I've always loved when people crop out weird pieces of my art and use them, at least one guy had one as his MSN messenger portrait once. Comics were something I thought would be easy enough to do really often.
Aiden Morgan
This page honestly looks pretty sloppy. A lot of open space which really draws attention to the fact that you hurried through the coloring.
Michael Thomas
Well, there were a lot of issues I ran into as expected. For starters, I dont quite get how to line with CPS. Second was the coloring, its far easier with photoshop, or at least I like more my results there. I dont understand selection tools either on CPS so I have to color manually the entire thing, even base colors.
Not that im asking for help yet, I have to go through the tutorials. For a first digital page I dont completely hate it.
Also I released some b/w digital ashcans of BITE to people online. Been getting alot of positive feedback on it. Of course Olivia is becoming a fan favorite.
Well, you get props for experimenting and trying things. I only work in black and white, because I hate digital coloring (well, I hate doing it myself for my own work. I don't hate it when other people do it).
You'll probably get better as you mess with it more, though.
Cooper Edwards
>Of course Olivia is becoming a fan favorite. Well, everyone loves sharktits.
Cameron Reyes
You can alter all the settings to line up to photoshop, then experiment in the things those tools can do that PS can't. You just have to spend ages messing with the settings Definitely use the stabilizer and pressure sensitivity so you can make some nice confident lines that taper
>Q: Do you want people to make memes out of your comic? Do you intentionally add meme-able moments? I try to avoid it, meme humor can be nice sometimes but the story and action should carry the comic. >Alt Q: Why comics? What made you want to make comics over other art forms or hobbies/jobs? I got bored with a lot of entertainment so I wanted to try my own thing.
>Q: Do you want people to make memes out of your comic? Do you intentionally add meme-able moments? i'd love it if people cropped out things from my comic and used them as reactions and stuff, but there's nothing i put in that's really intentionally "memeable". there's comedy but i'm not trying to push any meme stuff because i really hate it when that kind of thing is obvious (like forced "reaction faces") >Alt Q: Why comics? What made you want to make comics over other art forms or hobbies/jobs? i used to want to be an animator when i was a kid, but i just don't really have the patience for it in large doses. i also love writing dialogue and telling stories but i hate doing prose, so comics were fucking ideal for me to pursue
Benjamin Cox
Are you supposed to save your old artwork?
Jason Cox
Are we doing wacky races or another catfight tournament?
Anthony Gray
a strawpoll with all the ideas would be nice.
Oliver Sanchez
why wouldnt you?
Dylan Moore
i usually clear out most of my old art after a while because i don't really like looking at it, but i always keep back a few pieces that i'm a bit more satisfied with for keeping track of progress. i'd recommend at least keeping a few things back for each year
>Why comics? What made you want to make comics over other art forms or hobbies/jobs? Making games is hard and no one will ever read my ramblings. I think writing is oversaturated because everyone can do it, but at the same time underappreciated because not a lot of people can write good. Comic is probably the easiest visual media to produce and to consume by unwashed masses. Basically comic is the best of both worlds.
Kevin Myers
I guess its up to you. I have artwork from over 20 years ago that I did.
Christopher Murphy
make one
Evan Lopez
Huge stacks of physical papers in a small room. I have to throw something out.
Jaxon Anderson
Oh, physical media. Yeah that would be tricky. I have mine in folders, I thought I was pretty prolific but it would all fit neatly in a duffel bag. You must draw nonstop. and I guess scanning it all would be a huge pain. My mom has a huge storage tub of my old-old drawings somewhere
Grayson Torres
Any advice on helping characters stand out from the background?
Well, as of right now, her dark shirt fades into the shadows of the foliage behind her, and her hair is a relatively similar color to the tree trunks. And her pants are just straight up green like everything behind her.
Would probably be best to find some way to make her colors pop more, or maybe extend the pic to the the right by about 50% and just have her totally sitting in the light coming through the trees.
Leo Gonzalez
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haloing, using different line-width from the background, avoiding tangents, and making the background and foreground different in terms of value, color, etc so the reader can easily distinguish between "layers" of depth
Jackson Bennett
>have pulp sci-fi adventure setting >want eldritch abominations >have no idea how to justify them not just rising up from the deeps and stomping all over civilization Do I go full on Cthulutech/Delta Green and have the horrors be vulnerable to conventional weapons and tactics, or should I make up some magic bullshit that keeps them in the trenches? I don't know how to have villains from beyond the veil without fucking with the setting's "ecosystem", as it were.
I love that one of the enemies is basically an overworld enemy icon
Angel Myers
Good I was going for a dragon quest parody vibe.
Henry Gonzalez
I think the general thing with Lovecraftian horrors is that they're usually indifferent and barely aware we're even here. And when they do interact with humanity, its because they were invoked/Fucked with/or summoned.
Or they just woke up and rolled over in bed, wiping half of existence out in the process.
Noah King
I know just what you mean. You could say they're mostly out of sync with our spacetime, being from somewhere else, and most of the time they move so slowly that they might as well be mountains, but once in a while something lines up
Jose Morales
>Why comics? I’m a masochist I guess.
Connor Gutierrez
>draw and ideate on an idea for literal years >write plot summary for one chapter >immediately stop thinking about it all the time and am perfectly content to not work on it anymore
guess it is the safest option indeed, I would like it give all characters a g-string
Aaron Brooks
Someone's mom didn't give her enough growing up.
Eli Thomas
especially the ones with thick tails, so the string has nowhere to go
Cooper Jones
I can only vote for one?
Julian Jones
I'm disappointed by that too, but then I don't not like any of the options, I just like them different amounts. and as much as I was whining before, I don't have any problem with races, I just wanted to make sure we weren't being steamrolled into something when we hadn't had time to discuss
Jeremiah Butler
I think its simpler that way
You can totally do that, although I thought about it in a more sfw way.
Oliver Wright
about to do a twink ass rudoph voice for a goodlove reading. :^)
I believe Marvel/DC have 32 pages with 22-24 of them being story pages, the rest are ads and editorial stuff
Jaxson Gray
g-strings are sfw
Tyler Lewis
Depends. Some are no longer than 17-18 actual comic pages, with another 50% of those being ads and previews for other shit. Best way to find out? Go look at your comics and just count them.
Nolan James
I just uploaded the penultimate update to Chapter 1 of The Concord Initiative. 100 pages when it is done next week. This would be an excellent time to get on the band wagon--expansion is coming.
In 30 words or less: Young, troubled king tries to stop decline of Early Modern Empire with state sponsored, propagandized spec ops team. He pulls talent from lawmen and criminals. The situation degenerates.
Ifinally finish my fucking 2nd chapter.. took a fucking year with all the school n shit but theres still a another obstacle is in my path with the scanned inked pages looking weird as hell when i put them on the krita program it's gonna take some time... sad thing is i told my followers ima drop sometime today...oof x4
>finished 2nd chapter why havent you been updating your site? >scanned pages look weird can you be more specific? we can help >ima drop sometime today what? don't drop.. are you okay? Need to rest?
>why havent you been updating your site? ehhh i post some artwork? that count? lmaooooo >can you be more specific? we can help i scan my pages using the phone, i do scan alot of my inked drawings and they come out pretty good but for some reason these pages look shrink >what? don't drop.. are you okay? Need to rest? i was drop it toady , as in post it but bs is preventing from doing so it might take longer than expected
>i scan my pages using the phone, Have you thought about getting an actual scanner?
Daniel Murphy
yeah but i'm broke
Bentley Scott
I use a pretty good one I got for 85$, I dunno if that's expensive by your standards (it kinda is for mine), but for a scanner it's pretty cheap and the quality is good.
I use an Epson Workforce Pro WF-3720, it sucks as a printer (breaks down regularly, according to reviews), but as a scanner it hasn't yet failed me. Be sure to have a usb ready.
Thomas Morris
>look shrink Okay I knwo this is going to require all the english you can muster, but do you mean they're actually smaller? we can help with this.
