How's Your Webcomic? #353

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>>90564908
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 [Embed] [Embed]

>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

>>90564908
And previous thread >>90447010

FUCK YEAH I think I've finally nailed the beginning of the comic script down

who knew tourists would be the answer?

>>90565142
sounds good to me. a lot of good stories start with an outsider who's interested in learning what's going on

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Trying to get a lot of character interaction in before I start doing anything serious with this first chapter, and I have a lot of characters to interact before I can start.

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>>90565588
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So I launched my site yesterday and showed the first panels on the last thread. One of the comments I got was that the design on one of my characters looked weird.

This pic I think shows what I intend for her to look like a bit better. As a note, she's supposed to be freakishly proportioned as it's plot-centric. I don't intend for her to look unbearably ugly, so if that's still a problem, then that's something I'll just have to work on.

My first batch of queues are probably going to remain a bit janky in the art-side of things, but hopefully the story is enough to make up for that for the time being.

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>>90564908

hey everybody, I just finished a brand new page, I hope yall like it

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

please let me know if im being racist on the bottom panel, i honestly here jews talking like this all the time so its fine....

ok ive never met a jew in real life, but ive seen them on tv and in movies and stuff so its cool :^)

>>90565723

hear*

I really love ur page

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The guy in the forefront is the protagonist, a gnome space explorer who crash lands on a fantasy planet on the eve of the industrial revolution. Shot down by an unknown assailant, he must repair his ship and escape the backwater hell hole that covets his laser pistol and advanced gadgets. Will he finally leave the world of strife and misery, or will he find his place within it and stay?

The robot in the middle is actually the severed yet conscious head of an ancient gnome scientist, and has only recently activated himself in response to meeting a gnome for the first time since he got depressed and turned himself off. The protagonist is not as versed in ancient philosophy and archaic coding as the robot is, unfortunately.

The guy in the hood is a dwarf gunslinger monk who finds the protagonist's knack for getting into danger rather convenient, being that he finds serenity and enlightenment through death and violence. He wears a gas mask because dwarves, on this planet, are vulnerable to surface diseases, due to generations of living inside air-tight vaults beneath the earth.

I don't have names for characters, or a name for the comic, but it's designed to act as a "proof of concept" for an RPG I want to make. If I can commit to this story and it proves popular enough I might then move on to expanding its world through independent game development. Granted, it's a little ambitious on my part, but I know where I'm starting and what sort of stories I want to tell.

>>90565588
>>90565608
was literally just reading this from bookmark
getting a total no-face vibe here. I'm loving the alienness of this guy but since it's a game with customizable characters they don't yet know.. what i assume the audience will eventually find out

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Hey guys can you help me choose a font?
I think this one is ok for narrator stuff or whatever but I'm not sure about character's font. It's not gonna be a super serious comic but I don't think most usual fonts for comics fit the genre I'm striving for.

Any suggestions?

>>90565661
much better quality art now. still very, very ugly. I feel like maybe you're focusing too hard on anatomy and musculature and missing the forest for the trees. There's a very odd juxtaposition between realistic body parts in these incredibly stunted proportions.. so if there's a plot reason for odd proportioning, I guess that's the result you were going for. but in the meantime it's like.. wow those are heavily detailed and highly masculine human feet but with claws on them... not paws or something. and that is a big round flat nose, but no split lip kitty mouth.. and there is a huge bulge between her brows like this chick I know, and all this extra detailing around her eyelids. I dunno mate. Can you show us the other sister again for comparison? like, if that one isn't meant to be weirdly proportioned, then we can hit on the problems more easily

>>90565789
very cool retro art. I love the idea of preindustrial aliens.
so the robot's meant to have a severed head inside? because it doesn't look big enough to hold hugh jackman's head there if they're the same race.
and okay, dwarves are smaller than gnomes in your biz? that works well enough, but it still seems odd his head is so much more proportional.

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>>90566073
Try to leave more room betweeen your letters and the box

Not to toot my own horn, but look at my attached example. I leave "breathing room" on the sides of the text so it doesn't look like I ran out of space. That makes it look a bit more "professional", and it doesn't take much time.

What kind of story do you want to tell? Laybe that way we can help font wise...

>>90566073
Iunno. Gill sans?

>>90566073
>Any suggestions?
Make all the letters look like genitalia, because without a bunch of forced sexual elements, your comic will be terrible. :^)

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>>90565723

ok, I launched it on tumblr now: https://gothgrillz.tumblr.com/

so far just the cover page, i will upload actual pages tonight! maybe even try to get a webcomic template if i can find one. i have no idea how tumblr works anymore.

tomorrow, i make the GGZ reddit subpage or whatever you call it. subreddit? something like that

>>90566165
Actually I feel like you left much too much space in your boxes, but I assumed there used to be Hangul in there. translations often leave odd spaces by necessity
the guy you replied to has plenty of (if not too much) vertical space, but not enough horizontal.

>>90566165
It does look more professional, thanks for the tip.

The story I want to tell is kinda like John Constantine+Yu Yu Hakusho but less action and more slice of life. Paranormal investigations tangled with character interactions with some focus on humor.
There's still going to be "bad guys" to defeat though

>>90566200
interesting, I'm taking note of that one, thanks.

>>90566033
I've been keeping up with this page on the website that show all the characters and their bios, and now that these three have had a decent amount of dialogue, I shoved their bios in. The no face guy has a bio on here now too if you want to have more info about the guy.
http://vidyadeparted.tumblr.com/characters

>>90565142
The beginning is always the hardest part, especially if you rush through it and regret it later.
If you think you made a great beginning, then go with it dude.

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>>90566234
Ha! Good catch. The original is in english by me, but I wanted to copy the layout used in most webtoons. But it was the closest example I had at hand. Your comment is pretty spot on.

