How's Your Webcomic? #355: Don't Let the Thread Die

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Scrub Authors GOODIE Bag
Here’s a l,short list of sites that any new webcomic artist/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]

>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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http://boysland.thewebcomic.com/archive/

Posted up chapter five, going with two shorter chapters per month as opposed to one long one per month as suggested via an anon.

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Two days ago I realized that I was being an idiot for not using more than sketching blue and inking black to draw my panels. I'm doing it digitally, I can use whatever I like! And so I went and used bright red to ink and paint details on the already being inked draw.

It ended up speeding my progress, surprisingly.

Is this going to load my picture or I'm cursed to not show it?

>>90897506
This is giving me some serious Digimon vibes, even down to the logo. Not that it's a necessary detriment, but from the look of it I expect a Digimon fancomic, which can be problematic if you're trying to do an original concept.

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>>90897732
Oh, it works! Finally!

So, as I was saying, now I can draw each panel from scratch in less than 4 hours, which, believe it or not, is fast for me. I've also found a brush that resembles what I do with my graphite pencils.

A pitty I cannot continue to draw until this wednesday.

I keep running through scenarios from the webcomic in my head, usually in more of an animated format than a comic. At this point I've given up on trying to get the story onto paper, since it won't turn out the same way it does in my head and by the time I draw it out, the story will be rote to me. I'll end up revising chapters or entire character beats to keep the story fresh.

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Inking of page 2

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and the recolor of page one i did recently

>>90897900
I felt the same way about starting mine off on paper. It's really hard to keep the tone and pacing I want when my drawing isn't up to snuff. Can't really outsource to another artist and hope they keep the same schedule either.

Just have to improve bit by bit. Even if your art sucks I'd still read your comic for a good story.

>>90897900
>beats
>triggered.jpg

>>90897146
we must be down a eurofriend or something
speaking of foreigners:
>>90897506
literally just checked your comic and it made me wanna check to see if there was a new thread. You made a few typos:
>Monstrum Entry 01
its* soft face
>pg 7
Gonna* be tons of enemies
>pg 8
Should be 'you've done it again' but I could see him saying 'you done it again' as a little dialectical quirk.. but considering this is a guy who, a few panels later, says he questions the validity of his tail's assertions, he should probably speak properly
>pg 9
overthinking is one word. you can just add a hyphen though
should be 'eh, pardner?' not eh? pardner.

also I wish I had a better way to bookmark a page that would always show the FIRST of a new update, instead of the last. I keep reading the last page on an update and being like.. what?
I'm glad you took my pacing suggestion though!
also I freaking love this comic. the humor is top notch.

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Here's some finished character bases at the 3 distances I'll be working with. The top one is a guest character a friend of mine designed but I think I managed to make her design fit the style of the comic pretty well.

>>90897732
What do you mean exactly, what's the red doing for you?
>>90897761
can't speak for the guy but I THINK it's meant to be a style pastiche of shounen adventure and especially monster farm / digimon types

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>>90898409

And this is how page 1 used to look just for comparsion

>>90898432

Character interactions, how they develop on their own and around other people, that sort of thing.

>>90898521
yeah that fits pretty well
your friend's style reminds me of a friend of mine

>>90897506
>>90897761
After reading the first two chapters, I gotta say you nail the kids-anime-adventure tropes perfectly, though. It's got a lot of corniness, but that's the charm of it. I'm enjoying what I've read so far, it's very fun and cozy so far.

>>90898532
That's what I assumed as well, but I think the issue is that it's stylistically a little TOO similar to Digimon specifically. Rather than feeling like a kids with monsters adventure story in the same genre of Digimon, it feels like it's just trying to BE Digimon. If it was a fanfic, that wouldn't be a problem, but since this is an original story it comes off as very derivative. I do enjoy this comic from what I've read of it, but subconsciously as I read the comic I compare it to Digimon just because they look and feel so similar.

>>90898521
Nice, are the large sprites just going to be waist-up talksprites?

>>90898409
Nice colours. A bit dark, contrasted, but I like them.

