How's Your Webcomic? #344

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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

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

yo slime mold guy, from the end of the last thread
>>89467633
this is already better, see the effect of the unshaded eyes? though actually now that I look, this one has shading at the TOPS of the eyes, indicating they are not only flat stickers but sitting underneath brows. That works fine. Stylized eyes SHOULD be flat, unless you're intentionally making a bug-eyed goof of a character.
but one thing I have to ask is why the faces' shading is so much softer and more gradiented than the other parts? it's true of the cover but it's true of this one too. the way the hand and the neck is shaded seems like it'd work just fine on the face but you didn't really do it that way
also izzat sum stubble on the face? i see two uneven patches of gray

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>>89475354
Doing softer shading on the face was a combination of trying to make the face look gentler/friendlier and me being too lazy to do that kind of shading on the whole figure. You think the cel-shadier shading looks better on the face? I tried un-blending it a little.

Also, the grey stuff on the face was an attempt at color zones.

>>89475968
yeah I know how you feel, it's scary trying to put harder shading on a face, but you have the chops for it. This looks way better
>color zones
yeah I don't think this style really works with those, but good for you for trying. I can tell you have what it takes to do good realism

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End of last thread repost

blamp

What art/artists inspires you, /hyw/? Are there any art styles in particular you try to imitate/learn from?

>>89478151
I used to respect really complex art back when I was a kid reading cape comics, but it took anime, videogames, and cute stationery to teach me that you can get a lot across with very little, as long as you do it just right. There's really subtle tricks of geometry that make it cute instead of lame
Muppets too, come to think of it. Their designers had a lot of little interesting rules that not only helped make them cute and unique, but helped hide the fact that they weren't actually able to change expression

>>89436352
>>89439141

Thanks for these responses from last time, guys. Especially >>89436352
I decided to aim more in-line with my style than to make sure each girl was attractive. Loosey's not supposed to be, if you can tell why, and Meg's just kinda physically a 7 but personality a 4.

>>89479287
It's just good we have new blood coming in

>>89480535
and by that I mean bump

Why's hyw so dead today? What is everyone busy with?

>>89478151
Koji Kumeta.

He seems to know precisely what he's after when it comes to character designs. And having 30 different girls with pitch black hair stand out from each others.

>>89482039
his ability to make distinct silhouettes is top notch

>>89481940
it's chinese new year and they're all chinks

>>89483153
man i want some lucky money!

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Finally finished the Haunted Mansion drawing with my characters. A good friend of mine did the shading. Really pleased with it. Plan on doing more of these sorts of things.

>>89478151
Kirby, ditko, and Romita sr.

>>89486234
man everyone has such good rolemodels

>>89488547
that doesn't matter, get a good comic instead

>>89488799
instead of being inspired?

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Here's my new West Tree logo.

>>89490888
thought it had to be trolling at first, but on closer inspection you can see clear signs of what was once two good ideas: two joined letters, and quick symbolic representations of characters at each of the stems.
I guess it's a good reference for redoing later.

>>89490888
I can see it being one of those iconic logos everyone recognizes, really good!

What was wrong with the 80's style logo though? I felt it was also perfect.

>>89491129
Kill yourself ColdFusion

>>89491812
ooh, swing and a miss. close though

>>89490888
You are willfully retarded.

>>89491884
it's a meme retard

>>89490888
Fuck I thought you had died.

>>89491129
Well, that is just a banner this is an actual thing Blu Trinity wanted me to make for there site.

But I wanted to get really into it. My design class has really gotten me into doing patterns and really thinking about the deeper meaning into how i implement what I draw.

>>89491113
What went wrong?

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>>89491129
>>89491884

>>89490888
looks a pink scrotum on the bottom. fucking atrocious

>>89491967
>what went wrong
just how messy it is. if anything deserves symmetry and relatively straight lines, it's a logo. and I mean, there's such a thing as intentional messiness, the likes of squigglevision and such, but this just looks slapped-together. Like I said it's a great guide for being redone with more care this time.

>>89491909
>>89491977
you do know the one feigning unconditional praise is on your side, right?

>>89492182
you do realize you're responding to memes?

>>89492130
Anon, he is Dewd. Have you seen his comic? He is always "fixing" stuff, except for his awful lineart. This logo is the perfect representation of his retarded comic. Ugly design and lazy wobbly lines, it's also probably a stolen idea from a better logo. Don't waste your breath.

jesus christ he's back, this thread is absolute dogshit now

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>>89492052
Jesus fuck.

>>89492659
Isn't that just what I said? aside from the stolen part, which is nonsense.
also when is he ever fixing stuff? I -wish- he'd fix stuff.

>>89492698
>>89491918
sure is. I thought maybe you had left with him, but nope. nothing better to do I guess.

>>89492785
Fixing is in quotations because I meant it ironically. His "fix" are his multiple changes of font, brushes and coloring, each one uglier than the last.

What I am trying to say is that you are wasting your time trying to help Dewd, he will just ignore you as he is beyond help.

>>89493063
that's not really what the word fix means, but now I get what you're talking about. Yeah he keeps on changing tracks, experimenting with new stuff. It's definitely getting in the way of progress, but I reckon he would have just quit otherwise, when it stopped being fun.
Still he listens to me sometimes. I'd say roughly half the time.
>it's worth iiit

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So what was your "breakthrough" when it comes to art?

For me, it was just mirroring my drawings. Holy shit, it makes every flaw and awkward imperfection glaringly obvious.

>>89494328
The first time I finally got something down that looked halfway like what I imagined without using any references. It was a fucking struggle but that feeling of really creating something from nothing was what got me hooked.

>>89494328
I have a series of breakthroughs. My latest one is that I've found a way to do quick pose construction involving circles and tubes that really actually does make poses easy to play with, and finally using some foreshortening on limbs. Before I'd tried much-more-complex and much-more-simple construction methods, but this one's juust right

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Working on a Nuzlocke that takes place after nuclear war, pretty proud of this page. I'm about 9 pages in, so far.

>>89494617
That's a pretty bonks concept but I can tell you're gonna have fun with it
Just one thing though, I don't think I'm being super autistic when I point out that your ratta's muzzle changes in every panel

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Just finished my 19th page layout for my first draft. Also fuck life in general for restricting me to only work on this at night after my work shift when I am exhausted or during the weekends when all my friends are out having fun.

>>89493063
>responding to coldfusion
He has dewd's dick lodged halfway down his throat.

>>89497481
I realized too late I was replying to Coldfusion. I'm sorry Anon

>>89497753
It's OK, you're the victim here

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Got some spare money I wasn't expecting to have, what's the best way to pay for some advertising?

what is the best first step to start posting your comic online? Taptastic or something similar or Tumblr?

