/hyw/ - How's Your Webcomic? #400

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>>94876693
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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>>94876693
We are running our 4th hyw challenge!

>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!

>>94874155
Not a bad idea, I will see how I manage

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Thread 400 is a good time to jump in I guess since I'm just starting out. I'm like 2 pages into my comic but now I need to actually design some of the locations so here's an apartment floor plan.

Does this look like a sensible apartment? I could just copy the layout of the apartment I used to live in but I want to try and be original. The big door at the back is a balcony.

>>94876952
I wouldn't really worry about an apartment being "original" unless you have an idea of it having secret doors or something like that. Or something that is relevant to the plot like a macguffin room of sorts. I don't think the apartment looks bad but don't be afraid of copying layouts like the one from your previous apartment.

>>94876952
i've seen a lot of apartment layouts and that sure is one.
I can tell you that copying the apartment you lived in is smarter because you won't have to check the floorplan constantly, it'll be in your memory. and nobody is going to recognize that you "Weren't being original" because nobody knows where you lived.

in any case it's good you're planning! wish I'd done that.

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>400 threads

We did it hyw, we saved /co/!

>>94876719
>>GENRE: Lava
?

>>94876952
Nobody is gonna know if you copied your own place. Don't be original for the sake of originality.

If story reasons require it to look a specific way, though, consider making a 3D model and walking through it. Pretend you're living there and try to get to different rooms quickly. Like, immediately there are a few choices on your floorplan that feel strange to me. Why is the door to the bedrooms at the end of a hallway, when you could make each room slightly larger and put the door in a more accessible spot? Why is the couch and television positioned in a way that blocks movement to the bathroom, both bedrooms, AND kitchenette?

There's not even a good place to move the TV setup to make the bedroom hallway more accessible. If you push the couch back closer to the balcony, then the television table is gonna block the bathroom door. If you pull it away from the balcony, you'll block the front door. Anyone who lives in this apartment would have a miserable time positioning their stuff and getting around.

But I dunno, it could be funny if the characters acknowledge that.

>>94877215
Genre is a placeholder name at this point, it just means the second thing to combine with the theme

>>94876952
T'es français?

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https://foxandcatadventures-ooc.tumblr.com/

Come on, /hyw/! Send me some interesting asks!
I enjoy coming up with things and I might even learn to draw better in the process.

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>>94877419
Meh. That's not a good question. It's obvious I based the characters appearance on that design almost entirely because I had been drawing Pusheen reaction images for months. I wanted to tell a story so I just went with the designs and began telling a story.

>>94877302
The tiny hallway is actually kinda based on my own house, though that leads to a bathroom and a bedroom and not two bedrooms. This was just a quick sketch without much mind to the actual proportions of objects, it should be better spaced when I actually draw it, I do have Sketchup on my other computer so maybe I could try that though I was never that skiled at using it. Maybe I could move the counter to the other side of the wall so the kitchenette is accessible from the front door.

>>94877330
Uhhh French Canadian yeah if that's what you're asking though I mostly speak english. Did I accidentally make some very telling French decor?

>>94877756
the filename haha

>>94876693

Is there a type of story with a type of main character that would be a guaranteed succees? Even if it means going for furry shit?

You know, the kind of ''degrading yourself, nobody can find about me drawing this kind of shit'' but still succesful

>>94877811
Make it about the struggles of a queer character.

>>94877783
Oh that's just because the character is named Mona and I have an obsession with portmanteaus in filenames

>>94877849
well then, that was a close one.
As for the appartment, it's quite practical, but the corridor feels superflu and a wast of space on such an appartment

>>94877811
A good comic

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>>94867710
About an hour or so, albiet with procrastination.
I've been reusing backgrounds so its fairly lazy.

Also, I need to draw a crashed orbital observation post and I should really have planned this out in advance

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something that can fit vaguely into here

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>>94878349
Jesus man, are you unironically using MS Paint?
Stilling looking fairly decent given the circumstances - I like that the designs look somewhat realistic, you don't have that often with scifi comics.

>>94877419
I sent you two already, I don't wanna hog it all

>>94878349
Those suckers are gorgeous

>>94878349
I like it.

>>94878442
DON'T YOU DARE TO INSULT THE MIGHT PAINT PROGRAM

>>94878452
It's alright. Thank you for those two!

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I added some details as an excuse to repost snek.
Probably the first monster desing I'm completely happy with, although it took a lot of planning.

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How do you guys handle action scenes that span several pages without any dialogue? I feel like if I were to do that it'd end up boring.

>>94878557
I have to admit I almost always skipped those when I read something.

>>94878573
I do too, that's why I'm asking.

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>My birthday is tommorrow/today and I thought the happy birthday hat was to celebrate me...

>>94878586
If you skip them as well then why do you want to draw them? Just for the challenge to make them interesting?

>>94878609
I'd like to know how to make them interesting, yes. It's why I'm asking. There are fight scenes with monsters who can't exactly talk back in my comic, and I'd like to know if I'm making a mistake by doing this before I actually start churning out the pages.

>>94878366
The dread gazebo

>>94878548
kudos for getting the eye placement right. even I rarely do that with sneks

>>94878640
just make every page end on a high note. a solid impact, a new move, an error,

>>94878604
Happy Birthday, anon. I hope you enjoy your day!

>>94878731
Thank you <3

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>>94877215
Magic lava girls make for the coolest waifus.

>>94877305
Could just call it theme 1 and theme 2.

>>94878557
Just like you would anything. Tell a story with pictures.

Ever read the Silent Interlude issue of Marvel's GI Joe? It's one of the best.

>>94878557
I animate them.

It's not actually that hard for fighting. You're shifting between a bunch of concrete extreme poses with maybe a frame of lead-in and lead-out, and you'd be drawing those poses anyway.

Failing (or complementing) that, just make it stand out. Don't "swing sword at wolves and do damage". Have the protagonist punch his fist down the wolf's mouth and beat the shit out of its stomach, which I was told recently is actually how you're supposed to fight them. Make everything a grotesque and creative execution.

>>94876693

I have a blind, mutant, cheerful, crazy cuckoo lander, sphinx character and I need some cult inducing power for her. Any suggestions?

>>94878290
your question just utterly destroyed me fuck you.

>>94879063
what do you mean cult-inducing? You mean a power that a lot of people find worthy of worship? If it's anything that can kill people, that's one. if it's some element that's vital for life like rain or whatever, that's another.
Blindness kind of goes with clairvoyance traditionally

>>94878442
>Jesus man, are you unironically using MS Paint?
No. SAI has a "binary tool" that doesn't anti-alias brush strokes, leaving them a bit pixellated.
I quite like it; it gives it a nice sort of crisp texture and makes it a lot easier to fill and edit with select tools

I think it's time we blow this scene. get everybody and the stuff together ok 3....2....1 lets jam

How long does it take to get in decent shape? I have a plot point where inexperienced people go through some hasty training for a upcoming battle and I wonder how fast is too fast

>Get annoyed when character names are obvious puns/foreshadowing/references
>Only names I can think up for my characters are puns
>Hate when fantasy stories with dozens of unique races use a boring normal human as the main character
>Decide that a boring human anthropologist would make the best protagonist for my latest idea
How do I stop being such a hypocrite?