James Morgan
or get a cheap tablet and keep photographing pencil drawings, then inking them digitally!
Jack Gonzalez
Thanks.
Kayden Watson
whatever gives you the result you like best
Jace Rodriguez
newest page. yesterday people were saying top make the pose on the sweater guy more dynamic to show that hes REALLY getting pulled, any other thoughts / flaws?
>Q: Do you want people to make memes out of your comic? Do you intentionally add meme-able moments? yeah, i think seeing such an affective response in the audience would be really fun. if the viewer can interact with a work like that its a signifier of success imo >Alt Q: Why comics? What made you want to make comics over other art forms or hobbies/jobs? i engage in as many mediums and hobbies as I can. my comic is a visual / narrative parallel to an album I've recorded and I plan to release them together.
i still don't have a goddamn name for it yet and it bums me out. I'm hoping one will emerge but I'm two chapters deep and I need a foundational identity
>Do you intentionally add meme-able moments? ngl, that sounds way more cynical than most of the shit people normally complain about >Alt Q: Why comics? I read comics!
>probably going to adjust it so that it's a place where the nature of time is just utterly fucked and doesn't really flow right rather than not existing flat-out Nah that's fine, time not existing sounds cooler, I think what I’m noticing is the exposition scenes for it. That’s actually something I didn’t cover in the original comment- There are exposition paragraphs and most of them don't need to be there or can be worked into Sal's perception of the world. Stopping the story to point out wounds don't heal makes it look like something that specifically has to be remembered and kept in mind. Same with time being gone but the mold grows through time distortions because ????. Brushing past it as Sal tries to reestablish reality or another character admits that definitely is weird mid convo makes it known but not a plot point
>Lovecraft try to get him to read through Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath keeping that “Lovercraft=not action heroes” outlook in mind. I’m not sure if Dream Quest necessarily is the best for it offhand but -Dreamland stories are specifically not Mythos stories, and it still has the mood -There’s a scene where Randolph Carter’s horse(zebra?) gets vampired in his sleep outside a ruin. In a normal story events would conspire such that he’d fight the monster, or at least end up getting a good look at what did it. In this he just counts his lucky stars that whatever it was didn’t decide to eat him and leaves
They don't want to leave the trenches; humans are either agitating or summoning them
Oh hey, don't advertise just here- this thread only has around 80 IPs and dropped as low as 40 as of last thread. There's just not enough people to pitch to
How can you be two chapters into a comic and not even have a name for it? How will people ever even find it or look for it?
Jack Ortiz
how do you make LSD dream simulator but as a comic
Juan Smith
What's it about?
Luis Thompson
Why is it common advice to draw with your full arm and shoulder when drawing with just your wrist allows so much more dexterity and precision? I genuinely don't understand this way of thinking.
Easton Cruz
hey, i wonder the same.
Jose Martin
the disillusionment of the self and the expulsion being that comes with its disintegration. at least a perceived expulsion with respect to what one may construe as a normal contemporary lifestyle
Joseph Edwards
i know at least 100 people personally who may be interested, and when i finish drawing it im gonna make a book and try to sell the book, alongside the conjoined album and its respectives CDs and Tapes. but until then its going to remain in this unreleased / development state where I just post the pages here to get feedback (and dopamine) so i can learn how to make the comic in the first place (and jack off my ego via (you)s)
Lincoln Moore
I think it depends. the fine motions are the wrist, the big swooshes are arm (so your wrist can lock in place while you do it) it's like combination joystick-gyro aiming Okay, so the title should be a phrase that sums up that feeling, sort of like how 'no need for tenchi' summed up that premise. Sounds like this comic should be called Nirvana Business or It's Not Going to Be Like That Anymore/Again
Jackson Cook
Can't you just give it the same name as your CD, a character's name, or even just your username?
Evan Williams
it always confuses me when comics are named after the author
Luke Richardson
yes, the CD and the comic will have the same name, but I don't have that name yet. its tricky to think of something that works for both
Wyatt Gray
there's a track called "the lounge between" which represents some really central ideas, and I've been debating using that as the title but everything I try just doesn't "sing", ya know?
The use of the wrist is limited to fine details for multiple reasons. Your wrist has a limited effective range. You can only draw lines so long and circles so big. Why try connecting 3 or more lines with your wrist when you can draw it in one motion with your shoulder/elbow?
The other reason is that your wrist is a finite resource. If you want to draw professionally then you'll need to take care of it. Regular breaks, stretching and limiting the use of your wrist.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is no joke. Pain, numbness and tingling sensations are only the warning signs. Serious cases involve losing grip strength and dexterity in your fingers. In the most severe cases there's muscle wasting and loss of sensation.
Also, there have been all kinds of studies about work/rest cycles. They recommend you take a 17-20 minute break every 52-90 minutes for peak efficiency. That lines up nicely with doctors' recommendations to take 15 minute breaks for every hour of work to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome
Tyler Collins
Is it possible that webcomics are just a higher intellectual medium that normies can't understand?
Elijah Lopez
>stretching your wrist literally how
Carter Gray
And in case you think this is just from some random mommy blog if you search for carpal tunnel stretches there are a hundred images just like this from clinical research institutions, rehab facilities, etc
Also check out Jim Lee drawing. Very limited wrist movement but he bangs out those figures
You should NEVER do any of these exercises, they could cause severe tendon and nerve damage, holy shit.
Justin Butler
>what do you think? "What's in a name?"
Joshua Sanchez
They're recommended by the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons as of October 2018 and I've had them personally recommended to me by a doctor for carpal tunnel prevention
What does some guy drawing Ariel have to do with Jim Lee?
Nicholas Carter
i wanna get some of that vibe in some segments of my comic, or in part 2. i suppose if you wanna try to make the game as a comic, i mostly imagine it be a short one. think about how the brain works during sleep as a starting point? reminds me of the alien 9 author who made a yume nikki webcomic, tho i dunno how that turned out.
I'm about to start drawing my own comic and i also have no idea how to name it. I have one name, but it will be buried under other google results.
Angel Williams
I know exactly what you mean. The elements are there, but not in the right order. The Inbetween Lounge would be better, or The (some synonym for lounge) Between. Even just The Place Between is better, it starts stirring up images in your head. In Between Places does that too.
Jacob Ramirez
I just went to an orthopedist for my sprained wrist and she said most people can't do most of these and she never recommends them. She crossed them off of my chart. Didn't have the ball ones though, and the spreading-fingers one she did specifically recommend along with others.
Ian Gutierrez
Try spelling it wrong What's it about, what name were you considering?
Caleb Butler
>write good it's write well
Joseph Green
>write powerfully*
Cooper Diaz
Dirty Deeds. It's about mercenaries doing mercenary stuff.
Sebastian Stewart
Dude, it looks good, but how many more years will it take?
Samuel Baker
imgur.com/gallery/0cqanRB Try Fire and Honour. Not deep but it fits the mood. I feel like I do my best thinking when reading something dumb
writing a "plot outline" document right now to get my ideas on paper
Mason Turner
I don't think you understand.
Jordan Robinson
Why
Robert Thomas
Alright, got the roughs done. I find it odd that it's been 29 pages and this is the first action scene I've drawn. Hopefully everything looks readable.
>Why comics? What made you want to make comics over other art forms or hobbies/jobs?
This comic is honestly just something I do to keep me busy. I'm trying to break into the animation industry as a character designer but it's pretty slow going. When I'm not working on this comic I'm working on my portfolio.
youtu.be/IFDxaphW1gg 1 DAY REMAINS TILL THE ADMIRAL PIZZA COMIC CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN BEGINS! Its official Admiral pizza will have a booth at Alaska comicon! I will need YOUR help to make it before the deadline on DEC 1st to get published copies! We can do this! PIZZA POWER! I have decided to use kickstarter! I am still fumbling with my page, i will have a final video and i will go LIVE in the next 24 hours!!! In celebration i will story time All 4 issues eventually!
