/hyw/ - How's Your Webcomic? #386

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>>93877360
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;
calligraphr.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:
https://discord.gg/rXMbdqP

>Wise words from John Cleese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

>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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>>93877132
Very cool motivation

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>>93877360
You can also participate on a HYW challenge!

>>93830952
>Theme: Castaway in space
>Genre (options):
>noir
>romance
>slice of life
>Deadline: July 19

have an idea, and due to me being a scrubby writer it'll come off cliche, but I really want this idea to work, so please, I need honest feedback.
So, world were there is just humans, none of that d&d shit.
This world would be pretty bland, had it not been for the humans being able to master magic.
Eventually, a huge black ball collides with earth, conveniently landing near the main human settlements.
It emerges, reveals itself to be a huge ass monster and goes on to do typical Godzilla stuff.
Eventually the humans are able to kill it, but then, the human who struck the final blow to it became possessed and turned into the beast.
And so began a cycle, monster gets killed, person who kills it becomes monster, repeat.
Eventually, they realize that there is no way to truly kill it, so the humans form a society called the sealers and are able to seal the monster into a cave, causing peace to reign if not for a group of people who worship the invincible beast, who want to go out, kill the sealers and unleash the beast, killing it and somehow splitting the power up among them all.
Pretty much power hungry regular bad guys who wanna be bad.
The story wouldn't have a "chosen one" cliche and would focus on the key figures for both fractions, as well as the occasional page dedicated to the beast's POV

Posted last thread, need ideas to improve on it

>>93877481
I feel like I could do a one-panel of space castaways..

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>>93877643
It's a non-cliche way to use cliche elements. Everybody does it!

does anyone in the setting ever look into the reason behind this thing? why there's shit like this in space, whether there's any danger of more of it coming? or is it just a force of nature which they're too busy holding down to have any higher thoughts about it

>>93877667
Do it anon! You are still on time!

>>93877643
I gave my latest reply here >>93877682 just in case you already closed that thread

Hi.

Would anyone here draw a comic for me?


Would you like to know the idea of my comic?

>>93877700
The beast is such an powerful force that yes, the sealers have to work 24/7 to seal it in its cave
Plus with the cultists trying to get
In, they kinda don't care about it's origins.

>>93877719
Okay, any suggestions for comics?

>>93877725
post it

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>>93878068
well

the idea is a Comic Of Lydia Fox (From Arthur)


With the original idea that Connor Gordon (The Original Creator Of Lydia) had for her

The comic would be of lydia (with 7 years of age)


while she was in a pool. and it is immersed in the shallow end of the pool, and suffered a spinal injury that paralyzed from the waist down.


http://arthur.wikia.com/wiki/Lydia_Fox#Character_development


http://www.swnewsmedia.com/savage_pacer/news/year-old-draws-new-arthur-friend/article_e4dae9f0-2eaa-5352-baac-c71fd47646f1.html


http://www.startribune.com/a-new-friend-for-arthur/44569532/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsBKbUIyiPY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKshI6VrdFU

>>93878168
Do you want her to drown in the pool or what

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Instead of directly inking I'm now making a sketch prior and it's making fantastic work for me. (In other words I'm being more patient with my work)

>>93877868
Okay, as long as there's a sensible reason. The only thing that bothers me as a reader is when there's this impossibly massive problem in the world, and absolutely nobody is thinking about the cure, only the treatment, even after ages and ages. Especially if it's some blunt metaphor about modern problems.
But if they have a legitimate reason to focus all their energy on surviving and the task at hand, then that is fine. Like Shingeki no Kyojin kinda stuff.

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I have no idea how to draw females, so here are some sketches I did while I tried to fix my block.

>>93878373
is that some kidn of wrinkle on her shirt, or is it a graphic? It kind of looks like a katakana with a ten ten..

>>93878442
I usually just draw a gibberish alphabet i made up for when I have nothing to put in the shirts or designs

>>93878342
The idea of the comic is Lydia (the fox girl) this she in a pool. And that she dives into the shallow end of the pool, and that she suffered an injury to the spine, that Lydia was paralyzed from the waist down.

>>93878421
I guess it makes sense if we think of it as a SnK thing, with the deal of sealers having to be working all days at all hours to keep the beast sealed because of how powerful it is.

Although this gives me the idea that maybe there could be a third faction that dosn't really want to use the beast's power but want to study what it is instead? They may not have bad intentions (they may even think that by studying it they can find a way to stop it once and for all) but some of them may actually do some risky stuff that makes them a menace.

>>93877868
Actually Shingeki no Kyojin is a good example of a comic (well, manga if you want to be too picky) to check on for this, even if it's not typical fantasy.

>>93878440
Those designs actually look quite cool.

As for females, you have to remember 4 important steps.

>boobs
>more hips
>less waist
>no bulge

how much boobs, hips or waist they have is up to you to play with.

bonus step of "not too wide shoulders", in that aspect men are usually more "square" than women.

>>93877643
Why is the monster's initial reaction to landing on a foreign planet, just wrecking things?
Considering the story you've provided and the aim you want to approach, I would begin the story off in the middle of a scuffle between these two factions.
I like the other anon's idea too, just kind of a neutral size getting caught up in the mess.

>>93878599
ah yes. Not to continue to draw comparisons to other series, as that's a shallow and frustrating way to analyze things, but ... there's something a bit like that in Wheel of Time's backstory, and I've always liked it. The idea of well-meaning researchers screwing things up a bit is fantastic.
Oh, Chrono Trigger too. Not sure who did it first. plus in both of those cases, nobody was sure the thing in question even existed or had any idea that it was evil, so you won't be stepping on toes with your faction, probably.

>>93878683
Thanks for the tip, but I was honestly more so talking about the face department.

>>93879110
shorter face, narrower chin, bigger eyes, rounder hairline,
larger, rounder cranium.

>>93879110
Oh I see, sorry about that.

Well the only thing I can say there is that women tend to have more soft facial traits, at least when you want to go with the average female face. Bigger/rounder eyes, eyelashes, a bit smaller noses, more notorious cheekbones. Of course you can also play with those things so they don't look like a Disney Rapunzel clone, but expect people to go with "why does this woman have a manly face"?

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>>93878421
>>93878599

I've read SnK, but I don't want for their plots to be somewhat similar

You see, the reason why the sealers keep going to seal him away is because their magic is weak and can't hold long, so they have to keep a constant maintenance.
This is why the cultist want them dead
I've been thinking though, what if the sealers waste most of their power weakening the beast and still shielding him, like they used so much of it that the beast has been turned into a more..tame form?
I dunno here's some sketches, and yes i know it's a stick figure, I just can't thinking about making him look....normal like?
Anyone willing to help out with him artwise?

Also, I like the third faction idea, the faction that actually wants to learn about this thing, but isn't trusted by the sealers..

