How's Your Webcomic? /hyw/ #313

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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/

>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 (embed)

>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,
Ask for an invite in the thread.

>Wise words from John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

>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

>>86028154
>got the number right
okay good
>>86028173
>intentionally fucked up cleese quote
you son of a

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i havent posted in quite a while on here but things are slowly still moving forwards

>>86028473
I love this so much
I don't think 'landed into' makes sense though

>>86028473
>that copy pasting job in panels 1 and 2

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Thoughts on this panel sketch? Does the pose look alright?

>>86028500
yeah probably i just couldnt think of how else to word it right now

>>86028522
im not going to redraw the same thing twice when i want it to look the same, i haven't updated in 2 weeks so I just wanted to put this page out finally

>>86028638
hers is
the rat could use more either catlike extension of its rear legs or horselike rearing back

>>86028752
fallen into might work

Since the old thread changed to this one about an hour after I posted my comic is it okay to repost here?

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>>86028763
You mean like this?

>>86028905
yeah those are the rules
>>86028941
no I mean more like .. it's meant to look like it's skidding to a stop, right? so like it's kicking both hind legs forward trying to stop and all four paws are sorta together out in front of it
that OR like a horse rearing up, if that's more what you're going for.. which would be more bent-over, not as fully vertical as that cat

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>>86028976
Aight, thanks for the clarification, here it be again.

Monster Lands updated. Eren creates her first monster and hangs out with it.

http://www.monster-lands.com/

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>>86028976
Ah, yeah, so more like this then?

>>86029089
exactly! Now you really get the sense of the movement

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My Nuzlocke comic (that I still haven't decided to upload anywhere) is coming along. I have ten three-panel comics. I can already tell that I'm improving, meaning this practice is actually worth something. Maybe I'll be able to try my hand at a real webcomic someday.

Pic (1/2)

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>>86030105
(2/2)

>>86030121
in da fyootch, it's a lot easier to read a comic if it's small enough that i don't have to zoom way in and out to see each individual panel

>>86030448
Yeah, sorry. I forgot to resize them.

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I had this concept that there was a series of god-like beings who lives outside of our dimension and aided in the progression of mankind and our creative process. Entities like abstract thought, music, memories, since man's creative nature was born these gods were the physical representation of these ideas. I thought of a story of a god called The Director, who represented man's ideas and dreams put into reality; compared to in film where a written story is interpreted by actors and cameras put into a physical form. He keeps continuity in our universe by popping in and out of our world in the form of a slide reel and destroys any creature that threatens the creative nature of humans. The Director himself looks like a mix of the mask (mainly yellow, purple, and green for color design) and the big shoulders and suit of pic related joker. He has the ability to warp reality on a small scale that doesn't hurt the grand scheme of things. Basically a lot of trippy imagery of characters becoming other characters or people punching through dimensions all under the form of some kind of movie set sort of imagery. He takes on creatures that represent the bad side of people where emotions corrupt the brain and halt any form of betterment in a person, like nitpickers who are living representations of people who lose sight of there dreams and pick apart and over analyze things (business men with hair pointing like devil horns and cloaks covering their bodies and form hands at the ends). The story itself is that someone has slowly been taking small chunks out of the universes timeline and is assumed that they have been altering reality as they see fit but no one can tell. The Director goes door to door amongst these gods of the human mind to locate and draw out whoever is doing this. Basically a light hearted mix of psychonauts and the sandman. Does the idea have potential?

>>86031431
Every idea has potential, anon. The main factor in determining a good comic is how the story flows and shit.

>>86031431
that sounds pretentious and contrived
but buttfuck me in the pussy, that's just my immediate reaction. that doesn't mean anything.

crumbump

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>tfw have a few idea's for webcomics but can't draw for shit
>tfw there's probably thousands of others who are the same
Wouldn't life be great if drawing was easy? Just imagine how many webcomics we could pick and choose from.

>>86032520
right?
or at least if it was fast, so you could do a full-finished masterpiece in every panel without having to streamline at all.

I got two ideas but I'm trying to think which one would be best

Either an older miserable man raising his younger cousin, who is also miserable but creepy. She likes tragic news and seeing misery. The two bond as a family from making misery as their entertainment

Or

A miserable Uncle living in a crappy neighborhood, that's raising an eccentric and cheerful niece that's a bit out there, yet shows her uncle of having fun with life by taking risks and having adventures

>>86032974
If you can do dark humor well, I'd go with the first. Sounds much more unique than the second one.

>>86032974
those both sound sweet as hell
is there a reason it can't be both? You never see two cousins raising one of their nieces. Grumpy uncle, his addamsy cousin, and his loopy and adorable niece. That's a formula for fun times right there i tell you what

>>86033054
Yeah I was thinking about that too, I just want to be really good with the dark humor

>>86033055
That was actually my original idea, having a grumpy uncle raise two nieces, one cheerful and the other creepy, yet since I'm just starting out. I don't think I could write it out well between the nieces, so I thought about just writing about one of them

I had another idea where the creepy niece had the cheerful one as a friend but I just didn't like that idea

>>86033208
two nieces might be a bit much, and a little too Gravity Falls-y
but if one of them is his cousin, so she's a bit older, then you have kind of a different-levels thing going on. Actually what your description brought to mind was another comic I found in these threads, who never shows up anymore, BCDE. a depressed loser with a cute daughter who lives with his loser brother and shitbag sister who help him raise the kid. it's like a cruddy-ass Full House with severely depressing moments, but they still love each other and basically function as a family

>>86033276
Yeah, I think I'll just do the miserable man raising his younger creepy cousin.

Now I have the man written down but I'm having trouble with the cousin's personality.

I had thought about making her apathetic, you know emotionless, yet I don't know about that idea because it might get old and she's feeling like a copycat of Wednesday

>>86033456
I can't think of a way to be a creepy girl that isn't cliche at this point. the energetic one, the seemingly chipper one who's actually gleeful about carnage, the eerily dumb one who doesn't seem to understand death, the superintelligent one who understands it TOO well and has too much detachment.. and all that on top of the obvious deadpan wednesday and creepy susie types.
Just spitting in the dark here, howbout a hick that likes shooting and skinning squirrels, and at first you're just like oh well that's something our ancestors had to do, and then it just extends beyond that.

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Managed to get 3 pages sketched and inked today, hopefully I can get a few more inked today so I can color them all in one swoop tomorrow.

>>86033575
>the superintelligent one who understands it TOO well and has too much detachment.

I like this one. I could make her understand too well about things and be way too detachment, not super smart though. Maybe have something where she skins an animal and wears its fur

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thawts?

>>86032520
I'd say writing is more important

>>86033717
That one's less cliche than the rest, for sure. but it's still been done. really everything has, don't worry about it. i'd love to read a comic about Rick Sanchez Except She's a Young Girl
but then how do you contrast her with the grumpy uncle?

>>86034136
>thoughts?
1. such a broad cliche concept but done with attitude so I'm solidly hooked
2. your english needs some work, chum. but it's okay, we can proofread for you
3. yay boobies
4. just behold? that's a bit of a letdown after that setup. I'd like to hear something like "and now she.. (something she's going to do, or something even beyond that)"

>>86034136
Looking cool, I'm not drawn in by the vague narration but the art alone sells it for me. I think you might wanna make your text a little bigger though, unless you're planning for the final strip to be a higher resolution.