>>89498339
Tapastic and Tumblr are both garbage for reading webcomics.

>>89498357
well what are other suggestions?

>>89498339
Those are the two most popular platforms. There's this one retard that gripes about them because he's a bucket crab stuck in the past, ignore him.

>>89498407
Good shitposting is the kind where your shitpost looks like an opinion a relatively sane person could have. Step it up anon.

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Smut doodler visiting from /d/ here. What would be a smart workflow for developing a lewd 1-3 page comic?

I find writing and page layouts really difficult to do.

>>89499603
If it's short and self-contained, you already know how it's going to start and end, which is good as you know what you're working towards.

Figure out and write down the sequence of events and the important moments and dialogue.

See if you can spot a transition or scene change that might make a good point for a page break.

Go over the sequence of events and break it down into panels. Can any of the events and dialogue be combined into one panel? Have you written an event that should be split into several panels?

Make a rough sketch of the layout of the panels on the page. Have you left enough space for the important actions and dialogue? Do you need to resize any panels? Are there too many/too few panels on the page?

Redo the rough layouts several times until you're happy everything flows properly.

Now you can start to draw the strip properly based on your rough layouts.

>>89498388
Ideally, your own domain and pay for hosting.

Comicfury and smackjeeves host comics with reasonably reader-friendly navigation.

>>89499603
1-3 page? Anything goes, you don't need any planning for something this short.

>>89478151
That guy who did Spawn. I don't care what anyone says.

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>>89478151
Yasuhiko Yoshikazu

>>89495205
Thanks much, I'm having a ton of fun with it.

The muzzle changes with facial expressions and design for the sake of goofy humor, but doing it too much might not be ideal out of nowhere. I totally get what you're saying.

>>89502412
interesting. never heard of anyone doing that before, but I guess it does sort of have a 'color draining out of your face' effect.

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Finished another character portrait and made minor changes to the others. Only one left and all the protagonists will be done.

>>89503299
Looking good, man. Only comment is that maybe you should up the contrast between Cin's face and the red on the right behind him, the values kind of blend together

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>>89503350
Does this look better? I reduced the saturation and darkened the parts in his cloak.

>>89503421
Yeah, I think that's a little better. The face pops out more now.

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New page up at theharvesttower.com!

>>89478151
Movies, I like paying attention to framing and lighting, even if I struggle with both.

>>89485394
very nice, the paper texture really works for this. Not a fan of the frame shadows though.

>>89497428
I'm in the same boat man, life is hard.

What resolution should I draw my webcomic in? A lot of people seem to make theirs positively enormous.

>>89503731
You draw huge then scale down the finished piece to whatever you need.

>>89503731
Bigger is better if you think you'd ever want to print. Draw at a minimum of 300dpi, and the standard size for comic pages is 8.5 x11 inches. Keep in mind, you don't HAVE to put your pages at 8.5 x 11 inches, feel free to use other aspect ratios, but that might make it harder to print.

>>89503789
But that always felt like cheating to me, and I kinda don't wanna spend days scrolling when I draw.

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>>89503532
Good! thanks for the help.

>>89478151
My inspiration comes from Katsuhiro Otomo and Koji Morimoto, the artists behind Akira, Robot Carnival, and Memories. Their proficiency with drawing complex and believable technology has always baffled me and I've always tried to mimic them. Some of my prized possessions are my hand painted animation cels from their works. Secondary inspiration comes from studio trigger, their way of drawing expressive people with so few lines is very admirable.

>>89503731
better to go too big than too small. For my landscape drawings I always do 1920x1080p since that's roughly the resolution of a computer monitor. For my portrait drawings I always keep the 1920 width but just increase the height. Then I scale it down when posting online.

>>89503820
It's not cheating and it ensures no matter how it's viewed it will always look clean.

>>89503850
Oh well. At least I found out before I already had a bunch of pages drawn.

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>>89478151
Mitsuru Adachi is my inspiration. Now that I'm doing more digital than before, I lost a lot of practice with inking, but I used to poorly imitate his inking a lot years ago.
He is still my idol and I look up to him to this day.

>>89503731

As stated in >>89503798, find a standard printed comic size, and work to that at 300dpi. You can then scale down for screen.
Draw at 600dpi (or even 1200dpi) if your computer can handle it.

I draw at A5, 1200 dpi, which is 6992x9921
This is printed at A5, 300dpi, or 1748x2480
Published screen size is A5, 96dpi, 700x1000

Knowing the final print size means I can size the text and artwork accordingly, so it isn't too large or too small. There's no point noodling around with pixel-sized details that are going to vanish when reduced.

>>89503820
Even before digital, cartoonists drew their strips larger than printed size, usually 1.5 times larger ("half up").

You won't be drawing at 100% pixel size most of the time; you should usually be zoomed out. Find out what print size looks like on your work monitor, and keep that in mind (hold a piece of paper next to the screen if you have to), so you can have some idea of how large it will look.

>>89497428
If I had friends to have fun with I'd probably put them first, man

>>89503820
>scrolling
new to digital art, are you? you don't scroll, you zoom in and out constantly. get it on a hotkey that you're comfortable with
it's not cheating because your screen has incredibly low resolution. Think about it, you're running, what, 1600 pixels on your monitor? That's a tiny tiny piece of paper. real life has a huge resolution. There's no alternative

>>89504337
>new to digital art, are you? you don't scroll, you zoom in and out constantly
I've been dicking around with it for eight years, though I never bothered zooming in and out. Never could tell what the final product will look like if I draw at the wrong level of zoom.

Doing this on my tiny Cintiq feels like it would be many times more trouble than it's worth. I see your point on real life resolution, though. Wouldn't it be as easy as just zooming out to whatever size you're gonna reduce the final picture to, though? What's the point of zooming in and out?

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I did a really rough layout of a page. I'm new to actual pages and not four panel things. Is this at least somewhat passable in terms of following whats going on?

>>89505048
I didn't have any trouble with it.

>>89504980
>Never could tell what the final product will look like if I draw at the wrong level of zoom.
that's part of drawing big and saving small. also I can't believe that in eight years you haven't gotten any kind of eye for it
>Wouldn't it be as easy as just zooming out to whatever size you're gonna reduce the final picture to, though?
Try it, then zoom in on your lines afterwards and see how they look. If they look shitty, then you're in my boat. If they look fine, then by all means draw the whole thing zoomed way out. Since you have a cintiq that should be a lot easier for you than for those of us using non-screen tablet digitizers
>What's the point of zooming in and out?
checking on your lines and doing the fine detail. I spend a lot of time at 200 or 300 percent. other times I zoom out to 33 or 50 percent so I can see the whole thing at once (50, 25, etc give you a good representation, it's the uneven numbers like 33 that tend to make it hard to tell)

>>89505048
Hehehehe. I like this. Nice use of nested and overlapping panels.
The only critique I would give is to make differing use of the negative space. Some panels have a ton of useless sky, others are very cramped and require text to touch or even overlap the art. With things this simple you should have no trouble taking the 'camera' in for more close-ups and out for more wide shots to vary things up. source: I have that same issue

>>89505907
>I spend a lot of time at 200 or 300 percent.
Doesn't it look like garbage when you shrink it, then?