>>90898532
Besides aiding me drawing because I have poor eyesight and red over white is a winner in the contrast challenge (more so than black, believe it or not), that way I can shadow the parts of my original draw that I want in greys and black, as well as add and change parts over finished portions of the draw. For example: in that unfinished panel I was drawing the items and shadowed parts in the background in different layers, one at a time. Drawing in red over a merge of sketches in light blue and finished black helped me finishing the drawing because I was able to tell which part was the one I was drawing at each moment without doing anything else.

I hope I've been clear with this stuff. It's hard to explain, but it definitely helps me a lot.

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>>90899030
Yes, just for whenever characters are talking. The medium sprites will be used when they're interacting with something and the small ones will just be used for environmental shots.

>>90898782
Thanks, this was her initial sketch. She explained that the device replacing her arm would channel a sort of symbiotic slime organism to create a prosthetic hand.

>>90898742
that's not what he was referring to anon

>>90899572

Well honestly, I'm not sure what he's referring to then.

>>90898960
the monsters really do have the same odd digimon sensibilities. if the kids had the same vertical eye styles and Sonic-esque limbs, I'd agree with you. But that kid is more Genki or Satoshi than he is Taichi, and really he's pretty unique. the style of the humans is what matters most in making it look more original

>>90899117
I guess I meant which things are you turning red? It's interesting to see someone else's process
and even after this explanation I still don't understand what you're using the red for

>>90899632
obviously Beats by Dre, which I believe is some kind of shoe

>>90899906
I'm afraid I don't have the red in the .psd anymore (I turned it black) so I can't show it to you.
In that panel, it was the filling black inside the doors of the fridge, the tone lines in the low side, the contents inside de fridge once I had the fridge done.

In the following panel it was fist the two guys and the dog, then turned to black; next was the posters in the window and the window frame, then turned to black; next to that, I painted in red the tone in the window's glass, then turned black once I got what I wanted; and so on.

That way I could see what I needed to erase that was out of the outlines or were making the picture less clear, or wrong.

>>90900352
okay so basically the red is kinda "not ready to finish inking this yet, but don't want it to disappear once I delete the sketch lines" stuff? or is it like... refining a sketch, wanting it to stand out from the previous sketch lines?

>>90900386

"Ok, I need a secondary inking layer to add details to the first one and erase stuff easily without putting the first one in danger. But I need to see what the hell I'm doing before merging both of them into the same black mass".

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Might as well drop today's page here. I'm not quite satisfied with the colors on this page and I don't know why.

I'm considering just posting the next page on Friday instead of waiting another week.

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>>90897761

I can see how that would be a problem for some but at this point I think it's too late to change the looks of the monsters. The logo part I don't understand though.

>>90898504

Well shit, I'mma haflta go back and edit. We always get too excited and post ahead before doing one last look over.

What's more embarrassing is neither of us working on this are foreigners.

We'll look into the bookmark thing. And thanks! I'm glad we have people enjoying it!

>>90898532

Correct, it is supposed to be in the vain of those shounen/kids-with-monsters series that were popular in the late 90's and early 2000's.

>>90898960

That's unfortunate, but once the story picks up hopefully those vibes you're getting will fade. At least I hope. The story does deviate from the formula later, at least I think so. But time will tell and I'd love to get your continued input.

I'm glad the corniness is seen as a plus!

here are some of the original designs from two or so years ago. I think they've improved immensely myself.

>>90900502
ahh okay gotcha. that's a useful technique!
>>90900700
it might just be me, but I feel like the purple clashes horribly with the rest of the page being cool cadet blue tinted. still, that's hardly unrealistic for public transportation.

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>>90900998

The logos for Boys Land, Digimon Digital Monsters from the US, and Digimon Adventure from Japan.

>>90900998
>neither of us working on this are foreigners.
really? I could have sworn one of you was brasilian
psst. in the vein*
i like those old designs too, but you've definitely improved

>>90901112

FUCK!

thanks for spellchecking for us all the time yeesh

>>90901099
so... no similarity at all then?
>>90901142
thanks for letting me. gotta get those urges out in a positive way.

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>>90901142

Meant as sincerely as possible by the way.

Here are the main line of kids before we updated them as well. I think Marco has vastly improved.

