How's Your Webcomic? /hyw/ #285

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myscriptfont.com/
artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/
quickposes.com/pages/timed
senshistock.deviantart.com/gallery/
shutterstock.com/
pinterest.com/characterdesigh/
tumblr.com/theme/39018
pastebin.com/kNR2W5mV
docs.google.com/document/d/1uwfOSHXfrgvcf--PkPz9jXL6p5RqIsrYvXYwgQpgT3k/edit#
youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0lck7oo4A
courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_1.pdf
courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_2.pdf
courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_3.pdf
chrisoatley.com/category/podcasts/
web.archive.org/web/20140625035030/http://paperwingspodcast.com/
blambot.com/
cienciasecognicao.org/rotas/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Robert-McKee-Story.pdf
miss-melee.tumblr.com/post/143483233951/
kiwidayn.comicgenesis.com/
inkandrubbish.com/laxlegends/
inkandrubbish.com/LaxLegends
tapastic.com/series/starpunchgirl
youtube.com/watch?v=ycfdfinG_P8
youtube.com/watch?v=hXDNGS9V4Us
youtube.com/watch?v=m4DyTjrruVo
youtube.com/watch?v=JcVGDV67L-g
youtube.com/watch?v=o_rz1bluG_k
blutrinitypublishing.com/the-blu-store#!/West-Tree-Academy-of-Heroes/c/19659216/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc
youtu.be/jrIoXJ707e4
imgur.com/a/IkoEZ#5
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

Scrub Authors GOODIE Bag

Here’s a short list of sites that any new webcomic artist or writer will find handy:

>*-Struggling to find that perfect FONT? Create your own using this link;
myscriptfont.com/

>*-Don’t forget to brush up on that ANATOMY:
artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/
quickposes.com/pages/timed

>*-What’s a list without some reference STOCK IMAGES?
People: senshistock.deviantart.com/gallery/
Scenery: shutterstock.com/

>*-Here's a big fat compilation of CHARACTER DESIGN REFERENCE:
pinterest.com/characterdesigh/

>*-Finally, here are some links to get a rough WEBSITE started up:
Easy to use tumblr webcomic theme: tumblr.com/theme/39018
Do’s and Don’ts for starting a site: pastebin.com/kNR2W5mV

>*-Here’s the contact sheet if anyone wants to put information down, like their site and webcomic:
docs.google.com/document/d/1uwfOSHXfrgvcf--PkPz9jXL6p5RqIsrYvXYwgQpgT3k/edit#

>*-We also got a SKYPE CHAT room going on,
To join the chat, seek out 'starlinemike' or 'scribblehatch' and they'll add you in.

>*-We also got a DISCORD CHAT going on,
Ask for an invite in the thread.

>Wise words from John Cleese:
youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0lck7oo4A

>Invisible Ink:
courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_1.pdf
courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_2.pdf
courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse456/07su/administrative/invisible_ink_part_3.pdf

>Paper Wings
chrisoatley.com/category/podcasts/
web.archive.org/web/20140625035030/http://paperwingspodcast.com/

>Fonts for your webcomic on Blambot:
blambot.com/

>Writing Resources:
cienciasecognicao.org/rotas/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Robert-McKee-Story.pdf

>Guide to promoting your comic:
miss-melee.tumblr.com/post/143483233951/

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I need to get better at a lot of things.

I also need to shrink my shit the fuck down holy shit.

Yeah man, I actually formatted my pc in an attempt to fix it before realizing what the actual issue was.
Literally every brush is fine*, mind, except for my unfortunate favourites the 'Natural Edge' watercolours.
Gotta run it from CPU at 90% ram priority to avoid crashes.

*For me. It seems that a lot of people on lower-end pcs can't run many of them.

its cute

Too many boobies (a total of 2) to post directly here, so check today's update out on the site
kiwidayn.comicgenesis.com/
I had fun drawing this thing.. at least in the second panel. This was going to include the flashback too, but that'd be way too long, so I split it up... and already WAS split up from what was going to be like 30 panels or someshit.
so I added a few fighting panels. yknow, it deserves more screentime. though maybe I should have made it more of an amorphous mass of small things?

Late update of my own stuff this week but I'd appreciate folks' input on it.
inkandrubbish.com/laxlegends/
Upping the conflict bit by bit sorta stuff

404'd for me, bud.

add index.html

huh, that should've worked. yeah, index.html should fix it. did you include the / at the end?