>>89498750
take your own advice retard

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>>89506720
I know I don't have a problem with this. I drew this scrolling animation background usually at around 67% on a canvas around 1500 x 4000 pixels. If I drew the whole thing with the entire image in frame it would of been impossible.

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>>89505182
Cool beans.

>>89505965
Thanks I wasn't exactly sure how it was gonna play out.
I definitely understand what you're saying even just some trees or something would help the backgrounds. This was kind of a dry fire to just get an idea onto paper but I'll definitely work on using the space better.

>>89506859
>If I drew the whole thing with the entire image in frame it would of been impossible.
Well, sure, but you can draw at 100% pixel size without having the entire picture in frame.

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>>89503299
Just finished the last portrait for the protagonists. I feel like they all ended up matching pretty well. I might do some of more minor characters just because they're so fun.

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>>89475298
i got a new idea for a webcomic called Trope Dykes

meet the girls, from left to right:

The armored Skeptchick,
shes one of those super famouse youtube athiest, she will master-debate you all night long!
*real life counterpart: https://www.youtube.com/user/armouredskeptic

Angry Joelana,
she's pissed, she plays games, and god help the people who dared to make it not longer than 4 hours long! mortal enemy of nintendo and yoututbe copyright robots!
*real life counterpart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLJwa3oUm3Y

joelina Roegina,
she likes to eat shrooms and sleep in an aqua coffin! She also loves ufc, is a host on ufc, has her own trippy ass podcast and used to host the fear factor show where people would eat bugs, poop and vomit on national telivision!
*real life counterpart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeuGQboEoYU

The crazy flat earther chick!
She's gone a little to deep into the rabbit hole and after 1 weird conspiracy theory after another she finally found the ultimate truth! The earth is flat and any one who thinks other wise is either a sheep or a shill. she loves
Alexia Jones and is an self proclaimed enemy of the illuminati!
*real life counter part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2tG8PGySVI

Alexia Jones,
buy her water filters and super female vitality pills today and she will spew out all kinds of weird ancient alien, 911, reptilian, clone, matrix, illiminati globilist agenda shit to her millions of followers
*real life counterpart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhqUk28OwHs

Stormchick /pol/dancer,
she has been on 4chans /pol/ longer than anyone, she has taken all the red pills and is 100% woke senpai! Hitlers ass was tight, gas the bikes, race war now! get those buns nice and toned girls! After 100 redpills on
/pol/ she went from a red headed trailer trash slut to one of trumps awoo wolf girls with white wolf hair, ears, and a tail!
*real life counterpart is any alt right female on pol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX-0Yj638SY

>>89509057
Make it happen, follow your memes

>>89509057
Watch out man, the SJW's will hang you for this.

>>89506720
Only if you shrank it using 'nearest neighbor'. that would result in very ugly pixel art
if you shrink it using any other algorithm though, it uses anti-aliasing to trick the viewer into thinking the lines are quite small and detailed, when they aren't
open up any comic you find on the internet into your program of choice and zoom in and look at the pixels and how the anti-aliasing works. every comic you've ever read online, unless it's videogame sprites or something like Prequel, i promise this is what they did, and it looks good, right?

>>89507300
true but once in a while you'll want to zoom out and take stock of everything, make sure it's all in proportion. At least during the sketch phase
>>89506876
ragdoll girl is super cute. I like her. I wish monstrous mimi artist was still here.

>>89510065
>i promise this is what they did, and it looks good, right?
Yes, when I realized this a few years ago, all my illusions were shattered and my false idols torn down.

>>89509756
he's a troll, dude.

>>89510229
jeez you don't have to be so sarcastic. I didn't mean to condescend, but you're out of touch with several basic rules of digital art, so I was just trying to help. I'm actually really curious to see what yours looks like if you've been drawing at display size.

>>89510359
I can't even decide whether to laugh

>>89510359
a masterpiece

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>>89510287
I wasn't being sarcastic, just dramatic. I seriously did lose most of my respect for my drawing senpais when I realized that's how they did it. It was a huge disappointment, honestly.

The last thing I drew with colour was this. I have no illusions about being a good artist or anything - when I say I've been dicking around with digital art, I meant I spent the first four years using the tablet as a very expensive coaster. That one was an Intuos - the plastic is surprisingly heat resistant.

>>89475298
>have 30+ pages of jokes for my comic seres or what ever
>that's not including long term series
>have a few lewds sereis that are a bit fleshed out..

until I improve these Ideas will never see the light of day...
pretty scary thought desu

>>89510609
Oh. I'm confused, earlier you gave me the impression you weren't familiar with the practice.
>I meant I spent the first four years using the tablet as a very expensive coaster. That one was an Intuos - the plastic is surprisingly heat resistant.
heh. I like you. and I respect your bucking the usual practice.
> no illusions about being a good artist
Uhhh this is absolutely good art.. but you clearly drew this a lot larger than its current size, then shrank it. I mean look at the lines. Right? Unless you're just a master of using anti-aliased lines, I can't believe you drew this at this size.

>>89510687
There is such a thing as overplanning, anondles. Are you currently practicing your art?

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>>89510776
>earlier you gave me the impression you weren't familiar with the practice.
No, I mean, naturally shrinking a drawing is going to hide its flaws, I've known *that* since before tablets were commercially available. I just thought it seemed so cheap, I never did it, and assumed other people wouldn't either. Then again, I do have a history of needlessly hamstringing myself instead of working smarter.

Then I got hold of some hi-res versions of artwork I liked, and realized the lines were actually lazy garbage in reality.

>you clearly drew this a lot larger than its current size, then shrank it.
I'll take that as a compliment, then. I'll grant you that getting decent-looking lineart out of my digital tablets has been my #1 priority ever since I started using them.

I have a similar outlook on stabilizer software.

It gets a lot easier when you draw larger pictures using thick lines, though. Stuff like this picture ends up looking a lot worse.

>>89511099
are you saying you drew these at-size using anti-aliased lines? well donk, dude, if that's the case, keep going. This art looks fine and dandy. Granted these are full-sized drawings, not comic panels.. but maybe you don't need to draw MUCH bigger than display size

>>89511149
Weeeell, turns out my art program had a function to automatically up your dpi, increase the size, set border areas and even pre-draw panels for comics projects, so I guess since the universe has decided to make it easy for me, I'll have to oblige. I mean, it's not gonna make it look worse.

