How's Your Webcomic? #337

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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/ (surprisingly not a typo)

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

>DISCORD CHAT going on,
Ask for an invite in the thread.

>Wise words from John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xPvvPTQaMI

>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

Cool. never been first in on of these things.

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>>88806771

working on my two main webcomic girls Faruine Stardust(left) and her big sister Fera Stardust(right) watching some fire works

coming soon!

>>88807014
it's a good feeling isn't it?

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Huh, lucky yo catch this before heading to sleep.

Close to finishing my second page here.

>>88807253
yeah that is some good progress. i love your splosion. has the little shrapnel trail lines and everything

>>88807253
Does this end with Pepe climbing out of the ashes?

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>>88807160

wip bump

greatly reduced quality to upload on linksys shit internet :/

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>>88807999

shiny hair and highlights bump!

i have no idea how to fucking shade this...

also ignore the tittle and date, this is my first sketch of the year

>>88808947
>i have no idea how to fucking shade this...

Just randomly throw shadows anywhere, same way you shade everything else.

It's been a productive few days, so I am getting started on some holiday cards for patrons for next year since I'm waiting on my assistant to ink. Really excited about starting my next storyline next week.

I'm planning on doing a Haunted Mansion themed card with my characters in the classic stretching portraits.

>>88808947
keep all shadows near the center of each character since the light source is in front of them

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>>88808947

?????????

>>88809145
LIKE THIS?????????????

>>88809572
i have no idea what you mean.... i am but a humble beginner good sir

>>88809145
>>88809572

thanks for the advice ^^

>>88809681
Yup, that's random alright. Add a few extra vanishing points too.

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>>88809476

I have the rough sketch down now. Basically it's the famous Haunted Mansion stretching portraits, but I swapped in my webcomic characters. Gonna ink it later today.

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>>88809712

imma sleep on it

happy new years everybody

>>88807253
What's the story gonna be about? And where are you posting it?

>>88811161
Guess I'll just let it out.

It's about an older brother named Aaron who wants to focus on working hard to support him and his younger brother Nate. Even when the older brother received super powers, Aaron would much rather work and not risk losing his life, worrying for Nate's future for a happy life. But Nate loves super heroes, so Aaron goes out and be a hero on his spare time from work just to make Nate happy.

I have like their entire arc set up and spent a lot of time solidifying it.

>>88811312
That sounds good, the reluctant hero stories are always interesting. So where are you posting the comic?

>>88811161
As for where, I might just make a WordPress or Tumblr page.

Comic will be called No Play.

>>88810039
Looks good so far. Good compositions.

You know you can change the color of the UI to dark right? That's a personal preference for me at least, the bright white layout just bothers my eyes, especially when working at night.

>>88811352
Oh so you don't have a place yet. In that case mind posting page 1? I seem to have missed it.

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>>88811470

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>>88810039
Oh man, that makes me nostalgic

Anyhow,didn't have time to update last week because I was constantly out doing stuff during Christmas break. Fun times, though

>zero posts
Are all /hyw/ posters normies that got wasted after new years? I guess that's why you're comics never improve.

>>88814320
these threads are a waste, just let them die

>>88811384

I prefer the light UI for whatever reason, going dark would throw me off too much. Thanks though.

>>88814935
yeah if youre gonna draw light you might as well let the UI match or it's just harsher contrast

>>88814320
>that got wasted
or are with family and away right now
even robots have to confront their family once a year

oh man if carrion girls guy shows up.. that is some amazing realistic shading even for you

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>>88810043

quick sketch doodle of Fera bump!

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>TFW too intelligent to write

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>tfw you daydream of stories all day but all motivation evaporates as soon as you get to the computer

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WIP of a new Saffron and Sage character. I wonder who she is?

>>88818083
someone who thought it would be fun to microwave a jawbreaker

>>88818083
Is that a female Zuko?

>>88818113

That's a mean thing to say, anon D:

>>88818366
honestly of all the permanent disfigurations, burns seem to be amongst the best. they can almost look cool

>>88807999
>>88808947
>>88809681
>>88810043
>posting the same image 4 times
Stop.

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>>88818641
Wrong, missing limbs are the bast, that is if they get cool robot arms. If the setting has no such technology, then the blind fighter trope is the best.

>>88819347
blindness isn't a disfiguration though
and yeah obviously if you had replacement limbs that's awesome looking
if you were out of eyes, robo eyes are cool looking, but just being blind isn't cool LOOKING., it's just impressive

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>>88819417
You're right it's not a disfiguration, but it can look good sometimes. I kinda like the clear eyed look.
Sorry for using anime examples twice in a row. Don't ban me, Mods!

>>88819917
yeah that's an interesting one. They do that for blindness or for hypnosis. the latter sort of makes sense, as the eyes 'glaze over' so their shininess is interrupted, but unless it's meant to represent cataracts, the former is a weird choice.

>>88819936
That might actually be an interesting topic of discussion: do you feel like it's possible to make up any new comic shorthands and expressions? Obviously a century ago people thought so, and kept inventing them

Long time lurker here. I want to make a 4 strip gag a day (couple times a week, let's be real) in the vein of early Sinfest, maybe some full spreads like Octopus pie.

Only problem is I'm using gimp. Pen settings are really hard to manipulate to make it flow natural like pencil on paper.

What are all y'all drawing programs/tablet settings/preferred work steps? Help a n00b out, I'm going to change the pace of the 21st century.

>>88820862
clipstudio/mangastudio all the way son

>>88820889
A little pricey, but good to know that one in particular. Guess I'll save up, thanks senpai

>>88821041
it's like the cheapest program around, isnt it like 40 bucks? compared to photoshop which is either in the hundreds or charges every month

>>88821144
It's 50. I like internet comics, you think I'm made of money?

Also, does /co/ have an auto filter or something? Or are the mods just cheeky? Turned "senpai" to "senpai."

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>>88821520
>Turned "senpai" to "senpai."
How new are you?

>>88821520
isn't it the entirety of 4chan that does that?

in any case, go ahead and pirate it now til you can afford it. I trust you.

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i just posting from last thread.

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Working on issue #5 of my webcomic, The Catholic Monster.

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>>88821963
Just did this so far

>>88821978
>i'm-a the freakin' pope!
the faces look a bit inconsistent but i like your coloring

>>88821999
Is it too distracting? I hope to get better at faces soon

>>88821963
A wall of text, this triggers my ADD. It better be important to the plot.