>>93879310
Yeah I was just suggesting it's the same kind of "Oh well, this is our lives now" attitude, which is all you can do when the monster is that... monstery
I like the idea of it legitimately weakening over time, so they've made a form of progress after all

>>93879310
Tame form? That does sound interesting.

Also for a moment I thought the eye was a fang and I was going to comment on how cute the beast turned out after some taming

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>>93879339
>>93879397
It's late, so sorry for the horrible quality
Yes that's my excuse

So, say that during the plot the cultists find out thatvthe beast is getting "tamed" and stage an all out attack by breaking into the cave..somehow.

The beast is freed, the cultist rejoice, but they realize that the beast is too weak after all this time and that he's not really worth it at the point.

The beast is freed, and the third faction decides to really step in..

>>93879538
>The beast is freed, the cultist rejoice, but they realize that the beast is too weak after all this time and that he's not really worth it at the point.

What a bunch of meanies, now I feel bad for the poor beast. If he is really being "tamed" this may even lead to some interesting things.

Well anon you are now making your plot bigger and thinking of more paths to follow, this is all good work and exercise for your story. Glad our advices are helping you so far.

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Here's a test page I did of my project about a month ago. I'm currently working on the prologue and am aiming to have it done by late October.

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>>93879743
Hey thanks, you helped out a lot

Did a rough idea of the cultist freeing the beast, and how it would go down.

The beast could end up being so tamed that he could eventually just be a guy with freak powers

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>>93879794
This looks good anon! Good luck on the project, this page alone looks quite nice.

>>93879899
>that page
When will the bullying end? The beast needs a break.

>Then the beast goes into a new self-discovery journey of adventure while dealing with crazy third faction-ers.
>And with it you get to explore more on the "ok where did it come from and why" with maybe even adding more on it as the story keeps going since the promised big bad is not that big or that bad anymore

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>>93880616
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

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Finished coloring the second to last page of the spinoff comic tonight. Colored five pages today alone.

Eager to be done with it and put it out in the wild.

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>>93877360

posting wip, sorry i was gone all week... it wont happen again!

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>>93882143

bump, page arts done...

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It's been a while since I last posted in these threads, these last weeks have been busy, but I've kept working on the comic, albeit at a lesser rate that I would have liked. I'm going to post the first four pages, they can be read online at loosecannons.net (the site still needs some polishing).

English is not my native language, so if you spot any mistake feel free to point them and I'll correct them as soon as I can.

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>>93882245

>>93882266
I've been putting a lot of time drawing and shading these pages. The two main reasons it's in b/w is because I like it, and that going full colour would be a ton of work. I hope I'll get faster soon.

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>>93882344
Shit, forgot to attach the image.

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>>93882351
And this is it for now.

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>>93882243

ok, its done, i hope yall like it


*you can read it on:

-comic fury: http://ggz.thecomicseries.com/
-taptastic: https://tapastic.com/episode/623701
-linewebtoons: http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/ggz/introductions/viewer?title_no=66734&episode_no=1
-the duck webcomics: http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/GGZ/
-tumblr: https://gothgrillz.tumblr.com/

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LOL

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>>93882556

I guess all the rumors are true, im just another worthless spic beaner mexican tortilla spinner thats never going to make it, lol

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>>93853093

>The HYW Discord server finally managed to kick me out.

>Hey, Dewd, Coldfusion and Bones. Where do you guys hang out now?

where do i hang out? under a tree on a noose around my neck that cast the most depressing life crushing darkness, cuz i dont just feel dead on the inside i feel dead in general like this is some kind of hybrid limbo hell, lol

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What kind of music do you listen to while making comics, /hyw/?

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>>93882726

on infinit loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20jvV-BPNSk

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>>93874426
>>93874506
>>93874530

Thanks for your inputs. (I haven't a clue as to whether or not these links will work back to a dead thread but whatever.) We will make fixing the latest page versus latest chapter update a priority.

>>93870323
Going commando is far less hygenic than wearing panties.

>>93882453
Is that a Pepe phone?

>>93882708
Hey man, save the dark humor for the comic!

>>93882073
Comic?

>>93883160
It's coldfusion, the guy is clinically retarded, there's nothing you can do to talk sense into him.

>>93882245
>>93882266
>>93882351
>>93882368
Damn those are some really neat backgrounds, also good use of the b/w.

>>93882556
Lets be fair. No one here makes more than a few Starbucks lattes.

>>93884877
why is everyone here so shit?

>>93885074
Because anyone that gits gud leaves as soon as they can.

Or quits. Many quit.

>>93883160
Wear cotton. It breathes.

>>93880644
is this String Theory?

>>93880644
that demon cultist is a qt

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>>93882376
Time for a fight scene

>>93879794
really into this style. nice stuff. looking forward to the prologue.

>>93885420
?

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>>93882726
For my comic I sometimes make playlists for some of my characters with music they'd like in them. Mostly 90s electronic music since that's the general vibe of my works though.

When I work on resources for my videos I mostly listen to the album I actually have permission to use in it. If anyone here has played "Battleblock theater", it's an album made by the same composer. Though it was made back in the 90s for a fictional video game. Criminally underrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ke6ac-O0k&list=PLhJYEHL2UDhU1zkItMvDBk2zxvT7VGP_v

>>93887307
This looks nice when zoomed in and you have a lot of skill but it needs more focus. When I look at it my eyes aren't drawn to anything in particular and so it becomes kind of an eyesore. Maybe try differentiating the characters from eachother and the backgrounds by using bolder outlines on what the focus is. Also since your color palette is so light I might do those panel dividers in black or a dark color so the panels are easier to differentiate.

>>93888468
Yeah, idk how anon made a comparison since I don't think anything on that page is similar to something from ST.

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>>93888468
>>93888721
Not content wise but I thought the art style's very similar.

>>93889053
very nice

>>93889053
Legitimately feels like it could of been one of those fake ads from Ren & Stimpy or as a comic in Nickelodeon magazine. The style looks legitimately from that era, nice work.

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>>93882726
When I was doing some pages I was listening to amon tobins splinter cell chaos theory soundtrack. And for these sketches some deftones.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye-frzA7N0E

I'm thinking this is how I want the Demi-urge in my comic to look basically humans get there mana from them and the mana is a lot weaker in the humans. This is back story stuff because the story I want to tell takes place during the age of man. The Dem-urge are responsible for a lot of the technology on the planet as well as the guns although the urge only really love to use melee weapons when they battle. I don't usually do sketches like this only really to show y'all, I mostly use the notes app and jot things down when they hit me.

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Also I just realized I started work on Vegabond this time last year. Here's a comparison of the first picture of CIN I posted in these threads exactly one year ago and the most recent picture I've done of him this week.

What a difference a year makes.

>>93889458
4chan is 18+

>>93889537
Im your elder though :) and Demi urge are many different color fyi forgot to mention.

feast for a king will kill me if i continue to read it

>>93889476
>>93889476
Foreal dude I LOVE it ,like I say every now and then I can't wait to see this done, but taking your time really has done you good. Btw will you review the system shock games or are you gonna only do new games?

