How's Your Webcomic? #350

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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

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>>90166944
I really like the concept and especially the designs, but there's no need to be conservative with speech bubbles unless you go full Bendis. The third bubble especially threw me off when the second girl said "um..."

But keep up the good work though. I'll definitely be following your comic.

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Keit-Ai just got an update, guise.

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

>>90174934
i hated this meme spam more than anyone, but i'm so pleased with the quality now that it's real
interesting thing about webtoons, it evidently saves your scrolling position, because when I went to check this page out again (had already) it took me to the bottom of the strip

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>tfw another day another delay

>tfw artist open for commissions
>tfw proposing to collab

Waiting for their message back, wish me luck.

>>90178755
it's going to fail

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>>90172575
gonna replace all the words lol

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>>90180212
a few characters

>>90180246
still cute! did you see my advice in the last thread? not that you absolutely need to follow it or anything, just making sure.

>>90180570
which advice? About the perspective?
Ya, I'm still gonna do it prolly
I'm still writing the opening so idk if I'm exactly gonna start at that page

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>>90180641
nope, about the proportions. just lettin you know, stylization is fun but if you go that far it can be hard to make some poses happen (you've already cheated to get eva's hands in her pocket)

>>90180212
>>90180246
Looking good, anon

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>>90172575

Ahem, made official logos for my 4 main comic book projects.

FATES CHAOS (2017, LAUNCHING SOON!)

*This project evolved from a high fantasy swords and sorcery story on an alien planet to a solid down to earth sci-fi western with a few fantasy elements still left in, minus the swords and sorcery. There is no magic in this story. Lots of half demons though like vampires and werewolfs in a word full of gun slinging cowboys some of which, have lazer pistols...
-----

DEMON FUZE a blaze in the western sky (2017, LAUNCHING SOON!)

*This project evolved from a punk band that found demon guns that turned into rings they wore on there fingers when they werent fighting to a full on super sentai power rangers type of thing complete with giant robots, monsters, and ofcourse demons. Hell yeah this is my main project, even though ive been working on FATES CHAOS a lot longer there is just something about this one that I have a lot of unholy faith in if ya know what I mean.
----

G.G.Z. (2017, LAUNCHING SOON!)

*This project evolved from a goth boy who could open magical door ways and used doors as his main weapons to fight monsters and eventually fell in love with a
magical bat girl, to a super unique story about goth girls and b-b-q stuff, yeah! For real!
----

METEOR RANDOM *(2017, LAUNCHING SOON!)

*This project is about a young boy who has his life flipped upside down by a strange meteor that turned everyone in his city town into weird alien monsters, and
he is the only one with equally weird monster alien powers to defeat all the monsters and return life back to normal. Whatever that is.
----

*NOTE: My TROPE DYKES project is a side project and not really a webcomic or anything, just a joke comic featuring the trope dykes whenever I feel like it I guess.

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>>90180246
what's the name of the girl in the middle? Samuel?

>>90180800
Arms aren't THAT long man. Eva's hands in her pocket is feasible with the current style.

Reposting my stuff, btw

>>90181009
yeah it's just something to keep an eye on that's all. Nothing wrong with going kinda lalaloopsy with it.
Another thing I would watch for though is how low the knees are. If they aren't roughly in the middle of the leg, that'll always look a little odd. ditto the arms. Imagine holding a bag over your shoulder, if your forearm is 20% longer than your humerus.. that'll be harder to draw is all
I love their cute rounded square faces, reminds me of Weekenders. it's a style we don't see often enough

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>>90180958

>>90181009
Summer, i scrawled the names lol

>>90181040
I guess you're right, if he's not careful, he might end with characters that look like Lanky Kong.


>>90181148
She french? Since it takes place in france, I'm asking, because I don't know anyone called summer, here.

>>90181213
I guess "Été" isn't much of a name

>>90181213
Gimme some names Frenchanon, you've been really helpful so far lol
Most of the names were of people in my French class in highschool

>>90181250
not that guy but I've always been fond of Cosette
I plan to name my daughter Ponette if I ever get laid.
genevieve is nice too, fuck almost all french girl names are nice. giselle..

>>90181340
Cosette is nice, I like that
Name looks like it would fit better than Summer on that character

>>90181250
Marion, Margaux, Margot, Julie, Juliette, Françine, Sophie, Sophia, Laure, Laurine, Michèle, Micheline, Mireille, Marcelle (old people name), Manon (fucking sexy name if you ask me) Marianne, Marine, Miléna, Milène, Louise, Sarah, Zoé, Line, Claire, Romane, Ophélie, Ophelia.

These are girl's name i can come up with. Cosette is not a name I reccomend, it is associated with victor hugo and is never used. It's like if you called your kid "anakin". Which was used in france.

Giselle's fucking ugly, mate. Manon for the win.

>>90181395
this guys my nigga, got a million questions for this guy lol
Mostly revolving around grammatical correctness and general culture questions
If you got a better way to get in contact that'd be rad

I started drawing a comic and I can't for the life of me figure out what to name it.

It's about a conspiracy theorist dude named X and he fights a cult using powers he stole from them alongside his his friend Corrine.

I've drawn over 30 pages but have released nothing because I still can't come up with a good name T_T

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>>90180958

Heres an alternative logo style, going for a black and white yin and yang thing, but ultimately I think plain white looks best for an official logo.

Also the main character drawn in a manga style and a cartoon style. The cartoon style is the official style im going for with this project, full blown cartoon!

He is a mexican boy with random meteor(tm) monster soccer powers. He coughs up a golden soccer ball of pure kick ass magical alien power and beats the crap out of random meteor(tm) monsters ff10 tidus kick ball style! awwww yeah son its going to fucking awesome and have weird shit in it none of you fuckers ever seen before and be of a super polished top quality. like you going to see the first couple of pages and be like damn bones, why isn't this a show on nickelodeon or cartoon network man, go pitch this shit and get rich and famous already.

you'll see...

>>90181438
Post a page

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open foot or closed foot in this shot y'think?

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>>90181452
My art kinda sucks but here's one of the pages I have colored.

It's pretty light on dialog, gonna kinda go for a nighttime wintery theme.

>>90181395
Manon is indeed a cute name, I know of a girl named that. though it's also a race in xenoblade x.
sophie's good but so completely overused. i think anakin is an awesome name

>>90181430
post questions here and I'd gladly help as I can.
You can spot me easily, with broken english, and posting pages with titties and french words.

>>90181438
okay, intrigued. how do you steal powers?
You could call it "Called It!" because he was right

>>90181530
The whole "anakin" shit is people who wants to have "unique names" so french people call their trash kids "djaysonn" "emerson" "johnny" "clitorine"
There's a french blog exposing these "unique snowflake" names, it's pretty hilarious

>>90181573
>clitorine
lol

>>90181573
well see, therein lies the problem. you can't be unique by being shitty. you have to be unique by being cool. the first person who thought to name their kid after the hero jason had a pretty good idea. the next sixty thousand should have been more creative.
in any case, i think that problem is pretty universal. At least it's a major problem in the states. mainly among the super poor and the super rich

>>90181585
>mainly among the super poor and the super rich
Never thought about that
You never see a middle class kid named like Brycen

>>90181583
I think I'd name a kid Chlorine. that's a good name.