>>90566245
Maybe Mighty Zeo?

>>90566401
oh nice. just FYI you have navigation controls on your character pages.

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The most common mistakes:

>Too many panels
Brevity is the key, draw rough sketch of comic and see which panels you can merge into one. Tod McFarlane gave the best advice that when you have scene like driving a car, jumping out of car and then car goes crash normally people draw 3 panels but he draws it into one big panel
>Too many words
This is the prime example of bad comics. It's bad because nobody wants to read too many text, it's boring and people skip it, also it's not natural because people normally don't talk too much like huge speech balloons, people are different some people are talkative some not, it's ok when some character is talkative but still just have to give maximum information in minimum words
Don't make walls of text!
>Poor panel design
Experiment with point of view, make close ups, show landscapes, different angles etc, do not make same looking 3/4 view shit
>Shitty characters
Do not copy characters from shows/comics, copy characters from real life, observe people, their behaviour etc Take people you've met in your life, you have a hothead uncle? put him into your comic. Take Miyazaki's advice to your hearth

Those are protips

>>90566485
I know, but I have no clue how to remove them without redoing the entire basis of how the website is coded. I'll try fixing it sooner or later though

>>90566514
>Do not copy characters from shows/comics
>Take Miyazaki's advice to your hearth
Oh yeah he's never done that

On the subject of beginnings, what's the appropriate length for the start of the story?

For example, my beginning is a semi in medias res thing where the heroes are fighting the villain for the first time. It's in the middle of the fight, so there's a lot of shit the audience had no context for yet, only vague hints.

That should be like two-three pages max, yeah?

>>90566560
yeah the longer you draw it out the more it'll suck when you have to wrench them away from that

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>>90566132
Sure, here's the other one.
I can see what you mean about the feet. The hands and feet are supposed to be larger than normal, but I may have overdone the feet design.
As far as the face goes, they're not supposed to be full furries, just "diet-furries", like the Mithra from FF. I can see if I can redesign the faces to look more . . . neotenized, maybe.

>>90566554
Anime was mistake

"You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!."

>>90566814
>>90565661
Honestly, I kind of enjoy how these guys look a little wonky, it's charming. They remind me of trolls or something. The sister with the headphones is much cuter imho, I think it's her eyes and expression that do it.

>>90566814
yep just as I thought, there's just overdetailing on things like digits and eyelids for a style this simple, and it does no favors.
>neotenized
that's exactly where it ought to go, I think. There's a reason most furries are cute carnivorous mammals and not cows and reindeer.
but after reading >>90566954 I must add that it's up to you, and if you'd rather make things more unique, that's totally a way to go.

>>90566164
It's a sketch, and they're not drawn to scale. Supposedly the robot and the dwarf are in the background.

>>90566827
basically just explaining why it's a good thing. real life is unworthy of inspiring fiction, which should strive to be above it. fiction should draw from imagination, idealism, paranoia, speculation.. anything but your real experiences (unless you're one of the few who has had an interesting life. like tezuka working his medical knowledge into things)
you know why? because those humans who can't stand looking at other humans are always going to be the target audience. If they were okay with real life, they'd be IN it, instead of looking at your fiction

>>90566164
Also, what exactly is "retro" about the way I draw?

>>90566954
Glad to hear, that's where I'm aiming.

>>90567073
Aisling (the older one) was actually roughly modeled after Eep from The Croods. I love how Eep is basically a hulking neanderthal gorilla-girl, complete with a thick, broad face, yet ultimately falls on the endearing side. That's what I want for Aisling.

In the end, I'm not going to "normalize" her appearance, as her mini-hulk beast-girl appearance is who she is.
But, If the only issues are to chill out on the feet and tweak the eyes and nose a bit, then I'm totally down with that.

>>90567088
Oh, not to scale, okay. Wouldn't have thought this was a 'sketch' as it's pretty dang nice. does that mean the final comic will be 'tighter' ?
>>90567261
well in particular that shading style especially on the robot guys but also the edge hatching. very 80s ninja turtles. I really dig it.

>>90567291
>Croods
that explains a lot. If you like that art, don't listen to me, I'll lead you as far away from it as I can.

>>90566514
Crit please?

http://imgur.com/a/SpTpx

http://imgur.com/a/LBnXs

Especially when it comes to panels/composition/framing. I can't change these chapters any more, but anything you say will be taken to heart to fix future chapters. I've also got 3 nearly done, but I won't be posting that till after its launched (might pop back in next week). I need someone with a good eye for that sort of stuff to point out my mistakes when it comes to the "comic side" of making comic books.

So what are your 'show, don't tell' tricks?

>characters use bladed weapons that vibrate really fast to increase cutting power
>show this by copying image of blade on either side of it to convey shaking

Also, you ever get the depressing feeling that show, don't tell doesn't work? There's always like dozen people asking inane questions about the bleeding obvious.

>>90567541
Nah, I appreciate the input, even if it's personal taste. Ideally I'd love for this to be the most popular webcomic online, and even though I want a unique character design, I still want it to be approachable enough for readers to at least tolerate it and enjoy what they do like.
I sure as shit don't plan on being the subject of one of those "Shitty webcomic" threads, so I'm willing to listen to feedback and compromise where I feel comfortable doing so.

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>>90567743
Poorly drawing or going out of style to represent being distant or confused
It's one of my favorite ones to do

>>90567650
I feel like someone with art as good as yours could have picked better subject matter

>>90567894
I picked the subject matter intentionally because it's popular, and it'll get me noticed.

It's a great first project.

Hook people with something hot, and then reel them in with the big one. Which we're already planning.

