/hyw/ - How's Your Webcomic? #397

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>>94670683
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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>It's an /ic/ anon who just calls everyone shit without ever redlining or anything episode

Manga Studio 5 aka Clip Studio Paint aka the best comic making software is on sale at SmithMicro until 22nd August.

my.smithmicro.com/manga-studio-ex-5.html

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>>94670683
And a winner is you, Capeworld!
A very closed contest this time, really intense!

And now we have to decide for a theme on the fourth challenge. The new decided rules were to let the winner decide on the next challenge's theme, but we may be a bit on a rush again because it has been too long. What will be decided then?

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>>94670720

>>94670781
Whew! Good game EtMotL, it was close!

As for the theme of the new challenge would magic work as a theme? Some guys were mentioned it last thread. Just magic anything. Gods, top hats and rabbits, spellbooks, wizards, anything magic.

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>>94670768
>Have Manga Studio
>Still suck
It ain't the program, it's the faggot drawing

>>94670876
I think magic would be fine for a theme. Btw I had the doubt on the previous thread if we should get rid of the "genres" option altogether or not. What do you think?

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Welp, I've taken your guy's feed back from the last thread and changed Angel's design so that it can match up with the continuity, and how i forgot about what past angel looked like for a sec.

what would you do if your comic got put on the bad webcomics wiki? should you an hero?

>>94670943
I think we should stick with a genre each challenge to keep things interesting and encourage everyone entering to try thinking outside the box. Getting to choose the next theme is also a neat little prize for the winner.

>>94671090
Buck up and try to do better. At the very least the notoriety is free advertising and if I really make an effort to listen to criticism and do better people could like me as an underdog.

>>94671015
So what's her story? Why does she have a dollar sign as a tail?

>>94671090
i think you can dig yourself out of something like that if you tried hard enough to improve you're comic, then maybe do another project to be remembered for instead. or maybe just drop it if its "that bad" and killyourself

>>94671090
Maybe go to the forum and try to open a dialogue about how to improve. Don't be a Willis tier Autist

>>94670937
this

>>94671090
I would accept the criticism and improve on the observations they did. I would probably also say something like "put me on the screencap" for the reaction pages they have.

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Latest JE-NL. Puerile.

>>94671099
So let me see if I got this, it would be something like
>theme: (winner's choice)
>genre: three options as we had on the previous two challenges (maybe actually do some rolls for this one)
this?

Please bear with me I'm a bit slow

>>94671390
That's just evil.
I like it.

>>94671390
Always funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-pp5DC9iTo

>>94671409
Oh, I thought you were equating genre with them.

I don't know...I guess rolling for genre could work. I say try it for this next challenge.

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>>94671482
Seems there has been some mixing with genre and theme lately, sorry about that.

Yeah I guess we could try just deciding genres via rolling this time and see how it goes. Let's just hope we don't get kinda boring ones again.

>>94671747
Forgot to start rolling for being in the bleedman storytime

>>94671747
Rolling x2

>>94671747
>previous roll was urban fantasy

sasuga magic theme. Not sure what to think of getting a Lava genre on the first roll though, maybe keep it as the "wildcard" option since you can go free theme and just insert a lava magic user to say you are following a genre.

Last genre roll

>>94671747
>Lava (pretty much wildcard genre)
>Urban Fantasy
>Inventors

Are we ok with these then?

>>94672047
>>94671987
>>94671923
So Lava, Urban Fantasy, and Inventors?

Not a bad selection.

>>94672093
Yeah I think it's not bad. I will get to make the challenge pic (duplo forgive me) and post it soon along with the genre choices. Thanks everyone!

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>>94670683
>>94672162
>>94672093

And here it is!

>THEME: Magic

>GENRE: (choose one to play around alongside the theme!)
>Lava
>Urban Fantasy
>Inventors

>DEADLINE: August 31

Remember that you can play with the theme as you see fit, we want to see how creative you can get!

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Did some sketches for the next page.
Ethan Implosion has now a bigger goatee, and strands of white hair. So he looks like Nathan Explosion, but significant changes so I can't get sued, i think?

>>94671390
dang that's some good shit right there.
Pun not intended.

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>>94671390

>>94672246
Does it still have to be 3 pages or can we do less?

>>94672674
Says one page minimum and three pages max

>>94670876
Well done to you too, Capeworld. Good Sportsman-like handshakes all round.

I'll try and give the new challenge a go as well.

>>94672263
You could move "Fuck if I know" into the top right of panel 1, as there's plenty of room for it.

You know what's surprisingly tough? Coming up with decent villains. One may naturally want a robust rogues gallery for one's paramilitary flavored action adventure series, but a prospective author is fucked when lacking ideas for baddies.

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>>94673084
Instead of writing villains, write heroes of a different story

>>94673084
>Implying villains aren't the real heroes

how do i stop being autism and make people love my work?

>>94673992
Know thy audience. Make cute girls doing cute things. It's the only way to get (You)s on /co/.

>>94674076
yeah but my autism is strong like bull

>>94674228
Make the girls autistic. Being almost retarded makes girls cute.

>>94674271
anonymous man i will try this thank you

>>94671090
Le sparrow faec

>>94673084
The only bad guys that have shown up in my stuff so far are Schwarz Narr an evil Nazi SS clown spider cyborg and a soldier named Karl.

Karl's story is meant to be a take on how frightening it is to be a rando bad guy fighting a physics breaking superhero. He' just a German soldier that's had the bad luck to run up against a superhuman.

Schwarz Narr is SS who got MORE fucked up by being turned into a cyborg because he was one of the first Germany created. He's the fear of omnipresent technology and industrial dehumanization embodied. He can plug into his giant siege airship Vaterland III and control it like a spider in its web. He likes spying on his crew, especially when they sleep. He finds watching humans soothing like watching fish swim in an aquarium. After the war he wants to upgrade his "body" into a city and if the Nazis didn't have the Allies to worry about they'd be worrying about that.

He's lost the ability to cognitively recognize the difference between people and objects. He likes collecting things-ruined aicraft and human bodies are at the top of his list.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that good bad guys do their job in the narrative. Shwarz Narr does his job being something the hero is afraid of and Karl does his job being someone afraid of the hero.

>>94674271
There's some truth to this. Being "quirky" and "weird" is often seen as cute and endearing in girls but creepy and antisocial in boys.