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>>90181450

His power is hard to explain but just know its going to be as epic as gokus ka-may-ha-may-ha wave, one punch mans one punch, ryu's hydo-ken, scorpions get over here, etc, etc

METEOR RANDOM is gong to be fucking huge. HUGE! Very excited about it.

>>90181549

The cult is using "nazi human expirement" style sci fi to try and create the antichrist and they developed a way to give people powers. MC finds out they've figured it out and steals some of their serum for himself. I have some more details in my head but that's the gist. The powers aren't too ridiculous, probably the most OP thing any character is gonna get is lightning stuff.

>>90181539
How does college application go over there?
Same app process as here, or are there special loop holes to go through, or what

>>90181602
if you do, they THINK of themselves as rich, and live in a dainty little suburb community, or an area pretending to be.

>>90181620
oh crazy
okay so the main character's name is X, he basically has jesus powers, that... that has to work somehow. X is the first letter of christ in greek. i also feel like I want to make a pun on him fighting a cult, like.. countercult-er. but.. no.
come to think of it isn't that captain america's backstory in the 90s spider-man? well anyway, seeing as you probably mean 'the beast' rather than 'the' antichrist (not a thing), you could possibly use a title involving that.. even if it's kind of an overused title word. I feel like nobody has ever used 'counterbeast' as a title before.

>>90181583
it's real.

>>90181585
Yup. You're right on this. I know super rich kids with names from old books from the middle ages lol.

"Alyannah" That's a name too.

Kaellya, Menphys, Nalla, SAKURA. Arwon.


>>90181623
Well, registration is a two step process: You apply for a degree, they accept you, then you pay, and the second step is choosing your courses. For master's degrees and phd, there's a selection. You apply, they may not accept you.

College is less expensive in france. First year costs like 300E when I was studying. Master's are like 500E.

>>90181623
I remember in french class the way they described postsecondary education in france it sounded a lot like japan. but somehow I can't imagine any french people ever being stressed enough to kill themselves.

>>90181693
well those last four are okay.

On the subject of French, I came up with a naming gag when I was 11 and working out my comic's premise and I don't think it's especially funny anymore but I'm too attached to the names.

The idea is that the country is primarily English speaking and French is uncommon enough that you can't really find a speaker in a smaller town, so when a French (possibly Québécois) group visits a small town the locals are fascinated by their odd speech. The visitors are amused that they're so enraptured by their language that they give them a quick lesson in the basics and leave a vocabulary list.

The locals don't have any reason to learn it, but love the sound of it and some decide that they want to give their children French names. Since they don't actually know anything about French culture, they just pick words off of the vocabulary list, resulting in local kids being named things like "Chevre" and "Espoir".

Is it too much? The main impact it'll have on the story is that one prominent side character will be named Enchante.

>>90181687
Oooh, I like counterbeast. I might go with that if I can't think of anything better in the next few days.

As far as my plot goes, I've been bouncing around variations of this idea in my head since middle school or so, and I want to make something I can cram all the shit I think is cool into.

>>90181732
I feel like that's kind of an implausible concept unless the country in question was some kind of time-displaced RPG village.. which would be hilarious.

>>90180212
>>90180246
here
When it comes to writing how do you prevent yourself from moving to fast?
When it comes to comic writing i think less is more but don't wanna have to little or too much
How do you find a nice middle ground

>>90181928
it's tricky, when you first start out you're so eager that you tend to rush things along. Try to write all your ideas down but don't go through with them right away, try to burn it slowly and build up a buffer
Then once you're settled in, you tend to have the reverse issue... write down all your ideas and expanded dialogue and all that, but carefully prune out the ones that aren't as good

>>90181829
It's not something I want to explain too precisely but the idea is that it's a fantasy land that gets a lot of unexpected transplants from North America, hence the Québécois being considered but French not being more wide-spread.

English being their main language to start isn't... SUPER well-reasoned. Generally it's that so many of the transplants were English speaking Americans and Canadians for the last few hundred years that it came to dominate the culture. It's also because the transplants have been ascribed a certain cultural status that the government wants to honor with an easier transition to life in their country, thus more formally enforcing the language shift.

>>90182089
oh okay that works great then.
it'll help if the english they speak has drifted a little. give it one or two quirks, and/or some old holdovers from whatever they spoke before.

>>90182117
Yeah, I've been considering tossing in some quirks or slang but I'm honestly not sure what I could do to alter it that wouldn't come across as cheesy. I'd consider dialogue a strong-suit of mine but not as much if I have to juggle invented dialect differences, especially since I have close to zero tolerance for wacky fish-out-of-water shenanigans. Tough to reconcile with a lean toward pseudo-realism...

>>90182226
think about ways english changes in isolated areas, ruralisms, terms that kids screw up because they don't know what they mean ("For all intensive purposes" kinda shit). you can make it really subtle, I'd suggest kinda like Wheel of Time writing

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fix the dialogue

>>90182459
I think he means "clean house" but maybe his phrasing is bad intentionally? He sounds like he doesn't fully understand the phrase

>>90182473

he is doing it on purpose. He is funny brainwash man.

>>90182530
yeah in that case I don't see any problems here. good job! have you been studying your english?

>>90182587

I got friends to help me.

>>90182611

Shit, i accidentally push the button. I was going to says that they say i am approving on it.

>>90182637
great job m8
the word you're looking for there is 'improving'. approving is when you are okay with something
It's a long hard journey learning this piece of shit language, but we all appreciate it. it's not our fault, we didn't pick our language, we just tried to take over the world and succeeded. some of the founding fathers seriously proposed making the national language hebrew. I can honestly say that would be an improvement.

>>90182695
Okay, you didn't have say all of that. People make mistakes and got nice people to help me.

>>90180800

MOTHERFUCKING ARMS AKIMBO

what's the secret to comic success?

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>>90180958

working on the next excitably depressing gothacidal page of goth grill z!

website: http://ggz.thecomicseries.com/

>>90183395

I forgot to mention its a low kb preview since im on linksys right now.

also i fixed the previous page but cant upload it until tomorrow its way better than the last page i posted to the host site.

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>>90183395

added in a clock and some window blinds in panel 1, plus heres the dialog, i'll upload it everywhere tomorrow/later on today

>>90184093
I like this page a lot more. It's got just enough background to keep the scene interesting and very good panel placement.

>>90181512
Closed, also why does she only have one breast?

>>90183294
waifus

>>90182695
the guy you're replying to is a native English speaker you know. He's American. He's just really stupid.

>>90174934
Already a thing.

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

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>>90174934

>>90174934
>>>/a/

When writing your 22-page comic script, what is the average amount of pages that constitutes the beginning, the middle, the end? What page number should the climax fall around? Couldn't find solid numbers anywhere.