>>90567743
honestly i love being told. I'd rather get more information total than to maintain some show-to-tell ratio
>>90567843
It probably doesn't help that we've all seen really cringey weirdly-drawn furry stuff, and most of the time it's not intentional. So far both of these drawings you've done for us look a lot better and more deliberate than your comic looked.

>>90567920
>wanting to get noticed at any cost
at least you understand the subject matter and its tactics well

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>>90567650
I woulds say avoid stuff like these first two panels:

http://i.imgur.com/yZjc7sp.png

Make them from notoriously different shapes, right now it looks like you split an image and it takes a bit of time to notice it's two different camera shots. You have little things like that but overall it looks fine (and you'll improve if you keep going!)

>>90567743
Like pic related? I think it's a common problem, I always try and see if it's easy to understand with stick figures, otherwise I'll ran into the problem of spending a lot of time in a drawing that isn't very readable... but it still happens.

>>90567517
I'm trying to emulate satirical Mad Magazine and Franco-Belgian comics the most. The actual pages won't be as detailed, since I'm not that crazy. I might use a quill pen instead of brush for convenience.

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>>90566216

working on a new page now, well i have to go out to eat but when i get back home i will finish this page in no time!

ignore the giant "WHAT!?" on the bottom panel, that wont be in the finished page, the girls will have their own word balloons!

>>90568184

i lazily drew the chicken scratch layer with a mouse while laying down on my new couch i have in front of my laptop thats on top of my desk now, thats why it looks so weird

>>90568116
oh okay those are neat too!

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One hundred strips of Wilfreda the Wanna-Be Witch. Wilfreda and her friends break the fourth wall to thank the readers for their support.

And if you were following this little webcomic of mine, then thank you as well!

Read more at http://wilfredacomic.tumblr.com/

>>90567650
pretty tacky, but the art is great

>>90565661
She doesn't look ugly, just fetishy. It looks like you enjoy drawing muscles a LOT

>>90568041
Well, I wouldn't say at any cost. I like Trump for one, I wouldn't grind out 12 hours a say of this stuff if I didn't like the subject matter to some degree.

Plus, it's hard to say no, when you've got potential hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe even millions, staring at you in the face. My first shitty one, The Debattle, got over a million views, went viral, sold 300 copies at $16 a pop, and even got a publisher to reach out to me.

Now, with a more professionally done one, we're waiting to get to chapter 6 before going all out. We're building a site atm, and once we're ready, and the book is in stores, we're gonna viral it like mad.

Tons of people out there support Trump, popular people too, people like Jon Tron, Razorfist, and even PewDiePie. All it takes is for PDP to give it a mention, and that's it son. Dude gets 5+miilion views per video. And if I give him a free volume, he's bound to talk about it. We've got a list of like 20 people to send free copies to this April.

So that's why. And once I'm big, I'm going all out, expanding, and pushing my next project, which will be even bigger.

>>90568088
Yeah, thanks a bunch. So basically, unless the camera shot changes, refrain from keeping panels the same size, no?

If you've got more tips like in that image you posted, I'd appreciate it.

>>90568988
Haha, well, it's meant to be tongue in cheek, it is a political battle manga, I mean, it's not meant to be very serious. It's a parody.

>>90568962
grats! may you make it to the point where 100 doesn't even seem like a landmark anymore

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>>90567743
Shit, I forgot to reply to this one.

Yeah man, that technique is great for motion blur too. Check it out. Yusuke Murata uses it a lot in OPM.

I spend a lot of time looking at what other people do, and breaking it down, you learn a lot.

>>90569175
I mean I just assumed it was anti, so I guess I hate it less now, but I feel like this whole thing needs much, much less attention. I just can't blame you for trying to profit off of idiots

>>90565789
the guy in the front sort of looks like wolverine + han solo

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>>90568184

got back, finished this page up, it just needs word balloons and its done!

love the way it turned out so far! hope it looks good with word balloons to!

>>90568184

i noticed after posting this that all that chicken scratch under her but kind of looks like a penis, this was an accident, Nina is a girl so i hope nobody got confused by that super lazy and super sloppy chicken scratch

>>90568184
this isnt terrible.
i dont really have any advice, but this honestly looks better than >>90565723

It all just seems so... flat? It might look better if instead of vectors you just sorta sketched over it a little instead

The pose and face on the top are fun and I love the faces on the bottom panel.

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decided to make more fake ablum covers for my comic.
It's fun. This one's rushed, tho, but I don't really care.

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>>90569857
hahaha, that's fantastic. Hell that's fun to do even if a comic isn't about music. when I put the old comic out on disk and mailed it to some friends, I did one of those for the cover.

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>>90569857
>I was supposed to ask, can you RECKerd on my new ABlum?

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>>90569508

sorry for the super epic long delay, i got super busy irl and couldn't get to a computer until just now

but anyway its done, i hope yall like it!

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Does anybody live stream here? I thought it would be a cool idea so that we could give each other instant feedback or just talk while we work on art.

For that matter, would anyone here be interested in watching me stream my comic making process?

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>>90569560

i agree, its not 3d enough senpai

i will work on fixing this asap! war zone speed! bombs a flying no time to waste!

lol, seriously though, thanks, i agree for real sometimes it does look way to flat but its not to late to go back and fix things that need to be fixed when i have the time, thanks for bringing it to my attention anon

i look forward to more of your critique, help and advice random anons!

we're all on this wild webcomic ride together friends, and enemies. :^)

Discord please I need honest opinions and help first time making a comic

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>>90571684

it wont belong before the first chapter is finished now, maybe 10 more pages and its done, maybe closer to 20 more pages max

is this good victory music for when its done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVftXmopJt4

>>90571714
I do. Every Sunday at midnight my time, which is like 6PM EST.