I don't know if you do it for real or not, but it's fun You're the Sam Hyde of HYW or something?
Colton Ward
>If i ever meet Ronald Mcdonald in dark alleyway and he forces me into self defense situation i'm gonna fuck him up so badly, i will put him in the fucking ground in the fucking box.
ah I see what you mean. My instinct is to change it to something like Muddy Methods but that's not nearly as good.
Matthew Jackson
It took me a second to realize she slid under the handles part of the wheelbarrow. good stuff.
Colton Gomez
Questionable things done for reasonable price
Connor Morales
Learn basic 3D. Make a few environments and put awful textures on everything. Make a couple characters either in 3D or just drawing them on top of the backgrounds. Make sure they look compressed and shitty.
Dylan Davis
Unclean Actions Sticky Sins Polloted Performances Dusty Dids
Chase Watson
So basically, its Chrono Trigger, except with trains for some reason?
Camden Perez
there's some similarities, but not really. funnily enough i only just started getting into chrono trigger recently
Zachary Fisher
>Thomas the Train fights a time parasite
Cameron Martinez
the image compression really fucks that up, it doesn't look AS bad in the high res
Adam Hall
another photobashing test.
I hope it doesn't look too bad. I don't want to look as lazy as the gantz guy even tho I like the idea behind the whole process.
I'm speeding up the process, which is good. now all I need it to do is LEARN HOW TO MAKE BELIEVABLE 3D BACKGROUNDS YOOOOO
>Q: Do you want people to make memes out of your comic? Sure why not
>Alt Q: Why comics? What made you want to make comics over other art forms or hobbies/jobs? Animation is too much work for something of this scale. A comic is good enough.
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Part 1 of chapter 2 is over. Part 2 is when shit gets real.
Chapter has ended so it's time for another hiatus until the next one is ready to go. I would like some reviews of how everybody likes it so far as we go along. Had to find an emergency colorist for this page and this made me prefer working with artists personally than "teams" who tend to mess things up. I swear there's like a brain drain when 'collectives' do a job more often than not.
Guys it’s been fucking forever, are bones and dewd finally gone
Camden Harris
Don't have my scanner, so I decided to ink it digitally and color it in a different way. It took me three times as long to ink though. Is the middle or right coloring better? Should I keep it as green or use black eyes?
You'll get used to it, it'll get faster inking digitally. As long as you're using a tablet and not a mouse. Your pencil lines do still look better of course, and that's going to be the case for a while. Looking at left and right... I actually kinda want to see you try colored lines, but that will take even longer.
Aaron Lopez
What do you mean by colored lines? You mean a shade darker than the original color. Curious why you recommend that, I was actually thinking about doing it before I colored it in with watercolor.
I forget how invisible I am since I don't post here much. Furry superhero with minor genderbending and 90's vibe. Published a couple of books and a page averages every two weeks based on my track record. My only chance to making it big is scoring a movie deal with a senile trillionaire in Hollywood.
I feel like giving comics a slightly more complex critique than the usual, link me yours if you want to receive my critique attempt. I actually want to develop my critique skills because everytime I want to talk about a comic I can only say "oh thats awesome" and variations.
i'm so fucking nervous about getting my comic out. i don't think anyone at all is going to read it and i'm worried if people do they'll find it boring. i think the plot and scripts are fine, but i'm starting to think maybe it isn't worth it. i don't know, i'm not in it for views or anything, i love working on it but i'm worried people won't even glimpse at it because all my art and everything always gets ignored anyway, even my "art friends" don't seem to give a shit. i just feel like everything i do is below average, not even remarkably bad just, bland and boring i don't want to go back and change things at this point because i've been ironing it out for such a long time and i just want to share it with people but fuck i don't know. i know i need to put more of my actual work out and get this "prequel" series done first but i'm starting to get more hesitant about it, even though i'm over my deadline. i don't know what to do anymore
Shit. That option's available in the archaic Manga Studio 4 Ex too. Good find fren. We need all the shortcuts we can get lol.
Jayden Gomez
unprotected sex is a risky game, idk how he'll respond but I hope he feels like a dumbass
Jordan Rogers
if not being read, or being boring are your biggest fears, I think you can overcome those. That's not so bad. if it happens, just ignore it and move on.
Kevin Torres
what's the comic about
Parker Ross
Took a brief break from the comic to get a head start on some redesigns and expansion of worldbuilding.
The Empire of Dauntina, of which Edgardo Oberto is King, has three territories: Santissima, aka the Heartlands, aka Central Dauntina (Italy); Las Pradas, aka the Golden Meadows, aka Southern Dauntina (Spain); and Castelland, aka Land of Castles, aka Northern Dauntina (Anglo-Saxony).
I also have an intense interest in religious orders; pictured is the Scarlatta, nuns who ceremonially wear bloody veils collected from local parishes, where ritual bloodletting (completely benign) is the equivalent of Holy Communion. They do so in memory of Dauntina, the Sister God of Man, who is in a perpetual state of bleeding to death from martyrdom.
posting here from another thread to have more answers
question time anons: -where can I learn how to draw so I can make my own? -how long will it take me to learn? -where can I post my work (dont wanna do it on tumblr nor deviantart)
Parker Lewis
you can post your art here
Grayson Garcia
I mean, it can't be COMPLETELY benign here! a while here, but once it's a comic, you should post it on a comic hosting site.
Joshua Ross
como criollo lo apruebo! if you have an interest in Religious orders you can check this book about christian heregies: The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis[Frank Williams] is a 4th century study of all the religions of the time and many catholic heregies of the time is easy to read, feels like a warhammer40k manual but more metal
Aaron Martin
I would love it if people meme'd on my comic, I've been experimenting with more expressions just for that purpose. It's the faces and story that sticks with someone after their done reading right?. >tapas.io/episode/1482350
youtube.com/watch?v=pBz0BTb83H8&ab_channel=SelmerAce But seriously she needs to be distinctively feminine even as a tomboy. Probably the easiest way to write a female is to give her subtle hints of mother instinct (see Ripley and Sarah Connor) Oh boy. I'll be in your position couple of months down the line. Needs more seals of purity.
>tapas.io/episode/1393251 That was a mistake on my part. When I first started tapas I didn't really know how to produce a comic in the vertical style. it wasn't until I got help from another comic artist that I started making them the right way. What I did was cut out and export each panel to fit the model back then. Thanks bud! I appreciate it.
>Do you want memes out of your comic? Do you add meme-able moments? I don't mind memes. I don't design anything to be meme-able though. But I am an idiot who likes to "secretly" insert dumb jokes or current memes.
Tapas and Webtoons are the go to ones. There are more out there though. I use both Tapas and Webtoons, but Tapas is my favorite.
Asher Smith
>There are more out there though. could you please tell me about those too, I'm just looking at all the options
Zachary Adams
Im still new to this gig too. Only other one i know is SmackJeeves. Never used that one, so I cant tell you about it.
Tapas seems to be the most popular one with the biggest community, and it lets you upload .png I dont like Webtoons because you have to upload in .jpg and it makes my already shit art look shittier.
Dominic Lee
oh ok thanks for the answer man
Kayden Nguyen
You should also consider proper webcomic hosting sites that aren't geared towards phones, that don't restrict the hell out of your uploads' format.
Mason Lewis
I had a big whiny post typed up about how much harder it is to draw on a tablet compared to paper and how I'll never make it because my lines will never be as precise as I want them to be. As I was typing it I alt tabbed into Krita and had a pity party drawing lines, trying to think of more things to complain about for the post.
I started drawing the lines more slowly and really paid attention to what I wanted my arm to do. I usually throw out lines like an idiot and undo until I get one that works. But dammit slowing down and practicing actually made me a little better.
It doesn't make my drawings look better but it makes me feel better while drawing. If I stick with it maybe drawing will be fun instead of a chore/burden/insurmountable wall
Gabriel Murphy
a stabilizer is also a good idea if it helps, you're not the first person to find a serious learning curve to using a tablet.
