I'm making a comic called fart man. It's about a superhero who uses farts to fight. Anyone interested?
Grayson Foster
but why
Cooper Fisher
I am interested in writing it
Gabriel Jackson
Don't know if this is the thread to ask, but I've been looking for this webcomic I vaguely remember, it was about the creation of some planet with an alien god, the art had a very Superjail vibe. Can anyone help?
Alexander Flores
>its a road trip episode
Max comfy
>I'm gonna kill myself! >robot man: hahaha dont do it Based robotman
Michael Davis
Oops wrong thread sorry
Josiah Adams
>Alt Q: What do you currently need help with, but are too afraid to ask about?
Man, getting started. I’ve wanted to make a comic for literal years but every time I start testing out a few pages or even thinking about making a website/promoting myself, it feels overwhelming.
I can draw alright, I can make characters, stories, and passable pages, but so much of my skills still need a lot of work.
This is probably just something I have to get over myself.
Also this is my first time posting in a /hyw/ thread so pls no bully.
Henry Mitchell
I'm writing a script and I'd like an artist, if you're interested?
I've had people ghost on me, please dont ghost on me
Oliver Howard
I LOVE the burning wino
Levi Jenkins
Start small and casually. Don't go in thinking you gotta go big or go home. Don't pay for a website, start off free, like a blog or just Twitter.
Take the time to practice and challenge yourself. Start off with whatever crude sketches you've made and post them. Keep posting whatever you draw. Eventually, time will pass, you will see your old drawings, and you'll make new decisions about what to do.
Point being, don't feel like small steps are not worthwhile, because it'd be better than standing still.
Dude. Original as in not edited to be a green eyesore. Don't be so pedantic.
I was thinking that the reason no one bothered to create a new thread and instead let the old one die was because they didn't have the original version of the image to do so, and now they do. I'm not egotistical enough to assume everyone was waiting for my lazy ass to get up and do it.
Ian Davis
updated today actually! I've been having a lot of fun worldbuilding for this spinoff series and I can't wait to get into that in future pages.
>What do you currently need help with, but are too afraid to ask about? I need to work on my online presence, even here. I tend to just drop a page and disappear.
Hmmm, it depends. I said I could draw characters ok. My backgrounds, enviornments, and lots of other things still need work. What is your story about?
Thanks for the tips, I appreciate it.
Thomas Turner
fug I really need to remember to put humor in my comic.
Grayson Wilson
What's the story about that you need humor?
Jose Kelly
I think there’s too much comedy in webcomics. There’s too much mental illness melodrama too.
Actually, there are just too many webcomics.
Andrew Martin
so it's like this wacky space adventure, and the first half does have some jokes and stuff, right up to about halfway through, and then it kinda turns into more of a drama which I didn't even realize I was doing. I guess I'm still happy with the end product but I just need to figure out humor and joke timing I guess
Sebastian Perry
>Actually, there are just too many webcomics. The sad reality of all works of art. Not that I complain, its good to know there is an infinity of works to choose from. But for small artists I guess it IS sad since it makes being known way more difficult.
Daniel Walker
Analogues of the marvel heroes have to solve a mystery that leads to them discovering that the captain America analogue wants to institute a fascist regime/government in the us. I'll drop the script if you're interested.
Easton Young
If you really think that, why don't you do your part and delete yours? If there are too many webcomics how do you justify your webcomic's existence?
Robert Taylor
How do these colors look for Kaptain Kadaver? I like the general ball park, but not sure if it should be tweaked at all.
Not him, but I dont think your logic makes sense. There are too many people in the world too (I mean I dont know, lets imagine there are), yet I still would want to exist. Making a webcomic is a selfish thing to do, always. You normally dont do it for the community, you do it because YOU want to tell a story/get attention/art shit.
Jayden Gutierrez
Of course, I can understand those points. But if you're going to assert there should be less comics, then you're just part of the problem if you're going to make a webcomic as well. Not to trash his webcomic, but does it really deserve to exist more than most webcomics out there, when there's already "too many?" It's just kind of a hypocritical situation.
Hudson Wood
>Making a webcomic is a selfish thing to do, always.
Ass-backwards, retarded logic.
Adam Gonzalez
Ah yeah, I get what you mean. I still its hypocritical but also inevitable. Just like in the "too many people in this world" situation, someone could say that yet still not kill himself and it feels... vaguely hypocritical, yes, but it makes sense to just point out something thats happening.
Some time ago I used to think amateurish writers shouldnt publish their works because there were too many books out there. Nowadays I think thats pointless. People git gud by receiving criticism. That said, it cannot be denied that everything is flooded with creations of less-than-desirable quality. Including my shit of course..
Thomas Price
Guess im talking from what I know only. I dont think I ever met an artist that honestly did it "for others", and stopped his hand because "no, this is wrong, there are too many (art) already". Even the ones who do charity art want some recognition. Im not saying there is anything wrong with it, though.
Levi Nguyen
"Selfish" seems like a negative, derogatory way to put it though, don't you think? Sometimes people are just inspired and want to put their story down, and they put it out there. Not everyone seeks some kind of gain out of it, as evidenced by the fact that there are plenty of comics out there that number in the hundreds (or more) of pages, with actual single-digit followings.
I've seen some comics that are more or less just the author unloading their stream of consciousness onto the page, and just putting it out there for whoever might accidentally happen up on it.
Sure, some people do their comics for themselves first and foremost, but I think the median person just wants to tell a story, and I don't think that's neither selfish, nor selfless. It just "is."
I think the far greater issue is that there's a sea of half baked, abandoned comics and ideas, so webcomics are a literal dime a dozen. Every teen and tween who had random inkling of an idea cross their mind and has OCs floating around in their head starts into a comic with no real plan, no real story, and no real idea of what they're doing, so they do three pages and they're never heard from again.
This is kind of the issue with hosting sites like Comicfury, Smackjeeves, Drunkduck, etc. etc.
Eli Garcia
Should you make a comic in color if you have colorblindness?
Asher Gutierrez
yes
Bentley Hughes
From just this, it looks great.
Normally, something to help you choose your colors is to have the characters stand in their normal setting and see how those colors play with each other. Copy and paste this design to some various colored backgrounds like his cabin and on deck (I'm assuming he captains a ship?) and see if it still looks good.
Dominic Martin
good colors. burgundy and pale lime are a great villain combo
Matthew Parker
I see, its not a bad point. But for me, even the author who puts his comic for years and has zero readers is being "selfish". That said, again, I sorta consider being selfish a virtue, so im not trying to be derogatory when using the word. Its okay to do things only for yourself. Im using it precisely to show that someone who uploads their ideas shouldnt concern themselves with realities such as "there are too many comics" even if they can point them out.
Anyways that would already turn this into an argument about morality and acts and no thanks. I do think I get what you mean and I agree, well, especially with the last part. Comics should never be left incomplete.
It was meant in the same way that someone complains about the traffic despite being a part of the traffic. It’s not so much a call out on comic makers as it is an admittedly inarticulate observation that there is an ocean of amateur comics. Pareto distributions are a bitch.
Justin Brooks
Sorry. I didn't mean to sound argumentative. I understand a bit more what you mean, then.
Josiah White
In future I should probably read the whole conversation before contributing. What the fuck even is this thread?
I showed off Aapep last time, here's his owner (or Blitzer going by story terms. No name yet but she's based off of a Sphynx cat, was thinking of giving her wings (like the mythical creature Sphinx) but decided against it. This is her when she was young with the next picture being her present self. NOW THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE. But yeah, advertising is a pain, you wanna get it out there, but you don't want to be invasive, especially when you're the one who made it.
it's not just this thread. it's every thread, on every board. it might even be every site, I dunno, I've long since stopped going anywhere else. We're being stirred up by paid shitstirrers and for some reason we're falling for it. their employers then enjoy more anger- and fear-motivated clicks on their ridiculous websites.
Nathan Nelson
cats operating robots? madness! Naw this is cute but I'm not super keen on those proportions. I guess it's a look. I also don't think Blitzer is a great 'medarotter/robattler' equivalent. Among other things, it's a last name. And it sounds like a sneeze.
Angel Price
How do you make non-soulless digital art like this? My brush lines look nothing like this
Joshua Carter
well, they didn't >Scan_date.png
Jeremiah Bailey
Yep all pencils, my own digital art needs work though. Thank goodness for planning then, I'll stick with it for now, hopefully I can come up with something better down the line.
Bentley Wood
No, it IS just this thread and that's why I'm complaining. I'm comparing it against the last- which was yesterday. What the fuck even is this thread?
Hunter Cook
My favorite tool is something called the Carbon Platinum Fountain Pen (super fine). Actually kind of a love-hate relationship with it. This pen produce very thin line for a fountain pen, but also have good flow. The down side is that it drys slower so its prom to smudges if you are not careful, and it occasionally start dripping large amounts of ink if you don't pay attention to the pooling on the underside of the nib
>find japanese artist that wants to be mangaka >they use deviantart and post their poorly translated work on manga pirating websites >they don't understand why english users hate their work so much >its all low quality shonen rip-offs >give them useful advice and offer my services in hopes of success i am become the writer
Robert Brown
You can probably spin it as a feature, actually. Save character colors in a palette or a list of hex codes for consistency so it's not confusing to the reader. Otherwise go wild. I know somewhere out there is a tool for converting color images into how they look through different types of colorblind conditions. Readers can run your comic pages through that for a fun new perspective.
Christopher Foster
>What are your favorite tools/software/sites/etc you use for your comic? I use GIMP 2.6 to make Laserwing, but that's very old software that freezes constantly, so after the current chapter I'm going to do some tests in Krita. Krita's a bigger memory hog but doesn't freeze up as much. There's certain functions that work slightly differently, and I'm still figuring that out, but I'm mostly sure all those functions are there.
What I'm using Krita for currently is sketching, I managed to make a custom brush that I really love for making sketchy pencilly lines. I also adore the wet brushes Krita comes with. Pic attached is drawn with my custom sketch brush and shaded with a wet brush. I'm hesitant to make Laserwing pages in this way though, because I like a little more precision with my lines when I'm making my big important webcomic masterpiece. I need to fiddle with settings on the Krita inking brushes until I get something that looks and feels like a smoother version of my GIMP pen settings.