It's mostly for my Patreons, but well, not many people show up to them yet. Feel free to pop by if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmmIqgpSAqw

>>90572115

"ha, ha, tell me you like it"

"maybe i'll have a hit this time"


i dont know the lyrics just seem really relateable to me right now

>>90571714
i find that, of all the things I could be putting on my other monitor, a drawing livestream is the worst combination with trying to draw myself. the best thing is a podcast because I can just listen

>>90567105
You sound really tragic

>>90573833
It's a fusion of cold mentality what do you expect

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So I took a bit of advice from a friend (who said the same exact thing one of you anons said)...

>"Just ink like its a pencil"

So i tried to make a mock page and polished it as if the pen tool where just my pencil tool, scratchy. This is just a sample of what it look like compared to a slightly cleaner look.

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compared to this...
>>90574724

>>90574724
i like this one more
i understand its a style choice but the head to body proportion really bothers me

>>90573833
not in the same boat as the rest of us? congrats. so why do you make a comic? I'm interested in the motivations of the accepted who still choose to engage in creative endeavors.

>>90574724
>>90574757
I like both a lot. I've heard many professionals suggest inking should never be like a pencil, that it's a common amateur move to make halting, careful lines instead of sweeping strokes.. but I like them.

>>90574724
I like this a lot reminds me of little Ogrest

>>90575012
Is this a copypasta

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>>90564908
you ever get the feeling that you draw fairly well, but you still don't feel comfortable about drawing your own comic, cause maybe you're idea is pretty much shit or could turn out cringe, so you just end up not making comics but instead end up doing request from anons that all they want is futa versions of their favorite anime characters?

>>90575298
>ogrest
how do I know that name?

>>90575801
they're both valid.
either only put things you can draw into your comic, or use it as an excuse to challenge yourself, knowing you'll fail at some of it but more importantly you'll succeed at some of it.
after all, there's no shame in having a comic with some flaws, but there's a non-zero amount of pride in having a comic that does some things well.

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Ok, so how do you get a decent-generous following. Like a 50-100 max for a continuous story based webcomic. How do you sell yourself in a massive sea of competitors

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>>90575979
This lil guy before he grew up and turned ugly

>>90576041
Do something people will pay attention to, something new... and the number 1 thing I think that makes or breaks people is.... just keep going....

You never know what happens and you'll never know till ya try, do something you find difficult, do a genre you've never done, draw in a different style... if ya don't experiment you'll never find what works.

>>90576111
Oh wow he does look a little like Bijou!
Even the a little in the ear and ponytail department...
Although Bijou's not gonna grow up... he's a goblin thats his maximum growth.

This guy Orgest grew big and powerful, good on him.

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>>90576263
Yeah unfortunately he kind of caused a major calamity and flooded the whole world killing countless lives... All over a woman tsk tsk

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>>90576041
With LUCK!

>>90576111
ohhhh right, wakfu
wait, did we ever actually SEE this character? I remember hearing the name, but Beast Boy here isn't ringing any bells. I looked up the adult form too, also unfamiliar. I DID watch wakfu.

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>>90569298
Holy shit, are you manlyspirit?

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>>90569298
Same guy >>90576752
Just checked down in the thread
Just gotta say I fucking love your comics! And I love the style of your super manly men, I've actually been trying to megaman your style a little lately since it's one of the coolest styles I've seen for fuckhuge cool dudes. You're such a breath of fresh air for western webcomics, Keep up the great work!! Also I hope you see this before the thread 404s, because I might die a little inside if you don't.

>>90576041
Hard work, perseverance, and marketing. Gathering an audience it a lot easier if your story starts off with a strong hook, so if you haven't started your comic yet make sure your beginning is attention grabbing.

Once you got your comic running for a while, start sharing it everywhere. Put your comic on Top Webcomics and thewebcomiclist.com. Get a Twitter, Tumblr, Deviantart and whatever social media/art sites you enjoy and start sharing your art/comic. Reach out to other comic artists, make conversation with them, network and make friends. Mirror your webcomic on Tapastic/Webtoons/Smackjeeves if you don't already have it posted there, but be sure to link back to your main site if you have one. Just promote the hell out of your comic and hope people take notice.

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I created Urchin after playing Grabbed by the Ghoulies.

One of my favorite games. This was like 10 years ago, and the character is way different now than she was back then. But I remember thinking "Man, these guys made this fun game with such a simple story, I bet I could make something like that!"

Of course now the character is NOTHING like she was back then, but still.

I know I posted it last thread, but I've finally got my webcomic up and running!

https://tapastic.com/series/Urchin

I've posted a lot of pages in these threads already, but eh!

What would be the best site(s) to post a webcomic that contains violence, blood, gore, drugs, full on nudity/sex? Also if possible doesn't bullshit people into having to make an account to view 18+ content.

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I hope this comes off as clever as it sounded in my head. drawing all this mecha shit wore me out, otherwise there would have been more detailed wreckage of those walking tanks, more of them colliding with each other, firing off more shots, showing off other weapons.. but that's okay, that's not what this comic is about.

>>90577709
Probably Smackjeeves

>>90577918
iirc smackjeeves requires an account. either that or drunkduck. and I might be confusing requiring an account to see nsfw with requiring an account to post comments.
but in general none of the free webcomic hosts care about content as long as you tick the right boxes when you register. comicfury, comicgenesis, they don't care.

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>>90577918
>>90577976
but in general none of the free webcomic hosts care about content as long as you tick the right boxes when you register.
Oh shit, that's cool to know, thank you anon. The reason I asked about the account making is because I feel that would be too much effort on the readers part to take the extra time to make an account, which is reasonable, because what if the comic is shit? that would seem like a bigger waste of time.

