would you do this though, I'm really unclear.

>>82684762
I'm just trying to talk to my friends man. I can't get on skype.

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>>82684771
And did some expression practice for Ellen

>>82684829
i suggest you download skype on the computer you're using now. version 6.17.32.105 is the best.

>>82684829
-reformatting- wipes it, yes.
there's a number of ways of connecting computers so one can extract files from another, but I haven't had to do it in a while so I don't know. i DO know you used to have to extract the HD itself and place it in another computer's casing, hook it all up, flip a switch.. make it the 'slave' drive.. but on newer OSs it's simpler.
in any case, good luck

>>82683898
Damn, I'm genuinelly sorry for you, scribs, reminds me to save all of my shit on my external harddrive...

Thankfully my entire comic folder was copied to an external hard drive as recent as march. And being that this is a hiatus, very little comic progress has been lost.

My main worry is that all my PASSWORDS are lost.

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Starting to map out my comic and also remembering how to draw everybody.

>>82685352
this is also uh, obviously the latter... but I feel bad posting doodles without context

>>82685332
oh i know right? that's the downside to not using the same password for everything, like they advise. you have to have a damn list of them
>>82685352
costuuuumes!

>>82685352
Cute tentacles. Context?

(And did you get my message on Tumblr?)

>>82685417
Oh I try to use the same password for everything. Sadly they also require so many variables. Capital letters, numbers, symbols etc. And some password screens only let you try 3 times before temp. locking you out.

>>82685479
of course almost everything allows you to send it to your email but that just means if someone nabbed your email..

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>>82685332
>your comics was saved
>but my old art .sai got wipes a few months ago because I sacrificed them for video games when resetting my computer
>along with this was an old comic I drew about mechas and communism
hh

what's that site everyone reccommends for backing your shit up online? i need to do that already. at least my art shit

>>82685424
That's just how he woke up in the food/drug/gift store dumpster those middle schoolers found him in. They'll figure it out like three years from now.

Also - I did! I hope the submit feature was sufficient.

so I have multiple drives, but the most reliable has been this FAT32 500 GB drive my uncle gave me in the early 2000s, well over a decade now. Several 1-3 TB drives have failed while this one ohas never given me problems, despite the case even falling apart at one point.

My point being, should I expect it to die soon, or is the fact that it's FAT32 & very small size make it more stable?

>>82685749
It was! Thank you again.

And sounds suitably mysterious. They look neat.

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>tfw your comic is shit and no one invites you to the cool kid's club here

>>82686095
>cool kids club
where...

>>82686135
you'll never know, loser

>>82686095
>>82686173
post your comic

please talk about your comics guys. anything you want to say at all. the loneliness tonight is crushing.

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>>82686767
I hope to bring up my updates to two pages a week now that it's summer

>>82686798
what inspired you to do this comic?

Anybody here thinking of submitting a pitch to Hiveworks? They're opening up submissions in about 3 days. I'd try, but I have no clue how their contracts work, and that makes me nervous.

>>82686829
Back when I was 10 I was already dissatisfied with my storytelling and decided to go out on an experimental limb and throw together as many fantasy creatures as I could into one big story. I've tweaked it immensely since, dropping most of the excess fantasy creatures and developing a main set of characters, and I've been developing the plot for the last 10 years. I think it's going to be really excellent.

I'm interested in making it evoke strong, visceral emotions. Back when I was some edgy tween I just thought of the most heart-wrenching, gut-twisting stuff to put in, and I'd like to capture a bit of that passion again.

Also, I want to draw a lot of scenery porn, capturing the color and lighting of a scene in a way realistic enough to seem not just photographic but true to life.

>>82687055
how far are you along towards your goal? 3 years? what's the game plan? sometimes I feel like I'm the only one just ambling along.

>>82687291
Oh, I crashed almost immediately after starting. I started it in Fall of 2014 but my ADD med prescription ran out after a page or two and I struggled to force out any pages in the year and a half in-between. Lately I've managed to get a handful done pretty consistently and I feel like I can actually keep it up.

The scope of the comic as currently intended will have it going for a while even at a good update pace, but the story is pretty neatly composed for it. I'm just excited to be so close to the real "start" of it, and I'll have smaller goals to look forward to from there.

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>>82682903
I just fucking lost it at work. Thanks Anon now my co-workers think I'm crazy.
I'm the guy that drew that btw.

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>>82683225
My OC is none of that sjw shit.
She's a normal straight girl damn it.
>>82682974
Fucking stop, muh sides
>>82683055
Eww

What'd be the best option for hosting a porn wc right now? (Story, not gag). Is tapastic even plausible? Tumblr?

>>82688304
>Tapastic DOES NOT ALLOW pornography or hateful content that targets a specific person or group of any kind
https://tapastic.com/policies/content

Tumblr's a possibility, but I hear from a lot of people that it sucks.

Comicfury's a more traditional comic hosting site with no content limitations that I know of.

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Some loose pencils for the next arc of The Sisters. Outfits and whatnot. There's a timeskip to summer, new characters get introduced, Handsome Dan sports an american flag speedo. Coloring the pen-penultimate update to this arc now.

>>82685352
I love all of it. All of it so much.

>>82684902
Cute! Try and get more of the figure in there next time. Nailing body language really gives expressions that extra Oomph.

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>>82679263
>>82679572

This is HYW #271.

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Started drawing on my computer
>have drawn with pencil/paper and iPad before
Drew my apocalypse characters paying their respects to a fallen comrade

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Not sure about changing the joke here a bit - ob the one hand, cleaning stables is a more menial task than chopping firewood so it's funnier that Skeggöld is hype about it, but there's no connection to anything that Skeggöld's established that she's actually good at so it makes less sense.

