/hyw/ - How's Your Webcomic? #402

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>>95013155
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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>>95013155
It's time for the 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!

let this be the last

Can I discuss the graphic novel I'm working on, or should I save it for the next /coc/ thread?

>>95013182
this, delete this

>>95013231
If you want to share with us go ahead! It is enough on topic for us I think

>>95012992
I do have a tumblr. It's under the same name.

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Been working on something with a friend, college keeps me kinda busy though so I don't get a ton done often.

>>95013182
>>95013246
>let this be the last

Who got upset last thread?

/Hyw/ will never die!

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>>95013328
Huh, I wonder why it didn't come up in the searches. Thanks.

>>95013452
Indeed, what is dead may never die

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>>95013440

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>>95013486

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>show friend my comic few hours ago
>no response
>last online 1 hour ago

>>95013501
show them in person you dunce. did they even know you were doing a webcomic beforehand? is it a shit webcomic?

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>My overall paneling sucks

I just want to comic, I'm losing it anons!

>>95013479
No Anon, we are your heroes.

You are the dead.

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>>95013597
>in person
>real friends

>>95013155

Gosh darn it, i didn't even notice the bump limit. :/

posted the fixed video here: >>95013772

>>95013309
Appreciate it, I'll try to keep it on topic.

So the short of it is, it's about a 'war' of sorts over a mysterious energy that has a strong connection to the consciousness of humanity. The energy also has the ability to create sentient beings that are able to travel through peoples' dreams. No one truly understands the strange force, but its' power has drawn a lot of attention to it. Some characters are looking to take control for selfish reasons and are willing to do horrible things to get it, others seek it out to for more nefarious purposes. The story would focus on a small 'resistance' group of sorts of about four characters. Each character would have their own storyline before coming together to try and stop the war from destroying the entirety of human consciousness.

I took parts of this story from a webcomic I worked on in college, but the story's drastically changed from years ago. I've been keeping notebooks with me at home and work to scribble down any characters, plotlines, designs, etc.

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I'm almost done with the first (non first draft) page of mine. I'll link it tomorrow or September first!!

>>95013126
fucking lovely

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>>95013178
we gon' just link it to this post? that should make it easier to keep track of

>>95014192
something very abhorrent about this I can't quite put my finger on

any quick types on writing dialog?

>>95014301
be yourself

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Welp, looks like I'm doing small batches now. Possibly a weekly update, but no promises because my schedule is in the middle of a change. Started school again and my hours at work got shifted so it's all up in the air right now.

>>95013825
I've seen a lot of mysterious energy plots, phlebotinum that inexplicably connects to conciousness, and dream travel, but this has to be a unique combination of them. The idea that it CREATES conciousnesses weirdly knits together the less sensible parts of that.
I'm not sure I'm stoked that it's being folded into a resource-war and resistance story, but I wouldn't write it off entirely. Let's see a sample if you have any

>>95014301
>any quick types on writing dialog?
well for one thing it's tips
and dialogue

>>95014393
Definitely anticipating seeing this monster in its full glory. I know I have vidya memories of hanging out in a room outside a boss where it can't get to and trying to prepare for it.

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>>95014484
Well, prepare to be disappointed, cuz it ain't that impressive.

>>95014541
as long as it's big
so far you've shown you can do a lot of things really well, I bet you can do scale well too.

>>95014225
Let me know if you figure it out, because I was aiming for 'cute as fuck' and so far that's the feedback I've gotten
also does the fact that Gamla's a rocky golemy dino come across? I probably could have added better little dots or marks to give him a kind of granitey surface.
Guess I still could

>>95012903

Yup it's a small little epilogue until we can get into the next arc

>>95014451
Don't have any samples, but I'm up for discussion about other ideas/concepts I want to work into the story. Tulpas, psychedelics, and cults are also heavily a part of this story.

I'd been pondering about the origin of consciousness and imagination, so a lot of this story stemmed from that. I know it seems odd it veer towards a battlecentric story, but the more I started thinking about the Ether (a working name for the energy), the more I started thinking it was something people would absolutely be trying to take control of.

One character I have is the first woman to develop a consciousness, kept immortal by her strong connection to the Ether. She has a strong sense of ownership over the energy and has lived long enough to know some of it's most powerful secrets.

>>95015059
I would definitely not go with ether. There are a million psychological and theological terms for conciousness, I'd pick one of those. What's it called in Gnosticism? That sucker is RIFE with great terms anyone can use.
I have to wonder what it would be like to manage to take control of something so ephemeral, and how one would actually hold onto it and what they'd use it for.. Definitely intriguing, I'll check it out, so keep us updated.

>>95015121
Yeah I was fence sitting on that. I should probably commit to a better name now, otherwise it's gonna stick to me and it'll just feel weird to change it later. I just googled "Gnosticism and consciousness", holy shit do I have reading to do. Thanks for the tip.

I'll update again with some characters and plots later.

>>95015259
looking forward to it
It's funny because I immediately thought of two franchises I really enjoy that use ether as their special sci-fantasy fuel substance, and both of them had deep interesting mystical crap and imagery built in, but not strongly related to said ether. One of them used gnostic shit all over the place so that's how I thought of that. the other, all tao kinda shit.
What's really fucking weird is the first thing I think of whenever there's a scifi element connected to conciousness is fucking star trek of all things. They never really fully followed up on the ramifications of the solidly-established and strangely-quickly-accepted fact that warp fields were related to thought

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>>95013155
>>95013807

ok, i finished the newest page, but first i just now finished uploading the video of me making the last page, so here that is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0n-oJiw0gM

and here is a wip of the newest page for now even though its finished and the video of me making it is rendering right now lol! :D ^^

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>>95015395

and here it is, the newest page of GGZ! I hope yall like it!

i made this in sketchbook pro, original stuff!

*you can read it on:

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

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Alright anons, here's my latest work for a webcomic I've been on/off contributing to. Been really debating on trying to start something, maybe a Graphic Novel. What do you guys think?

Rip me apart as you see fit.

goodnight bump

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>>95013178
Mine doesn't follow the theme but it grew from "lava" and "inventors". I got a quick idea for my two characters and just went with it.

I don't consider this an official entry. I just want to tell you guys I really appreciate you all here in /hyw/!

https://foxandcatadventures-ooc.tumblr.com/post/164545421153/short-01-lava

>>95014225
Probably related to the way the little girl is drawn and framed, it gives a major pedo vibe but that's not a surprise given who drew it.

