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>*-Struggling to find that perfect FONT? Create your own using this link;
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>Paper Wings
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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

I can shit this pages out in a day but it takes me a week to finish my other comic. I hate it so much.

odd, they're both the same quality right?

Little more detail in the other at the moment, but endlessly more people.

ah yeah that'll do it.
well anyway i have no doubt youre going to make it. going purely by the art.

The Sisters updated. Four pages, next week we're either confronting the name of this chapter head on, or we're back to the kids. I forget.
thesisters-comic.com/
tapastic.com/episode/383406
I think we've got maybe three to four more updates for this issue. Strong lead in to the next, where we can get into some action and political McCarthyist fuckery.
One night it was clear.
The Asian girl in the third panel is cute.

If you may recall (if the unforgivably long gap didnt wipe it from memory. i dunno what happened.), when we last left our heroes, a crazy guy in a window was taking credit for the horrible trash golem attack and indicating he holds a grudge against adventurers and their littering ways

it turns out it was all for a terrible, terrible pun! no no this is going somewhere, really.

love that fuckin dog
there are some really interesting shots here, yknow? i don't know the last time i've seen a comic panel go for the 'let's see what's- oh, remarkably clean under that fridge actually' angle.
mmm mozzarella sticks. though it would appear theyre the kind where the breading gets all hard and forms a shell. bad form.
I have no idea how to audiovisualize the voice of this cheese-pizza-eatin' mushroom-ass-faced weirdo, but I can sympathize with his plight, with a little imagination. i somehow forgot channeling was a thing. this comic reminds me of all kinds of shit i should be expecting
>mccarthyism
whoa, so someone's going to hugely overreact to something legitimately bad, in a way that uses the same tactics it uses, and thereby accidentally makes people sympathetic with it?

got a new panel done, I'm not to excited about it though

>thesisters-comic.com/

i made these earlier this year and never posted them

>>mccarthyism
youtube.com/watch?v=h5vMBLR9i70
But seriously, Beatrice and Douglas are installing a puppet leader so they can keep an eye on people.
>audiovisualize the voice
Guy's a weird case. I sort of picture it as a Chris Pratt by way of Henry Rollins. He's someone who was bro-tier but is very exhausted and physically drained. Like he probably used to look a bit more normal but the past few years haven't been well to him. His story really isn't plot focus because it has been "resolved" so to speak; but he was about five years ago a county fair level punk rock guy.

And then while fucking his girlfriend Beth backstage she shot herself in the head with a magnum because she thought it would be immortalizing and he was supposed to do it to. And so he's sort of been stuck seeing her and all other sorts of dead people for about five years, which has seen him fucking around the Jersey Shore getting fired from any job involving people because he talks to people who usually aren't there. So Scott helped him out with that, but he's still utterly fucked as a human being.

So he hasn't eaten well or had much sleep in about half a decade because he's always seeing horrific things or being harassed by horrific things.

Funny enough, Guy and Beth were part of an old porn comic project that got scrapped with another artist because of time constraints which I actually really liked because it dealt with the idea of occult fallout, body-hijacking, spiritual oppression and toxic toxic fucking romance.

Here goes nothing.

tapastic.com/series/FrICTION

eww, kevin smith dialogue

>tfw no progress

>Humans turned into cartoons and stuck in a house by the government.

Is this like a poor man's Emdtown?

>adult adventure time

oh god, that would be the worst haunting i've ever heard. and i once conceived of a setting where humanity has been beset en masse by totally intangible ghosts who seem to have nothing better to do than just to mess people up.. wake them up when they try to sleep, blind them while theyre doing something important, and so on.. and nobody can do anything to stop them, and it just goes on that way years.

this gay motherfucker serious?

>tfw your comic is getting more popular and you are making more money off of it

nigga what?

So the last time you told me this I went back and reread all my stuff and compared it to the few Kevin Smith products I've ever seen; namely Clerks (plus the cartoon of it), Mallrats, and Dogma (surprisingly, only ever the TV version on Comedy Central). I didn't catch a lot of what you're putting down, but I took it to heart because I do like to look and see where my influences are coming from.