>>90182945
>Oops

>>90185541
did'n draw the other one in yet. my preliminary drawing process is sketchophrenic and I don't recommend it to anyone. This does have some construction lines erased though in case you were noticing a certain lack of them.
>>90186666
nuh uh, he said he was from brazil or something
>>90189901
in my experience, the climax represents 3-8 pages towards the end, with 1-3 pages after it.
source: lots of hentai

>>90184093
Dude looks like a cave painting

>>90184093
The lack of line variety makes everything look dull, the blocky designs look less than stellar. You need thinner linework, better grasp on proportions on backgrounds, and more details. For instance, on fluide glacial, the french equivalent of MAD magazine, there's a comic artist that uses IKEA instruction-style illustrations to draw his comic. I can't find a picture, but everything relies on thin lines and detailed backgrounds. Here it looks like that teacher's hiding behind a huge tetris block and that door is so tiny, even a fucking smurf can't get through. I wish I could see how you draw on paper because i can tell, you're way better on pen and paper than with fucking photoshop, mang.

I'm that french dude who draws big titted ladies with wonky backgrounds so take that how you want, but yeah. It's not that great but it has some potential.


>in b4 "durr don't reply to bones"

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>>90193584 here,

>>90184093
I tried to redraw your page to show what I meant.

>>90194319
While you really shouldn't be replying to Bones and yadda yadda, this is actually a pretty good improvement. Even without any dialogue, this page has such better rhythm and storytelling than the original. The more detailed shot of the girl's lips has a lot more emotion to it that Bones's, and making the tall dude less catoony but also kinda frumpy is a nice touch.
Good going, French boob anon, but don't expect Bones to take your advice.

>>90173636
>>90194319
>Two random people can draw a comic better than the faggot who made it
>Not to mention both are just doodles

And listen to >>90194637. Bones isn't worth your effort or time. He's going to continue to suck no matter what kind of pointers you give him.

>>90195309
he probably ain't see what's wrong with his stuff and tell it's trolling.

Reminds me of the dude who redrew one of my pages putting feets everywhere lol

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>>90193584

thanks for the advice i will take it to heart

>>90194319
wow... this is really good and well done and funny, that chris chan insert is fucking brilliant!

i dont suppose... you would tell me who you are? your obviously a professional senpai

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>>90194637
>>90195309

jealous haters starting to gang up on me like pic related, mfw

>>90196056
Well that guy was just trying to make a point, help you see things from his perspective. I don't agree with it, but that was a clever way of doing it.

>>90196602
I'm not a professional by any means. I know a dude who wanted to get to draw comics professionally but time and constraints made me refuse. That man was an actual renowned comic artist. Shame.

I'm currently trying to get my webcomic (the big titties metal thing) to get published on a comic site that hosts pros. A professional is awaiting the result, let's see where it gets me.

And seriously, bones, stop that kind of shit right here >>90196645
You need to work on the stuff I told you. Many people gave you advices, you don't listen. So WORK. And for pete's sake, stop drawing digitaly, get a fucking scanner, it'll help you, and DON'T USE THE LINE TOOL.

>>90196853
Yeah, but that was hilarious to me. Closest thing from a fanart I had in years man.

I miss getting fanarts.

>>90197107
post here consistently and I can almost guarantee it. if I get to know your characters I'm sure to like at least one of them enough to draw it. your style looks weirdly familiar.

>>90198222
I posted comics few months ago with the same characters, I just "hard rebooted" the whole thing to fit on a more story driven comic, so yeah.

>>90198466
coolcool. well keep it up, fanart will occur for sure.

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I hope so.

Finally done with page 5 btw. Not happy with this one.

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It's been a good minute since I used a pencil. Still can't draw hands for shit.

>>90200182
I'm already liking this beardfellow.

>>90200199
if you want my onion, the best way to get hands right is to use a simplified version of construction methods. If you go full loomis, you end up with overly mechanical, angular hands with too many creases.. but if you just learn the approximate shape of a palm, suddenly how to add fingers to it becomes a lot simpler.

>>90200311
So it's like how people make the frame for the head / torso from shapes, but with the hand?

Thanks m8. Looks like I'll have something to practice on this weekend.

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Yelling and Faces: The Page

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>>90200456
yeah. You'll see a lot of diagrams like this kinda thing, and they'll seem daunting and overly complex, and if you copy them too closely you'll end up with these spider hands all over the place...

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>>90200610
but if you keep it simple and work with just the most basic shapes and proportions, I think you'll get it a lot more quickly. Then you can work on refinement AFTER the fundamentals are down
interestingly this cartoon style makes the palm a circle, I've seen guides suggesting it be a pentagram, but my palm is a definite wendy's-patty square.

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http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/gigatriggrzero/the-book-of-ebon-pt-1-us/viewer?title_no=56900&episode_no=8

The new chapter begins today, I hope you guys like it.

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ok so im ready to go tomorrow for a /qst/ thread
one thing though. its basically a valentines day romance vn.
starting with finding gifts from each option is fine yeah?
you have a gift too. should it be that you knew all along who you were going to give it to (you still decide) or should you be unsure of who to go with? i feel like the former is better

>>90174934
are you taking after the fanfic or loosely adapting it?

>>90178755
commission to collab? seems like a great idea, very different from the usual thing, sounds fun.
good luck

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why are comics such a lonely endeavor? please respond

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This might be the single most useful thread I've ever seen on /co/. Can't believe I've never seen these! How long do these threads usually hang around for? I'm planning on starting my own scifi webcomic soon,and it would be amazing if this was a consistent resource I could rely on for input.

>>90201323
wait... wait, what? dude, there's a lot going on here under the surface, isn't there

>>90202340
The CYOAs I like best make it clear that the character's main 'self' is ambivalent and unsure in the extreme, and the audience making the choices essentially represents the different considerations their mind makes... So the answer is both. You were unsure, with several voices in your head pushing you this way or that, but you've made the decision based on which one was the strongest, and therefor it's the one you really wanted the most all along.

>>90203654
>How long do these threads usually hang around for?
2-3 days, but they're currently running 24/7 (I'm impressed we've had a continuous general this long) so you'll be good no matter what, happy little puffpuff spider.

>>90203235
it's a thankless job, but nobody else is going to tell your stories. Keep your chin up, comicbro.

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>>90203726
oh yeah.

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>>90201323
big spoiler warning, but here's a link to all of the history and lore compiled for my comic. Be warned.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zfNCTNKAP8EJ8-NeF6nKiNhOI3Ht8X1POldTfUdEjag/edit?usp=sharing

>>90203893
you're good at draws.

>>90202340
>commission to collab? seems like a great idea, very different from the usual thing, sounds fun.

Only way I'd do it. The artist should be paid for their work, and besides, by being professionals, if your comic is decent, it could get off the ground much better. Idk, I'm giving it a shot.

>>90203964
hmmm.. should I? I'm really fuckin lost, but I don't wanna get spoiled. Maybe I'll do like I do with view's comics and read it all afterwards... but i'm REALLY lost.
You know what I as a reader would appreciate? Something like Jesse Moynihan's comic does, with recaps every so often.. maybe some of the lore can be explained as we go along. I mean IF it's that kind of story. If it's not, and we need to wait til the end, I understand.