>>94879392
I would look into statistics on boot camp
>>94879479
Sounds to me like you just didn't understand something until you saw the other side of it
besides the idea of an intentionally boring human who studies humans in a setting where humans are the most boring race.. is approprilarious

>>94879479
>Not making a Johnathan Joestar rip-off

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It's hard to be a werewolf. You transform every full moon no matter what, fleas and ticks love your fur, you become alergic to silver, and the furries find you attractive. Sadly you are terrified of mascot suits since that fatidical day at Fantasyland.

>>94879877
i mean none of us react well to silver if we're in really constant contact with it.. at best, it starts to smell like garlic.

>>94879934
> it starts to smell like garlic
So that's why silver is also a good metal against vampires?

>>94876693
Congrats to all the artists that come here. I'm usually pleasantly surprised.

>>94879063

>Cult inducing power

She can restore memories with perfect clarity.

Can't quite remember how Grandma looked like before she passed on? No problem. Want to remember the last time you saw your child with perfect clarity? No problem.

Conflict comes from people wondering if she actually restores memories or if she just implants whatever thoughts she wants into a person's mind.

....If you don't use this idea I might actually.
>>94880012
Vampires/Ghosts/Werewolves were conflated quite often in ancient stories. Ancient storytellers were far less autistic about the "rules" for supernatural beings.

Note: writing at least an hour a day keeps the good mood at bay

>>94879877
>>94879934
>Full moon

It used to be just "When the Autumn moon is bright". Which made poor Larry Talbot's life suck.

I think Larry might have been one of the first immortal character trying to kill themselves in all of fiction.

Also I would totally love a horror story about werewolves trying to survive against a furry werewolf hunter with a nightmarish fursuit made of actual werewolves.

>>94880173
meant "bad mood"

>>94880012
hmm, but to get garlic smell off your hands, you use iron.. which harms fairies..

>>94880110
okay that is the best power ever
>conflated
yeah agreed. in my book vampires and werewolves are just normal animals no stranger than centaurs or griffins, but oberon's children can disguise themselves as anything. They're also randy as fuck, infamous for fucking everything in sight, so you never know who or what might have a little god or nymph or elf or whatnot in their bloodline.

>>94880181
My half-wolf werewolf only changes on full moons (her time of the month) but the 3/4ths wolf types change at every moon or anything circular with a high albedo reflecting sunlight. Concentration would surely count.

This post >>94878573 made me think of a serious question.

Guys, what do you usually skip reading comics? I need a flood of answers, please! It would be an important statistics for us.

I do tend to skip action scenes. I skip big detailed establishing shots. I often skip dialogues, when I got the idea what is dialogue about.

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Well guys, I'm finally inking the pages. The first page of the new chapter is finished. What do you guys think?

i hope it's readable.

>>94880323
backgrounds. I never notice them. Also subtle things characters' hands are doing if there's no close-up on hands

>>94879877
Is there a wolf-couch crossbreed, comforting some crying wolf?

>>94880346
readable but not the ideal font

>>94880427
that font is made after my handwriting :/

>>94880406
>wolf-couch crossbreed
my fucking sides, I didn't notice
>>94880444
The individual letters are fine but the slanting and kerning seem off. I'll let our resident font-quibbler give you better feedback, because I don't know from fonts. I love me some comic sans, my taste is negate

>>94880503
>I love me some comic sans, my taste is negate
There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, if you're writing a comic, it's only natural to write in comic sans, right?

>>94880274
It all comes together!

>>94880110
Don't forget fairies, in fact is amazing how many fairies are bloodsuckers and ghostly beings. May as well call them all part of the Fair Folk. Which is what I'm doing actually.


>>94880181
Yeah I have also read that wolfbane blooms are also related, which along with the Autumn moon just gives a very specific time of the year and I guess it just isn't as fun nowadays when you can have him around 3 days per months (or 3 nights if you just go with "moon at night" rules).

I personally go with "full moon time" in this "setting", including day and night. I'm trying not to get too autistic with the rules on supernatural races but I want to stay a bit consistent at least.

>Also I would totally love a horror story about werewolves trying to survive against a furry werewolf hunter with a nightmarish fursuit made of actual werewolves.

Oh fuck that would be creepy as hell. And awesome. Really awesome.

>>94880406
She is a normal werewolf behind the couch, but yeah I can't unsee that neither. I didn't think this over until I finished the inking process, and I was already on my last hours so I went with it. Please understand.

>>94880547
comic sans hatred is overrated

>>94880547
I understand people hating it being used in any kind of official document, that's certainly inappropro
but people say its kerning is bad or whatever. I don't see it. i DO think that its sequel, Comic Neue or whatever, looked better the one time I saw it

>>94880574
>Please understand.
I'm not here to judge you, man.

>>94880574
>fursuit made of werewolves
some kind of weird inverse skin-walker thing. those myths where you turn into something by wearing a magic animal skin is really horrormovie if you think about it

>>94880676
sounds like a Supernatural episode

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>>94880659
Sorry the phrase is part of me.

>>94880717
>13 seasons

May as well be one actually

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>>94866495
I think that this is a progress.


>>94878604
Would you like that I draw your shitty waifu being deflowered with a screwdriver? just asking

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>>94880110

You sir have won the power lottery.
I will use/modify it into something slightly different so you can still use it.

>>94881298
NOt OR, but I can recognize that nazi cap

>>94881379
What?

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>>94880653
>but people say its kerning is bad or whatever.
kek what? People sure are getting straws on their hatred at this point.

The hatred with Comic Sans is mostly because of how misused it is, but as a font it's totally ok and legit. I'm a graphic designer and I can tell the hatred the font gets in the area is a meme by itself at this point. I personally don't mind it, but I avoid using the font just because people seems to trigger people and never stop about it.

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>>94881509
> just because people seems to trigger people

well this is true but I meant to say "because it seems to trigger people".

>>94881509
well you're the first person I've ever heard say that. Where were you back when I was getting ganged up on?

>>94881079
Dude. There's no point in even trying to draw marginally complicated characters where you are right now. You need to practice your basic shapes and gain some confidence in your lines.

>>94881619
Getting ganged up too somewhere else probably

>>94879392
Why not just make them lose the fight.

>>94881854
losing = death

>>94881983
You're the author, surely you can be creative enough to actually come up some nuance for this situation.

Unless you're writing a shitty tournament arc with absolutely nothing interesting or special about it.

>>94882035
Im sure I can, I planned to re-visit that event (hopefully tomorrow) and do a 2nd draft

>>94880323
More answers, people!

>>94869496
No share link yet.