Think of old screwball comedies. The guys are straight men, the girls are eccentric. I can't think of any major screwball comedy to ever do it the other way around.

>>94671747
Gentlemen, chainsaws, and teeth. I don't like where this is going.

>>94670937
I use firealpaca

>>94675087
Yes, Firealpaca, anon, I remember you. How's that going for you?

Speaking of, does anyone remember that cringey shit DA used to do where you could gift people different Llamas?

>>94675201
>tfw unless you had a lot of followers you would never get beyond the second llama

I'm still mad

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>>94675295
I never got any

>>94675201
It's basic, it's stable, it has a genuinly good stabilizer I can easily adjust, and it has autosave function. I don't need more.

>>94675295
I keep receiving llamas to this day

>>94675556
sure

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>Make a page
>It looks like shit
>Redo it
>The old one now looks pretty decent and the new one looks like shit

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sketched a new page. I try to put as much detail as possible so the inking is easier.

I think that over the months spent here, you guys helped me being better. I do think the pages will look great, thanks to that redraw anon, and your continuous help. So again, thanks.

>>94675556
post that shit

>>94671150
Her dad sold her off to the porno mafia, though she was only 14 and could not star in pornos, thus the gangleader instead trained her up to be a grunt and was kind of like a dad to her.

>>94676223
>the porno mafia
>implying they wouldnt have just sold her into sex slavery

>>94676288
he's a retard, the shit he comes up with is bound to be basic and stupid. one of his characters is a straight ripoff of hero academia

>>94676288
Just keep her around until she can pass for 18, like Tracy Lords
>>94676358
We should do one big collab where we try to make the Dewd's comic less terrible. And by should, I mean we shouldn't do anything like that

>>94676358
leave dewd alone he did nothing wrong and you're a bully

>>94676358
I really wouldn't care if it was like a grandma enjoying her knitting, but this guy actually thinks this is good and he's going to make it. His entire comic is a slap in the face to his readers, as if he's expecting them to be stupider than he is to enjoy having him regurgitate tropes (extremely poorly at that) he recently saw in trending media.

L
M
A
O

love shitting on this nerd

>>94676591
he's trying his best

>>94676223
But...why would a "porno mafia' care what age she is? Wouldn't a porno mafia peddle in kiddie porn and snuff films, illegal porn like that?

Why would they train a 14 year old slave girl to be a grunt?

There's not a lot you're telling me that makes sense.

My new comic is about COUSINS who FISH TOGETHER

>>94676558
>did nothing wrong
subjecting the world with his retard drivel is plenty wrong. he is literally so stupid and uncreative that despite being caught several times ripping things off, he still cannot muster up the ounce of creativity it takes to change it enough to be his own. a retard like this just asks to be made fun of

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>>94676652
His best is an idiot.

>>94677194
You sound like a very unpleasant person to be around, do you need a friend?

>>94676288
Wow, how edgy, how long did it take for you to come up with that one champ?

>>94676664
Nah, they're a company that sells rental pornography and if they don't get there porno's back then the customer gets hunted down and beat down.

>>94676591
Well yeah, I am trying to make it, but it's not like I'm using my comic to do so, the comic is something for fun.

>>94677476
If you're actually calling me edgy for acting like a 'porno mafia' wouldn't just sell an underaged girl into sex slavery you're a bold type of fucking retard.
Go actually read into the porn industry and tell me if it sounds unlikely you troglodyte.

>>94677504
it's trogDOlyte, not trogLOdyte, you monlogoid

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>>94677543
You're the vapid mongoloid here, you literally have most of the world's archived information at your disposal and don't know how to spell.

>>94677580
>archived
you moron

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Working on several short 2 / 4 page comics recently. I can only recommend it, restriciting yourself like that really helps with streamlining the storytelling and avoiding unnecessary panels.

I feel like some of them would actually be pretty decent if I didn't have the drawing skills of a 2nd grader.

>>94677580
well i guess we'll just have to agree to disco tree then

>>94677613
>>94677678
xdd

>>94677678
>>94677613
I am so fucking mad

>>94677504
nah, fuck you my idea is more interesting.

>>94671090
I dunno what that is, so I probably wouldn't care much.

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Can we please stop shitposting and talk about webcomics?

What are you working on atm?

>>94677965
I've finally been inspired to start my very own webcomic after seeing this thread and all the resources it has for me, but now I'm stuck with how to start the story. I have a plot outlined in my head, but the MC's personal character arc is weird and is making the beginning tough to write.

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>>94677965

Refining designs and becoming painfully aware of how much I need to do a refresher course on anatomy and construction

On the plus side, I finally bit the bullet and figured out how use the scanner I have

>>94670943
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
the best way to do these challenges is to give something seemingly specific (for a challenge) but actually extremely interpretable (so we get a variety)
rather than a genre, it can be a simple word that seems to describe a scenario, like 'lying about where you are' or 'surprise party' where it could be an episode of full house or lethal weapon 6

>>94678071
Open the comic in medias res and resolve the character establishing through a flashback. If you start writing and drawing and ask yourself how the characters ended up in that situation and what their motivations are, their origins will reveal themselves to you. Probably. Give it a shot, works for me most of the time. You can still shuffle the chapter around later.

>>94677965
>What are you working on atm?

nothing, really. I mean I'm still drawing almost every day, but I'm not actually working on a webcomic. I have an outline for a trilogy of "test" comics, with an interconnected story and all, but I have far less motivation to write than I do to draw, so it'll probably be a while before I even get started on that.

>>94678252
I agree.
"Vampire tits" had the best results yet. And all of them were solid not just the first place (which was pretty incredible, of course)

>>94678071

Establish a pattern in the main character's life, then make an inciting event that breaks that pattern. It's an old trick, but it works.

>>94678175
Well, you can draw characters at an angle and the clothing conceals the (minor) anatomy problems. Looks more refined than plenty webcomic desings I've seen. What's the story? Post more plox.

>>94678280
You see, that was the original idea for the comic, since the MC is a something of a misanthrope with a grudge against the world. But because of that, the viewer would never get the chance to see the world from an unbiased point of view, and the world of the comic is different enough from ours for that to be important.

>>94678309
>I have far less motivation to write than I do to draw

I have the opposite problem. I've plenty of finished and ongoing scripts but not the stamina to put them on the page...

>>94671015
I forgot about her tail
the wings she could retract or whatever, right?
>>94671150
it's a pig tail, her dad's a pig

>>94678420
Create a neutral red herring MC to introduce the world, then shift to real MC? Idk, too little details to really give specific advice...