>>86034159
>but then how do you contrast her with the grumpy uncle?

He might be a grumpy cousin, I'm still deciding on that one.

But although both of them are miserable, the creepy cousin loves it, from seeing tragic news, drawing disturbed art and having misery around her.

The man doesn't like his miserable state, yet once he bonds with the cousin, he starts to his misery as a good thing.

>>86034729
i do think we dont have enough cousins in things
but you have to decide why she's living with him, as it wouldnt be as much of an age difference to be a guardian situation, right?
I like this contrast. and it's something we can all relate to: learning to be okay with your misery.

>>86034950
>but you have to decide why she's living with him

Oh, I've thought about that and I'm down to two ideas

A. Her single mother died, so when she's offered to be taken care of by the other family, much of them refuse because of how creepy she is, so the man sees this as an opportunity as a family bond and takes her care

B. The mother becomes too unfit, maybe she's mentally ill or in rehab, which some of her crazy ways rub off on her daughter.

>I like this contrast. and it's something we can all relate to: learning to be okay with your misery.

Thanks. It's what I live with too, so I decided to create something about it

I'm going to head to bed but I'll be back, thank you all for your advice.

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Question, guys. Is the text on the phone readable or do I add a balloon with a clearer transcript?

>>86036813
I didn't even read the phone the first time, I thought it just said, new message or some thing like that

>>86036813
All your text is a little on the small side. There's plenty of empty space, so you could make all the dialogue balloons a bit bigger.

You could probably zoom in a little on the phone screen to make it more readable.

>>86037053
Do it really needs its own balloon. Thanks a bunch!

would read

>>86037169
You're right about that, but that size is about the best I could find when the story gets a bit wordy. I tried different fonts and that one is the most table on that size. I could try using different sizes depending on how much they talk, but that triggers my OCD and I'm not sure it's a proper workaround.

Another day, another page 10? When will you lot learn that /hyw/ was a mistake?

>>86038968
Thank you for the bump and keeping the thread from expiring prematurely. I guess somewhere deep down, you must like /hyw/ after all.

>>86038968
Maybe if you had a webcomic you'd see the point.

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Couldn't finish what I was doing before page 10, I was hoping I could.
Anyway, here's the fix for the previous strip, and I have a few more to show.

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Apparently, Johnny and co. will return. Whatever was blocking me from making more is gone. I guess I was just down traffic wasn't very good in the last few strips. It's over now, I just want to who this up.

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Now that I think about it, I didn't proof read this, so my apologies if I butchered your language.

>>86039786
what the fuck is going on in this? incestuous cucking?

>>86039905
I knew it was to obvious! Welp, whatever, it was gonna be more obvious in future strips.

>>86039972
Damn incestuous cucking? That's hot, you got anymore

Tell us more about the brother and sister, is the sister doing it because the brother is secretly into it or she just likes being a cruel bitch?

>>86039786
Language and grammar seems fine, though the font looks like it's in italics.

Girl's speech balloons in panel 1 could do with a little nudge up and left a bit, to avoid some near tangents. The speech balloon tail should look like it emanates from the center of the balloon (or at least not as off-center as it is).
Boy's second dialogue could be centered in the balloon better.

The balloons in panels 2 to 4 could do with re-positioning slightly to avoid tangents as well.

>>86040009
The brother and sister are side characters. Johnny bullied her brother during high school so he kinda hates him. The sister hook up with Johnny for revenge because he was unfaithful first. What's better than getting laid with the guy who bullied him, I guess?
Once this mini arc about then ends, I don't think they'll appear again tho.

>>86040211
>Johnny bullied her brother during high school so he kinda hates him. The sister hook up with Johnny for revenge because he was unfaithful first. What's better than getting laid with the guy who bullied him, I guess?

God that's so cruel and hot

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>>86039786
Holy shit that six pack is ridicolous. Girls tummy should be soft, unless she is supposed to be fit as Korra.

>>86040211
please keep the brother beta as possible. I really enjoy this. Maybe some forced feminization in the future

>>86040255
Or have the brother crossdress and suck off the bully, while she watches

>>86040211
Thanks for the suggestions. I week see to apply them before the update.

>>86040247
She is fit. I'll try to make it better next time.

I don't think they will appear again in the future, but maybe I can do some extra story for them, I dunno.

>>86040255
>>86040293
you guys can't just dive in, you gotta do it slow.

1) Have the brother get enraged then try to fight the bully, yet the bully and even his sister beats him up

2) Have the brother tied up and forced to see his sister having rough sex with bully

3) Something awakens from the brother and he's an eternal cuck

>>86040379
>I don't think they will appear again in the future, but maybe I can do some extra story for them, I dunno.

Please do an extra story on them, where are the previous chapters of them or a link of this webcomic?

there needs to be a black friend of the brother that also cucks him

>>86039786
why is she so fit? Make her more girly, it kinda looks weird.
Her face looks a little off, I couldn't tell if that was a man or woman. If you couldn't see the boobs, you would think they were gay lovers.

>>86040548
Pretty much this.
From her arms, stomach and face. She looks more like a dude

>>86040548
The original plan was for her to be the opposite of her brother. Physically able, cunning and confident. I can try to improve how her torso looks, but she will be fit, or the contrast been the siblings won't be as notorious.

>>86039693
>>86039759
>>86039786

What is this exactly about? Is Johnny a main character.

>>86040665
Uhh yeah, the story is about him not knowing if he's gay. This chapter is about him going on a sex frenzy with women to find out. Though by now if the point where everything falls apart for him. I can't link it from my phone, but it's your usual SoL with s bit of nsfw. Don't expect too much of it.

>>86040744
>the story is about him not knowing if he's gay.
>This chapter is about him going on a sex frenzy with women to find out.

Ehhh, I was hoping a little more than that.
So the comic is him just banging women figuring how if he's gay? That's really boring if that's the main plot

>>86040614
Fit women mainly exercise their thighs. Her legs in the first panel are thin, they become straight rectangulars after the buttocks. That doesn't match with those bodybuilder abs.

>>86040744
why wouldn't johnny just bang one chick or since he's a bully to the brother, why doesn't he try and bang him? I'm not really getting the incestuous brother and sister thing and seems unnecessary
>>86040801
yeah I'm not really feeling this, it's tedious and johnny himself seems just unlikable and uninteresting.

>>86040744
>Uhh yeah, the story is about him not knowing if he's gay.

That's the story? You should make this into something bigger unless this is going to be a very short SOL. I don't see readers holding excitement with Johnny just randomly having sex with girls to see if he's gay, that's gonna get old

>>86040461
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Sweden

It's a SoL. There is more to the story than that. There are subplots like the brother and sister stuff, and other characters also have their own arc.
Guy not knowing which side he songs is just what started all this, but it's not what everything will be about.
Each chapter is supposed to be thematic. The first was to introduce the characters, the second was about his supposed lingering feelings for a friend, and this this one of about he thinking being the town bicycle is enough of an answer.
He is supposed to be a total asshole, but the idea was he would be the character that changes the most thru the story.
There's plenty stuff about a lot of different things, just like any other SoL, buy this particular chapter I'd about what I said before. He's also banging his teacher from college, though the resolution to that will come later.