>>94870038
Why do you ask?

>>94883255
I dont want to appear rude, but this picture looks monotone and tedious. I cant imagine how anyone can have fun while drawing it.

Question muh fwends.

I was thinking of doing a Captain Marvel comic because he's in the public domain. Is Black Adam as well? He appeared in one of the Fawcett comics but it was a Marvel Family special so I'm not sure of those fall under the same circumstances (though I suspect they do).

i've tried researching it but i can't find anything specific to Adam just Shazam, Batson and the Senpai.

>>94883369
Ouch.

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>>94881656
Then the key is a flour sack?

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>>94883748
The flour sack is an exercise in representing weight and volume with simple lines.

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>>94883876
OK!

>>94878604
I have nothing to do, so do you want a free drawing?

>>94883413
As far as I know, Black Adam avoided the copyright drama that Captain Marvel got and he is totally a property of DC.

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>>94884063
that would be nice

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>my previous pages get a few likes and not much more.
>the werewolf furry one got way more likes and more comments.

So this is... the power of furries...

>>94883413
i thought it was a different captain marvel that was public domain

>>94883748
Are we being fucked with?

>>94884533
Captain Marvel is a whole ride of copyright bullshit study.

>>94884741
yeah it's complicates

>>94884501
diaper furries even moreso.

So whatever happened to bones?

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>>94885080

>>94884886
Oh boy no

>>94885205
>he doesn't know

>>94885080
probably got depressed and went to play video games for a while. he's the most self critical of the 3 stooges, so when no one paid attention to his comic and gay youtube videos he lost all motivation.

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>>>/i/512628

Have to redo everything in a project I've been working on for the better part of a year, but I want to still make time for clowns.

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>>94883369
It's true, that detailed backgrounds take time and are challenging. But I still enjoyed myself because as I was progressing, I could see that I was creating a scene that felt real, at least to me.

Sorry if it seems boring, if that's what you're trying to say. The idea was to show siblings comfortable with each other. When I color it, it'll show that it's the middle of the night, with the brother unable to go to sleep, working on his own thing, but still being protective of his little sister. That was the idea going into it.

It certainly wasn't fun drawing all the way through. I often find myself shutting down my own mind while my hand just continues drawing. But fun things aren't usually fun all the way through. Sometimes, you have to push through hours, days, years of tedium to get the skill and work that you want to actually make it fun. There was a time long ago when drawing the sofa would have been a chore. But when I did this drawing, the sofa was actually fun and interesting.

Gosh, sorry for the long post. I just wanted to say that in the end, I did enjoy myself.

Including the pic of the drawing in question, to avoid confusion.

>>94885080
Who is bones? The anime studio?

>>94884533
>>94884741
>>94884858
There were several Captain Marvels in the golden age, including one that was a purple robot.

>>94883413
I've been doing stories with Public Domain characters, primarily Daredevil (called THE Daredevil because I think that's cooler) and Airboy. I've been looking into doing stuff with the Fawcett characters but as far as I can tell Black Adam is off limits.

I have no idea why this is. But he's not on the pdsh wiki and they've even got Namor and Golden Age Human Torch listed.

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Fawcett_Characters

I'm half tempted to do something with Human Torch because I like robot superheros and he predates even Astro Boy and Namor because Marvel has buried him so deep in their toy box he can't see light.

I'm almost 100 percent sure the Mouse will kick my ass if I ever got popular enough for them to care and I have Namor and Human torch on my site.

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>>94885227
PLEASE NO

>>94885586
it's utterly sweet. This doesn't seem so much like a comic panel though as a standalone piece of illustration (maybe with the left edge more cut off I dunno I've got a boner for 4:3) but maybe it'd be one of those establishing chapter shots or something

>>94885701
you could even go for "The Dare-Devil" for that retro appeal. they used to love hyphens

>>94885267
The last we knew he was getting into Warcraft. Also it stopped being summer vacation.

>>94885701
A namefag troll that among his latest shameless adventures ripped-off the Drac-Tits-challenge entry of gloryhol anon. Really he did it all while going into a whole wall of text of how it was "inspiration, not rip-off".

>>94885701
wait, surely namor and human torch can't be public domain.. they're old but they're not that old, not since disney extended the dates

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>>94885716
It's just a random drawing, really. I'm still figuring out what the characters and settings look like. All of these drawings are fairly arbitrary, depicting locations, and sometimes scenes from the story.

Also helps that some of these can act as photographs that I can copy and paste into photo frames in the background of actual comic pages.

>>94885769
Not the Marvel ones per se, but I do know the names were kinda generic in the early days so there were more characters with those names. Technically you can't use the names anymore because of copyright but the concept itself is public domain. Or something like that.

>>94885755
I don't think you can rip off a challenge activity meant to foster everyone's creativity. Of all the shit he does it's best not to rag on him for something that's okay.
But yeah, a troll. So basically just ignore him

>>94885878
er, trademark would be the thing keeping you from using it in the title, but yeah. Human torch is just barely generic enough that if you were fighting anyone else for it, you could actually win and they'd end up having to put "marvel's human torch" on what they sold (assuming they ever come back from disowning the FF)
but Namor sounds pretty specific. I'm sure there were several "Sub-mariners" but were there people named Namor? what does that name even derive from? I assumed it was some random syllables put together, like they were fond of back then. Gorgoth son of Goom etc

>>94885752
Hmmm...maybe. My re-imagining of him has him with two bodies, a physical one and a living magic shadow, and calling one the Dare-Devil could be an interesting wall to tell the two apart.

He's also two-toned because he's the chosen champion of Australia's Rainbow Serpent (possibly the oldest deity on Earth and still worshiped to this day) and he paints himself in the serpent's honor.

I'm amazed I'm the first one to ever connect him to the Rainbow Serpent considering he's always been a boomerang throwing multi-colored man who learned his skills from Australian bushmen.

>>94885769
I have a little skepticism, but the pdsh wiki says that their first appearances in Marvel Comics 1 and Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly 1 are both public domain because they weren't renewed in their 28th year per copyright laws at the time of publication.

>>94885878
From what I understand names are covered by trademark law which is different (but just as corrupt) as copyright law. ]

You can't sell a book called "Captain Marvel" (even DC can't because they sold the trademark to Marvel) but you can use the Captain Marvel character and his name in story.

>>94885952
>Generic enough

When in doubt you could always just do the expy thing comics have done for ages. Water Man and Human Flame.

>What does that name even derive from?

You really want to know?

Bill Everett wanted to name him something that sounded weird but also regal and so named him Roman but spelt backwards.

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>>94885921
>I don't think you can rip off a challenge activity meant to foster everyone's creativity.

That's the problem. Bones is not original.

>>94885921
>>94886149
It's not like its illegal or anything, no one wants to call the cops on him. But its still a low thing for him to just copy in a challenge.