>>94678509
>red herring
what if you don't want them to be a redhead?

>>94678509
MC is a normal dude in a world of superheroes, who has spent the last 8 years training up so he can murder his sociopath superhero brother.
MC is a paranoid good guy with a massive inferiority complex towards superheroes, and has all but dropped off the grid in order to catch his brother by surprise.

A big part of his character arc is him learning to discard his biases and hatred of all people with powers and get over his inferiority complex, but it's hard to give people a good view of the world from the POV of a homeless innawoods Batman-wannabe.

>>94671390
I have to imagine there's no way you're the first to do this joke, it's too great. I chortled a hearty chortle and head it in Burgess' voice

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>>94678376

Thanks, I appreciate the bid of confidence. I still want to see how much farther I can push myself before I plateau again, though.

The comic is about Isaac (goggles kid), a teenage genius, and his constant Invader Zim-esque attempts at world domination. His foil and constant source of frustration is Angela (pic related), his next-door neighbor, who capes under the name "Lucky Rabbit". Both of them are plainly aware of each other's secret identities, but don't capitalize on it - in Isaac's case, out of a begrudging sense of honor, and in Angela's case out of a genuine desire to see him become reformed.

>>94678727
My Daredevil story (featuring public domain Daredevil, not Marvel Daredevil) feature some "hero envy" themes as well.

You can take a look here for the little "Karl arc" I'm writing:http://www.capeworldcomics.com/comic/the-daredevil-4/

and

http://www.capeworldcomics.com/comic/the-daredevil-5/


I suggest doing a perspective flip. Show the MC from the perspective or other, more well adjusted characters.

>>94672091
Oh man, that's cool. I've worked with those befo'. Might join in on this. I love coloring lava.

>>94678933
Thanks my man. Hopefully no one gets confused about who the MC is from the first few pages.

>>94678986
I think you might also want to look at The Maxx. The Maxx is a weird homeless superhero but his supporting cast is very grounded by comparison.

>>94675953
I like that better, way less of a ripoff and thus more interesting
however, his face is completely different in each panel.

>>94678473
yeah they can.

>>94677476
a video rental mafia. why is that so funny to me

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>>94677543
>trogdolyte

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I'll post last page before going to sleep. Doing an action sequence with cars is a bit weird at first, to make it interesting I'm having to use diferent planes and angles than any fight I've ever drawn. Luckily I've watched Death Race not long ago.

>>94678926
Gettin' better every time you post.
Now look at the two right examples. See how when the face is turned, the cheek and mouth stick out, but the nose doesn't? That's one kind of face. It matches the front view on the left. But the profile view where the nose and mouth don't protrude at all, that matches more with the uppermost example, where the cheek is integrated more smoothly into the face.

>>94679464
Really nice cars

You ever just redraw your comics because you hated the style you picked for it?

I'm in the middle of redoing the ones I've already posted here before but just making them looser

>>94679798
i hope you haven't done more than 5

What does everyone here listen to when they're writing/drawing?

>>94680175
hard-pumpin' anime music and videogame remixes

>>94679993
Nah I only got 3 pages in and decided I was going to redraw. Same panel layouts and stuff, just a different style

>>94680175
Depends on which project. I'm listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPT0dZDkpe8 because I need the energy to redo some stuff. Nier/NITW soundtrack gets some hits from me or I'll put on a Mastodon album.

>>94679798
I've seriously been considering doing this.

I'm "rebooting" my webcomic to be a bigger serialized story rather than 4-6 panel self contained strips like I had originally planned. I like writing the former more, and my characters were pretty much intended for those types of stories when I made them.

I have only made 2 real comic strips with my characters, and I plan on having the "rebooted" comic's story continue from one of them. my style has changed since then, so yeah.

>>94680175
sometimes I listen to sleepycast or the pizza party podcast, but I usually listen to random music on spotify or souncloud.

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>>94680469
I essentially had to do that for an old comic featuring these assholes but ended up leaving the project for something else. The comic strip form was constricting and It was tricky preparing strips and having the story flow how I wanted it to. I also ran into the same issue where I started doing the strips for it but the style I wanted to do them in was taking too long and was far too "clean" to the point that it just made it ugly.

Now the future bug story is something else anyway (bug dprk in space)

>>94670937
This is me.

>>94680398
That's okay then. anything up to 5 pages, you're alright for starting over.. but this time I hope you're sure

A thing I did a while back but couldn't post.

http://imgur.com/a/yWDm7
I started it during January but didn't get to finish it until later.

>>94680606
Just for exercises to make sure I actually stick to the style and not fall for the lineart meme

>>94680517
more bug comics forever

>>94680525
Can I kiss your beautiful frog lips?

>>94680175
emo and pop punk because I'm a basic bitch

>>94680623
When the right story comes to me, I'll work on it. World was set up before story for that one, unfortunately.

>>94680622
wait what

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>>94680685
Like I'm just drawing some test pages for stuff I already wrote and I'm trying to get myself to stick to a certain style

>>94680632
By that I meant a faggot who can't draw
But if it'd turn me into princess faggot go right ahead

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I need to line something that's large and circular, but off center. Tell me how, or I kill your waifus

>>94680812
Oh good, test pages are a good idea.

>>94680846
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>>94680812
http://imgur.com/a/PCfsr
So I'm trying to recreate the process I used for the other image instead

>>94680863
what do you mean off-center?

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>>94680900

>>94680517
>>94680623
That girl is a cutie
>>94680175
Electroswing lately. Most of my ideas and characters come from songs. Unless I need to buckle down and focus, "about" by hyi

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>>94680517
>The comic strip form was constricting and It was tricky preparing strips and having the story flow how I wanted it to.

shit, don't even get me started. I actually respect comic strip artists that are actually good a bit more because of how well they can work around that.

>>94679490

Thanks. I think I need to rework her face anyways - I was going for "cute and vaguely rabbit-like" to match her energetic personality, but it feels like I kind of overshot it. She practically looks like a Chippette.

>>94680946
oh, perspective
you should have a tool for that. draw the oval and then tweak the perspective.

>>94681098
I like most of it, all but the really cheekbulgey one. I think you'll get it.