>>86041420
Meant to say which side he swings, but my phone corrector likes to make me look more stupid than my usual. My bad.

>>86041420
What does SoL mean?

>>86041420
>but the idea was he would be the character that changes the most thru the story.
Fuck that, make him get worse. Turn it into a trainwreck.

>>86041473
slice of life

>>86041830
>incest
>slice of life

>>86041987
>he doesn't fuck his sister
What are you, gay?

>>86041987
>incest
>not a part of your life

>>86041606
My original plan was that once he changed, a new character would take his place as the asshole, being a turbo sperg that fucks up everything he touches, figuratively speaking.
But, in a way, every character is a bit of an asshole. Johnny is the bigger one so far.
Oh, in case it wasn't clear, Johnny doesn't know she bangs her brother, part of these strips is him not getting a clue about it, but the audience does.

>>86039759
so happy it's back!!

>>86039972
shit, I wouldn't have picked up on it. I think it was subtle enough
we The Dreamers now

>>86041987
it's a normal slice of a pretty fucked up life. they live in jersey or someshit. the black chick had a fucked up childhood

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do not steal

>>86043686
Oh my god. I need more.

>>86043035
It takes place in Harrisburg
> Johnny was molested by a man when he was younger
> Leslie ran away from home in San Jose when she realized she was lesbian
> Selena was kidnapped from an orphanage and turned criminal for the guy who kidnapped her

They're pretty normal IMO

>>86043686
Why is there an entire genre of sonichu-fancomics? Is CWC the artist to end all art?

>>86043998
> that feel when CWC will be always popular and relevant and I won't

JFMSU

The adventures of SUCC and THICC

>>86043686
If you're seriously making this I'll be your full-time manga assistant

Exposition is an issue I'm tackling right now. I want the reader to know what the MC knows. Basically everything that you know except for some very basic shit is told to you when it is told to the MC.

ESP helps fill in a few voids in a creative way, but I also don't want to bog down the reader with a butt load of information as well.

My problem is that there's information I would like the reader to know but outside of Exposition I'm not sure how to go about it.

Anybody have any experience with monetizing? I want to put up my comics up for free online, but still earn something from them.

>>86044856
The goal when doing an infodump is to do it in a way that isn't boring. You could have it happen while characters are doing something visually interesting, or my personal favorite, do that and also have it be told from a specific character's POV which lets them get opinions in and also builds their personality for the reader.

serious question: why is it so hard for artists to become "good"? it's almost like it has nothing to do with hard work, i've seen people work for 10+ years and never become that great

>>86044900
I'm not opposed to infodumps, but I sort of like the challenge of fitting it all in naturally. Having an Esper as an MC affords me other ways to obtain information, such as mind reading.

I certainly dont mind adding information after the fact

>>86045110
some people are stubborn and refuse to see how they can improve.

>>86045149
Is there a way to see how you can improve? I've always run into this, it feels like a wall that you can't see and it's stopping you from going any further, and the only thing you can do is wait, sometimes a VERY long time until you're able to see the hole in the wall you can climb through to progress

I don't know if that analogy works for everyone, but I feel that's how it works for me

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>>86045110
Well if you draw without actively pushing yourself, studying, and trying to learn, you really won't improve. I've seen plenty of artists degrade because they reached a comfy spot in their art and were reasonable popular, and just stopped trying to push themselves.

>>86045266
expanding your horizons is one way to improve, pick something you don't draw very often. Draw things you know how to draw but in someone elses style. The best advice I was ever given (but completely ignored) is dont stop drawing.

I've found that you can never do enough Gesture Drawing

>>86045110
it's random as hell. some people have to work harder than others

>>86044730
on the fence about starting this project. However, some help with toning/shading and other stuff could change that around.

Send examples of your work to the link on the bottom of the image if you're interested.

>>86045266
Practice daily, and do lots of life drawings. Draw stuff that you're bad at. Ask for critique often so you can specifically where you need to improve. Once you get into the swing of drawing every day seeing improvement will be a lot easier. You'll never really feel like you're improving in the moment, but when you compare your current work to stuff from a few months back you should see a difference.

>>86032520
Writing will always triumph over shit art. If people are creative enough they can paint a more vivid picture in woth whatever minimalistic style others use.

>>86043998
I genuinely believe that Chris is intentionally or otherwise one of the greatest artists of our time.

Something about how he captures consumerism and the mid-2000s so perfectly and how he represents the growing narcissism of the internet age so spectacularly, just sits so well with me it hurts.

Sure, the comic is a nightmare to read and Chris's life is as much a work of art as the comic itself, but what does that matter? Death of the author, man. Sonichu isn't fun to read because when you read into the inner workings of the 2000s you can't be left with anything BUT nightmares.

Whether this will ever be recognized or not, I can't say. Maybe it'll just be swept under the rug like the nuances of the 2008 crisis, or maybe he'll get recognition as "The man who was trolled to death" instead of as an unintentionally great artist.

Like everything involving CWC, you just don't know where the journey will end.

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>>86030121
I'm worried that my jokes suck.

>>86046559
can't believe i never thought of that joke before

>>86046559
It's Nuzlocke so yes, they do suck. Every joke you could possibly tell has been done by another Nuzlocke comic before because there are so god damn many of them. It's a plague.

>>86045110
Are they working 10+ years or are they "working" 10+ years?

To get better you have to actually learn stuff, research the fundamentals of drawing and practice a lot. If you draw the same animu faces, the same one pose you know how to draw, you won't get anywhere. You won't learn to draw things you never drew before by magic.

Now, where things get tricky, the result of two people learning the same class, practicing the same hours can also diverge, it will come down to how good is your critical eye. It's hard at first to look at a drawing and notice the less jarring mistakes, it's hard when it's other people's work, but it's specially hard when it's your own.
To develop a critical eye there's no secret, you have to look at how it's done and learn how it's not done, and just by practicing you will learn to spot things that are done wrong... But then, to see what is wrong with your own drawings you have to learn how to look at it objectivelly, and that's the hard part, there are people too dense, too stuborn to accept the fact that they suck, so it's harder for them to know what to fix, for them the drawings are perfect already. They may realize it's not as good as that other guy's drawings, but they won't realize why, both are perfect after all.

As a bonus, here's a log of Stan Prokopenko's improvement over the years, it's pretty interesting:
http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/09/7-years-watts-atelier/

>>86046681
I understand Nuzlockes are overdone. That's why I'm using one for practice. Easy to write because I don't have to write a plot.

>>86046453

He's just an autistic manbaby who is actually moderately retarded and has the mindset of a child. So, he draws like an 8 year old, and and inserts all of his real-life problems (all of the meanies in his life are bad-guys in his stories, and its also an outlet for him to lament his sexual frustrations, etc).

There's really nothing deeper than that.

People have put money into his shit, but that's not because they really support him as an "artist" but rather they just want to give him some lifeblood to see how bad the trainwreck will be at the end of the line.