Plus, if I'm gonna actually print it physically at some point, I probably don't have any other choice, right?

>>89511312
actually.... honestly, if your art is that well-anti-aliased, you could print it. A keen eye could see a few pixels, but not very well

someone with better experience and better eyes feel free to contradict me, but I think you'd be alright

also what program is that, and what's the function called that does this so automatically? you might be the teacher this time

>>89510888
yeah I'm practicing
but I'm not that good
and mostly I writre them down so I don't forgot jokes and ideas

>>89511866
well that's good preparation at least.

>>89511633
Clip Studio Paint Pro. When you make a new image file, you can select "comic page" as a type of picture, and it'll give you a selection of common paper sizes, with borders and marginals and so on. I haven't really explored it at all, but it looks promising.

>>89510359
this is in the "so awful it's good" category

>>89510359
>>89512162
that fucking poorly drawn last panel kills me. look at his face

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>tfw no fans

>>89512627
show me yo comic right now

>>89512661
that's just feelsposter
he isn't real

>>89513050
>>89512627
YOU TRYIN TO WUSS OUT
YOU WANTED A FAN YOU GOT ONE

>>89490888
GOD DAMN IT,
I thought you finally fucked off

>>89485394
This looks fun.

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

Marcus spills the beans on the fact that he's a fraud, pointing the Destructor towards the true hero.

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>>89513963
Here are some Marcus sketches.

>>89513963
Really impressed he was able to fess up. he seemed almost pathologically incapable before

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>>89509756

ah yes, the sjw's, modern day witch hunters

say your a witch or we will drown you to death to find out
"ok, im a witch"
BURN THE WITCH!

Say your a racist or we will call you a racist!
"ok im a racist"
RACIST, MYSOGINIST, CIS GENDER MALE, SEXIST, BOW DOWN TO USE OR KILL YOURSELFS REEEEEEEEE!

yeah i dont care about sjw's or what they like or dont like, they fight for censorship and more laws and are very authoritarian, fuck em

>>89514161
Well he only did so to avoid getting killed, notice that Nadil is not hearing this.

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>>89514368
we are winning the meme war when even bones got woke

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>>89513050
>tfw it's not just you who doubts your own existence

>>89509057
Alexia Jones isn't fat enough.

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Here's another part 2 villian, Hexy!

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>>89516129
She glows in the dark, and...

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>>89516155
Every explosion she causes with her grenade launcher changes her colors!

That's not her main power (Don't wanna spoil you guys) But it's really fun drawing her.

>>89516177
So, where did you get the idea this time?

>>89516177
>decides to rip off league of legends
>decides to rip off a meme champion

>>89516349
Actually it's more inspired by Harley Quinn, but whatever you say bub.

>>89516359
Oh I see, you ripped her off and gave her Jinx's hair to confuse us... crafty.

>>89516129
>>89516155
>>89516177
huh, i dig the glowiness
but why would explosions change her colors? how do her colors know?
>>89516359
I would have thought if it was anyone from batman, it was those guys in Batman Forever who had the glow in the dark paint all over them, and were having a garish blacklight rave before not-Robin shows up to try playing hero. god that movie was dorky

>>89516464
SU,CF

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How do you know if/when your faces are getting too same-y?

>>89516464
They were just that intense bro.

>>89516561
I have noticed a lot of similarity in some of your faces, but.. you vary up a lot of other details. hair, outfits, skin colors.. I think you're in no danger of anyone confusing the goat-legged guy with the multi-winged guy.
You do mostly use the same type of nose, but I like that kind of nose. I feel it's as good a representation of 'nose in general' as an oval is for 'eyes on general'. You could try varying its size up a little from time to time, and maybe work in a few other chin types, but in my opinion you're doing just fine.

>>89516608
eh, wouldn't be the weirdest thing in this comic I guess.

>>89516129
I'm seriously disappointed that you've come back,
You drag the quality of these threads like a fucking anchor

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Inspector Gadget shorts coming along.

So far the hardest part has been resisting the urge to force too big a narrative.

When doing something short like a single gag or 2-3 pages I don't really know how to lead in right. A short might not have to strictly follow a narrative format, like a setup to a gag isn't necessarily the same thing as a setup to a scene, if that makes sense. I don't know...

>>89503976
I love his work but man it wouldn't kill him to add a little variety to his character designs

>>89475298

Do I make up a fictional city in the state that the story takes place in?

Or do I use a real city?

>>89517305
HAhahahahaha. I bet he fantasizes about that every time.

>>89516972
It's fucking awful, I know he'll never leave because this is the only place where he gets to feel like he has a name - when he trips on an anonymous imageboard. Every other place he's just another retard, but here he gets to be a retard with a name.

>>89517388
Depends. whatchu using it for?

>>89517434

For the most part it's a road trip story, so I've been kind of plotting out an actual route.

Although I guess if the towns themselves aren't really a "character" why not use real towns.

>>89517317
True that.

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>>89510100
Hey thanks.

>>89513963
Neat, the owl makes me want to watch Jason and the Argonauts.

>>89517305
i want to see more, this is gold

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>>89510100
>>89517509
I forgot to add the whole reason the dolls got ringlets is because of a Monstrous Mimi comic.

>>89517509
I like this, but she could be cuter. Her proportions are too human like, it's a bit uncanny. She looks more like a monster than a living ragdoll. Perhaps that is what you want, otherwise try making her head bigger with softer edges and limbs shorter.

>>89517554
>>89510100
>Monstrous Mimi
is that still updating? or did she drop off?

>>89517509
oh man I remember your work with the chub demon girl. cute stuff! glad to see you're still drawing.

>>89517414
>>89517534

Hm. How do you guys interpret what is happening?

(I want to see if the gag is clear)

>>89517476
I would say... do some research on real towns to give you ideas for the events on the road trip, but don't restrict yourself to them. if you are going to use real ones you'd want to keep it accurate, so it's more freeing to make up your own.. even if authentic flavor is important, you can get most of it even with fictional ones

>>89517604
took a hiatus to go to conventions, recently started up again (and worked that hiatus into the story)

>>89517713

Yeah, alright. Sounds good.

>>89517701
Chief sees a MAD agent, considers calling in Gadget, realizes if he does he'll only get exploded by letters, then (offscreen) that gives him an idea (adding an idea bulb panel would help I think) so he just delivers gadget's instructions to the bad guy since it's going to explode him anyway
is the agent supposed to be gadget with his collar pulled up? because not only would that be funny but cathartic

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New Wilfreda the Wanna-Be Witch comic is up. Wilfreda and Victor reach an greement, sort of.