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Character designs of Mary J. doe.

>>93889983
Thanks! And yeah I've kind of felt bad for taking so long with all of this but I really do think it's for the good of the end product.

As for the reviews, I'm starting off with my series "Forgotten Gaming" which just focuses on my shareware and abandonware collection that all have little to no documentation online and are mostly awful. I'll be doing actually good games later on but haven't really planned it out yet since I already have those other projects going on. The first actually well known games I'd review would definitely be 90s sci-fi though, and the system shock series is among my favorites.

>>93882556
Who?

>>93882726
It always changes according to what I'm doing. Right now I'm getting in the right mood for the challenge here >>93877481

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGKxCAg_0o

>>93882266
now this is something I can get behind

>>93890197
The 90's really were the best times man wish I had been in my 20's then :(

>>93889772
>>93889458
>3rd grade tier drawings
>can't even spell
>retard level concepts
reminder you're posting with literal children in these threads. these are the people giving you advice and suggestions

>>93891141
Can confirm. As you show, there is no age limit for shitposting.

>>93889143
>Where- HOW do I sign?
hehehehe

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>>93889143
I guess I can see it.
Is it bad that I like the artstyle from the beginning more than the present one? I mean it improved a lot and it's nice and all, but there is something about the early one that I miss, not sure how to express it.

>>93891141
Just sit back and enjoy the show kiddo.

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>>93883171

>Is that a Pepe phone?

yes

>Hey man, save the dark humor for the comic!

ok, i will try senpai

>>93890057
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM........

>>93890385
mfw

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>>93882453

i made a video of me making this page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvnqqZHmeG4&feature=youtu.be

*pic related is what i mean by how these pages look on my new nigga-rigged laptop i frankensteined together and the screen resolution looks stretched out and on any other copmputer and deviced everything i drew looks super skinny... its a really confusing way to have to draw, i tried doing everything i could to fix this problem but never found a solution

>>93894376

*computer or device(tablet, cellphone, etc)

>>93894234
>HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM........

Did i become linkara?

>>93894376
you must be 18 or older to post here

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>>93894481
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?

>>93892651
I love the art from chapter 1 and would have 0% problem with the whole comic looking like that, that said I think the color art is fantastic too. Really the biggest strength of the art is the characters acting, look at him rubbing his face in the second to last panel there.

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Welcome to Singing-Rock!

>>93894978

It looks so beautiful.

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>>93894978

>>93894978
dem huge mushrooms are makin me hungry

>>93894978
LFG Underbog.

>>93896398
What

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I want to give my webcomic a website-that-belongs-to-a-fansub-group-who-scans-manga aesthetic.

Also I wonder if I should try to make incomplete stories, I wonder if anyone has tried this before, stories that start in chapter 8 and make references to things that were never ever be published.

I need to do stuff no one else has done or I won't break through this competitive world

>>93888718
>For my comic I sometimes make playlists for some of my characters with music they'd like in them
Huh. I should try this sometime.

I actually put together playlists to serve as a fake "soundtrack" to the events of the comic, but I've never thought about what kind of music each character would listen to.

>>93896439
Have the font in the meantime - http://www.blambot.com/font_animeace2.shtml

>>93896439
that's an okay way to read comics, i like them alright.
as for starting in the middle, that's fine and all, but don't CALL it chapter 8

>>93896439
>I want to give my webcomic a website-that-belongs-to-a-fansub-group-who-scans-manga aesthetic.

any examples you got on this? Because most the ones I know are either forums or they look like a really old website from the early internet

>>93896710
I assume this person means the likes of Mangareader

>>93896710
I was checking how the pages looked, the bad scans and the crooked pages, also the recruit pages and the moe pictures on them.
It will probably look very obnoxious

>>93896597
that's the font I always use anyway

>>93889053
if dewd's in this thread. Look. This is what a good John K style works. It has weigh and defined shapes. Your comic however feels nothing like that.

>>93890057
cute as fuck, man. I wanna hug that Mary J doe.

>>93897163
>weigh and defined shapes
of all the things you could praise about John K style, I don't think those are valid.
Dewd's shit looks more like gross Butch Hartman abominations anyway. all pointies everyhwere.

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>>93889476
Finished a bio page image for Hyla as well.

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Still making that cute and silly webcomic about a fox and a cat going on adventures.
I'm trying to make it look a bit neater. Also, for moving on with the story faster while only doing three panels a week I decided to have more dialogue.

https://foxandcatadventures.tumblr.com/archive

I think I'm slowly getting into their world and their heads. It's like throwing things at them and watching them react.

>>93898039
so cute
just um, did the cat look that much like Pusheen before? I feel like it didn't

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>>93898291
Yes, it did. Or maybe I was worse in the past. I want it to look like that cat but just with a slight spin. But it's a very conscious choice and will never make any money of it. I just want to tell cute stories about cute adventures.

>>93898377
ah well i wasnt super into it before, but now that you have this much of a story and i've read it all in a row.. yeah, i'm hooked. bookmark'd

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>>93898540
Oh, boy. Thanks!

I know it's a bit slow but it's probably something you can read every two weeks and things move forward. I want it to be comfy while also ongoing. I'm still trying to find that nice balance.

QUICK!!!

What are the most used tropes in your story?

>>93899566
Mine is literally built on a trope

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedOniBlueOni

>>93899566
I actually don't know. It's been years since I've been actively readint TVTropes.

But people being confined in tiny universes that are all they know basically is a trope that I've personally found very satisfying. I will even write a short story book about people living on small islands.

>>93899645
Reminds me of that mexican tribe that thinks their 5-mile area is the whole world, and refused to believe visitors that told them otherwise.

>>93899566
Adrenaline / battle junkie I guess?

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>>93894603
Holy KEK

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>>93899566
dominant girl. Ophélie's a fucking 1.93 meter tall amazon full of suppressed anger, tits and enjoys bossing the band around.

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>>93900126
And first draft of the last page. not sure about the last panel. I like the composition, but anatomy needs work. Were's that redrawing anon who's been kind to me?

Also I don't want to be too obvious about the fact that these two are gonna be fuck buddies in the future

>>93899566
Power of friendship
By the Power of Grayskull!/Calling Out Attacks
Literally built the team off of the 2 boy 1 girl trope

>>93900126
>amazon
>twigs for limbs.

>>93899566
in the story? Jeez.. uh.. there's a tad too much 'here we go again' and some semi-regular deus ex machina shit going on. It comes from learning to write from RPGs. Don't.. don't do that, kids. For some reason, I only notice the story in videogames. in TV i just see it as "things that happened" and don't think about the writing at all.

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How's it hangin' /hyw/?
Its been a while.
I'm starting to use Clip Studio Paint and I'm really liking it.
Your thoughts?

>>93901219
I need to switch to it. It's so much better.