I'm not interesed in learning another art program right now, I just got semi-comfortable with Krita! And when I am ready to tackle a new one I wanna figure out Blender. I have an old version of Manga Studio that I can use for inking if I can't get Krita to do the kind of lines I want.
Adam Adams
I love physical media the most but I'm getting used to Photoshop.
My comic's name is Rikomenci and it's on Kickstarter! I've got one week left so if you could check it out I'd appreciate it a lot.
While we're talking about tools, I wanna talk about getting a toyhou.se account! It's mostly an adoptables and RP site but it's still very handy for organizing characters. You can set up 'links' between two characters and then they get a little section to talk about each other in. I'm having a blast putting my stupid alien romance OCs together.
Unfortunately toyhou.se is in invite only beta, and you get invite codes by paying in as a premium account. Which I am not doing. I dunno when they intend to get out of beta.
>I just got semi-comfortable with Krita Oh okay, you said 'going to do some tests' so I thought you hadn't yet. >old version of manga studio it should let you upgrade for free.
Jacob Reed
I have a specific way I do things for Laserwing and I haven't gotten Krita to do the same things yet. It's really minor stuff about transparencies and selection tools and stuff. I'm sure Krita can do what I want but the names for the functions aren't always the same. For example, what GIMP calls 'floating' a selection is called 'cut selection to new layer' in Krita and it was on a different menu tab inside a submenu.
I also had to go in and manually change the shortcut for 'redo' from 'ctrl + shift + z' to the extremely sensible and correct 'ctrl + y'
It's that stuff and finding the pen settings that are right for me.
Christopher Phillips
clipstudio can be hard to figure out with regards to all of that, including that exact thing about the undo-redo. I only just figured out where that setting is. Often different or even redundant aspects of the same setting will be in totally different menus.
Samuel Morgan
Isn't it just the worst? I'd stick with the exact same decade-old version of GIMP for the rest of my life except that it hates Windows 10 and keeps fucking freezing!
Justin Scott
Personally, I use Autodesk Sketchbook to draw. It is a pretty good app, but it's been glitching out like crazy when you use an android.
Lol. Thanks. I actually based the hair off of Teto Kasane :^)
Sebastian Mitchell
Where would you post your webcomic?
Parker Thompson
>I use GIMP 2.6 Why not update to 2.10?
Jeremiah Torres
Why do English users hate them so much
Sebastian Hughes
Does anyone use an android tablet? Tried iPad, didn't like the stylus and in general, I hate the file system
I could go with a surface pro but I'm not a fan of the fact windows on a tablet is terrible and the pen has a weird click noise when it hits the screen
Cooper Sanchez
>windows on a tablet is terrible huh, why? It's just normal windows like on a laptop.
Angel Murphy
Could be the Surface having a super high resolution but a lot of buttons in programs like VLC were incredibly small
Mason Bell
it's like a cheap knockoff of windows as described to someone over the phone
Nicholas Flores
I can understand that. You can scale the UI up, but it just eats up too much screenspace. It's not though. It's literally just windows.
Christopher Williams
Why do artists hate /ic/ and tell everyone to avoid it?
Ryan Allen
getting nothing but negativity is worse than getting nothing but positivity.
Julian Johnson
Webtoons or deviantart. Why?
Leo Rogers
I can confirm. Yea Forums can be asshiles, but d/ic/ks can be pretty brutal to new artists.
Owen Ward
>What are your favorite tools/software/sites/etc you use for your comic?
clip studio paint.
>Alt Q: What do you currently need help with, but are too afraid to ask about?
well.... is it possible to write a story based on a fetish but it's actually has a good story?
Angel Gomez
webtoons hands down
Luke Ross
I tried it once (or maybe it was 2.8? idk) and they had changed how the brush settings worked and it scared me! I've since eased into similar brush settings in Manga Studio and Krita but I haven't gone back to see if 2.10 is easier for me to work with now. Also I tried it fairly early on in its release and it didn't have its pressure sensitivity working right and I didn't feel like waiting for the fixes.
As you can see my problems tend to be extremely stupid but I'm aware of it!
Plus they are fundamentally unable to separate their taste from objective criticism. Which isn't to say it's not equally valid, just keep them separate and don't be surprised if people have different taste and don't follow your orders to the letter.
Isaiah Ward
Disagree. Negativity and positivity are neutral qualities, the real problem is when people are vague. If I don't know WHAT THINGS are good or bad, why did you speak up at all? Of course the worst thing is being ignored.
Jaxon Butler
Absolutely, matey. Emotion is what makes fetish stuff good or bad. If the emotion is frantic, foaming-at-the-mouth excitement, and the reader doesn't share that excitement, it's going to have this insurmountable obstacle to enjoyment. If there are other emotions, like legitimate human ones, then there you go.
Evan Torres
I didn't mean to hold a contest for which is the actual worst kind of crit to get, obviously yeah getting mindless vaguery is the least useful of all.
Aaron Ramirez
because people assumed that its an under-aged kid from deviantart >shonen clone >ESL >posts on deviantart >generic anime username with numbers
Wyatt Gonzalez
And they don't like those? What's wrong with them?
Jayden Ortiz
It's a board where the majority probably spend more time trash talking others while parroting vague, meaningless criticism rather than actually drawing and improving their skills. Is that really the company you want to keep?
Brayden Bell
Reminder that these are the same people that come to Yea Forums and say the author writes better than anyone in western history.
Oliver Reed
who? and whom are they saying that about? I got lost.
Grayson Collins
Preview for the incoming page of my comic, the edgiest comic in this side of the west.
Its good, just not baby-being-smashed-on-the-first-page good.
Samuel Wright
>Does anyone use an android tablet? I have an old 10" xyboard I use occasionally. Not recently though, pen takes AAAA batteries and they are a PITA to find around here. It's an okay tablet. Not great, but I imagine a lot of the issues are more that's it's old as fuck now.
No worries. I figured not switching to the newest version had some compatibility factor, and sensitivity is essential so it's understandable. I'm fairly certain they fixed the sensitivity issue, not 100% sure since I mostly use gimp for the addons and not drawing. It's a lot more stable now and loads faster, so If you can manage a separate download I'd highly recommend giving it another shot.
you might want to consider doing the outilne of that last panel white because it seems like it's just one panel with a giant girl, you can actually play with the black and have a great effect but with a different camera angle
>What are your favorite tools/software/sites/etc you use for your comic? a regular ol g-pen in clip studio paint gets the job done. I like to use a certain textured pen for sketching and drawing backgrounds. but it got fucking deleted when I updated my software yesterday for some reason as for websites, Twitter and DeviantArt are my go to's since I'm usually too lazy to post elsewhere. I really want to post my comics on Instagram more often but, needless to say, it's a pain in the ass and more trouble than it's worth. >Alt Q: What do you currently need help with, but are too afraid to ask about? the fact that I don't even know how to answer this question should say a lot.
Jaxson Collins
yeah my pressure sensitivity settings got reset (and I don't recall having to set it in the first place) when I upgraded I was disappointed by the gouache brushes but oh well
David Ward
one day, I might read your comic
Samuel Reyes
>one day, I might read your comic I'm redrawing the first half of the comic. If you want you can wait till it's done
Kevin White
over 5 years, also if you click on the post number you can reply properly newfriend.
Nicholas Murphy
dewd please stop falling for really obvious bait. removing one of the chevrons is an insult, as it literally doesn't even give the replied a (you)
Camden Young
No. They're already written. That was a side thing I decided to do. The main priority is the first chapter.
Jack Sanchez
You drew this way for five years?
Brandon Barnes
One year anniversary coming up soon. I think I deserve a vacation.
Heh. I like seeing guns being stuck to. This guy has a good attitude I liked that very timely and appropriate pokemon parody you made too
Brayden Morgan
So what comic are you working on, user?
Brayden Turner
i want to write a webcomic about a depressed and suicidal immortal superhero who is all powerful. would an artist be interested in collaborating with me about that?
Christian Green
Invincible?
Carson Morales
what did you mean by this? you mean the image(?) character?
Christian Ramirez
So deadpool?
Mason Bell
usually don't like sharing sketches (cuz they look like shit) but here's hayley's ghost actually astral projection form
im thinking more along the lines of like a character who is is a literal god like thor or wonderwoman or whoever who is just a sad and depressed piece of shit
t. tom king fan
Gabriel Sullivan
Is that you clorotch
Sebastian Martin
no
Aiden Jones
so why are they a hero? whats stopping them just murdering people to cure their depression?
Mason Hill
Yes, that is what the story is about.
Brandon Long
i dont know lad, guess ill just have to write that
Logan Brooks
it was hard to find a reference of a cliff edge at an upward angle
nice im writing a comic with nudity would you be interdasted if i gave you a script? and your figures look good too
Angel Rodriguez
I appreciate it user but i'm already tied up drawing and writing my own comic, we could always workshop each others scripts if you'd like
Camden Jones
I laughed.
Carter Anderson
do you have it on tapas?
Josiah Cruz
Good job. I sometimes save references for cliffs too. Strangely I have this one that's meant to be an aerial view of a staircase going up, but I realized it works just as well as a dramatic low-angle of a staircase coming down. or maybe it was the other way around. friends. you are both my friends.
Blake Murphy
No as of now its all just saved im my folder, when I get about 20 pages in i’ll start uploading it somewhere just so I be ahead of my own update schedule
Zachary Moore
Flip it upside down to get even more references
Ethan Martinez
im serious lad i need an artist
Jack Brooks
Good luck mate. It's hard to scrape enough money together to pay an artist, even if it's something as pleasant to draw as porn. Ooh good thinking.
Hunter Wood
Zyuus, the peoples hero. Or used to be. Back in the 1920s he came to earth when he was in his teenage years, and helping people was all he ever wanted to do. Unable to be killed, impervious to all weapons man could muster, he fought against crime in the big cities. But his power scared the authorities. They devised a way to trap him away into the core of the earth, under layers of volanic rock and bedrock. On the tail end of WW2 he emerged once more, having laboriously dug himself out. Years left to his own thoughts and suddenly being plunged back into the worst humanity had to offer, he began to question his motives to be a hero. Then I guess he has a love interest or something, she dies horribly somehow in a tragic war incident, and he goes over the deep end into depression eventually deciding that humans are the problem and he must use his powers to rule them with fear.