>>90578125
>but in general none of the free webcomic hosts care about content as long as you tick the right boxes when you register.
Meant to quote that
My B

>>90578125
yeah exactly. having to register to see it would be a death sentence. it's tapastic's biggest weakness

>>90578255
Absolutely stupid move when all you really need is a one time "are you 18" prompt
It's not like porn sites make you log in to prove you're 18, so why should a comic site make you?

The good news: half the script is roughly written out. It flows pretty well.

The bad news: I have to cut about 30% of planned buildup in order for it to hit the right notes at the right time but still have to sustain the level of drama somehow.

>>90578500
it's like all those websites for kids that are like 'make sure to ask your parents before going online' when they are literally the only sites that SHOULDNT have to say that

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>>90571684

working on a new page! im determined to finish this chapter before my birthday on the 23rd of this month!

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>>90579006
its done, i hope yall like it

hd version tomorrow!

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Anyone have any tips for drawing those puffy east german rider pants? I can't seem to get it down. or any other general tips?

>>90580011
seems you have them down, they just puff out at the thighs and go back in at the knees. theyre called jodhpurs if you wanna look up more references

>>90579567
fixed the spelling errors, fixed versions are on my deviant art and comic fury host site

>>90580324
>jodhpurs
THANK YOU!

>>90577014
I have my webcomic of tapastic and webtoon should also upload on smackjeeves? to me has always seemed a site with little views, almost "amateur" and already tapastic has lower view than webtoon.

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>>90579567
working on a new page

as determined as I am to finish this chapter i feel like I can finish it before the weekend is over

just do pages back to back and dont sleep this weekend

INSOMNIA TIME!

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>>90581580

eye shadow bump

>>90576912
Saw it! ;)

Thanks for the props dude. Always glad to inspire people. This is the sort of reaction we're seeking with our stuff, so it'll be exciting to see what happens once we're ready to launch. Stay tuned, month of April is gonna be nuts.

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>>90581741

bumping a dead thread after taking a long break

>>90576687
The little guy has his own movie, and they fight the big one in either the new season or one of the OVAs I haven't watched them yet

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>>90582554

and its finished, hope yall like it

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How is this looking guys?

I've worked out a shading routine I can remember, so i'm ready to just start pumping out pages, i guess. Need to know if there's anything jumping out.

>>90583433
looking good, I really like that spooky dead tree you've got. It would be nicer if the background trees were a little bushier though.

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>>90583534
Thanks! So by bushier something like this? Though this is just a rushed job with a brush atm.

>>90583689
Yeah, like that!

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Quick question which of these do you think looks better aesthetically?

>>90584093
I'm partial to the middle

>>90583433
shading and coloring looking good, the arm in the last panel not so much

>>90584093
It really depends on the mood you're wanting to convey.

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Polling /hyw/ as I design this comic blog

Realistically, does anyone here actually click the 'previous' / '<' button in comic navigation when reading? How disappointed would you not be if a comic was missing this?

itd just be:
>first
>next
>latest

If you want to go back, just press back on your browser or backspace?

>>90584541
I use the previous button whenever I'm checking up on the latest page of a comic for an update, and want to reread the previous pages, or if I haven't read a comic in a while and want to find where I last left off.
If a comic didn't have a previous button, it would probably be a little annoying to me. Why do you want to get rid of the previous button at all?

>>90584585
I'm using a custom URL subdomain for my tumblr blog so it's comic.anonswebsite.org.

On its homepage (most current comic), 'prev' goes to "http://anonswebsite.org/page/2/" which breaks the site, because tumblr back-end kills the subdomain in the link

So before I go to a ton of work getting this to function right, wondering if it's used enough to keep

>>90584541
I use it regularly. Getting rid of it would be really fucking stupid.

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I'm trying to figure out a way to color faster:

So in this example I basically have my lineart on Linear Burn, so it "blends" better with the colors. I have a layer of base colors, a layer on Color Burn for the shading, and a layer in Add (Glow) for the highlights.

Everything sort of works, but F me, I cannot figure out how to lay the flat colors quickly enough. It's always the most boring and time consuming part. I'm on CSP, using vector and reference layers, and I still cannot fill things quickly with the paint bucket-- it always misses little bits that I have to go over with a brush. Any tips or tutorials? Maybe I'm missing something insanely obvious.

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work in progress coloring the header image for one of my tumblrs,

drawing stuff for the site is fun since i get to work on diferent canvas sizes

>>90583140
Aww snap, romance is brooding!

This is great stuff man, keep it up! But maybe next time show the girl who's there because having a character tell you they're there without showing them isn't that great.

>>90564908
I have a question:

I don't really read webcomics at all, but for the most part, what are they about? What kind of vibes do the popular ones have? Are they all mainly comedic or what?

I'm asking because I plan on making one as a means of getting out there as an artist but I want to save my genuinely good ideas for when I make an actual published comic at some point in the future.

>>90586096
Like any other medium there is a wide spread of genres.
Like any mostly fiction medium there is a large amount of fantasy(low and high)/ sci-fi, etc.
And obviously because of the internet there is a large proportion of weird fetish shit (on sliding subtlety scales) that is way more popular than it has any right to be.
This is like asking what books are like. There is way too many for a generalization to cover, go read some

>>90581526
Up, nobody uses smackjeeves and the other two for a comparison?

>>90586096
Don't worry, none of your ideas are genuinely good.

>>90586096
You can make literally anything, put it out there and presto, it's a webcomic.

Use your crappier ideas first as practice, if you want.

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>>90582134
>manlyspirit
Other anon here, just wanted to ask:

If you're still here, I'm curious as to your actual political feelings towards the administration and Trump in general.

And don't worry, not autistic rees will be dispensed I'm just curious

>>90581526
Nobody looks at your URL and criticizes you for the host.

>>90587765
Is this bones? Or am I BONES!