>>93901440
I recommend watching a few tutorials first, it can be a bit overwhelming if you dont know where everything is

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>MFW your analytics platform shows you there are Russians visiting your webcomic.
>MFW You don't know if they're bots or not.

>>93901507
That's a great idea. It seems like it does exactly what I wish photoshop would (having a bunch of variations on things instead of requiring you to change all the settings and save a tool preset, and then it doesn't have its own icon), but because of that, it looks so daunting to try to learn it all

>>93901611
I have found a lot of my art on russian websites that look to have been populated entirely by bots.. but it's hard to tell

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>>93901649
Its pretty straight forward
To start, here is your pencil

There are several different kinds of pencils to use (think of them as REAL pencils)

And then some options to adjust it if you need to

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>>93901611
>>93901649
>Russia is in fact populated only by Putin and a bunch of bots

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currently working on page 43, about to start recording and will post a wip tonight if my wifi stays on.

>>93901507

>will draw for food guy

holy shit i literally thought you were dead! where have you been all this time? vacation?

>>93899566

nice dubs! I dont know what counts as a trope exactly? like a boy falls in love with a girl type of thing? um, well the main goth girl character Trinity hates all jews but has a jewish best friend named Lillia(another goth girl, and a hardcore liberal) and likes several jewish celebrities like ron pearlman and seth rogan and adam carolla, she used to be heavy into jhon stewart until she got red pilled and became woke to all the jewish lies and deceptions in the world and realized that jon stewart is a hardcore liberal with one sided opinions she believes he deceived her on purpose because he is a jew, it all makes since to her! lol :D

>>93901766

Moved to NYC, got a job as a graphic designer. Realized that shit like titles and income don't necessarily make you a better artist.
Realized the whole system is bullshit and started drawing for fun.

I've got a modest following on Webtoons and Tapastic for my comic. Getting tired of gag-a-day, want to draw an adventure comic sometime between now and when I die, so I may as well get started now since I dont necessarily when that latter part is gonna happen.

I've stayed away from /hyw/ because it can get pretty toxic, but I heard through the grapevine that its better now, so I figured I'd pop in.

>>93901840
>I've stayed away from /hyw/ because it can get pretty toxic
you just replied to Bones, dude

>>93901862
Oh yeah, that was a thing, wasn't it?

>>93901876
oh well. It's good to have you back, 'gardless.

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>>93901840
>I've stayed away from /hyw/ because it can get pretty toxic, but I heard through the grapevine that its better now, so I figured I'd pop in.

We are trying our best. I only arrived when the threads were making some sort of revival so I can't speak much on it. We get some shitposters at some hours but other than that we try to be as helpful as we can.

Also welcome back!

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>>93899566
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArchnemesisDad

>>93901928
Thanks!
Hopefully getting some good feedback on here can help me get this thing going.

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Oh god I've started inking it and its already ruined.

>>93902008
Quickly! Ctrl+z and repeat!

>>93902008
tell you the truth, the proportions were a little woggly to begin with. Her arms and upper torso seem to be on one scale, while her head, hands, and everything below the waist are on a much larger one. Of course, it's a cartoon, so it's hard to say that's right

>>93902183
I'm more concerned with getting inking down and having the inks come out good in Clip Studio.

I'll probably watch a few videos first. I'm still new to the program.

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First time posting here!
I wanted to get some advice about shading, and if its needed. Here are three different versions

>>93902545
I suggest more shading detail the bigger the characters.. so the guy in the foreground can have his three-tone shading like at the bottom, but the guy he pushes aside looks weird with more than two-tone, and the background people should be unshaded

>>93902545
I must admit I'm not good at giving specific advices over shading since it's one of my weakest points. I only know you must take into account from where the light(s) come from so the shadows don't look all over the place.

As for your examples, last one is really good, giving the scene a lot of depth with those shadow levels.

>Drew like 500 drawings a day when I was shit and thought I was good
>Been drawing in the same damn sketchbook for the past two years now that I'm good but aware that I could always be better
Ignorance truly was bliss. How to break the curse?

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>>93902545
I'd go with the middle one.

I don't understand why you shaded it the way you did so I did a different take in the last panel. Also did some atmospheric perspective.

>>93902759

Stop drawing for approval and start drawing to have fun.

>>93902759
you've gotta look at the things you're doing better and check on whether you're still doing it well or what

>>93902828
You know, I really feel like this might be one of my biggest hurdles. I'm a slut for those Instagram likes.

>>93902837
Yeah, maybe I'm setting unrealistic expectations for myself. I'm not the best artist EVER, but I'm good at what I like to draw, and maybe I should just focus on improving naturally instead of wondering why the hell I fucked up on a tiny line in the corner of a drawing and letting that depress me out of drawing for a good few months. It's not that I don't love drawing. I love drawing. I can't stop doodling on my fucking work notes for example. I just can't produce quite like I used to anymore.

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>>93894376
>>93901766

hm, if i wasn't recording i could finish this page in an hour, hid the thumbnail chicken scratch layer because its literally stick figure chicken scratch that only makes since to me lol

>>93902957

You gotta think, before the Digital Era, we didnt have social media, or big sites to post our work on for people to see and judge. You kinda just had to trust yourself.
The thing is, when you were a kid, you didn't draw for the approval of your peers, you drew because it was something you enjoyed doing, it was cool to see something you made yourself on the paper, even if it didnt look EXACTLY like the thing you wanted it to be.

You started to want to improve, so you sought out advice on social media and imageboards. As you grew, the opinions of your peers and contemporaries mattered much more to you, after all, it determines your social standing, and if you were a crap artist, you dont have much social standing at all.
So now we're driven to improve, but hesitant to show our work because it might not be "good enough," it might look bad, it might have an error.

Here's the thing, anon, it's gonna suck, its always gonna suck, and there will always be a critic somewhere out there in the world ready to tell you why it sucks.

Just keep drawing, dont worry how good or bad it is. Just have fun. And if you keep drawing, eventually it will start to suck less and less.

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So how do you guys design your characters and how many notes do you have for them? Do you design based on the world or do you just kinda revise and revise until you find something that works? I'm not talking about clothing or body type either, I wanna know how you shape their personalities and very minor quirks.

I personally have about 20 pages of notes per character or more. They have everything from clothing fabric preference, to a timeline of injuries they've sustained, and detailed blueprints for any technology they might use. One of them even has a chart for skin graphed areas and their exact square cm measurements.
Pic related are some designs I'm playing around with. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

>>93903214
Thank you. I don't know how often I give this advice out to other people and no one has ever actually said it to me. I think I really needed this.

>>93903247
Its always awesome to have meticulous notes so that you yourself know the character inside and out. But how is this important to the reader or plot?

There can be such a thing as going too overboard with details that are unnecessary. Unless its important to the story, theres no reason for the reader to know the character's meticulous preferences such as preferred fabric or square cm of a specific scar.

>>93903281
No prob my man! Drawing is an enjoyable process, have fun with it!