There's a premise. I guess theres a story hidden in there somewhere too.
Jordan Gomez
are you pitching an idea
Xavier Phillips
Nah. I thought I'd attempt developing it the way I imagined it might go as an exercise. I grounded it in reality slightly too much and got bored halfway.
Easton Ortiz
are you an artist?
Bentley Brown
Would it come off as pretentious to want to do a sci-fi story that sort of digs into exploring abstract things like space, time, reality, and human consciousness?
Its half inspired by fun old B-tier sci-fi/horror from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and half inspired by my lament that we'll probably never truly understand the inner workings of the universe.
So, its mostly meant to be fun, and a bit pulpy, while also saying "If I made a universe, here's how the cogs would be arranged."
Ian Lewis
i guess.
Ethan Fisher
i have an idea for a billy batson/captain marvel type character 14 year old boy can turn into a superhero, and joins a justice league type organization. he joins them in fighting various villians and everything is really super violent and gory and terrifying to his young brain and he has to go the school psychologist and he has to explain his trauma and whatnot allw hile keeping his secret identity secret. seriously, how come no one is concerned that captain marvel is a young child doing all this shit
sounds neat
Angel Hernandez
maybe a little pretentious, but I enjoy that usually as literature. hard to imagine it being an entertaining comic, but it's also hard to imagine how I'd draw it in your place. If you have ideas and inspiration, then that could be awesome.
Nathaniel Bell
do you seriously not remember being 14? were you really a 'young child' who was scarred and traumatized by violence (or do you think now that you're older, you wouldn't be?) I think maybe your finger slipped and you meant 10
Christian Moore
It's because him being billy used to be a secret, and him being backed by an all mighty wizard.
Adam Barnes
the point is that a young person in general shouldnt be doing superhero stuff
Anthony Moore
lemme know if you need a writer
Adrian Turner
depends on the kid and their upbringing, they could get acclimatized to the violence. itd be like those terrorists that train kids, only their mentors would be friendlier.
Adrian Hughes
Teen Titans exist, it would make no sense as to why they think Shazam would be out of place.
Lincoln Howard
"a young person in general" is not a valid concept. Age is a spectrum. Literally.
Tyler Brooks
good point
i ust wanna write a character study of a superhero or god with depression/anxiety
Parker Walker
12-15 year old
Austin Young
At the very least, make his powers somewhat different from Shazam and Superman. It's been done before, and not very well at that.
Jordan Flores
a cosmic entity who can literally make universes or a superheros whose power is making anything he thinks be real
Lincoln Baker
Meaningless. The margin of error, the difference from individual to individual, is too great and too varied even for similar people with a similar upbringing.
Also stupid in the superhero genre. If you were going to pick anyone, it ought reasonably to be someone like a Robin. Having the legitimate trauma of family death followed up by being put into mortal peril -without superpowers- compared to that, a kid being blessed by a wizard to turn into an invulnerable demigod is nothing. Who cares if he sees some corpses? two thirds of the planet lives in some kind of death-filled squalor or another
Jeremiah Nelson
...
Ryan Green
More rough art of the goth girl from my next webcomic!
I think it's going to be more likely to happen to somebody that has been sheltered for a few decades. Take a housewife, home all day, only has soap operas and housework to do for hours until the husband comes home. Not necessarily bored, but not excited. Perhaps even frightened of the world from watching the evening news. Give her superpowers and see what happens.
Samuel Peterson
Yeah it's all about your background, and how much your current situation is changed from the previous. There's a lot that could be done with that, I'll be interested in seeing what results.
Dylan Scott
thats a neat idea, i could have her meet a robin-esque character
Nicholas Murphy
Oh fuck off.
Connor Perez
would you (or anyone else) be interested in drawing it i cant draw or co writing?
Anthony Hughes
Nope. but if you want to brainstorm designs, I'll help with some feedback. If you are going to try to get someone else to draw it, having solid and good designs to start with will help.
not you? though it is the weakest drawing on the page, that's only because the others all look super good
Dylan Jackson
idk, it might be the eyebrows
Jason Watson
False! That worm's eye view in the lower left is weak and I know it. I also draw really weird blocky looking fists. But I'm gonna give it a rest and revisit the structure lines tomorrow and make tweaks.
Anthony Torres
Wait, the fuck? How much does nudity figure into your script?
Evan Ross
i did the math and its 6% of the story
Caleb Myers
My waifu readings are off the charts!!
Owen Morales
my skill is probably shit but that panel actually stood out to me as the best one. and I like blocky fists. Better than round potato fists like some people draw. Maybe it's transformers making me appreciate squareness in hands
Here are your options: learn it yourself. pay someone, date/befriend an artist.
Hudson Baker
Foreshortening in general is a weak point for me, so I have developed an odd talent for noticing when it's wrong, although that doesn't stop me from drawing it wrong. An accurate low angle view of a human torso looks kind of wrong even when you're looking at a photo, because it's a level of perspective wonk you don't normally see. So it's quite possible that drawing it at a weird slant so you see more of the character's features turned out more aesthetically appealing than drawing it correctly?
Jeremiah Nelson
Oh you're probably right. It's like showing a tailed character's tail even from the front just to remind you it's there.
Jaxson Moore
Really?! Haha that's awesome!!!
Zachary James
Dude everyone wants to make friends with this sporty goth, you just made her super extra pretty Who knew you could draw faces all this time haha
Blake Nelson
I don't like the bull design on the jacket. I think the colors would stand out more without it.
Samuel Thompson
Speaking of weak points, I discovered that if I combine foreshortening with another of my problem areas, guns, they cancel each other out. The gun creates a boxy shape that works as a perspective guide for the arm. Sorta.
I think horny guy's figure is not 100% convincing in the sense that it took me some time to notice him. His cloak could have a less background-y colour and it could make the shape and pose of the chest a bit more explicit.
>What are your favorite tools/software/sites/etc you use for your comic? clip studio paint for making the comic and i've decided to use designdoll recently for posing and all that because i have no talent
>What are your favorite tools/software/sites/etc you use for your comic? I use photoshop now.
>What do you currently need help with, but are too afraid to ask about? Is it possible to make photoshop recognize the lines as boundaries? So that I can just fill the area between the black lines like in Paint, without having to go through the trouble of selecting them with the lasso tool.
you *have* to learn to ink digitally. I'm sorry but your stuff does not look good.
Lincoln Taylor
it'd look fine after digital inkling
Andrew Wright
>I'm sorry but your stuff does not look good Dont worry, I know, im trying to learn. Its not finished though, I have to color it now.
To draw digitally I imagine I need a drawing pad/tablet. Using the mouse to draw would kill me.
Justin Barnes
Yea Forums, I have a question
Is it worth making your webcomic for yourself even if its likely no one will read it? How do you make yourself *not* care about how well it does? While I work on mine I feel like all of this work will be for nothing, but is it for nothing if its for a story I'm really passionate about?
I guess its worth it if you want to make a webcomic yourself. I dont think you can not care. But you can hope that someone, someday will read it. Might be pathethic but hey, the actual important thing is to create something for yourself. Well, at least to me.
So I found a small-scale comic project idea that I really like for once, one I can work on so I have the time and experience to create my more "ambitious" stuff later on. But now I'm falling into that world-building syndrome again. I mean, I do want this smaller project to have some thought and planning put into it, but for some reason I can't allow myself to make something manageable.
Lincoln Bell
>Is it worth making your webcomic for yourself even if its likely no one will read it?
Yes. Create something because you enjoy creating it. A fanbase is nice but that comes second. Even if you finish your comic and noone read it, it's still something you can look back and say "I made this".
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Today is a double upload since not much is happening in these last few pages and I really really want to be done with this chapter.
>Is it possible to make photoshop recognize the lines as boundaries? Use the magic wand tool to make a selection. Don't forget to adjust the tolerance which determines whether only the value you clicked should be selected or values that are slightly different (e.g. light gray). Adjust it depending on the object you want to select. Start with a low value and work your way up. You want it high enough that there are no white spaces between your selection and the lines, but not high enough that it selects more than you want.
Your lines often don't build closed spaces, so either add lines to close them or use multiple operations to modify your selection. You can use a selection tool either in additive, subtractive or intersection mode, e.g. you can use the lasso tool to remove bits of your selection using the subtractive mode (alt key) or make it so your magic wand only selects a part of your current selection using intersection mode.
Matthew Morgan
>I feel like all of this work will be for nothing finished projects are always a good thing to have under your belt. assuming its not some massive epic that you wont finish until you're a senior citizen anyway.
Lucas Kelly
I feel kinda bad for saying this, but I'm way more interested in random cop guy than the helmet guy. Would be pretty sad if this was the end for him desu
Lucas James
>colored digitally uh
Jack Cox
youre letting your scanner do the adjusting? you'd be better off getting a 1:1 image and then adjusting with levels in photoshop after. >cloudy photoshop has a filter under noise called reduce noise or something, could be useful. >recognize the lines as boundaries not without some prep work from you. consider that a ctrl+click on a layer selects everything in that layer. consider that there is a lock transparency on layer button. consider any white overlaying layers will block out anything underneath.
It is absolutely worth making your webcomic for yourself. I've gotten myself not to care too much about pageviews because I find most of the fun in making webcomics in the process of just making them.
As long as you stay consistent, have fun and stay passionate about your story, I'm sure you'll gain a readerbase someday.
Thank you, that seems very helpful. Im gonna try it on my next page. Probably will fuck up.. But it sounds easy enough.
Yep, I let my scanner do it. I still dont quite have the hang of it. Next time ill probably just make it so it scans everything as it is.
>Reduce noise Didnt occur to me to try it, ill check it out. Thank you very much.
>consider that there is a lock transparency on layer button. >consider any white overlaying layers will block out anything underneath I might be too much of a begginer to understand that, but still, thank you.
also, updated on Tapas. Is two pages per week a reasonable ammount? I kinda wanted to make 3 but I feel like i will lose quality like that, especially since I plan to color every page from now on.
Connor Wood
it just kinda scares me how long its gonna take me to finish the comic at that pace. 2 pages per week.... Thats like 3 months per chapter. Wew.