>>95017153
love this one. lmao that last panel

>>95013619
>all these cool meaningful shots and scenes in your head
>get to the layout/sketching phase
>it's all just talking heads over and over again
HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING

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>upload comic
>check blogger stats
>11000 visits
>check own website I pay $10/m stats
>360 visits

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>check my other less known comic I love more than my popular comic
>161 visits

>>95018282
>>95018311
this is bones, you can tell by his shitty english. also you have no visits, don't kid yourself

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>>95013178
We meant to have 3 pages, but my artist lives in Texas and the weather hasn't been very nice there (fortunately he wasn't directly in the path of the tropical storm so he didn't have to evacuate, he just had a lot of rain).

The theme is magic + inventors (Alice is a prodigy of the white way and invented her own style of magic).

It still tales a story even without the third page.

What do you guys think?

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>>95019084
Normally the art for Capeworld isn't so manga, but we decided to manga it up for the subject matter.

Any tips or some tutorials or something for gesture drawing? I still feel like I'm not really getting it. I still feel like I'm just trying to copy the image and not really break it down how you're supposed to, but I'm not sure what to do exactly.

>>95019116
The amount you're copying stock anime faces makes it look pretty bad.

>>95019995
I understand your point. We wanted to do a homage thing but I think we overdid it.

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Guys, I really want to make comics and learn to animate. What degree would I have to go into to learn this? I want this so bad.

Has anyone here ever drawn something for others people, only to later see that they have made changes to your art without consulting you?
I sometimes draw characters for family, and I'm not always happy that they change my art or copy my drawings to use elsewhere. Maybe Its selfish, but I just don't like the idea of people editing or changing my art.

>>95020160
Sequential art and animation respectively. Keep in mind you usually can only find those degrees at art schools, and that you dont need an art degree to be good at art or get an art job.

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Okay, so I'm making a romance comic and I need advice. I'm not sure if I should end the story shortly afterwards the couple gets together, or if I should include another more plot-focused story arc after the main characters hook up. My reason for wanting the more plot-focused story arc is because I want to show how the couple work together now that their relationship changed, as well as to give the individual characters some more growth. My main concern is that the extra arc will bore readers, since the main focus of the story, the romance, would have already been resolved at that point. Thoughts?

>>95020820
Maybe you should focus on writing a story with a beginning, middle and ending instead of worrying about genre definitions.

But for real, if you think a romance is "over" because two characters get together, you're writing a shitty romance.

>>95020944
Mang I literally just said I wanted to continue the story after the romantic arc was resolved to further developing character's relationship.

>>95020820
I'd suggest that you make it omake or a proper sequel, rather than the final chapter of a story with a different focus. That is, make sure that if a reader decides to not read on after the characters get together, they're not gonna feel like there are major plot threads unresolved.

>>95020568
Get over it faggot

>>95021160
Oh, I don't mean just adding an extra chapter. I intend the arc to be about 3-4 chapters, and take up maybe a third of the story. If I were to do the arc, I'd want to set it up and lay hints for it from early on, and since I'm still in the early chapters of the story I need to decide if I want to go with this arc or not.

>>95021274
In that case it's hard to speak in generalities - the question becomes about how well it meshes with the main plot of the story.

>>95015825

Bland boring comic thats impossible to read or care about, with boring bland generic characters that dont matter, also annoying colors.

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>>95021535
>Bones giving criticism

>>95017276
>quit drawing everyone side-on all the time, it's boring. vary up your angles
>no, not those angles! that framing is pedo vibe!
make up your mind

>>95020568
If you see someone using your art in ways you didn't approve or changing it (and it actually bothers you), talk to them about it. They can't read your mind.

>>95021674
Coldfusion, you have got to learn to roll with the punches. Stop pouring gasoline onto a fire.

>>95021674
What?

Anon only said one of those things, and they aren't mutually exclusive complaints.

>>95021674
>implying not everything you draw is pedo-vibe

>>95021535
That's a fair assessment. I was trying to go for more of an atmospheric piece with that issue and the characters were obviously supposed to be robotic, but I really don't think I succeeded on either front. Tbh, I'm taking all the criticism I can take. I draw as a hobby outside of work and school, so any and all pointers help.

>impossible to read
I had a feeling this would be the case, the whole holographic/cyber-text vibe likely wasn't a good approach.

>annoying colors
Specifically the atmospheric colors, like the red glows? Or does this extend to the character designs as well?

>A dude with no drawings or exclusive uploads on his patreon has more money being pledged to him than my awesome comic

https://www.patreon.com/nosmir

https://www.patreon.com/raccoongirl

Why live?

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>>95015604

Are yall motherfuckers ready for another brand new behind the scenes making of video? Good, check it out yall-

heres the video of me making this page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6c9CDnTRsc

hope yall like it, lol

>>95021818
Do not listen to bones. Ever.

The lighting is nice. I would make the text easier to read tho.

>>95021885
I rather read dewds' comic than waste my time with yours

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>>95021907
I mean, criticism is criticism. It's better than getting the usual "I like it" crap from everyone else I know.

But yeah, I'll definitely need to work on text contrast. I like experimenting with character speech, mostly because I find bubbles to be boring.

Here's another example of something I'm talking about:

>>95021818
Bones is a shitposter, he's not going to give you substantial advice because he's here for giggles.

That said, your four most obvious issues are color, depth, linewidth and composition. You're using neon lights in dark areas despite not having a sense for lighting or color theory. I'd honestly suggest stepping back and letting someone else handle colors until you have some sense foe the fundamentals. You're having some issues conveying depth as well, most notably in your figures. That's just going to take practice, but you can opt for simpler angles in your pages while you practice. Related to that is your near-uniformly thick lines. I encourage you to go read some black and white comics in several different genres to get a sense for how thick and thin lines alter how a piece or art is viewed. Flipping through the 100s in Cerebus, checking out some Zot, maybe even pursuing a wide variety of manga. Finally...your composition leaves a lot to be desired. I'd recommend reading the basics, like Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, maybe some 1960's Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby, and some contemporary books like I Kill Giants to get a better grasp on how your panels flow and interact.

Basically...double down on the basics!

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>>95022060
And just for fun, here's another. Any and all criticism is welcome: whether it's art or writing (the latter of which I know is lackluster). I just want to improve.

>>95022060
>I mean, criticism is criticism
Maybe, but criticism isn't always constructive criticism.
Also it's bones. You can't trust it even if he meant well. He can't teach you anything because he doesn't know better.

>>95021885
Dewd is actually more successful at art than you. Meme all your want, you can't deny this.

Go ahead, post your dank devil pepe pic.

>>95022085
I agree 100%. I know I have a bad habit of wanting to run before I can crawl. I've never taken art classes or anything like that. I will definitely look into all of those recommendations, thanks.