>>86046559
I like it anon.

>>86046798
Thank you. I'm really intimidated by all the artists that post their comics here but I plan to keep trying and improving.

>>86044865

- Run Ads on your site. eg Project Wonderful.

- Patreon. Larger, higher quality images and bonus content for a nominal monthly fee.

- Digital collections. Several strips collected together in a a single PDF. Stick a cover on it, maybe some bonus content. See: Comixology Submit, Gumroad.

- Print collections. As Digital above, but hard copy. Requires spending money to print them first.

- Conventions. Get a table in artist alley and sell your print comics. Lose even more money on travel, hotels and other expenses. Keep doing it anyway, because you've got the bug and you can never go back to not doing it.

>>86046941
Do you know of any good web hosts to post your comics? I have no clue where to even start.

>>86048723
drunkduck, comicgenesis, comicfury, etc. all sort of dying and unknown
there's fucks like tumblr and tapastic if you want to hold yourself to a shitty format but be attached to a huge fad

>>86046727
Well yeah, he's no smartass sticking a urinal in an art exhibit.

But that doesn't devalue what he's actually made, and how perfectly it works as a piece of art even if it's utterly abysmal in what it set out to do (make an entertaining children's comic.)

Also I'm going to say "Death of the author" just to pretend I'm smarter than I am.

I WONT LEAD THIS THREAD DIE.

HEEEEEEYAH

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>>86052348
i fuckin' love this. i love these two. I want to do crossovers or something

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Does anyone use this?

i make animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaWHIv0jIvc

>>86053037
i wanna say Derelict's other comic is on that

>>86052407
Thanks a lot, Anon. I'm not sure a crossover would fit in the story we have planned, but now I am curious, what is your comic?

>>86054236
I wasn't serious (except the 'or something' part. I am always down for 'or something').. I just love how you do fantasy comedy so much. It's an inspiration to me trying to do sort of the same kind of thing

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Just a little doodle, but I want to make a comic called "Life's Green and Blue".

It follows Marie (left), an orphan all of her life constantly dragging Morgan and her friends into danger and adventures to find treasure on a map that she's had since the orphange took her in.

And Marie, granddaughter of the witch responsible for the disappearance of dozens of people, including Marie's parents. She reluctantly joins Marie on her adventures in hopes to atone for what her grandmother did.

Nothing too fancy or super creative, but I think it'd be fun to make something similar to a mix of Sabrina and Camp Weedonwantcha. Of course I'll have more than just a doodle or two done eventually, but I really wanted to get feedback from /co/ before going any further.

>>86054659
I'm running out of ways to call things cute and appealing
and that is a great concept too. In several ways. I wanna read the hell outta this

>>86046559
not Ha Ha funny for me, but there's def humor there. Pokemon comics are a dime a dozen, so just try not to go with easy/obvious jokes, and maybe ease up on the dopey face usage.

>>86053037
I have my comic mirrored on it, it's most popular there, oddly enough.

>>86053037
i met someone who's featured on it and she seems to do well on there

>>86055323
How do you like it compared to other places you might host comics?

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>>86054759
You made my week saying that.

I'm going to do my best and push my idea to be the best it can be. I hope when you see the finished product you enjoy it as much as I will making it.

>>86055448
It's a lot harder to interact with your audience compared to Tapastic and Smackjeeves, as you have to manually check for comments, which is the only way you can talk to your readers. The comic rating system can be annoying too if you downvote bombed, making your comic appear lower in some areas of the site. Other than that, though, I'm pretty fond of the site.
It has more readers and fewer comics than Tapastic, so you can hit a bigger crowd with less competition.

>>86055677
also people have to sign up for an account to comment right?

>>86055765
Yep.

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NEXT EPISODE OF WEST TREE GAG SHOW!

>>86056206
FUCK FORGOT LINK

https://youtu.be/fIyEsynzkI0

>>86056206
>>86056226
even today, still finding creative new ways to fuck up
Angel's expressions are pretty amusing there. Very subtle.
>pointing out correct harambe pronunciation
fuckin THANK YOU

what the fuck is that ending

>>86056491
It's a two parter silly.

>>86055677
>more readers than Taptastic

Well that's a plus but I guess not saying much.

>if you get downvote bombed?

How about if you get lots of upvotes? My comic on another site is doing pretty well on another site, though there's one guy who upvotes every page.

>>86057370
Upvotes are harder to get on Webtoons, as each person can only rate a comic once and a lot of your readers won't even bother rating. If you're pretty successful on one site, you'll have decent chances on webtoons as well. Just don't post your comic one page an episode on webtoons, the readers there prefer their comics in chunks.

>>86057527
Huh. Guess I'll look in to it. Hadn't considered trying a third host.

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Is it ok to ask for some advice regarding the wording on this logo for my comic?
English is my second language so I have no idea if the "Stargem" part is acceptable, should it be "Star Gem" instead or doesn't it matter?
"Stargem" isn't necessarily a proper noun for something or someone in the story itself.

>>86058311
>isn't necessarily a proper noun
It's not the name of the castle?
I would say Gemstar sounds better than Stargem
The logo itself is beautiful, though the icon could use a little bit more detail. Not a lot, just a few darker-orange lines

>>86058385
Not really, the castle itself isn't even necessarily named, it is simply refered to as "The Castle" in the comic itself.
The reason behind the title is that this castle contains a star-shaped gem that grants wishes.

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Im currently gredrunk and weeping on my sketchbook. I fucking suck. and wanted to maybe do a lewd parody of dora the explorer. opinions thoughts? I posted a drawing I did awhile back when I actually had a means of uploading, so any critic's are nice.

>>86058426
hmm in that case a better title would be The Star-Gem of the Castle or even better if said gem has a name. better still if the castle has a name, but maybe i'm just projecting since I so often forget to name my own things and places
>>86058757
good art. ... familiar art. niko?
I like whatever this is better than a lewd parody, since those are always so shallow. better to do something that's more of an homage

>>86058869
nah, im just some no name nub, and love drawing. dont feel like im any good though, so thanks for the complement.

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My friend and I have been working on our webcomic for three years now and we're finally about to post the first pages online. I'm so fucking excited.

Tell me your experiences with starting the process. How long did you plan the story, and how did it feel to start? And after the first page?
This is the second comic I've worked on as a writer. I may post some pages here one day.

>>86059289
I dove right in to mine, so I can't relate, but good luck!

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>>86058869
Huh... I see, I'm trying to go for a simplistic title altogether.
Perharps this is a better one to use?

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>>86059289
Can't wait to read it! What's the premise?

I've planned the story for mine on and off for the last 10 or so years, since I was in middle school. It's great to finally work on it, I can't wait to tell the story because all the characters are very dear to me and I'm pleased with some recent developments I made in the world and in the lore.

On the other hand, it's a dauntingly massive project (I don't think tackling a smaller project first will help) and it's been generally frustrating to contend with. I work at a snail's pace and I'm coming further to terms with how much I've been neglecting my art practice with each new panel, which is always a painful process. I'm also breaking into a new technique for it and got some pretty negative responses to my initial attempts, which I strongly value but still ended up getting sensitive about. At least I'm nearly getting to the fun parts in the story.