Forgot to post this last night, fell asleep a bit early
Hope you can decipher my bad handwriting and can make sense of this
Liking the new page so far though, looking cute

www.nowavecomics.tumblr.com

I promised myself I was going to make comics this summer and it doesn't matter how bad they are.

Saved it, thanks!
Another question, the above pic is what I keep my dimensions at because anything under that looks really pixely. Is there anyway I can find a medium without it looking like crap? Should I just draw in the same dimensions and just scale it down?

>do more deeds
hehehe. this is stupidly funny. keep it up, i'll keep readin' em if you post 'em. maybe you'll become a new john campbell except not insane please

>anything under that looks really pixely.
that's not how resizing works. change your options from nearest neighbor to bicubic when you resize, and it'll look nice no matter what size (to a point)
then change it back to nearest neighbor when you wanna keep shit aliased
'same dimensions' as what?

It's 2,330 x 3,284
Resolution is 800
I also have no idea what a "neighbor to bicubic" is.

Nah I won't be insane. I am a stand up comic but a lot of my material is conceptually dissonant esoterica, so I thought a stupid comic might better convey my more bizarre blurbs.

Nice. Link.

800 is not a resolution. we're not speaking in the same terms here. what art program are you using?

Hold the fuck on. You're not working at 800 DPI are you???

woot. d'jou ever read demitri martin's book?

inkandrubbish.com/LaxLegends
Lowercase the directory name to avoid confusion.

FUUUUUUU! I waste so much time on games that late for the deadline.

Photoshop CS6
Uhh, I think so.

Holy shit, you beautiful fucker. Pro comics are usually done at 300/400 DPI, and those are for print. You need to cut way, way back on the DPI.

tapastic.com/series/starpunchgirl

are you the creator of that comic

i found it accidentally a few days ago because i always google names that i plan to use in my comic just in case they are related to something

so googling "star punch" brought me to the page

i really liked the art

and ilike your giant gloves, they look way more comfortable to use than the giant gloves i draw for one of my characters

the name of the comic is star punch girl

see bicubic there? that's what i'm talking about. that should mean when you resize some shit, using image size, it makes it nice n' smooth for you. if you're seeing it become pixely when you do so, then i dunno what to tell you.

He's also working at 3 x 4 inches, so...
see this is why DPI is meaningless. changing the dpi would simply change what the inches there were listed as, and nothing else would change.

2330x3284 is a fine resolution for a working canvas. then you shrink it down to whateverishx1000 and it should look fine.

i THOUGHT that looked familiar. i remember this.. it's pretty cool.

>DPI is meaningless

Triggered.

im the writer, yes.
Im interested in your comic as well, be sure to link it to us when it gets started! (or post it here )

once it's time to print, you can change the DPI to whatever makes those inches read what they should read (8.5x11 or whatever) but 's excitement is meaningless unless one wishes to print extremely high resolution index cards.
now if we do want to get excited, there are some artists in here who work on huge canvases, like 11,000 pixels across, and THAT is impressive and will result in high quality prints or whatever.

Also, if it helps, here's what I was at for a guest piece for a webcomic. You can still work at 800 DPI for your pages (if you must! but that's so fuckin' big!) IF you remember to at least shrink it down significantly when you upload. Bigger's fine to work at but imo you should shrink it a bit for the end product.

Ah, I guess you're right? I'm just so used to working at lower DPI/bigger canvas that when I see anything above, like 600, I lose my mind

Wouldn't increasing a 2x3 inch page to an 8.5x11 size warp the art?

you know, i go out of my way to add as many 'likes' and 'whatevers' to my speech, to avoid specifically this kind of nitpick. it's not just to sound like a 90s teenage girl, it serves a purpose. i thought about doing the math to get it exactly right, but I thought "surely nobody's going to be that pedantic. and if they are, a 'or whatever' will clear things up"
it's not like it was 2x3 in the first place, THAT was rounding.. it was 2.913 x 4.105, okay? now i don't know what THAT ratio is exactly, I could bust out my calculator if it'd please you.. I guess I should have said 3x4, which would have been a lot closer to 8.5x11, as I know from making a lot of 8.5x11 drawings of mine into 4:3 desktop backgrounds.