>>94886149
wtf how did he think he was going to get away with this

>>94886189
>>94886206

Well to be fair he wasn't doing an entry for the challenge, but it was still a low thing to do. Also he said that gloryhol's comic awoke him "what I really want to do with my gothz comic" and so he was going to change ways starting with this page. So far he only made one more page and then died via the powers of Warcraft.
And you could say "well it was not a challenge vs challenge at least" but gloryhol anon already mentioned interest on making this a whole comic as well by the time, so bones was still copying gloryhol's layout and part of the idea.
So yeah that was most of the thread's problem with him when this happened.

>>94886239
how the fuck do you get addicted to warcraft in this day and age?

>>94886013
the living shadow wouldn't be devil-dare? or livedared? shit now i want to see marc summers hosting a gameshow called devil dare.

>>94886013
trademark is a totally different kind of corrupt compared to copyright. Copyright is used by one company to fuck over another. Trademark is the other way around.

>>94886013
>Roman backwards
Oh that's fantastic. and he's got a bunch of weird roman themed shit like mercury's feet wings and shit.. also coincidentally looked like what would decades later be called a vulcan...

>>94886149
oh you meant he literally ripped off that one comic. wow. that is dedicated trolling
but see this is the kind of thing you dont know about when you ignore him like you should.

>>94886272
friend of mine told me today "I think I can finally admit that I really like Wow"
he's been playing it since the beginning, off and on. Periodically loving the socializing and then hating the players and quitting for a while.

>>94885080
The idiot jumped the border, but didn't realize he was jumping back to Mexico and got killed by the drug cartel, the end.

>>94885080
We were over this already, gloryhol anon took some allahu akbar friends and bombed his shit out

>>94885822
Man I envy your skills

weird how whenever i try to draw a pile of people, and then assign each person to their position, I run out of people long before I fill the estimated pile size for that group

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Wew, almost done. Just one more panel. I should have been done last Saturday, but a busted tablet and a sudden illness really threw back my schedule. On the upside, I might be able to talk to the guy who motivated me to actually start my webcomic. I hope I don't spaz out and ruin my minimal reputation.

>>94887335
Glad I uploaded this, because I only see certain mistakes right after I hit upload. Fantastic time to catch them.

>>94887346
I know that feel anon.

What mistake tho? Call me blind but I don't notice which may it be.

>>94887257
Next time, start sketching a body on the bottom (no point in detailing it much) then another on top of that one, and so on

>>94887346
Isn't it great when that happens?

>>94887427
Background stuff on the smaller panels. The third one was supposed to have a background, but looks like it slipped my mind.

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here are pages of my webcomic. i am not going to link it to anybody you have to find it yourself

>>94887879
>Implying I'm even interested in this shit

>>94887879
Y-You too...

>>94887879
lmfao fuck this gay shit

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>>94887879
>"You can't read it! It's all mine!"
>Trying to pull a CartmanLand on us

It only works if people actually think it's something they want. Nice try though.

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Time to start the gears turning.

What do you guys think of this font? I've been going with Anime Ace since I found it (lol before that I was using comic sans), but I've been thinking about switching it up. I want something that's naturally a little bolder but I still like the squarish lettering (most prominent in the "u")

>>94888763
I don't understand this mentality

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>>94888846
it's okay, now post more cunnies nerd

>>94888846
I think it fits quite well, and this comes from someone who avoids using Anime Ace and other similar fonts because of their overuse. As long as the font works well and don't clash too much with the balloons and/or artstyle it's ok in my book.

>>94888872
I've got nothing against Anime Ace. Really I'm looking for Anime Ace Bold, but as the standard.

I really like this font, but it's almost too bold by default.

What do you guys think about putting up own site? I have been using Twitter and Tumblr as platform and it's working fine, but i wonder if site is more "professional", and easier to navigate. I'm just afraid that in this moment it's too late to put site up.

>>94889051
It's not the best option but maybe try giving a small white stroke to the letters so they don't look too bold. At least until you find a better font. Then again is not the best option but it's just to get away from the boldness.

>>94889081
I want my own site when I move to making a bigger webcomic (one with plot and all that) because it would look indeed more professional, but as for gag comics it's up to you really. May as well be a matter of checking the money costs there.

general question for everyone, what things do you take from media for your comics

>>94889187
Storytelling-wise any element that I find interesting or that could be worked better. I always try to give them my own touch though, if I just copypaste them there is nothing to explore then. As for actual media, dunno, I guess I take the way pacing with panels work.

>>94889187
I watch alot of psychological thrillers n such, and watch some movies just for their imagery.

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>>94889109

I like this one a bit better. There was a pretty awesome font I found (Out Of Line) but I'm not paying $35 for a font. That's outrageous.

>>94889299
The letters look better but the text looks like constant italics.

>>94889306
Now that you've said that I can't unsee it.

im not really doing a webcomic but I was listening to some pharoah sanders and wanted to draw this page. whatchyu guys think?

>>94889299
god damn this is fantastic
>>94887335
also really good. the backgrounds could use some more detail though, its pretty obvious its just texturing
>>94885822
looks great, can't wait to see the finished page

>>94885586
I didnt know that its going to be colored. Thank you for details on the thought process.
Also, I'm always on aboard for some sweet incest.

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>>94889485
wow. i should actually FINISH the thing before posting, jeez

>>94889299
Why not choose handwriying, anon?

>>94889553
Looks dynamic!

>>94887879
Actually looks fun, but people didnt like the attitude.

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The start of a new chapter that's continuing one of the two major narratives.

>>94889633
>Why not choose handwriying, anon?

What?

>>94889187
nothing specific, I just look at things and am subconsciously inspired

>>94890011
I think he meant "handwriting"

>>94889187
i basically just watch anime and think "what if i mixed this with Seinfeld? would that work?"
and then I try and draw that while listening to jazz music

>>94890011
Handwriting, sorry

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>>94889299

Hm. Still a little iffy on this font, but it is growing on me...

>>94890043
>>94890236

Do you mean, actually writing the dialogue in by hand? Ain't nobody got time for that. I can't justify the time cost of painstakingly lettering every bubble to perfection. Because I'm the type that would.

>>94880346
P2: "Yup. Yup" could be closer to the main speech balloons. It's so far away it reads like a completely separate statement, rather than an interjection. There's plenty of room to move it so the first "Yup" is closer to and above "And the twins...".

P4: No crossbar-i in "It's". Insert a line break "It's gonna // be ok." so that "be" isn't right up against the edge. The balloon is also forming a tangent with his hand.
"We're utterly fucked" is also nearly forming a tangent with the panel border. Nudge it up and left a bit to give it some space.

Font size on the standard dialogue seems to be a bit variable; it looks like you're changing the size to make it fit the space available, rather than for emphasis (eg shouting or whispering).

>>94890271
>I'm the type that would.
no you wouldn't, because you aren't you retard

>>94890309
>no you wouldn't

The type that would if I were to attempt it fool. Learn 2 context.