>>93903214
You are kind of ignoring the decade between the worldwide web and social media. there was a middle ground, remember? posting things online for yourself and real people, with no social media to coalesce people into crowds.

>>93903247
I have occasionally thought about the anatomical distinctivenesses in my alien races, but almost never specific characters

>>93903731
I guess what I'm talking about is the Internet Age in general. Think anything pre-1990

>>93903247
I usually begin planning characters along with the setting of their story, and if one of those changes, the other does too.

I keep information about them by pretending I'm writing a wikia article. There I can keep every important aspect on a summarized way that lets me change them more easily later on and also check them quickly. Also keeps the "trivia" bits that nobody else but me thinks are important at hand.

As for character sheets I try to have on full size drawing and the rest play more on poses and expressions, mostly. Also if there is something important to highlight I may draw a close-up to that. I don't go with stuff like muscles tho, still a bit out of my general league.

>>93903388
Likely no reader will ever notice 90% of the things I have written down, but they make it easier to draw for me. Certain fabrics fold differently from other fabrics, characters might move differently it they have an injury on a certain limb or joint, etc etc. Plus it helps me add detail accurately when I need to actually draw panels showing scars or high detail character shots.

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>>93903002

bumpity bump!

as you can see here i redisigned Beats cousin Carla, this girl is on the highschools softball team and the first design i made didn't reflect that, she needed to be more tomboyish so i lost the skirt and removed the squid beany off her head and gave her a baseball cap instead, she keeps her sleeves rolled up and i think i did a good job of keeping her still very goth like and very softball(girls baseball) like!

>>93903860
If it makes it easier to draw, then yeah, go for it.

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>>93903388
I just wanted to let you know that I just started my first drawing in weeks. I think I'll focus on art first, social media second. I'll make stuff and then maybe I'll post it, but I won't be making stuff just to post it anymore. Thanks again.

>>93905378
Daw. Too many toilets. Man it just occurred to me she must be terrible at Rampage because when she sees the toilet she'd be like yeah eat that, instinctively.
also there seems to be something horribly, horribly wrong with her arms

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>>93903874

page arts basically done... just needs a little more background objects and a few things on carla is missing like her cufflings, then word balloons and then its done! ^^

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>>93905378

what the fuck am i looking at? is she half aborted fetus? wtf man?

>>93905448
That's just my default position for hands that I should probably change. Also what's Rampage? is that a game?

>>93905971
sorry sometimes I forget you're younger than the n64. that fucks with my head, yknow?
it's an old, OLD game that's been revived every so often on newer hardware. you play kaiju destroying cities, punching holds in buildings, which will usually have something behind them, and then trying to eat that shit.. gaining or losing health depending what it is.. and fending off a bunch of tiny army guys, swatting at helicopters and whatnot. Just good basic fun.

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>>93905560

super close to being done, check out the little shopping buggy i drew in the bottom left panel! lol

>>93902545
Middle one. It looks nicer than the top and cleaner than the bottom. The bottom is a bit noisy/distracting.

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Finished the first sketch for the comic of the challenge. It's kinda late though so I will continue it tomorrow, good thing we are still on time.

Have a panel with the main character for now.

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>>93906550

and its done, I hope yall like it! Yall know where to read it at, peace!

Also FUN FACT: Beats real name is Beatrice!

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completed first pass of lineart

>>93907253
>not sure if private dick cthulhu or amish cthulhu
>intrigued either way


oh wait, filename. haha, awesome.

>>93907766
She's so great. Just.. so great. I love that she thinks people enjoy being disemboweled. I'm beginning to think she might be a wee bit brainwashed

>>93907864
Thanks anon!

>amish cthulhu
kek that would be interesting too.

>>93907766
Seriously the cultist is too cute for her own sake

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>>93897529
Now the bio page image for trype is done. Only one left.

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>>93907894
>>93907987
>she's even cuter when I add more lines
Also thanks! glad you guys like her!

>>93908093
shit i'm loving this guy, and it's neat seeing someone who really has some threedimensional shape. the shading really helps

>>93907729

fixed the spelling and the previous page to, updated on all websties except drunk duck where I havent uploaded any chapter 2 pages yet.

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>>93908492
Thanks! I basically designed trype to help me plan out consistent anatomy for completely inhuman monsters. I'm very proud of her design, though it's the most difficult to draw. You said it's nice to see a character with 3 dimensional shape, do my other characters look too 2D?

Also here's them all together so far. Tobie Jr is the only one left.

>>93909012

robot on the left is meh, the other 3 characters are pretty cool, the girl is the best so far. Never cared about the guy with 3d glasses to be honest.

>>93909138
>robot on the left is meh

The robot on the left is really cute! CUTE!

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>>93902599
>>93902622
>>93902801
>>93907164
Thanks for the advice, Im mainly trying to find a way to minimize the color process while not making it look like shit. I'll save the 3-tone shading for the more serious moments

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>>93909138
>>93909226
Thanks! I wanted Tobie (the robot) to look comically primitive and janky. In the story they purchase Tobie from a vending machine under the description that it's a "Hospital droid" to aid in some injuries. Then they find out that the robot was literally just built to dispense suckers in the children's ward. Tobie still tries their best though. If you have any ideas on how to improve the design I'd like to hear them.

>Never cared about the guy with 3d glasses to be honest

Dupe isn't going to be in comic, he's just an in-universe avatar for myself I'm using for some game reviews to get my art some attention before starting the comic. I didn't really make him as an independent character, I just made him as a general mascot and a caricature to speak through. So it's understandable that he'd seem bland compared to others in-universe, I didn't want him to seem special at all in the context of the setting.

>>93909735
>Thanks! I wanted Tobie (the robot) to look comically primitive and janky. In the story they purchase Tobie from a vending machine under the description that it's a "Hospital droid" to aid in some injuries. Then they find out that the robot was literally just built to dispense suckers in the children's ward. Tobie still tries their best though.

Oh no he is even more adorable now.

I guess he looks a bit less interesting than the other because he isn't colored yet, I personally think the design (no coloring considered) is alright, you can see the robot is kind of ill-prepared yet he still tries.

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>>93909854
Yeah, that's kind of a difficult thing to fix.

The three other characters have in depth pasts and motivations and every item on them has a reason behind it. They'll have character arcs and development. Tobie has a place in the story but is still just a simple appliance given life. Their character isn't deep. The extent of their depth is that they like to watch aquariums because they wish they were a fish. Tobie is mostly just there for jokes. They also stay on the ship usually when the rest of them go out on missions so they have far less screentime. I made a simple design to fit a simple role and can't really think of much more to add.

Also they're based on a little tomy robot in my collection that cleans my desk.

>>93910230
I must resist the urge to call cute every little robot I see.

I don't think there is much to fix on Tobie, given your reasonings. Even if their role is the one of the buttmonkey. Not every character has to be extremely complex, in fact a simple character like Tobie in the middle of everything can even give room to take a breath. Even the more simple design may actually help them "outstand" on the group seeing the other have more overdesign (in a good sense) on them.