Once you start really getting it, you WILL want to 'throw out lines like an idiot and undo a lot' because that's how it works, but you have to go slowly first to get the ropes.
Jackson Ramirez
webtoons has bigger traffic. it's easier to amass followers there, but has a large young demographic. it uses ratings, front page has diff genres with big numbers. whereas tapas sort of has a reputation for the boys love/slice of life slant. webtoons is inconvenient with comments and scheduling. jpeg's a downside too. comparison chart ppl like to share: thekao.tumblr.com/post/169362503403/ i use comicfury as a "main host" for my comic at the moment. cozy spot and you can customize your layout. i mirror my comic on tapas cuz people like scrolling and bookmarking, having notifications. there's also drunkduck... but do people still really use that. make a site, install comicpress. can compile and put your comic up on itch.io, but it's not really a host. i see twitter users advertise their short comics with an itch profile.
Yeah Krita's brush smoothing is set to "basic" by default because without it there can be jittery line issues with old tablets but when I bumped it up to the next level, weighted, it helped a lot. I have a slight tremor in my hands and it doesn't show up when drawing on paper but on a smooth tablet surface it's noticeable. I was going to tape some paper to my tablet but the weighted smoothing option is good enough.
There's an even higher level of smoothing called "stabilization" but man it's heavy handed. It's borderline an accessibility tool with how much it influences the line outcome. It's got settings you can tweak but "weighted" is good enough for me
Jacob Cox
big bump
Ethan Young
I don't care about saving my practice drawings because I'll never look at them again but at the same time I want to save them so I can show off how much progress I've made and be praised for it. Anyone else an attention seeker?
>I had a big whiny post typed up about how much harder it is to draw on a tablet compared to paper Put the tablet under paper
>and how I'll never make it because my lines will never be as precise as I want them to be Ctrl-Z youtube.com/watch?v=R__jK7Af6IQ Tablet pens are deliberately designed to wear down, is there any way to improv your own right now?
>i just feel like everything i do is below average, not even remarkably bad just, bland and boring So what do you figure they have that you don't? And that isn't a rhetorical question.
Mason Brown
redrew the characters for this page, and this is looking way better. I'm calling it good!
I think many of the designs will look somewhat generic because I've fully committed to this as a historic fantasy work. I'm going to try and limit the amount of stuff that is purely and totally made up--so the Spanish soldiers will look quite a bit like conquistadors, and the Japanese parallels will look quite a bit like Edo soldiers, and so on.
No excuse for boring design though. I will think about what changes I can justify.
A prick of the finger for most people, but the more traditional faithful may cut open their hand every week. The padres, however, practice regular ritual self mutilation and flagellation. The most zealous push the boundaries of sacrifice.
That looks absolutely fascinating. I MUST read it. I am going to lean into the comic as Catholic fanfiction, of a sorts. Catholicism and Osvaldicism are extremely similar--and the line between piety and the macabre is just as profound and heartwarming.
Well, I do have Ottoman Muslim Mole-Man Dwarves who wrap themselves in scripture before putting on their armor.
When I make a polished concept page for them, I will make sure it is more recognizable.
Would you guys read a comic book about a completely magicless lad in a world where literally everyone else is a wizard/have superpowers?
In a magical accident our MC, a proud, bright engineer, gets summoned into a fantasy world. Because he has no magic whatsoever he's treated like a retarded, disabled person. MC decides to use his analytical mind to learn how to harness magic for himself - each issue would be about a single experiment, usually ending in a failure. Eventually MC's obsession with magic pushes him to experiment with illegal dark, bloody rituals; our hero slowly turns into an edgy anti-hero that's hunted by magical police.
While this comic would mostly focus on action and adventure I also want it to force readers to think about things like "where does talent come from?", "is being talented necessary to be happy?", "should I give up on my dreams just because I don't think I'm talented enough to reach them?" and so on.
What do you guys think?
Thomas Sanders
Yes, my favorite HYWC comic is updating!
Not sure how far you are but I think the pose in the sliding panel could be pushed a bit more, or if nothing else keep track of the level of her feet and hand: it kind of looks like she's on a slope.
Bucktooth girl is best girl!
Thomas Morales
would read probably as long as you don't pull that BNHA bullshit where the protagonist has no superpowers at first and then suddenly has the best superpower and then suddenly seven of them
Aaron Wilson
>BNHA bullshit where the protagonist has no superpowers at first and then suddenly has the best superpower Nah dude, I hated that shit as well.
Jacob Gonzalez
Dont remind me.
William Sanders
>Would you guys read a comic book about a completely magicless lad in a world where literally everyone else is a wizard/have superpowers? That's exactly the pitch of Familiar of Zero, which both got popular on its merits AND has a lot of fanfiction playing with the concept. Both actually a good thing- audiences like the concept and there are already people seeing what does and doesn't work with it for you. Just don't make the same mistakes the show already did- for example, starting with a unique underdog story and then revealing, no wait, our Familiar actually has anti magic and is in fact the MOST superpowered person in the world
>MC decides to use his analytical mind to learn how to harness magic for himself - each issue would be about a single experiment, usually ending in a failure. That sounds legit interesting, but possibly very dry >Eventually MC's obsession with magic pushes him to experiment with illegal dark, bloody rituals; our hero slowly turns into an edgy anti-hero that's hunted by magical police. That sounds awful, but most people aren't going to see the summary first. I probably shouldn't talk- I don't even want to talk about my comic idea until I get a example page ready because there's no way to summarize it that doesn't sound awful. The big issue is making sure whatever they're risking their life for is worth it- bringing someone back from the dead, talking to a Great Old One, freeing a city that's been trapped in a pocket dimension, etc etc.
Also I don't think your theme works with the story outlined- he's an engineer that's been told magic is real; he is the talent
>love comdey >love scifi >write scifi/eldrick plots and try to put humor on >spend too much time thinking/figuring out how some spooky item/thing works >all comedy is lost, it's just horror now
ugh damnit.
Isaac Hill
Comedy is in how the character's react to situations- Dragon's Teeth from Mass Effect are pretty much the worst thing ever but they're a lot less brutal if the character who finds them thinks they're badass.
I'm actually doing a short comedic cover of various Lovecraft stories, one of them is just going to be pretty much gif related except he deliberately swerves to take out the monster
Yea, character reaction is key, but the way i wrote it is like i play it straight. As in the character faced with a surreal situations and reacting in a more realistic/human fashion, instead of just kinda being over dramatic/explosive/etc. Your premise sounds fun, looking forward to that!
Evan Cooper
Is it weird if I constantly doubt myself and compare myself to other artists, but still not get any better? I just don't believe I can do it, and drawing new stuff seems way out of my comfort zone.
Easton Reed
remember why you're doing it! I believe in you!
Landon Brooks
Tom gave them an option so it's that guy's fault this happened. New page of Tom N Artie!
>if you don't like your boss this is your chance to bail >where do you think you're going? hahaha
Jonathan Cruz
Seems like voicing characters is winning. I wonder if anons will actually get to it.
Christian Walker
Normal, but not productive. Can't give any advice to get better, but consider getting someone you trust to change your passwords. It's proven that people are happier off social media.
Ian Davis
okay cool. I like stabilization though I have it set relatively low. My only issue is it needs to be turned off if you're going to do a lot of jagged lines with points, unless you just go slowly
Brandon Bell
Yep, much more dynamic. though now he looks like he's being tugged downward more than forward.
Asher Bailey
Both aspects of that premise have been done but i'm not sure they've been combined, and I like your take on where it would go after the basics are established. I loved that but I wouldn't have minded if he stayed powerless a tiny bit longer since his power of analysis was legitimately great. it's nice he never lost that, and still has major drawbacks though
Connor Jones
I will! and keep these same ideas on the block for next time because they're all good
Xavier Morales
Not productive?