>>82682974
>>82682903
>>82679624
Jesus fuck I need to scale this down.
Does anyone know good dimensions for a comic?

>>82689998
From my experience, the ideal size that readers like is one that's as big as possible without being so big they have to scroll left and right to see the whole thing. Scrolling up and down is fine.
Ideally you'd want to have the page automatically resize images to fit the screen of the user, but if you're only gonna have one size available, just don't go over 1000 pixels in width.

If you want to publish on paper, there's a whole bunch of different formats, but if you go with something that's about 1x1.3 to 1x1.8, I think you'll be fine.

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tips on making the real cat cuter?

>>82690487
I don't really think you can - her face is turned away she's not performing a cute action, and giving her more kittylike proportions is gonna make your ghost cat seem like a weird cat lolicon.
You could make the tail more fluffy, I guess.

>>82690487

Tie a bow around her neck.

>>82689998
Height is really irrelevant unless you're going to absurd extremes. 800-1000 pixels in width is perfect for a standard-style comics page like yours. When you scale it to that width, whatever height it ends up being while still being proportionate is fine.

>>82689998
That strip would look fine at around 700 x 1000. As others have said, don't go over 1000 pixels wide.
I'd continue to draw the originals at around 5000x7000, as that's suitable for printing (which you may want to do in the future). It would also give you more leeway for scaling down to other sizes; you don't want to be scaling small pages up.

>>82690487
I wouldn't make the real cat cute; it would be making it look cuter to humans, not to cats.
Also, watch the cat's feet on the sidewalk. With the drain opening in the corner, it looks like the cat's floating in mid-air over the curb.

>>82689988
I think keep the punchline something axe/tree related. I'd also have exclamations from everyone except Skeggold.

>>82689988
Chopping firewood is a much better choice - it fits what the readers already know about Skeggold's character.

>>82691212
>>82691250
Yeah, you're right. Axes it is.

>I'd also have exclamations from everyone except Skeggold.
How do you mean? Like, in individually assigned speech bubbles as opposed to a big grey blob of background noise?

>>82691390
Just remove the text that's over Skeg's head, as even if it's someone else speaking, it could appear to be her that's saying it.
There's also "what" being repeated on the left. Maybe make the first one "No!" instead?

>>82689988
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That's real cute.
One on hand, chopping firewood is more into her character,
On the other, it kinda is funnier that she'd be the only one exited about stable cleaning, since that's more unpleasant than firewood

>>82691637
woops, I've hot no idea how that greentext got there

Also seconding what EtMotL is saying; it kinda looks like the text is coming from Skeggy

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I'm mostly happy with this page, but I gotta redo the inside of the tree log in panels 3 and 6, it just looks lame to me.

>>82691599
>>82691661

Oh okay yeah. That bit of text (and probably the elf girl saying it) is gonna have to go anyway since it doesn't make sense without the stable thing.

>>82691637
Yeah, that's exactly my thinking. Still, better a joke that makes sense than one that doesn't.

>>82691925
It feels kind of weird to have two balloons in a row start with "whoa".

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>>82679624
gotchu senpai. good work, btw.

>>82692079
I hadn't even noticed that, I'll fix that up!

>>82692079
Is it ok that Skeggold is my waifu?

>>82692933
Only if you're a grill. I bet she munches carpet.

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>>82692096
>>82690384
>>82690832
>>82691212
Thanks you guys!

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well i made the revision and finally updated (and finished) the chapter.

Link in name. (or anterracomic in tumblr, is the same page)

Adventure/action/comedy for anyone that has'nt read it/doesn't know it.

heyyyyyyyy sexyyyyyyyy

>>82692933
I have to question your devotion towards my beloved daughteru if you can't even be bothered to include the umlaut.

>>82693150
I don't think it's ever gonna come up in the comic, but Skeggöld doesn't even know that lesbians are a thing.

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Current page progress. Fiddled around and flipped so I hope it reads more naturally.

I guess this comic will take a while to be done

>>82694315
heeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy sextyyyyyyyyyy

>>82694315
Looking good.
The blobs of foliage on top of the towers(?) flanking the central fortress are a bit too yellowish for how far away they look.

Things will get a lot faster as you get into the routine.

>>82685749
oh that is neat. that is a neat mystery thing to start with

>>82688405
>american flag speedo.
not a fan of flagpoles, but i'd salute that

>>82689988
i seem to recall stablemucking being one of hercules' labors, so that actually fits in several neat ways
the only thing is.. her eyebrows. I expected the first three, she'd have flat, even slightly angry brows.. like she's feeling like it's dumb that she's getting chewed out. meanwhile in the last one i expected her eyebrows to be high and arched or angry in a 'fuck yeah' way. instead all four have the 'sad/worried' brows, which I don't.. quite think is .. well i dunno, you know better than i do.

>>82690588
old enough to heat, old enough for your meat. that's the cat way
>>82690487
her hind legs should be a lot longer, and her butt raised up high (along with her back arched). right now she's almost doing the opposite of what she should be in defending herself, and her body's so pudgy and fat she looks more like a hippo

>>82691661
it's hard to tell what you have selected sometimes
>>82691925
it's a little plain at the moment. i seem to recall originally you had a lot more detail inside that log. a lot of it was uneven, but the rest of it was good

>>82694315
I know this isn't really worthwhile critique but draw a single straight line pls. Just one.

>>82693988
in case anyone's wracking their brains, hold alt and press 148
though i think that fucks up on the 4chin

>>82695187
>not having a keyboard where Ä and Ö have their own keys

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>>82695166
phew

>>82695352
All is well.

>>82695294
i'd get a lot more use out of é

oh look at that it doesnt fuck up on 4chans. okay.