>>90901177

Yeah I don;t see a huge similarity. But maybe I'm biased/too close to the project? All criticism is good criticism.

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>>90901099
>>90901177
>>90901243

what about the original logo for the virtual pets?

>>90901368

OH SHIT! You're right! I never even looked at the before. That's completely coincidental I swear.

Maybe we should change it then?

>>90901368
now THERE'S a similarity
if you're gonna have one, it should be to something more obscure like that. you get indy cred

>>90901453
personally I think you should add something just to make the logo less monochrome (appropriate for packaging, but for a comic, eh...) like i'd do a smaller scratchy version of each letter inside the black in some bright red.. but since the comic's black and white that might not work

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god damn i love drawing splosions

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>>90900998
Honestly I really do love your monster designs, they're a little busy, but they're right up my alley in aesthetics. I drew the Ursa girl cause she's cute, hope she looks alright.

>>90901453
what are the origins of your monsters? Are they digital as well?

>>90899632
some namefag drama, forget about it

>>90897761
>>90898960

Also not gonna lie, this story is influenced by Digimon, (and others like Monster Farm, Pocket Monster, et cetera,) and will definitely have similarities like evolution and such.

But to distance from those we purposefully tried to include other elements, make parts of the story more "adult," (later in narrative anyway,) Western designs for the humans, and a different and more fleshed out lore rich world to explore. So I sincerely hope that as it continues those ideas and similarities will fade and be seen more like homages than anything else.

>>90901657

They are not even close to being digital. However I can't tell you their origin without spoiling the comic so...

>>90901589

OMG I LOVE THIS!

fukken saved

>>90901683
>Western designs for the humans
I wouldn't go that far, they fit the anime aesthetic, but they are definitely not SO anime that it's distracting or anything

>>90901716
Well I would say as it is you should have your logo reference whatever the origin of the monsters are, much like how digimon logos are usually pixelated and digital looking. As it is it just feels too much like digimon and although that would be fine if digimon were a dead property you probably don't want to look like a knock off of something that's still alive and well.

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>>90901589
(artist here, other guy talkin' is writer)

Surprise fanart? That just made my day anon! thank you so much.

Guys you have no idea, just you wait, Boys Land is gonna get so freakin' cool the farther we go. We haven't even hit the sweet spot yet.

So it's true I did in fact take inspiration from the Digimon virtual pet logo, glad someone found out. Also the designs are inspired by Digimon as well, although my deviation is to make them a little softer, less muscle, belts and guns haha.

Glad there's people reading! That makes it all the more worth it to make the comic.

>>90901955
One does notice that the anime designs are already 'softer' than the hyperdetailed original art. I always found that interesting.. digimon had those detailed paintings as their starting-point for the designs, while pokemon had watercolor paintings

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>>90901938
This is the up-to-date logo, the one being passed around is the 2014 variation.

I can agree that it may remind people of Digimon. But I think that it's far enough as it's own that I wouldn't worry about a lot of people thinking Boys Land is a Digimon-fanficiton haha.

>>90901955

I stand corrected. I'll leave design critiques to the guys who draws next time. Whoops.

>>90900700

Website?

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>>90901516

>When the thumbnail looks like an angry red bird looking back at you as it shoots a laser out of it's cloaca...

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Is it a bad idea to have a story where no one in the main cast dies but most of the main antagonists do?

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>>90901083
Ooh, that's probably part of it. I saw a lot of red seats in my ref images and thought they would work well, but now looking at these photos again the interior has more of a green tint to it than blue...

>>90901955
No problem, I like what I've read of your comic so far, hope to see it get even better.

>>90902486
http://householdslimemold.com/

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I'm challenging myself to finish the BQ issue 1 script. I'll be updating daily.

>>90902519
cannot unsee

>>90902730
sounds fun to me.

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>>90903003

Website, REEEEE!

>>90902730
how is this even remotely a novel idea ... ?

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thanks to the anon who did vote

So this week I only got a splash page done but getting back on track this upcoming update. Here's a link, only got four pages done. variable-comic.tumblr.com

>>90902730

I don't see the problem with it, but most stories go this way don't they?