>>90204219
I promise it will all start making sense relatively soon. That doc is all the events that take place AFTER Zero but BEFORE Giga 1, it spoils a few things relating to the story, but it still makes for a fun read.

>>90204582
well for now i'm along for the fun ride and cute art.

>>90181450
neat

at what point do you scrap your stagnating comic and make a new one?

>>90206279
when it has no redeeming qualities at all in your eyes
otherwise, polish the turd.

>>90206535
>polishing turds
N
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>>90206279
When it has no readerbase and it has already told its story.

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Well I'm using page 2 as an example of what i might be doing when polishing these pages...

So in you honest opinion what would be mistakes i should avoid, from what you can see in this picture...

Lines? Character inconsistencies? Shading issues? Pacing? Panel Structure? etc...

>I'd love to hear the REALLY bad things that I'm doing...

>>90203654
as other anon stated
anyways, welcome to the club, were also learning ourselves but wed love to help

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>>90184093

I finished this page a few hours ago but was not able to upload anything until just now when my linksys came on, this is a low kb version, i will upload the HD version of this page tomorrow on my deviant art and the GGZ comic fury host site

>>90173636

whoa... im just now seeing this, this is awesome man, saved!

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>>90207250
Well the first thing I think you could improve on is shading those backgrounds. With just one shade of grey for that cave and only a little crosshatching, it looks very flat. You have some lovely lineart on those cave walls, but you need some more shadows to give them depth. Additionally, I think some more/darker shadows on the character would be welcome. Assuming the torch is the only light source in this cave, her face/body would have many more shadows.
Lastly, I'm not sure what's supposed to be happening in the last panel. I'm not sure if it's because of a lack of text or it will be revealed in the next page, but that panel confused me. Is the ring being pulled away by an electro magnet elsewhere in the cave? Did it pop out to give exposition Navi-style? It would be nice to at least see the ring in that last panel to continue the thread of action from panels 5 and 6.

>>90207250
those are really nice cave lines but shouldnt at least the floor be a different shade of gray?
and our hero seems darker than I thought you'd make him

>>90207591
Yup your right, I plan to cross hatch most of the cave and carefully shade the cave. My main concern is making the lighting from the torch. The page is still ultimately an unfinished product and your comic help reassure on what I should do.

And now that you mention it, I should probably try redoing the last two to interpret the coin floating next to the character. It's a male character by the way.

>I have any idea of letting the 2nd to last panel be a zoomed in image of the coin, while pointing to it's position in the last panel.

>>90207677
Don't worry the cave was just shaded in the base color I'm using to differentiated the hues and saturation.

The character is a goblin and I made his skin a bit dark. Why should it be lighter for a reason?

>>90203785
seems kind of weird to me in a valentines sense but i dunno much about these things. thanks senpai ill go with that

>>90204006
what kind are you looking to do anyways?

how does one create an original JRPG-ish webcomic?
>inb4 RPGworld by IJQ

>>90208046
well it's just when you were working on coloring and shading him in an earlier thread, I liked the ones that were white with gray shading better than gray.. but if he's meant to be dark, then nevermind. I just somehow imagined this critter in light tangerine
>>90209011
think of something from games that's never been represented, or something you'd change in the games if you could. Something that nobody has ever put in them before, like... a carpenter class that fights with a hammer and saw, or a deadly chef that hits people with frying pans and cleavers and also knows how to cook bombs.

>>90202340
>are you taking after the fanfic or loosely adapting it?

Just read it.

>>90209789
That's not really a good response, but in any case:
I'm not familiar with the fanfic, but I can tell you that ever since I first heard the premise, this comic is exactly what I hoped would come out of it. I don't really care if it's adapting the fanfic or doing its own thing, it's perfect, and I want to see it through. Then again I'm the kind of person that absolutely loves cliche-riddled JRPGs and tears up when the main couple ends up together at the end with no doubt at any point that it would happen.

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>>90193584

By saying you want to see how i draw on paper im assuming you want to see how loose i draw so heres some loose sloppy digital drawings i just got finished with

you might like it but its not a look i want for my goth girl comic, it looks kind of the way i want it to but not at all perfect yet, it has a lonf way to go before it looks exactly the way I want it to

i mean this as no disrespect nor im I blaming you for anything but to many times before have i presented cartoon style comics on 4chan only to be pushed and ridiculed into making them more realistic which ends up in the webcomic dying off because of the resigns i make for it.

so from now on if i make something in a cartoon style i make up its stays a cartoon and i will not be swayed or talked into changing it into a realistic comic book style OR and anime manga style.

thats like pitching a cartoon to a network and being forced to make it into a live action tv show instead.

*low kb version

>>90210409
not bad

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I've been sitting on this for a while and should probably get some critique.

One burning question I have is whether it's too dark.

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>>90210440

Thanks, heres a quick Ladara sketch while im in my american comic book mode which im warming up with to do some new DEMON FUZE sketches today

(previously called DEMON JUICE!)

also perfect time to ask, is DEMON FUZE a better name than DEMON JUICE?

>>90210409
>it has a long way to go*

why do you do comics? please respond

how important is the art?
for me even stick figures are good enough to show me whats going on

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Newest page of my webcomic Nandeno http://nandeno.com/
It's a character-driven comic with really crude/stupid humor that relies heavily on continuity. It used to be mostly one-off gags but I recently started doing more arcs.
This is probably my best looking page so far imo, although in retrospect Jam's pose in the last panel is too similar to the third panel.

>>90211673
what is happening? it's kinda shit

>>90211649
If you don't want to put effort into the visuals then don't bother with comics. It's really easy to tell when the art's lazy, and if the author/s can't even give enough of a shit about their comic then why should the readers?

>>90211673
Can't really offer much advice in the way of paneling and art, but the joke gave me a chuckle so that's always a win for a gag comic.

>>90208753
>what kind are you looking to do anyways?

What kind of what? Comic? A young adult 22-page issue. If luck strikes and it gets popular, I'd love to do more.

>>90213030
Thanks!

>>90210541
>thou
Should be "thee", since the pronoun is the object of the sentence.
You can't use "thou" in every instance where modern English uses "you". If you haven't spent a few hours reading up on the differences between early modern English and current English, I wouldn't advise you to use it in your writing.

>>90213274
Ah really? Damn, I had a cursory google to double check I had the distinction between those two right but I must have misinterpreted it.

>>90213458
The easy way to remember is that "thou" is she and "thee" is her. "thy" and "thine" are like my and mine*.

You wouldn't say "what brings she here?"**, but "what brings her here".

*except that historically, my and mine didn't work quite like they do today - in the KJV bible, IIRC "mine" is also used like "my" if the following word starts with a vowel. Not sure about Shakespeare.

**well, I guess you could, but it would probably be interpreted more as "what's that she's got there" than "why is she here", since it implies that she's the subject of the sentence.

>>90213699
Ah I see, though in this context I intended to use second person. Thou is being used as "you" in a subject form, whereas 'thee' in this situation (from my knowledge) would be 'you' in an object form.