>>94681241
I kinda dig that one as like a standalone thing and not the usual face if that makes sense

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>>94680812
Alright that's better

>>94681409
My thought was "there's kind of two different girls here, I hope they are both characters in the comic, ultimately"

>>94678311
>>94678252

Is kind of funny how were so many complains about the Drac Tits theme when it came out, yet when the comics were done they were all quite cool and all got a unique approach playing with both theme and genres. Maybe we could try a more specific theme for next challenge (it depends of who wins it of course).

>>94681620
well the thing is that wasn't very specific at all. it was almost like a thought exercise combining two random words

>>94678252
>>94681620
Truth right here. I like the idea of an easily interpretable phase/scenario as the subject. Being too restricting is no fun

>>94671090
God I wish. I'd either get necessary feedback or a terrible review to laugh at and free publicity either way.

>>94681679
So now this one should be good. We have magic, but it could mean stage magic, sorcery, or the magic in a child's eyes when he sees his first big steaming mug of breakfast lava after a cold night on Titan

Fuck, that 'making monsters' comic died. the tumblr was umbrazoa.
whyzatshit gotta happen. do tumblrs even expire?

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HA. I finish a page.

>>94682129
I really like your style. Your sharp lines remind me of Nipwork you see on pixiv. Also, I like your colors. I really like desaturated hues like that

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Dewd is a good artist with cool imagination. You guys are just jealous haters.

>>94682259
go to bed dewd.

>>94682156
Thank you anon! I base my artstyle after puzzles

>>94682336
Do you have a website?

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>>94682308
lol ok bub

you're just mad that he's making more money than you on patreon. hes going to make it. you just wait

>>94682370
http://character-limit-blog.tumblr.com/

It is a quick read types of books! I hope you enjoy reading it!

>>94677965
I still haven't finalised my story :(. I'll probably practice drawing while I brainstorm the rest of the story. And I'll go buy a fancy pen and a ruler or stencils.

>>94682411
lmao that must be his retard handler who felt bad for him

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Are homage Chapter pages pretentious?

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>>94677965
More silly mosquito vampire jokes.

>>94682833
Hehehehe, I've thought about this comparison before. I like it when people are on similar wavelengths

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>>94682866
You mean mosquitoes being vampires or the vampire sucking humans while looking sexy as hell? Or both?

Thanks for laughing at my joke too, it means a lot.

>>94683018
mosquitoes being vampires (not my original idea) and mosquitoes and/or vampires transferring STDs

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>>94683055
It always feel like wasted opportunity to not add actual bloodsucking animals as vampires to me, bats are iconic and all but even then most don't use the actual vampire bats. I guess because to most people they aren't cute. Poor bats they are cute to me.

As for the STD part, yeah seeing how they are "stick stuff on blood" related that would be a fun thing to approach yet I don't think many use the concept. I find funny how the first examples of vampires on media had them as analogies of many things (drug addiction, sex, plagues, STDs, and whatever other degenerate thing the author could think of) that are mostly lost nowadays. I would blame Twilight but I'm pretty sure that part of the vampire icon was lost even before them.

>>94679194
yeah you're right, gonna rework these when I get home from work tonight

>>94682548
pretentious? no,
but they are cliche depending on the homage

>>94682548
It depends of what they homage and how

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>>94683236
This is what I was trying to homage; too Cliched? I feel like his drawings perfectly fit how I want my character to come across.

>>94683212
I think it's because to most people they're fictional. they're unaware that, on the other side of the world from where vampires are in stories, there's an actual bat that drinks blood. doesn't hurt that the old european vampire stories didnt really coalesce into specific animal shit right away, they turned into a variety of animals, including wolves and clouds of flies..

But yeah I had a half-vampire character who kinda grew up on the street, didnt need human blood to live but was addicted to it, it was treated like a drug thing.. and I thought that worked well as a dynamic. plus it just looked good, she dressed like a bar girl and looked perpetually strung out on heroin

>>94680885
Explain
>>94681598
i can see that
>>94682129
Oh it's you! You're work is honestly helping me work out my own style. Keep up the great work I adore your faces

>>94683440
Sounds a bit like a /qst/ I used to read

>>94683296
religious imagery is always a fine line to cross
you'll always have that one guy bitching if you aren't subtle or nuanced

>>94683440
Ah yes, I remember good old Drac having a huge amount of animals to shape into (which can be related to blood if you stretch it enough), I also think vampires lost the ability to shapeshift into other animals because they would get confused with werebeasts. Technically vampires have a lot in common with werebeasts and even fairies. Vampire lore is fun.

Also that half-vampire character sounds cool, is she from a comic or another project you had?

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>>94683656
>a fine line to cross

>>94683663
it was supposed to be an anime. I came up with it 16 years ago and planned to wait til I was a good enough artist to do it justice. She was just a sidecharacter. She had a fullblooded vampire brother who was an effete anime cliche, who showed up to take her back to the dark side and all that.

but yeah magical shapeshifters abound. It's hard to separate them from what seems like a proper race. It doesn't help that vampires are obviously going to be naturally predisposed to just learning magic like any other sorceror

>>94683656
Yeah, but I'm not aping it because of the religiosity of it, I just think Lajos's lines just capture so much of what I want to express with my girl. She's not refined or a polished work of art, but she's still has an aspect about her, as all persons do, that is deeper than surface level aesthetics.
The Title is a biblical reference, but it means get up, little girl, and that's what I want to tell her as I create her pages.

are animatics allowed? trying to improve on my boarding skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0rxr0kjkI

>>94683776
yeah sequential art is sequential art

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This is the first finished page of my first webcomic, "Jack Legend". It's also the first time I've ever finished a comic page.
Thoughts?

>>94684004
looks clean enough, colors aren't saturated too much. I'd say, I'd read that. Looks cute.

So good job

>>94684004
Very good. Way better than my first, though that says little.
I love the way your colors play with your linework, as well as the choice of colors. Sometimes I have troubles with comics in White backgrounds, but your colors are really soothing.
>>94683776
Very good. It looks like real storyboards. Are you an animation student?
Have you ever seen Toby Shelton's stuff? He's great too.
http://tobyshelton.blogspot.com/

>>94678309
Same. Except my test comic is a protomen fancomic that isn't remotely as cool as the main narrative.