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Is Lucy the most OG shitposter in this thread? She has the ability to work outside comic format. Her half-assed made art is still somewhat decent, and if you pay attention the girl improves every few works. She might be a fucking asshole, and incredibly annoying but you gotta give in to the fact that she's trying.

>>95021675

Thanks I'll give it a try, maybe I can convince them to do there own drawings if they want to make changes, or if they have a certain vision they want to create.

>>95022298
With regards to composition, I'd recommend giving this
http://www.floobynooby.com/comp1.html
a read-through. It's focused on storyboarding, rather than comics, but it's pretty much all applicable.

>>95022319
This is a sad post, Lucy. Just stop, you're never going to make yourself relevant

>>95020095
honestly I think you underdid it. They look more like miis than like anime characters. It's okay though, as someone that likes this shit, I appreciate the effort. It's significantly less cringey than, say, that time Phineas and Ferb went to japan

>>95020568
I feel like it's different with family. I've never known anyone but family to do that and not think anything of it. The few others who have wanted to change something made sure to ask me first.

>>95020820
Just think about what makes the story good. You have to have conflict and resolution, yeah, but it doesn't have to be the romance that has already been resolved. It could be something else. How they're going to get a place together, the difficulties in that, how they get over their early serious fights, etc
a movie like Fatherhood or Father of the Bride always good as an example, because it was slice of life before slice of life was a thing, but managed to have no particular pace ands till keep you interested all along

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>>95022319
>She
lmao

>>95015825
I like the art though a lot of it didn't pull me in until I actually read the text.. which is quite good. I would maybe edit the robogore so it doesn't look like they're full of streamers
prawn stars made me laugh

>>95021697
I thought I was. Remind me not to go into boxing.

>>95017577
Thanks!

I just love surreal and absurd humor but I know it's not for everybody.

>>95022106
*Colors: I'm no expert, but your characters and the environment seem disconnected. The first half has a dusty background that's so overwhelming that the scene is meant to be dark and brown from the whipping sands...but the purples and reds are still highly saturated for some reason. It doesn't look like they're glowing either, it's just garishly purple and red despite even the rest of Mr. Purple Textbox's body practically shouting "It is a bit dark and brown in this scene." The other part has the near opposite problem, where it looks like you just slapped a coat of red on him and went "yeah that works."

*Panels: It's probably because your comic is so vertical, but all you really got going on is two even panels or one wide panel per row. It isn't varied enough for the changes to have an impact, but it lacks the consistency of uniformity as well.

>>95022518
Also consider not going into these threads

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>>95022319
>She

And thanks.

>>95022319
>she

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>>95022189

>pretending like your not my biggest fan

yeah ok kid, sure, whatever, heres your epic devil pepe

>>95023290
Are you going to let Dewd win and accept your defeat?

proof yourself that you're not inferior to Dewd, show us man!

>>95014225
>>95017276
>pedo vibe
Not even a fan of the page but how fucking tumblr are you guys?

>>95023692
>recognition = Tumblr

M8 I've read enough loli doujin in my time to spot a fellow connoisseur.

>>95023957
But what makes those hot is NOT having a pedo vibe. That's why so many modern ones are so terrible. It's the equivalent of so many modern hentai featuring a fat ugly male protagonist for some reason.

>>95024221
It's not the pedo vibe, it's the pedo vibe with children cartoon "style" on top of it

>>95020568
I do that here anonymously. It makes me feel really good when my art gets passed around. I'm not too keen on people changing physical copies, but it's really cute when people online color my anonymous art.

>>95024314
Tbh I wouldn't hate CF's pedovibe work as much if he just up and admitted it was his fetish instead of calling anyone who dislikes his wank material a prude who can't understand "innocent nudity"

>>95024517
Wait, when did I deny it was my fetish?
It's just not something that comes up in my comic. I cover that shit in my non-comic work.
And for the contest entry, for god's sake there was a really obvious spot for an upskirt here that I could have taken if I was going that way, but I wasn't. Because this story is about a magician's apprentice. Now if she was like 3-4 years older and the story was about falling in love with her wizard sensei who was not a 12-ton rock creature, then yeah maybe it would fit the vibe. Shit, that actually sounds like a good idea.

>>95024612
oh wait, I can think of a perfect example of when it WAS used in the comic, as a joke. That time when I wanted to reference Tale of Genji, while bringing back 2 characters. The joke that he seemed a little too close to his adopted daughter and his name turned out to be Genji and shit like that. That was supposed to be mildly awkward and funny, particularly because the last time we saw the girl she was a villain. But mostly just a reference.

>>95024612
Coldfusion, please just don't.

Don't reply.

Just stop replying to posts. It's not helping you in the least. And they're saving all this stuff. You know that right? They're probably putting together a jpg right now.

Just walk away man. Just walk away.

>>95024727
yeah I know, but >>95024517 is somebody legit, right? That person deserves an explan8

>>95024727
He doesn't listen to anyone else, why do you think he's going to listen to you?

Let him wallow, he wants it.

>>95024612
>Now if she was like 3-4 years older and the story was about falling in love with her wizard sensei who was not a 12-ton rock creature
>who was not a 12-ton rock creature

Hey what do you have against pure love?! I would totally romance a rock creature wizard if he was nice enough.

>>95024982
Calm down, Coldfusion.

>>95024726
Cunnilingus?

>>95025269
Agreed, but sometimes size considerations have to come into play. That thing's dong would be half the size of her body. Unless you're into that deformation crud that's so popular nowadays.

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>>95025317
T-there are many other ways we could satisfy our sexual desires without having to be full vanilla tho. And even if other means are not an option I wouldn't be upset!

Seriously tho reminds me of some comic where apparently the alien chick doesn't have a vagina so she and the human boy are like "oh no we can't be because we can't have sex this won't work". I saw tits and a mouth so far, there is no way you can't make sex work.

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>>95024982

coldfusion status: ABSOLUTELY ASSBLASTED! XD

lol, hey man atleast your not brett keane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuFemZP-H_8

I'm just gonna say this but being a Pedo HAS got to be the ugliest stigma of them all IMO. You can tell me you eat people or whatever I'll still see the pedo as more disgusting

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>>95025420

i feel like i need to make a public statement about CF

I have never once made fun of coldfusion, ever. I even made fan art of some of his characters in the past. I dont think his comic is bad at all, I look at every page he posts and think the art is pretty good and fun but ive never read any of it, and dont ever intend to but i dont think hes a bad artist or a bad guy. Just saying.

>>95025404
The no-vagina thing always bugs me when it comes up. Like especially if it's a mermaid or something. Everything* has a vagina, it's just a question of whether it's serving double duty as your anus
*except extremely simple animals that just vomit everything up out of their mouths

In the case of the alien I'd just ask how the hell they reproduce, and give it a shot. Something must come out of somewhere, right?