>>90583433
everything's great except the clouds, they're way too solid and look like lumps of whipped cream. at the very least clouds shouldn't have outlines, and if they're covering the moon they should either look illuminated or dark, depending on their opacity.
also if you're going to put that much detail into a tree, some of it should probably be the bark-grain lines
but in general this is awesome

>>90585117
I've always been told that shading in burn is a bad idea. Can't remember why. This looks good.
paint bucket doesn't work with anti-aliased lines unless you turn down its tolerance, then it's going to be eating into said lines, so maybe leave a copy of those lines above the lineart but still leave one below for putting flats into?
if you're doing the "paint around the outline then fillbucket the middle" technique you have to remember to use an aliased brush for at least that part

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>>90583140

HD version

>>90585845
I know, i just didn't have the space, Rose is on the very next page though, and yes, shit will get really intense and weird a few pages from now!

>>90587765
>>90588053

what is this?

>>90588166
Saturated shadows in general (more saturated than the base) are a bad idea but Animu is fucking retarded and does what it wants most of the time.

>>90588049
>Nobody looks at your URL and criticizes you for the host.

I beg to differ. Tapastic is terrible and I refuse to read anything there.

>>90588681
oh yeah animu has terrible coloring, absolutely

>>90585117
Drop your lineart on a bright green BG and use Select > Color Range. You can control the fuzziness so it will pick up the line aliasing better than just normal paint bucket. Then you can modify the selection as needed, save it to a channel, fill, etc.

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>>90581526
>to me has always seemed a site with little views, almost "amateur"
It is. Unless you're making softcore cable-tier gay porn or a Pokemon fancomic you won't get any attention.

The site sucks, the admin doesn't do anything to support or bring exposure to authors.

I only use it because fans have been reading my comic for years and don't have the heart to stop uploading where my fans are.

>>90577014
>Webtoons
I've never heard of this one. How is it for long, story-based comics?
Tapastic is garbage, especially if you're not making a shitty gag-a-day comic, and SJ is basically a consignment to eternal obscurity.

>>90590266
Webtoons is pretty good for longform comics. A lot of their more popular comics are either romances, adventure stories, or dramas. Most readers there enjoy story driven comics with long updates. It has a similar design/interface to Tapastic, though, but the userbases are very different.

Can we have threads about Tower of God in /co/? It´s always the samething in /a/ and I want to post about Hwa Ryun

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>>90588681
>>90588858

>>90590483
Does it force you to use that shitty infinite scroll or can you set your comic to go page-by-page?

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Redpill me on hosting my comic across multiple sites.

>>90590583
You can go page-by-page, you just need to upload each page to a different episode.

>>90588166
Well I didn't use the same color as the base for the color burn layer. I used a blue-ish tone, otherwise it really looks awful. Thank you and >>90590116 for the advice! It actually works way better than anything I had tried before.

>>90590546
I like webtoons, but it's kind of a grey area I guess. Shmaless plug for mine: http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/draw-write/list?title_no=66535

>>90590483
>>90591518
>>90591651
Does the whole "episode" thing take the place of traditional chapters?

The idea of dividing my story into episodes sounds like some lightly autistic fun, but not at the cost of organizing by chapter.

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Almost done.

>>90592023
An episode is just what they call an update.

>>90592043
I'd like to correct your grammar, but I'm actually having trouble making sense of what you're talking about

>>90592023
Here you can see a guy who has a traditional comic but converts it to webtoon format. Maybe it'll give you ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN8brEkMRv4

>>90566485
>>90566537
Just fucked around with this page for an hour so there aren't navigation controls. We gud now
http://vidyadeparted.tumblr.com/characters

>>90592570
you didn't really have to, I just wanted to make sure you knew
good on ya

>>90592135

For real? what is part of that doesn't make sense?

>>90592605
I never really noticed until you mentioned it though. It bothered me a little too much
I thought that I might as well fix it now while I have time

>>90591651
dude, that start is very strong. will hook in a good amount of readers.

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working on getting the "feel" for drawing different factions in my comic so I can improv background characters instead of meticulously planning them all out. Here's some quick sketches.

Script anon here. The beginning is a little tighter than before. Condensed two pages into one so it flows a little better. I'm so glad that dialogue is my strongest suit, or I'd really be struggling right now. I have to get this fairly ironed out by this weekend for my artist.

No sleep for me, it seems.

>>90594608
Nice, looks very genndyish

>>90590861
Was I too vague?

I just wanna know if it's a good idea to host on multiple sites or not.

>>90596130
Sure, especially if you don't have your own site yet. Different people use different sites to read comics, so by cross posting your comics you expand your reader base.
Even if you do already have your own site, posting your comic to multiple different hosts can basically work as advertising. You could use your other hosts as mirrors, and keep them one update behind your website, and leave a note saying "to read the latest update go to mycomicswebsite.com!"

>>90591651
Kek this is a great start, awesome dude

Somebody help, I have no fucking clue how to design character clothes, particularly fantasy. It feels like every little background character now poses a challenge because I have to come up with something for them to wear

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>>90584421
Flowery and mystical

>>90584246
Yeah that's what I felt too

On another note, I'm trying to figure something out. Let's say I want to have an interaction between two people who don't speak the same language. So the character I'm currently following is speaking in their native tongue but it's in Roman script and in English to the reader. Someone comes up to them and asks a question in a language I made up. Do I write the words in my fantasy text or in Roman script? And leave the fantasy text for physical writing? See example sketch.

Also, let's say there is a common language. One of them only knows a few words so I'm "masking" the unknown words with a butchered futhark script. How do I differentiate this English text (Bubble 3) from the language that the native is speaking? (Bubble 2)

Sorry if I worded this confusingly

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>>90588320

i finished a brand new page! check it out!