>>82694315
Why would you flip it? The natural progression is from left to right, when she is walking left it looks like she is walking backwards. The progression is specially messed up in this case, where we should see our heroine from afar, then closer, and closer, instead we are seeing her up close, then farther, and farther and UP CLOSE all of a sudden.

https://youtu.be/Ys8-a0yD-MM

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>>82695461
Experimenting mostly to see how it looked, but I can always flip it back. Better?

>>82695352
Oopooooooppoohhhhh sexxxzyyyy

>>82695619
Yes, this looks a lot more intuitive.

>>82695074
Well, I don't want it to seem like some heroic feat and I don't want to evoke a story from a different mythos, so those aren't really pluses.

As for the eyebrows, she really is kind of upset with herself in the first three panels, and number four is more hopeful and relieved than aggressive excitement.

>>82695619
Much better. How much time have you put on this, man?

>>82695619
show me more of this fresh waifu

>>82695973
1.5/2 weeks on and off on that page more or less. About the same previously for general designs and ideas.

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>>82696108
This was the little character thing I drew up.

Ignore the thing she's holding, I don't think she'll be getting a gun for quite some time.

>>82693988
>my beloved daughteru
Hello, Odin.

>>82696115
But do you intend for this to be more than a hobby? Because it will be one of the most beautiful webcomics out there for sure, but you take too long to draw a page, and right now the story progression seems to be too slow.
I have the same problem of taking too long to draw a page, I spend 45 hours usually every week, but the pages are huge, maybe 20-25 panels every week, the story arcs taking 8 pages from start to finish.

Think about how long it will take until you finish your story, adding the time you spend do draw, and the amount of pages you will need to get to the ending.
By the way, it took 3 months for me to finish the first page of my webcomic, I was uncertain about everything, the software, the style and all that, but I picked up the pace on the second page, so maybe that is your case?

>>82696818
>about 20 panels per page
>about 8 pages per chapter
Curious. Which is yours?

>>82696971
I'll email it to you.

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>>82694315
Are you the guy who did this over on tg?

>>82697377
Step aside, Scrublord, that's the REAL Bug Quest.

>>82697377
Yup that's me. I feel kind of bad how it trailed off but I think enough was created to provide the world people were looking for.

>>82696818
I think that page is more of a introductory splash page. Ideally i'm experimenting with panel and spacing not quite as detailed or complex as this.

Either several small panels or a few larger ones across a page. Time wise worked on it in lunch breaks during my 9-5 day job so I guess its still in its hobby stages. Story wise its more or less sorted out and I've planned out the second page which is less certainly less complicated and forgiving. I think i'll get into a rhythm soon or at least hope I will.

>>82697377
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>>82697287
Was legit curious. My format's very similar. Far from churning out a page a week though.

>>82697377
well that's a lot cooler than the bug-knights idea I had..

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Ah, I just love writing an angry boss characters. And better yet, angry boss of an angry boss. It's a trope, or maybe a cliche even, but I love it. Couldn't get enough of it.

This is just an practice and an early concept of him, but I wanted to give him something red to wear to make him feel a bit more satanic. He's really a lovely guy, I'm sure, but when the main character fucks around with half-assed magic, he gets mad as hell. He doesn't know magic, so that's probably why he's so angry, and honestly, scared of it.

What type of characters, scenes.. or whatever, are your favorite to write, guys?

Also, you've had any fun experiences with angry bosses? I'm always interested to hear, cause my comic has a lot of boss/employee interactions. Not every single one is this hostile, of course.

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>>82697287
All these years browsing 4chan and this is the first time someone else replies pretending to be me. Why would you do this, anon?

>>82696971
>>82697831

I hadn't posted it here before, I've been lurking for a few weeks, but might as well dump them here? My friend who writes the story made a thread recently on /tg/ and it was received quite well.

>>82697600
I know what you mean, my webcomic starts the same way.

Now, these pages are kinda old already, they were way slower, I think, had fewer panels, but as I got better, and as the writer picked up the pace of the story they got a little harder.

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>>82698024

>>82698024
Neat.

>>82697930
i love cute ones, oblivious ones, and loveydoveys.
all the bosses i ever had did that thing where they get mad at you with words instead of tones, then accuse you of being mad at them, acting like the situation is no big deal, but clearly twisting things so you look worse and they look calm and great

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So I want to pitch you guys an adult wc idea I have in mind, because I don't want to waste work on it if it's inherently shit.

Basically, million-years old comically hot alien girl travels the multiverse studying (and participating in) the different sexual habits of the many wacky civilizations that inhabit it - all work for her thesis in sexuology. She's accompanied by her best friend, an amiable space boar, eternally hungry.

Each issue they'd teleport to a new world. They'd try to befriend the locals, learn their language, partake of their cuisine, fuck them, have fun and then say goodbye. Unless something bad happens and hijinks ensue.

Style would be kind of cartoony/psychedelic and would have a light, feel good mood. A weird combination of standard porn comic and trippy space exploration/contemplative thingie.

Thoughts?

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>>82698038
>>82698062

Site is abnor.com.br by the way. We have 13 pages published right now

>>82698038
that is a lot of panels, for but for action you can't deny it works

>>82698084
that sounds fun as shit to me. sexy doctor who with a barbarella feel.

>>82698087
you have to love that crocodilemen, who despite being intelligent still have an animalistic flat cranium, still wear crowns to show their authority.
i'm just busting your chops but i find that cute. and actually i've been thinking a lot about that kinda thing.. trying to consider the origin and purpose of things that you transfer to other species, and asking whether they WOULD have the same thing. trying to design a helmet for something without a big ol' dome head like humans have.. is hard.