Read the webcomic here: http://wilfredacomic.tumblr.com/

>>89517847
haha, i'm glad he finally got some. it's cathartic

>>89517779
No, you got it the first time. The agent has a little MAD pin but it's hard to tell in the sketch.

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>>89517717
is all this true? how do you know all this juicy info?

>>89517927
actually I got it the second time. FIrst time (just a brief glance) I thought it was ol' IG, and I also thought it was all in the chief's imagination. on closer inspection it was obvious

>>89517996
going by the typo it's not hard to guess
we may have a 'i hate bart simpson' situation on our hands

>>89515921
HOW ABOUT NOW ANON: http://jesse-the-art-maker.deviantart.com/art/Trope-Dykes-Alexia-Jones-super-female-vitality-wip-660491641

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>>89517996
>>89518289
what was there?

>>89519003
censored version!

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>>89517305

Gag/Short Idea 2

>>89519311
very nice, have you done comics before?

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>>89519311

This is what I was talking about earlier. I think this could work for just two pages, but I think maybe I should throw some dialogue in the first panel on page one to help with the lead in.

I also debated on doing a longer setup and making it three pages, but I don't want to overdo it for a simple gag fight scene.

>>89519324
I've done lots of comics. But they're all hundreds of pages long. (Nothing professional though, just for contests and as a hobby)

I'm challenging myself to practice doing really really short comics to help me with developing narratives from a different perspective. I can concept out long epics very easily but if you ask me to do anything short and concise it's a nightmare.

>>89519358
can you post some pages from those? these are pretty good for sketches so far

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>>89519369

Here's something from fairly recently.

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>>89519393

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>>89519407

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>>89519369

And from several years ago

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>>89519445

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>>89519463

Sometimes i feel like I've improved a lot with these things and other it seems like I regressed really badly.

It doesn't help that I'm terrible with managing my art time outside of my 40 hours a week of Day Job.

The contests have helped with that. If you procrastinate too much you turn in some awful crap. Then you feel like shit.

>>89519338
these are great! i'm enjoying the hell out of them! I hope you clean them up and post them some place

>>89519605
That's the plan. Right now I'm just seeing if people can tell what's going on/ spot anything crazy off.

>>89519500
>>89519463
>>89519445
>>89519424
>>89519407
>>89519393
Looks great, did you win any contests? Have you uploaded these online somewhere? An entire series this well drawn must have a following

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>>89519673

You'd be surprised. I post art around social media to try to get good coverage, but as far as the comics go you can read the most recent on my DA page:

http://bridgefirecomics.deviantart.com/

It also has links to everywhere else I post.

>>89504980
>Doing this on my tiny Cintiq feels like it would be many times more trouble than it's worth
You are drawing in the same way you play FPS games - one hand on the mouse (tablet pen in this case), the other on WASD keys. I rebinded my key shortcuts like this:

Q, W - rotate canvas left/right (you can't rotate your tablet like you can rotate a piece of paper to get a better drawing position)
E, R - zoom in/out
A, S, D, F, G, C, V - various brushes, eraser, color picker, lasso tool etc. (you can have multiple things under one key, it will cycle through them)
Z, X - undo/redo (you don't have to press Ctrl for this anymore)
Shift+E, Shift+R - brush size up/down
Shift+Q, Shift+W - opacity up/down

It's much, much faster to work this way rather than having to click things in menus.

>>89519844
>you can't rotate your tablet like you can rotate a piece of paper to get a better drawing position

Not a bad post, but you can rotate your tablet.

>>89519709
feels bad man

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In your opinion /hyw/ Do antagonists have to have some sort of deep reasons why they're antagonists or is it better to just keep it simple?

>>89520002

To be fair I "started over" about a year ago or so. Before that I can't say I had a huge following but I did have seven years or so of build-up.

I wasn't really playing the Social Media game then as I'm starting to now. Though even now I'm not putting too much effort into it since I'm not close enough to retiring from my current job for actively building a huge fanbase to be a priority. Picking up who I can along the way is fine for me for now.

>>89520045
Depends.

Are they a gag character? Is the genre comedy? Action based/driven?

If all the other characters have serious backstories and development having an underdeveloped villain by comparison will be a jarring contrast. And not in a good way.

>>89520050
what's the next big story you plan on doing?

>>89520050
You should try reddit, it's very good for getting exposure. Especially if you're doing these fan comics, you can crosspost on multiple subreddits.

>>89498041
A-Anyone? Don't y'all niggas advertise your shit or do you just farm PW for poorfag adspace and spam fanart on tumblr until you get someone's attention?

>>89520107

Not that anon but which subreddit, i feel like id get swept up among all the comedy webcomics in /r/webcomic and likewise

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This is one of the more hit or miss jokes I have written down

>>89520118
You most likely will, post your comic in whatever community is pertinent. That guy has an IG comic, a beetlejuice one, he can post those in both, and the web comic one. I'm sure there are more communities, but I'm not a regular user.

>>89520157
I miss eating eggs over easy..now I'm too fearful of salmonella

>>89520226
Why? Odds of getting salmonella from eggs are like, astronomical.

>>89519925
Sure you can, but if yours doesn't have its own display, then you're only screwing over your perception.

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>pen wont work

Fucking hell

>>89519709

Do you take comic commissions? Are you interested in a long term project?

>>89520834
It does. I have more money than sense.

>>89520861
It's always Bamboo products when people complain their shit's broken. I sense a pattern.

>>89521346
Nope, bought my first and only tablet in 2009, wacom bamboo, still using it to this day. A friend bought his shortly after, and last time he took it off the closet a few years ago it was still working.
A guy I knew bought a genius tablet, though, and his stopped working in about two weeks of use... I heard these tend to be defective, but I don't know anyone else who had genius tablets.

>>89520861
white light indicates detecting the pen near the surface, are you OK there anon?

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>>89517509
I like these anon. Do you have a dedicated page where you post your work?

>>89520157
Over medium is the true patrician style.

>>89519076
I'd fuck that everyday. Great work man, good to see someone drawing actually attractive females in this thread.

>>89520226
it is only on the shell, bro.

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>>89520094
That's a doozy. If this thread is still around when I get off from work I'll talk about it (them.)

>>89520883
I've considered taking commissions. At some point I'm sure I will, but not right now. I'm in the middle of trying to develop a story enough to attempt to write it. If not that, another comic contest will come along that I might join.

>>89520107
Thanks for the tip Anon. I honestly hadn't considered Reddit at all. I've posted my last comic on Imgur as a way to show people my stuff at work (It's one of the few sites we can connect to) but Imgur by itself doesn't seem like that great of a way to promote yourself. I'm not too familiar with the structure of Reddit. I'll look into it.