Jack Rogers
>What are your favorite tools/software/sites/etc you use for your comic? Paint Tool Sai and Photoshop, always! Ghadar Adventures read it on Smack Jeeves now! >smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=179527
Ok, now for a serious chat…. First, I want to thank you all for the support and warn greeting for my project, it really helps me to reach my endgame, which is Ghadar Adventures becoming a worldwide phenomenon, with a place on the pop culture (Both Webcomic and possible Animated Adaptation!) But, everything at time, I’m still at college, I’m planning study Animation Design for a Ghadar Adventures Animated, as you read it before, and college means exams, and exams need all my attention, I got a scholarship and I’m not going to lost it. With, I’m sadly to announce that Ghadar Adventures will be on Hiatus on these specific dates: >March 3 – March 8, 2019 >April 1 – April 5, 2019 >first week of May, 2019 (Warning: This dates may be changed in the future) Please understand. Sincerely yours G.A Dominguez #WeAreSpiritWolf #GhadarAdventures
Jace Williams
make a layer for each panel, name them so you know which is which. use a polygonal selection and go around the border of a panel then edit>fill the entire panel with a colour. use ctrl+click on a layer in the layers list to select everything inside it whenever you need it. the selection prevents any brush strokes from leaving that panel.
I'm currently writing a an action type fighting story and I just realised that the main character doesn't really show off what he can do until the second chapter, would that be okay? I'm thinking of rewriting the first chapter slightly because of this.
Jordan Bennett
Just turn your selection into a layer. That way you can just select a layer and you also avoid seeing those marching ants the entire time.
Carson Robinson
i hate that you put your gay last name for all to see but that's pretty cool that you got a scholarship, good luck lad!
Tyler Campbell
*layer mask
Gabriel Perez
Doesn't it feel worse for your brain to have all those stories and characters locked up inside? Free them. Make your webcomic!
Asher Nguyen
Ctrl h hides the ants iirc
Ethan Mitchell
You've got a lot of leftover pencil fuzz in your lines. Try selecting white areas with the magic wand tool, then use 'grow selection' to increase the selection by one pixel, then erasing anything that gets caught in that. It might not work, it kinda depends on some other factors going on. If you're scanning at a high enough resolution it should still look fairly smooth when you resize it down for publishing.
But that's just a quick shortcut. The actual best solution is to start inking digitally, which takes some practice.
Daniel Butler
Woodies 092: The Impostors - Part 1 tapas.io/series/woodies
I like Autodesk Sketchbook, but I end up doing everything (formatting, lettering, speech bubbles) in it. I could use Photoshop or another program that is better with type, but I like to handwrite the dialogue. It keeps my handwriting from degenerating into hieroglyphs
Only if you can't design characters, which is hard as fuck to do
Anthony Brown
thank you!
Jose Martin
Go to /trash/. They have an oc thread that can help.
Lincoln Murphy
I am in the process of making my own webcomic. It's set in a traditional manga format (right to left, B&W). I plan on putting this up on my own website, but I am curious on what you guys think about traditional style comics on sites like webtoons or tapas. Those sites have huge reader base, but seem to be more formatted to the mobile/Korean style of comics.
The other option is to edit the pages to be more friendly to the webtoons/tapas reader base.
Best hamburger-eating scene ever. until I see someone drawing hamburgers held properly underhand and/or with pinky support, this is going to hold the first place record.
Alexander Johnson
clipstudio has a setting for fill bucket to make it ignore small gaps in lineart
Isaiah Hall
Unless they specifically forbid it, you're fine. Look for an older host that hasn't updated its rules since before the internet collectively lost its mind over the age of fictional people.
Hudson Carter
That scrawnjob should be happy to have a cute kitty lady touching his arms.
Ayden Diaz
i ink with a mouse and i think its fine if anything inking with a tablet is harder for me, tracing with a mouse is the easiest thing in the world imo
Luke Bennett
I don't really know what to say about the hosting, but personally, I really like how this looks for the most part.
My only real advice to you is to be careful to not fall into the trap of relying too heavily on tones. If you stripped them away, it feels like there might not exactly be too terribly much going on with this page. Also feel like would could maybe have more emphasis on the army, or demons, or whatever they are being destroyed.
But other than that, I like most everything about this.
Gavin Lopez
welcome to my life every day for the past year. I'm making what I want and that's cool, but nobody is fucking reading my stuff and I can't help but feel a little alone since there's so many people saying nice things about other comics. just makes you feel like you're doing it all wrong which maybe is the case i don't know
Im the same, except my comic probably just looks bad so im not complaining till I get gud. I do receive advice here and it tends to be real good advice, which is really encouraging.
That said, you made me curious. Post a link to your work and Ill read it and give my non expert opinion if you want.
Hudson Reed
someone once said mine looks interresting but have a few spelling errors
On those sites (and also for digital comics in general I think) the vast majority of people definitely use mobiles devices, so a traditional formated comic will be fighting an unphill battle. On webtoons at least I think it's basically required to have mobile formating to be featured or sponsored. Not sure about editing. Feels like you'd either have to limit your traditionally formated comic a lot or put in a lot of work into reworking it. If you want your comic to have mostly vertical movement anyway, it'd definitely make sense imo.
In regards to that page: Are you going to publish it in a language that can be read vertically? Otherwise I think those speechbubbles are a bit unfortunate.
Aiden Clark
its okay, helmet man hasn't had any development yet.
Is it??? I design characters by accident sometimes. It's okay if they're ugly, they'll evolve over time once you've got them on paper. You need to see them with your outside eyes as well as your inside eyes. Then it'll be clear and your children will tell you what they're supposed to be.
Nathan Fisher
I meant humanoid characters, not just round blobs with eyes plastered on
Jordan Jackson
The fourth year's the tough one
Austin Martin
motherfuckin lubglubs
Julian Edwards
glad i'm not the only one who saw this
Michael Ward
Hey guys, Chapter 05 of Boys Land: Marikori Cove is out!
>"TWENTY-ONE, get in here! Why am I in this maynga?"
Blake Hernandez
it is odd how we don't usually see monsterologists who are themselves monsters. Good show.
Landon Flores
Haha especially considering how many of my characters always have their faces hidden under masks!
Thanks for the input! I can see where you're coming from, though is right, it is a sports logo. It was the intention to give her a basketball jacket, though I'm still playing around with that bull design and plan to adjust it a bit more.
Ryder Smith
you payin user?
Sebastian Perry
Even so, the sports logo would be more prominent on the back of the jacket instead of the sleeve
Nicholas Lopez
some webcomics can be made in secret to practice your story telling and art. you don't always have to post it online, you can make it and comeback to your most loved story later on when you're confident in your abilities. having something already drafted is nice.
Aiden Powell
Hm, I get what you mean. I'll try a version with it just on the backside as well, and see how that looks.
Aiden Adams
It's Saturday--and that means an update for your favorite 17th century fantasy, the Concord Initiative.
How good of an artist do you need to be before you make a webcomic or finished piece of art?
Matthew Sanchez
6.
Cameron Hall
there is no definite answer to your question. anyone can make a comic. have a goal in mind for where you want to be, "i want to draw like X", work towards that goal and don't settle/get comfortable. don't neglect sharpening your writing skills either.
Cameron Robinson
post art
Camden Cruz
You don't magically get good with age, you gotta finish some pieces and make some comics, analyze what you did wrong and improve on them.
Jaxon Ross
I definitely magically get better with age, but that's a slow thing. It's not reliable or satisfactory, it's more like inflation.
Oliver Bell
>I definitely magically get better with age You sure? You get better without ever practicing at all? Even only finishing one piece a week can be enough for some people.
Isaac Lewis
Wow I finished that post before I meant to. I was going to add "But practice (the right kind of practice) does speed it up a lot" My point is that slow automatic improvement happens even without practicing, but it's not much. It's definitely not enough to say don't practice. It's just a relief when I've gone a long time doing less practice than usual, and I not only haven't declined, I'm still noticing improvement I think that the artist's eye is always growing whether you're drawing or not, just by observing. Some things just randomly "click" one day. A certain shape or perspective technique.
Chase Morgan
I'm back on my feet after losing an apartment, and Saffron and Sage is returning this week. I'm very excite.
You've become so much more consistent over your last 15-20 episodes. It used to be a bit hit and miss when it was mostly about the jokes and less about the mood, but now you've really captured that balance. Your worldbuilding has that certain sense of richness where new information and imagery seems to be simply revealed instead of added on top. Such fun to read!
/ic/ is a trashy gossip blog that does nothing bout talk shit and spout shitty, unfunny memes. It's only good for the art book downloads. No one on /ic/ actually draws.
Meh. It reads like it could be funny but doesn't quite make it.
Colton Mitchell
That would be fucking useful. And it would be fun as a constant character in a thing. You do a lot of kinda 'pilots' in this comic where now I want to read the whole thing.
Samuel Perez
they used to when i lurked there before finding this thread. some really nice art. but a very harsh atmosphere and lots of bickering about loomis.
>have a goal in mind for where you want to be, "i want to draw like X", work towards that goal and don't settle/get comfortable. That's easy to say
Nicholas Jenkins
Humanoid characters are easy as fuck to design! Draw a human then slap on the clothes and hair and cat ears. Then stare at her for a while until you know what you want to tweak. Body type? Age? Facial features? Okay, now draw her again. Repeat the process until you're satisfied.
You could even use a dollmaker game to get your general basic design points down. The fun thing with character design is that it doesn't matter how bad your starting point is so long as your ending point is satisfactory to you.
Alexander Thompson
You've opened my eyes user, hope I can post some OC soon
Luis Martinez
>is it possible to write a story based on a fetish but it's actually has a good story? Yes, it's called Out of Placers. (transformation, gender TF, furry) Or possibly Delve maybe. Characters are fine and I found the jokes great but I stopped reading around the time she got to the bottom of the Delve way too early and talked to the boss- worrying overtones of tropey weebshit in story proper (misc cheesecake, one character does soft vore) Or possibly Work Sucks!-which I have not read but has a legit fascinating review explaining how weird, autistic and strangely smart it is. Fuckloads of misc vore, apparently >aryion.com/g4/view/313211 >worksuckscomic.com/comicarchive.php?page=0 Also just to be clear the review is interesting, the reviewer himself comes across as a tool
Ryder Torres
I never thought I would see tf mentioned here.