>>94684004
Very cool. You've done the #1 thing a furry comic needs to do: be cool and not awkward or ungainly-looking.
SLight problems: everyone looks like the same pupper in different outfits (i get that they're all related) so until I read the text (which is slightly hard to read, but not super bad), I thought it was different events in one guy's life (briefly crossdressing, maybe to infiltrate and kill a bunch of guys?)
some markings would help with that. they're not ALL snow white puppers, right?

though I suppose, these aren't main characters are they.. this is a story the titular character is telling, describing his ancestors. so maybe it makes sense if they all look alike. I'm just saying that's what leapt out at me.

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Coming up with architecture is hard. There must be a book about that sort of thing somewhere.

>>94684234
Looks to me like you could publish that book
In any case, I mostly use image search for room interiors and layouts... then totally butcher them.

>>94684032
>>94684052
Thanks guys, these compliments really mean a lot to me.
>>94684223
You actually hit the nail right on the head.
Yes, all the characters in this page are related. They're not main characters, and it's likely I'll draw them one more this episode, and then not again for a while.
It's hard to tell from one page, and especially since the page is a sort of introduction, but all the foreground characters are going to be 100% white except for a color motif defined by their clothing. Backgrounds are going to be limited to a palette, although not all of them are gonna be so washed and tan as it was in this page (for the flashback/recalling effect).

>>94684234
Yeah, I'm struggling to grind up environment AP too. This looks really nice to me. Maybe search for photos of model homes or movie sets for reference?

>>94684234
I sometimes refer to those interior design magazines or environment art from video games. You'll get a clean look from magazines but if you want to capture something more real, there's always barging into friend's rooms and taking pictures of them.

>>94684234
Wow, that's stellar. How do you set up your perspective?

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I tried to invent my lines somemore, but I still think I'm losing vitality, especially in the hair.

>>94684304
>all the foreground characters are going to be 100% white except for a color motif defined by their clothing. Backgrounds are going to be limited to a palette, although not all of them are gonna be so washed and tan as it was in this page (for the flashback/recalling effect).
Sounds fun and artistic. As long as they aren't all puppers it should work fine.

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>>94684643
This is what my initial sketch looked like.

I just draw the people, and the form of their body gives me the idea of what the perspective should be.

Then, using a perspective ruler tool, I pick two angles of the same vanishing point; the farther apart from each other, the more accurate.

Then I check to see if it looks right. If it doesn't, I just tweak it. That's it.

>>94684052
yeah I'm an animation student at the laselle in vancouver

i love shelton's work

>>94684705
I find this to be a common problem when it comes to go from sketch to lineart. I'm not sure how it works, I think it is because sketchy lines give the illusion of dynamism. Maybe try that out? As in you already did the lineart with single strokes, now make a new layer and give it a few more so the lineart looks "sketchy" but without being an actual sketch.

>>94685351
That's what I'm fixing to do as well, though I'm still on my basics

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I wonder if there's something more I can do with this one. It looks kind of boring to me.

There's this thing that I see with some other artists where they can draw buildings very well detailed, but the lines aren't precise. They look more organic and may even bend a little.

I've always wanted to see how they work. My lines just follow the ruler and feel a bit soulless.

>>94685417
That's an issue I had before, hence going back and drawing everything looser. It lets you sneak more texture into your environment, maybe implying wood carvings rather than painstakingly trying to make them as geometrically correct as possible. I am impressed with your backgrounds in perspective but am more interested in the characters you draw because they aren't as uh i guess stock looking as the perfect backgrounds?

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>>94685417
You can do 2 things to make the audience more disconcerted, to feel her breakdown. One is fairly simple, the other less, going by what you've done so far. One, make her pose more manic. Close her down. Remember, the human body can be just as expressive as the face. Pardon my talentless scratches

The other option is to use a more disconcerting camera angle, a crane shot, looking down, or a lower shot looking up. These would necessitate a much larger revision.

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>>94685391
im not that anon but i just started animation school tomorrow it's my 3rd day it's pretty nice since their plan has the students practicing the most important basic drawing stuff for months before getting to the real deal that's how i know my school is legit

i was just wondering how are your classmates? have you worked on any project together?

Apparently im the only one who has practiced animation and color theory then i have classmates really good with pencils and lines, who also admire the same people i admire

and then the last third f the class are guys who just have the highest power level i have ever seen but little to no knowledge about drawing, like damn 2 of them mentioned their gamertag before their names when they introduced themselves i shit you not one od them was wearing the most cartoony nerd outfit ever they'll sure catch up right?

im so scared of teamwork i hope if it happens i end up with someone with good lineart so i can just color everything nicely and have actual teamwork instead of having to do everything myself, like i don't care how nerd they are but this kind of people usually becomes "that guy" when they work in teams

>>94682259
I know he has imagination but execution is everything like if he is not going to care about consistency he could at least try getting better at paneling his stuff is unreadable

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>>94685807
>he has imagination
>constantly getting caught for blatantly ripping things off
>entire story is a blatant frankenstein of tropes

>>94682259
Found the patron

>>94686070
A whole fucking dollar, mates.

>>94685748
nah, no collaborations man.
it's my 7th term ( 2 classes each term because i'm working too ) and i haven't been asked yet to work with others for stuff.

the other students aren't really my cup of tea, but i can tell you they shouldn't be outwardly nasty

what school are you starting with? i was at vfs at first until family problems happened and i dropped out, got back into school last summer

>>94679785
Thanks man, I was afraid it would look like shit, but with some references and a bit of extra work it was all fine in the end. Tomorrow's page is going to be pretty cool, too.

>>94680175
Ratatat

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>>94682411
>giving someone money ironically

>>94684705
I just came from a rekt thread and this made gag.

What the absolute fuck is that shit?

Give me a last name for a character. His name is Eugene.

Post numbers ending in multiples of 3 win immediately

>>94680175
xenakis, basisnki or kirby leyland.
i sometimes watch redlettermedia or mst3k alongside, but thats pretty distracting

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>tfw comic is going nowhere and your art is still shit
anyone else finding themselves screaming at their life in impotent rage lately?

>>94684187

>protomen

Holy shit, I thought I was the only one. Incredible band.

>>94687632
How old are you and how long have you been drawing?

>>94687801
Don't reply, it's a shit meme that's always spammed in these threads.

>>94687851
Whoops. Sorry.

....man, memes have gotten pretty aimless over the years.

>>94687866
It hasn't been posted as much as it used to be, so I don't blame not knowing about it.


It is a pretty fucking stupid meme though, but things being pretty fucking stupid is no stranger to /hyw/.