>>89521991

It wont work for my gateway laptop, the cursor doesn't move. It does work on my desktop so theres still hope

>>89523758
Then the problem is the drivers on your laptop

>>89523758
>Gateway
Are you from the year 2002?

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Worked on some colors and reworking inks.

Making good progress, working a little every day save for a couple past few days.

Need to recolor last panel for better color contrast and light illumination. I always like how Marte Gracia does that, like when cyclops shows his blast and his mostly in red, or good portion of him is in values of red.

Working on expository writing for someone else's world-building. Please, on a scale from "cringe" to "acceptable", rate my shit:

All told, the apocalypse had been a weird one. Mankind had spent its entire existence pondering an ending to all that is; grand theological operas of justice and flame, storms of otherworldly fury raining from the heavens, slow and bitterly poetic bleedout brought about by ecological collapse and humanity's own hubris... Perhaps even a transcendence to some other consciousness, metaphysical or machine.

What a majority of people did not expect was the moon to explode.

Granted, the explosion was only part of the problem. Earth's moon had detonated in relatively close proximity to the planet itself, the result of hyperscience gone wrong and roughly fifty-seven thousand years of obsessively plotted time travel crammed into a single century loop. The result was a wash of irresponsibly advanced magic and technology across the planet as the moon's inhabitants and resources spilled forth to escape their imminent destruction.

The times that followed were largely punctuated with declarations of "what the fuck was that?" from humanity as a whole, having experienced alien first contact, mysto-spiritual awakening, and a radical mutation of flora, fauna, and physics all in the same day... followed by the moon exploding and taking just under half the earth's population with it. The simple answer is that the moon had collided with another of itself, trying to occupy nearly the spot in spacetime. The problem with that answer is that it has little to do with why the moon was in high earth orbit when this occurred, and also that it is a profoundly stupid answer because spacetime does not work that way. Nevertheless, it did work that way.

>>89519338
>>89519311
This is so perfectly in-character, not just for him but for the show. hell if DiC had allowed it I bet the japanese and possibly even the canadian animators would have done just that kind of gag

>>89519463
>yfw this is real

>>89520157
>that headline
i miss sarah silverman program

>>89520834
You replied to the post mentioning the cintiq, even quoted it. you know cintiqs have displays right?

>>89524051
>villain is hank mccoy mixed with apocalypse
i am okay with this
you know, most comics that come out slowly have a tendency to lose me, but somehow the anticipation here really helped. being curious who the hell caused this explosion

>>89524032
>that feel when had a compaq running win98 until 2006

>>89524530
Good point, I kinda forgot about it while writing the post. Oops.

>>89525615
i actually looked up cintiqs when I first saw that post to make sure they did have screens because I kinda forgot

I've never done a comic before so I think I'm starting with a basic 4 panel setup. Should the panels just be perfect boxes? I've seen people use vertical or horizontal rectangles. Does it matter, and why?

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>>89519076
Dammit bones go and learn proper anatomy already she's literally Dr. Weird levels of fucked up.

>>89525786
boxes have the advantage of looking nice when arranged in a 4-square. vertical boxes give you more room for dialogue, while horizontal boxes give you more room for side-to-side action. It's best to custom tailor your needs based on that

>>89524550
Never thought of that character mix before. The character will be like a rock/magma type character with those things on his shoulders like glowing volcanos or whatever..he creates strong heat from his hands, no shooting fire or magma or anything. Plu strong.

I'm glad the intrigue and anticipation is setting in for readers. Always worried if this beginning setup would be enough to get readers in.

>>89526492
normally I think it wouldn't be, but you're really good at it. or maybe i'm just in the right mood

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i made a comic

>>89527362
>kissing isn't a great attack
clearly beak-eyes has never heard of poison ivy.. or sonya blade for that matter. and now it's paying the consequences time

>>89524512
>sarah silverman
Explain

>>89527537
you never saw that show? it was damn clever. an early Harmon production before he was hot shit
it had a pair of gay stoners, and in one episode they heard weed makes you gay, and were worried that was the only thing doing it.
coming up with the same joke independently means you are a good comedy fellow.

>>89527654
Holy shit, I'm actually dumb. When you said headline I thought you meant the highlight on her head, and I got really confused. Thanks though, happy you think I'm good at comedy

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Finished the first page for the epilouge of chapter 19!

>>89526516
Let's hope it's both.

>>89528387
>tumblr noses
4chan really has been assimilated, hasn't it?

>>89528387
that purple wordburble is unreadable

but this new font? good font. readable. Maybe a little more of a 'newspapery' tone than this comic should have, but at least it's readable now. Good. stuck with this one.
I don't think you call the business that you run a 'vendor', rather YOU are the vendor, and you run a... what, cafeteria?
what the fuck Nep your plot is weird
why does everyone else look so weird now, did they eat a bowl of weird-ass-nose-flakes this morning?

also it's epilogue. in case you were putting this up on the site with any words indicating that it's the epilogue, best fix the spellins.

>>89528438
>>89528515
The girls have red noses because it makes them look uglier, it's the classic dynamic of two ugly people and one sexy girl.

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>>89526051
Alexia Jones is a weird girl and makes weird enhancement drugs and water filters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hexbuYG91G8

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So I have this idea of adapting the unproduced Mission Hill episodes to comics but my biggest issue is that my art style is no where near the original Mission Hill and I'm afraid it will clash with the scripts and drive people away from the final comic

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>>89517584
She does have a bit of a strange look like some kind of chernobyl child. I want her to be somewhat creepy while still being cute. With how she is now how much does the uncanny outweigh the cute?

>>89517627
Nice! That makes me feel really good. I have a tendency to disappear from everywhere and just focus on improvement. It's like I get some feedback and roll with it.

>>89522428
This is wonderful I love it. She loves it to. I have a tumblr where I just dump everything some of the things is post are kind of weird though. Your art looks super familiar are you Mimi artist or am I just blind?

http://fashionably-feral.tumblr.com/

>>89527362
I love your comic. Do you post anywhere else?

>>89529143
I'm not sure if "adapting" scripts like that can really be called anything but plagiarism. Can anyone cite precedent?

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>>89529739
>the mimi author
LONDON?

>>89529739
Yep. I make Mimi. I don't ever come to the threads anymore but someone linked me to your post. I like your little ragdoll so I figured I'd give you a little something. Keep it up!

>>89529739
I've seen plenty of dolls with those proportions, even if the majority are chibier. I wouldn't worry.

>>89528515
SUCF

>>89529797
Neat. It's understandable with the threads but I really appreciate the picture.