Sometimes I manually pencil in dialogue just as a placeholder and it bugs me enough that I waste minutes trying to get it to center on a hastily drawn sketch bubble. On a rough page where it doesn't even matter.

>>94890328
It boils down to this: you aren't and have zero intention of, meaning you wouldn't you retard.

>>94890431
>bait

I don't even know why I replied to you in the first place.

how much backlog should you have before actually starting?

>>94884377
My thing is as far as I've found the "specials" are part of the original now-PD run from Fawcett. Like the other anon I'm basically guessing they don't have a legal dildo hidden to slap me with.

I know Captain Marvel is really difficult to work with because of BOTH the copyright DC owns and the Trademark Marvel owns. But Billy, the Wizard Shazam, the clap on/clap off nature of saying the word, and in the special I read even Adam Teth getting the power and being banished to the corner of the universe. He's even called black adam.

I don't see how DC can claim sole ownership.

But I do thank everyone for the reply. I've been scouring the PDSH as well. (have actually eyed airboy since he just seems bad ass).

cc:>>94885701
>>94884533
Just a quick one Captain Marvel is a fucking mess rights wise but basically he was a Fawcett character. DC bought the Fawcett building and thus got the OG prints of Marvel (Whiz Comics and other lies Fawcett had). The thing Fawcett fucked them with was that they ONLY owned the original copies, not the copyright.

Marvel then bought the trademark down the line (which they've new bestowed upon an adult lesbian legacy character with a cruel heart... basically the opposite of Batson.)

Conclusion: it seems DC has ALLLLLLL their eggs in the Black Adam basket so I assume if they can they'll cockslap me for touching him.

>>94891126
Have at least a general guideline of how you want the story to go, then maybe 3 finished pages so you don't stress yourself so much with the schedule.

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>>94876693

Trying to make a minor character that's an anthropomorphic animal homage to characters like Velma/Mei as in she's a nerdy cheerful wide-glasses and semi thick girl. What animal species do you recommend I make her? (also hybrids of various species welcome as well) I'm sorta leaning towards a Pallas cat but I'm really not sure.

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Next episode of West Tree gag show is gonna be celebrating my favorite animes, and making fun of it.

It's even gonna get it's own fully animated opening! Can you tell what it's gonna be just through this one screen shot?

>>94886149
OOOOOH BOY. I forgot about that one.

Should I sue when I'm putting the comic online?

>>94893971
To be honest is not worth the trouble to the point of sue him

>>94894052
that was a joke. I really don't give a shit. It's just that I can't understand why someone would completly copy one of my pages for some reason.

Why did he do this? He doesn't seem to care about his comics.

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Okay, so basing on anon's answers, readers tend to skip following parts of comics:

Action scenes
Most of the dialogues
Backgrounds
Establishing shots
Small details
Gestural communications

So you can cut this shit out from your comics.
It seems that the ideal comic is Kotya.

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https://noyl-comic.tumblr.com/

hoping some people might like what i have so far. just fun project im making

>>94894491
It looks nice, anon!

>>94894478
that cat has a nice ass

>>94894135
Because as the other anon said, bones is a troll. A very dedicated one at it, his comics are crafted specifically to trigger hyw. Or at least was until Warcraft became a better place to shitpost probably.

>>94893086
Maybe a badger?

>>94890264
I like this one better
>>94889299
this one just looks too vertically squished otherwise it'd be great

>>94889553
This looks like a guy whose newsletter I would enjoy reading, as thumbtacked to the corkboard at the local laundromat

>>94889553
I would like to see more of this, please.

>>94894521
thank you! i really appreciate it. ill keep workin harder <3

>>94889897
>looks up with his actual head
>rather than lifting the.. presumably camera, presumably on the screen, thus tilting the screen back
i know it's just so that it reads properly, but that amuses me

>>94891608
>I don't see how DC can claim sole ownership.
Didn't they.. sort of purchase it?
basically rights-issues became fucking stupid forever once they made it legal to buy someone else's rights.

>>94893086
manuls are fucking cute but theyre a little too angrylooking for a cheerful velma. You wanna stick with the kind of animal that you could reasonably see making a )u( mouth
corgi, groundhog, chipmunk, giant ground sloth, mouse, vole, chinchilla, kakapo, something like those.
>wide-glasses
wait, what? why would you do that instead of cute round glasses?

>>94893161
i am familiar with soramimi cake, yes. I've seen my share of flash cartoons that mimic it, and they are always a good time.

>>94894491
This is the specific kind of manga I love when it's done properly. Good show. Could use more nudity.

>>94894972

>why not round glasses
I already have many characters with round glasses. Fuck half my main cast has glasses of some sort. glasses/nerds are like a thing of mine, I just need variety.

>>94894491
it seems that once the asks start coming in, you can no longer click on the comic to move it forward.. is that a limit on tumblr? fuck tumblr

>>94890264
I am strangely aroused.

>>94895095
>want to use a cliche for a specific kind of character but have already accidentally used that for most of your characters, establishing it as the baseline norm
i know that feeling. I'd say square, but square is way less cute than round. cat's-eye glasses are always an option. you know, the sideways teardrops

>>94895113
I get aroused as fuck by everything this guy draws. if he ever does me fanart i'm going to plotz

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>>94894960

>>94894960
How do you make inking?

>>94895101
Not that anon but this is a problem I have noticed with the theme actually, which is related to the kind of post it is.

If it is just one pic, it let's you click to the next post/page. If it's a photoset/anything that isn't just one pic on the entire post, then you can't click any of the pics to go to the next.

>>94895101
oh no! i wasnt aware of that. god damn tumblr.. idk how to fix that.. i would just reccomend using the "NEXT" button at the bottom of the page.

sorry for the inconvenience! ill look to see if i can fix this!

>>94894915
Captain Marvel is public domain. Not trying to be rude just letting you know if you don't. I don't know the specifics of the story, even people who've covered it admit it's hazy because it was a settlement in the 40s.

What I'm iffy on is whether or not Black Adam is PD. PDSH lists the Special issues which I think covers Marvel Family Specials but they don't list specifics like they do with the "ongoing" issues that are in the Public Domain.

But buying rights is common, theres no legal problems or disputes there. The only reason Captain Marvel is different is that is was due to a settlement between DC and Fawcett. Fawcett had mandated a Superman knock-off which led to Captain Marvel and Whiz comics. This was stated in the interviews during the legal disputes which gave DC legal standing that Fawcett had, in fact, intentionally copied them.

Rather than be sued for more they settled for less, giving DC their assets which included the building and OG copies of the comics but not the "rights" to publish the originals (as they were unstated in the agreement).

Marvel Comics came in at some point and bought the trademark which is where it further muddied this particular case. Rights sales, in most industries, are generally pretty simple when they're amicable.

I agree that trademark and copyright should generally be tied together but I think that's a side issue to the public domain as trademark doesn't infringe upon copyright (DC can still use their Captain Marvel, Fawcett's Captain Marvel, just can't use the name on the cover and promo material.)