More opinions are welcome for the cute lil fellow, but I think they are good as they are. and now my recaptcha doesn't believe that I'm not a robot. Sasuga

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>>93909012
>>93909735
>>93910230

Dupe ive been watching you from the beginning and I dont think you have ever done any panel work, ive seen you do animated gifs and a ton of character art but you know actual panel work is a whole 'nother beast right?

So what are you going to do? Hire a panel guy to bring your comic to life? I could be that guy man, im available and I can mimic your style no problem, ive proven this in the past with some fan art of the green girl. I know her name, I just like calling her green girl. That was just for fun, I can do a million times better if im getting paid to do it.

Look man, when you go to hire anyone else besides me its going to be super expensive, here is my page rate just for you man because I want to help bring your world to life for you.

full color, backgrounds everything $10.00 a page

black and white $1.00 a page, and you color it yourself or hire someone to color it.

note me on deviantart man. lol

I promise you the cheapest rate your going to find with my skills or higher is 30 dollars a page minimum you might be able to negotiate 25 maybe even 20 dollars a page, im offering you 10 dollars a page full color and backgrounds and everything or just 1 dollar if you want to color it your self.

i offer speed and quality. ignore any haters that will tell you other wise.

>>93910802

i forgot to mention i will do the first page for free. No script? No problem! I work well off ideas and stick figure chicken scratch story boards.

I remember now you saying that you were trying to mimic homestuck and i guess you dont need a panel guy if its going to be more of an online flash game than an actual webcomic... is that the case? You trying to do a prequel or homestuck kind of thing?

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>>93884877

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>>93902545
either go with simple shading or no shading at all.
Your linework is super detailed and a ligne claire style like in blake and mortimer could do wonders to your work. Pic related.

Corto maltese is also a nice reference for your eventual work. It was so influential in europe that my dad became a mercenary in africa or something because he wanted to be like the dude in the comic.

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now that the dust has settled who killed the thread?

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>>93907729

Hey my video of me making this has 120 minutes left to render in windows movie maker, so can yall keep the thread alive long enough for me to post it?

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>>93910802
>>93910915
Lol, it's a "Quest" comic meaning there aren't pages. Even then I'm the kind of person to just make an effort to learn something I need rather than take the short cut and pay someone to help me. I don't think I've ever commissioned someone for digital art and I doubt I ever will. Only thing I'd pay for is music and voice acting but it'd have to be close to pro grade.

Everything in the comic is shown one panel at a time via a monitor on an "omniscope camera satellite" and all the text is written below the panels in a "xenovox alien translation device". The readers will be able to talk to the characters through their "Hexxtor navigation client" that vegabond noobs use to help them make decisions when they're still new to the galaxy. Unfortunately our team's copy is pretty corrupt which accounts for what I'm sure some of the submissions will be like.

This is why I'm making an effort to do a separate attention grabbing project before launching the comic. It can't run without an audience.

For example this image right here could be an entire "page".

>>93914758
Just noticed you actually mentioned quest comics near the end. I stopped reading when I saw talks about pricing.

The structure I'll be using specifically will be closest to the comic "awful hospital" where character expressions are shown next to their lines.

>>93913232
That's a mystery for another time

>>93905560
These are high school characters? They all look like concept art for Flo from progressive.

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>>93911086
I do like that bottom style a lot, I have been wanting to go in a similar direction but I will be drawing a lot of tech/robots and I'll need to see how lighting comes into play. Thanks for this.

Sorry if this kind of question gets posted often.
Would you say it's better to have a very clear outline of your whole story, how it ends, what the major events will be, what the main characters are like in detail, before you even start writing and drawing a comic?
Or that it's okay to just draw and write and build it as it goes, as long as you just have basic ideas? Also how important is it to make concept art before you start?
I'm worried that I will start and that after I make some progress I will get a lot of random ideas on events, what the characters look like, etc. that will make me want to start over again.

>>93915962
I wouldnt say theres a better, just whatever works for you. For me, I like to have at least a few issues planned ahead before I do panel layout. And as ideas come to my head I will do concept art. So I'd say Im in the build as it goes camp, but I do have an end game that I always work towards.

>>93915962
There isn't a real guideline for these things because are the kind that needs to be tailored to each author. Some work better if they have everything planned from the very beginning, others are just fine going with the flow.

If anything, having everything already well planned out and having concept art works better for consistency. There are many cases of people drawing their own characters for months then look at the first appearances and discover they kept morphing them into a new entity.

On the other hand, you can have a sort of "mixed" method. Have a sort of clear outline and all, but keep it open to new additions on the march. That way you can add new ideas and events without having to retcon most of your already established story.

>>93914550
>>93907729

and heres a video of me making this page from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDV3Jt-fkoM&feature=youtu.be

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>>93914758
>Only thing I'd pay for is music and voice acting but it'd have to be close to pro grade.

well i just recorded these this mourning, its not as good as my recordings on my old hard drive before it broke, but its decent enough to share with the public, all raw unedited stuff: https://soundcloud.com/user-294632536

so if you ever need a wanna be black metal voice actor to voice act as a demon or something im your guy man, lol

>>93915962
If your comic is more plot heavy than gag-heavy, I think it's better to have things planned out before drafting or storyboarding. As you progress to the drafting stage, things will change, dialogues, composition. Since my first script, I realized I had to add two more chapters to, though at first it seemed like I didn't need them.
It never hurts to make concept art, make them beforehand, make them during, any time, at the very least it'll cause you to think about designs and find out what works.

>>93918060
>>93917288
>>93916120
Good advice, thanks!

>>93917982
>using soundcloud when it only has 2 months more of life tops

>>93915962
At least have some kind of destination or end point in mind, as it's a goal for you to work towards. If not the end of the saga, then at least the first chapter (and each chapter or major section after that).

Otherwise the hobbits will be wandering aimlessly through the Shire, instead of making their way to Bree (never mind getting them all the way to Mordor).

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>When you're about to sleep but realize you didn't make a single thing to progress your comic
>GET UP!

>>93911086
>It was so influential in europe that my dad became a mercenary in africa or something because he wanted to be like the dude in the comic.

Damn that is indeed a lot of influence

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>>93911086

>>93877481
are those genres mandatory or optional?
i did some involving space but i took a different take on castaway

>>93919506
Those genres are the options to set your comic on, although the idea overall is to see the kind of approach you can take with either of them and the "castaway in space" theme, so feel free to twist it as you see fit.

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I might after a long pause try my hand at comic making, but I'm a tad insecure about my artistic skills. Based on my quick sketch. Is there yet hope for me?

>>93920228
There is always room for improvement as long you are constant, practice a lot and have an open mind in regards of listening to advice.

As for your actual skill, you are ok enough.