>>88822071
ONLY time I've done it, I swear. All the other issues were stupid action scenes with little plot, I wanted to sacrifice TWO pages to work some real plot

>>88822096
Alright, man, I'll believe you. But got a place where I can see the rest of it? Googling the name didn't help.

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Been updating my webcomic NANDENO for over a year. http://nandeno.com/
It's sort of a slice of life comic with really stupid, crude humor. Here's the most recent page from the current story arc.

>>88822034
ehhh who can say

>>88822182
i love the stupid crude humor in this comic. the latest arc hasnt exactly pulled me in but it's all good
the art has gotten a lot better too, though I feel like lately it's kind of looking like it's pasted from templates when it clearly isnt

>>88822177
The FB page is called Art Of Herbie Grimm
The pinned photo has links for all the issues in HD

>>88817384
That's why you WRITE shit down. Constantly keep a notebook and take note of any daydreams you have.

>>88822245
Thank you. I really hope the next few pages can pull you in. It's my first longer arc so I'll try to learn from it and make the following arcs better. Any particular reason it looks pasted from templates? Is there any way I could improve upon that?

>>88821963
If you have a character talking that much, try condensing what he says to smaller amount of words but still meaning that same as what he is originally trying to get across.

If you have so much text it will overwhelm the reader and will probably get bored of wanting to read all that.

Gotta have the reader in mind and how to keep their attention and not bore them. This is a visual medium, try to "show more, tell less."

>>88822841
Yeah, that was the idea. It's issue five, the previous four issues were almost wordless. It's time to slow down and talk about what's been happening.

>>88822335
>>88822034
>give advice
>asked to back it up
gah, I wasn't ready! It's just kind of a feeling, or taste..
I guess in Supper's case I can say it's the regular geometry, the lack of a lot of different angles

>>88822841
I'm okay with walls of text when necessary. it just means that's how the story is. you just don't want a ton and you sure as fuck don't wanna START your comic with one unless it's reaallly enthralling. and even then try to break it up into more pages.

>>88822899
fuck, I've been doing my best to use more interesting angles but I'll just have to work even harder on that. Thank you!

>>88821978
>>88822034
Try playing with line weights more, a lot of it feels jarring and scratchy in some places.

I can tell you referenced the pope's face in panel one and the anatomy is really off. Maybe try not to replicate his face too hard, and just borrow a few elements that stand out and work with that.

>>88822992
Thanks.

>>88822914
More pages? Or you mean more panels? Either way, he probably shouldn't have mountains of text if he can help it, unless all the details are crucial.

>>88823017
No problem.

Just please learn from your missteps and improve, unlike some people here...

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>>88823069
I try to practice anatomy every day. I hope to get better with every monthly issue. Thanks for pointing out the mistakes, I'll work in the lineweight.

>>88822966
Well I mean, panel 5 is a slightly-underneath shot of kristi, but her expression is so identical to panel 2 that it doesnt come off that way, and the scene is still perfectly horizontal head-on to every other character and the house.

I mean I'm really guilty of this too, and I don't even think it's a super bad thing. It's just that when you combine it with such clean, consistent art, it starts to make you feel like this is maybe a little too perfect

>>88823044
either one. point is give the audience something to enjoy while they learn. if the text is that important, and it should be if you have that much, there must be something else you can draw to represent some of it. a flashback, a closeup on a face expressing how it affected him, something.

>>88823120
You're right, I should've paid more attention to that. I honestly took the easy way out with the house because i'm awful at drawing buildings. I gotta practice that more. Thanks again.

>>88823131
Right. I tried explaining adding more panels to keep the reader's interest up by showing more panels and help enhance the narrative visually as well as with dialogue. They can try setting atmosphere or even a certain visual story along with dialogue.

>>88823296
Bendis gets away with splash pages of text though.

>>88823223
and there's nothing wrong with that. it's a simple comedy comic after all

>>88823331
Just because he gets anyway with it doesn't mean it's always ok.

He gets away with writing obviously bad comic events like CWII and still keeps getting work.

>>88823396
I'm just saying it IS a resource used by professional writers.

>>88823531
Yes, it is.

>>88823118
what's the comic on the right from?

>>88823721
all me, 7 years difference

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So I've been thinking of making comics from my tabletop games. Only thing is, I have a few ideas and I'd like a few stories going rather than just one long ongoing story. Kind of like Oglaf does, but organized better so you can choose to read a particular story if you so wished. I've never made a webcomic before though, do you guys think this would be a shit idea? pic related is an example of my art and also one of the main characters it would revolve around

>>88823758
Great style, could you link your comic and/or art please?

>>88823917
Thanks, here's the link
http://pastebin.com/mk3J411W

>>88823896
Great design, the eyes are derpy though. As it is now I can't tell any personality this character might have.

>>88823531
>appeal to authority

>>88824057
Not my point.

>>88823896
sounds like it'd be hard to do well. God knows Oglaf doesn't do it that well, I never notice their continuity until someone points it out in one of the rare /co/ threads.
One thing you could do perhaps is to archive them both ways, and with each new entry into that side story, you post links to the previous ones, or to that sub-archive.
what's with her cape thing? her arms go through it, but on one side it ends at the elbow but then continues behind the arm?

>>88824128
Not an argument.

>>88824210
Why'd I have to defend a point I didn't make?

>>88824057
it may not be the best debate point but it's a valid defense

>>88823896

Basically you'd have a bunch of different webcomics sporadically updating on the one site?

It's not a terrible idea, but it'll be hard to keep people invested when the story they like doesn't update regularly.

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>>88818113

>>88823896
looks cute, show us some comics

>>88823531
>resource
It's a copout, for when they're too fucking lazy. There is zero reason to have a wall of text anywhere.

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>>88824010
Personality is charming, strange, trusting to the extent of naive, and seductive. She's from a high-tech place in 2050 where magic is believed to be limited to fantasy comics and video games, but superheroes exist and are all over the place fighting crime and each other. She stumbles upon a hermit in a magic tree who happens to be charlemagne and he teaches her magic, which she uses to be a superhero.