>>90904041

I just had a feeling that it would be cheap to not kill at least one main character

>>90904012
woo, I don't remember what I voted for, but.. yay

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I posted some old pictures of this guy a while ago but I'm now working on a more finalized polished design for him. Does this seem like a solid design for a stealthy gigeresque abomination? I want his design to be memorable but not look too much like any existing giger painting.

>>90905096
hmmm.. the torso is very gigeresque, I think it's the part I like best.
the rest... could use a little work I think. For one thing, it looks like it would sound like tearing, twisting metal every time it moved. not terribly stealthy. ditto that big echo chamber above the head. and while it may seem sensible that tiny feet = tiny footsteps, in reality the larger your footprint, the more balanced your weight is

of course it doesn't have to be realistic, but you're asking how it LOOKS, and I can't use anything but realism in my judgment of that

>>90905096
I actually like the smaller version you've drawn a lot more maybe it's the thinner limbs or something but it just looks a a lot better I also like the square eyes more
>>90905337
the fact that you can't judge a design based on what you think looks good and instead rely on what's most realistic is really strange not being mean that's just really bizarre

>>90905590
I just mean that form follows function. If you ask "Does this look like a good stealth machine" I have to say no. stealthy things are smooth like a stealth bomber, they don't disrupt things around them, they just moove smoothly

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Thanks for the feedback from last time; I'm looking to improve color scheming, especially with this coming page, because the last one doesn't do the original show justice.

Just finished inking and coloring all characters for this current page. I'm moving on to backgrounds and other details now, so it should be a matter of days before Page 2 is posted.

Page 1: http://fav.me/dazc859

>>90905096

As this anon said >>90905337 it feels reminiscent of Gigeresque, along with that new Scorn game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEE4yZgphFk

I wouldn't say it's a knock off, but you can tell there is elements that cross over.

Though this is more of a freehand, fun, reference sheet, I suggest going for a full out legit on reference sheet.

But I like it so far, got anymore?

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dramatic special-effects-filled action movie climax achieved. clearly Europan alloys don't have a high heat tolerance.
also Sasha is weird.

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A character who's gonna show up way later in the comic but I just like drawing. I am allowed 1 (one) shameless bishounen character per story.

>>90904639
Eh, it might. If your story has life or death stakes, it would be weird for none of the good guys to die. Maybe you could just kill off a side character or two?

Please don't let this thread die while I'm asleep again.

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>>90908311

>>90904639

I think it totally depends on the context of your story. Like if the stakes are high then yeah it's odd. If not though then not really.

Also depends on your demographic, the younger the intended audience the less you need to kill the good guys for believabilty. Good guys rarely die in kid shows. They do, but not often.

>>90908728
>the younger the intended audience the less you need to kill the good guys for believabilty
uh, anon? you do realize kids hate that about 'kids' shows' right? that's done on behalf of complaining parents. it's kids who MOST want death to signify significance. the rest of us are embittered and would rather just have something nice to soothe us in our shitty adult lives

Hey can I get an invite to the discord ?

>>90909018
https://discord.gg/7ufnv

someone's definitely gonna keep bumping tonight, right? good.

>>90909179
Thanks

>Page 10

I thought you weren't going to let this thread die, /hyw/.

>>90911260

The thread is kinda dead compared to usual, can't be helped anon.

where the comic maker wannabes at?

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>>90903743
Mine?

Day 2, This was a mistake. Composing panels on a page, then composing the page next to it is fairly draining intellectually. Though I've gotten a fair amount of it done and will have the book laid out by tomorrow, which is gratifying.

I'm now realizing that aside from Briana there isn't a lot of visual reference for the world she inhabits, which I suppose is a natural pitfall of concentrating mostly on her tits and macro level narrative.

This will make my timetable that i thought was fairly generous really tight as I'll have to design on the fly, suddenly 100 days feel like nothing.

But, we soldier on, I'll do it for her.

>>90903003
Good luck, Sidney!

>>90911530
writing

>>90911798

kek

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most recent laserwing

When's the next page of Goth Grill Z?

When's the next page of Artborn?

>>90911798
I mean, you're not wrong.