I hope yall like it, maybe i can do another one tonight to!

pages are really easy and fast to make now that i dont have to worry about coloring them and shading them when im done coloring, this black and white shit is almost to easy! I love it! lol

>>90592043

very cool man, keep it up!

>>90594608
interesting designs

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How did you guys learn to draw?

I've tried everything. I've taken actual classes at my local CC, I've tried Loomis, I've tried generic commercial "How to draw" books and the like and after years I can't draw a straight line with a ruler and it takes hours to draw just the head with off center eyes that most people got over in high-school and now all drawing does is make me mad that I can't put out a fucking good line.

>>90598327
Well, I guess the question is how much do you enjoy drawing, anon? I know a lot of people, myself included, were just kids who liked to doodle dragons and pokemon in grade school and just kept on practicing from there. The hardest part of improving your artwork is just getting into the rhythm of constantly drawing to improve, which is a lot easier if drawing is just fun to you.

What level are you at right now, anon? I could give better advice if I could see your art. For general recommendations, I would say to try doing some 1-minute gesture drawings with quick pose to get yourself used to drawing the whole human figure.
https://www.quickposes.com/en
I've also heard Draw a Box's early exercises are helpful if you're having a hard time with basic construction.
http://drawabox.com/

>>90595725
off the mountain
other than that it is fixed! good job.
>>90597076
ugh are you me?
look up some illustrations, some screenshots from movies, some appropriate game sprites or official art.. you'll start to piece it together

>>90597274
I like the way you've done it here. I wouldn't use the overused 'common' though, I'd say pidgin
as for your main question, the most traditional thing to do is to write the 'loanwords' in all caps. for example in anime lyrics you might see a bunch of katakana and then YOUR LOVE in caps

>>90598327
start drawing Kirby
make him do a bunch of things
learn how despite him just being a circle with beans attached, there are ways he looks right and ways he looks wrong.. this will get you thinking on the right track

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>>90565789
Here's some sketches with a quill pen, with a little more consideration for proportion and movement. I still don't have names for my characters. I'm thinking modern, easy to remember aglocentric names are convenient. "Fantasy" style names often annoy me.

>>90599342
mmm looked a little tighter before but I still love your style. so very book-illustrationy
i get so bored of 'normal' names. they aren't easy to remember at all because you know fifteen bobs.
on the other hand if they follow modern name CONVENTION then by all means. I suggest you look at the differences between ancient names and their modern equivalents (yochanan to john, etc) and then do that with whatever fantasy names you WOULD use if they didn't annoy you. Like nobody would be called Legolas now, but Lals is a perfectly cromulent name

>>90599116
That sounds fucking stupid.
So it's probably one of the best pieces of advice I'm ever going to get. I mean that in a good way.

>>90598928
Neat, will take a look.

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Am i missing something?

im using the tumblr webcomic theme and i decided to upload 2 test pages

i also uploaded a pic for the next button

but i can't see the buttons and the pages just got posted one over the other

https://happygutsworld.tumblr.com/

>>90599447
I vary between tight and loose depending on mood. My impatient nature pushes me to be loose to achieve a living, breathing quality to the characters in each panel. I like things to have texture, and scratchy pen work satisfies that need when done right.

My guy needs a spaceship. My original instinct was to make it a plain flying saucer Spaceman Spiff rip-off. It will only really be relevant for a couple of pages, but I want it to stand out, but not be too complicated in design.

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>>90582134
My body is ready

ups nevermind i fixed it already>>90599812

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okay, i'm done.

no more showing this page.

>>90599738
yeah man, dare to be stupid.

>>90600028
once again i gotta go with this advice: look at the different ways UFOs get drawn, that weird way anime always draws them with the 3 knobblies on the bottom.. compare them, keep the parts they have in common.. contrast them, take the parts where they differ and invent something original for those. like what if the saucer had a flat rim edge like a hockey puck and it was studded with outward-facing lights

>>90599071
Hmm I wanted common since it was super generic. I already have plenty of foreign names and I need some common ground that's going to be basically English. It's either English or common unless there's a better alternative...

For your anime lyrics example wouldn't that be for "English" words that don't exist in the foreign language?

I want to convey that when #2 says "... What?" she's saying it in a language that #1 doesn't understand

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>>90599342
>>90600318

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>>90597538

working on a new page.

ya know, this romance between Nina and Rose was born out of just a few comments from random people online mentioning something between them or asking if they was going to end up with each other...

this has happen in my other webcomics before this one but not always romance

so i have no idea what the hell this web comic is going to turn into if it catches on and becomes a big hit online

i only have 2 chapters planned out but just a few comments from readers or people that like one or two pages will push this comic in a weird direction its almost like a group project with everyone online that decides to comment or a social experiment

i mean as long as the pages get done and people dont hate it and i have the main plot i wanted to do done then its fine but its also really really weird at the same time if you think about it to much...

things that really make you go hmmmmmm.... ..

i wonder what this comic would be like with no comments or reactions to it on 4chan or what it would be like on the same level of homestuck or las lindas or avas demon

really makes me stop and ponder

>>90602103

by on the same level i mean in popularity, not quality, obviously

>>90602188

and by quality i mean art syle! sorry about that, dont want to confuse anyone

>>90601690
yeah, for when they speak gratuitous english.. or sometimes french.

Oh, so it's a third language entirely? in that case uhh that's tricky. I'd write out distinctly non-english words in roman script. so like, the gibberish font, then like "atcho gu?" and then the other one speaking english

yeah there's nothing wrong with 'common' or 'basic' if you don't mind it being generic, it does get the meaning across right away, but if it's literally meant to be a lingua franca that multiple cultures use, that is properly a pidgin or a creole or something.