>>88824204
Agreed, he could have done that way better. For example I found myself really liking the Apprentice Sorcerer storyline and wanted to just read that; even tags would have helped. The cloak is almost like a poncho, the arms are really wide and loose. I did this real quick to maybe illustrate it better. The inside is a silky material with stars, and then there's just a scarf thing that goes over her shoulders of the same material

>>88824408
That's my main concern, yep. I'm looking to find a balance between keeping myself interested and any readers interested

>>88824544
will post here as soon as I finish a page friendo

>>88824669
aren't you being a tad monolithic

>>88824944
now THAT is a backstory.
oh okay, well remember anytime she raises her arms to raise the poncho. in your previous picture I think you made a mistake with that one side

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Hey artist for "Two girls one comic" finally back

Just trying to get back into drawing so I did this weird piece of what ever.

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I'm not making a web comic yet, I'm still trying to learn how to draw and use a drawing tablet, but what can I improve on? I know its pretty shitty but I want to know what to do now and for the future.

>>88826009
it's hard to say just from here, since there's hardly a 'wrong' way to draw a cartoon guy (i like his hair and eyebrows)
I can give a little feedback on suggested changes to anatomy (the inner ear shape, look at how some other cartoons draw that. i'm fond of a ? shape, also I'd move his head further to the right since it's meant to be tilted to our right, like further forward on the neck) but otherwise my only real suggestion for IMPROVEMENT is the way that your lines are rounded at the end. Whether you can change that in your pen settings or whether you have to simply carefully erase after each one, it's good to get pointed tips at the end of pointy shapes, don't you think?

also it looks like you tried a little rim lighting on the hair.. that's not a good idea, better to think of the hair as a 3d shape (or just symbol-draw a hair-shading shape on it. usually some kind of zigzag that goes in an arch downward)

>>88826009
oh also dem pupes is tiny. is he on all the crack?

>>88826209
Alright cool, thank you for the feedback! I'm still trying to explore the settings of my tablet and photoshop so I'll keep the things you said in mind about pen settings, when is it appropriate to add rim lighting? I just wanted to make it seem a little less basic and plain looking.

>>88826908
>when is it appropriate to add rim lighting?
when a light source is behind them

>>88824944
Do you already have story arcs planned? If so, what kind of adventures has she had as a hero? What are the rules of the universe she's in? You mentioned based on a game, will you play fast an loose with how those games went to make a better story?

>>88827507
I'd like to know this second one too, especially since cape franchises usually DO have magicians in them, and it's always interesting how they fight totally different types of foes, as if superheroes are like doctors and you go to a different one with your demon problems than you do with your robbed-banks or your guy in a giant robot suit

but if she's supposed to be in a world where nobody else knows about magic, but they DO have superheroes, then that'll be this nice contrast

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Reposting comic, I'm almost finished with the next page. I'll post it in a few hours.
juneau.the-comic.org

>>88824944
How much magic is in the setting? If it's capes stuff are there magic super heroes other than her? Is it like magic is everywhere but no one acknowledges it or it's hidden in plane site

>>88827561
>>88828427

>but if she's supposed to be in a world where nobody else knows about magic, but they DO have superheroes, then that'll be this nice contrast
That's pretty much it. It's got lots of capes but magic is pretty unknown. 99% of people deny the existence of it even if it smacks them in the face (even one of her team members refused to believe she was using actual magic for a while and just said it was nanomachines).

>it's always interesting how they fight totally different types of foes, as if superheroes are like doctors and you go to a different one with your demon problems than you do with your robbed-banks or your guy in a giant robot suit

I agree! That's part of the reason I wanted to do several stories at once, because I have another character in the same setting who is a mutant and sees a whole other side of the world.

>>88827507
>Do you already have story arcs planned? If so, what kind of adventures has she had as a hero?

Yep. At first she starts fighting low-level crime by herself for a short time to test out her magic. Then she meets some people and they gather a team, including
>A psychic who tells everyone he is a doctor. Is not actually a doctor, just pretends and has a fake business in which he psychic-heals people on the DL
>An angry and morally ambiguous large game hunter, has no powers other than her amazing ability with guns
>A genius who is also kind of goofy and has his dumb moments. Can build a bomb but forgets how to tie his shoes sometimes. Builds the team weapons and has a crush on the angry hunter girl, this does not go well
>A poor street rat type of kid who has the mask of a long-dead samurai that talks to him sometimes and warns him of danger. Nobody believes him because they can't hear it talk.

The team parts ways and Camille goes off to find other magic characters and gets a little band going after a while of searching. She eventually gets thrown into a fantasy setting on accident.

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I'm back with a dudeweedlmao

I'm struggling to understand the tumblr Webcomic theme from the OP, anybody here use it?

>tfw when still working on fan comic
>tfw when hating how the art looks
>tfw wanna give up already

>>88821963
Break up that wall of text over several panels, instead of just one big full page splash.

Imagine he's an actor on TV. The director wouldn't just have him standing still and talking.

What is he doing? Walking around? Examining the furniture? Performing some minor activities? What facial expressions does he have? Who are the people around him and how do they react to the things he is saying?

There's no need to go overboard with dramatic angles and extreme close-ups, but a few varied panels would make things more interesting.

>>88820862
>>88821520

If price is an issue, FireAlpaca and MediBang Paint are free.

They're fairly stripped down with no whistles and bells, but they're fine for line-art and sketching, and have built in templates/settings for making comics with.

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wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

as an update I am still working hard to improve my work, I really hope everyone has even more fun this year with ton of success!

love ya peeps. peace!

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Check my work out, /co/! It just got an update!

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

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

>>88832716
Happy New Year dude, hope you keep fine tuning and improving your stuff

ANYONE KNOW OF ANY WEBCOMIC CONTESTS COMING UP??????????

>>88833827
Already a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVGDV67L-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rz1bluG_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLUjMWRCzic
http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/keit-ai/list?title_no=36825
https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/Keit-AI-Tomoyuki-x-Seiko-Keit%E6%84%9B-%E5%A5%89%E6%96%87-x-%E8%81%96%E5%AD%90

>>88833827
Can't wait to see the ending to this, Keit-ai anon.

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>>88833827
>#1 in the Japanese box office for 12 weeks, 11 weekends
>Has surpassed Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle as #2 Anime Film of All Time in Japan
>Earns 20 billion yen and counting to surpass Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in Japan
>Reached 10 billion yen 9 days faster than Frozen
>Now beyond 20 billion yen (US$288 million).
>Nominated for an Oscar
>Wins LA Film Critics Award
>Has become the no. 1 highest-grossing Japanese movie in China
>Has become the no. 1 movie in Thailand
>On the cusp of going beyond the box office gross of Spirited Away (US$289.1 million)

So this is meme magic. Not bad.