>>90213832
Yes, exactly. Let's look at the basic sentence in normal English.
>"what brings you"

"to bring" is clearly the verb. Something, (the subject) is bringing something else (the object).

Even though it's not very specific and a bit abstract, "what" is the subject of the sentence since it's the thing doing the action of bringing the object somewhere.

And the thing being brought is the object. In this case, "you".

So, you use the object form of whatever pronoun would go there - me rather than I, her rather than she, him rather than he, us rather than we, them rather than they, and thee rather than thou.

>>90214127
Ah yeah i see what you mean. Well thanks for all that!

arise

Has Buckley ever told a good joke?

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>>90216852
I don't know, his life's pretty funny?

>>90211673
I like the pussy faced pussy in the second panel.

>When you can't update your webcomic because your water is out

feels bad man

>>90216948
I too, regret purchasing the waterwheel-powered Wacom drawpad.

>>90210557
Demon Fuze is less sexual than juice but why are you making it all caps?

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>>90174934
Worst meme.

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Alright, so, this is for a separate project I've been working on, but it's somewhat related to my future webcomic. Recently I've been drawing silhouettes of all the main characters from stories I've created in the past. I'm doing this half as sort of a sendoff as I move on to more original projects, and half as more practice in drawing a variety of characters. These are just the sketch lines since I don't have anything more recent/complete to post, but I'd just like to know if I'm on the right track as far as art is concerned? Are there any glaring faults with the anatomy that I need to work on? I'm really trying to nail the basics before I move on.

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>>90217802
And here's the completed colored silhouettes I've made so far. I really took to heart the old design cue of making sure all your characters have unique profiles, so one thing I am proud of is the general character design for some of my dudes.

>>90210409
That's not "loose" at all. It's just chicken scratch. To get real plasticity you need to keep the lines light and as long as they are normally.

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>tfw too intelligent to update your comic on time

>>90211673
I love how weird this setting is that what I can only assume is a human dressed as a cat can put on concerts for cats in secret stages behind alleyways and they love it.
>>90216889
shit I didn't even notice that
>>90213699
in fairness 'mine' got used that way too. mine eyes etc.

>>90207459
Its really clear that you have a favorite gothgrill. Try giving the other characters some more screentime.

>>90217014
my sides
>>90217802
hey this is really good stuff.

just out of curiosity how big are everyone's fanbases/readercounts?

>>90220875
no idea. i'd rather just let myself imagine it's more than I think.

>>90221070
bones, put your name back on

>>90221236
if I recall correctly, bones is more apt to insist he gets tens of thousands of views

>>90220875
Maybe 600 to 1000 regular people.

>>90220875
Across all websites, around 1200, but only maybe 20 people regularly comment.

>>90222347
>All websites

Why spread your audience out? That's probably why your comment count is low.

>>90222450
Who gives a fuck about comments, it's all about how many see your work. Comments are nice but are very rarely metric of how well you're doing. If anything having your work be on many sites as possible is a good thing.

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>>90222533
lol that grammar
many people*
a metric*

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>>90210557

bump

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

Here's a preview of the page I'm working on right now. The Necromancer says something that makes Eren mad.

>>90216889
>>90219108
Glad you like it. The "Pussy Cat" is from a previous page. This page makes a lot more sense if you've read the rest of the comic!

>>90222450
Right now I post my comic to Tapastic, Webtoons, and Tumblr. People on Webtoons/Tapastic mainly just read comics on Webtoons/Tapastic. If I only had my dinky little Tumblr hosting my comic, I wouldn't have reached the audience on Webtoons/Tapastic at all, which constitutes the majority of my current audience. I have like ~10 people who read my comic from Tumblr, ~190 on Tapastic, and ~1000 on Webtoons. If I only posted on say, Tumblr, I would have hardly any readers whatsoever. I don't see how "spreading your audience" works as a detriment when my readers mostly use different sites anyways.

>>90222533
Comments more work as a measure of how invested people are in your work. For mots comics, I just take a look at the new page and leave, but for comics I find really enjoyable or intriguing, I'll probably say something. More comments basically show that your readers are actually interested and thinking about your work rather than just reading it passively.

what's a good place for a webcomic, I've got mine of deviant art and tumbr.

I don't know how to make a website, it looks like there made with a template

>>90224299
if you sign up with a webcomic hosting site they will give you basic instructions. oftentimes they have templates, sometimes they have tags you can just put in any normal html page like **todays_comic** and it will just automatically put that on the page you designated as the index, which it autogenerates for you each time. It depends.

>>90224433
triple dubs

thanks I didn't think it would be that easy

>>90222533
>Who gives a fuck about comments

Woah woah kid. They brought it up. Comments are going to matter if you want to monetize your work. The more invested people are in your comic and each other as a fanbase the more money you can make. If you think just seeing your work means you're doing well I have a dobson to show you.

If you don't care and only want to sow wild oats everywhere carry on.

>>90225016
I just like comments because they make me feel happy, like people care. I want people to care about my comic the way I care about theirs.

>>90226574
nobody cares about your shitty comic

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>>90226574
>>90226709
F U C K I N G
O B L I T E R A T E D

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>>90226709
Anon must be crying right now

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>>90226709
lol that's mean

I did a new page. Two to go until the first chapter's finished.

>>90210409
CHICKEN SCRATCHES MAN.

I need to see what you can do on paper. There's sometimes a HUGE gap between what you can do on tablet and paper.

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>>90222758

fixed his hands

>>90221236
you people need to stop calling random people bones, its really weird man, and i dont take my trip off for nothing

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>>90229245

here, have some table scraps of a test page i never uploaded anywhere of FATES CHAOS test page 2(possibly non canon)

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>>90229316
non shaded version

ok, i have to go home, where my linksys probably isnt on, i will have a new page of GGZ done by tomorrow, its going to be great! Goth girls are the best!

>>90229123
>that's mean
it is true though, as long as you round down. I think 3 or 4 people currently care.

>>90229575
you, your mom, and her hamster?

>>90230027
>implying i care
>implying mom's hamster hasn't made me some gorgeous fanart out of sunflower seed shell fragments and his feces

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More progress on the number cards I'm working on for videos, obviously 3 is far closer to being finished than any of the others. I'm pretty happy with how different I was able to make them all while also having them work as a set.

Since these will be animated the parts in white (other than the screens) will move separately from the rest to create depth.

Waiting on the artist's first round of sketches for the main character. I keep checking my email out of excitement.

>>90207250
It looks way better as a sketch - much more appealing when it's loose and sketchy

>>90217802
Anon, I think you drew your characters' arms too long, especially the glasses chick. Remember that the wrists line up with the crotch and the elbow lines up with the navel when not foreshortened.

>>90236477
it's called style

Has anyone tried any ad networks or whatnot to promote their content?

As much as I'd love to gain a viewership "organically" its pretty hard to get exposure.

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That's one down
I first had this written as if this area was a horseshoe-shaped thing instead of a valley mesa thing, then I looked at past comics and realized oh no.. but then what I changed it to worked even better. And then that kept happening, lots of revisions.. good revisions.

>>90235409
Wow that's exciting dude, you're letting the artist do the designing? how much input do you have?