>>89529815
Cool I honestly have a much easier time doing poses with the longer limbs.

>>89529776
So long as it is properly cited and attributed, you can call it an adaptation; but that's assuming you aren't going to sell it or make money off of it in some way.

But more likely than not, nobody will care.

>>89529776
Compare it to a fan comic but without autism.

>>89525474
Are you me?

Are waifus the key to getting big?

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Here's a remake page that I just finished!

>>89531847
Your exposition is very heavy-handed, and it doesn't seem like English is your first language.

>>89531051
a fancomic is creative, illustrating a script meant to be made into a cartoon yourself is just kind of .. you get the difference, right? among other things, eventually you'll run out.

>>89530925
If it was done well and the art style looked right, I'd care
I say leave it to someone who CAN imitate the style. If you draw differently, draw a different story that's just inspired by mission hill.
if you can't, then work with a writer who knows they're working with you

>>89531988
Oh yeah, I forgot to add that panel three is worded that way because it's funny like that, also these remake pages are in black and white so I have to be a little more wordy when it comes to talking about color.

>>89531847
christ this is awful, I feel dumber after reading this.

holy crap tapastic has some kind of rightclick-blocking, as if to punish people actually using a real computer

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For anyone making comic's, any of you guys have tips with showing emotions or books that can help me discover how to convey them more...

I feel like i can draw the basic human emotions for a character, but i wanna get deep into showing body language and how still pictures can show them.

Also here's Launa.

>>89532102
Derivative but that is the purpose, giving life to incomplete scripts.

>eventually you'll run out.
That's not a problem

>>89533707
There are really neat exercise things for filling out one character in every emotion, and all good artists have done at least one, you can study those
also this waif is cute as hell
as for body language though, that's a bit tougher, I don't know of any guides

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>>89528804

why cant the batman art threads ever stay up? where am i supposed to post my brand new sketches at?

serious on topic question with pic related, should batman threads fuze with hywc threads? ive heard it talked about before and silently thought it was a bad idea because stand alone art is very different from sequential art, which is what this thread is supposed to be about but rarely ever is...

>>89516561
If it's a habit you've fallen into, you really won't notice. I've found the best way to break it is to keep a mental checklist of each of the facial features, and go out of my way to GREATLY vary them compared to my other characters. I will ask myself, "exactly HOW can I make these features different?"

I'll give you an example using your pic of the two characters:
>Eyes: different enough
>eyebrows: too similar
>Nose: too similar
>Cheeks, jawline, and chin: practically the same
>Mouth: similar, but that probably doesn't matter given your style

Another thing I'd suggest is to base their features off their personalities for more variety, for instance, a square jawline for more gruff, masculine characters. Feel free to really exaggerate.

desu anon, you could do a lot worse. I mean, yeah, if ALL your characters have the same features as pic related, that's pretty samey, but one or two characters aren't too bad

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>>89534108

blacked.com version

>>89534108
>She has a very broad nose for a person of Caucasian descent.
>You need to redraw that scarf so that gravity at least "LOOK'S" like it's effecting it...
>Her left boob is lower that the right, also breast are like tear drops and they sag slightly (Even in BRAS). their also too high when consider anatomy.
>I alway find it more pleasing to the eye whenever a character is being shown, that their entire body is shown and not hidden. In summary don't hide her right hand...
> She has no ears...
>Also the FUCK are those on her feet some kinda laces?
>Fuck you for even attempting a camel-toe... learn to erase completely... F-
>I like the underwear.
>Fucking don't post this here, this isn't a batman thread go share your shit somewhere else... like a tumblr you pathetic manchild...
>Work on your coloring because most of the shadows you're trying to show on here and the shine and values are almost INVISIBLE...
>The pose is Stiff go practice drawing models, or yourself in a mirror and find better poses...
>also "git gud"...

>>89534646
we don't talk to bones

>>89534679
Ah... I see

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>>89534646
>>89534679
>>89534702

oh thats rich!

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>>89534679
>WE

>>89535433
>>89535469
keep it up my man, I support you

>>89531847
Is the reason for this whole remake an esxcuse for you to ripoff from Undertale with that intro you made?

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>>89536704
can you explain the ripoff? I don't keep up on his comics

>>89537265
He includes a lot of mixed together elements from whatever video game he's playing at the time. This one asshole in these threads decides to call that plagiarism, as if that isn't what we're all doing.
It all started out with a character who was named pony and colored identically to one of the ponies, with the same personality, and having wings. Evidently this was a coincidence, so he changed that one's name and appearance. After that though, everyone was on plagiarism-watch. And because the little fuck has severe ADD and draws like his hand's going to fall off any second, it's apparently lots of fun to give him shit and ruin threads with it.

>>89537508
how is that from Undertale?

>>89537265
One of the namefags told me he made a character that looks like the flower from Undertale, so I checked it out and there it was.
>>89537508
>He changed Sora design to look like that frog girl from the superheroes manga, and he admitted it so
>He designed the main character parents to be literally bootleg Mercy and McCree from Overwatch
>That Palette swap Rohan
>That Bootleg Jotaro

That's not taking inspiration. One Piece and Naruto were both inspired by Dragon Ball, and you can see it, but at the same time, you can also see they have an identity for themselves.
But whatever you say bub.

>>89537699
He has a creepy neon villain with mannerisms inspired by flowey, and the overall 'colored lines on black background' is clearly inspired by undertale

>>89537751
it's more like "Suppaman" from dragon ball, I think. Or the fact that Sonic does the same thing as super saiyans, down to the green eyes (originally)
Just a tip for everyone though, when you're making homages and parodies, it helps if you're making some kind of statement on the thing you're parodying. That's one of the reasons parody is protected by law, it's a form of expression.

>>89537751
He is so braindead he can't muster an ounce of originality, and he thinks people care to delve into the world of a mish mash of popular tropes interpreted by a short bus kid?

I don't mind shitty art or shitty writing, we have a lot of beginners in /hyw/. But it's this parasitic lack of originality that makes the comic so repulsive.

i thought you guys said he fucking left

>>89538037
in case you didn't notice, they say that about every artist in here when they take a break
except they usually add "because these threads are so terrible, they left out of shame"
none of these people have comics, of course.

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>>89537832
Parody is a satire with a meaning. There is literally no reason for "his" characters to look the way they look that implies it's a parody of the original characters, or any of their quirks.
Not-Jotaro was supposed to be a parody of buff guys in RPGs, but Jotaro's character has nothing to do with that, and its closest relation it's he's fucking tall, but that is not parody.

And he's not even willing to admit he can't design characters on his own so he takes from other places to fill the gap. He think it's ok because it counts as "reference"

Super Sonic was retarded imo, I can't defend that.