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>>88833827
ALWAYS

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>>88833827

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>tfw a meme story is 100 times more interesting than yours

How long should you spend on writing and plotting out your story before you begin drawing?

>>88836806
Some artists plot as they make every page.

A rough outline can suffice.

>>88836806
As long or as little as you want I suppose, though having your main characters, some settings, and a general plot would be a good start.

>>88834510
It's a meme, you dip

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>>88833827
>>88833827
>See: http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/keit-ai/list?title_no=36825
>>88834510
>http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/keit-ai/list?title_no=36825

>>88837079
that's the same guy, you pube. he delights in providing his own (you)

>>88836806
I'll have about three hundred pages of material in my head after a couple of days of thinking about it, and then it takes me a couple years to draw.

>>88836806
I generally have a good layout of the entire story and fill in as much information for story beats as possible, but still enough wiggle room when it comes to upcoming events that I would like to change.

Doesn't hurt to plan all you want before drawing it out.

>100+ replies
>only a handful of comics
delete these threads

>>88839171
calm down there autismo you don't want to have a sperg fit

>>88839286
speak for yourself

>>88839286
he's just fishing for replies man

Why do you guys think Goblins is so popular?

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Tell me I'm funny

>>88839657
it got a fine chuckle out of me, matey

>>88839573
are you implying there's only one comic called goblins?

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Tablet is still broke but I'm working on writing right now and I need some opinions.

I have twin characters who function on one shared brain linked telepathically. Would it be better if they had one left brain/ one right brain personalities, one positive/ one negative personalities or should they just be completely identical and perform as one single organism spread into two bodies?

Here's some really old art of one of them for reference, please don't criticize it, I know it's bad I just need help with the writing right now.

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I like to draw comics. I like to draw lewd. I would be really interested in putting some lewd pages into my comic where they'd be "appropriate" (word used loosely, maybe it's never appropriate?) but also steer clear of bad pandering outside of 'sex scenes' if you will.

Is this a bad idea? Will people stop reading my comics if there is some pr0n thrown in occasionally? I'm not talking hardcore fetish shit, just seeing some dicks and tits and people getting it on.

>>88841101
http://www.goblinscomic.org/

dude has bought two houses with the money he's gotten from this comic

>>88841248
What's the comic about?

>>88841445
I'm
>>88828852
>>88824944
>>88823896
this anon

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Finished this page!

>>88841248
Just be up front about it from the start; have a disclaimer to one side saying "May contain mature themes and content", that sort of thing.

>>88841151
Hmmm I feel like a combination of the first and last options are the best. They should mostly work as a unit but in the way that the two sides of your brain work together (especially someone with their connectors severed, who isn't aware of how their sides are working together)

>>88841151
>I know it's bad
Humility is nice, but you kinda just insulted everyone worse than you.. which is a lot.
>>88841248
This is by far my favorite type of comic to read. This is the internet, no need to shy away from anything.

>>88841151
I think there's some potential to this idea. How ever the good twin/evil twin cliché is over done.
Instead have each of the twins emphasize the differences of each side of the brain. Such as the left side being more logical and the right being more emotional.
This might be more difficult to write, but would make for more interesting characters. Like one side would try to solve a problem with some elaborate scheme, whilst having no regard for the safety of those involved. While the other would try to solve the situation with simply talking it threw.

>>88842362
>>88842926

Alright, I'll put some research into split-brains and implement it in a similar way, I think that could turn out pretty interesting. Thanks for the input.

Both are evil and they get along incredibly well since they're sort of the same person. So no matter what there won't be a good/evil thing, they can't even go more than a few meters away from eachother so that wouldn't work. I just meant one could be more optimistic and ambitious while the other could be more withdrawn. I think I will have one of them be more logical, with the other being more creative, they'll be sociopaths no matter what though.

>>88842386
I didn't want anyone criticizing my art from a year ago instead of actually helping with the current question. It's happened before multiple times.

That being said, thanks for the quasi-compliment, I didn't mean to be condescending I just try to uphold myself to a high standard in order to improve.

>>88843190
Yeah I can respect that
But wait, isn't your comic that really angular one with lots of red and blue? This looks a lot more polished and shaded and 3d than I remember the art from that being. Though of course there's a difference between promo art, concept art, and what goes into the finished comic

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>>88841248
Seems like an interesting idea, but I think there's a reason why I'v never seen that done right.
Everyone knows it's easier to draw some random lewds then it is to right a compelling story. And naturally most will chose the path of least resistance.
Like "Rock Cocks" for example, it might have had a story at one point, but eventually it just became random sex scenes the comic.
What I'm trying to say here is, I think over all your comic will suffer for it.

>>88843668
>eventually it just became random sex scenes the comic.
Uh... no? have you actually read it?
>right
>>88842926
>threw
this is a weird day, i've never seen this specific spelling mistakes before.

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>>88843296
Yeah that's me.Those characters are each drawn in the time limit of an hour and are for a comic I'm planning on updating almost every day. That picture of Damath I posted took an ENTIRE MONTH and still manages to have a shitty background, bad anatomy, and have a color palette consisting only of yellow. If I devoted a span of time that absurd to a character now it would look far better. Here's a comparison of what I've been able to accomplish in a month's time over the past year.

The first is just a character portrait, second was a (now scrapped) animated environment to start videos with, and the third is a panning animation background for a character to interact with. Each of these took around the same amount of time and each one is progressively more advanced than the last.

I think the improvement is pronounced I just use it in different ways. Once I get these animation backgrounds out of the way I'll do some more of those high detail character portraits but they won't take near as much time and they'll look far better.

What software do you guys recommend to a beginner making comics?

>>88844108
>threw
I noticed that right after I had posted it. Both words sound the same and I'm sorry to say this, but I see very little correlation with how words sound and how they are spelled.
I don't even hear half of the letters in the word "through". Perhaps the problem lies in how I sound the word, but to me english seems like a vary inconsistent language.

>>88844565
mangastudio/clipstudio all the way.
>>88844616
english is EXTREMELY inconsistent. nobody can blame you, my foreign bro.
>vary
very. see, that's another one.