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>>82698163
Lookit horse barding.
Or camels, or elephants.

>>82698084
I'm a big fan of irl anthropology and stuff. If your comic gets as weird as real life sex in other cultures does, I will be hooked. Especially if it bleeds over into other aspects of life.

You should also have one drastically tonally dissonant chapter. Space survival horror, murder mystery, political thriller. Then resume the lighthearted fun.

>>82698216
i was just thinking about that! they managed some decent helmets for those
HOWEVER those animals see out the sides of their heads.. which helps. harder to armor the front of your head if your eyes have to see forward..

wait, camel armor? shit i havent seen that before, lookin it up

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Hey I'm curious, what tablet do you guys use? I just use my mouse for everything which is why everything looks so mechanical. I'm looking for a tablet preferably under $400 that has a built in screen. If you have an example of work you've done with it that would be great as well.

>>82698084
I think it could be really fun - the idea itself gives me a Space Dandy/Rick and Morty vibe, and I love both of those things. I like how both of those shows depict aliens that actually ARE alien - like some species are bound to have sex that humans would find just plain comedic, boring, scary... like tempering some of the porn with sex that wouldn't even read as sex to humans. I also like the inclusion of the things this anon mentioned >>82698241 - I'd totally give it a shot!

>>82698330
cheapo monoprice one. works great

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>>82698163
Of course he wears a crown, like every other civilized people, you racist.

I tried giving them more horse-like helmets, but in the end I didn't like the designs I came up with, and decided to go with this instead. These helmets don't appear on the comic though I think, only on the strips we offer on patreon.

Should I keep dumping the pages? There are quite a few of them.

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>>82698330
I have an intuos4 small. It doesn't have a built in screen, but if you make yourself draw with it a lot you'll quickly acclimate to looking at the screen instead of your hands. This is how my drawings look on the tablet (versus on paper >>82685352.)

>>82688405
Hey, thanks! Also very hyped up about those new guys... it's officially time to satanic panic.

>>82685975
>>82694913
Hey thanks - super excited to get into all the sci-fi stuff that's been put off for like, ever...

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>>82698243
Well, humans have forward-facing eyes but we managed. Something like this would work just fine for a catman or wolfman or whatever.

>>82698330
The kind with built-in screens are alarmingly expensive. like, an order of magnitude more expensive than a tablet and a computer monitor on their own

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>>82698330
I draw everything with a Wacom tablet intous 4 that I found in the attic.
I really don't like the pen nibs on it. They fuck up the top part.
I actually really hate it but I rather actually see the tablet before buying it so I haven't switched to the monoprice one yet.
As for screens, I don't think it matters that much but I'm used to mine.

A wise man one said that it doesn't matter the tool, but the artist or something.

>>82698595
yeah but like i said, we have the cranium to hold the helmet in place. and a relatively flat face so you can put a nose strip down the middle..

oh this is cute. eyeslits!

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>>82698084
This sounds like it has a lot of potential but the space boar seems kind of out of place and dull. Maybe have the main character be conventionally sexy and have her partner also be a space slut into similar studies but isn't even remotely human. Maybe some kind of crazy amorphous blob of wad of identical that is capable of reproducing with literally anything alive due to her bizarre physicality. This could also make tentacles as a consistent option. It'd be even funnier if often times she's considered the more beautiful of the two while the conventionally hot one is the more intellectual one kind of like a velma/daphne thing.
Pic related

>>82698657
Well yeah but using something that allows you to create content faster is smart and for someone like me who does commissions regularly finishing art quicker means more money. I own a few screenless tablets but I just don't like them so I've been looking for a new one for a while.

>>82698850
*or wad of tentacles
autocorrect

>>82698850
What's faster about looking at your tablet rather than a separate monitor?
I've never owned a tablet with a built-in monitor, but I don't notice a difference in speed drawing on the tablet or on paper.

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>>82698330
Bamboo Pen and Touch. Every tablet I've had ended up with debilitating pressure sensitivity issues, but this one does it pretty infrequently. I'm still eager to not rely on it anymore, I have an issue with tablets where I think I've lifted the pen or eased the pressure enough that I've stopped drawing but it ends up curving off and it looks like a damn mess. I've never gotten the hang of not doing that.

>>82698966
This too.
I draw fast because I usually sketch on a small surface (like zoomed out to 200x222px on a 700x777px) and then I have to zoom in and do details whichImusuallytoolazytodobutIneedtolearn. I don't know how to become a faster artist but I attribute it with trying to find ways to us the wrong strokes to my advantage or something?
>>82699043
Seriously? I thought Bamboo was one of the best from some user reviews I heard years ago. I kind of had it on a wishlist.

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>>82698966
I don't use screenless tablets by choice but I imagine having a tablet that I can utilize better would be easier than plotting out every individual line with a mouse as I do right now. Why does it matter? I'm just looking for a decent tablet with a screen and figured I'd ask here. Pic related is the best work I was ever able to achieve on a screenless tablet and I still think it looks awful and took forever. Fortunately the person who commissioned it was happy with it at least but still.

Alright guys, today I started the road to a web comic! What am I in for, and will I make it

>>82699207
Post art :3c

>>82699207
Post art :Зc

>>82699367
>>82699234
But I just started practicing anatomy and gestures and stuff!

>>82699207
No views and some guy drawing a porn parody of your stuff getting popular.

>>82699119
zooming is a pain in the ass for sure, but my computer wouldn't be able to process lines any better if I was using a screentablet
for that matter the main thing holding me back there is photoshop, mangastudio makes much better zoomed out lines

>>82699119
It might just be my computer, mind. I've had two Bamboos and a Monoprice, I started having the issues with the first Bamboo and tried out the Monoprice only for it to have identical problems. The newer Bamboo does it sometimes,but it's not consistent in the same way.