>>94687851
>every feel is the same poster
retard

>>94687949
yeah every tfw post just happens to be of the same circulation of crying wojaks and a progressively-increasing exaggeration of disillusion and anger in the face of being an inadequate NEET comic artist

>>94687972
>same circulation of crying wojaks
you are fucking delusional, this wojack with this filename has never been posted because I am not the previous feelsposters. you have a complex with this meme, they hit too close to home coldfusion?

>>94682411
>that $1 self depreciative non committal statement
>your a good boy

>>94687972
Who hurt you?

>>94687972
Sounds like that feelspost really got to you, huh? Maybe because you embody it?

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umbrellas are weird
hopefully nobody will look at it too closely.

https://bug-quest-2.tumblr.com/post/164253777443/

>>94687108
Hmm, I thought it was fairly tame, since it was just flat colors. He had his nose cut off for being a thief.

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>that feel when your comic makes people feel

>>94691354
It's a charming umbrella

>>94685417
Rather than curving the lines, what I see often is the lines aren't all complete. They're broken or don't go all the way, just to indicate this line isn't very important, it's blending into the background somewhat

>>94687376
Imogene

>>94691354
>all the comments are about umbrellas
this isn't even your newest page

>>94687376
Eugene Icks (eugenics)

>>94693344
>this isn't even your newest page
?

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>>94693344
>this isn't even your newest page

????????????

>>94694442
oh I confused it with 2 pages ago, when she was holding her umbrella and fan out

>gonna buy a domain finally, 12 dollars per year ain't so bad right? It won't take too much from my savings
>suddenly extra Domain Privacy Protection ($0.99 per month)

Capitalism ho!

>>94694996
What the hell is that
is it a legit service?

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>>94695047
It is, at least on bluehost. I understand the reasoning but it doesn't make it less jewish to me.

>>94695073
Ah, okay yeah
see that's not so much capitalism as using capitalism to solve a problem that should rightfully be solved by law enforcement

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>>94695116
To be honest, I wouldn't mind as much if it wasn't for my currency exchange. Almost $24 on themselves doesn't hurt as much until they become almost $500

so i've noticed something.

i'm guilty of everything dewd is crucified for. but i don't get shit for it because my art is decent. what gives, guys?

>>94695934
Dewds been at it for years my freind, I mean I found one of his animations on newgrounds classics ffs!!!! And his style is STILL the same.

>>94695934
>my art is decent
Wow solved it, what's next?

>>94695934
>i'm guilty of everything dewd is crucified for

Blatant rip-offs, awful spelling, bad storytelling, suspicious degeneracy and no sense of order in paneling?

>>94696011
so shitty writing is excused as long as the art is passable? that explains dresden codak

>>94696204
Yes, are you new?

>>94696256
not quite fresh out of the oven but i'm day-old bread if that's what you're asking.

>>94696204
It doesn't even have to be good art, just not Sonichu tier, see QC or DoA.

>>94695934
People around here don't read.

>>94696876
I for one don't read, I just look at pretty pictures.

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Thought I'd post a little panel that'll be in next months chapter of Oni x Fox.

>>94695934
>i'm guilty of everything dewd is crucified for
Post work

>>94697186
>that filename
macfag detected

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just finished this page, how is it?

https://c-tierboi.deviantart.com/art/page-8-chapter-1-raiders-699207687

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>>94686533

another anon looking to get into animation, storyboard wise would you advise me to go to this school called the arts institute in Philly? as far as I know its the only school thats really offering animation at all

>>94698045
Dewd V2.0

>>94698045
Panel 1 - I'm not really sure what's going on with that pant-leg, is that a leg coming out? Biggest issue here for me though are the rendering of the clouds, and rendering as in how you approached making them look like clouds, which they kind of don't (are they?). Imagine if you had to draw cotton balls in this scene, how would you make them look differently?
Panel 2 is okay!
Panels 3 and 4 - Although it saves you time and effort, I'd rather forego the explanation of what just transpired and rather attempt to show it. Explaining it in panel 4 just seems kind of cheap. Although I really like the effort you're trying by differentiating the font sizes, but I think your font choices are questionable. Try to find a more suitable font - try blambot or dafont.
Panels 5 to 10 - I don't think your should include these in a page, if it happened earlier why not draw this scene before panels 1-4? Or if they're happening at relatively the same time, remove the 'earlier' and just displace this as a different page that comes after panels 1-4. Viewing the fight in different angles not only holds the interest of the reader, it helps them understand the 'moveset' of the fighting characters, and also to show the characters present.

Challenge yourself - try different camera angles and perspectives, try different panel shapes and sizes for dramatic effect.

I think your coloring is pretty good though! As well as your choice of colors in character designs.

>>94698045
Your font sizes on this page are all over the place; you should keep it the same size throughout, only making it larger or smaller for emphasis.

If panel 4 was wider you'd have enough room for that dialogue to be slightly larger. Plan your dialogue and text at the layout stage, so you know how much room you'll need. At the moment it looks like you're trying to squish the text into what ever space is available after you've finished drawing, instead of making sure you have that space to begin with.

Similarly, if you're having speech balloons constantly breaking out of panels and overlapping the gutters, that's another sign you might not be leaving enough room for them within the panels.

>>94698260
both shitters BTFO

>>94698434
sorry for going off-topic but I have always wanted to ask you, which comic do you do? I always see your name but I think I haven't seen a link to anything.

>>94698613
he doesn't do one, he's a troll, filter his name

>>94698613
"Experience the Magic of the Legend!" at www.FavouriteCrayon.co.uk.

Come to think of it, I don't think I link my site at all when posting pages for feedback.

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>>94698434
>Be me
>Spic
>Be writing my story
>Notice that it feels like mexican soap opera
>Don't know what I'm doing wrong
>Realize main character wasn't getting attention
>Develop her again
>Outcome is the best version of my script until now
>Had to return to my sci-fi origins

So, what category does your comic fall in /co/?

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>>94698423

in panel one its supposed to be a kilt. also the clouds are supposed to be smoke from a smoke bomb. in retrospect your right though about panel 4 because I could've just had him stand over Harvey as he is in panel 3 once I get to that point.

speaking of which I also did the earlier thing because I wanted to show how both the girl, Anna and the guy Harvey were fighting at the same time, with Harvey fighting the kilt guy and Anna fighting the snake girl and once she's done fighting the next guy in the next page it'll come right back after the events of panel 4 where Harvey is being threatened. but also introspect I do think I should've done 5-10 first.