Brody Diaz
I fucking won’t
Jordan Phillips
Thanks user! I really appreciate your input - I'll rethink the main character.
>>Eventually MC's obsession with magic pushes him to experiment with illegal dark, bloody rituals; our hero slowly turns into an edgy anti-hero that's hunted by magical police. >That sounds awful Would you mind elaborating? I kinda like this thing when mood shifts from cheerful adventure into more serious, darker direction - do you think that's a bad idea?
Thanks!
Juan Gomez
Dont be shy user
I will, there is no sense of integrity and shame in me anymore.
Josiah Phillips
>That sounds awful, Do you mean that stakes aren't high enough? That MC doesn't have a reason to get so obsessed?
Chase Edwards
I hate hearing my voice on video, I will just draw my characters in a car I guess.
James Gutierrez
There is no point in a guy trying to voice a rococo
Ayden Flores
>Probably the easiest way to write a female is to give her subtle hints of mother instinct (see Ripley and Sarah Connor) Please don't do this
Goal's to get better, innit? Jealously isn't an incentive >Do you mean that stakes aren't high enough? That MC doesn't have a reason to get so obsessed? Not stakes, more cohesion/tightness- he needs a good reason to go evil, he's throwing away the freedom to practice normal magic in peace so he needs an incentive to take up necromancy. Apart from that, I think I'm assuming his personality is different than it is- I'm assuming an inventor that got isekai'd would be mostly content to follow the rules so he can build and teach in peace. Very cautious and only breaks laws deliberately, but assumes they're smarter than everyone else. I don't see where the obsession would have came unless it's like Warcraft and magic is addictive- he still got access to a lot of reality breaking powers even if he's not allowed to cut himself. That needs to be written around
>I kinda like this thing when mood shifts from cheerful adventure into more serious, darker direction - do you think that's a bad idea? Also no that's fine >MC decides to use his analytical mind to learn how to harness magic for himself - each issue would be about a single experiment, usually ending in a failure Also also, I'm not sure if it would fit for the story you have outlined but that leads into a good gimmick for hiatus pages- notes describing less important offscreen experiments
I haven't a clue- Like I said I can't help you get better but I know jealousy isn't the way, especially if you're doubting that you can improve at all.
>Not stakes, more cohesion/tightness Ahh, I see. Thanks for explanation user - it is a very valid concern that I didn't think through as much as needed. I guess I'll see y'all later, after polishing storyline out and drawing some rough pages.
Isaac Sanders
Oh right, I forgot your name! How are you actually making these? The outlines are really crisp
Aiden Lopez
kek ironically that's also another thing i didn't get into until about a month or two ago thank you user i'm this guy that's the very bare bones of it anyway i think i'm mainly over-thinking things since i've been working on it for so long and it's a pretty large comic, but it's stuff like i feel that my art is too stiff and not as fluid as other webcomics or that my style is too boring, i'm constantly worried my dialogue might be cringy or feel really stilted too. i'm also worried my comic just won't have a "draw" to it, i guess? i'm just having a lot of self-doubts in general because i've never put anything out like this before and i don't really have any sort of following as an artist in the first place, it's why i'm trying to do a small series first
Austin Butler
>Voice characters is winning
>All these no's
Hey retards, do you see now why asking the thread to vote on a contest topic is a bad idea? This is why you try and ask only the people that will compete what they want to do.
Connor Miller
It's still less retarded than not voting. Or at least some kind of open discussion should happen.
Brandon James
Oh please tell me how a character voicing contest is supposed to work since 75 percent of webcomics here are girls written and drawn by boys.
>W-We should talk about it How about we just hold another contest and not spend a whole month talking about holding one? Does that sound good?
Jacob Moore
>i don't really have any sort of following as an artist so why worry about anything? you have anonymity, you can get away with anything. people are fucking crazy and having a following is pretty terrible, even if you can monetize it
William Brown
No. I think you have the wrong paradigm in mind, you seem to be in a hurry. There's plenty of girls around... and it's an activity, not a contest.
Caleb Thomas
user, there are two girls at most here.
Elijah Phillips
>tfw no Yea Forums gf
Isaiah Foster
I can think of 5 without even trying, though 1.5 of them don't come around here very often
Mason Hughes
Also page 32 is flat-out missing
Lucas Allen
namedrop them or you're lying through your teeth
William Ramirez
Hmm, should I jump like a trained monkey for this hostile user trying to get a rise out of me?
John Wilson
Julia Holter and Nyamo are the only girls I know that post here
Joshua Ortiz
>hurr durr, just because I made some outlandish claims doesn't mean that I have to prove them! Eat shit and die.
Jose Nguyen
oh I forgot about based Julia make that 6
Robert Morales
...
Julian Long
1st ones a dude
Blake Watson
youtu.be/Mku4qf3iDNg kickstarter.com/projects/admiralpizza/admiral-pizza-comic-book THE ADMIRAL PIZZA KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE! Now is your chance to have your NEW favorite superhero comic in your hands! I need your help to have Admiral Pizza published by Dec 1st-In order to make it in time for Fairbanks Alaska's First EVER COMICON! I have Already got a booth-Having an empty table is NOT AN OPTION!
more difficult to build an audience really. i don't want a large following or anything like that because god fucking forbid, but it'd be easier to gain a few readers at least since they'd have already an interest in my work prior and i'd be more reassured that at least someone would check it out
Michael Peterson
Im super excited! Thanks so much for all the resources you guys shared!
I think you need to step back and reassess what you're doing. Take some time to research other Kickstarters and then try again. The amount of money you want to raise, as the minimal amount is simply... staggering. How about you try 1,000 dollars first? Maybe even a bit less? Make it a digital only campaign, with much higher stretch goals (say 2,000-3,000 dollars) being enough to send those who donate specific amounts physical copies of your book.
I think your heart and motivation are in the right place but there is no way you can collect 10k dollars for this. I'm rooting for you that you will at least get a following of some sort, but I can't see this getting funded. Like said, start smaller. Don't get too ambitious from the start and immediately fuck up, that's the best advice I've ever received.
Zachary Torres
Me and my artist are still gonna be at the SVCC Artist Alley next week. We'll be selling physical copies of TnA, BITE Ashcan preview, commissions, prints, all that good stuff.
Well, fashion is winning now, and we are gonna have a final poll with the 2 top voted ones next thread.
Also whats wrong with voicing male characters, come on.
Grayson Hernandez
>Not a contest Then what's the point?
Blake Ross
just make the new poll now
Carter Harris
God bless you contest user.
Logan Price
a fun activity to participate in
Nicholas Jones
I'm a massive hack that takes stock photos, blots them out and turns them into soldiers before applying the texture.
Jokes aside, there's equal amounts of actual drawn content and composite images that I overlay with textures (all the guns are their own raw file, helmets are another, the notches in body armor, etc.), it's a lot of rough posing of blank bodies before making the characters look like what they're supposed to. each character in a panel is probably made up of at least 4 separate images and then touched up accordingly. I can't draw for shit so I compensated for it via this route
Nathan Cooper
i really hope this is a joke, like some post-modern artifice
I mean it's clearly a joke, the question is whether it's not also serious. I love people like this, and everything they make is a joy to encounter.
Ryan Miller
I don't think it's a joke.
Jonathan Phillips
yeah but 10g not 1g not 100 10g
Camden Baker
>making a poll at the end of a thread
Sorry but no
Adam Richardson
I mean, I'm not gonna pay for it but I'm not seeing any fraud, manipulation, or anything to be unhappy about. Whoever gives to this chose to support wacky insanity. We'll see if there's 10g of support for that.