Justin Allen
I miss 2017 bones
Luke Anderson
You're joking, but it'll work.
TF/TG has a strong historical legacy in webcomics, I'm surprised it doesn't come up more often. The Wotch used to make thousands of dollars in donations in the pre-patreon era. El Goonish Shive is a Hiveworks comic now, it's still going and still improving.
More broadly, whether or not the story is good is debatable, but Wheel of Time was a successful fantasy series, and about 30% of any given book is about witches spanking each other.
Hunter Lopez
Well, El Goonish Shive is a webcomic that is exceedingly fetish-y but was actually kinda good.
I haven't read it in years, but its one of those pretty old webcomics that has been around since, or at least since nearly, the beginning of webcomics.
The series itself started out with these two guys that were the main characters. Tedd, and...uh....I forget the other guy's name. Tedd's dad is some scientist guy, and there's all these weird inventions and shit laying around the house. Story kinda started out sci-fi/Shounen-esque with them fighting these monsters and other dudes, but then it sort of became super fetish fueled with gender swapping/TF, furry, characters getting cloned and gender swapped, and many other things.
Its actually surprisingly harmless for a fetish comic, but it probably helps that it has a relatively cute style. I just remember the story kind of getting boring, slow, and convoluted at points, but the comic is apparently still pretty popular on Yea Forums and /aco/....especially /aco/.
Henry Hernandez
2017 bones was the shit
Dylan Price
>about 30% of any given book is about witches spanking each other. God be praised
I mean, it's been a staple of fiction since the first guy who ever thought "hey it'd be neat to tell a story that didn't happen, just to vicariously enjoy the experience" Things transforming into other things is neat. It's just, like anything significant, disturbed kids beat off to it.
Wyatt Gonzalez
>I forget the other guy's name. Elliot
What I like about EGS is that Dan Shive genuinely cares about doing right by his characters and listening to feedback about the choices he's made for them. None of the characters' personalities are defined by the fetishes they're made to cater to, and Dan doesn't write them into doing things that woudl make them suffer unless there's a real, actual story reason for it.
I think his recent addition of an actual trans character comes off a little awkward, but that's probably just because he came out of NOWHERE and suddenly got plot focus. He might integrate into the main cast okay when given more room to breathe.
Zachary Miller
Sorry, it's actually extremely boring. If you're not into it, it's just awkward, and if you are into it, it's not described in enough detail to be worth the bother.
Bentley Thompson
Honestly, the idea of putting a trans character in that comic seems exceedingly stupid considering since the entirety of that comic was literally science-ing people into whatever they wanted to be with ray gun.
Or whatever the McGuffin is now. I used to be a ray gun, at least. Every character was swapping genders, and having themselves cloned, and getting a furry form, so everyone was already all over the board to begin with.
Justin Johnson
I've read up a ton about WoT (only actually read the first one) and this is the first i'm hearing of repeated spanking by/of the wielders of saidar.
Logan Reyes
First book is the best one, you're not missing anything. Second book is where the girls get into the tower where the disciplinary policy includes spanking. And then there's some ludicrous bullshit with foreign invaders catching magic users with leashes that have an unnecessary level of thought put into how their mechanics work. They try to play it for drama but you can fucking tell the author thought way too hard about how the leashes work.
From the second book onwards the level of witch spanking fluctuates, and unless you already know you want to see the plot through to the end, it's not worth it to go through 14 volumes of fantasy brick. You can just like, do a google search for 'witch spanking' and probably get your fix more efficiently. If it matters, I can only remember one instance of a male doing any spanking, and it's played for comedy. Otherwise it's just softcore femdom.
>Or whatever the McGuffin is now. I couldn't even begin to explain what the McGuffin is now. The ray guns are still around, but for a while we had a magic diamond, but that's destroyed now. Now there are wands, and sometimes magical beings will give you a magic tattoo. Aliens happen sometimes. And recently the magic system went through a hard reset (continuity is still intact, just the rules for the magic is different). It's better when you actually read it, but I don't know if I can honestly recommend reading EGS from start to finish because it takes a fucking WHILE to start reaching any level of quality.
Thomas Hughes
yeah when I finished the first one (which I inherited from a cow-orker's dead kid when he gave out his possessions to cool people at work) I was like "please internet, give me an excuse not to go through the rest of the series" and it provided. Still lotta respek.
Brandon Evans
If you took every part I liked out of the entire series and put them together it would probably consist of one book. Whenever someone says they liked Wheel of Time I recommend that they read The Belgariad next because it hits a lot of the same key points but much better, with better character writing, and as far as I remember no witch spanking. The main love interest is a dryad but if that's the author's fetish he did a good job of not being obnoxious about it. The MC's grandpa fucked a wolf but it was consensual.
To give credit where credit is due, I'm pretty sure every WoT female with any positive role is based on the author's wife, so even when they're spankering around they're still written with some level of depth and care. The downside is they all talk and act the damn same.
Ethan Foster
>and as far as I remember no witch spanking. Look, I will admit that 30% is excessive, but NO witch-spanking is too little witch-spanking.
also yeah I've heard that about jordan's wife. I'm sure she was happy to be the only woman he knew, in any sense of knowing someone.
Andrew King
>but NO witch-spanking is too little witch-spanking If you've read Wheel of Time you don't need your next big read to have any witch spanking. If you absolutely need it, just read Wheel of Time again, which is something I don't recommend.
Although I really like traditional style, I bet the future of my experimental comic in mobile format. No regrets so far, thinking outside of the box is way easier now.
Awesome page, btw.
Infinite answers. Every spirit has the right to have children, whatever may come of it.
Sweet. Following your example, I've started posting in Smackjeeves as well, though i need to fix some stuff first.
Everything looks smoother, which I like, but maybe you could experiment with making it rougher in action scenes? Also, next time Hancock kisses someone, try to make her lips pucker some more. They look great, but they don't look like she's kissing.
Leo Gutierrez
sounds like shit DESU
Dominic Taylor
He meant that every spirit has the right to have children, whatever may come of it. Pay attention!
finally got my ideas down of a 9 page prototype, any critique?
Colton Murphy
Don't take this as a slight, you're a much better writer than you are an artist (and I realize this is just a sketch, I meant compared to your other comic). I wasn't expecting these interesting dynamics. The dragon is a bad boss, yet his exasperation feels justified. The peasant guy is so put-upon it's not surprising this was the tack he took to save everyone, yet despite his weaknesses he's still a mensch. I'm definitely interested.
Jack Butler
Based Coldfusion giving all forms of life encouragement
James Harris
It feels a little janky when he goes back to his family and they're all beating the shit out of him, but I'm surprisingly invested in this so far.
Colton Long
i really regret now not just buckling down and spending a year grinding fundies. this comic is going to require a ton of heavy dynamic poses and good visuals so i can get the full effect then again, if it werent originally for drawing a comic at all without any knowledge in art i likely wouldnt have had this idea come to me yeah that scene in particular has had a lot of reworking to get it as condense and unbloated as possible, ill probably get a better idea later on how to just make it flow better since right now i cant really think of a solution
thanks guys
Liam Rodriguez
I really love seeing everyone’s progress on their pages. You guys are amazing. I finished inking my page and wanted to share.
I do draw comic for other people to read and not just for myself. It is still an idea that I am interested in, but it is not an idea "only I am interested in" if that make sense.
If I am making a comic only for myself, its probably something I am ashamed of showing it to other people, but have a lot more things that me specifically am interested in. It'll be more instant gratification stuff, a lot more "take that" kind of scenarios, and much more pornographic.
If I truly do not care about how others feels about my comic, I wouldn't go through the trouble to actually draw it, I'll just masturbate to the idea.
So if you actually took the trouble to actually draw something, as an expression of your idea, then, I think it would be a shamed that nobody read it. Since you took the trouble to put it out there might as well do some sort of promotion so others might see it.
The fat guy. Or do you mean who the fat guy is specifically? He is just an oc of mind, I name him Betaman. His mom gave him that name because she actually thought it was a cool name she came up with.
Maybe you are faint confusion to imply I drawn the girls badly?
Judging by your response, I am guessing you mean "you" as generic term rather than me specifically. So instead you mean the guy should be a generic MC so it would be better for other people to self insert? Is there other definition I am not aware of?
My principle project isn't like that, , but it isn't interesting enough to be commented on. The betaman stuff just for masturbation purposes.
i will pat your head the next time i see you. i'm gonna go sleep
Alexander Anderson
As much as people like to shit on generic otaku trash, at least that it tends to be the fun kind of trash. I prefer that over a more 'well written' series that focuses mostly on world building I don't care about.
Ethan Nelson
THIS SO MUCH But also this, specially the last part
You art is amazing dude, but I really can't get into your stuff
Bentley Gonzalez
>The self-insert knows who he is at all times. He knows this because he knows who he isn't. By substracting who he is from who he isn't or who he isn't from who he is, whichever is clearer, he obtains a difference or feel. The intuition subsystem uses feels to generate corrective commands to transform the self-insert from a person who he is to a person who he isn't and becoming a person who he wasn't, he now is. Consequently, the person who he is, is now the person who he wasn't and it follows that the person who he was, is now the person who he isn't. In the event that the person who he is, is not the person who he wasn't, the system has acquired an irritation, the irritation being the difference between who the self-insert is and who he wasn't. If irritation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the ISU. However, the self-insert must also know who he was. The self-insert guidance delusion scenario works as follows: Because an irritation has modified some of the information the self-insert has obtained, he is not sure just who he is. However, he is sure who he isn't, within reason. And he knows who he was. He now substracts who he should be from who he wasn't or vice versa and by differentiating this from the emotional sum of who he shouldn't be and who he was, he is able to obtain the irritation and it's appreciation which is called shame.
Daniel Scott
You ever get fatherly feelings for your own webcomic characters?
Anyways, work in progress preview for the next page. I get the feeling im gonna fuck up this one.
I think he's talking about that self-inserts are normally a bit more idealized, I guess? If someone told me their self-insert was a short, fat, 'beta' guy, I'd definitely be confused.
I think you main project has potential, it's just that it's kinda missing a main conflict that guides the story at the moment. Like, there's a lot going on, but there isn't really a single focal point that you can relate everything else to and gives everything structure. I assume you're in the process of getting to it, but I'd recommend to 'get to the point'.