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>>88844565
A pen and a paper.

>>88844719
What do you use for border templates?

>>88844928
not that guy, but a ruler i reckon

>>88844719
This.

Drawing using a computer with all the undos/redos and tons of layers/effects brings a lot of bad habits. It's good to go back to the basics once in a while and if you're a beginner, learn the basics first.

>>88844928
That's not my work, just something I used to illustrate an example. But, yeah, a ruler would probably work.

>>88841248
It's never appropriate for a good narrative. If you care about the story in your comic, don't do it, if you want to just draw whatever, go ahead. Just, like the other guy said, let people know your comic is about porn.

>>88841538
So, you haven't started yet. I thought you meant to add lewd to an already established comic.

>>88845193
I assume he asks for the marker

I haven't been doing anything in a while. I finally found out why I was stucked with my comic, but sorting it out won't be as easy, or pleasant at least. I'll try to bring something soon.

>All I did lately is a stupid pin-up with a stupid pun ;_;

I'm the anon who does the index card or Sketchbook doodles- Witty Shebcomics, I've been calling them. How should I go about adapting them to be read online? Taking pictures of the page ain't cutting it.

>>88845417
>It's never appropriate for a good narrative.
any other arbitrarily-selected content you think spoils all narratives?

>>88845498
aw man being stuck sucks

>>88845638
Simply getting a scanner would do wonders. And how about resizing, those things are huge.
And what is "Shebcomics" supposed to mean? That's not a term I'v ever herd before.

>>88845739
It's "Shitty Webcomics" with the "Sh-" and "W-" reversed.

Witty Shebcomics.

>>88845417
Do sex scenes in movies destroy good narrative for you?

>>88845785
Oh, I get it. That's kind of cleaver actually.
Would make for a nice banner, with the letters in a circles or something and with movement lines, indicating that they are switched.

>>88845806
They are unnecessary, but there's a difference. We are talking porn movies here, there is a story, but the highlight is the explicit sex scene.

Imagine your favorite movie, now imagine they have to show the every major character having sex at least once in it's entirety, a five-ish minute scene. How well would that fit into the narrative? Why did they show that to us?

>>88845658
It's not arbitrary, and we are not talking about elements a normal story might have, like I said, we are talking about porn. A story is a story, porn is porn.

>>88846277
>now imagine they have to show the every major character having sex at least once in it's entirety
why? nobody was suggesting sex quotas.

>>88846277
You do realize that the people responsible for removing porn from "normal" stories are psychopaths, right? Prior to those, normal stories had those. Now that they have lost power, they can have them again. Loosen your buckle hat.

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>>88845684
Yeah, it's terrible. I couldn't even do unrelated stuff, and now that I got the pencil back, I feel like I have a harder time than usual to get stuff done.

Polishing the rust will be a whole unwanted task for me, but that's how things works. This is what I get for not even practicing shapes while stuck.

Not webcomics, but this is the stupid pun I did yesterday, and the unscanned original sheet looks like ass, so I had to digitally salvage it however I could.

>>88846531
I'm no one to talk, I used sex so poorly for my current chapter, I feel ashamed of myself, but, the thing about sex is that if it's not part of the story, it's just an extra feature, like eating or going to the bathroom, and you don't see many of those scenes portrayed for a reason.
In Porn, sex is the main objective, so they obviously highlight that, but in a regular story, if sex is not part of the event that move the plot forward, it's just a feature, and focusing on it is counter-productive.

I'm not saying it's bad or that you shouldn't do it, but if you have a story that doesn't rely on it, then you should probably do the same.
If you know that and still wanna do it, go nuts, don't let me spoil your fun.

>>88847346
Annabeth?

>>88847501
What? No. It's a random girl, it's not even tan, kek

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>>88845739
Scanned (It was broken I swear) and resized. Test

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>>88847346
> it's just an extra feature, like eating or going to the bathroom, and you don't see many of those scenes portrayed for a reason.
I love eating scenes! and I remember a hilarious Blossom episode that started with them watching TV and musing
>nobody ever goes to the bathroom on TV
>they go to the bathroom on Seinfeld
>maybe that's why it's so popular
>....
>I have to go to the bathroom
>me too!

>>88847528
Ah yeah, the big eyebrows and that style of hair made me think that, lol.

>>88847346
I feel like I get this pun and yet I also don't get this pun

>>88847668
I think it's "Presto!" Like a magician just made something appear and then

"Chest"

>>88847638
I hear you, but you can't overdo them, same for sex or whatever daily life thing we do you want to add. There's a reason you don't see them as often as you'd like to.
Of course, you can try to break the mold and try something new, but I'd like to think it was tested enough to see how it turned out, i dunno.

>>88847689
oh that's fantastic. also it makes me want an 'abracagina'

>>88847668
>>88847689
Chesto is a Karate scream, I think they're called Kiai, chesto is how wapanese say "chest" as well. The rest is self explanatory.

>>88847749
yeah if your characters are having sex fucking nonstop, you're gonna have to explain why theyre like that, at some point. I read a few comics like that. As long as it's played for comedy, it's totally alright

>>88847803
ohh and she's wearing a karate gi! nice. Never heard that particular kiai before but it's believable.

>>88847857
This was the first time I heard it.
https://youtu.be/0Kpy_z6gUbs?t=2m10s

I've been craving to do this stupid pun for a while

>>88847816
It's all about measure. If you want to write porn, you can't waste space with lore and story, just draw sex, and viceversa.

>>88847998
Iunno man I love my porn with a good story. I feel like nobody balances it as well as hentai doujin artists. You've got somewhere between 12 and 36 pages to get me interested in who these people are and how great it is for them that they get to get up to these shenanigans

>>88847998
wow you aint kiddin, just looked it up, it's been in a lot of things. weird, it doesnt parse in nihongo.

>>88848110
I understand what you mean, and if you can find a way to balance it, then I'm sure you can pull off a great piece of work. I don't have that confidence atm, and I believe separating the waters is the best way to handle things.
But again, if sex isn't the main dish in your work, you have to make sure those who read it get that impression as well.

I sure as hell wish you luck, and I hope to get to see what you come up with.

>>88848243
I thought the same when I heard it. It doesn't fit their way to pronounce words, but there it is.

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working on a voting incentive for Laserwing. Am I overestimating Mistaire's waifu potential or what

>>88848473
she has a cute face

>>88848473
What's this from?