>>90602054
works for me, dude. i love bubble domes and conspicuous thrusters

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>>90586096
Webcomics are about wyrms. A wyrm is the gestalt entity of a human and a dragon, who are born in pairs (not to the same parents, just...kind of like a soulmate). When a human fuses with its dragon they become a wyrm. Wyrms have large bellies and deep pouches. Sometimes instead of a human, webcomics can be about a kangaroo who drank a bloat potion so now when he gets stressed he inflates. The dragon is still there.

>>90603372
>concept from wakfu
>made in 2000
whoa

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>>90602103

bump

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>>90604285
i finished this page a few minutes after this post but my linksys internet went out :/

oh well, its back on now, so heres a brand new page of GGZ, i hope yall like it.

>>90577204
nice i can finally read the entire thing

your character is great, i really would like to see it as a cartoon someday


you are one of the best cartoonist in this board

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For the first time in my life, I made a webcomic.

It's a one-off, and it's not very good.

Should I still post it here, I didn't attach my name or any online persona to it, I didn't want anyone to know that I made this, kek.

Here is the "front cover" at least. I don't know much about comic formatting so I kind of just winged it.

>>90606302
fuck it, why not?

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>>90606326
ooh boy, here we go

Writing a good story is a lot more complicated than I expected.

I feel like I should write a simpler story and then figure out which of Pixar's 22 Rules to break and which to keep when I've learned shit, but the story I want to write keeps pulling at me.

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>>90606302
>>90606400
>Every fucking day. Every single fucking day when i come home this little theropod just sits there and gives me this stupid look on his face.

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>>90606520
>this is just text

>>90606539
holy shit, kek

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>>90606302
i'd read a dinosaur webcomic
>>90606461
wait is this just filtered cgi screenshots

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concept art for a mini comic I'm thinking about starting about a traveling artist searching for legendary paint oils

Can I get some opinions on this artwork? I know it won't be amazing in such a simple style, but at the least is there anything you guys see that's bad?

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>>90606599
2nd to last page

>>90606606
N-no... yes

I made these in SFM then edited in pixlr and ms paint.

Welp, that's what I spent my last 4 hours doing.

Was it worth it?

>>90606630
it's pretty nice. I'd give the guy a neck. ANyone with limbs longer than his head needs a neck, in my opinion.
as for searching for legendary art supplies, I fucking dig it. reminds me of this book i read once... was it the remarkable journey of prince jen? if it wasn't that, it was something else like that. magical ink sticks is the point

>>90606674
it's pretty kooky in a fun way, and as long as you did the posing in SFM then I suppose it's not cheating or anything

>>90606744
thanks, anon.
regarding the neck, he does normally have one, it's just these angles are sort of blocking them with the collar and being seen from above. Although truth be told, I don't know if that's how it ought to be, or if the neck is still supposed to shown in some way

>>90607090
in the second one, yeah, it's from above, so you have an excuse. but in the one on the left he should really have a small amount of neck showing.. though it's hard to say since with a spherical head you can't really say where his 'jaw' is

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>>90606969
Still kinda felt like cheating, but it's a great work-around for lack of drawing ability.

If anyone cares: the raptor model is from Primal Carnage, the girl is a Dead Rising 2 hostage, the first map is "bucketofchicken" from the TF2 bread update, and the second map is kongkingapartments from the workshop.

>>90606490
This is what it looks like before you put filters on it.

>>90607201
you could try sing them as references for your own drawings

>>90607241
using*

almost done with a new page. I will wait until its done to post it.

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>>90606029
just finished a new page, i hope yall like it, hd version tomorrow!

>>90606630
Right hand figure appears viewed from above because of foreshortening. Is that intended?
If so it doesn't need a neck. I might agree with >>90606744 for the left hand figure, but could be covered with a bulky cloak collar.

>>90593396
>>90596979

Thanks! Will upload every monday if everything goes well. Did you guys think it was too long or too short?

>>90597076
Just try and copy pictures or drawings that you like, and try to "understand" why people wear what they wear. Cosplay instructables are a great resource.

>>90600228
Aaaah! I really like this! What's your comic called?

>>90602103
I thnk there's too much of a clash between characters and background, can't you shove a texture in there? Something like a cwatercolor wash on overlay or something

Are video game webcomics allowed, or is it going too much into fan fiction territory?

>>90587765
I haven't payed close close attention to it as of lately, as I haven't really payed close attention to anything since I'm always busy drawing trying to blast this thing and get to my goal.

But from what I've heard, I understand a few things.

1. Trump is being incredibly effective at fulfilling his campaign promises

2. The media is riding his ass like a motherfucker, and being incredibly dishonest, and are in full damage control mode, trying to either get him to step down or take away his mandate, which, only makes keeping up with things more difficult for me, as I can't trust mainstream sources.

For example, the whole deal with the "muslim ban" was totally blown out of proportion. And this is especially bad, as it's really hard to keep track of the mistakes Trump ACTUALLY makes.

3. Trump is still doing rallies, and communicating with people directly through them, and through Twitter, which is cool as on president has ever done that this early into their presidency.

Overall, I see a lot of potential in Trump, it's hard to really say anything accurately as the mainstream media is losing their shit atm, hell they've even gone after PewDiePie of all people, and I haven't been properly keeping up with things all that much as I'm too busy.

Personally, I liked him as president cause he was the anti-establishment candidate, and politics in general have been in dire need of a proper cleansing for the longest time. The left and the media especially have gotten way too corrupt. And I say this as a political moderate, with left-leaning ideals. I'm an atheist, I support abortion, etc...

As a person, I see Trump in the same way I see Arnold. He's a self-made man, an alpha male. And despite the character and personality flaws that he has (as we all do), I still respect a person who will boldly stand by their beliefs despite whatever adversity they might face from others, and makes something of themselves.

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>>90609907

does this page look better with a background?