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>>90902519
Whoa, I see it too now!

Finally got an artist down to work on my comic. Problem is he wont be able to start until he's done with school in June. But it's a good start.

tfw this will probably fall through just like the other artists.

>>90914446
what is the story of your comic?


well if that fail you could start learning how to draw right now

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>>90914646
>what is the story of your comic?
Fantasy setting where tensions are high between the religious orders of the world and a group of humans who believe machine enhancements are the only way to survive. Both sides being manipulated by a group who took "machine enhancements" too far and have become horrible abominations on their quest for "perfection". Main characters are a soldier and an angel who's wings were removed by these abominations for an unknown porpoise.

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>>90897146

made a cover page for episode 2 of my Goth Grill Z project!

its gonna be great~!

HD VERSION(and website): http://ggz.thecomicseries.com/

>>90915441
Have you considered not-baiting and making an actual series of it? I'd be interested in the designs if you stopped purposely being shit.

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>>90915441

unfortunately for people interested my METEOR RANDOM project i my main focus right now, my other 3 projects GGZ, DEMON FUZE, and FATES CHAOS are only getting table scraps of my attention right now as I try to make my cartoon webcomic about super fighting robots not only a reality but even more original than it already is because to many people made a weird megaman connection out of no where which i even had to admit was a little to close to be a coincidence, even though it was just a pure coincidence!

METEOR RANDOM is not a clone or a rip off of MEGAMAN if anything maybe it was subconsciously inspired by it, maybe, kind of... but its super original you guys. super original!

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>>90915621

>unfortunately for people interested,* my METEOR RANDOM project is* my main focus right now*

fucking laptop keyboards amiright?

any way here is a side view example of this super original style i made up for this cartoon webcomic coming super soon to an internet near you!

>>90914948
I remember you. You had this idea like almost a year ago. Has it taken this long to get an artist?

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>>90914948
Nice, if you had a middle faction that uses magic with tech it'd be like a fantasy equivalent of the sci fi universe I'm working on. I'm interested to see how this works out.

>>90907721
Thanks! For the project I'm working on I have no reason to make a more in depth reference sheet since the whole comic is equally cartoony and exaggerated. Once finished he'll have a base much like the characters I've done here >>90898521 in a variety of poses and emotions as well as a few other members of his faction which are all similarly styled. In the comic the Villithists (giger skeleton guys) are the opposites of the Extolli which are the magic 8 ball cyborgs I've been drawing.

Pic related is some old art I did of these guys a few months ago. I think my coloring and linework has improved a lot since then.

>>90905337
Very interesting points but I have to say realism is something I'm purposefully straying from for this project I guess I should of just asked "does this guy look cool". These characters specifically will be used for comedy pretty frequently so I was going for a kind of earthworm jim villain look or maybe one of the halloweenies from Invader Zim.

>>90917035
Yeah, just no luck finding people. Either plans fell through or they had unreasonable demands. Wanting 75% revenue and media rights my ass.

>>90914948
sounds neat.

Who are the antagonists?

>>90912139
she's such a little sleepybadger

>>90917395
>I should HAVE just asked "does this guy look cool"
yes, yes he does.
I think the older design with its greater symmetry and apparent stability vs ricketiness serves the purpose better, maybe you could pose the new one like that at least when it's standing or walking, then save the more splayed-out poses for gymnastic combat

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>>90917710
Thank you, and very good point. I'll have the calm civilized ones maintain the dead roach posture while the psycho hot-headed ones will have the more dramatic unstable stature to them. that'll allow for a lot more variety.

As for the asymmetry, all of their technology is sort of re-sculpted organic matter so I want to make sure they don't look too mechanical or refined, more like a mass of malformed spinal columns and ribs.

Also for fun here was the shitty original version I was going with 8 months ago. Yikes. I guess it just goes to show how much the criticism in these threads has really helped my work.

>>90918052
that one's kinda cool too! your quality is definitely going up, but your ideas were cool from the beginning
i assume the psycho ones are also worse at stealth, but better at being berserker commandos. a good general knows how to properly utilize the individual natures of his soldiers

>>90918104
Exactly. I'm sure members newer to the faction would have a lot less composure and more paranoia. And thanks! I feel like my drawings are finally starting to match my imagination to a degree which I think is a good sign.