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>This thread

>>95025685
What's wrong with this thread? We got some interesting magic themed comics for the contest:

>>95017153

and

>>95019084
>>95019116

and even though its by Cold "Pedo King" Fusion we got

>>95014192

Which makes three. We actually have a contest now.

We might have 4 entries if someone else enters before the day is out.

>>95024982
Coldfusion if you actually bothered to act semi-professional and not REEEEE whenever someone posts at you people might warm up to you.

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>A comic about fighting in a semi-realistic world
>One of the four main characters is based on anime tropes

>"My friends are my power!"
>"I'll only use 45.8% of my true power!
>"Let me explain to you my punch I just threw"
>Let me scream to power up"

In reality he's just a major weeb that has an above-average reaction time and natural potential that adopts anime personas to make himself more confident. He's often shown to be(and occasionally failing at) going out of his way to try to make things look more cool than they are to the bewilderment of onlookers. Learns that usually the world doesn't follow or care about his anime-based actions and sometimes uses those to trick or fake out the enemy. He's able to pull off being a cool guy with varying degrees of autism that may or may not be ironic. Also he's vaguely asian.

I need a name for this guy. I was thinking of

>A.) A made up name that sounds vaguely asian but is from no distinct region, possibly a play on words regarding anime

and/or

>B.)A name that sounds like a special attack from a fighting game

I've come up with names like Shoren Shinryu but I can't quite get one that I like

>>95025890
That's actually pretty durn clever. Not only would it make him more confident, it might intimidate his foes, if it doesn't make them laugh so hard that they can't fight.
I would go with a name that combines extremely common name-parts. Like it should end in -taro but it should start with something equally ubiquitous and generic. Ichitaro or something. Except that sounds bad

>>95025759
>Magic comic contest

No thanks

>>95025890

Give him a generic Shonen name like Jiro, Hiro, Joe, etc.

He needs several different power forms and a running joke where he forgets which one is which.

"Ha! Now to transform into Ultra-Knight Golden...I mean Hyper-Knight Golden!"

>>95025935
Coward or uncreative?

>>95025973
>"My name is Ichigo-no-Ichiro! I'm the number one of all time!"
>"Doesn't that mean #1 strawberry?"
>"IT'S NUMBER ONE OF ALL TIME!!"

>>95026174
Bingo. Make him a fun character but with flashes of nobility. He's goofy, but he has a heart of gold and refuses to let his friends down or let the bad guys win.

>>95026224
whenever he japs it up he'd use all the rude personal pronouns and crap
and on the occasions when he met actual people from japan, he'd wonder why they're treating him like he's being so rude instead of being cool

>>95026224
Out of the 4 friends, he's actually the worst person.

>Doesn't take training seriously and relies on his natural talent
>By far the most self-centered, to the point where it becomes a detriment to the group
>Is the strongest in the group most of the time yet always relies on his friends to bail him out of trouble.

His personal character arc revolves around his power-level gradually dropping off as his friends and everyone else start to pass him up him learning the importance of hard work and gaining enough real self-confidence that he doesn't have to have an unhealthy reliance on pretending to be anime characters he thinks are cooler than he is.

Anyways, I'm still brainstorming the name but I'm also thinking about an english name that is very close to a japanese name. Close enough that he could've just started calling himself that in school and it eventually just caught on

>>95026367
In that case, Joe does work well. It's a perfect anime name cliche and it's a totally believable anglophone name

>>95026326
>>95026174
>>95026224

I haven't thought of that actually. Him meeting a native-born japanese that's disgusted by his weeb status could be a pretty entertaining and appropriately-cringey scene.

Reminds me of another idea I had where his weeb ways betrayed him

>Bad guy finds a picture of a girl in his wallet
>Bad guy uses girl as hostage
>Johnny McWeeb tells his friends that the girl in the photograph is actually his childhood friend who promised him that she would marry him when they were both infants that he just never told them about
>Tries to hide his identity as they save her
>Is ultimately revealed that the girl doesn't even know him and he's just a creeper who has a crush but was always too nervous to talk to her so he stole/took a picture of her without her noticing and kept it in his wallet

And thus, the first time his anime persona gets completely 100% destroyed.

>>95026543
The way I see it, that girl (or any other genuine jappo) would be too polite to say anything, so his little world would continue undamaged

>>95026692
A japanese person might be too polite to say anything, but he still has enough awareness to feel awkward. The girl idea is more about getting caught in the lie in front of both his friends and the girl herself

>>95026894
Oh okay so he's not fully full-on deluded.

>>95026543
It sounds like an interesting idea for a story, but you'd have to be careful writing it so that he doesn't come off as TOO creepy.

Have it so that they're friends but far from close friends. Because taking a picture of a girl without her noticing and carrying it around as a token of his waifu is extra creepy.

>>95025759
Working on my last page, I'll try to finish before the day is up

Daily reminder that an important part of making your webcomic is NOT making your webcomic

>>95029114
this, been watching the new episodes of rick and morty. feels good man

>>95029114
I'm torn between starting a new painting or making a new webcomic panel.

>>95029114
as it is written. Do what you do for six days, but on the seventh you should rest.

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me and my friend make these

I posted a few a couple threads ago

I don't want Buddy to end up becoming a punching bag but all of our ideas end up with him as the butt of the joke

>>95029114
<3 <3 <3

>>95029555
That's a pretty mild joke for 9 panels, but everything about it is well-made and well-executed.

I hope that Japanese guy with the neat lines, comes back. would like to see where his comic goes.

Besides just getting the drawing mileage, is there a way to work on a web comic without a tablet? I can scan things I work on traditionally but I don't have experience with any sort of software

>>95027022
For him I'm aiming for a "unhealthy" but not quite "mental illness"

>>95030450
You can certainly draw, scan, and even edit and color digitally using your mouse... So yes there is a way, but will it ever be true that you wouldn't be better off with a tablet? doubt it.

>>95025439
I mean, I ate your mom last night and she seemed to appreciate it.

>>95031199
cringe, you even had to butcher the euphemism to try to make it work

>>95030241

Who would that be?

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my entry for the contest

(1/3)

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(2/3)

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(3/3)

>>95031503
oh man, right at the buzzer
>>95031539
I can't follow it for shit, but I love it anyway.

>>95031649
Thank you

>>95031539
This is so cute. I'm in love with the main character's design. Did they turn the people in the city into beings like him/her? Or maybe summoned one of its own kind? That's what it seemed like to me.