>>93918721
But there is always tomorrow

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First digital concept for Purple Dragon, can anyone give me some advice on making apealing faces? I'm kinda stuck

I've been wanting to put together a short comic for the longest time, and I have a general story, but it's shit. It's shit and it doesn't have any substance. Should I just fucking do it anyway?

>>93922084
I'll leave a synopsis here for critique.

>girl almost gets hit by a truck while going to a coffee shop
>girl meets Death in the coffee shop, Death says she missed the girl and she should come with her
>the girl decides to trick Death into not taking her life by showing her things that she never gets to see on Earth, like chasing birds and eating ice cream
>later, the girl becomes depressed by being in such close proximity to Death for a long time
>tries to an hero
>doesn't die after several attempts
>turns on the news and realizes that Death stopped doing her job for the entire time she's been distracting her
>Death hasn't been taking ANYONE or ANYTHING for the entire time the girl's been distracting her
>Death tells her that death is unfortunate, but necessary
>the girl reluctantly accepts that she needs to die
>Death flashes them back to the coffee shop
>ends with the girl getting hit by the car and Death holding her hand and bringing her to the afterlife

I feel like this has no substance at all. It needs SOMETHING added to it, but I don't know what.

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>>93922084
You don't get better at making comics by not making comics.

Make the comic.

Then make the next one.

>>93909012
I wouldn't say TOO 2d, but as we've all been saying, very 2000s nickelodeon. actually, as they go, they're getting a lot more 3d compared to your earlier drawings

>>93922255
Why are literally all comic main characters female? (not saying that's a bad thing) Is it because people in general usually practice drawing women rather than men?

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>>93900126
>>93900180
Hello! I had work yesterday, so I hope that excuses this late reply.
I think these pages are good, but pg9 has a lot of panels. It's not bad, it's still readable and the flow of word bubbles still works well. However, switching back to a 3/4ths shot of one character to the other I think is what is called the "180" rule. It get's a little boring to have to read through because there isn't a lot going on. To help break up the scene, I suggest a backup shot so that you can see both of them again, and that way your bubbles are also a little easier to read.
Pg10 is good too! But is still kind of lacking in the composition area (I struggle with that too in dialogue scenes). I think the last panel is really nice though.

I really did not expect them to fuck.

>>93909012
I really really like this art style

>>93922397
Because some people prefer writing women over men? The majority of comic leads are still male anyways, you have to have a pretty small reference pool to think "literally all" comic mcs are female.

>>93922397
waifu material

>>93922397
>Why are literally all comic main characters female?

Don't let marketing fool you, there are as many if not more male leads in comics

>>93922397
I can't draw men.

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>>93922397

I got a male MC.

>>93922425
You're a god amongst men. Forged in the fires lit by poor bystanders like the lot of us. Thanks for the help, man. Really, thanks.

>>93923138
niceeeeee

>>93909735
The concept of the unqualified medical droid sounds familiar to me.. did Red Dwarf do something like that? Sounds like their kind of humor. I love it. I also like the idea that someone would build a robot to do the job of a glass jar.

>>93922397
my comic's main cast made of 2 males and one short, thick girl. Your argument may be invalid?

>>93922397
You write what you know and we are all little girls

>>93914758
I keep forgetting I need to send you an audition.

>>93918287
But it turns out wandering through the shire was the real quest all along, and the treasure is the friends we made!

>>93922397
all my men look like girls, so I gave up and made everyone a girl

>>93920228
Many aspects of your art indicate that you are getting there.
>>93921866
she's cute. you have the appealing features thing down, what you don't have yet is knowledge on how to construct a face (except from the front). Quickly look at a skull, see how the bulgy-outy part of the back of the head stops at the ears? then in front of the ears, the jawline starts. And see how the nose and mouth portion sticks out a bit? not as much as most animals, but somewhat? try integrating those two things and you'll be right on your way

>>93922255
sounds very Twilight Zone and would be a fun read

>>93922397
my cast is nearly all female because i love cute girls so much that everyone in the old cast got a cute little sister or daughter. At the last minute, one of them adopted a son, so there's one guy, plus one guy they met.
I plan to rectify this in the future.

>>93922397
My main character was a dude for the first 600 pages.

>>93923664
Alright thanks, gotta work on those heads!
(And it's low key a guy by the way)

>>93923664
ah, kind of a sokka with guns. well if it's a guy, you'll want to pull back the upper corners of the hairline, elongate the face and jaw, and eliminate the hourglass figure you've accidentally made here
Unless that stuff was intentional. But even if it was, that thigh holster has gotta be uncomfortable for a penis-haver, pulled that high up

>>93924816
Stop that

>>93924891
meant for >>93924816

>>93922606
This and only this.

>>93910990
Porn doesn't count. Porn you pay people to make for you then resell especially doesn't count.

>>93925205
>Resell
never really thought of that...

>>93921866
I don't think >>93923664 is a good advice
the problem is that head and cartoony face don't match at all the more "realistic" proportions and style of the rest of the body and it looks reeeeally awkawrd, so I'd rather simplify the lineart and make the proportions to make it look more cartoon like or you can make his face more realistic

>>93923664
shut up coldfusion

>>93925431
It was only a first step, the next thing I was going to advise was working on the overdetailedness of the body, how there's no point doing all those cloth folds before you know how. I just didn't wanna lay a bunch on 'em at once

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I have no memory of drawing this but the file was saved at 4:20 AM and there's about 200 extra words explaining the setting in an unsaved text file and they're all incoherent.
I kinda like what I can figure out though.

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>>93921866
I find myself agreeing with >>93925431! The face and the body simply do not match. The head shape is a bit off too. The wrinkles and folds are drawn in such a way that make his arms appear too skinny.
How do you construct your people? Bodies/faces.

>>93925970
Listen to this guy he knows his stuff

>>93925970
>>93921866

Yeah lets get some more sketches from you ol partner, so we can feel you out a bit more.

Another thread question: do you think webcomics will be around for a long time? How do you see webcomics progressing in the future? to make it simpler, how does the future of webcomics look to you, personally?

>>93926830
web comics are trash, dying soon

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I have always been a quickster when it comes to drawing since I can't concentrate in one project for a long period of time. Which is becoming a challenge when drawing comics. Also I'm changing and instead of using grayscale I'm using brighter colors which lets me lineart more easily after skecthing

>>93926830
Seems media is opening more to the idea of webcomics as both a source for talent and a way to show some extra material (kinda like what Overwatch and Team Fortress 2 does) and just like any other media, it's kinda flooded with average and shitty works, even more so because technically publishing a webcomic is kinda free and doesn't need to get to a publisher nor editor. Still iirc a webcomic is getting a movie of sorts, everybody knows what happened to ONE. It's a slow path but webcomics have still room to grow.