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>Have idea for a web comic about supernatural beings like witches and vampires in post-WW1 America, the constantly evolving technological and destructive power of the war making them realize their own stagnate magic has become completely insignificant compared to "American power"
>Have another idea for web comic about future scientists discovering a unexplainable phenomenon on a recent colonized Pluto, something dubbed the "medusa sun" that starts off as two large metal rings rising out and spinning in the air until they burst into a ball of light that seems to turn any men who look at it into odd stone formations and effects technology in ways that makes no logical sense. Mixing science fiction with Lovecraftian cosmic horror.
>Can't draw, at all
A-are the basic concepts at least somewhat intriguing?

>>86060403
Ideas are always great. Write it all out, make it big, have artists beg to illustrate it.

>>86060403
>A-are the basic concepts at least somewhat intriguing?

Sure, but the premise is fairly irrelevant. It's always the execution that makes it good or bad.

>>86056491
Pretty creepy post, coldfusion.

>>86053037
>>86055323
Are there are any disadvantages to mirroring your comic on multiple sites?

Mine is on three at the moment including its homepage.

>>86061498
more people will see Your webcomic

>>86060403
i'll draw it

>>86054659
>And Marie
*and Morgan

>>86061498
It's harder to maximize your ad-based monetization, also it's more effort to keep everything updated and curated the more sites you use. It's a lot easier to sift through 30 comments on one site than 10 comments on each of 3 sites.

>>86060403
Considering American military power stagnated after WWI I get the sense that you don't know anything about the history of the period, and thus no.

Are there any webcomics about subdued/gritty fantasy? Stuff that is less funny and more serious.

Even better if it's really gory and edgy. But just curious, since most webcomics just want to make people laugh.

>>86063726
*tips fedora*

>>86064275
I don't get it.

What do you guys think is better for comics?
Photoshop, or Clip studio?
I have full access to both and they're both good tools but I don't know which one to put more time in to learn (or should I become more hermit and learn both?)

>>86065387
Clip studio

Is there a difference between clip studio and manga studio 5? Or is it just a rebranding?

>>86067111
literally a rebranding, identical software

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How's this for an announcement of my comic?

>>86067145
Thanks. I was wondering if I should upgrade, but now I know it'd be a waste of money. I wonder if the name change was because they thought the manga association was keeping away potential customers.

>>86067228
Probably. It was keeping me away.

>>86067252
To be honest, me too at first. But I took the free trail just to test it out and I loved it.

>>86067364
Yeah I got it super cheap when it was on sale. Don't regret it. The text functions and word balloon functionality alone makes it much better than Sai, at least for making comics.

>>86067228
>>86067252
It's actually in the T's &C's, you were only allowed use Manga Studio for drawing Manga; Western art-styles were forbidden.

But in the end it was easier to rebrand it Clip Studio than to keep prosecuting people who insisted in drawing in a non-approved manner.

>>86067416
I associate Manga with bad art and 12 year olds who like bad art, so based on the name I had no reason to believe that it was a good product.

It's like making an art program and calling it "Sparkledog Furfag OC Maker."

>>86067228
If you already own a copy of Manga Studio 5, then updating to the latest version of Clip Studio Paint should be free. Download CSP and put in your MS5 serial number. Version 1.5.4 onwards is all branded as Clip Studio Paint.

Note that this most recent version of CSP includes tools for animation, and other changes, which means files saved in that latest version aren't compatible with earlier versions. For one thing, the file sizes of CSP .clip files have better optimization than MS5 .lip files.

When I was going from MS5 1.5.3 to CSP 1.5.4, it essentially made a new install of CSP, but it recognised where all the old MS5 files etc were, so I didn't have to mess around re-making custom brushes etc. I now use CSP, but still have the previous version of MS5 installed as well.

The main thing to consider with upgrades is if you want to go from Regular to EX.

>>86067212
Looks fine, though unless you already have a following I don't see the point of a promo.

>>86067638
Fun fact: Manga Studio 4 was called Comic Studio in Japan.

>>86067638
Your post reeks of retardation. With this level of stupidity, I'm pretty sure your work will be shit regardless of software quality.

Stick with MS paint, shitter.

>>86067888
Oh look, a butthurt weeaboo.

I'm sure somewhere there's a furfag with a sparkledog OC who's equally upset. But he doesn't bitch like you do, because furfags are at least a little more self-aware than weebs.

>>86060403
very intriguing. honestly though this could work fine as just a book. why don't you give that a shot? then you'll have something to illustrate later if your art improves
>>86065387
clipstudio is just a better-running photoshop with vastly better drawing tools and slightly inferior coloring tools, at a tiny fraction of the price.

>>86067990
lol playing butthurt card already? As expected from a retard. Any more buzzwords you want to use too?

Let me educate you. Manga literally means comic. Now say thank you to me you ungrateful fuck.

>>86068245
>manga literally means comic

Yes, and practically it means shit art and retarded 12 year olds, present company included. And I'm sure there are some well drawn sparkledogs out there, that doesn't make "Sparkledog Furfag OC Maker" a good branding choice.

>>86067668
Thanks. I'll definitely consider doing that.

>>86068304
>being this of envy manga's popularity.
I do agree with you that Clip studio paint is a much better name for a drawing software.

Unfortunately, I still think you're a retard and a fag.

>>86068462
>y...you're just jelly because it's popular.

Yes, the same reason I despise other great and popular things, like Justin Beiber, or the Trump campaign.

>I still think you're a retard and a fag.

I'll take your opinion, weight it by you being a retarded 12 year old who likes manga, and judge it accordingly.

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What program do you use to draw, anon?

>>86069008
Disney Magic Artist for Windows 98

>>86069008
Sparkledog Furfag OC Maker. What are your favorite samefaces to trace?

>>86069086
I just go to deviant art and use traces I found from there.

>>86068983
so are you a midget or do you just prefer the taste of low-hanging fruit

>>86069008
I don't draw.

I art.

Another page 10. Let this be a lesson to you clods. No more /hyw/.

>>86072984
I'm happy you care so much.

should have a page finished soooooon

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I spent way too much time on this one panel so I wanna vindicate myself by showing it. Most of these characters aren't going to show up outside of flashbacks but it's still important for them to have detailed designs and shit.

>>86075273
agreed. it's fun and it makes your setting feel more real and complete. i'm always trying to add more of a past to my setting

>>86075731
What's great is that it's an easy way to shove in jokes that you wanna use but have no place for. I give a lot of posthumous and flashback characters pun names.

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Finished this page!

blimp

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>tfw soo far behind on my writing

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Posting a comic.

I hope you enjoy it.

>>86079125
it may be really gradual, but you are definitely improving

>>86079174

Oh anon, Do you want read my comic?

I got a tumblr.

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moving right along..
this took me so long to write. I get these pictures in my head of how I want conversations to go.. er.. not pictures I guess, but like, bundles of emotion.. but making it actually happen is not easy when 90 percent of my dialogue is just casual haha dude some shit happened lol.
gotta woik on that. trying to make some dramatical rpg revelation shit here. trying to get people invested in piecing together this backstory. there's a payoff planned that is gonna fall pretty flat if they aren't.