>>94698434
yeah Ill use dafont next time and Ill problaby make the page bigger next time so I can get more dialogue in, as well as planning it out

>>94698911
>Notice that it feels like mexican soap opera
>Realize main character wasn't getting attention

But that is the opposite of what telenovelas do Lucy

>>94699008
I was giving my other characters a lot of attention and forgot my main. Which is the drive to the whole premise. Since she opens the world for them. My main is basically the least interesting character in the story but it's the one that connects all the dots together

>>94698800
I don't blame you for having forgotten who I am, I don't do an awful lot of self-promotion.

I hope some of you find my advice useful, though.

>>94698991
It's not about how big you make the page, it's how well you use the space. Planning is key.

The pages you've posted here are different dimensions; are all your pages like this? You should try and keep to a consistent and uniform size.

>>94699239

not really except the first 3 back when I was using this slow desktop. I was just trying to gradually make it bigger so I could get to a middle ground where I could enough space for stuff

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Why do so many webcomics have lesbians? The oversaturation in comparison to male gay couples is absurd
Sorry if it sounds too baity, it's my first time in this general. I'd create webcomics myself, but I'm too afraid I'll end up doing """"relatable"""" comics.

>>94698800
he was literally one of the two people who participated in that challenge, are you straight up retarded? and how is he a troll for giving critique??

>>94697186
christ, the prospect of stealth elephants is terrifying

>>94698045
This may not be a masterpiece, but it still deserves more effort put into the word bubbles
You did a pretty nice job on the third panel's head pose. I can tell you're gonna get really good with some more anatomy practice.
Another tip: you're adding brown to the edge of the smoke/dust clouds at the outlines, but it would be better to add it lower down, so the clouds are getting lighter towards their edges and darker towards the bottom and middle where it's thicker

>>94698854
You also haven't posted a page here in ages. Which sucks because I like your comic a lot

>>94699455
I mean, do you really have to ask?
It's like asking why everyone who uses cat sitting services is gay.

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>>94698991
Here's what I propose. This actually speeds up the pacing because there are less words to read, even though it causes you to draw two pages instead of one.
Of course you don't have to take my advice and change it, but keep it for future reference! I mean I don't wanna make you scrap anything.

>>94699463
accusing other sof being trolls is something mostly only trolls do

>>94699455

Lesbians are safer. There exist fewer people in the English-speaking world who will be turned off by the idea of women displaying romantic affection than by the idea of men doing the same.

It's shitty, but there you go.

>>94699455
Because lesbians are progressive and don't squick out men as much as gays. Just look at how popular (popular, not good) Dumbing of Age is with all the lesbians.

All I know is that to me you look like your lots of fun, open up your loving arms?

>>94699455
You can always yuri bait people and then destroy their hearts like lovelab did, yurifags are the worst anyway.

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>>94699455
I have a female protagonist and her roomate which neither of the are lesbians but since one has been so much emotional support to the other, the roomate develops feelings for the main character which she notices and doesn't let it get to her, but aknowledges her roomate's feelings and gives her small demonstrations of affection just so she knows she cares, but has no romantic interest in her.

>>94699716

thanks, ill look at this for the next page since I already uploaded this page earlier

>>94699608
thanks ill use that for the next page

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>tfw using a girl posing as a reference but then noticed it might be a trap

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Doing a first pass at a sort of a stats screen for some reason

Probably going to cram her name somewhere, maybe get rid of whatever Glory would refer to or just make the whole thing more compact

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also hopefully its not too jarring that i've ditched lineart for backgrounds for this chapter. Dunno if I'll stick with like a convention for that or just do it whenever.

>>94700256
If you do edit it, the spelling would be prissiness

>>94700289
it's okay to save time with those. your huge landscapes were cool but you don't need those every panel
I'm actually really impressed with the detail level in this new comic

>>94700203
Work that into a comic. The character is secretly a trap. It'll be popular with all the people who fetishize gender bending in comics. Then you can make a hundred thousand patreon bucks a month like Dan Shive.

>>94700389
gotcha

>>94700412
The aim was to show off during the opening and then slowly lower the audience's standards in more low-effort artwork for the rest of it.
It's kind of annoying because I actually got quite a lot better at doing these panels between the first opening cover and the end of chapter 1, so the real showing off doesn't start for a couple of panels.

I think the glowing bugs and the little floating white specks really boosted the detail/texture/atmosphere of everything. They were decidedly a very good idea.

>>94700477
It's fine to do that it'll speed things up I'm sure, just keep it as cinematic as it's been. Keep it up!

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>>94700356
comics are way too haaaard

How do you find a writer? Where are they hiding?

>>94701128
right here, what do you draw

>>94700796
when you do it transparent like that, I can't preview it by hovering over it

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I think I may get rid of the random button, I can't come up with something that fits the illuminati eye

>>94701559
awful, don't you ever post this lazy shit again

>>94701643
I won't make any promises

>>94698911
Fantasy setting, story about morality I guess. (With a dash of flesh eating blight)

>>94701478
I draw writers out of their caves and devour them <3

>>94699455
I think you're not counting all the yaoi webcomics on Smackjeeves.

>>94701559
An upside down triangle with a question mark in the eye?

>>94701829
london?

>>94678926
Ok, I really like how detailed and anatomical her design is while still being cartoony. It's like you're doing a Disney or Don Bluth thing without looking like either.

Manga has a pretty dominant force in the world and I feel like your comic could remind people that comics can still be art.

I'm sick of super heroes and Adventure Time knockoffs. Yours is something new. Please continue it.

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guise, I absolutely don't know much about webcomics or comics in general, mostly because I've only read a few ones(but really liked the ones I have), but I was thinking about making a comic, since I can kinda draw and I do enjoy analyzing storytelling techniques and the practice in general
But I still don't know if I want to use this format, or make a website from scratch. Or make one at all(yes, I noticed there are links to help with that).


Could you share your experiences starting on this whole thing?

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>>94701874
How I didn't think of that? That's genius! Thanks anon! I inverted the black and whites to add more difference to it as well. It's not much but they will do the job.

I know this looks lazy but I'm shit at coming up with good graphics for this and they are a sort of joke about my own Eye-of-Providence-head guy.

>>94702300
>something new
considering you're railing against what's currently popular and supporting something even older (which manga came from in the first place), you might want to rephrase your praise.
though I do get what you mean, and it is nice.