>>82699154
>a tablet that I can utilize better
Could you be more specific?

>Why does it matter?
Don't get me wrong, personal preference is personal preference, but from what you're saying it just seems like you're going to spend a lot more money on something that isn't any more use to you than the cheaper version.

>>82699119
I generally find that most of my increases in speed come down to experience giving me a better vision of what the finished version will be - that way, I don't make so many wrong strokes in the first place.

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>>82699487
Well I'm very happy with all traditional art I do on paper and from what I've done on a screened tablet before, but whenever I do it looking at a screen separate from where I'm drawing it always looks screwed up and messy to me. I have a pretty high end screenless wacom tablet I got as a gift but as stated it's just completely useless to me. The image on the right is what I got when using a tablet and the one on the the left is what I get now but I'm wanting to be able to do quicker. I think the difference in quality is evident. I have years worth of artwork I did with a screenless tablet but felt like I never improved. I just find it all really ugly compared to what I've done ever since I stopped using one but it also takes way longer to draw things now.

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This week's Mimi is nothing special but I managed to finish it on time even though everything is falling apart. Hooray?

>>82700019
Ignore this post, I forgot to hide my stupid mannerism.

>>82700019
Thanks. Website is monsterousmimi.com.

>>82699919
takes a lot of getting used to, for sure.
>>82699946
matching! I might have started making the dress change color before the poof, but that would defeat the purpose of the poof. so good job

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>>82700167
>takes a lot of getting used to
No kidding. When I first switched, I thought that doing lineart with the lineart tool was better than sketching or using watercolor because it could be molded around and even though I never did chicken scratch, I did have issues with how I couldn't control my lines because of the pressure which wasn't available on my computer a few years ago but I'm glad I made the switch because pic related was awful schlock.

>>82699402
well, then post whatever you have i guess?

what is your comic going to be about?

>>82700360
I've got it planned as a episodic supernatural mystery set somewhere inbetween 1790 and 1820.

Basically it's Mushishi set in early America

>>82700581
>1790-1820
>early """"""""""America""""""""""
Still would read it though.

>>82700651
Thanks, I think

>>82699946
Nice.

>>82700651
You know damn well he meant early United States, dweeb-o.

>>82700939
In his defense, I also plan on including the Carribean

But yeah, early US

>>82700939
watch your language, man.

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literally lol

>>82701254
Haven't done much with ads. What am I looking at?

>>82701362
Project Wonderful offers results that are 100 times better than Hiveworks.

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>tfw you work extra hard on an update and people actually think it's worse

>>82701756
Post it

>>82698137
>>82698241
>>82698335
>>82698850
Thank you all for your good feedback, I'm going to do this. I agree with the suggestions and I'll keep them in mind.

>>82702007
Post whenever you have some stuff done. I'd like to see how this turns out.

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It's really rough, but it was just an idea I had.

>>82702201
well I've recently started a blog @ salmonsprus.tumblr.com (nsfw, just porn, no comics yet) so if I start making concept art it's probably going to go there.

Also I'll make sure I drop by here. These threads are so lovely, too bad there isn't something like them right now in /aco/

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Redoing the plot, at least for the beginning. Since I don't really care about the beginning but skipping right into the middle of the plot where I'll actually have fun is too far away.

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One down, eight to go. I'll call this page done, unless anyone has any suggestions for changes.

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>tfw you forget to enable auto payment on your hosting and it wipes out all your files
Haha, I'm so careless. I guess I'll spend the day reinstalling wordpress and the webcomic thingie, maybe there's even a new version

>>82702653
>dat Richard
FUCKIN' PERFECTION

I feel like there might be comedic potential in having Noli steadying her glasses in the penultimate panel, but I'm not sure.

Also it's pinging my autism a little bit that Skeggöld's shield is centered on her elbow rather than her hand, but I'm fairly certain I'm the only person in the entire universe who cares.

>>82690588
>>82690612
>>82691212
>>82695098
fix cat's butt/position, fluffy tail, i'm on it

>>82702653
AHHH BACKGROUND REFERENCES EVERYWHERE!!
Tall Hel's legs are missing and it aint even bothering her. She's enjoying a fun day out with Kaen. fuck I need to have those two hang out sometime. He'd be trying to be her buddy and she'd be trying to take his money.
<3 you are cool. I already liked this page but now it's even better.

>>82702954
i assume that's what happened to copyrezo when kiwis by beat expired

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The Sisters updated. Four pages.
Aftermath.
http://thesisters-comic.com/
https://tapastic.com/episode/351192

Next week, Beatrice and Jam.

>>82702653
I like that. That's subtle and cute.

>>82703628
It's pretty lenient, at least dreamhost gives you 2 weeks and mails you before it happens, you would have to be disconnected from the world or in severe depression that let that thing happen to you

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>>82695132
Yeah, originally it looked like this, but I didn't want it to be too busy.

>>82704680
yeah so, if you're redoing it.. make it as straight and even as >>82691925 but as tufty, spotty, and interesting as >>82704680

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I'm really pushing the limits of text-wall in that last panel, ain't I.

>>82706508
Something I've been wondering, where do the Carrion Girls live? Do they live on Asgard, or on regular earth?

>>82704376
That "Of course." line near the end of the update really bugs me. She's, like, all traumatized and shit, it seems way more likely she'd just do a one word response, a "Yeah." for example. It really, really bugs me.

>>82706876
Asgard. Specifically, Skeggöld and Skalmöld live in the domain of Freyja, in a small city of halls housing the valkyries and servants that work in the goddess' great hall Sessrumnir.

>>82707615
So do they just go to earth to chill, or what?