>>86079237
I read it here whenever you post it! I've been watching brown smoky dog, green seaweed girl, and beige mummy guy on their adventure ever since they... ... had.. lunch? and the dog's lunch was a pun or something.

>>86079278
http://character-limit-blog.tumblr.com/

I been updating.

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>>86079363
>Note to self: Do not blog to yourself out loud.

>>86079361
wait, is her name being censored or is it just not translating all the way?
awww she got him some coffee. Such a sweety

>>86069008
Sketchbook Pro 7.

>>86069008
Paint tool sai

>>86069008
Pencil .07

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>>86080014
It's censored. Throwback reminder to something hinted at long ago.

>>86069008
GIMP 2.6

>>86081874
oh thaaat's right.
this is why i like these threads. people are around to ask this stuff

>>86069008
Potato Shop CS4

>>86039693
>>86039759
>>86039786

So, guys, I think I have something for a short side story involving the siblings. It's pretty much a reconciliation scene following the aftermath of the scene I shown here before, I'm thinking 16 to 20 pages. Probably won't be part of the main series, but I think I'm into something. Are you willing to give it a read once I write down my ideas?

>>86079238
I don't know if it's me, but I feel all this deal is dragging longer than necessary.

>>86069008
Photoshop CS6 for scanned pages, CSP for fully digital illustrations

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slowly but surely the adventure continues.
Need to find a nice stopping place so I can spend some time and redo the first 41 pages

>>86082871
16 pages is a short side story?
>dragging longer than necessary
it is, but I think some of it is my terrible pacing lately. I'm finding myself poring over a script for days, unwilling to settle on its writing, because I wanna get everything perfect. This last big plot needs to really feel like it was a good ending and not a fizzle-out... and when you've had the fucking multiverse-destroying thrice-previously-defeated lore-riddled badguy already, it's hard to move upward from there.

As for this guy specifically, I was just so inspired by the concept of heroic sacrifices that go significantly beyond risking your life into giving up your afterlife. like remember in thundercats? cmon. that shit was meaningful. tales of symphonia 2 anyone? big spoilers there.

>>86083349
16 pages made by me barely cover anything. 16 made by you could cover the old testament </:^)

>>86083395
and don't think I haven't considered it!

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How do i make a funny strip?

>>86084480
Play with expectations, balance the art with the writing (don't rely on funny faces to carry a terrible joke, it shows really hard), embrace slapstick but apply it cleverly, play personality types off of each other, etc. Analyze what you like about your favorite funny webcomics. I'll recommend first analyzing the joke structures for Nedroid comics because there are a lot of them to look at and it's made me laugh more consistently than any other webcomic. Study Oglaf if you want to make it raunchy.

But I'm assuming you want to do a gag-a-day, the approach to a funny webcomic with a narrative is usually a bit different and relies more heavily on character interaction and visual gags.

>>86072984
let it die, this post was a mistake

is it dead yet

I love people Tsundere-bumping

>>86086112
/hyw/ deserves to die, but much like today's senior citizens, the bleeding hearts are all to happy to keep it limping along despite its complete uselessness.

>>86086954
Or perhaps, people still work on their webcomics.

>>86087219
But why? Nobody here will make it, they're not and will never be professional level.

>>86087613
Some people just do this as a hobby. To create something and share it with the internet. Not everything is about "making it".

>>86087613
Anon said, wanking furiously.

>>86087662
Thread Activity: Draw This

>>86087689
>>>/aco/

>>86088629
>>>/adv/

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So, I've been thinking for a while to make a separate blog for my NSFW stuff, still in the works, but I've decided to use Irene as the mascot for it so here's the initial attempt for a logo. The mosaic I'd because I haven't decided on a name yet and it hasn't launched, but once it does, I'll be sure to tell those I know are interested in it.
In the meantime, what do you think of this logo? I wanted something simplistic, and still SFW but maybe I went too simplistic. You tell me.

>>86088675
Cute, although maybe you should put a logo of some kind on the apron and/or hat?

>>86088707
Great idea. It suits her style and she's the mascot, so it sounds great. I'm terrible for logos and lettering, thanks for your input!

Bump hurr hurr

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WIP

Almost finished

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New attempt to get a new logo, how does this one looks?

>>86090860
i wanna fuck the robot

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I just tried to draw Irene like usual and she slimmed in comparison to how I used to draw her. I'm gonna have to work on that, I like her more when she's curvy.

What's a good way to make a kinetic novel (linear visual novel)?

http://balak01.deviantart.com/art/about-DIGITAL-COMICS-111966969
http://balak01.deviantart.com/art/ABOUt-about-DIGITAL-COMICS-112523191

Would it be memory/filesize-intensive to create bitmap images and import them to Flash, since I'm not keen on Flash brushes whatsoever? If it is intensive, would it be preferable to use Ren'Py over Flash? Does Ren'Py have a way to show textboxes anywhere on the screen, and multiple textboxes at once, like a standard comic page?

>>86093216
don't fight the urges, anon. Just draw it.

>>86093216
Doesn't anacondas break their prey before eating them? I totally forgot desu

>>86093216
Don't jump straight away into the vore. Take your time. Start with some all-the-way-through.

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>>86093216
Why don't you just, y'know, NOT draw it?

Keep your fetishes for your own special private time, but leave it out of the webcomic.

>>86093253
I'm afraid of what I'll do, I have a super perverted mind when it comes to vore, I wanted this to be a cute story about an anaconda making friends with some village kids.

>>86093273
Yeah and I was going to have Sara hypnotize one of the girls, while she broke a few of her bones, yet instead of the girl screaming, she would moan, since the hypnotizing replaced the pain as pure pleasure

>>86093293
man, I don't wanna do the vore but my mind is screaming.

>>86093362
It's hard because part of me wants this.

Fuck it, would you guys be interested with it? Are you into fatal vore?

>>86093411
You go through with it, I'll draw guest porn. Vore ain't my thing, but loli, shota, and threading are.

Oh and I'd scratch the hypnosis, that's a little too Disney.

>>86093411
>Fuck it, would you guys be interested with it? Are you into fatal vore?

Yes

>>86093524
>Oh and I'd scratch the hypnosis, that's a little too Disney.

Do not listen to this man, that makes it hotter.

>>86093524
hypnosis is fine but personally, I like to see for the prey to be in complete fear as they're able to be swallowed. But I ain't knocking the hypno thing

>>86093435
>>86093497
>>86093524
>>86093530
>>86093559
>>86093603

Okay, okay. I'll do it then. I know this might be a copycat of the Jungle book but I thought about making the children as indian, I like brown lolis/shotas.

For the Hypno thing, I might do half and half, some kids will be hypnotized and others won't. Plus yeah, I'll go really perverted with this.

Okay thank you guys

>>86093695
>Cute brown indian kids becoming snake chow

Yum, can't wait

>>86093559
Hypnosis makes it Disney fanfiction. Indian children would be fine, but the hypnosis thing... might as well add a spoiled brat character who turns into a giant blueberry when she doesn't listen to instructions.