>>90237004
>almost a thousand of these shoddily drawn recycle bin fillers
>all the characters sound like Coldfusion
>humor is on par with Dewd's comic
It's amazing how little someone can progress over all these years. How's your patreon doing?

>>90236989
there have been people in here who tried it, I think they said they got a ton of views for a decently affordable amount of cash, but few new readers, and the ads weren't up very long

>>90237151
You act as if he has a choice, he sounds like the type who can barely draw stick figures.

>>90237210
>all the characters sound like me
that is a valid criticism. I've been trying to work on that, but it's hard to know what to choose without making dialogue really overstereotyped. I think I need to go broader in the future.
>humor is on par with Dewd's comic
in my dreams. though I think a higher percentage of the humor is intentional.

>>90237270
You can still do the designing part yourself. Lots of artists love working off of a poorly-drawn design and then making it good. That's why so many crappy artists and ugly cheap flash cartoons get such great fanart.

>>90237151
I'm the creator, they're the illustrator. I gave the artist a very detailed rundown of what this character looks like and acts like, and with that information, they'll experiment with different interpretations of what the character might look like. Then, we'll go from there.

>>90237378
Oh okay, sounds like you have the process pretty down.
Will you post it for us when it's done, and (if it's not too wordy) share what your notes were, so we can see how they compare?

>>90237210
stop responding

>>90237422
Possibly. We haven't discussed sharing developmental works for the project, I'm unsure how the artist would feel about their art being posted, on and tangentially being associated with, 4chan. We'll see.

>>90237594
alright. well you're going to find it pretty frustrating for you and us if you can't actually post anything here, so it's probably best to leave if that ends up being the case.
also if you have an artist that worries about being 'associated with' things, you will eventually have a problem.

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Working on more test panels for my "interactive" webcomic I'm planning. I tried a new style in this one and think it turned out pretty well. Ideally the comic would update with at least 1 panel every day.

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>>90220875
Ever since I put myself on topwebcomics, Laserwing gets roughly 70ish views every two or three days. I only have like 65 pages made so that accounts for some random finding the comic, reading the archive, then leaving. The extra views are probably people seeing if I've updated lately, or reading one page and deciding they're not interested. I have no idea how many consistent readers I have because my update schedule is really sporadic.

For contrast, my Pokemon blog gets a post every day, 80-150 views daily (up to like 300 if someone does an archive binge), and I've got at least 5-10 consistent rebloggers.

Drawing non-fandom content is suffering.

Pic unrelated, I just felt I should have a drawing here.

>>90239099
waifu detected
>>90239135
stop, I only have so many boners to give

no seriously these are both doing exactly what they should, in their niches, and I'm proud of them.

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>>90239558
Nobody has ever called any of my characters waifu material before. Here's some proper art I just doodled of her for the occasion.

>>90240607
shades of gorillaz. excellent.

>>90239135
that style is fucking familiar.

I get the feeling I know you from a "top secret" forum. I may be wrong but, I get this feeling that you may be familiar with stuff like sonichu.

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ok its begun
crappy simple test comic. c&c appreciated
>>>/qst/1207694

>>90241520
good thing you posted the anime girl, I was about to bully the shit out of that shitty art and writing, but it felt too mean

>>90241533
bullying is okay

>shitty art
i wanted something i could doreal quick considering the board but yes it could be better

>shitty writing
whats wrong with it? id like to improve

>>90241837
>>90241533
bullying is never OK you savages.

>>90233129
great as always dupe

>>90241837
alright faggot, yeah no shit it could be better look at that wobbly pastel mess, it's a real kindergarten atmosphere.

and your writing style is like a kindergarten teacher reading aloud to her class at the library. hmm chocolates? gifts? fuck this gay shit, just reading it I know I'd be in for a bland thread that feels more like I'm having a conversation with a feminine faggot than like I'm in an actual story. stick to watching gay shoujos and trash your dreams.

>>90238187
I'm not saying that the artist is of that ilk or not, nor do I not want to share the developmental works. That sounds like a great idea. I just can't say for sure yet one way or another because we haven't even discussed it yet.

>>90239135
>>90241318 Here. I know you, now I'm sure. I read your comic. I'll be more clear: I'm the french who likes to draw big titties. We met on a forum long ago about making fun of someone.

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>>90236477
Thank you! Arms are actually something I struggle with, so I'll be sure to work on that going forward!

>>90236984
Nah, those were called mistakes. I asked for input so I can improve, I don't wanna be another Dobson.

>>90220875
I had 2000 one month. Mostly from europe. I update every couple months. Usually a big upload.

I don't care about comments, my target audience are the passive readers coming off of work. Early 20 somethings.

I post here to get a few pointers. Though I haven't explicitly asked for them, I tend to just let whoever wants to say something say something. If I get a passive silence, I think I'm doing alright.

>>90246633
I should be more vocal about my goals, but in my experience, that leads to people trying to change them.

>>90220875
This post.

This is a bad idea.

It encourages bragging and dick measuring.

Do not reply to this post.

Do not engage in frivolous, inevitably depressing discussion. This is a petty and chauvinistic human trait and it is best left in the dustbin of history.

>>90247234
Tardy to the party bruh.

>>90247234
>never discuss something you're good at because people who aren't good at it might get hurt feelings
Nah m8 that's stupid. People make comics and put them on the internet because they want people to read them. Discussing readership and how to attract it is a perfectly valid topic of these threads - heck, we've even got an attempt at a guide to advertising in the OP pasta.
If we applied your idea to art, I shouldn't post my comic pages to the thread because Bones might get upset that it's prettier than his stuff.

>>90247942
What about the people upset that their stuff is prettier than his stuff and make a fit about him not listening?

>>90248571
Can't say I've noticed much of that, but I usually ignore bones and people replying to him.
Trying to talk sense into him is a lost cause, but I could see how pointing out his mistakes might help other artists understand how to avoid them.

>>90242489
ok

>>90233129
im really excited about your comic Dup

>>90246633
>Early 20 somethings
how do you know the average age?

>>90249195
I don't. I didn't mean to imply that. That's just my target. I don't understand teenagers. If it hits a teen, then it hits teen.

>>90250176
or any other age group for that matter.

>>90250176
>>90250265
People say my stuff seems like it'd be well-liked by kids. I suppose it's the kind of thing I liked as a kid, but my tastes haven't changed, they've only refined.

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New page

Any tips for starting a Patreon? Like, when's the good time to start one and what are some good options for rewards?

>>90203964
>that Sol Badguy Rule 63 expy

>>90252150
You should have a couple of pages already done, say about 50 or so and at least some fans. If even /co/ hasn't herd of your comic, it's a good sign you shouldn't be making one just yet.
As for rewards, assuming you have more skill then the questionable content guy. I'd say commissions or ability to vote on the character you'll draw fan art of. If you can't draw, then gee I don't know, have their name appear in the comic or something.

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>>90242268
>>90249195
Aww thanks! Those monitors will actually be used in some game reviews I'm doing to promote the universe before starting the comic. I'll probably modify them into chapter markers as well though once I get started.