>>90917529
Thanks.

There are 3 main villains.

The first is an aristocrat who's trying to use the tensions to gain power.

The second is one of the older abominations who's motives are a mystery.

third is a seemingly normal person who for whatever reason the abominations follow his every word.

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Moving on...

>>90918300
every day? gonna give that poor kid some severe rashes

>>90918300
First day of school? Are we finally going to see Bandara?
Would be about time.

how do i write faster? I want to finish writing my webcomic in 2 days

>>90919501
Do what I do.

1. Practice
2. Write everything out in advanced so you don't need to come up with what's going to happen week to week.

>>90919553
>Write everything out in advanced
how long did it take you to do that?

>>90919630
What kind of question is that? It depends on so many factors... It takes as long as it takes to finish it

>>90919694
I asked "How long did it take you" not "How long would it take you/me/anyone"

>>90919775
Yes again what the fuck does that matter to you

>>90919953
>ask question
>you answer
>now im curious about his personal experiences

Why are you making this difficult? Just dont respond if its a sensitive issue

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Have any of you guys considered inspiring yourselves heavily from current shows/franchises such as: The Loud House, Hanazuki, Bunnicula, 9th grade ninja, Penn Zero?

When an anon says "this has potential" or "the premise sounded interesting but the execution was boring" do you think you could do better, reboot it in a different, more lovable direction?

I think there's been a huge untapped potential these past 7 years for a show with both great ideas and amazing executions. Because everything that sounded good and has ever been rebooted, ended up being a major disappointment like Thundercats, Legend of Korra, Ultimate Spiderman.

So maybe you could try creating some alternative episodes in the form of comic books gaining the initial audience and then creating non-infringing material so you can live off and become successful off your work.

>>90920398
>"this has potential" or "the premise sounded interesting but the execution was boring"
thats how I approach writing in general and then it naturally forms into its own original plot

>>90919630
>how long did it take you to do that?
well, my experience is with a novel, so 129 pages of plot and events that took 1 1/2 years

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Just uploaded my first pages last week. Think I'll be updating Tuesdays.
http://m.webtoons.com/en/challenge/scape/scape-cover-chapter-one/viewer?title_no=68153&episode_no=1

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>>90921011
Is he gonna say:
I'm the trash man!

What are some good places to look for reference in fashion (clothing, mostly male, but female too) online? Nothing too fashion-y, just normal but pleasing to look at stuff.

I'm not too much into that stuff and need some help.

>>90921204
I find Pinterest has tons of references for things like that, both drawn and retail/social

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>>90919058 My plan for the following scenes will have short moments with Bandara inter-cutting between Commisan's scenes. I want more flavor scenery as she travels to start living with Mahder and Commisan.

Commisan talks, but Bandara is silent. I really don't want her to talk at all for right now, because she is a foil to Commisan's personality. She probably doesn't feel like verbally talking with what I've implied is happening to her right now.

anybody wants to go a guest comic for Beeserker, this would be the time
good way to get some attention

>>90922246
What's beezerker

>>90921011
bookmarked. i wanna see where this is going

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Trying out comics. The plot and humor is rather random, but Imo it has it's charme.
https://tapastic.com/episode/638563

>>90922479
a funny webcomic. you will enjoy.

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>>90915720

bump

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

>>90923832
loved this page. what a backstory!!
It's also impressive that in a comic with such heavily stylized people you can still tell the dwarves are set apart

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WIP, one page, roughs.

Been dry for a few months.

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>>90922246

im interested, here's my application i just made, 4 minute quick sketch after googling your comic.

ive never read it before so from first glance tell me how close I a to the characters names and overall plot of your story

beezerker is about two forest animals addicted to honey and though they go on countless adventures to find honey in the spirit world a giant robot bee get the honey before they do and this is there type of hell they live in for being to greedy with honey when they where alive, it stars the two spirit animals HONEY BEAR SPIRIT who wears bear ears headband and HONEY BEE SPIRIT who wears bee ears headband, the headbands are symbolic for halo's.

so how close am i? right on the money or not even close?