>>88848820
http://laserwing.tumblr.com/

>>88849094
I'm gonna sound extremely rude, so my apologies beforehand, but I like the lineart more than the colours. Not that you asked, but I feel they're too dark toned.
The lineart is good, I wish I could have the same line consistency.

>>88849447
The current chapter takes place at night, that's all

>>88849724
I read it from the beginning and it has the same issue. I'm sorry, it's not an issue, it's a personal preference. The only colours that felt alive are the highly saturated ones, the rest are too opaque. Again, it's a preference, but I feel it's not up to the nice, clean lineart.

>>88849840
I agree with this fag

nice comics nerds

>>88851100
thank you

>>88851100
Thanks man.

>>88851100
I think it's a first someone here say my comic is nice, thank you!

>>88850492
This one wasn't a first, but I'm equally thankful.

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>tfw you lay in bed telling yourself you'll work harder on the comic tomorrow but the resolve evaporates the next day

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Just finished writing the script for chapter 19! It's 63 pages in total, making this the longest chapter of West Tree so far! There's a lot of hard hitting and emotional moments coming up, and even a twist or two! So stay Tuned!

Here's a line I thought was pretty funny as a preview!

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no new comic page, but getting little stuff out of the way, like making a banner

>>88852661
always good

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>>88847501

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>>88847346

>>88833827
OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycfdfinG_P8
ED1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXDNGS9V4Us
ED2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4DyTjrruVo
PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVGDV67L-g
EP 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rz1bluG_k
EP 13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLUjMWRCzic

>>88854745
Oh, thank you so much for this. To be honest, I don't see me revisiting the pic, but I'll make sure to take notes and learn from this.
I'll put some figure practice and try to make the next one even better.
I appreciate the feedback.

>>88848473
just went to your website... and in the comics this character isn't fat, why are you drawing her fat here? are you trying to capitalize on the "thicc" meme? because this isn't thicc, this is landwhale

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>>88856209
I don't see that much difference between them, to be honest

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>>88856275
This is what she looks like in the latest pages though

How can I write a noir detective comic without copying Blacksad?

>>88857287
Just don't have any furries in it.

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>>88834159

thank you!

actually on that note I've been experimenting with color more often, I've also been exploring more with traditional mediums, anatomy books for sculptors, and books about understanding light.

it's a slow process but worth every second.

>>88857558
Minor detail, but when looking straight, don't the eyes align with the tip of the ears? The ears seem to high up for me.

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>>88857726
had to look it up since I often look at my ears in the mirror and observe people in the streets all the time. honestly? I just took the positioning for granted.

according to the book it's fine I suppose. these are just ideal positions either way, every person is made differently. heck, I doubt your fingers match perfectly against each other. and thats all dandy, we are all full of flaws and that right there is what gives us character.

Bob Ross would agree with Jesus, we are a little happy accident. (well...er, mostly.)

>>88857726
I'm not that anon but the center line for the eyes actually lines up with the spot where the ear connects to the head. The tip of the ear sticks up a bit higher than that but that ear on our right is a bit too high. The left one looks fine.

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>>88857857
>>88857841
>>88857726

ah shoot, you are totally right. I was so focused on her right eye when I was making this. it escaped me. I can correct that.

thinking back I was going to tilt the head but I had forgotten to accommodate for the rest.

thank you for letting me know.

>>88810039
are your preset made by you or part of a pack somewhere?

>>88857911
You did a good job on her anon. Keep it up.

>>88857956
I think out of all the characters I've made she's going to suffer the most. I am a horrible parent.

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>>88857986

>>88858046
if you look closely her eyes don't match, she's blind from her right eye.

>>88857558
I really like the face. Keep going and happy new year to you too.

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>>88857558
>>88858077
if you like the face then this is her uncle. (this is a design from early last year) his name is Oscar. his design is meant to bring back manly men, because nowadays they shouldn't be using makeup or shaving anything else in their bodies other than to trim for their beards look amazing.

>>88858309
This hairstyle and low cut tshirt are gay as fuck though. That, and his metrosexual trimmed eyebrow and beard, really in shape body...

Are colored 300dpi originals enough for print?

>>88858759
Yes. Note that you'll be able to print at original size or smaller without problems, but scaling up to print at a larger size won't look as good.

>>88823118
fuark breh
belziarius lookin joocy

>>88858919
I was thinking of doing diary-like comic for A5 size in 300dpi and it's always good to think print ahead. I tested it a bit and 600dpi felt like overkill. So doing that would be ok, if print size is A5 too?

>>88846034
>with the letters in a circles or something and with movement lines, indicating that they are switched.
no

explaining jokes is never funny. just leave it as a little gem for those who know what a spoonerism is

>>88807813
My thought exactly. Pepe edit when?

>>88859142
It's better to work at larger than print size, for the most part. If you're going to be printing at A5/300dpi, consider working at A5/600dpi.

I actually work at A5/1200dpi for my strips, but they're b&w/greyscale. Use 600dpi if you're using full colour.

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>>88859338

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>>88859510

Is PS better than Paint Too SAI to make comic? I mean, SAI seems kind of better to draw free lines, but PS seems better with layers, the filters, the straight lines while holding shift and you can type text, while in SAI you have to hand write text yourself.

How many years do you think it would take before events become forgotten and are deemed made up stories?

>>88858309
finally, a manly man. those are rare as fuck

>>88859292
Well you could make the words in two different fonts, with the switched letters matching the others..

>>88854745
the finger lines can continue that far back as long as the hand is at an angle, plus it can continue in with the knuckle kind of..

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>>88806771
I have decided to start coloring the pages from the first chapter that was only gray scale.
The first chapter is completed, for the most part, in terms of inking.

Chapter 1:
total pages:53
Inking: 53/53
Coloring : 9 / 53

Chapter 2:
Storyboard: 19/19

I am restricting the page amount to 19 or around that starting to chapter 2. The current aim is to finish its production with a month or two. It'll be must simpler art wise, but I am stilling aiming to color it. I am planning on building the background in 3D and do with parts that I can reused as settings.

>>88862578
wooo, color!

>>88862408
No.

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>>88862578
Such vivid pink and green, is that a jojo reference?