Also on an unrelated note I'm changing my trip for these threads to just "Dupe" since I've been using the old "duplex" handle since before I actually named my mascot alter-ego.

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>>90235768
So you find this more appealing that the (Unfinished) product?

>>90253714
looks like gideon from scat pilgay. I dig the design.

I just don't get the concept? Is it a game review comic?

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>>90253755
Not that guy, but I have to agree with him.
The lines in your finished work are too even, they don't give off a natural feel.

>>90251968
oh hey mr alien man we like to water-extract gross bitter compounds from these terrible seed things, it's great! you'll get all jittery and feel bad PLUS it's probably toxic for you

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>>90253755
try inking these pencils exactly, this is nice and clean and looks good.

Planning some stickers for a con~~~

how many chapters in advance do you guys prepare before starting your comic, plot wise?

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Colored this. Used pencil tool on the colors to give it an arcade feel from the game. Same with the saturated colors. It clashes a bit with my line work

I was going to work on this at a steady pace, but now that Street Fighter vs Darkstalkers is out I want to try running along side the releases. Feels like a was waiting online for a player and got a pro to fight. I'm going to get rekt, lol.

Blah blah blah, hit where you think it hurts.

>>90255521
none in my case, it is suffering. Depends on your page release rate to production rate.

A good example would be if your chapter is 24 pages long, maybe have two/two and half done before you start posting?

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>>90254725
Thanks! although I'm not a fan of Scott Pilgrim I did like Gideon as a character so that works.

And about the projects, It may sound weird but hear me out.

I've been planning a series of animated game reviews for some time so I can document my collection of obscure 90s PC games that have almost no records online. More recently however I planned out the universe for my multi-media project "Vegabond", which is full of 90s retrofuturism. My issue with Vegabond was I wanted it to be an "interactive" webcomic but I have no audience since I've never made anything big and the atmosphere may be difficult to get people acclimated to. So naturally since they both revolve around 90s sci fi and gaming culture I figured I'd also set the animated game reviews within the vegabond universe as a rough introduction that way there's already some level of familiarity with the setting and aesthetic and I can use it to gather an audience before launching the comic.

With how I've written them this wont be distracting for the game reviews since it shares setting and visuals alone, not any kind of plot. Though if someone likes the videos they'll probably enjoy the comic and vice versa. There will be some slight overlap since Dupe will play a minor role in the comic due to his knack for collecting obscure technology, but overall the projects will stand alone fine in case someone has interest in one but not the other.

May sound retarded but I think the execution will prove sound once the projects are out.

>>90253714
dupe it is then, sounds good

>>90254787
yeah i also have trouble with lineweight. no matter how much i apply weight it looks bad. i think my main problem is not going thicc enough. ill try it and ask later

>>90255428
wtf i love him
who is this sonfu materiel?

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>>90256110
Thanks man. It's always reassuring to see this reception to my characters.

He's Fu, he is a ninja who fights food based creatures. you can read the first comic I made (years ago now like back in 2013) starring him here >> https://tapastic.com/series/Fus-Quest-For-Ramen

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>>90255759
So you wanna be like Pan, but with better art. Sounds good to me as long as it doesn't comes of as obnoxious to rebeltaxi's reviews!


I'm taking my time on page 7, wanting to make a good atmosphere. What do you think? I wanted to show a small venue. I took inspiration to a place I come often to see some good metal shit, The place shown here, I spent the night there talking shit with Kyle Gass and some dudes from Tenacious D. Good stuff.

>>90255633
I love the color choices. I'm not really seeing the pencil tool or how it makes it look arcadey, but I do like a lot of this. I think some of the art just needs a little tightening up. A few little anatomical areas

>>90255633
look WAAAAYYYYY better in color. It's good.

>>90255633
The linework would look better if it was a little darker.

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>>90255428
>>90254787
>>90235768
>>90207591

>>90256775
much nicer! very manga-esque. great jorb.

>>90256775
so very nice

>>90256585

Dunno about darker. I was using jet black. Maybe you mean thicker where its further away from the light source, etc.

>>90256525

Yeah, close up while I was working, the edges were squared. Zooming out, they're smoothed.

Please be more specific with the anatomy issues.

>>90256260
This is awesome work. Thanks for sharing.

>>90256581
Almost missed you.

Thx, It's good to hear I'm on the right track with this before I start on the future pages.

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>>90256775

>>90256364
I don't know a lot about him but I didn't think his comic had anything to do with his reviews?

But yeah I don't plan on being anything like him, his humor and art don't really appeal to me.

>>90207250
that torch fire so close to its face is making me nervous

Working on my young adult comic. Listening to all the old angsty music I loved as a kid. This is extremely fun.

>>90257074
Oh by pencil tool you mean aliased. Yes I think that's very appropriate
welllll I'm not the best one to tell you, but the agent's head in profile is just wonky. his glasses seem to turn into little nubs, his ear is too high, his nose seems to bei n his eyes, his forehead slopes like mad, his cheekbones are really far forward, it's kind of a mess. Overall I think the head should actually be higher.
Jubie's head is a little off too but it's hard to say how
in her rear-view panel, the ear isn't just flat, it has a distinctive shape to it when viewed from the rear like that (or is her hair covering that part?) and her knee looks really tiny in the perspective shot in the second to last panel, basically just overall tightening is in order. but it's not ugly or anything. Just not up to the standard set by your nice coloring.

>>90257359
Nice!!! It's really nice seeing how other people draw certain character, especially your own.

Thanks man!

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>>90257359
noice

>>90257875
>This is extremely fun
WIP WIP WIP!

>>90258487
>WIP WIP WIP!

I'm writing the precursor to the comic script - a rough screenplay that is the "director's cut," as in, everything I could possibly want for the issue. Then I'll refine it, see the real story and make adjustments/cuts, and then translate it into a comic script.

It's not that interesting, especially visually, but if you want a pastebin of the first few pages, I could oblige.

>>90258695
did i stutter? i love WIPS, especially after hearing they're having so much fun making them
>but if you want a pastebin of the first few pages, I could oblige
hell yeah senpai, do you want my two cents along with it or wait until later?

>>90256775
Very nice, a great improvement! I feel that drawing in pencil is unnecessary, I personally like the crisp lines of the cave. It's mainly just the line weighs/tapering on characters I think you could improve on.

>>90257875
playlist plz?

>>90261096
linkin park

>>90261096
It was Breaking Benjamin earlier, but I've been playing this on repeat for the past while. I feel like I'm 12 again and I don't want it to end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gcEyO-XqAw

>>90258973
Sure. Give me a bit to clean it up so it is more coherent for other eyes, and then I'll post a pastebin of it. I can almost promise you that most of it will likely not make it to the final product.

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>tfw another day late

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>>90258973
>>90258487

http://pastebin.com/EWzy1EN7

Here you go. Again, I'm having a lot of fun with this. Hopefully you all enjoy it as well. Most of this probably won't even make it into the finished product, but, eh. You can always cut scenes, but it isn't always as easy to add them.