I'm sorry, man, I was asking genuinely because I didn't know.

hey wait a minute
i DID say 3x4. YOU said 2x3. dag-diddly-nabbit, you're confusin' me nah.
i'm going to bed before this like turns into a big kerfuffle or whatever

it's okay baby i love you

I'm sorry, I'm flipping back and forth between here and work, too. Not quite at 100% brainpower for /hyw/ but that's definitely all my fault.

and for the record i wasn't suggesting changing the inches manually, but saying that when you change DPI, the inch readout will change accordingly. and accordingly, what will be printed, assuming you send it to the printer with no other information or changes. though i don't know because i've never owned a printer

Thanks, i have already posted some characters here , right now im practicing at drawing backgrounds to get my first pages right

btw this is the character i mentioned, most of the first chapeter is going to be about him getting used to the gloves and training so he can be strong enough to move while using them

first of all , the coloring is really good. I like the gloves , they remind me of a simple 3D modeled boxing glove. And yeah, backgrounds are the worst.

>tfw ur art is shit

Did a short porn comic

rest on /aco/ >>/aco/653837

Hopefully I crossboarded right because I'm gonna go to sleep now.

It's fucking shit. What a surprise!

That's VERY pretty to look at.

It's cute but needs a fair bit of work. But one of the most glaring problem is the pacing. Your comic is WAY too slow; you do in three pages what could be done in one.

A boy falls in love with a girl.

Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

OP: youtube.com/watch?v=ycfdfinG_P8
ED1: youtube.com/watch?v=hXDNGS9V4Us
ED2: youtube.com/watch?v=m4DyTjrruVo
PV: youtube.com/watch?v=JcVGDV67L-g
EP 1: youtube.com/watch?v=o_rz1bluG_k

Been reading this comic since 2014, never thought I'd see you post here.

barf

I love how bad you make Blu Trinity look by merely being your regular self.

> Blu Trinity
Who dat?

The people who thought it would be anything but an embarrassment to publish Dewd's comic.

I remember this. I love this premise, and the art is looking pretty good as well....... I can only hope this will be good, but judging by the fact that you already chose ops and endings to your webcomic, I can't not think it will devolve into weeb shit.

Don't make the mistake of taking memeposters seriously, user.

>someone fucking did it

I am an idiot, I never really clicked the embeded links to realise it was a retarded shitposter

Holy shit.

That looks like a grade schooler made it.

It's fake.

Right?

It's real, just google it.
Hopefully all parties involved will grow from the experience and do better in the future.

It's real!
blutrinitypublishing.com/the-blu-store#!/West-Tree-Academy-of-Heroes/c/19659216/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc

youtu.be/jrIoXJ707e4

>Comics were a big part of my life growing up, like
>Dragon Ball
>...
>...
>Yu-Gi-Oh
>...
>A lot of TV shows, I'm BASICALLY a 90's kid.

Maybe he should have thought more deeply about this before recording.

Started a Web-Comic recently, tell me what you think anons

darkemperor.net

>Title covers a character's face

Dewd says it's a joke, but it's executed poorly.

>No option to read from the start.
wew

Fuck I didn't even notice. That's hilarious.

Apparently it's supposed to be because the character is really ugly or something (and because the O's in "book" go over her breasts) but it really just looks like a complete fuck up.

Are you reading it on a phone? I know the fucking interface sucks on a moblie view. You will have a ,,First'' button on tablets and PC. I know it sucks, sorry

You seem stuck on pre-defined poses and have trouble actually illustrating actions. Having an arrow point and describe that a character is waving their arms or that what we're seeing is a flashback means you don't know how to actually convey this to the audience.

It also reads a lot like VGCats, which was a (pretty bad) gag comic, but your trying for something more narrative driven. Practice your anatomy, give your characters more distinct, well-defined body types, work on your perspective and study your characters from multiple angles.

But above all else, please try not to have two unlikable protagonists. Neither is very endearing.

I'm going to resize my work to this and see what happens in a bit.

No.83924522

thank you for your criticism, It helps alot more than praise. Is there something you liked, or is it just terrible to you?

Always work bigger and shrink down for the end product. I've seen a few webcomicers lament the fact they drew stupidly small when starting out, and having to redraw the art when it came time to make a print collection.

I find pixel measurements largely meaningless, especially for things vastly larger than screen size. The key thing is to have some idea of how dpi relates to pixels in terms of printed size. It's probably better to think in terms of actual measurements, rather than pixels, as it's easier to visualize. You need to know what size the final published work will be, then draw at a multiple larger than that. Even if you currently have no intention of making a printed collection of your comic, I think it would be good practice to work at a standard print size. You never know what the future will hold, whether that's making your own print collection, or otherwise working on a comic that will be printed.

300 and 600 dpi seem to be the most common dpi resolutions, if you want a baseline for starting measurements. Work at 600, for printing at 300.