Or maybe I'm just retarded. Is this psychosis?
Zachary Allen
How do I keep a consistent vision instead of seeing something cool and wanting to scrap what I'm working on to make a ripoff of the cool thing
Samuel Watson
Thanks! Yeah now that I have almost a year of entries, I can go back and start referencing/building on already established things. I'm a big fan of one-off or throwaway jokes coming back and being important in some way. The difficulty will be making sure they don't overstay their welcome
Jack Phillips
I'm trying to improve my art to make a webcomic. I have most of the story plotted out, but I can't draw things on-model well enough to keep the characters always clear, and I'm also bad at drawing hands. Any advice?
He looks a little like Nic Cage, so no, but I've heard old ladies say he was handsome in his younger days. I don't believe them but someone would find him attractive, apparently.
I'd suggest a little more jawline and a little less mullet.
Gabriel Martinez
fml I can't draw men
Kevin Turner
I think the core issue is that you don't know what's attractive in men.
Kayden Martinez
You drew a man, I certainly didn't mistake him for a woman or an animal.
Nathaniel Clark
Who did you model this after?
Dominic Flores
yeah I have no clue
well he needs to be handsome
my head, but I've looked at photos around the interwebs and drew a ton of men from reference I hate the faces of 99% of them
Joshua Bailey
Not really.
My advice to make him more handsome: - Stronger jawline - Smaller eyes Look at characters and male celebrities described as handsome to figure out what makes a man handsome.
Wyatt Murphy
In other words: be gay
Camden Kelly
Alternatively, be a woman.
Christian King
Imagine being this ridiculously insecure
Owen Clark
aight I'll just copy some model dude blindly, can't trust myself
Charles Campbell
Face is okay, needs bigger and more detailed pupils, less bushy eyebrows, better posture and different hairstyle.
hollywood pls
Asher Thomas
All the damn time a lot of self-inserts are idealized, but not all. Sometimes it's more satisfying to present them as they are (or worse) but instead change the WORLD so it treats that person better. Other times people enjoy treating themselves just as bad as they are, but in a safe fictional environment where it doesn't hurt as much. And then you just get Ronnie types who can legitimately make fun of themselves I'm confident enough that when I self-insert, he's just kind of amusing but not very satisfying to write, so I don't much do that except as shallow gags
Ian Morris
adjust proportions in the sketch phase. You'll get the hang of consistency eventually, but in the meantime you can cheat by correcting after the initial not-consistent drawing.
as for hands, get the rounded-square of the palm, the weird fish-patty-shaped side-nodule of the thumb-attachment, and the spider-leggy shapes of fingers down, and you're good.
James Brooks
Is the discord not as perfect as I thought?
Robert Robinson
He looks... canadian. The pieces are all there, they just need adjustment. Bigger and higher front/top of hair, stronger cheekbone and brow, stronger chin, less neck. His eyebrows and nose are great.
Ryan Barnes
here, I'm gonna redline a little for you. only in black. Now this is just my opinion but this is the first thing I'd do..
now I did all that and realized it still looked wonky, and the major problem is the face isn't lined up with the center, as suggested by the head tilt. so I started shoving features over to the left, and while I was there, I reduced the eye bags, lowered the eyebrow-meat over his eyes a little, made the neck slightly more upright, and fiddled with a few other faddles like reducing the height of the lower face and upturning the nose slightly.
I finally got around to paying for an artist to draw my webcomic. I was planning for them to do a batch of 24 strip comics, but they ended up being more expensive than I thought (even though I'm not paying them to do text placement, colors, etc.) so I had to reduce it to 12.
Next bunch will be 24, and we'll see how it's received.
yeah comics are expensive. it's a bunch of drawings, and just because they're little doesn't mean they're much faster. You got a good artist.
Lucas Diaz
I want sideways jaggymouth as a pet. I want a plush of it. I want to go on an adventure with that critter and level it up.
Brandon Murphy
Fair point.
Asher Garcia
hair is too thin, eye is too dopey, eye brow too thick, lip is too thick it's a good drawing just the character's face is 7/10
Jason Reed
What's the comic about?
Joseph Moore
Dysfunctional restaurant employees with various forms of baggage.
Sebastian Lewis
Would not have expected, with this style.
Jason Campbell
Hi, I'm trying to color digitally new pages cause my marker went out and I'm too lazy to buy a new one. Please check the English, please. Also what do you think?
Reminds me of some of my early digital work. It's not going to really look good until you get better at cleanup and get a tablet to use for the lines, but for now it's okay. 'news' isn't really a 'countable' noun so you'd want to say "two bits of bad news and one of good" and "...nowhere to be found, neither are General..." no mistakes here!
Owen Reyes
Hella. This guy is damn good looking. He looks like he eats dragons for breakfast.
Jayden Bennett
It's played off as light-hearted most of the time, but I plan to dip into dark territory occasionally. The last comic of the first batch, the "open for business" arc, will reveal something tragic about the main character.
If this kind of stuff isn't well received by readers, I'll probably stick to slice of life arcs.
>What are your favorite tools/software/sites/etc you use for your comic? I tried out a thicker paper sheet and that felt fantastic for drawing. I just bought an A4 sized sheet to make comics on it, and I'm loving it so far. >Alt Q: What do you currently need help with, but are too afraid to ask about? Understanding how colour works. I always go with "what I feel right" but I am aware that limits my horizons instead of broadening.
I am almost done with chapter two, a few more chapters and I'll be ready to launch this for once. Wish me luck. The text location and size is not final. Final pages will be larger and text better accommodated to them. I added text to give them context to the people I show it to.
That's what I meant actually, this art style looks unexpectedly serious for that kind of theme. Not bad though, better too serious than not serious enough. I'll check it out either way.
Cooper Roberts
>boyish you said handsome. Okay, try this >Draw a girl done
Hudson Jones
grass is a bit neon, but if it's been dry that week, I could see it being that color.
Aiden Morales
You want I should proofread, Earthy? the second 'master heart' isn't capitalized and should be complex* how you want to* put it
Isaac White
Thanks, I noticed I typo'd complex, but I didn't feel like fixing it now. I have my notes with all the needed fixing before final release, so the rest will come in handy, thanks.
John Hall
My version is seeing a cool setpiece and wanting to write it in, but I DON'T KNOW
i could read through it right now but i am just a mere anonymous person with no authority on the quality of stories
Jonathan Ward
>106196990 >5 years with no visible progress
Adam Morgan
its okay, i dont want an expert critique, i want to know if an average person understands whats going on. An expert critique would probably bash me though im very fine with that too if it is constructive
even if you dont finish it, thank you for the attempt
Carson Lopez
You're thinking each color as a different thing and your eye is still not used to look for real colors in studies, that will come with time and practice. What you're doing is paint grass green, sky blue and ground brown, when it almost never is the case, and if you look the picture you used for ref colors will be much more muted and resonant with each other, I'd say eyedrop and compare your study with the real photo and keep practicing!
Hudson Stewart
>What you're doing is paint grass green, sky blue and ground brown, when it almost never is the case, More lies school taught me
Asher Garcia
How do I fix it
Jordan Turner
I remember being really mad at my art teacher in highschool for criticising me for that. She was right but I didn't listen.
Xavier Campbell
Ok, I just read all of it.
Honestly, I've seen you post a lot in these threads, and haven't really given your comic much thought, other than giving a passing comment on a page or two here or there, but this is my first time reading it from beginning to end, all in one go.
I have to say that the story itself is pretty easy to following, and actually a pretty decent one at that. There were only maybe two times where I feel like thinks either didn't make sense, or maybe progressed to quickly, but the story mostly reads pretty coherently and clearly. So much so, that I don't think you need the little "what we learned" recaps, as that kind of makes it feel like the reader is dumb and can't follow what's going on. It isn't exactly a groundbreaking story, but it is easy to follow, and decently paced, I think. I do get some vibes of things like Tokyo Ghoul and some other stuff at certain points.
So anyway...I'm sure you're well aware that the art is the weakest point. It has definitely gotten better as you've progressed, but it still feels like it has a ways to go. It started off not much better than a child's scrawlings, but I think you've evolved to a point where you're certainly better with the character's facial emoting and even some of the basic anatomy stuff.
One of the biggest issues though...you have got to-GOT to, find a better way to scan your pages, or adjust them digitally to get rid of the fading and noise on the pages. The evolving art is one thing, but the poor page scan quality actively takes you out of the story.
Other than that, I'll keep an eye on this from now on to see how the story and art evolves. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing how things turn up from here on out!
Landon Martinez
>slowly make progress in world building and characters >ideas for the setting become clearer and clearer >gradually realize i'm straight up recreating another comic almost beat by beat >im subconciously a hack what the fuck do i do
to get the non writing critique out of the way, the comic would benefit a lot more if you went for dynamic angles and poses, the action scenes suffered from looking extremely static and you kind of stopped doing them as the comic progressed. there are many grammar mistakes as well as weird sentences that don't read well, just make sure for your future pages that you read out loud what you wrote down at least once so it sounds right. that what-we-learned thing at the end of the chapters is a bit too much, the audience just read the page, is it really that necessary? it would make sense if it was an entire volume and there was a quick recap at the start of the next volume.
writing opinion: some of the chapter transitions make little sense, the main characters just kind of pop up into some random scene and scenario with little explanation of how they got there. some of the dialogue just doesn't feel genuine, it was more like an afterthought that you had to fill out panels (there was a panel with a soldier running away and stating "Ah, shit, time to run away." flatly, but considering his current situation wouldn't he be a bit more emotional about his word choice?) there isn't an explanation on why the main character is so strong either, but yet the humans are even stronger? you have a lot of ideas going on but they're not cleanly presented, you kind of just jam it all in together. in contrast, the whole sequence with the onis back story was presented well, it was concise, straight the point and interesting to read. i think that was easily the best part of the comic so far.
bottom line: i'm not the audience this comic was intended for
Jack Barnes
that's just a natural thing your brain does. Now that you've gotten it out of the way, you can do an original thing
Jacob Morgan
stop talking about shit that never happened to, what, bump the thread? and forge ahead regardless You know, his comic actually sounds better-link me?