Jace Long
How long have you been drawing
Luis Peterson
I'll put more effort into the main post (later) but before then 50% of people still don't use an adblocker- you can get people to read your thing through plain ol advertising
First guess was drawing them normally then painting them over in a photoshop layer. I like it, it's a really good effect
so which arm is amputated? because its different in every panel
Grayson Hill
There might still be a lot of wobbly lines that don't remotely line up in every single background, but panel 5 has a lot of good depth, and it's supremely improved over the blending-together backgrounds you used to do. The different line thicknesses are really doing the job here, and you did a good job on the shading. Really pleased to see that. Saying that, though, Angel's tail looks like a tiny thin thread since it's so much thinner than her outlines
Noah Gray
not every panel!
...I just got it wrong in panel two...
Chase Kelly
Panel 2 has the wrong arm amputated.
Adam Barnes
1,000 dollars worth of comics is a waste of time-In order to get professionally published and get a contract i need at least $8,000 to produce 1,000 copies of the book. more you print the less it costs. Any extra money is going to carry over to publishing the second book.
GODDAMMIT HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THAT?! YOU DARE THROW PUNS AGAINST ME!
Noah Nguyen
Smackjacks, our shared love of puns is why I love you. I expected that to show up in the next page.
Brody Adams
I'm sorry my dude, I fail to see the correlation you're trying to make between being published and the number of copies you can print.
The publisher handles the printing side of things, not you. A Kickstarter/Indiegogo's primary purpose is to drive interest to your projects and to /try/ (and of not succeed) at covering your initial investment.
The initial pledge goal was 500 dollars. They managed to pull in 4.5k. What you want to do is more than double that and that's just the pledge goal, not even stretch goals or excess cash you can just pocket.
I am just trying to see this from your perspective. Why do you need a goal of 10,000 dollars? What does printing 1,000 copies of your comic (by yourself) have to do with getting published? Please explain this to me because that requirement? It's not held by any Indie publisher that I'm aware of. So help me understand.
Benjamin Lewis
I love when one catches me off guard. My friends and family have started catching on to my style and have been throwing me gold. So not all of them are mine. If one has an effect on me its going in.
Chompadour is the official Rex fade. Hide your cowardice by smiling with your hair!
Jeremiah Edwards
You know you've conquered fashion when your hair has more teeth than your comb.
Adrian Harris
Are there any benefits to making comics in a different language besides english?
Liam Barnes
I am still learning myself. have a publisher and a agent who will print my books. Full color books are expensive. One of the Author programs is that i pay for X amount of copies, They take a fee but i get to keep all the money-I promote my book 10 hours a week And i sign a contract promising to produce a book or more once a year. I did some research before doing this and a lot of people set their goals low on purpose. One way or another i am getting what i need to get my books published. Thank you for the Link..Mailing the books looks time consuming. I am emailing my agent to see if its possible to have them mail the backers right from the printing office.
Potential chance to get a larger audience in a country where they're more into that stuff. I have a few friends who do action-based comics in Spanish and most spanish-speaking countries are really into that stuff.
Owen Perry
Does France like comic strips?
Ian Allen
I self printed of my second book at lulu.com and brought 40 copies with me to a local concert-I sold every single one in less then 2 hours. I was telling my agent this and he asked me to send him a copy, Later he emailed me back. saying he didn't want to the pay advertisers and other products in my comic..I told him that the products are fake and its a joke-And the super incredible breakfast gun isn't real. I asked him if he thought there was a market for this kinda stuff..he said "Ive been doing this for 40 years, i know your book will sell if you put in the time."
Yes, but they have to have high concentrations of lewd.
Levi Peterson
I mean, do they like a specific kind of comic like how Spanish-speaking countries like action-based comics?
Blake Gutierrez
What kind? Because I know they love some adventure stuff and is right too. I've never really worked on something for a French audience.
Isaac Hernandez
That sounds pretty unconventional. Still, if that is the way you want to go - by all means give it a shot, just don't be disappointed if you do not hit your pledge goal without an extremely aggressive ad campaign and a large established following.
Nathan Myers
I only have some rough characters in mind, but I haven't written a story for it. I was thinking something with magic, so I guess adventure would be fine.
Gavin Garcia
Oh i took some time off work and i am very aggressive and very good at convincing people to do things they don't want to do
My scripts are really really loose, is this good or bad for artists?
Example: OTS shot of Phil the motorcycle and Mike infront of a stage Caption: behold! The amazing conceptual exotic dancer!
Next panel: the curtain lifts revealing an androgynous person in a cocktail dress sitting on a chair on the stage
Chase Hughes
Depends. If you are writing a script for a native English speaker, they'll be able to envision what you are talking about but don't be surprised if they find reading your script boring. You're also saddling them with a lot of extra work:
>OTS shot of Phil the motorcycle and Mike infront of stage
Okay, how is the shot lit? Is it dark, but there are light bulbs surrounding the border of the stage that light it up? What color is some of this shit? Is it a low angle or a high angle?
On the other hand, if they are ESL, they will probably appreciate you playing loose like that since there is fewer chances for miscommunication. And what errors there are can easily be solved in the layout stage.
Colton Gutierrez
are you planning to hire an artist?
Luke Cox
>writing scripts >instead of drawing sketches with stickmans to show artist exactly what you want >2019
Austin Hughes
dude you are a Idea-Man, you need to get a drawer
Gavin Myers
Some artists will kick you in the balls for doing this. I personally only use stick figures if the artist simply cannot grasp what's going on in a shot after a complete revision on of a thumbnail.
David Lopez
I'll say in the side notes that it's a seedy night club or whatever the script I'm writing has some serious metaphysical and weird shit. Phil the motorcycle does a magic spell so the conceptual exotic dancer can open their mind up to let phil go into the 5th dimension to get the time source so an electrician can change the time source of the cosmic camera that projects time across the universe I find being matter of fact works best and letting the artist draw what they think a cosmic camera that projects time looks like Eventually
Austin Mitchell
I get along with writing scripts just fine. If they can't get it then I do some thumbnail sketches. But overall writing works out well for me with the people I've worked with. Could just be a preference thing.
Colton Bennett
>you need to get a drawer This. He needs to put his ideas in a drawer and never open it again.
Jayden Nelson
I think every artist is different. Most of the people I've talked to about this would really prefer sketches, though description is good too.
Isaac Wright
Of course, I do the same thing. I was just saying to the other user that it is a bad idea to just draw little thumbnails in order to show what you want done instead of scripting.
Zachary Martinez
I think you're just jealous he'll get 10k for his shitty art
Adrian Brooks
Finished this page just now, posted it to instagram and only got 3 likes. wtf, shit I made a year ago that's way worse has like 30 likes. Instagram is bullshit.
all it takes to succeed is to act like you expect to, and sheep will provide. It's like in cartoons where you can walk off a cliff without falling as long as you're ignorant enough of gravity
Jordan Diaz
he won't get 10k for this shit
Ayden Gray
I wish I was a super deluded egotistical dude...
Matthew Lee
Do you have autism?
Brayden Miller
the shit is this, i love it
Aiden Adams
Probably not? Mentally ill for sure. So lets say someone "Did" want to run an aggressive ad campaign..What are some aggressive things a normal personal wouldn't do?
Julian Brown
Some crap I made, I'll post a link to the rest of the pages when I get back to a computer
this bitch needs to do her damn job before someone else takes it.
Connor Perez
anyone?
Joseph Roberts
anyone for france? what are you asking
Wyatt Roberts
Any advice on what types of stories or genres France likes, or how to write for a French audience?
Parker Ross
How the flying fuck would any of us know?
is what I'd like to say, but actually Gloryhol guy is a frenchman. so wait for him to show up.
Carter King
It's a Mad Magic day
>what types of stories or genres France likes The French comic scene is pretty varied man, you can get anything from noir to adventure to fantasy to slice of life comedy.
Their favorite book is the Koran so just go from that.
Ryan Ross
I think french likes titillating stuff.
Xavier Anderson
Accurate to most of Yurp, but for all of France's massive flaws, they do not kowtow to muzzies. >all dem cameos fucking beautiful. wish I'd gotten in there.
Dominic Lee
is that t.j. """""""""""""""""""henry""""""""""""""""""?