>>88862932
I mean I'm looking at my hand at that angle and it does that. Not quite as much, but my hands are pretty unworked and smooth and kinda plump

>>88862968
Just because you use colors that work well together doesn't mean you're ripping off some overrated homosexual anime.

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>>88851566
>tfw you lay in bed wishing you made enough money from your comic to be able to afford a helium mask so you can end it once and for all

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>>88834560
>tfw it wins an oscar
It's impossible but if that happens imagine the "Disney BTFO" threads

>>88863907
you do know it's not REALLY keit-ai, right, it's just similar

>start writing as something vaguely self-insertish yet self-aware enough not to focus the comic purely on power-fantasy or something.
>become deeply disillusioned irl.
>can no longer coherently manage the comic world i've built within my head as anything other than a setting for brief fantasy before sleeping, large amounts of stuff i'd imagined and characters, etc, i'd had but not written down all disolved.

oh dear. this is quite the set-back.
should really write things down more often.

>>88864111
yeah you should. we warned you or someone similar to you about that last week

>>88864111
>when your writing is so bad you can't even be bothered to remember any of it

>>88863102
1. No
2. It's not relevant to the image and you're being pedantic.

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>tfw your comic is doing so poorly you want to kill yourself but the only thing greater than your laziness is your cowardice

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>>88851940
Do you use something for writing your scripts?

I guess that goes for the whole thread, how do you guys plan out dialogue and the art that goes with it?

>>88865509
well see, you're the one making a correction to an image that it doesn't need (amongst several others that it does)
and also, yes. I think I'm right on this one.

>>88857558
good art m8, is your comic full color? How long does it take you to do a page with art of that quality?

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>>88856950

Who is this slut!? Whats her name?

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>>88865830

pre colored

>>88863148
>homosexual anime
now you can talk shit about jojo all you want but that is just plain wrong, not when prime waifus are scattered all throughout

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>>88806771
I've recently completed my first novel length comic and I'm putting up the first chapter here if anyone would care to look.

http://badnewsallday.thecomicseries.com/comics/first

It's a horror/crime comic that I'm having bound to serve as part of a portfolio. My background is in fine art and I've sought to be expressive rather than be consistent. I finished the 190 pages in two months.

As it wasn't started as a webcomic it might seem very slow paced.

>>88862578
looks very motion-y wow
what is your comic about?

>>88866262
Unreadable on my 1440x900 screen resolution, the images are too big.

>>88866262
why the fuck is this so big

>>88866438
I've uploaded the original image files, it scales to my monitor and tablet perfectly. What size should it be?

>>88866262
>huge resolutions for shitty art
Constant problem in ic. Why do shitters think anyone wants to see the pixels of horribly unrefined lines and chicken scratch?

>>88866517
1000 wide is about the maximum anyone should have
still all you have to do here is shift-scroll once and it's fine

I've come up with an idea, but it's still very raw and needs refining. Here's what I got soo far.


>A Fantasy setting set on Earth a thousand years after our civilization collapses.
>The items most prized in the world are vinyl records that survived the collapse.
>A vinyl record is literally worth 50 times its weight in gold.
>Certain records are considered holy scripture and entire Kingdoms have been built around their words.

Again, it's still pretty crude but I think it would be interesting.

Thoughts? Suggestion?

>>88866682
Unique, could be cool. What would the plot be, your characters going on adventures and getting albums?

>>88866747
I haven't quite worked out a story yet. Got some ideas.

Most likely ones are either going to be about a group of treasure hunter pillaging ruins for records or actually make it more serious.

>>88866682
I love aspects of this. I'm not sure if the scale is really right, 1000 years is kind of a long time.. but i've always wanted treasure-hunting modern media in something as the focus of a story.

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Hey guys, I just finished the first chapter of my comic and I'm planning on taking a short hiatus between chapters to rebuild my buffer for the next chapter. Would 3 weeks be a reasonable amount of time to make readers wait? I don't want to have some of my audience leave once I start posting new pages again.

How would people feel about a Torpedo style noir comic, but not as comedic?

>>88867008
Doesn't have to be a thousand years. It's honestly just an arbitrary number I originally came up with. Could easily make it shorter to better fit.

I'm more worried about how people actually listen to records. So far I have a whole class based group set up who's sole purpose in life is to build and maintain devices capable of playing them but that might not be final.

>>88867039
I like the colouring.

Also, take as big of a break as you want. Just keep in mind that too long and people might lose interest.

>>88867069
I've never read Torpedo before, but after taking a look through google image search that sounds like it could be pretty enjoyable comic, especially if you managed to do the art well.

>>88867129
Oh it wont be as good, but I was thinking short, slightly interconnected stories featuring recurring casts and a mainly black and white style.

>>88867039
awww cute

dude not to be a dingus but havent you already been on hiatus for months?

oh wait, no.. I don't follow your comic. I wasn't aware it was already out?

>>88867076
I'd go with 100. even better, 100 years after the 60s, say the cold war actually happened according to everyone's fears. the other surviving tech would all be behind that too.

the nice thing is, it's actually not hard to preserve record players. that old tech was built to last and it was stupidly simple

>>88865670
Do you mean how many people read it? Give me a link. Don't listen to the critics of /co/, untouched by the hand of woman. If any of them have even produced a bad 6 page comic I'd be astounded.

>>88867248
you must be new here, particularly to consider yourself separate from /co/
this is just a feelsposter. he's not real

>>88867303
>Wanting to be part of a group who obsesses over nonsense that it hates but could never achieve no matter how desperately they tried

Really gets my noggin joggin. I come here occasionally to try and find non weeb/tumblr webcomics in the vain hope there'll be another achewood, I wouldn't want to not be new here.

>>88867576
I wonder how you'll feel when you realize that those problems you're listing are your fault

>>888672
I've actually been updating this whole time, I just took a break from hyw for a few months.

>>88867109
Thanks. I don't think it will be too long, since I only want to get around ten pages and a cover done before I resume updates.

>>88866682
>>88866802
Very cool concept, I'd be interested in reading it. Do you have any concept art yet?

Crap
>>88867833
Is directed at
>>88867211

>>88859510
I love you anon.

>>88868172
I picked up on that.
yeah I guess I never bookmarked your site? I somehow got the impression you were still in pre-production. link?