>>94702328
read more comics and you'll get a better handle on it. read ours!
But in the meantime, I can tell you that basically I just saw a lot of amateur webcomics sprouting up, read a fuckton of newspaper comics, and thought "I can do that". It's all you really have to do, think of a format you're comfortable with, and do something similar. You can always branch out as you get more comfortable with it.
Definitely get your own site, just get one of the simple free ones that does most of the work for you

>>94702357
Glad I could help. It's not very lazy considering most peoples' navigation buttons are super plain or nonexistent and just words.

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>>94702357
OK the assymetry was driving me crazy because I rotated the arrows instead of just mirroring.

>>94702449
Thanks, you are too kind.

>>94702328
I'm kinda just starting myself but I would say that you should read more comics, and the more diverse on technique the better too, so you can see how much you can experiment on the medium and maybe even come up with something that has not been done yet! (Or done right)

Also don't be afraid of starting with some sort of test comic to make your first screw ups so you can get better with the next ones. Executing your ideas is as good larning material as reading other comics.

>>94702507
also who is you, cult control?

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I cant do it anymore

Inking? sure. Coloring? sure. But actually trying to sketch digitally? Hand sweat fucks with my work flow regardless of gloves and it drives me crazy

I dont even know if theres a point in writing a comic anymore if I can't have an efficient process come time to draw content. Drawing pencil/paper and editing it on the PC is fun but is more leisurely and less suited for a schedule..

>>94702720
buy small fan
aim at hand

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>>94702720
And sketching traditionally and then inking digitally?

>>94702821
>Drawing pencil/paper and editing it on the PC is fun but is more leisurely and less suited for a schedule..

>>94702813
or draw near a vent with the AC on

big hands are a curse

>>94702425
Will read! Links are in OP, I believe?
Also, is it really like that? I read an article a while back that made it look kinda like a big bussiness thing and it seemed intimidating
And do you mean sites like Comicfury or Tapastic?(only references I have)

>>94702507
Yeah, I'm still experimenting on digital art, trying to get a grasp on color techniques and such
That seems like a good idea too, but I'm worried to end up ruining an idea on an attempt at it

Thank you for your replies, kind people

>>94702842
honestly I have the opposite promblem. Big hands, yeah, lots of body heat, but none of it gets to my fingers. Shitty circulation. In winter i get chilblains on my drawing hand

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>>94702842

>>94702847
those are examples, but I was thinking more like comicfury and drunkduck and comicgenesis than tapastic and webtoons. There's a difference for sure

>>94701910
wrexham

>>94702897
>drunkduck
going by the content I see on the front page, it seems like you'd have to have low self-esteem to post anything on there

>>94702960
you'll find this is true of nearly all webcomic hosts, though some like tapastic make sure to promote the good ones at you so it looks like they only accept quality (also annoyingly you can start accidentally reading another comic because it just 'followed' one you were reading)
there's no barrier to entry, so

>>94702897
Comicfury seems nice with the customization and all that
I've never actually entered webtoons or tapastic at all, but haven't heard good things about them, what's with that?

>>94703323
you know how a lot of whiners whine about corporate this and hipster trendy that, but they're usually just being contrarians?
these hosts embody everything they accuse shit of and then some. they're the comic-host equivalent of smartphones, everything is locked-down, uncustomizable, but comes with a bunch of built-in shit that helps get you lots of attention

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>>94698108
yeah absolutely, philly's art institute's are rad

back with another animatic today, this one's from last week actually but the timing was too fast, so i went back into after effects and fixed it.

my first animatic related to my comic >:Maggot Treats, how exciting

https://youtu.be/wFvDGXHhqyE

>>94703471
How... boring
Don't really like stuff devoid of personality. If anything, that's one of the things that keeps me interested in most artists, as obvious as it may seem, but apparently possible to fuck up

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>>94702566
>cult control

I wish. No I'm the one who has been doing mosquito vampire strips lately. I also did a noir comic with a cthulhu inspector and a pyramid-headed smooth criminal. I kind of decided to run with the whole setting as an experimental webcomic. I go by "marawis" when I decide to tripfag.

>>94703613
seriously. it's like... hey how nice, every single website looks exactly the same. that's not confusing or anything
Another thing, they apparently expect you to just go to the main site in order to follow all the comics you read. Tapastic actually keeps your place where you read last, which means if you bookmark the main site, you won't see new updates, you'll see the last one instead and have to scroll down. They're just like all these dozens of video subscription sites recently that think you're going to pay them 12 bucks a month for a few shows when it can't possibly be more than 5% of what you watch
>>94703632
oh okay you're cool too.

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>>94703529
I have said this many times but I really love your bugs, and the animation looks cool.

>>94703674
T-thanks! You too!

>>94703613
>>94703471
Will add my own not-asked opinion here, but this thought is one that actually came to me when I was adding some css customization to the tumblr theme in that I was worried of it not looking well on phones, and a friend said "isn't that what tapas is for?". Tapastic and webtoons are devoid of personalization, I agree on that, but as it was said in one of these posts, they are the smartphone equivalent of comic-hosts. I think they work better as mirror sites to direct people who are already users of those apps in case they want to read on the phone.

>>94703980
Wait, you can actually put a webcomic on more than one site?

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>>94704072
You can. Owlturd for example runs his comic on his own site (which is hosted by tumblr) and on tapas AND webtoons. I have seen some people going to more madmen routes and have their comics on all imaginable sites (bones)
Technically you can run mirror sites as long as you don't get into some sort of exclusivity contract, which is what happens if you join some webcomic syndicates like Hiveworks

>>94703980
hadn't thought of using tapastic as your quick backup. i'm.. kinda okay with that

>>94702300

Thank you anon, that's very flattering. I'll give it my best.

>>94673084
The villain of my comic came about pretty naturally, not even sure where the idea originated, might've been a dream.
The challenge for me has been how to build up to them. I decided to go with the trope of having a red herring villian show up only to be overcome and ultimately having been merely a pawn in the ultimate baddy's machinations.

>>94704843
I like that, though I know a lot of people don't. It might help if the real actual ultimate bad guy still made some manner of appearance

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I've been thinking of starting a story based webcomic. Is my art good enough to actually make something successful?

>>94705060
Yep. assuming you can do other poses. I will say it's odd seeing four-fingered hands on art with these proportions.

Is there a program out there that lets me work on several pages at once? Like I can flip through them seamlessly without having to change files?