Trying tug a single narrative thread all the way through. Even though this ended up being completely focusing on two side characters... I have been neck deep in this for a month or two so I am not a very good judge of its quality anymore... Life its been a bit of a bitch recently so I couldn't work on the comic in earnest because I am not sitting in front of my computer very long. Hurt my shoulder, how's your life treating you?
I have limited amount of page I put into this chapter and it does help with narrative break quite a bit, but it is still taking too long. I don't know how the Japanese do it, doujin artists I mean, to hold down a job and still participate in events like Comiket.
This chapter focus on two character that I created in a whim during the second chapter. There is a version of a spear girl as far back as 2-3 years ago when chapter 2 was being storyboarded, but her design didn't firm up until recently.
"nora" the mentor character was suppose to be a character thats only mentioned by name during an earlier version of chapter two. I kept expending her role as I make more storyboards. This is kind of a terrible habit of mine...
Later on, I don't even draw the figures, technically earlier pages were second or 3rd version of the storyboards. I think writing a dialogue into the page serves two functions, it gives you an idea of how much these words occupies, and you can take them int consideration when you decided how you want to frame a shot. I think if writers do this it'll help their artist visualize a lot better about how the flow of the page and pacing would feel like. If you can work those out on a rough draft or storyboard stage, it makes the later process a lot smoother.
tapping phone conversations and voice chatting and such
Joshua Wright
I dont see nearly enough mechanical bio-enhancement I mean we're working on artificial pancreas tech right now, an intelligent little plastic machine with a sensor to just release insulin when you need it, just like the real thing.. if it could maintain a colony of insulin-producing bacteria and shield them from your immune system, all the better.. imagine implants synthesizing and producing adrenaline, infiltrating and improving your muscle fibers, secreting synthesized skin to quickly cover wounds, then rearranging the collagen fibers later on after you heal naturally so you don't get a scar, automatically trimming your nails so they never get ingrown, smoothing the skin at the edge of them so you don't have to obsessively gnaw at it.. er, electrically stimulating your brain to improve cognitive function, interceding on behalf of your system to eliminate drug withdrawal... there are limits, I think, until we learn how to get machines to speak to brains.. you could have a nose-mounted chemical analyzer, but it probaly can't actually hack into your nerves to send your brain complex messages about smells that humans can't discern, it would have to be an audio readout, but still!
mostly rigid but flexible bones seeing through another cyborg's senses immunity to fire I have no idea how armor and machinery stands up to flames, people seem to flip flop on whether it'd be good or bad against tanks and power armor seeing through cameras whatever powerset you get from being hooked up to a satellite-never getting lost, being able to see behind you outside/on a clear day, just knowing where previously designated people are carrying around heavy weapons or unreasonable amounts of grenades just being able to use things like cameras and microphones without visibly switching them on
Also while its more lovecraft than sci fi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endospore A temporary structure cells can develop to enter stasis >Endospores can stay dormant for a very long time. For instance, endospores were found in the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs. When placed in appropriate medium, under appropriate conditions, they were able to be reactivated. In 1995, Raul Cano of California Polytechnic State University found bacterial spores in the gut of a fossilized bee trapped in amber from a tree in the Dominican Republic. The bee fossilized in amber was dated to being about 25 million years old. The spores germinated when the amber was cracked open and the material from the gut of the bee was extracted and placed in nutrient medium. After the spores were analyzed by microscopy, it was determined that the cells were very similar to Bacillus sphericus which is found in bees in the Dominican Republic today. >The bee fossilized in amber was dated to being about 25 million years old.
Christian Brooks
>but it probaly can't actually hack into your nerves to send your brain complex messages about smells that humans can't discern, it would have to be an audio readout, but still Not necessarily, if the spectrometer only zaps you in one specific way when it detects ozone you're still smelling it, it just smells like pain. I never looked into how it actually worked but someone was experimenting with helping blind people see again through vibrating belts. Again I never got the specifics but whoever wrote the article definitely believed they were learning to see through the belt's sensors. Actually that's something that annoys me about cyborgs, people seem to believe the human body absolutely cannot adapt to new senses or having five limbs, like it will break the nervous system somehow.
Hudson Lee
So what is general tip to get better? Just grind drawings?
Grayson Howard
Your heart screams "Not again! "What kind of mess have you got me in?" But when the feeling's there It can lift you up, and take you anywhere
David Roberts
Start with anatomy and figure drawing. It's boring but a grasp of the basics is crucial.
Then, I don't know if this'll work for you, but if you start tracing (semi-)professional finished pieces, you'll get an idea of the cartoonist's individual style, what details they decide to include or omit, proportion and how they clean their lines. Basically, copying a lot is very helpful (or it was to me)
Parker Ross
>tracing will help you In what world
Lincoln Campbell
I'm using justsketchme.firebaseapp.com I do a pose and then use it as a reference when drawing on paper. Honestly i don't know how copying ready pose will help me learn new things.
Maybe I'm just retarded, but it helped me learn the logic behind cartooning and what it takes to make a finished piece, which are skills that didn't come naturally to me at all. I was constantly trying to make things like realistic and unrealistic at the same time and varying line width with no logic behind it.
I posted a storytime of everyones favorite NEW superhero ADMIRAL PIZZA! I will be storytiming all 4 issues and what i have of ISSUE 5 ! Also Here is a thingy on how to draw comics good like me!!!
well we've been working really, really hard on bionics for a long time now, and with technology as we understand it, nerves are just incompatible with machinery. If we ever get that working, it's going to qualify as bioengineering and even if we can do that, you can't teach the brain to accept new (and I mean NEW new) inputs easily unless you do it from birth or it translates into signals we understand. we're so bad at adapting our mental map that if we lose limbs, we refuse to accept they're gone oftentimes.
Nolan Bell
it's super helpful, it's just very different from doing it yourself.
Ethan Ward
I don't see how it isn't just a waste of time.
Christian Brown
For some people it works and for some people it doesn't.
Owen Cruz
Obviously if your time is that limited, yeah, every single moment spent not studying the proper way is wasted. but most of us have free time to play, and playing is another way to learn. it's no replacement, it's a supplement.
Colton Miller
I like this art form because it like making your own movie without the hassle of dealing with people or greed.
There we go man, for a gangster, the guy on the left sure looks like he's wearing a dress. i love the mean-mouth bandana though
Thomas Turner
Thx I was trying to go for long shirt look that I've seen gangsters wear in the early 2000's on the guy on the left.
Julian Jones
just look up "general ways to motivate yourself"
James Sanders
oh yeah. i think those usually go with baggier pants
Charles Campbell
I find it best to give yourself an option. That way it feels like a personal choice. Here are your options >Work on your comic or >Cover yourself in butter and challenge your neighbor to a fight
The choice is yours.
Grayson Harris
No way I can give your comic critique, I love it. Your comic is one of my worst cases of "I can only say its awesome" though, critique works when you can pinpoint specific failures in a work and I really cant with Eerily Lovely. If anything though, I did notice a few of your readers dont find the stories easy to understand, at least while they are still being updated, although I have to admit that has never been an issue with me. Part of it could be that some things have yet to be revealed as far as I can tell -whats up with the lion mask guy?-.
I consider Eerily Lovely a breath of fresh air, I mean, not regarding the entirety of webcomics -I dont know all of them- but regarding what I like. See, I normally dont like to read stories without overaching plots, like this one, but something about the short stories here and the art really hits me in a good way. It sort of reminds me of old newspaper comics I (never) read in my childhood. There is a nostalgic feeling about it.
The art is nothing astounding but your designs and the original use of the medium and ink in some scenes let me bewildered. I have to say though that so far Spook n Spell has been a league above the other stories, though as always, it could very well be that it hit my sensibilities regarding a story. There was a feeling of impending doom and horror that led to a very not-what-I-expected ending and the general tone ended up being one of sadness, which is always shocking for these kind of slice-of-life-ish plots.