>>90925257
Oh Nolli or whatever your name was.. you are adorable and I love you.
>dry
I thought you were intentionally sort of Wonderella-ing.. like you finished your big run and you wre going to move to less frequent updates. Was that not it?

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>>90925499

fixed a few mistakes and added in some highlights

>>90925517
I had wanted to see about doing other, miscellaneous strips, and work on something longer than a 2 page gag. But other than a daily sketch, I've been in a creative slump.

That's Fili in that strip. Panel 2 could do with changing the angle to be more front on, I think.

>>90926178
that's right. me and names, man
and why do I keep wanting to say doli? that has to be someone from something

>>90926051
>>90925499

i mean she is wearing a cub scouts uniform(sort of) and her skin is pale white indicating she is either dead or sings norwegian death metal.

CUB scout, as in bear cub!

plus she has furry boots and furry gloves, bear ears headband, and is in a webcomic all about honey and a honey bee so there is no way she isn't a spirit animal of a bear in my opinion

if im wrong im sorry, just wild fan speculation i guess, i guess you could say its just a theory... a webcomic theory!

>>90925075
Thanks man!

>>90923588
What's this about again?? Big fan of your work

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>>90928330

well heres the first chapter of the script i wrote for it: http://jesse-the-art-maker.deviantart.com/art/Meteor-Random-669403204

i just have to draw it! Its basically the timeless tale of two brothers turned against each other, Cain and Able, Moses and the Pharo, billy and jimmy from double dragon where it turns out one of the double dragon brothers was the main bad guy the whole time(depending on which one you choose to play as i think? i cant remember)

anyone else feel a lot of pressure when your comic has been nicely planned-out for a while and now you're almost past that bit and you have to start making some new decisions and choices in order to make sure everything continues to be well planned out?

What are your favourite webcomics?

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>>90923588

i just sketched out a new robot, this one throws out time bubbles that can repair fallen robots by reversing the time of anything inside the time bubble by 2.11 seconds, why 2.11? because 211 is the ancient number of steal, so time, and steal armored robots... it just makes since and works! its like pottery, it grimes

What's the discord link?

>>90932481

um.... is it steal or steel? woops!

yall know what i meant

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>>90932526

i dont know i never use it, but i often have paranoid daydreams of someone impersonating me on there even though i never use it and thats why everyone hates me here, theres literally no other reason for me to hate me in these threads, so maybe somebody is on discord pretending to be me and being a nasty horrible asshole and ruining my good name or something and telling people stuff like dont ask if im the real bones or not in the threads because i'll just deny it, or people will ask this fake discord bones why i did or said something in the thread and the fake imposter bones trying to ruin my good honest Innocent name will only have fucked up nasty horrible asshole answers for the private webcomics discord

i would use it but i think it would break my linksys internet if it even works at all, i never tries using a live chat on this weak ass shitty local free internet :/

i think my discord name is underskinandmuscles, i havent used it since last year when all i did was show up and i got instantly attacked and it caused this big shitstorm in discord that wasn't my fault cuz people were taking these threads way to seriously and i brought that up and people lost their shit, and though i didn't get banned for it i never went back because fuck all the #webcomicdiscordchatdrama

>>90932761
>theres literally no other reason for ANYONE* to hate me in these threads

>>90932398
Old City Blues
http://milonogiannis.tumblr.com/tagged/ocbonline

>>90932481

i forgot to mention that this is one of the METEOR series of robots designed to keep the world safe until it was re-programmed to be evil by none other than Dr. Darkness!

>>90932761
you don't have to worry. I use the discord and have never seen you on there. I hate you for completely different reasons.

>>90932398
Ava's Demon
Devil's Candy
Paranatural, but only the first 4 chapters

If we're talking webcomics from these threads, probably The Sisters. When did The Sister's guy leave us? I haven't seen him in months :(

>>90933456
>Paranatural, but only the first 4 chapters
Please don't remind me. Biggest disappointment since Homestuck.