And the last time I watched Kevin Smith stuff, prior to all this, was in the mid-2000s when I had a tiny black TV with a DVD player built into it. Rewatching them was moderately enjoyable, I think parts of them all hold up while others fall short.

A Kevin Smith monologue is generally more personalized to the person who is on the receiving end of it, like Silent Bob's speech at the end of Clerks to Dante. And I don't think I manage that. I also am aware that my dialogue is not inane enough or non-sequitur enough to hit the Randall/Dante dichotomy (for better or for worse). It is vulgar, I'll give you that; which could be part of where you're coming from.

I channel a lot of 30 Rock/American Dad in my writing process because I'm generally listening to that in the background, but I don't see much of an influence showing up. Because ultimately I try to place vocal patterns I'm familiar with in my own life. I talk like Erin talks, I know a lot of people who talk like Jam talks, and I've generally placed everyone's patterns within the Society from people in my own life I've encountered or by how my diction shifts when I've overcome with an emotion (generally a negative one).

If you can specify, I would appreciate it.. Or if this was just at my expense, I can try to channel some David Mamet for you next time around.

i think it's just that you both write realistic low-class people who arent distinctly ethnic but just kinda city trash

Miss Melee please go.

Well I mean 19 bucks a month is better than nothing

>Miss Melee

Is it? Never knew endtown's premise was similar, never really read it.

Is it a bad thing?

I appreciate that, but I also don't take umbrage to the comment either. If I do, realistically, appear to be too influenced by an individual who I don't expose myself to that often I might benefit from better understanding the how and the why so as to differentiate myself for the better. Ideally, to split the difference and both win over the reader who dislikes the dialogue flow and to of course please the retained audience.

Finished this page!

Doing some logo work updating something I did a few years ago after rewriting the story's premise somewhat.
The title is a double entendre, partially inspired by Julie Doucet's "Dirty Plotte" and my love of Ankama. "Plotte" is vulgar slang in Quebec, roughly the equivalent of "cunt" in both application to the genitals and pejorative for a bitchy woman.

It feels like it's a little empty, maybe missing wings or swords on the sides, but I might just be second guessing myself. Thoughts?

A weaponless sketch of the two main protagonists and antagonist side-by-side for height reference.
It's supposed to be a high fantasy comic,with "I'm too chivalrous for this shit" implied /ss/

No I'm just fucking with you. Cute art. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.

is.. is that where the term in colorful horses comes from?

i think the logo is good as long as it's supposed to look pretty fancy and jazztastically 80s

Oh, thanks man!

"I watch it for the plot" was a thing way before that. I remember made some macros about it back when Wakfu came out, but the term actually originates from places like Sup Forums and gets applied liberally whenever waifuism is involved.

And yeah, while I didn't have the 80s in mind specifically I was thinking about the cartoons I used to watch growing up in the 90s that would use thick fonts and have crests or icons behind their titles in the opening sequence.

I prefer drawing in a cartoonish style so that's good - I was actually concerned the usage of texture may have made it too jarringly uncartoonish to mesh well with my art.

>Drawing cute girl
>Draw her construction and face
>Realize she's naked at this point

/ss/ is nice
doesnt look like high fantasy to me, looks straight-up cape with a hint of post-2008-computer-game aesthetic

oh okay. so it's the same as sailor jupiter's "talent"
just from the sound of it i thought it had to be anatomical in some way

Found a bunch of my old notes, probably a little more than a year old. Its all Terrible

I need to try and accept just how long it's going to take until I reach a point where I can actually release something. Unless I can work on this full-time (ha!) it's probably going to take at least a year, maybe more, to complete the first chapter. Feeling rushed for time only results in frustration.

Also need to try to condition myself to do it more regularly, like a workout routine. I've been pretty bad at that.