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>>88856209
>>88856275
>>88856950
This is the size she always is. If it looks inconsistent, assume it's a mistake. In the panels where she's in a robe, the robe is tied right under her boobs instead of her waist, since that's the thinnest part of her torso. That made it trickier for me to get her body right in some of the poses so she wound up with a more dramatic hourglass shape. It's a known issue.

She's a spoiled rich kid who prefers to levitate instead of walking. Her body type is part of her character.

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How can I improve? What can make it better? Expectations? I will provide a link once I post the second image.

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>>88869110
https://tapastic.com/series/8-Ball-Shuffle or http://8ballshuffle.smackjeeves.com/ whichever layout you prefer.

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>>88865830

Experimental ass shine

>>88869548
Looks pretty hot

>>88866682
Sounds pretty gay to me. Hipster bait at best.

>>88859510

ahahahaha lmfao!

>>88862578

beautiful colors as always!

>>88868972
http://householdslimemold.tumblr.com/

>>88869167
I did a quick read through of your comic and here are my thoughts.

I think you're off to a good start. You have varied panels and page layouts, some experimentation with color schemes, and a few jokes that me chuckle. I'm guessing this is some sort of shounen action comic, from what I saw.
I think the main thing you need to work on is your faces, figures, and just anatomy in general. Jimmie's face often looks lopsided and assymetrical, and Eight's body often looks boneless or oddly proportioned. My advice would be to do some practice with figure drawing.
https://www.quickposes.com/en
^This site is a great place to practice figure drawing if you can't do it irl. Try doing 10-20 30 second sketches a day. Also, don't be afraid to look at photo references for faces or poses as you draw, they can help immensely.

Odd question, but has there ever been a webcomic that worked well using only renders of 3D assets?

Like, I can't draw for shit, but I model and animate pretty okay, so is there cases showing that being good enough?

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>>88806771
is the discord for this still active?
if it is can i grab an invite link

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Finished this page!

>>88869700
Thank you for your feedback. I have been using a separate monitor recently to look at stock photos but I will totally work on my anatomy.

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Saffron and Sage, second bonus page

>>88869901
I like the design of the octopus lady with the goat legs, I think that's really unique.

>>88869716
https://discord.gg/N8SKe
expires in 30 minutes

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>>88869901
I'v always wondered how Cthulhu would look like as a girl, now I know.

>>88869703
at LEAST trace the models so you can put your own facial expressions and custom accents on them

>>88869759
>jump away of abscond from
>hmm looks like, hmm looks like, looks like
>trapped yourself into your own trap
the dialogue is not exactly breaking records tonight
hey when did sora learn how to barf lava?
wait, so he didn't escape after all?
10th panel she has six fingers
sora's drawing is cute.

>>88869901
did she always have a triangle nose or is that new?
>>88869946
you heathen, that's clearly a squid lady with deer legs

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I had an idea for a shitty ms paint webcomic once.

Basically a giant weeb with no sexual limits and his three friends, a quiet psychopath, a girl pyro and a chubby heavy metal fan, come across some foxgirl in the woods outside their school who just escaped from a military facility. The overarching plot was about them trying to save her from the military and the evil monstergirls, but each comic would be him trying to act suave to impress her and failing super hard, but somehow using his stupidity to save the day either by sheer determination or all the bad guys being caught offguard that someone could be this big of an idiot.

>>88870204
Sounds like an early Newgrounds flash game. i love it. You should set it in 1999 just for the authentic flavor.

>>88870384
Not a bad idea. Hmm, let me see if I can whip something up.

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>>88870203

>>did she always have a triangle nose or is that new?

Well, it's a one-off artist while my normal one is on vacation.


>>you heathen, that's clearly a squid lady with deer legs

It's a Blanket Octopus lady with Gerenuk legs, technically, though a Gerenuk is basically a deer anyway. The script describes it as "just a one-off WTF monster that looks like a mind flayer fucked an antelope at a pride festival and the offspring took up LARPing", which I think Threen captured well enough. I call it a Rainbowlopepus.

I loved Animorphs as a kid, and a lot of the aliens there were weird animal mashups, so I'm trying to do a bit of that myself to give Saffron some more varied monster designs than the basic crabmen seen so far.

>>88870126
Wouldn't that just look really stiff and not mesh?

I'd think it'd be better to just spend time making the facerigs very malleable, wouldn't it?

Is there an example of what you're talking about that could show it better?

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Well if anyone actually wants the voting incentive Mistaire she's up on topwebcomics: http://topwebcomics.com/vote/21781

I put an overlay over the usual colors to see if it helped to brighten things up. It's probably not going to be my solution but it kinda looks good.

>>88870629
dangit, I was gonna say antelope, but I thought nahh no way anyone else cares about antelopes
blanket octopus is a new one though, here I am feeling proud of my noticement. that is one glans-shaped head they have..
>>88870735
there is no face 'rig' that looks even okay. it's going to look bad no matter what, at least one version looks like you put some effort in
>example
ehhh there's a few anime doing it right now, using cgi with a toon filter and then hand-drawing the faces

>>88870867
very nice, but it's displaying it at a massive size, can't see more than a sixth of it at a time

>>88865698
I am still learning about color and rendering backgrounds properly. depending on the scene and the content at hand. I'd say a simple color page would take me a day.

>>88870900
Fixing it now, thanks for letting me know!

>>88867833
sorry, no art. Just a concept at the moment.
>>88869605
oh, ok.

>>88869700
I am liking this so far

>>88860644
I honestly think Manga Studio 5 is the best bang for your buck in turns of comic book making software. The perspective rulers alone make it worth it.

>>88862578
Gorgeous color palette. Where can we read your comic?

Do you guys plan out scripts for dialogue and actions etc before you draw? Do you write down a rough idea of what panels you want the text to be in? Write down what art goes in every panel?

Basically what I'm asking is how the writing process goes. I'm trying not to be overwhelmed with simply getting started and I'd like to know how you guys do it.

>>88871823
http://rococo.smackjeeves.com/

>>88870181
Yeah, There's a typo in that abscond line that I will fix.

She's a little frog demon, It's pretty much a given she can do that.
He didn't have enough energy to jump away, so he just made his legs super durable.
And that's about it.

>>88872013
oh okay, I didn't quite understand where he was going with that leg upgrade. he said 'avoid' the attack, he should have said 'to survive this attack' or something
>pretty much a given
as I recall, I once mentioned akaname and you just ran with it. lava barfing isn't something I'd associate with frog critters very often