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Hi everyone. I've been lurking these threads for a while. I finally have a new tablet and am ready to start translating the layouts I have to their final format. I have a bunch of conclusions I've reached and would like to know if they're shit

>I should work in RGB and only convert to CMYK for hard copy printing
>300 dpi for printing, 72 dpi for web display (planning standard 6.6"x10" size)
>have 8 weeks of comics drawn before I start dropping

Would appreciate any input. I follow a bunch of your comics and these threads have really inspired me, so thank you all for that.

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>>90207459

brand new page, check it out! i hope yall like it! :D

>>90219456
nah man, its way to early to have a favorite, im trying to give them all an equal set up/explanation/re-cap/introduction to their personallity for the first chapter

>>90263227
72dpi at 10 inches would only be 720 pixels high, and even less wide, right? I suggest you save it a little bigger than that for web. 900-1100 pixels wide is a pretty good standard

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I now have a page colored!!YES!

>>90263462
thanks! for some reason I didn't even think to do the math when I read 72 dpi as the standard but that's probably for those strip types.

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>>90184093
>>90207459
>>90263308
Cute

>>90263308
Learn to spell, you fucking manchild.

>>90263227
Working in RGB and converting to CMYK is pretty standard in the webcomics world, so go for it. Just try not to use too many neon pinks, purples, or blues.
300 dpi for printing is fine, but I would go a little larger for web display.
Having 8 weeks of comics is pretty safe, just keep in mind how long it takes for you to draw a comic/how many you post a week. Once you start posting comics, I'd recommend to try to keep that 8-week buffer going for as long as you can, because you never know when something will pop up and keep you from drawing for a few weeks.

Good luck, anon. what's your comic going to be about?

>>90263918
Thanks! The comic is slice of life/romantic comedy antics of an interspecies galactic tactical assault squad.

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>tfw every passing day it becomes more apparent that my comic will never take off and that I'm too artistically retarded to ever succeed

>>90264333
hang in there baby, look at how questionable content started.

>>90264736
very kind of you, but that's just feelsposter. he's not only not real, he posts the same shit over and over.

>>90266143
>everyone is feelsposter
fuck off idiot, that was an original feel

>>90266828
uh huh. using that same image for the 8th time, but this time it's original

>>90267265
I have literally only posted that image with feels maybe twice. You are delusional

>>90267476
so the other times were someone else, and just coincidence? I mean, I believe you. Feelsposter never defends himself. But you can see how I got you confused, right?

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>>90240607

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>>90262397
Life without a comics buffer is suffering.

>>90267738
Cute style! Do you have a comic or place where I can find your art?

>>90262915
just gave it a go
yeah cut scenes would help a lot. not bad overall senpai but this is coming from someone who knows nothing of their world

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>Just want to draw
>Have to write
>Have absurdly high standards for writing so I cringe at most of my own shit

F-First drafts can be bad, right?

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>>90267738
That's rad as hell! Thank you so much! I envy your drawing ability. Is there any way I could credit you and post this other places? It's some of the best fanart I've ever received.

>>90268641
Find a writer, Anon. That's what I did.
I was lucky I had a friend who wanted to write comics and is also a great writer, but I am sure there are a bunch of writers looking for artists to draw their comic online, you will just have to go through a few to find a talented one.

>>90268641
One option would be to team up with a writer, but even then that doesn't guarantee quality. If you really want to draw your own stories, try making some short, ~5 page comics to practice writing short stories and comic storytelling before you move onto something bigger. Don't worry if your first draft is shit, find people to critique it for you, try to analyze it yourself to figure out why it's shit. Writing, like art, is a skill that can be learned, just keep practicing.

man I need to draw more fanart
once my comic's over i'm drawing you all a ton and a half. and that's a metric ton. those are like 10% larger.

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>>90263308

brand new DEMON FUZE sketches bump! sized down from 1.2mb for easy upload on linksys

>>90268722
>>90267998
Heh, thanks! Nah, I don't have a thing. I just like hangin' out here to someday motivate myself to start one~

Also yeah, green goggles girl is cute. What are her goggles for?

>>90268190
Thanks. And don't worry about it, everyone should start out not knowing anything - it should still work and tell the story successfully.

And yeah. This is rough. It has a long, long, long way to go before I'm satisfied.

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>>90239099
>>90240607

what kind of teeth does she have duplex? im about to ink in and color this quick sketch.

who i am is not important so dont even ask....

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>>90269907
Thanks! Her name is Hyla and her outfit is stolen from a dead dude at the beginning of the story following a disaster that strikes while she's joining the red/blu faction she's dressed as in those pics. The "dress" is just an over-sized jacket hence it's tucked into her arm covers awkwardly. The AR goggles act as a targeting system that allows her to use guns despite never dealing with that kind of weaponry before. Her main weapon is a giant flyswatter though. Here's a sketch I made of how she looks in her "natural" attire.

>>90270371

Nice!

I just draw her teeth rounded or slightly crooked. She grew up in a sort of space trailer park made of fungus so some elements of her are kind of rough or trashy but she's trying to move past it to be come some kind of action hero. You may like knowing she has a long prehensile tongue though since she descends from some genetically engineered frog-people, she's rather defensive about anything that makes her "less human" though.

>>90270371
At least use a different font bones

>>90270807
she just keeps getting better and better

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>>90270807

round like this?

>>90270913
god dammit, what are you a detective or something?

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>>90271219
Yup, I'll say that's canon. It's how >>90267738
drew it as well so why not. Don't forget the paint strips under her eyes though!

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>>90271390

im having a real hard time making those look sexy, had to mess around with them until they looked decent.

for a while there they kept looking like she had a handlebar mustash

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>>90271427
I didn't really make her with "sexy" in mind. I wanted her to be a fun, sympathetic, action oriented character reminiscent of video game mascots from the 90s. I'm honestly pretty surprised people are attracted to her like that. That being said her eyes in a more detailed scope would just look like how an asian person's would. Stylize that however you want.

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>>90271606

these solids look good enough to go ahead and shade?

also forgot to mention this is a low kb version for linksys, HD version tomorrow

>>90271606
we're all sick of 'sexy' and its gross overt trashiness
we want someone fun, sympathetic, and actionpacked to cure the drudgery in our lives.

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Now that I've properly over-processed this to shit, I'm finally putting the cap on it. I'm totally open for criticism but I'll only use it on the next page, which has the same lighting/colors/characters.

>>90271713
Looks great!

>>90271739
I suppose you're right. I just know when I was creating her I wasn't trying to make an attractive girl I was just trying to make a likable protagonist that accentuated the important aspects of the universe she's in. I guess it just worked out well.

>>90271913
honestly senpai i rather like when girls arent just waifubait. she looks like a total bro to me. that said-
wheredoyouthinkweare.jpeg

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>>90271913

not the low kb version, but thanks, the HD version looks amazing, its only 412 kb, but its impossible to upload anything over 200kb on linksys, so i will go and upload it first thing tomorrow

bones do you get royalties every time you say 'linksys' or what

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my comic.

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french cafe story guy here
page update

>>90271904
The colors are pretty good, but the everything looks really off balance in the last two panels.

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>tfw want to do comics but can't draw nor write