>>82704376
shiiiiiit. erin is interesting for sure.. that shift after it's over..
also OH DAMN he was with those guys.. all along those guys were.. and she knows one..
well at least there's a method to cleanup, that part is neat

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Cumming inside Ellen!

>>82707875
This chick is ugly and her male friend is boring.

>>82707640
Nah, they usually only visit Midgard when they're on official business - most commonly watching over battles to make sure everybody dies according to Odin's plan, but also sometimes stuff like putting blessings or curses on various people or granting visions. Skeggöld and Skalmöld's little trip in chapter 1 was unsanctioned, though.

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>>82707968
>Ellen
>Ugly

DELETE THIS!

>>82708143
Only if you delete that ugly mug off your harddrive.

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>when you try to fill the void in your life by creating a comic but it only leaves a larger void

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>TFW just want to draw but have to write, and have absurdly high standards for writing

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>tfw no one likes my writing and everyone complains about my art

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>>82708363
wish people would just fuck off and relax about the art, plenty of comics have shit art

>>82699467
More

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I need an opinion drawfriends
I'm the Fag that drew this
>>82688944
And I have two ideas for webcomics first is the apocalypse thing which is like a S.t.a.l.k.e.r./ metro 2033 comic.
The other (pic related) is a comic about a high schooler who is struggling with this girl he likes yet is afraid to be with her, then a drawing that the boy and girl made comes to life and is hellbent on causing mischief.
I have more stuff for the apocalypse comic but which one would you guys read?
>sorry if art is trash the only practice I get is doodling, I'm trying to get into Art classes

>>82708871
without more info it's hard to choose between those two.. they both have potentch

>>82708871
Honestly, neither of those premises make me go "oh that sounds interesting".

>>82708988
Seconding.

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>>82708871
If they're not free, save yourself the money and buy a nice tablet instead. There are so many amazing art resources for free online nowadays. Even entire courses and excercises mapped.

>>82709058
What programs do you guys use? Making a good line in Gimp is a fucking nightmare - in order to get the line I want, I have to adjust the angle of the brush every fucking stroke. The pen tool is bullshit and I wind up using paths which takes fucking forever. I don't have a tablet with a screen, but it shouldn't be this hard.

Is Clip Studio Paint any good? I bought it when it was like 5 bucks.

>>82709271
clipstudiopaint is basically the best one overall.

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followtheleaderwebcomic.tumblr.com
Beef bout to slay

>>82709271
Try Krita. I don't know much about the technicalities of it, but it just feels really good, and it tracks the direction of your stroke and that's neat.

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>>82708975
>>82708988
Yeah it's my first time trying to be serious in terms of art and story, but I'm sure with time and effort I can make it look nice and readable.
> but right now I'm awful

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CUT MY COMIC INTO PIECES
SECOND TIME IN ONE THREAD
SLOWLY DYING
STAGNATING
WASTE ALL MY TIME PROCRASTIBATING

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I was thinking about trying to give my shit an aviary attorney-esque aesthetic, yay or nay?

>>82710471
>implying you can draw well enough to imitate that aesthetic

>>82710609
>implying that's not why I said -esque
Practice makes perfect, r-right guys?

How do you get faith in your ideas?

>>82711109
Understand that a comic has to be really incredibly bad for it to have been better if it wasn't made.

so are feelposters like >>82710465 a common thing in this threads or is it just one guy making all the feellposts?

>>82711454
It's one guy pretending to be a depressed webcomic creator. Just ignore him.

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>>82707968
Is it the nose? I can understand that, I don't really define it outside of the nostrils which was kind of a dodgy choice but I think it looks good for her

>>82711751
Ellen is cute! Cute! Don't listen to him!

>>82711471
why would anyone do that? it's more plausible that he's literally some depressed autist just looking for an outlet for his repressed feelings.

>>82712051
No, you aren't.

>>82712230
I see you try to push that theory every time with the only basis being "he never posts his comic when we ask".

But let's take a look at the facts about him:
>consistently posts in these threads
If he's here that much, he knows the climate of the thread and how aggressive the critique can get
>always a bunch of self defeating feel posts
The negativity is palpable, to the point where it seems forced. This is where I can start to believe you, but then we have
>rarely follows up, if at all
It's hard to tell who is the same person, but the line of inquiry dies soon after. And most of the time he gets 0 responses, yet he still persists. This person is clearly not here to relish in (yous) or seek some kind of interaction, and this is the strongest proponent against the "pretend" theory.

This may seem pointless and contrived, but I feel it's an interesting excercise. A lot of writers here I imagine can agree that knowing how to write a character is understanding the way people behave. And everything I see points to this guy just being some retarded autist scared to post his REALLY shitty comic.

>>82711109
it think that you should put your your faith in the way you plan to execute your idea

a lot of ideas can sound good but if you don't know how to execute them they can turn to shit


in the same way ideas that sound super silly and shitty can turn ito gold when they are well executed im just look at things like teenage mutant ninja turtles, kungfu panda or regular show

if you try to describe them they sound like shit but but when you watch them they are actually really good

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WIP of the next page!

Hopefully this panel layout reads well.

>>82711751
No, there's nothing wrong with her but the male does seem a bit dull. I just want that bumpposter to fuggoff.

>>82685620
you mean every cloud or download services ever?

I got my tutorials and shit all saved up on MEGA.

>>82710471
If you can do it, do it.

>>82712914
you typoed akk for all
i think the only part that totally reads wrong is the last panel, where you want to move the panels around so they read better left to right. it will require the word balloons crossing over each other but in this case it's worth it

>>82698330
Just Wacom Bamboo. It's the cheapest Wacom, IIRC. I bought it around 8 years ago for like $130? Pretty sure you can get one for really cheap nowadays what with Art tablets with screens being the most popular ones today.