>>90933456
the two of them are both really busy and they never had consistent thread-enterings, it was always kind of a fun rare treat

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progress

>>90933826
funny thing is even having heard that out loud, he probably assumes it's mystère, meaning he'd be half right. poor chap. only thing more embarrassing than that is when a foreign person asks what you mean by X and you define X and they say they know the meaning of the word, but not what you meant in this context and it's like ugh awkward

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Polite bump.

Since last friday, I've been muttering a new story settled in the same world of another story I was already writing (which I put aside for the good of my shitty fancomic and IRL stuff). It happens a century after that story (more or less) in a more modern world not much different than ours in the 30's, but with heroes who have superpowers and people starting to set colonies in the space.

Today I was a bit ill, so rather than working in more important tasks (like, oh surprise, my fancomic), I went to draw one of the main characters: Henry Rookfrey ("Fakefray" for his most jerkass superpowered cousins) is a talented engineer who, besides doing awesome machines and having a gift for gardening, is also a modest pulp fiction writer who cannot say no to a good story with either magic or science.

Unlike most of his close family, he has not known powers, but people tend to think otherwise because his colorful hair (that he usually hides under a beret or his helmet when he's riding his motorbike.

>>90935135
Well, I said 30's, but actually, is aesthetically, is a mixture of the 30's and our current times (because it's more easy to draw things that I know, to be honest).

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>>90905096
I think I finally finished this guy's talksprite. Took some of the advice and changed the proportions a bit to match the smaller sketch better. I'm pretty happy with the result.

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I'm so tired, /hyw/

Bump maybe?

>>90935889
I like the way this guy thinks

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>>90907682

Looks like "days" actually meant "day." Here you go.

>>90936801
can hear their voices. and i havent seen that show in a decade

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>>90932481

I fixed this a while ago: http://jesse-the-art-maker.deviantart.com/art/METEOR-TIME-BUBBLE-sketch-fixed-670379733

also i made a woman robot, she likes to grab... """things"""" :^)

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>>90935545
aaaand now done with all 3 sizes.

I hope some other euroanon can keep this thread alive. I'm afraid I'm out now.

Anybody mind telling how best to outline a comic? Or whatever method you might do?

>>90936977

i will upload the fixed version of this tomorrow, fixed spelling and stuff, grappler has 2 p's not 1.

Anyway her special robot power is a grappling hook that can attached to anything and either pull it towards her or be used to pull her to high up or far away places!

If METEOR RANDOM defeats her this power will be his and he will be able to apply it to his soccer ball, which is his robotic weapon of choice that all random robot powers he collects gets applied to!

sketchbook pro, original character

*NOTE: This is a low kb preview, HD version tomorrow!

>>90938197
In writing or drawing wise?

I first wirk the whole story in a few lines, then start stating what are the most inportant tools or plot points, turnings, conflicts, main characters... And then go to outline tge first scenes while I come with how many panels in how many pages I will need to tell each scene. Then, because I don't like to write as much as I like draw, figure how each page is going to be layed out, and start to draw then. After drawing each page, I paint then and pass to write the actual text in a word. And finally I letter it into the panels.

If you mean about drawing, I'm the anon that uses sketch blue, red and black.

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>>90898586
Oh wow, really digging the colors, man.

>>90936801
Damn, you've got the style down.

Slowly working on my comic, but at least I've got it up and running on Tapastic!

Also did a little experiment, did a voice test for Urchin, using clips from FLCL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r8R8HDOFLU
Think it fits? I'm thinking I want a SLIGHT difference from Haruko, but still the closest comparison I could make.

It is often said that part of good character design is to give each important character a unique silhouette, or to have them in some way stand out among the crowd. So how come you can't make characters with a variety of ethnicities and/or body types without being called an SJW? Honestly, I think that's why I don't watch anime that much anymore, because everyone looks the same, and the lack of variety makes me want to kill myself out of sheer boredom. As the saying goes, wat do?

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>start drawing character designs
>redesign for days

other ones are still pretty rough, getting somewhere on this one.

>>90939500
>without being called an SJW?
sounds like the least important thing to worry about

just draw diverse bodies if you want

>>90932226
try to always maintain that chapter gap

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>>90911669
Thumbs complete

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>>90941112
And starting in on character design.

dead thread bump