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>>95013178
Forgive the crappy dialogue, I had to whip this up in the last couple hours to make it in time

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>>95033117

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>>95033167

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Had a good challenge with the effects on this one
Kinda changes the feel of that time Robin insisted that they had all died because it would be a beautiful and dramatic way to go, doesn't it?

>>95033117
>>95033167
>>95033270
This is gorgeous. almost woodcut-ish. I love all that detail, and I really love me this kind of fantasy. You draw some nice faces, so I'm really looking forward to seeing what you can really do once you get a little bit more anatomy practice. Come to think of it, are you new? The name doesn't ring a bell.
Checked out your tumblr. I love that crazy horned harpy creature

bump. So when will contest judging be?

>>95034454
In a few hours just to give one last chance.

>>95034674
'kay. It's almost 1 AM in the states, so perhaps judging should be postponed, or at least voting kept open, til well into tomorrow

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Hey guys, I'm bouncing around an idea for a comic about WW2. I've always been interested in it as a subject but I want to really research it intensely for this project. I'm curious if any of you know of any visual resources for things like uniforms, weapons, vehicles, etc. I can search things on google images but I don't really trust that for finding accurate reference for a lot of that. Also, I've arranged a few interviews with some vets from the local American Legion. I want this comic to be as accurate and true to life as possible and while documentaries and books tend to give a lot of information over the course of the war and how it played out, I want more info on the small visual details, things that normal media doesn't necessarily show you. Thanks ahead of time, any info would be greatly appreciated.

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>>95035367
Oh also if anyone knows some other good comics set in WW2 I'd love to check them out. The only one I've read is Maus and while it's a really great book it doesn't really focus as much on the war.

>>95035367
>I don't really trust that for finding accurate reference for a lot of that
I mean, it's probably the best-documented war of all time, so...
>things that normal media doesn't necessarily show you
.. got a great-grampa who's still alive maybe?

>>95035428
Unfortunately I never knew any of my grandparents. Like I said, I'm gonna be talking to some vets, and while I'm hoping they can tell me a lot about how things were, I still need visual resources. I've seen a few images from the Men at Arms books and those seem like they'd be helpful for uniforms but I don't know of any pdf's of them and unfortunately the library near me doesn't have any of them. I also need some good reference images of vehicles.

>>95035469
fortunately figuring out which reference images are legit should be pretty easy

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>tfw only few people understood yesterday's comic joke
Once in a while the references are too obscure I feel like bkub. I don't give a fuck.

>>95035501
it makes it all the better when someone, someday does discover it

>>95035367
Osprey books are always a good bet when looking for references. Reenactment and collectors forums often have knowledgeable discussions on authentic uniforms and equipment. There are also some great dedicated websites for the equipment of the era like http://www.mp44.nl/equipment.htm

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Constructive criticism please, what do you all think of my webcomic?
>http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/bongo-and-luna/squeeze-play/viewer?title_no=98650&episode_no=1

>>95035959
surprisingly good, I had very low expectations, but when titties start getting squeezed my dick can't help but agree

>>95030155
it's only 8 panels

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This is going to end up action-y, but there needs to be some setup first.

>>95036090
oh man, I confused 6 for 7 again, before adding 2. something's wrong with me.

>>95033469
coldfusion have you considered doing a new comic where you're just the writer? i mean no offense but your art leaves a lot to be desired

>>95036377
but my writing's not very good either
in an ideal world I'd just come up with the character and monster designs and some puns. The fanart I get shows that my characters look pretty good in more competent hands. I just keep staring at that perfect one Grim did of Sasha with the full demon hair suit looking just perfect

>>95035959
I shouldn't like this
but I do.

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>>95036518
fuckit I'll post it.
perrrfect

>http://shi-tan-nime-comics.blogspot.com/2017/08/co-promotion.html
http://shi-tan-nime-comics.blogspot.com/2017/08/co-promotion.html

I am back! The most ironic mangaka of the internet. As you probably guess, my autism prevents me from making any friends at college. But guess what! I got to go through the pain of Reiko, cause i actually went on muh very first date in my life with a chinese girl. And what more, she was creeped out by me and dumped my ass. But thats okay, because i must preserve my energy to bring my quality content to /co/. Its 4 am currently, and i still havent studied for my geology quiz!

>>95019084
Im impressed! I cant believe its not furry
>>95031539
hope that magic power cult shit leads to something cool like someones head exploding
>>95036100
huh. sort of reminds me of zero suit samus

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>>95036579
I FORGOT MY PIC OF NICO NICO!

>>95036100
>p2
>even never
should be switched around to "never even"

>p4
>bodys
Should be "bodies".
If you're not aware, when nouns that end in -y are pluralised, the ending changes to -ie.

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I just finished this, and Im already disappointed of it.

I'm too tired to care, here you go

>>95036579
>4 AM

Where are you exactly if you don't mind me asking?

>I can't believe its not furry

Our last contest entry was about a world from Capeworld's multiverse B that's populated by post apocalyptic medieval beast people wtih mech suits because the theme was "post-apocalyptic funny animals".

I swear we aren't a furry webcomic.

>>95036835
Huh, you post here? I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

I know things never turn out quite as well as you hoped, but you've made definite improvements from the first time I saw your work. Keep it up.

goodnight bumpity bump

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

throwing in my two cents. a comic about suffering

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>>95037690
I like it, its easy to read and understand so far, although I went back to old pages and was really surprised at how brutal it was . ah ha ha...

Need to get back to it, sometimes I forget how to have fun. Its weird that it takes conscious effort to bring myself in the right mindset again. Work in progress, test coloring to separate out all the parts.

>>95037783
thanks man. also really liking what you have so far. the arts really good. it doesnt look like the usual amateur attempts at anime im always seeing now a days. and idk if the flat colors were intentional, but i really like them. they make everything look/feel softer

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>>95033532
Thanks! No, I've been here quite some time but I just lurk. It's my goal to get good enough to do a fantasy comic, but it's always Coming Soon™. And yeah anatomy and panel composition are my biggest frustrations.

>>95037783

Panel 1 Dialogue 2 is right up against the panel border; nudge it left a little. Needs a crossbar-i at the start.
Panel 3 Dialogue 2 also needs a crossbar-i in "I needed".
Panel 4, centre the dialogue.

Suggested dialogue adjustments (note line breaks):

That last bit of pain was to give you
what you always wanted...

To be a magical girl forever...
All I needed...

Was the last bit of your "humanity".

>>95033117
i like it!

>>95013619
lo

>>95035959
i like it! pretty funny quick laugh. and its got good art. there isnt much i can say to make it better. i think its best as a simple quick comedic comic

My newest endeavor is to create the most autistic we comic of all time. What are some must-have elements to ensure I go FULL AUTISM?