Protip: Go easy on the nubs of the pencil. Older Wacoms only come with like 3 extras. You don't want to use all of it very fast especially if you live in bumfuck nowhere. Some people I know who uses art tablets does a weird thing where they place a piece of paper on top of the tablet, and that's where they draw. Not directly to the tablet's... face. They claim it's beneficial.

>>82711751
I think she looks ok. Her top head is flat, but whatever. What's weird though is that I often see drawings of your characters and they don't stand straight. They stand diagonally. I can't remember if those where just paper drawings and it's all the photo's angle or someshit. You also posted a line-up of characters and they are all doing Michael Jackson's bending trick. Other than that, she's ok. Ehh.

>>82713308
yeah but there was a specific one

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>>82713626
All my nubs turned into toothpicks but luckily my father in a psychopathic rage snapped my wacom pen in half so he ordered it for me and I got 3 extra nubs for free.

>>82711109
I research about the people I'll be competing with with the niche market I'm targeting. I open their works (I have no life so I can open every single one) and look at the quality of their works (art & story). I look at who has the highest fame and why, and who's the underdog who will most likely riseup in a given period of time and why. I look at my own ideas and compare. If it's decent/good compared to them and better than most of the guys on the middle level of that market, I have faith in my work. If my shit is shit, I redo until I have faith in my work.


If I get lazy of doing all these researches on my online stranger rivals, I just make sure every page I do is something I'm in love with.

>>82713626
the paper trick makes nibs wear down MORE quickly. it just gives you a more familiar sensation while drawing

>>82714159
Oh shit, really? Thanks, m8. So glad I didn't bought into it.

>>82713249
That's a fair appraisal. Michael's honestly just some nerd, but he and Ellen share a good rapport and she thinks he's really handsome.

And I can totally respect that, as much as I appreciate them as someone who posts about my comic without my bringing it up.

>>82713747
Yeah, her hair grows at a weird 90-degree angle because I wanted to give her a distinct look for some blonde woman without going too cartoony. Her head underneath is normal.

And that's an excellent critique. I'll keep an eye out for it, especially since I'm going to be drawing on paper and I always end up messing it up because I draw on flat surfaces. I'll try to get my old drafting table functional and work on fixing it.

>>82714314
I'm only saying because for the longest time, my males were boring guys who were useful for stuff while my females were firey ninjas, cool, collected scientists, a thoughtful yet secretive supermodel and I don't want anyone to fall into the same trap.

>>82714460
Oh, no, trust me, this series has some pretty interesting dudes, a majority of the main cast. I've honestly gotten mad at myself a dozen times over the years for growing so attached to all of them being dudes because I want to write more cool ladies.

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Inked the outfit references from >>82688405

Color tomorrow. Check the update >>82704376
if ya wanna catch up.

>>82715021
I want the dog to fuck the fat girl.

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>>82705159
How's this look?

>>82715855
that works! though remember mushrooms growing out of the sides of things dont always point straight up. sometimes a few top-view caps express that even better. and in this case they're growing out of the side of something that's arcing OVER her head, so it's more of a bottom-of-ceiling situation

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this whole comic of mine is meant to be a practice more than an actual professional thing
dont know if i should put it here
http://twopartpersons.tumblr.com/tagged/vincent-comic
what do ya guys think

>>82716283
i like at least some of the cut of your jib.
however tumblr a shit. having to click to enlarge each picture, wait for it to load, then click to zoom and unzoom as i go because i cant see anything.. it definitely needs more contrast even if you aren't going to color it.

>>82716366
ive got a deviantart if that helps
http://twopartpersons.deviantart.com/gallery/58775277/the-Vincent-comic
just open the imagine in a new tab if you need to
i agree with you on the contrast though, it could be darker.

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>>82716283
- Use darker colors. I can't read this m8.
- Try to keep your lines cleaner. Try drawing lines in one feel swoop.
- At least make the paneling easier to follow. I can tell it's supposed to be read sideways, but I know you can also do better than this.

1/10 put more effort

>>82716283
how is this practice when your shit is barely warm up. Its like randomly shaking your wrist while holding a pen and wala! your comic is done.

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Did robo-anon ever come back?

>>82716574
ooh shit's getting serious
>>82716659
oh hey, uh, you're new so you might not recognize our regular shitposters. the spelling of 'wala' (which he insists is not voila, but his own different word) is the tipoff for this one.
just dont want you getting scared off

>>82717257
Wala! is a /ck/ meme and a lot of /co/ users use /ck/ (to the point that there's even a cooking comic that /ck/ hates).

>>82717346
I used to go on /ck/ but the whole thing is awful memes and by-the-book trolling and /pol/-style racism nowadays. What the fuck happened?

>>82717257
Ha ha ha ha ha! >>82716659 is actually also >>82716565 . Wala is our voila in our own language. Just like "hoi" is "hey", but whatever, I guess. Was I too rough on babby?

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>>82715855
Hey Dustin. Not sure if you got a chance to see this. Just wanted to drop this off again. Urchin! Is coming along very nicely! Can't wait to see more.

>>82717385
Joey, some other fat fuck, then two female fat fucks, then some french guy, Pepin I think, alcoholics, and omg American chocolate sux.

>>82717465
The alcoholics stick to their general, but "do Americans really do this??" is so goddamn tired. I could do without Joey but there's something else fundamentally wrong. I guess that just drew the wrong crowd in.

I saw a thread full of Eastern European foods and almost got sidetracked into expanding the lore on the cuisine in my comic when I already made a massive list of the foods they commonly make. I need some serious shaking from shit like that, I know no one cares but me.