>>94895344
yeah that's what I did. in any case I finished it/ caught up, and I fucking love this. Don't quit it, at this point I need to know what happens to them. I also left you an ask (er rather a command) for our shades guy.. whose name I missed if you ever said it

>>94895167
How you-a make-a da inky ting?

>>94895378
This looks like a theme that deserves a whole thread on /co/ instead, there must be some other anons on the board that know better on this topic that could help you with it.

>>94894960
Question, do you think you could fill us in on The steps you take to develop your own ink? Maybe even an estamated price range of the different materials needed for the recipe? I'm interested in the process myself, iv been researching various methods around the net but they all seem a bit pricey, i don't usually visit /co/ all the often but wouldnt you know it I did today and I came across this very thread and your work! I see you use some traditional ink so I thought this would be a good place to ask.

>>94895379
i promise i will not let you down <3 thank you so much for your support!

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It's Friday and Capeworld, and that would mean a new comic...but we're busy preparing a three page comic about Japan's first Magical Girl and her latest student. Sit tight and have this write-up on one of the Statesmen: Deseret, Stateswoman of Utah.

http://www.capeworldcomics.com/

This is the first time I've written a "lore dump" on a single character. I'm curious to know if I'm doing it alright.

Is Deseret an interesting character? I wanted to include enough on her history to give a strong sense of character without going into words words words. Did I overdo it? Should I have shortened it?

>>94894960
You're an artist / writer team, right? How do you handle the disrepancies in work speed / content amount?
I teamed up with an artist about two months ago. We are still in the practice and planning phase but he says he feels pressured by how much content i.e. how many chapters I have planned out even though I try to assure him that I have no unreasnoable expectations and that he should work at his own pace.
I can't really slow down either, right now the ideas just keep coming and I'm worried if I don't take the opportunity I won't be able to come up with something as good later.

How dou you handle this kind of thing? Surely the writing of your story must be well advanced beyond the chapters that are actually put on paper.

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>>94895866
2nd image. I wanted Desert's look to be very typical superhero because she's pushing herself to be the ultimate superhero who can do anything.

I gave her little sparks in her ponytail as visual shorthand both for her powers and her inherent instability.

Also, does anyone know if there's another Mormon superheroine? I think I just might have the first.

>>94895897
Always have a backup plan because deadlines will be missed both by yourself and your artist.

That's what Deseret is today. Plan B.

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>>94813788
i honestly spent more time redoing pages and cutting things down. just this one page i couldn't really decide on. it use to be two. i thought it would be weird if he just appeared right on the bus. and i still kinda hate this page. oh well sometimes you have to just gotta push through struggles rather than be stuck on them

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>>94895928

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How do you find an idea you're willing to stick with? I can find a concept that I really love and would love to explore but I'm so often influenced by other media I consume that when I see a new concept or something I'd love to incorporate into my work I get disinterested in what I was working on. I have all the technical skills to produce intermediate level comics but I just haven't found an idea I'm passionate enough about to stay with it even when my own interests shift. Any tips on staying with an idea or finding one worthwhile? Also how would I go about finding a legitimate writer to work with?

Where's pip at? Last I remember he was getting a writer, Wonder what came of that...

>>94895928
>>94895943
forgot to post with my trip. but oh well

>>94895866
I think (and this is just my opinion, I haven't read a lot of lore dumps to compare it to) you went into a wee bit too much detail. The writing is also not fantastic; there's a lot of missing commas and sentences that could be consolidated and reordered. That's part of what makes a lot of words pleasant to read.
as for the bare facts, as in the cartoon that played in my brain while I read it, it's good. I like her story. and I love the idea that genetic superhero shit isn't so clean and clearcut as it tends to be in comics

>>94895951
>Writer to work with

I'm fine writing scripts for you if you're willing to have me.

Will you have me? If you want to sample some of my work its just about everywhere on the capeworld website.

>How do you find an idea you're willing to stick with?

If you have to be passionate before you work on something you're doing it wrong. Harlan Ellison said writing is pure work., no different from patching roofs or working a cubicle. You wake up and work. Peter S Biegel said that if the Muse is late start without her. Write.

I'm at 2000 words a day and I'm far from satisfied with that little amount.

>>94896018
Thank you. I'm going to try and give the writing on the lore dump some punching up. At the very least make it flow better.

>Love the idea that genetic superhero shit isn't so clean and clearcut as it tends to be in comics

I've always liked the idea of superheros that have to struggle with using their powers. It makes a lot of interesting scenarios like Deseret having to grow up super-primitive on a farm before she got her electricity under control and how her first toys were just clumps of coins she stuck together. It gives a sort of "up from poverty" undercurrent to her story.

>>94895511
sorry about that, really. I just hate shitting up the catalogue with personal questions.

Found a thread that might fit though, sincerely appreciate the help.

>>94895951
People like you should be making comics with a huge hodgepodge of ideas, because you have what it takes to fill them properly, and those stories are fun. Just make it a setting where all kinds of shit can show up. A doctor who, a rick and morty, a mighty max. something with that kind of versatility.

>>94895951
You could have a few separate ideas (depending on how different they are) that you split into different comics. Of course, if you are having trouble sticking to even one comic, that might not work...

Start with the big picture (genre or whatever) and hopefully it's flexible enough to fit a bunch of cool, smaller ideas into it. Just try to do your best to modify your ideas to fit into one thing. Make them a part of different story arcs. Make a small, but diverse cast that you can attribute all these ideas to without straying from the bigger picture.

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>>94896118
I was thinking of setting up a little tryout almost, like a very broad concept and seeing what people can make with it. It's not that I'm picky over skill level, but rather I have a really particular way I want to tell a story but I'm not capable of it.

>>94896174
I actually really love making stories like that, but I'd also love to make something emotional that has a lot to say, but again, I'm not a capable writer lol. I think that broad style of storytelling works really well with something like a webcomic or serialized type of comic, but I'd love to make something like Inio Asano's work but much more westernized.

>>94896187
Usually when I do something like that I get a little too stuck in the world building. I'd like to start with the story and then build the setting to accommodate that story.

>>94895928
he looks happy to be there between all those people lol

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>>94894801

>>94896164
link to the thread? I would like to see what others say as well

>>94895951

Well I don't know what your standards for "legitimate" writing are but you can have a look at some of my scripts if you like:

https://pastebin.com/QKKT6Q0f

and a layout WIP:
https://imagebin.ca/v/3XuHI1FhQ0S1

>>94896308
>Tryout

I'm game. Just tell me what you want and I'll write something.

>>94896310
>my feet hurt
>next time I should wear more than just socks

>>94896459
Here you go anon, no real developments though:
>>94890686

>>94895148
>>want to use a cliche for a specific kind of character but have already accidentally used that for most of your characters, establishing it as the baseline norm

My story/characters in a nutshell.