>>95038451
feature Bones, CF, and Dewd as the main cast and you're set yo

>>95036542
>coldfusion gets fanart and I don't
I'm just going to kill myself. If a pedophile with a terrible comic nobody reads, who makes no money after 15 years in comics, gets fanart and I don't, there's literally no reason for me to be alive.

>>95038726
Most artists care more about you being nice to them than your art being good. Make some friends.

>>95024221
>>95024314
>>>/tumblr/

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>>95038726
>TFW I got tons of fanart when my comic was in it's god-awful early stages but now that it's improved into something good I rarely get any

>>95012675
>Doing too much art and never engaging is bad branding. Surfing too much and engaging too much is procrastination.
Or just make really good shit, so you wont need this attention micro-management faggotry.

>>95039178
Although I agree that trying to raise attention on 8 different venues is stupid, don't start this back up. Let it die.

>>95039205
Okay.

>>95018641
I'm your fan, make more.

>>95018641
I'm your enemy, make less.

>>95039270
Fuck off, nobody loves you.

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Coming along, will go live soon.

>>95038017
>>95036528
>>95036030
Thanks

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>>95036938
Thanks senpai, I legitly tried my best in that drawing hope it makes it.

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>The software I've been using for years has comic panel tool
>I barely realize now

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>tfw I don't know the first thing about comic paneling

>>95041892
Read critically acclaimed comics.
Study their panelling.

>>95038726
I once got fanart, it was neat. I probably should have mentioned my character wore chainmail instead of a blue tunic, you can't really tell because my comic is in black and white, but besides that, it was gud.

>>95041892
panelling doesn't need to be artsy and crazy
it just needs to show what's going on
Watchmen is simple but very effective

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>>95040810
Check this out

I hope it shows the importance of understanding perpsective

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>>95042145
Here's another example albeit a bit shitty

It's the answer to why you're struggling to draw while other people excel at it

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>>95042203
>>95042145
>>95040810
and another little quick tutorial

>>95042232
>>95042203
>>95042145
>>95040810
Be sure to check out more books on perspective to further understand depth measuring systems, foreshortening, etc.

That's just to drive home the point that you need it if you're to be a successful artist.

>>95037690
whoa, that picture. That's gotta mean something

>>95038726
People love drawing fanart for unique but poorly-drawn comics and cartoons. It feels like you're fixing it.
See Klasky-Csupo redraws

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>>95042145
>>95042203
>>95042232
It's in times like this when I do give my 100% in a drawing where I just see how shit I am and want to give up alltogether

>>95039495
You've got my attention

>>95042024
Yeah there's a constant struggle inside me between the nerd who wants to point out "well actually" about six details on my characters that the fanartist interpreted properly, and the part that knows that's a douchey thing to do. The former wins once in a while
What one should do in that situation is consider making the designs clearer in the comic, so people wouldn't make that mistake.

>>95042298
I think another issue you have is that you're not really looking at the picture.

It's like you're going off of an idea in your brain, but you're not seeing it on the paper and making adjustments. It looks bad because of this.

You need to continually ask yourself "Does it look good", and if it doesn't, make changes to see what will look better.

>>95042298
It is daunting, isn't it?
But not all of us learn that same way. Some just learn by observation until we grasp the same basic principles in those guides.

>>95042298
>>95042328
I think you've really got a lot of depth and form to your art, but it could easily be from eye-balling what feels right to you as an artist, and that leads to stagnation when others expect you to understand perspective.

It looks like it's all right, but some of the lines on it make me do a double-take because they don't really follow the over-all form.

>>95042328
No, I just lack skill because I am taking caution and breaks during the process

>>95042341
I don't know how I learn, I just want to give up now

>>95042398
The best way to learn is through experience and practice.

Draw some basic forms from life, and apply perspective to them.

I think you're just lacking in perspective and design, and that's killing you.

Those are 2 fundamentals you need to master, but perspective mastery comes first. It's the entire reason you can make a figure look correct.

>>95042444
Post work

>>95042398
>I just lack skill

Yet that's incorrect.
You lack aesthetic sense.

Your figures don't look good because you haven't analyzed the general shape of the figure and decided whether it's appeasing to the eye.

To give you a good example, it's like deciding whether you want to use a thin, thick, or wavy line to accomplish something. You choose the line that looks the best to you, and that's the best line for other human-beings.

It's the same thing when you're creating anything on paper. Whether it's a land-scape, or a house, or a warrior. You have to break-it down into things that look nice in order to have it be successful as a piece of art, and you're not doing that at all. It's a lot of time and effort that you're completely skipping because you picked up some fundamentals and probably forgot what you used to do before you ever started using them.

A good drawing looks good because someone looked at it and obsessed over what looked good to them.

Some people will have an easy time doing it, but some people might struggle with it as their brain is wired internally as opposed to externally.

That's what "talent" is when it comes to artwork.

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>>95042596
>>95042444

I'm fucked then

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>>95042522
I did this the other day.
I didn't take enough time on it, but it uses all of the fundamentals I'm telling him to learn.

>>95042662
You're not fucked if you keep trying and learning.

You just have to learn color theory and rendering if you can't decide what looks good, but I'm absolutely certain you've got that skill to some extent as every human being does.

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>>95042672
>This guy isn't even trying and draws exponentially better than the shit I took hours doing
Why live?

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>>95042704
>This guy isn't even trying

That took me a couple of days. All line-art takes time.

This is what I drew like a year or two ago before I knew how to draw.

If I can do it, you can too.

>>95042750
The drawing I posted was shitted out in less than 6 hours from the moment I started sketching until I finished.
I don't have the patience neither the ability to pick up WIP's

>>95042704
>>95042750
The main reason you're not getting it is because you're not doing it right.

I advise you to learn all about how boxes rotate in perspective, and watch and observe how they affect everything in reality.

Everything in this world has 4 sides.

Everything is in perspective.

If you can rotate a box, you can rotate a fore-arm.

Once you know how to use forms in your artwork, you can draw like easily.

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>>95042846
This is good advice, but in practice, things don't have four sides, and it's really hard to apply these things to anatomy
Instead you have to learn things like how to draw cylinders in perspective. Sometimes all it takes is drawing a coiled spring shape and going around and around and around til it's the right thickness for the perspective in question
There's also useful things like this that use boxes and cylinders together, or even just sticks and circles

>>95042982
You're right about things not having 4 sides, but, in my experience, each proper cylinder/sphere/pyramid is constructed from a box.