Hey guys.

An external hard drive is your friend. Your dear, dear friend.

>>82717561
>cuisine in my comic
Never thought about this desu.
I just assumed everyone will eat burgers and peanuts but sometimes I want to reference some obscure shit like those German meat jellos or that Finnish rotten fish dish or something like Italian maggot cheese.

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>>82717682
Sounds like a plan.

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>>82717405
Oh wow, thanks a lot, man! I love it! Great pose, and love how you did the pants and hair!

>>82717385
I always stayed away from it assuming it was a bunch of food snobs
that and, without the ability to quickly photograph and upload what i've made (because my camera is just a camera and my phone is just a phone) i'd have to express everything i did verbally

>>82717399
did you just admit you made completely redundant posts?
also hoi predates hey by centuries, so.. you really don't have a legolambnon to stand on
>>82717561
dude i fucking love learning about new foods and shit from media. remember in Weekenders when they made a croquembouche?

>>82717673
it is. or cloud storage.
do i take it you lost some data fixing that big fat computer error you had?

>>82717901
I was going to post it in 1 post only, but I accidentally clicked 100% with the I'm not a robot already filed in. I guess I should've added "Also" to the 2nd reply.
>also hoi predates hey by centuries, so.. you really don't have a legolambnon to stand on
Don't care.

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>>82715855
And with some more color!

>>82718218
this is already quite nice, i don't think it even needs the extra bits. maybe just a moss tuft or two, but the job has been done. good job

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>>82698330
Bamboo pen and touch CTH-470 discontinued model, prior to that a a graphire 4 (which is stashed away as a back up). Purchased for under $100

>>82713626

>Some people I know who uses art tablets does a weird thing where they place a piece of paper on top of the tablet, and that's where they draw. Not directly to the tablet's... face. They claim it's beneficial.

Guilty as charged , I wrap my tablet in 2 sheets of copy paper.

>>82714159
True.
The paper wears the nubs out faster, but I much prefer it to the feel of plastic on plastic. So I bite the bullet and purchase nubs regularly.

>>82718471
i wouldnt mind at all since i have hella lots of nibs, the problem is the tiniest difference in nib length throws your sensitivity all haywire due to it being closer to the tablet

>>82717864
>food snobs
That's literally the opposite of the board.

>>82718519
Yeah there's usually a point where the lines begin to lose snap, and I have to resort to assorted tricks or replacing the nib.

>>82718642
shit. i could have been enjoying it all along, before the apparent ruination of it that has been described here

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>>82718471
>putting a piece of paper over the tablet
>mfw

that's fucking genius how come i never heard of it before

oh well i already dusted my old scanner so i have no real reason to use that trick but still that's cool

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Do I have to make my webcomic a one page per update thing or can I simply dump a whole book all at once?

>>82720166
just make sure it's your book you're dumping

>>82720166
>Do I have to
You don't have to imitate what you see others do. If you want to dump all at once, no problemo. If you want to do 1 page each, no problemo. Just be on time. If you told your readers you'll update every tuesdays, you should update every tuesdays.

Some will say doing 1 pages each than doing lump sum can net you more readers/attention though.

If you want to do 3 page per update, no problemo. You get the gist.

>>82720166
you can't dump it all at once, the web comic police will arrest you

>>82720166
i guess it depends on what kind of comic you want to do and how you want to do it

what i want to has a story so i plan to update it monthly maybe uploading 10-12 pages each month


but if what you want to do is something with one joke per page i guess it would be better to update it with 1 page each week

>>82717937
>do i take it you lost some data fixing that big fat computer error you had?
No I haven't encroached on it just yet but with my external hard drive I have most of my sanity.

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All I could do tonight at the office. But this pretty much closes the crossover for this month, which means I can sit up and start colouring the two from the months before.
I dunno if any of you experienced this, but I felt lately super, SUPER reluctant to open photoshop. I don't feel like painting anything at all, and I usually have artist block, but on paper I'm doing a lot of stuff, it's just that nothing gets to the Scanner, and nothing gets ultimately done.
I feel no motivation at all, and I dunno how to light the sparkle to get back to it.

>>82720166
That guy looks like he remembers the 90s.

>>82712591
>And most of the time he gets 0 responses, yet he still persists
This statement shows how little you understand about how people work, and it shows just how much that roleplayer does. No response doesn't mean no effect. If you're smart and skilled enough you know exactly what your posts are going to do, even if you get no public replies.

t. master troll and meme legend

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>>82712591

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>>82721419
At first when I saw 1st panel I thought it's a porn comic

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>>82724777
Goddammit, now I see it too

>>82725424
Colors will fix it, don't worry.

dead thread

all your comics will perish

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>>82726766
Say it ain't so!

>>82701756
>you make an off the cuff shitpost
>people laugh like never before
>you make a very clever joke
>silence

i don't know if it's just autism telling me the clever joke is better but jesus it cuts like a knife, especially when nobody gives you a token "ha, that's clever." or "i get it. i didn't laugh, but i get it."

>>82712591
i'm not him but i feelpost as well.
i don't want to post my shitty comic because i haven't worked on it properly in over a year and it's basically stupid self-insert fantasy trying to pretend it's well thought out and hide the self insertion.
i can't draw well and have little strong desire to improve (improvement would be nice but hard, if i post people will say "improve!" and i won't understand and then when i fail to improve they'll get upset.)

mostly i'm here to ask carefully crafted questions designed to get people to say "yes, you should do the thing you want to do anyway." because i need constant positive feedback to get anything difficult done, and something as simple as drawing is difficult for me. i don't like drawing when i have a specific idea in mind instead of just having fun, but i have to do it if i want to make the idea anything except an idea.