>I'd say square, but square is way less cute than round. cat's-eye glasses are always an option. you know, the sideways teardrops

Curves do make things softer and cuter and I understand where you're coming from. (after all some of the aforementioned glasses characters I have I've based on wavy and softer features to compliment their personality and purpose in the story) But at the same time that kind of glasses gives off more of a librarian vibe than I think I'd like for this character. But thank you for the suggestions.

What's wrong with using Final Draft to write a script?

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>>94895167

>>94895386
>>94895171
>>94895758
Well, this makes a change from the usual meme so I'll bite - it's Deleter Black Ink 3 and a G-pen from dinkybox.

>>94895897
So the way we work is I (writer) draft/redraft/generally faff with the script a chapter at a time (and get one or two other people to check it), then I send it over to the artist, who goes through it and gives feedback.

After that, we start working through the script page by page, releasing one each week (sometimes we have time to work up a buffer and it's great). I then start working on the next chapter before we finish the previous (so right now I'm working through the first draft of the next chapter), meaning it'll be ready in time for when the next one is due to start. Hope some of that was in some way helpful!

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>>94897804
(Also here's the finished page while I'm here)

>>94896308
Gnarly style.

>>94897589
Using what?

thinking about turning a series of quests on tgchan into a webcomic

https://tgchan.org/wiki/The_Hif_Man

>>94898045
the art style would be the same but I'm wondering if I should do it using text boxes underneath the panel when the characters talk (using quote lines and a visual cue from the character who is talking) or with speech bubbles. In the quest threads, there would hardly be any actual speech, so I think the former could work, what does /hyw/ think?

Also each story is going to be unrelated and unconnected for the most part, in an episodic fashion.

>>94897804
Thanks, I appreciate it. Going throught the sript page by page sounds very reasonable.

How do you pace yourself though? You say you write one chapter at a time but from personal experience this doesn't sound right to me. Let's face it: writing can be done in a fraction of the time required for drawing, even if you take into account doing multiple versions of a chapter or fretting over pieces of dialogue seemingly endlessly.
Do you just stop after one chapter and start to come up with new ideas only when you've finished the most recent chapter? I wouldn't be able to do that.

>>94897537
oh oh oh, what about narrow oval glasses instead of narrow rectangles? kind of granny spectacles look

>>94897804
You're pretty much a hyw regular but I've never seen the artist post here. Why's that?

Also, I really like your comic, it's obvious that you both put a lot of effort into it.

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>>94898141
I've planned out the overarching plot in broad strokes from start to finish, so I guess working on the next chapter is putting flesh on those preexisting bones. I also have a meatspace notebook I scrawl ideas in (though those aren't always chronological).

>>94898233
Artist has a lot on her plate with full-time freelance work and her other projects so doesn't tend to stray far from her usual stomping grounds. That said, she does look in from time to time.

Thanks for the kind words, anon - we just want to tell spoopy stories and make our characters sad.

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>>94876693
My webcomic it´s shit

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QUESTION GUYS


should I post my shit on imgur and tag it meme like a faggot?

also I can't seem to into marketing on facebook
I even paid for ads like a fucking sucker and all I got was some Canadian underage chick from Alberta who liked my shit

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>>94899236

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>>94899262
I got a backlog of these 1-3 panels and I posted them everywhere

ib4 my shit is shit
I know that but there's something out there for everyone

>>94899236
>that pic
well that's sad as fuck

>that post
well that's sad as fuck too

I would think facebook was a good place for the comics since I have seen that kind of humor as well, but damn facebook is awful in many areas. I can't give an opinion on imgur though.

Having a patreon like this is just so fucking sad

https://www.patreon.com/raccoongirl

I would donate if I actually liked the comic desu

>>94900034
delete this

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>>94900034
We've all been at that point once.

>tfw

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>>94900034

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well I'm done the webcomic jam, here you go guys

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>>94900666

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>>94900701
idk what i was thinking

>>94900732
im confus

does manga studio have some default comic page setting thing I can use?

>>94900768
yeah even though i created, me too,
i think cause houdini had a book
and like
appendicitis
and like
appendix in a book
right?
aaaah... fuck

>>94900808
Fire Alpaca does

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What's hyws opinion on art school?

Of the people posting in hyw who've been to art school (or claimed so) most seemed unimpressive compared to most regulars but of course 4chan demographics are never representative so I don't know...

>>94901509
no need to go

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tried to write and draw a comic in 2 hrs but since I cant draw 3 pages with 20 mins left I'll just post this here so Im motivated to draw it tomorrow

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>>94901556

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>>94900157

be glad your getting anything at all, id kill to be at your position

>>94899289

idk man I think these are pretty funny, with a little polish I think these comics of yours can go far

>>94901509
I went to a two year art school and it did me no favours. None of the connections I made paid off (although I became the connection that helped a few friends from art school get work). The skills that have since gotten me work are all things I learned on my own. No one who has hired me has ever asked to see my diploma, most don't even care about a resume, it's always been about the portfolio.

Everything you need to learn to get work in a creative field you can learn from YouTube tutorials, friendly streaming artists, and online art communities. The real question is, do you have the drive to teach yourself, or do you need the structure a school setting provides?

If you're considering art school but unsure, and you have time to put it off by a year to decide, I recommend taking 6 months to a year and trying to teach yourself what you need to know for a career in art. Set a schedule, give yourself deadlines, and see where it gets you.

If you have a decent preliminary portfolio at the end of that time, and a bag of new skills you're eager to use, then maybe you can save yourself the money, spend another year polishing up those abilities, then start job hunting, relatively debt free.

If you waste the year with nothing to show for it at the end, you probably need a school setting.

In either case, aren't school won't make you a good artist unless you're driven to become one and open to learning.

>>94900157
That's not so bad.
34$ is enough for a month's worth of art supplies If it's nothing too fancy. Be thankful people are supporting you. Keep up the work and that amount will surely increase.

>>94895113
>>94895160

Then you will probably be happy to know that it does get hotter. Even though the joke is the cold detachment with which we sometimes design our characters. Even the hot ones.

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>>94901966
>>94901709
I'm actually really thankful for every patron. I put in a lot of work. Getting a new supporter is actually the best thing ever. It makes my entire day.
But it's not for my webcomic but everything else, though. Although two people told me they support me because I have that webcomic.

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>When you have nothing posted on your patreon and someone pledges you $1

>>94901021
Ohhhh I get it now
you could have said "the appendix of houdini's book" and it would have been more clear

>>94901509
art institute of atlanta is good
calarts is a mixture of good and bad but obviously the best for connections
massart is shit

>>94889187
>>94889265

for me Im trying to make a post apocalyptic story with magic radiation and a show I took from would be adventure time, I love how all the old wreckage looks in the show, Both in the past with young marcie and in the present with old wrecks lying about, I also liked how cancerous those early mutants looked in addtion to making every settlement look to cater to a certain kind of people. another thing I took from media would be fallout and their little pre war storys hidden in plain sight, I love that shit.

basically I'm trying to get every or a lot of settlements in my story to not just be rusted out communities and instead be places that cater to a certain mutants needs, in addition to having pre war storys and in general look more lively than say settings like fallout 3 where everything is grey

>>94902234
Self-pledging yourself dewd isn't gonna make anyone else want to drop money on you

>>94901509
It can help you out a lot but if you're truly motivated to git gud at art you don't need it.