Personally, I work at A5 (148mm x 210mm, approx 6" x 8") at 1200dpi, for making print comics at A5, 300dpi.

This looks very nice! :3
As does this. The artstyle is simpler but I'm liking what you're doing with it!

You can just click the post number to reply.

I like that you're not going for an easy gag a day strip about "lol furry lesbians", and it's easy to feel the sincerity behind your work. You care about your work and as a reader I can pick up on this; that's a great quality to have.

On the flip side, that's probably part of your problem both in writing and art. You need to take a step back from what you already know and like and consider the reader. "I love these two, but why will THEY? How do I grab their attention more quickly? Can they easily read this? Is this design appealing? WOW it is hard to read a monochrome comic when things are this busy!" Basically, read some comics that are like the things you're going for and try to deconstruct what you like as a reader and what works visually.

>Cat is flat on cover.
>Has pretty sizable breasts in a couple pages.
Everyone's style changes over time, but keep proportions consistent.

Thank you very much, this is something I can work with. Making it look less busy is something I'm aiming at.
What would you change about the characters to make them more interesting to you especially.
Or how would you introduce them, that you would start to care about them?

Not without potential, but I can barely make heads or tails of your pages.
Like, your compositions don't seem to care about guiding the eye with contrast and lines. Pic related is how I first read this page.
Your line width doesn't seem to communicate depth and it's really hard to make out the shapes.
You lettering is way too chaotic. You've got randomly bolded words, words with three underlines, and the grammatical issues really don't help.

Also I don't know if it's my connection but I can't get a lot of the images to load.

Which makes it even more dumb, because Sarah is actually the only attractive female character in the comic.

Adding to this user's comment, there's a LOT of black but not a lot of shading, leaving a lot of pages where things are hard to quickly make out.

Really? Why Sarah? All of the girls in that comic seem about the same level to me.

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I cannot change to much about the first two comics but I'm saving your advice for future strips.
I try to have a unique panel layouts for each page. But I will look into making it easier to read in the future and see if someone can help me with the grammar as well.

You guys are all getting BLOWN THE FUCK OUT over on the /lgbt/ webcomics thread

You're already off to a good start.

Most people take criticism this well, and the characters in your comic are more competent than your DA gallery. Just practice, I'm sure things will turn out fine.

There's a few well drawn and decently thought out comics here. Nothing sensational, but stuff like Green Knight and Sisters are competently drawn and written.

No need to exaggerate some part of a group to encompass the whole (like you're doing by implicating /lgbt/ in general instead of a few anons).

>/lgbt/

We may make shitty webcomics, but at least we're not faggots, queers, and degenerates.

You get about as much pussy as the average gay dude though

Daaaaaamn.

Seriously you have to be able to take criticism or you will get stuck, and your work will never evolve. I posted on Sup Forums for that reason specifically, you guys are more reliable than family and friends, it's ALWAYS good to them, and I hate that more than any critique.

And yeah my DA sucks, will delete a good 50% on what is on there in the future.

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These are the average denizens of /lgbt/ btw

this can be done, but you need to indicate which panel is next visually, try arrows that fit the art style

And the only pussy you'll ever get is the one the doctor sews on after he lops off your dick.

>Most people DON'T take criticism this well
Whoops.

Heterosexuals confirmed for weak comebacks. Way to disgrace us.

I've slept with more men and gotten literally 10 times the sex you have

oh... so i've had sex zero times... ohhh... ;_;

>I try to have a unique panel layouts for each page
Please don't try to be fancy for fancy's sake. That's the number one mistake. Layouts should be invisible to the reader, first and foremost.
For making it easier to tell what's going on, here's a bunch of ideas:

Stop using so much pure black and white for the backgrounds. Save the high contrasts for important stuff like characters, dialogue and important background elements.

Pull the camera out further, generally. It's easier to see what's going on with context.

Start consciously varying the weight of your lines to suggest things like distance, lighting and texture. imgur.com/a/IkoEZ#5

I got what you said,

The arrow thing is not a bad idea. Gonna ask some friends which pages they had trouble reading.

you mentioned fonts. would you rather go with everything hand written or should I just use a font for everything?

There aren't actually that many truly cringey comics here. The three to five people who do them just post way too god damn much.

What there are a lot of are fantasy comics.

And nobody doing story first is a pretty fair crit for most of us.

>And nobody doing story first is a pretty fair crit for most of us.
How do you figure?

HEY GUYS I MADE SOME OC!