I know, is just my own taste. I greatly enjoy overaching plots. Part of the issue I think however comes from how much anime and manga I consume. That medium seems to try to stretch their stories as much as possible so I get flooded with plots that go nowhere or take too long to be concrete. So when a story with a clear plot and narrative that closes perfectly happens like in a novel im in love. The downside is that good slice of life stories tend to not interest me because Im looking for plot.
Again, just a personal thing.
Dominic Smith
interests* hard to argue with that logic, but sora-angel interaction would have been special..
Evan Walker
what are some goals to work up to in art
Parker Young
Basic posing, and formatting a comic page if you want to start.
I'm not saying you have to do SUPER DYNAMIC poses, but having characters not standing straight up helps.
Brandon Long
>electrically stimulating your brain to improve cognitive function This is a big one. Brain juicing is intense in what it can do to you. If we figure out how to master it we'll truly evolve to the next stage of humanity.
Benjamin Harris
Expect senses to change entirely. No longer will you be confined to your narrow angle of vision. You'll be able to see far better, zoom in and out at will, see further spectrums of light like wifi or radio, pull up information on anything you see as if you had already learned it. Really when you get into the more advanced cyborg or enhancement stuff it's hard to relate because the thing you're looking at is so inhuman. Even if it's still shaped like a human, when, why would it need to be, it'll still think more like a machine. It'll be having thirty conversations with its friends online at lightning fast pace at the same time. Have you seen Her? Like that.
Luis Johnson
control. the ability to get a drawing to come out like you wanted, instead of just happy accidents
I've heard you can use a single simple electrode, a fucking 9-volt battery, and a person who knows what they're doing and you're instantly better at videogames. i almost WANT to hear you have to pay for that later with a period of brainular tiredness, because otherwise it's going to be insanely painful that we've had those for so many years and didn't use them that way
Adam Long
r e s i z e
Brandon Allen
It's true that's all it takes and the affect can last for a while on a single charge. It's like Flowers For Algernon shit. You can literally make yourself smarter, and think faster, better at whatever skill you want to be. The article I read about it had a person go into a realistic sniping sim used for military training, and after the charge they were a crackshot ace sniper even with zero training. Just like that. It has the potential to change how people learn, which is a big deal.
Colton Campbell
Just as long as there's no side-effects. I'm okay with going back to normal afterwards, but I don't wanna start getting reliant on it.
Likely it would be incredibly addictive. When we actually start dipping into it it's gonna be a long process of figuring out what works the best. I just wish there was more study going on with it right now. Imagine the psychological conditions that could be cured with it that we don't even know.
James Cruz
I can already do that, what's the next step?
Ryan Powell
Doing it more.
Nathan Thompson
There are psychological tricks and trains of thought you can are, but that stuff is dwarfed by understanding and respecting the reality that your comic is a long term investment. Worthy efforts take time, and in the end, you have to gain the discipline to manifest your desires. The question isn’t how to get motivated to work on your comic; the question is “what is important enough to you to spend literal years on it?” And “How do I become a more disciplined person in my life who is not controlled by my emotions?”
No easy answers; it is simply a call to action. In the end, it all takes tremendous amounts of work—consistent brick by brick construction.
You're really hitting the ground running with that.
Ryder Nguyen
What book is this?
Luis Thomas
i dont know what your expression means, but if it means "its shit" well, i need to get better so ill keep trying
Eli Morgan
How are you going about finding different ways to critique other comics?
Zachary Lopez
I need more volunteers.
Nicholas Mitchell
He means the exact opposite of that "To hit the ground running means to attack something new with vigor and enthusiasm, to begin a task with a great deal of forward momentum."
Go to "Strip Panel Naked" and see how they go about explaining panels and critiquing comics
Matthew Morales
An excellent and intriguing book called Good to Great. It is an allegedly empirical and scientific analysis of how middling, struggling, and even dying companies went from mediocrity to overwhelming success. The principles can be applied to anyone with a mission. This particular chapter talks about The Flywheel—a massive stone wheel that you slowly start spinning only with tremendous pain and exertion. Eventually, the momentum makes it easier to spin, but it’s still heavy and painful. It may take time, but inevitably the wheel begins rocketing with much less effort. It took every push to get it to that point. There was no single breakthrough moment, only the result of sustained action and toil. That is the nature of long term projects like comics. I know it’s DEFINITELY true for my journey so far with the Concord Initiative.
Looks great, Ardi. You are constantly improving! I know I've said it before, but I appreciate all the varied shots you do throughout your panels.
Thomas Nelson
Does it mention how individual people can become more skilled at something?
Austin Gray
mine should be easy enough to tear apart. i need all the help i can get have at it ardi. m.tapas.io/episode/1439242
Easton Rogers
Oh, that's actually not what I meant. I meant you leapt into something difficult but immediately started succeeding. It's impressive given the difficulty in adapting to digital art.
Jordan Lopez
I think the vast majority of people won’t “””make it””” because the idea of investing months and even many years into a serious effort is objectively daunting and unthinkable. You need to know what you care about enough to sacrifice your time, energy, and resources for. Working on your comic may just be a hobby, which is perfectly reasonable, and it would be equally reasonable to not attack it with the same vigor and persistence as you would attack something you truly cared about. Discipline demands brutal realism AND unshakable optimism. That’s called the Stockdale Paradox, apparently. Good stuff.
It doesn’t explicitly, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that the best way to get better at anything is to do it a lot and do it CONSISTENTLY AND DELIBERATELY. It isn’t “grinding.” It’s work. No shortcuts unfortunately. Writers write, artists make art, polyglots practice speaking their languages, athletes train, etc etc. there is NO escaping the investment of time. The decision is the same as it’s always been: what is worthy of your time? Time is your most precious resource. Spend it wisely.
David Long
I mean you could critique mine, but I wouldn't wish reading that monstrosity on anyone.
Logan Walker
How do you know what to practice CONSISTENTLY AND DELIBERATELY?
Samuel Cox
critique mine pls
Dylan King
The vast majority of people won't make it because there's only a limited number of success slots.
Matthew Parker
There are plenty of experienced writers that still write after decades of practice that are still shit: see bendis.
Julian Morgan
also did a fun little color page of some of the main characters of the comic taking a nap while travelling
Considering that all "mainstream" comic publishers are literally on the verge of crashing and burning, just about the only thing left will be indie comics and web comics.
Right now is probably the best time to be a comic artist, because Marvel, DC, and all the other comic companies are facing being shuttered. The idea of "You need to know a guy" to get your foot in the door hasn't been true for years.
At this point in time, there are audiences everywhere, and there will probably be a huge influx of people with nothing to read on the horizon very soon. It will more depend on how aggressively you promote yourself.
Jonathan Gonzalez
Just look at the comicgate. Their comics are pretty meh, but they consistently crowdfund 100k+ dollars. Marvel went full woke and hire only hacks with same views. DC is pretty much dead. Indi is the way to go in every industry.
David Martinez
>Just look at the comicgate.
A couple of comics out of there look to be pretty decent, but more importantly, whether you agree with their principals and practices or not, one thing is true: They're brought thousands of paying customers to crowdfunding sites, and comics on places like Indigogo are being funded almost immediately, unless you're pure trash to begin with.
Jace Cruz
Any examples of comics doing good on patreon? And i'm not talking about garfield style comedy strips. I know that one fallout comic, but that's pretty much it.
>Erfworld's banner says they have 2030 people donating 2909.49 dollars per successful update >as king/queen of the clowns, Assigned Male is in the top 10 of the comics category (1067 patrons) >Scurry has 98 patrons but isn't displaying how much he makes >Lackadaisy has 1557 patrons I haven't used it before but you can probably try checking through Graphtreon
I haven't read it yet but what feels weird to me is that Wasted Homeland doesn't look like an exceptional comic. I know they did a piece of fanart for Eagle Ordinary, that's how I found out about them, but that can't be the only way they got popular
Ian King
Anyone else learning to draw so they can make comics?