>>95043035
It's definitely a good way to work if you can manage it
Also, if you can imagine a square moving through the box, and imagine just how big a hole in said square would have to be there, for the limb to fit through.. Yknow basically thinking about cross-sections. that helps. at least in deciding what angle you're looking at

>>95042846
>>95042982
Give me 24 hours to recover and I'll come back for advice, right now I'm just broken into pieces and have no motivation even if I injected coffee into my veins

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>>95013155
>>95013178
Alright sorry for the delay, have been busy all this time and now I have to wait for the printing to not fuck up.

Eitherway here is the strawpoll to choose the winner of the 4th hyw challnge! Remember that you can vote for more than one so we can get second and third places.

http://www.strawpoll.me/13838839
http://www.strawpoll.me/13838839
http://www.strawpoll.me/13838839

And these are our entries!

>Short 01- Lava by Fox-and-cat-adventures anon
>>95017153

>Lava for Breakfast by ColdFusion
>>95014192

>Magical Woman by Capeworld
>>95019084
>>95019116

>Bunma by flowerbabyyyy
>>95031503
>>95031519
>>95031539

>HoL by Vela
>>95033117
>>95033167
>>95033270

Nice work you all, thank you and good luck!

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>>95043120
I recommend you do the falling box off of the cliff exercise (The one marked number 6 in the picture I'm attaching), and study these tutorials I posted

BE SURE TO UNDERSTAND VANISHING POINT MOVEMENT BEFORE YOU START TRYING TO MAKE BOXES FALL OFF OF CLIFFS

Don't just look at them, put them into practice, or you won't understand and try making a circle of falling boxes (falling both UP and DOWN)

>>95042232
>>95042203
>>95042145

Then check out sketchfab if your computer can handle it, or even draw objects from life, and apply perspective to a figure using boxes.

Here's a good model to start with:

https://sketchfab.com/models/2ff06863e40541a1b029ee3a98e6b209

Also, be sure to understand gesture/figure drawing, and be sure to understand how shape affects your figure. I recommend Force by Mike Mattesi

>>95043321
You probably won't understand everything about vanishing points and boxes right away, but I advise you to download some 3D software to run perspective experiments if you can.

It helps you to learn more faster.

Don't expect to be the box master right away.

>>95042320
It was worse for me since we were doing a livestream together and I wasn't paying that much attention to his stream. I saw the beginning of his drawing, but when he colored it, I missed it.

>>95043321
>>95043357
If you ever need a deeper understanding of perspective,

check out Marshall Vandruff and check-out successful drawing by Andrew Loomis and check-out perspective made easy.

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>>95043554
I'm never gonna make it.

I'll just try my best for now but I still feel bad that I couldn't do better. And perspective is my weakest point since I never draw exteriors, landscapes or inmobile objects

>>95044355
If you draw a human head, you need to do it in perspective.

I never draw landscapes or inmobile objects, but I do draw a lot of people, and I have to treat the human body like it's a structure just like anything else in the world when I do draw it in order to draw it successfully.

Boxes are they key, and until you learn to use them in perspective, you'll never be good at drawing because it's the only real way to recreate reality on paper.

>>95044355
This is weird. We've had a lot of posters like this but none who made it clear who they are, meaning it's not fake. I feel like I need to help.

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Doing some visual research at the library. Unfortunately I live in downtown hicksville so there isn't huge selection.

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>>95044594
And another

>>95044594
>>95044631

This is one of those really excellent looking projects that get posted a lot but will never see the light of day, isn't it?

We get one of those every other month. The last one was an antro-animal action comic with early disney cartoon aesthetic. Looked absolutely amazing, guy posted his concepts for a few weeks then disappeared never to be seen again.

I have the suspision that people with that level of skill just suddenly get a job in graphic design or illustration and give up on their comic projects. Realy frustrating.

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>>94969294
decided to actually write dialog
I was a fool to try to not to, there is no other way to get better than practicing.

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>>95045068

>>95045068
>>95045090

careful with that unintentional comedy.

>>95044481
Not sure if I'm being sensitive right now but I feel that your advise, tho useful, feels like a direct punch to me like " heck you only draw people? Well I only draw people too but I do it right". Thanks for the tips tho I'll take it into account when drawing

>>95044541
>We've had a lot of posters like this but none who made it clear who they are, meaning it's not fake.
What do you mean by this?

>>95044990
Well I already do freelance work, and this is a passion project that I've wanted to do for a long time, but I'm just now finding the time to do it. The problem is that because I want it to be factually accurate I need to do a lot of research so it will probably take a long time until I get to a point where I can start producing pages. I'm determined to create it though, and I'm going to pace myself on the work with it to avoid burning myself out. A great project gets created by years of planning, work, and dedication, and I think a lot of people who have those great ideas end up expecting to see results quickly and they jump into production and realize they didn't plan properly and have to go back to planning and dump pages and get dissapointed.

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>>95039046
>>TFW I got tons of fanart when my comic was in it's god-awful early stages but now that it's improved into something good I rarely get any

Same here, I have a folder with over a 1gb of fan art from back when my art was god awful and borderline chris chan teir

i think its mainly because of this post: >>95042294

its why i made so much fan art for awful looking comics as an artist you just want to draw something better than the artist draws it because it makes you feel better than them, no one has the balls to admit this, except for me and people going anon.

its why i made so much fan art for steven universe, the art is just so god damn awful you have to draw the characters you do like in your own style which is better than SU's tumblr calarts cookie cutter style

peridot is the only good character in steven universe by the way, and not just because shes still my waifu after all this time lol

How do I avoid populating my comic with primarily girls? I tend to make characters based off of songs I'm listening to and it just happens to be the majority are female singers so I tend to shape the character like that. Though this extends to having some kinda body horror idea and thinking "oh that'd be a cute girl" and now they outnumber guys pretty well. Ideas?

>>95045632
Sounds like the simple answer would be listen to different music
But gender diversity isn't something you should really worry about
Do what feels right, you don't want your comic to become a contrived mess

>>95045632
listen to non faggot music then

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>>95039046
>tfw never got fanart for the projects I loved, but got tons of fanart (a majority of it porn) of two zootopia OC's I drew as a one off doodle :|

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>>95045487
My art is shit and I still don't receive fan art either way...
I sometimes commission friend artists to draw some just to make myself feel better

>>95045977
stop moping god dammit
no artist gets better by whining constantly to get people to suck your dick and tell you you're good.
if you want to get better, just fucking draw
the people who are better than you are better because they've put in so much more work than you
if you're gonna complain about being shit instead of just putting in the work, just fucking give up already

>>95046132
Okay I give up

>>95046460
Thanks, bye

>>95045128
>What do you mean by this?
What part were ya havin trouble with, darlin'? The part about how people posting these feels are usually anonymous? How they're usually obviously faking?