Justin Young
It would be difficult for me to convey how thankful I am for this. It happened to me that with every chapter I was wondering if the story made any sense of others besides me. The "what we learned" pages were an attempt to fix this even if deep inside I could tell they were mostly pointless. Im gonna take out most of them then.
And yeah, im trying to get better with the art. Im not gonna lie, im kinda proud of my improvement, especially on the latest, colored pages. The scan quality is my hell though. Last page I scanned 3 times yet still got that ugly noise on the first panel. Coloring fixed it only slightly. Im gonna try to fix it for the next page.
>Other than that, I'll keep an eye on this from now on to see how the story and art evolves. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing how things turn up from here on out! Thank you so much! I can at least assure you the story gets better.
Juan Butler
I assume you are other user? Thank you very much to you too then! Your criticism hurts because I can tell its true.
>action scenes looking static I know, I know, I suck at them. On the current chapters since they are more "feels" oriented there is no action, but the action will return and I need to get better.
>grammar mistakes English is not my first language. I should get a proofreader I guess. That said, that scene with the soldier saying "ah shit, time to run away" flatly was made entirely on purpose. He is supposed to be completely non-chalant and will make sense by the end of the story.
>there isn't an explanation on why the main character is so strong either, but yet the humans are even stronger? These were the kind of doubts I actually feared. I feel like I never properly explain the powers and limitations of onis in universe. To give a general idea, like the flashback said, Onis grow "strong as beasts", they all have super strenght. Thus Rau pushing the carriage or lifting a tree and shit like that. Humans cant best onis in physical strenght, and normally would lose a fight. Demon Hunters normally set up traps and shit to fight onis since they cant win by themselves. Its not supposed to be clear yet, but the shit the priest has been pulling (like going straight to choke Rau or dropping his weapon) is a shameful disaster and the result of him going nuts with rage. In the future he has to count on her to fight other onis.
The reason the humans start winning the fight on chapter 10 is because the onis dont tend to work in groups, and with the leader dead, and Ibara dead, they are too lost to properly fight back.
>im not the audience this comic was intended for Thats good to know, but it doesnt make your criticism less valid, so thank you.
Leo Garcia
Just out of curiosity, what size are you drawing on, and how big is your scanner?
I draw on some pretty big paper myself, (like, the 11x17 comic size stuff) and I actually have to scan the page four times, basically scanning each corner of the page, and then digitally Frankenstein the pages back together. Generally, there's overlap where I scan, so you can cut out the blurry, faded parts, and still have solid lineart that is clearer.
Though, I also ink, so it is easier to adjust the brightness/contrast/etc to make the faded penciling that might remain, and the noise disappear.
Angel Brown
Forgot to add that yeah, Tokyo ghoul was definitely a inspiration, willingly or not. As for the scanning, im gonna try just making a 1:1 scan like some user reccomended me. Im not sure im ready for stuff like digital inking.
Thank you again!
Owen Barnes
The chapters so far have been all drawn on a normal sketchbook. But I dont have the exact measurements here, once I have them ill tell you. It never occured to me to frankstein it all. Im unsure if the quality and light would remain the same for every piece.
I think things will get better once I stop using lined paper, but thats scheduled for after this chapter ends.
Adam Martin
I'll proofread for ya.
Adrian Wright
This one looks so much fucking worse. Shut your mouth cf, you're not helping anyone.
Ian Garcia
Really? That would be amazing, thank you very much! I really cant notice at all my mistakes, though I dont doubt they are there.
Do you have any form of contact? Or I can just upload the pages here with my handwritten dialogue and then add the proofread dialogues afterwards.
Dylan Parker
Just buy a used tablet. Look at some reviews for the lower end models, it doesn't have to be Wacom, other brands can be good too. If you buy used you can probably get one for under 50 bucks. It's a whole lot easier to draw digitally. Orders of magnitude easier. It's convenient, you can use ready-made perspective grids and a lot of other shortcuts. You can warp your drawings instead of redrawing stuff. You can use 3D and photo underlays. This can turn into a crutch but if you just want to make a decent quality comic right here and now it's going to make your life so much easier, nobody cares if you drew the Sistine Chapel by hand or you just traced a photo. Mangaka work like this.
Alternatively I suggest you get a nice gel pen (like a Pilot G-2, get two sizes like 0.7 and 0.3) and place your sheet on your monitor (use freeonlineflashlight.com/ fullscreen) or tape it to a window (in daylight) and do some clean inking. Try to make clean outlines with the big pen and add some form with the smaller pen, without crossing the lines. Then you scan it. It's going to look a whole lot better. That's what I did until I bought a lightbox which is worth every penny.
I recommend you learn very basic perspective, it's going to help so much. Try to show as many planes as possible in your image, the less planes you have in your backgrounds the more flat and unrealistic it's going to look.
I think it was you (probably?) who told me the planes thing before. Not for the next two pages since they were already storyboarded, but its something Ive been meaning to implement. As for perspective... Well, im studying it but im full of doubts. Is the body grid thing necessary? I cant imagine every artist doing that every time they have to draw a character.
Im gonna buy a drawing tablet this next month, but I have been told digital art is some tough shit so I cant make promises. Im barely getting the hang on photoshop. I was amazed when that one artist who drew chained-Rau sent me his photoshop file, the ammount of layers he used, while I use 5 layers tops. That said, I think tomorrow will be a year since I started trying to get better at art. I have a limit of 8 years, I wanna see how much improve by then. Im kinda hopeful but god knows.
I say this a lot already, but thank you very much. I have a lot of shit to fix and im slow at it, but the advice I get here seems really good.
Jaxson Perez
>It's a whole lot easier to draw digitally For some people, but it's better for someone to start with traditional than to learn cheap photoshop tricks and not draw
Noah Morris
Why? I do everything by hand because I hate digital, but from a practical point of view there is NO reason to learn on paper. Many concept artists these days will tell you that learning to draw is straight up useless, you just wanna learn the basics and then use shortcuts.
it comes with practice really I'm no expert but I know a few things 1. you can see how the colors even though look really vibrant they are a combination of muted and saturated colors, evedroping is a really good tool for learning 2. colors are relative, especially muted colors, so you have to know your way around this kind of combinations 3. value in studies is also really important and tricky, you have to know how to differentiate betwen a high value image or a low values imgae and the contrast in each one 4. again, color is ALWAYS relative to the colors you have in their proximity
>Is the body grid thing necessary? I cant imagine every artist doing that every time they have to draw a character. no, for bodies you just learn anatomy from plates and life drawing and guesstimate the perspective. Where did you see a "body grid" thing?
Digital is a lot easier. You don't have to use lots of layers, I use 3 most of the time. Also you don't have to waste money on supplies which means you can draw all day.
James Howard
easier to do it here, but you can have my email if you'd rather do it that way
Hudson Cruz
>color is ALWAYS relative to the colors you have in their proximity why?
Jace Ortiz
I think you have an inkling of how certain things are framed because you probably read a lot of manga. When you get into narrative spots and there's a dramatic scene, you manage to get a good shot like pic related. But if you read manga you need to analyze how the other scenes are framed as well. It would be a good exercise since manga are generally pretty minimalist in their use of camera and have a very tight economy on backgrounds. You just have to learn perspective and do some anatomy exercise and your comic will improve a lot. If you understand how to construct a basic 2-point perspective reliably and you use reference for poses your art quality is going to improve tenfold. Don't just make your comic, practice stuff, draw from life, draw perspective scenes, analyze photos for vanishing points and placement of things, etc.
Also I'd forget about color ATM, just use screentones on Clip Studio (you can get it somewhere on /ic/ if you try I'm sure...)
Caleb Rogers
here. I've thought about hosting the comic on a website and trying to draw traffic to that, but it might be a better idea to put it on a bunch of webcomic directories and try to get as many eyes on it as possible.
Thoughts? I'll think about monetizing it only if I can get a sizeable audience.
I have so much I have to learn and improve that honestly sometimes I feel overwhelmed. Guess Im gonna go with perspective now. I try to do one thing at a time or ill go insane.
I do practice drawing besides my comic, particularily copying references and doing fanart. As for the color... I understand it might not be important but I dont know how to use tones for photoshop and I cannot pay for ClipStudio at the moment. Using color helps me make it look way better imo. Still, im uncertain whether to keep coloring every page or not.
can't afford 25 bucks? I understand. nobody would look down on you for pirating clipstudio for now then paying for it when you can.
Xavier Harris
thank you then! Ill just post pages here and wait for comments.
Nolan Johnson
Oh but is it 25 bucks or is it Microsoft motherfucking Word which asks for 25 bucks PER MONTH? Because sadly no, I cant affort any kind of subscription like that. I did get photoshop for free thanks to some kind soul so im trying to use that.
Dylan Williams
just 25
Jose Fisher
Line art done for this page, tentatively. I have some questions:
Four questions: How off does the bald guy in the first panel look in terms of scale?
Does the speech bubble placement make sense and work as clearly intended?
The man on the ground in the top panel and the bald guy on the bottom left--they have less detailed parts, but are fairly large, compared to other sections of the page. Does that interfere with the reader's eye?
Should the guy on the very bottom be moved to the right and/or made larger/smaller?
then ill buy it next month, tablet comes first. Wew. Thank you. I really hope its better than ps, I have been told thats the case.
Jonathan Collins
Im far from an expert, but I always felt your paneling was fantastic.
Jordan Ward
>Microsoft motherfucking Word There are people left in the world who don't just use Google Docs?
Asher Sanders
It really is better in most ways. There are a few tools that have fewer options, but sometimes the option is still there and just requires more menu-trawling plus it has perspective ruler and stabilizer and other shit that makes it just better
I should point out though, it's 25 when it goes on sale. which is every so often. 50 otherwise.
Ryder Stewart
you can write word documents in google docs? I just have an olde version of Word that doesnt cost money after you've already bought it.
Caleb Gray
need a qt artist goth gf who will draw my comic for free and also hold my hand please god i am lonely and dying
Bentley Gomez
Google docs has word import option and it's free and cloud based and you can host literally a million documents on your drive.
Are you a boomer? How do you not know about this?