>>89524489
What do you mean?

>>89538066
That's what I said, yeah. It helps if parody has a bit more to it than just admiration. But that's where homage takes over.
You're certainly entitled, just keep in mind you're being a lot harder on him than Araki would be.

>>89538132
the well of creativity has been poisoned, and free expression is being locked down harder every day

>>89537751
>One of the namefags told me he made a character that looks like the flower from Undertale, so I checked it out and there it was

link

>>89537751
>namefags
which one? None of them ever use their names in here whilst saying anything against anyone else.

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anyone else enjoy watching dewd's shitty comic get ripped on?

>>89538486
> Implying they will reveal themselves

>>89524429
Is this in any way related to The Time Machine, because this seems very similar to one of the plot points.

Over all, it could make for an interesting story. Is it supposed to be kind of 90s? Because it seems a lot like a 90s fantasy kind of plot.

If it was me putting it together, my biggest concern would be trying to include too many elements and either them clashing too much with each other or them being disproportionately developed (some under, some over.)

These kinds of ideas walk a thin line.

>>89538733
I enjoy a thread free of shitposting, where no brittle newcomers feel inhibited to post their garbage so we can help them get better
>>89538998
I suppose that's too much to ask of cowards. I'm just surprised it's one of them

>>89539029
I think it's a really interesting concept, but that anon was asking for feedback on the writing, apparently the worldbuilding is someone else's.. otherwise I'd comment more on it.
What about it reminds you of The Time Machine though?

>>89538998
>>89538486
There are plenty you retards, check the archive. I know you won't because you aren't here to make any point, but to try to make yourself feel better by strawmanning the opposition as "too scared to post their names" when this is a fucking anonymous imageboard. Out of courtesy I'm not going to point a finger at them, but you are coldfusion level of stupidity if you think no one has called dewd out on his awful shit. Kill yourselves

>>89539088
>>89524429

Oh. In that case the writing is a bit wordy. There is a lot of... over emphasis? If I could recommend anything I'd recommend simplifying and then going back and adding to it as necessary. You don't want to overload the reader.

In The Time Machine the moon explodes ultimately leading to a disaster that later results in sci-fi psychic humans in the (way, way distant) future who live in tandem with primitive low tech humans. The synopsis made me think of an adventure set in a similar setting, albeit more... 90s...

>>89539212
we are not talking about H.G. Wells here are we

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>>89537265
This is Leafy the so called "Undertale ripoff"

I actually just really wanted to post this picture.

>>89539462
if I recall, he does make twisted faces from time to time
speaking of, is that background inspired by Giegue? It's pretty gnarly, and it looks like it has intentionally blown-up small pixels as part of its rippled pattern

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>>89539462
Are you saying it isn't?

>>89539232
Yes?

At least that's what happens in the movie.

>>89539589
reminds me more of Bongo Bongo

>>89539617
not the movie I watched
man alan young was great in that. it's so weird knowing he's dead

>>89539589
Could you help those of us not familiar with Undertale out.

>>89539992
there is a creepy flower that grows a face
this is a creepy flower that grows a body. it's an obvious ripoff
plus everything in undertale is white lines on black, this is green and red lines on black. it's the same exact thing.

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>>89539589

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>>89478151
The pure emotion and heart put into Fukumoto's work really inspired my writing and art style. Though I did focus on sloppy, sketchy, and real feelings through art before reading his works, he only cemented what it was I strived for

>>89539500
Well, at first it was me using a mosaiac effect and blurring it, trying to make it look like a gory background, but then I made a smily face and thought that was more in character.

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>>89540282
Oda's work on One Piece is also another example of the kind of art I strive for

>>89540317
oh that makes sense. either way it's pretty neat. really out there.

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>>89540329
I love Oda style, but I've been craving for him to get away from One Piece for ages.

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Haven't drawn my main cast in something outside of comic pages in a while, so decided to make these little pinups
In actual comic making news, currently getting my first two updates finished, and I'm happy that they look alot better than my prologue did

>>89541719
This is looking better all the time. It's still not a style I'm really thrilled about, but it's nice and legible now and seems to have a little depth from the shading.. even if it's kinda random (shading on all three sides of the bottom of his shirt even though his arms are at his sides?

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>>89541832
>This is looking better all the time.
Aw, that makes me a little happy to hear

>shading on all three sides of the bottom of his shirt even though his arms are at his sides
Shit now that you mention that it looks like the shirt is just hovering over him. Thanks for the critique though

I never thought of this while writing it in but am I going to be called "racist" for having a sanctuary for space outcasts called the "Gypsy Array"? Is that something people would get mad about?

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>tfw you're determined to git gud at art and start watching youtube videos but it made your comic look worse

>>89542412

>Is that something people would get mad about?

If you have to ask, then yeah. Probably.

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>>89519076
new page wip bump

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>>89543220
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAf9hk0YOFM

>>89543260
>>89543220
tell me about the jews bones

>>89542412
You shouldn't worry about this, the only people who like gypsies are those who were never in contact with them for more than 5 minutes, meaning if someone complains about this, he's talking out of his ass.

>>89532200
That's kinda the problem. With the way the rest of the comic is written, it's not easy to tell whether that's intentional or not.

>>89541504
He has said he didn't want to be remembered as 'the guy who did One Piece', and the series was originally only supposed to be, what, a hundred chapters long or something?

He's gonna be stuck doing One Piece until he dies.

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Okay, which one of you fuckers was it?

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http://abnor.com.br/?lang=en

>>89539589
>lovley
>to
>payed

Who the fuck types in 1948+69 without spell check

>>89542855
^this

I decide to finally just go for it and start a simple webcomic about every 2-3 months and never actually do it. I feel like all my ideas are shit-tier and so I lurk in comic threads to get some ideas but in the end it just makes me feel shit about mine. Great.

>>89543901
>/hyw/ is responsible for an /a/ meme
I knew you /pol/ers were stupid, but WOW. I can't even.

>>89543220
Oh fuck that looks hot bro, do any of them grow dicks?

>>89538066
You've almost got it.

What Dewd does is rip things off, either knowingly or subconsciously, and when he gets called out, he tries to say it was a reference after the fact. I know someone here has pics of the book cover where his shitty blocking got Sarah's face covered up by the title, which he retroactively tried to say was a Monsters Inc. "reference."

He's just a stupid retarded faggot and I shouldn't be giving him attneion. But everything he does makes me upset to be a part of the webcomics community, that we have fucking retards THIS stupid in our community.

>>89542412
Who set up this sanctuary? Was it a place created by the outcasts themselves as a refuge or by the Space Government as holding pen for Space Undesirables?

As long as it's not full of grotesque, out-dated caricatures you should be okay.