>>95045632
self-insert a little. insert your dad or the kind of cool older bro you wish you had. It's the only way I've ever managed to include male characters.

>>95046758
Oh okay, now I understand

>>95046758
>How they're usually obviously faking?
How would you know? Because they don't post work? You think the timid people who post those pathetic self loathing feels will come forward and admit in front of everyone which trash heap is theirs?

>>95047002
What reason would there be to ever take those people at face value? The few times people do, it becomes immediately clear it's not legit.

Has anyone from /hyw/ ever COMPLETED a project?

>>95047256
That's an entirely different subject, you said "obviously faking", meaning you saw some tell. If anything clues point to the opposite, the people insecure enough to make these posts anonymously would be the same people shying away revealing their names lest it becomes attached to "that pathetic feels guy". They're here on an anonymous board after all you retard.

>The few times people do, it becomes immediately clear it's not legit.
Go ahead and show how the times it became "immediately clear". Just like how you showed they're "obviously faking". But judging by your deflection I know you're going to go off on more tangential bullshit you made up.

>>95047605
meh...I knew you weren't intelligent enough for me to have a raisinable conversation with. Pathetic.

>>95047585

Metal Animals (the comic we entered last contest that won) is finished. We'll probably do more stories in that universe, but as an introduction to the world the comic and text story did its job.

http://www.capeworldcomics.com/

And Metal Animals is here: http://www.capeworldcomics.com/chapter/metal-animals/

>>95043179
>14 votes
>In a thread with 73 posters and god knows how many views

I'm always amazed how big a gap there is between people that watch and people that interact.

>>95047605
Look, just because you're fundamentally right about that kind of assumption doesn't mean I'm not right about it being obvious, just because I amn't expressing it properly or convincingly.
>>95047684
Hey you're not me!

>>95047714
a lot of them are probably asplee

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>>95047714
I think it's because of what anon >>95047764 said, besides some people are still kinda busy at these hours, so that's why I'm letting the voting stay open a bit more too. I don't know if waiting until tomorrow to announce the winner and let the new theme be chosen + getting the extra ones or if do so in some hours.

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Well, enough self loathing, time to get to the pencil and paper again...

>>95047861
no, more self loathing

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>>95047917
Nah, I feel that I already got enough support today, time to move on.

>>95047585
Well I did complete some fanfics back when I was 14 years old and was terrible at writing, does that count?

Now that I think I got better on my skills I can barely get out of the idea guy phase tho. Funny how I used to be more active when I was ignorant.

>>95045632
Is that really a problem though? Body horror stories with female characters aren't exactly uncommon.

Although if you want to start associating body horror with dudes then look no further than the master David Cronenburg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wyrwOJJtNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDmKeFc6Ns

>>95047816
I say keep it up until tomorrow morning, give a whole day of voting.

>>95047956
>Funny how I used to be more active when I was ignorant.
Same. I have binders and binders filled with old comics and until about 3-4 years ago I literally didn't draw people who weren't stickfigures cause I just didn't care I guess? Either way that definitely stunted my artistic growth and I am regretting it.

>>95047816
needs more discussion too

like attaching a statement of what you like most about an entry, and such

>>95031503
>>95031519
>>95031539

This is borderline experimental.

>>95043179
>http://www.strawpoll.me/13838839

i voted for coldfusion ^^

>>95047714
A lot of people just don't really care about the contests. I've got my own comic to work on, I just come here to occasionally dump pages, ask for advice anonymously, and to laugh at ColdFusion.

>>95048570
>to laugh at ColdFusion.
the main reason I come here desu

>>95048549
>Voting for coldfusion
>He's now tied for second

WHY

>>95048696
Some people just want to see the world burn

And artist aside, the comic is not half bad tbqh, it's decent for a one-page little gag.

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>>95048696

although i didnt read it it was a fun comic it was like a scene out of a cartoon and it all just kind of worked compared to the other comics which where really basic in its visual story telling ability to convey action and motion, the other comics where very basic and just following the theme instead of bringing it to life in an almost animated way the way coldfusion did, just saying lol

>>95048696
the important thing is the best one is in first. we knew that one was going to win anyway even if it was less cut and dry than the last few times.

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>>95036601
Thanks for the corrections. Sometimes when you are in a hurry you make odd mistakes, and also sometimes the lettering process is you changing your mind over and over about what the dialog should be- and it can end up mush if you aren't careful enough.

There was also layer order mistake in the first panel, with the white eye shape over the ink layer, covering up the redhead's eyes.

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I was thinking of putting the rest of my comic in Black and White so I could get it out faster. I'd try to keep the values and everything just making it monochromatic. Should I do it or would it be too jarring to the reader? I'm about 70 pages in. Pic related.

>>95045487
To mention a positive reason, maybe artists are more likely to draw for someone worse than them because the receiver is more likely to appreciate it. I know I've drawn art before for people as good or better than me and they either didn't respond or barely said anything.

>>95047585
While I've had a lot of webcomics that didn't have endings, I did finish one once. The host for it doesn't exist anymore though, so it's not online now. I hope that the comic I"m currently making will have an ending. I know what the ending will be already.

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>>95048874
I voted for Capeworld. I liked the whole Sailor Moon grows up and teaches mahou shojo thing even if their comic was technically incomplete.

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>>95047585
1/11

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>>95049475
2/11

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>>95049491
3/11

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>>95049514
4/11

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>>95049538
5/11

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>>95049566
6/11

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>>95049581
7/11

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>>95049601
8/11

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>>95049626
9/11

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>>95049644
10/11

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>>95049675
Done

>>95047585

ive completed several short stories and chapters.

see i treat every chapter like its own separate project becuase i plan to keep each of my 4 projects going on forever so once i complete 1 chapter thats like 1 project completed. if that makes since to anybody....

ALSO working on a new page now, but its super big with lots of shit going on and backgrounds and stuff, the next three pages i digitally penciled out in chicken scratch form have a lot of panels to them and very little word balloons because i want to convey a lot of stuff going on in just 3 pages

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>>95049734

oh yeah i forgot i can just show you the panel work with out the chicken scratch layer on lol

>>95049698
Interesting story! Is she going to end up fighting the other girl?

I love the ruins, and I like the weird incongruous look with the girl wearing a schoolgirl uniform and a helmet. She looks like something from a Suda 51 game.

I feel like it could have been compressed in a few places, and design wise I feel like she looks slightly too school girl. I mean I get what you're trying to do but maybe it could look a little more ragged and worn? It looks too perfect for the setting.

It's still very neat. Do you have a website for your work?

>>95049217
I've seen other comics do it and I hated it every time.