>>86093796
You could be right, so should I just drop the hypnosis thing and just replace it with the binding and swallowing?

>>86093869
You said she makes friends with the children. Just make it a mutual trust sort of thing.

>>86093894
>animals
>underage
>/aco/

Get a load of this newfag.

Fucking kill yourselves for even bringing this up in /hyw/ at all. These threads should have been pruned long ago.

>>86093869
yeah because people will take Sara as a Kaa copycat.
Just make Sara as a normal big anaconda.
Also it doesn't have to end with the kids fearing as they're swallowed. Remember that children are native and dumb, just have sara make it as a game to trick them to be swallowed

>>86093938
You're just jealous because people like this guy's idea but yours were failures.

Small nitpick that could be ignored- Anaconda's are from South America. If the children are Indian than Sara as a python would be more appropriate.

>>86093901
>>86093950
These guys are right, I would drop the hypno, yet I don't know about the children willingly being swallowed.

It's possibly my own fetish but I really enjoy unwilling vore, the fear and demise makes it better

>>86094032
Consider the threading idea mentioned above. Sara travels all-the-way-through the children. They enjoy it. She convinces them to try it with her, mouth first, with entirely different consequences.

>>86093950
>>86093999
>>86094032
>>86094097
>>86094189

From your guys suggestions, I'll do it like this

-It'll be set in South America, since Anaconda are in South America and I can still keep the brownies)
-There will two children, a brother and sister
-Sara is an anaconda that always wanted to have a friendship, so she finds a brother and sister that sees Sara as really cool
-Sara views them as friends and they play and stuff until she slowly starts seeing them as food
-She tries to ignore the urges by just eating wild pigs etc etc, yet she starts having dreams of the bro and sis WANTING to be eaten by her
-Sara then spies on the bro and sis bathe, while imagining her hungry mouth consuming the bro and sis's cute butts
-Sara finally gives in

Now with how that happens, I'll make it as a game but I still want to make it as really perverted. I don't want Sara to just swallow them and that's it.

Question,

how far can technology get in a Fantasy setting before it becomes stupid?

>>86094502
>Now with how that happens, I'll make it as a game but I still want to make it as really perverted. I don't want Sara to just swallow them and that's it.

Make the children super stupid, have the brother and sister do sexual stuff to Sara and even themselves before she eats them
And make sure the vore part is very satisfying.
Don't do "snake swallows, leaves and the end"
Have it where sara swallows, says some sinister words then rests as her body fully digests them. Have panels of her bloated stomach make loud noises then slowllly go back to its normal size.

>>86094586
Depends on how skilled you are at blending it in with the world.

>>86094586
That depends,what's the purpose of the technology in the setting and story?

>>86094666
I guess it isn't supposed to blend but rather be a stark contrast with everything else. I'm just curious if adding airships and even Nukes is excessive.
>>86094679
so the setting is that there is this one faction of isolationists who have super advanced technology. E.G. Electricity, flight, guns. They remain isolated behind their incredibly high walls for 500 years but eventually attack their neighbors for seemingly no reason. Again, I'm just curious how much more advanced I can make them before it's dumb

>>86084480
it's very simple:
think of a comic that wouldn't be funny at all. one where people's reaction would be "I don't get it.. that's just normal"
now change it so it's not what you'd expect of a normal non-funny interaction anymore. throw in a kink to expectations
look around you, ask what would happen in every situation if someone involved was an idiot, or purposely breaking the usual rules of conduct

>>86094795
If you want to do nukes in a fantasy world, I suggest reading the Darkness series by Harry Turtledove, which is World War II in a swords-and-sorcery universe. It's really neat how Turtledove handled the tech-to-magic transitions.

>>86095048
Will do.

>>86094795
>super advanced technology.
Is that compared to the typical Dark Ages/Medievel era fantasy-setting or our modern 21st century society?

Even Industrial Revolution era technology would be 'super-advanced' compared to a bunch of Norman knights.

Did the Isolationists develop this tech from scratch over 500 years or did they have access to a cache of relics while everyone else fell into (and rose out of?) barbarism? Where did they get the resources and motivation to develop their technology to that standard?

Once they leave their ivory tower and start their invasion, what's to stop them just steamrolling over their neighbours? Do their neighbours have magic and dragons?

What's the STORY going to be?

>>86094502
>I'll make it as a game but I still want to make it as really perverted. I don't want Sara to just swallow them and that's it.

Sara starts penetrating them, first the sis, then the brother, taking turns. They start having a game of "how for in can Sara go." They discover she can go a lot further if it's anal. Eventually she goes all the way through the ass and out the mouth. Kids think it's pretty nuts. Then she goes through a mouth and out the ass, eventually threading both of them. The game ends. Then she says it's their turn, and asks them to go through her mouth.

More than two kids would also be a plus, imo.

>>86090860
aw man. heavy
>>86093216
eh, honestly that's working even for me, and i hate that fetishy vore shit.
>>86093411
eh, well maybe not that bad. just make yourself keep it cute. make that your restraining bolt.

>>86094586
High renaissance. Go any further into the enlightenment and you start wonder why nobody's applying the scientific method to magic.

>>86095098
>Did the Isolationists develop this tech from scratch over 500 years or did they have access to a cache of relics
They actually find a cache of technology from a long gone civilization.

As for why don't they just steam roll everyone they aren't attacking for conquest. Their whole purpose that is discovered later is that they declared themselves the protectors of the dangerous technology they found and invaded in order to prevent the tech from being used by people unable to comprehend their power. In this case, the King of the neighboring country finds another cache of these weapons, which turns out to be several nukes, and plans on using them to defeat his enemies and the advanced society.

>>86094586
vacuum tubes
>>86094795
nukes that work the way nukes do is way too far
nukes that work based on using magic to split atoms are absolutely kosher.

>>86095312
How does the neighbouring king know what the nukes are and how to use them?

I just remembered that the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind manga also has the theme of quasi-medieval people using lost super-technology for conquest, although that uses science-magical super-super-technology instead of anything we would recognise or understand.

What is the STORY? Who are the protagonists and how do they get involved?
Otherwise you're writing an RPG campaign without any players.

>>86095445
>How does the neighbouring king know what the nukes are and how to use them?
Haven't worked that out. Best I come up with soo far is he finds something explaining what they are.

>What is the STORY?
Set in a fantasy world, the country of Estrella is the main power on the continent and has been so for the last 300 years and has enjoyed peace for most of that time. However, they share one of their borders with an even great power, an isolationist nation known only as "The Unbidden". The Unbidden, using technology hundreds if not thousands of years more advanced, have remained in their one large city behind their large walls. For the last 500 years they have had no contact with anyone from the outside world. There are two main characters. The first being one of Estrella's princesses named Camilla and the second being her knight and protector Samuel. On Camilla's 22nd birthday her father goes missing just before the Unbidden break their 500 year silence and begin invading Estrella. After narrowly escaping the capital Camilla and Samuel set out on a quest to not only find her father but to uncover the secret of the Unbidden.

there's still some detail that needs to be worked out but it's a start

I'm reminded of a cautionary tale from Boulet about getting caught up in world building.
http://english.bouletcorp.com/2005/01/07/bears-penguins/

>>86097203
Or you could go into /coc/ threads and see the hell of infinite worldbuilding they've gotten themselves into.