Luke Hill
This but unironically, they say extended loneliness as you're older has close to the same effects on your health as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Please some qt artist PLEASE add me on discord
In my day the internet wasn't like that. we had websites. I barely understand how google docs works (and I've used it for work for years), and I don't trust clouds I don't understand what you mean by import option, like if you have the .doc file but you don't have Word, you can just go to google docs, import the file, edit it, then save it again and send to someone else? that seems less convenient than having the program but better than paying for it.
Isaac Perry
libreoffice is free and you can change the extension to a .doc which is the same version as Microsoft Word. Saving on a cloud is mostly a convenience thing if you use multiple computers or if you have to share it with someone quickly. You don't have to use it if you don't want to, but it's convenient for most people.
Thomas Davis
Right on. Might be useful.
Cameron Gray
Just pirate Clip Studio man, you can buy it later. The screentones are literal drag-and-drop from a menu into a selection, and then you can erase bits to create effects or overlap them to create darker values.
Barring maaaybe giving the king a cutaway panel instead nah your paneling seems fine- the thing that always stood out to me is that your poses seem really bouncy. Like the barbarian, what kind of crazy is he? In one panel he's flat on his back but in the next he's crouching and leaning. I can picture what that looks like in motion but all the characters move like that- especially evident with Gasparro normally and Sormon when he was getting his ass beat. It's not special when he moves weird. Never had a good opening to talk about this. It also seems to affect the king's emotions- there's been two incidences where he's just switched back from being mortally terrified like nothing happened. I can get all the other characters being high strung and shouty, one's a hardass and the rest are facing execution, but this should only be about as interesting as a science fair to him. He'd work better subtler.
A good way to go about that is to post select sets of panels that might be worthy of being spread around the internet on their own to draw in readers. Sharing portions that you think can, forgive my phrasing, become "meme-worthy" or reaction image worthy might drive people back to the original comic by trying to find the source. Not just posting on your own social media, but selling out to funny picture sites where people browse through so much content that they even hit the newest uploads. Even using your own panels as reaction images in threads. Probably sounds a little trashy but you'd be surprised at its effectiveness. Also not something to do too much to where its obvious shilling.
Asher Nguyen
I think another good solution is to make a meme worthy page at the end of every few chapters. It could be a random scenario or interaction between two of your characters that people are able to relate to.
Dylan Brooks
i've posted it a few times here. too shy now i get what you're saying. i've found a lot of my favourite shows/comics from reaction images and stuff like that. I even found my waifu from a reaction image. it's not something i'm going to do, though. a bit too foul play for me
Samuel Green
>a bit too foul play for me >too shy now Welp, guess the obscurity's terminal, then. Sorry, breh. Also while I didn't say it "what's your comic?" means "if it's good, I'll promote it for you". It's what I'm doing for Saffron and Sage because they offhand mentioned they want to hit $300/month in an unrelated thread
>readers Fuckin', complain to them, then. This thread has about 30 posts before it hits autosage and I'd rather not use them guessing at the contents of a black box. ...No wait let me try that again:
>readers Yes. I would wish to be one of those.
By the way, what's this about? Sort of inattentive/sort of new, don't recognize it-new comic?
not that user but please go on Blambot.com and change font, they are free to use. Using a shitty Arial kills your comic instantly.
Jaxon Foster
why does failing a drawing send my confidence for all art stuff plumeting? tried a watercolour painting today and it came out pretty bad.
Carson Gray
Average good drawing to shit drawing ratio is 1:10. Make more paintings, it's normal.
Henry Hughes
im definitely going to tackle it again, spent too much on this shit to just drop it. but im waiting on some brushes to arrive that are actually designed for watercolour and arent puny acrylic brushes.
Owen Flores
I never even considered that bounciness dynamic! I just gave them the poses that seemed to be appropriate in my mind's eye while also being reasonably in sequence. I'll have to brood on this new variable, thank you.
As an aside, the king should actually perhaps be the most high strung of them all. He's weak on many levels and, currently, knows he's going to have to tell Gasparro that these guys are NOT in fact going to be executed. Quite the opposite, actually. Gasparro is loyal and good, but he's a brutal browbeater. Perhaps I'm being too careless with conveying that relationship, though?
Carson Robinson
Watercolour is the hardest painting to learn
Dominic King
What was the old saying? “You need to make 1000 bad drawings before you get to your first good one?”
Something like that.
Charles Torres
Working on op image for the next thread during my break. If you want to get this thread to the limit, go ahead. I'll get the next thread set up as soon as I finish editing the image. The sooner we hit the bump limit the sooner new thread goes up.
>Chuck Jones: “Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.” >Walt Stanchfield: “We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.”
Liam Bailey
Ah. There we go.
Gavin Anderson
Good lord, why didnt I ever try the magic wand before. Now I feel like a total idiot for selecting things manually.
You started your comic to be a learning experience, and you are doing just that. Don't be so hard on yourself
Brandon Turner
yeah, it's pretty damn neato. There's a lot of pretty cool stuff in PS, but it's super easy to just stick what you know, even if there's some better alternative. I recently stumbled upon content-aware-scale by misclicking and it absolutely blew my mind. Another one is how to deal with a line layer that also includes a white background (because I'm an idiot who often draws on the background layer). I had been struggling for like a year with how to color under the lines, but above the white background, until I randomly realised that you could just set the line layer to multiply, so that the white basically just acts as transparency for the layers below.
In regards to your image: You have some white spots in your outlines due to its texture. It's a matter of taste, but on my large, high-resolution monitor they are pretty visible, so I'd probably also color them in. To do that you could just use "expand" on your seleciton so that the lines are also included. I can also understand if you like that look though.
That sadly doesn't work for gray/slightly transparent types of lines, so sometimes the traditional tools are still needed (unless there's some other way I don't know). Pretty sure that's someone different, unless I'm missing some additional context.
Charles Edwards
Congrats on 1 year dude
Christopher Roberts
so we've moved on to attacking ARIAL now? come on
That said, it sure doesn't suit this comic. Which looks alright!
more punctuation would really have helped that chunk of backstory text read like less of a chunk
Benjamin Lopez
>I should point out though, it's 25 when it goes on sale. which is every so often. 50 otherwise. It just went on sale right before the update dropped on the 28th, but I imagine the next sale would be between May and late June. They're not on a seet schedule, but they seem to drop the sales right around major holidays, or general time off like summer or winter break. Just make sure to check both the Clipstudio website and graphixly, along with amazon, to make sure you get that good discount price. They keep their twitter accounts up to date and use them announce sales, so if you have twitter those might be good accounts to follow.
I know I know, behind every "I suck" I say, I completely understand its only natural for me to fuck up.
No no, thats still good ol me, just that I do some practice besides my comic. That said, making a comic is really good since normally I simply dont know what to draw.
I cant see the white spots from my pc but ill try the expand tool nowadays. But basically, learning about the magic wand means that coloring or nor coloring is not a concern anymore. It took me hours because i had to select things manually. Now ill just color quickly since it looks better, its not as if I do any kind of complex coloring.
For the next page ill do that, for the next after Ill try clipstudio and tones to try them, and for the third next ill try to play with perspective as much as I can
Now that you mention it. Even is series with intelligent monsters you don't see that... How humancentric lol
Jace Young
lilith constantly gets misidentified as a demon or a succubus because of her horn, also she involuntarily displays mountain goat characteristics sometimes, like leaping up rockfaces when in danger, chomping on grass, baaa-ing instead of yawning or something, and if you look close she has those creepy goat pupils in her eyes. A crackpot animal wizard mixed mountain goat essence into her soul, causing this strange effect, and it slowly gets worse as she fails to find a cure for it.
Aaron Phillips
Interesting! That is a solid curse, I would not want to be begoated.
Ethan Harris
play with 'tolerance' on tools too. be careful though, sometimes that eats through lines. also necks don't get thicker going up
Austin Gutierrez
this is intruiging for some fucking reason
Leo Sullivan
You're in for a crazy ride. Moynihan is a mad genius of a very specific type
most tutorials will say to use lasso or pen tool to select areas for colour, but thats only if youre doing professional flatting. otherwise the magic wand is a super time saver.
Liam Baker
Or just the fillbucket like a normal person. If you have non-aliased lineart, you have to change the settings so it will recognize that and not leave white bits around the lines, sure.. also multiplying the lineart is smart. But most professional flatters I see draw a line of color manually around the edges of the lines then just hand-color or bucket in the rest.
Nathaniel Harris
It was useful but fucked up in some areas. Tolerance didnt do anything. Using the lasso to reduce the selections did work though.
my problem with the fill bucket is graphical issues in photoshop at certain zooms. and then any change of dpi could also potentially bring up the gaps. my solution was to use shortcuts and actions as much as possible. wand tool, and expand selection set to its own shortcut, then fill with foreground set to its own button too.
Cooper Miller
Oh yeah Hey remember primitive paint programs where the fill bucket actually filled an area slowly, in real time, and if it spilled out of a gap you could see it?
Matthew Rivera
I still remember getting excited to go to the computer lab where we would sometimes be allowed to print off coloring pages if the computer teacher was feeling generous, but we had to rip the little side trim off with the little holes before we were allowed to leave. In other words Yes
Gavin Lopez
fuck me, those old dot matrix printers. I can still hear them. I can still hear them, user.
Camden King
what do I have to change to make the white bits go away? I've tried all the settings I could find, but there's always this gap.
I have the same problem of obscurity, I've tried really obvious shilling and subtle shilling in using my own stuff as reaction images etc but nothing seems to stick or I get no replies, it makes me think my only problem really is my comic but I tend to mostly get positive feedback.
so if you're not aware of my comic at the moment i'd appreciate your opinion at least raccoon-girl.co.uk/ , just been going 3 years with not much movement.
well basically those are aliasing. If you turn up the tolerance on fillbucket or select, it should treat those pixels as 'white' and fill them right in for you. What a lot of people do is manually color with 'overlay' on so that it paints 'transparent' color over those. Or make the lineart layer 'overlay' instead. or is it multiply? Might be multiply.
But there's one other thing you can do, when you first put in a scanned pencil drawing, you can go to 'threshold' and adjust the settings until it makes you solid black aliased lines out of your pencils.
Ayden Williams
We should all do themed ones where it's "hows MY webcomic" and a character on it
Luke Stewart
sounds cool
Levi Foster
I agree with other user, sounds cool. If you want to throw that proposal in the next thread when it goes up you can get some input from everyone else.