>hard melonade
sisters guy where are you? I need to give you a high five and a sandwich

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>>94901509
Art school/college is, as my teachers told me many times, mostly just to get contacts. Both with fellow teachers and classmates.

Right now I'm going to a small con where I will share a stand with 2 friends and like 90% of the other artists that are going to be there are classmates from my generation and/or that were around school before I graduated. We are all in good terms and we give "publicity" to each other from time to time so our followers can follow them too. Sure we are still beginning but that's a small example of the contact thing.

>>94901509
Started full time work immediately after graduating high school.
A couple of my friendos suddenly decided they loved art and it was their passion so the university accepted them even though they're all bottom of the barrel talentless trash. So far none of them have improved and most have ended up in debt. Also it turned one of them gay.
Instead I draw on my off time and by the time I'm done saving up I'll have over 50k to do whatever I want with. Then I'll just draw for a year or two and see where it goes, will probably make a comic or join some company.

Personal opinion is I think it would be easier to find an artist that is actually good at drawing/painting instead of a university professor who might be worse than yourself and ask them for lessons. I think someone would progress A LOT faster with one-on-one face to face lessons rather than being in a class with 30+ other people.

Sorry for blog

>>94903086
you know I realize I praised atlanta school for being good based on a friend of mine who got better, but he was already good, and college turned him into a girl, so

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>>94903112
>college turned him into a girl
p-pics? story?

>>94903150
i .. didn't actually check to see if he was cute. I was too disappointed to the point of depression. I mentored that guy. considering he was kinda shotastic to begin with, er, probably... come to think of it, probably. but fuck that story. god dammit.

>>94903081

what do you suggest I do to get contacts for a storyboarding in animation job? thinking about going to an art school for that after cc.

>>94904297
Visiting cons and going to get reviews on your portfolio seems to be also good.

>>94901765
>The real question is, do you have the drive to teach yourself, or do you need the structure a school setting provides?

I think this is the key thing here, if you can learn on your own then do it if you cant get to a school that has a history of having good contacts

and if your like me who really needs the structure to learn then you should go at least I think

>>94904332

also just a general question is there any may American animation workplaces that accept applications that wouldn't even need a diploma but rather a portfolio

>>94904385
animation is a tidbit different, but basically if you have a demo reel that looks good, they don't care where you went to school

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Not really liking how the bottom panel came out, doesn't look as feminine as I wanted

>>94905321
I think it's the eyes and the bone underneath her right eye that is emphasized in panel 2 while in the first one it is just not there for stylistic choice. They look like two different persons or at least it looks like she has a different personality.

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Thoughts on this design?

>>94905321
kind of changed entirely. nose went from cute and upturned to bulbous and downward face got much fatter and seems to be melting slightly. I love the style in the top panel

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Even cut this one short and it still took a full week. I am not good enough to compete with once-a-weekers
oh well, shit's getting real and winding up.. and winding down.

>>94905651
I don't know why but this looks all very uninteresting.

>>94905397
love the chick, even if her super-low-crotch pants bother me slightly.
The exoskeleton would be overly boxy but it's meant to be speakers, so I get it. That's part of it. I would suggest though two big speaker-circles (i dont know what they're called) in place of tits on the thing's chest area. also the joints are a little ehh. The hands are fantastic so the elbows deserve to look a tiny bit better. Maybe something more like a microphone stand's joints
not going to pretend i'm bothered by how the fuck it balances in her backpack. that's just funsies. it would, however, be less obvious if it loomed over her head a wee bit and had additional stabilizers resting on her shoulders.

>>94905698
yeah it looked a lot better in my head.

>>94898160

>what about narrow oval glasses instead of narrow rectangles

Also used by 2 of my characters in particular.

When/if this thing gets published you will recognize it by the amount of nerds and people with glasses there are in the main cast.

>>94905748
well you've got my respectacles and I can't wait

>>94899029
ok

http://imgur.com/a/1aVai

Goodnight bump

>>94905651
this is good, you got talent

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>>94878548
Does the snake go to court? What a preposterous situation

Here's a sketch of Flatwoods for a comic I may write before I die

>>94905651
Loved frame with pile of people. Mostly, artists tend to avoid large groups of people in frames.

>>94907137
>>94907466
Samefagging like a mf

>>94905651
Your comic blows, it's really terrible and hasnt improved at all you piece of shit.

>>94907933
NINE
YEARS

>>94907712
No. I'm not samefag. I actually anon from across the ocean.
Я мoгy этo дoкaзaть, aмepикaнcкaя cвинья. He бyдь тaким пoдoзpитeльным, дыpкa жoпнaя.

>>94907712
No. I answer he post because he comic good. I actually no from America.
ไม่ใช่ ที่ตอบไปเพราะคอมมิคเขาดี ผมไม่ใช่คนอเมริกัน

>>94907208
>does the snake go to court?

I don't really understand, I think you might be confusing me with another anon.
Snek is the centerpiece of a 30-35 page comic I'm working on, her hatching being the climax of the story. I'm bad with scale but she's actually Godzilla size.

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>>94902277
thank you.


this one is for you

>>94900808
Yes. You can also freely customise the page size, margins, bleed, live area, etc. There are also many pre-set panel templates you can easily drop onto your page (eg for 4-koma).

FireAlpaca and MediBang Paint also have built in templates.

>>94908977
>womb and tomb pronounced woom and toom

I have been living a lie

>>94908977
/tuːm/
>Borrowing from Old French tombe
/wuːm/
>From Middle English wombe, wambe
/bɑm/
>From French bombe

Heh.

>>94908977
Don't know what social media to suggest but you should get on that man, tumblr would maybe be a good place to start? Tag your stuff like a mf just get active on social media man, bum as mf who can't into socializing won't get big in this game I promise.

>>94910408
Well how have you been pronouncing it?
>welcome back to biology, today we will be studying the waumbo

>>94908977
??

I pronounce them "woomb" "toomb" and so does everybody in movies as far as I'm aware...

>>94911698
>Today I learned everyone is doing it WRON

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Finished this page!

I'm starting to get tired of this artstyle, it takes too long to make pages with.

>>94907137
Thanks! I like to think I have talent and creativity but my skill needs a lot of working on
>>94907466
This same thing happened before, I sketched out the pile size I assumed I wanted, then when working out who'd be where, realized I ran out of people before I ran out of pile. next time I'm going to try working from the bottom up. But yeah the reason most everyone gets their own panel is I'm too lazy to draw large groups in frames. I worry that ruins the understanding of the setup