>>86069008
Pencils and a hacked up GIMP 2.6 made to behave like 2.4.

>>86099040
>downgrading shit to make it behave like you want
muh nuggles

>>86097203
>getting caught up in infinite worldbuilding mode well after setting up the story
>having to rewrite little bits of the story to make them fit better with the new setting
>constantly teetering on the edge of destroying the entire plot with some errant development in technology
On the one hand, telephones naturally fit in the setting and it's hard to imagine the people wouldn't have a demand for and develop them, but on the other they might mess around with the plot. It's a pain.

>>86101170
yeahh it's the kinda thing you wish you had a time machine for

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>>86102712
God, just shut the fuck up coldfusion.

>>86103578
>I want to know1

that's .. actually pretty clever. both for anna and for you writing it.
what's with this brother sister thing

>>86103908
Darn, can't believe I missed that.

Either way, yeah, I felt pretty good when I clicked it together.

Also, they love each other, what's so wrong with that?

>>86104003
I don't recall them ever meeting
actually I can't remember who this chick is at all but I don't remember annabeth having a close relationship with anyone other than Jack. prolly just my shit memory

>>86046559
>>86030121
>>86030105

I chuckled at these.
I like the idea of a guy who knows nothing about pokemon going out into the pokemon world.

That dissonance is the key to your humor, I think.

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>>86104127
Yeah, they've met here and there.

Basiclly as explained this page, Annabeth was Adopted by Mr. Bling some time we can only assume when Jack and Annabeth somehow got separated.

They've never really liked eachother, it's mainly just renne who loves Annabeth now, Annabeth probably still hates Renne.

>>86104336
ohh yeahhh. i forgot. okay, all caught up now.

and a bump
/co/ is fast tonight

>>86064980
The statement about American military tech stagnating after WWI is so blatantly wrong that only a troll or someone totally ignorant and yet totally arrogant in their supposed knowledge would say it.

How do you guys write your scripts for webcomics? Like what's your setup? How many words should each panel be without being super wordy?

I'm finding myself either writing paragraphs or making the conversation drag too long for tons of panels

>>86107039
For me a line or two in notepad ends up being a decent amount. but then my text is bigger than most people's per panel, so feel free to go higher

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>it's a weird one

ennuigo.smackjeeves.com

>>86052348
love the artstyle. It manages to have so much going on so cleanly.

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Leave it to Krita to fix what wasn't broken and break it in the process. 3.0 update was cumbersome.

Next page is sketched and ready for coloring.

>>86107039
I'd say no more than two sentences per character per panel, and even that's stretching it a bit.

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Finished this page, look okay?

>>86107182
and for this comic that means something

>>86107410
Looks good!

>>86107410
ugh all my sweet junk! so rolledthrough
i dunno my only real feedback is maybe varying up the light blues a bit. seems like he and the googly-eyed toothvaginamouth snailmonster and the wobbly cooking pot trash can shouldn't all have nearly the same color.

>>86107619
Good point. Just changed the monster to green and purple!

>>86107039
I don't do scripts because I always ended up changing all the dialogue by the time I finished the page. I just first just write the bare sequence of events, make thumbnails, and then write dialogue for each panel/page. If you're more of a words guy than visuals, this might not work for you though.

>>86107182
on the last panel
>stil

>>86107410
absolutely love it, as always. very nice choice to make the flashback all fuzzy with no outline.

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>>86104168
Thank you. I didn't really want to do a Nuzlocke at first. But I've always wanted to do a webcomic. My friend pressured me into doing a Nuzlocke just for practice and a bit of fun, and I'm enjoying drawing these a lot. Since I know they're not "for real", I don't feel a lot of pressure when I'm working on them. On the other hand, I'm sure they could be a lot better if I tried harder.

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i made a thing - thoughts?

>>86111856
i like this kinda thing.
in the first panel he appears to have either two noses or two mouths depending how youre drawing it.
shit, angry wasps? smacking them would surely put you in a world of trouble. did he not get stung? (wait, is this autobiographical?)
that's a nicely drawn wasp there, the noodly limbs are a funny contrast. though you should know those are girls. (They sting you with their sharp, pointy vaginas)

>>86111856
I think its good, nice work my dude

Clip Studio Paint (née Manga Studio 5) is currently on sale for the next 4 days. Up to 60% off, including upgrades from Pro to EX.

http://www.clipstudio.net/en/purchase

>>86111856
Letting one of them go might actually draw more to your home. Of course, a dead wasp will draw more to you as well.

>>86107182
I'm glad you're back to making a comic that people want to read.

El bumpo

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>>86114155

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anyone else here is used to talking to some of your characters inside your mind?

weird shit happened to me last night at a party now i can't hear them anymore i wonder if they'll come back im not used to this absolute silence in my mind

>>86112738
It looks like the upgrade price is the same as just straight up buying it. What's the difference between Pro and Ex?

>>86114574
http://www.clipstudio.net/en/functions

If you're serious about publishing multi-page documents, in print and digitally, then consider going for EX. But for most people I think Pro will suffice.

>>86114742
I ended up upgrading anyways. 60% off is a great deal that I doubt I'll get in the future, and I had the extra cash.

Does anyone here have experience with Patreon?
I never wanted to do one, because it kinda felt like begging, but some people keep asking me to make one.
What tiers would make sense, what can I actually provide?
Early Access pages are a given, but I'm not sure what's the best way to provide them.

>>86115427
First off, how big of following do you have? That's important, if you're just starting off and doing Patreon then that's never good.

>>86115427
I'd just make a Patreon as a side thing and nothing more than for people to support and help you draw more

>>86115619
I've been doing this for a year but I only have ~100 active readers. A bigger webcomic artist gave me a huge shout-out recently and I got thousands of views, but I'm not sure how many of them will stay. He told me I should make a patreon as soon as possible. Then again, no one ever used my Paypal button, so I really don't know.

>>86115427
It's only begging if you make it begging. Make your Patreon about exclusive content and it's easy money.

Easy money if your content isn't shit, I mean. But that's not my call.

>>86115427
You can post images directly to your Patreon blog, but it's only set up for one image at a time that way. If you want to show more than one image in a blog post, then it suggests hosting on another site and hotlinking from there. The blog posts can be locked to certain tiers and above (eg Everyone in the world (free), Patrons pledging $X or more, etc).

>>86115677
Is it possible to post some of your stuff?

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>>86115748
Not a big secret, I'm talking about Kevin.
You can read it here:
http://circlejerk.de/kevin/en/

>>86115619
It's never bad either.

>>86115919
No he's right.
If you're just starting off and add a Patron, people will often ease away from your stuff, since they think you're just trying to make a quick buck off of them

>>86115785
>No female characters
>It's meh

Eh, you might have a tough time, unless you do some fanservice. Maybe offer a tier where you draw chubby Kevin crossdressing then the next tier is Kevin crossdressing while doing something really lewd.

You'll get easy fujo/gay chub money from that.

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Hey anon's I'm learning how to loomis but I don't know which book to start at can you anons help me out?