>>93927014
I think anon means this
http://www.metalinjection.net/its-just-business/soundcloud-only-has-enough-funding-for-50-more-days-time-to-back-up-your-data

>>93917982

*damn it got buried under new stuff, original intended link: https://soundcloud.com/user-294632536/sets/sunday-mourning-recordings

>>93927014
>repressing your breath
>spanish accent
>more room sound than actual voice

I wanted to believe that you could not suck at something but heck are you doomed.

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>>93927165

theres no spanish accent anywhere in this: https://soundcloud.com/user-294632536/sets/sunday-night-recordings-7-16-2017

i only deleted my post because i decided this is way off topic from webcomics but it was just this link to these new recordings i just uploaded if anyone was wondering

repressing my breath, what does that even mean man?

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>>93927165

>more room sound than actual voice

yeah well it was triple digit heat today in texas, its hot as fuck in texas in the summer so i had three fans running and my big ass ac unit in the window

i aint turning none of that shit off just to record my wannabe metal/black metal voice for fun, way to fucking hot, im a winter guy, i hate the heat, i wish i was born in norway during the prime of black metal, i belong in the lands of snow, and vikings, and dark black devil music, lol

>>93926951
Likin the look of this a lot. Please tell me she wears those cool little boxing boots

>>93927752
>https://soundcloud.com/user-294632536
to be honest mate, it's not very good. You whisper the whole thing and it's nasal as fuck.

I'm a bit of a growler as well and took a lesson or two with some bands.

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by the way, i'm starting to ink my stuff. trying different stuff compared to my previous endeavors. I'm happy with that one. Waddyatink?

>>93928151
pretty good, but the way the letters touch the panel borders makes them seem like they aren't meant to be read

>>93928644
desu the lettering is going to be redone

>>93928151
as long as you fix the lettering I am on board. The only thing im not crazy about is the gradient on panel three

>>93928045
Hadn't thought of that but might as well draw them

>>93878546
i can do that, tell me more

what are your mc's favorite bands? is he/she a pleb or patrician?

>>93930214
I have plans for the next MC to be a music fan, and some names of bands he would be into
>Pallas in Chains
>HP/MP
>Permadeth
stuff like that.

>>93930214
That's a good question actually, kinda funny that I didn't think much of it for my main MC.

Life would take a liking on Globus I think. Death likes Voltaire and pretty much anything jazzy.

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Here's the first chapter of my webcomic
It's meta story about these webcomic threads

>>93930919
A webcomic about the daily lives of
>Autistic child dewd
>His creepy uncle coldfusion
>the Mexican gardener bones

I would read the fuck outta this

>>93930919
>>93931044
kek can we just make the weekly challenges about this instead. an /hyw/ anthology of sorts

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nothing done.

I just posting comic cover.

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>>93930919
Here's chapter two which is also the end of the webcomic.

>>93931044
pretty spot on

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On the last stretch, but I honestly cannot focus. Just need to do the words, effects, and a few touch ups, but I'm just getting side-tracked by other things. I should have been done by today.

>>93922397
One of my main characters is actually a boy, but his body was altered to look feminine.

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>>93931044

>im the mexican gardner

mfw i literally cut peoples grass for money on the side, not even joking!

also why are you assuming im the only mexican out of that group of webcomic creators you dont like? how do you know what race codfusion is? or dewd? Also how did you people even find out i was a mexican? i changed my last name from garza to G. on deviantart to throw you people off the trail of what my nationality is, what are you people? fucking internet detectives with no lives? fucking weaponised autism man, baka, lol :DDDDDD

>>93915962
I think what works best, at least for me, is to come up with a clear and defined ending. You should come up with the ending first and then you create the journey to that ending. However, this is only one way to make a story, there's no real "right" way to create one.

You should take into account the '4 Ws"
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
How?

It's a stupid exercise I hated doing in middle school for reading class, but it really helps simplify the story process and summarizes the plot.

>>93932093
waifu alert.

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>>93932503

yall know im just joking with all this mexican stuff right? im only half mexican, im literally just a white guy in a mexican guys body, like i look like a mexican dude on the outside, but on the inside im white as fuck, ya know? lol

Not even replying to anyone, but mexican webcomic artists are great. They all grew up on the best anime and have no compunctions about mild amusing lewdness.

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>>93921866
Your jawline is really glaring. makes her head look squashed.

>>93907253
At least you've started drawing. I was going to today, but my brother was binging on Game of Thrones.

>>93932770
There is still time anon, good luck!
Today's episode was pretty meh

>>93932770
what does that have to do with anything

>>93932814
I liked Sandor's part, and seeing Arya murderlate the Freys gave me a good feeling. Honestly though, I don't even really like the show and just stick with the book mostly.

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>>93932872
Yeah same here with Arya's intro scene. To be quite honest I'm just still watching because I already spent all these years watching the show, may as well stay until the end and enjoy the memes. Also is a good way to learn what not to do on storytelling, with all the inconsistency and plotholes and retcons D&D pull. The Sinfest of TV if you will.

>>93932860
Sometimes you must make sacrifices for family time.

>>93932956
no I mean why couldn't you draw

>>93933022
Oh sorry I was just playing devil's advocate for that anon since I have kinda been on that situation of needing to stop doing my stuff to spend time with the family even just watching TV. Thought anon was on a similar position.

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The girls try on bathing suits and display Freudian theory of the ID(eris) the EGO(sarah) and the SUPEREGO(alley)....

romanpen.blogspot.com

>>93934019
Gotta love some freudian trios once in a while

>>93931044
kek would definitely read

>>93932503
Because I mexican myself consider you a fucking disgrace man, you're a shame to your own people. Texan trash. If you get deported don't even come crying back. We don't want trash like you here. We already have enough with the pochos, paisas and chilangos.

>>93922426
Thanks! I'm pretty proud of it myself.

>>93922288
I see, yeah it makes sense since 90s-2000s cartoons are on of my biggest inspirations.

>>93923334
I've never watched red dwarf but I just thought it would be a funny idea. Kind of like Zoidberg in Futurama.

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tfw i could be working on my webcomic right now, but instead im playing daggerfall and listening to podcasts and shit, i will regret this one day, but for now i feel pretty fine about it! :DDDD

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>>93934344

you sound upset friend

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>the autists are always the mexicans

As a mexican myself I'm worried why almost every clinically retarded on 4chan boards happens to be mexican or chicano. Is this what years of Dragon Ball Z reruns do to our people?

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My comic is coming along pretty well now, I'm sketching a few pages and taking breaks. I can't post pages right now since some are technically unreadable. But after lineart they look rather decent. Guess training with all those porn comics gave a good result.

>>93934019
always love this comic
oh man, #1 fat girl mistake. always stick with the one-piece. a properly constructed one can make your chubs look streamlined and healthy.

>>93934344
I love how, other than puta, all mexican insults and subcultures sound like delicious foods
if i saw 'cholos' on a menu, I would order them in a snap.
>>93934459
you do realize you're the majority, right? it'd be like being shocked to see a bunch of retarded white people. Law of averages.

>>93934496
chimichangas m8