To expand upon this, I have about 50 documents, most not more than half a page long. A lot of character spreadsheets that I keep making trying to find new ways to categorize them all. Some pages trying to figure out some kind or lore or organization that I try to come up with. As much as I gloated about "big stuff" I just realized how much of a disorganized mess I am, both in files and in creativity.

you know i don't like your style at all but hot damn this is a great progression. did you use a reference?
you also seem to be reallly good at shading to the point that things look like cg.. but like 'CGI Palz' cg

Check out nightwing # 1 from the New52, see what they use for a visual progression. It's nifty, gets the job done, and would probably save you time.

>tfw i'm sucking the lifeforce from everyone in this thread to fuel my comic's growth

I can understand that from looking at those three. There are orcs, dwarves and elves in the story, as well as skyships and mana based weaponry that make everything a lot more fantastical. The villain also draws power from a Lovecraftian source that serves as a secondary villain to this series, as the skullfaced villain is more of a Team Rocket style comic relief somewhat inspired by Donald Trump.

The whole universe is based roughly off Nordic creation myth with a bit of science mixed in. I took Yggdrasil as a base to interpret our universe where the center of the tree represents a planet, the core of the tree a world within a world, its roots the descent into the underworld realms plus a metaphor on how our universe "grew" from "nothing", and the branches and leaves representing both space and a multiverse. The Lovecraftian forces come from something inspired by Ginnungagap in Nordic mythology and are merged with the worm Nidhog who chews at Yggdrasil because tentacles. Pic related is a stylized diagram, but minus the names of the realms as I haven't decided on them all.

I can confess the girl has a lot of inspiration from capes, though. Peej has always been one of my favourite capes, and when she lost her boobwindow in the Nu52 I had added the design element to the female character and eventually wrote it functionally into the story because she can pull mana based energy weapons from her cleavage as well pull open the boob window to perform energy attacks. The story takes place after a Ragnarok-type event and the girl is supposed to have a portion of the powers of the various fallen gods, so her overall powerset is not unlike characters like Shazam or Invincible or Mary-Sue with smug

I'm not really an anime fan so I don't get the reference.
The title doesn't have much to do with anything, other than being dirty humor since the story is meant to be fun and not super serious.

What do you guys think of a short story where its set in an occupied country at war and 3 prisoners at a camp capture a guard who they force to help them get out of the country to freedom. Along the way they come across some camps that they then liberate to varying degrees, because their goal isnt to free everyone, just themselves.

Thanks, I guess? No, I didn't use a reference. Curious though, what don't you like about the style? Is it the drawing style itself, or just the way it's rendered?

a new take on yggdrasil? i've been wanting one of those! nice.
>boob window energy attacks
okay you've got me now.
now when you say shazam you BES mean the wizard or we're gonn have words. and one of those words is gonna be shazam.
>reference
the original line was "she'll get the role because of her big boobs" and the dub made it "her huge... talent!" with the pause (and the unaltered hands gesture) making it pretty clear what she meant. if you ever find yourself in 2001 you'll need to know these things.

an interesting concept. i think i've seen that done with escaped slaves before, and it's always amazing they bother to stop and help others on the way.. i always feel like 'no, don't push your luck!' but it alwys works out in the end.

Working on a weird Psychedelic space comic about a Monkey. Many of my other concepts were to dark and edgy so im trying to find new ways on making a tragic character without being so grimdark. Any suggestions?

stick with grimdark. it suits your art.
well, the way to write tragedy without crushing grimness is to allow some hope. not dash the reader's expectations too many times. they'll get fatigued eventually. you have to work on pacing

Well like i said, they liberate camps to varying degrees. Of the 3 camps they encounter only 1 they really liberate, because at the end near the border is heavily fortified and guarded, so they need a bit of help to get thru.

i'd like it if they had some sensible goal and reason for that. like, additional numbers will be able to help them

That would be fine, i can put that in

that raging internal debate when you've accidentally made a cracking pun and you're not sure whether to point it out or not because it's a bit more subtle compared to the others it's surrounded by

your pun is shit and you're not as clever as you think.

blindfolded insult-darts is one thread over, mack. might not have noticed because of the blindfold

Yep, exactly the retort you'd expect from a self absorbed idiot. He even saw fit to try to belabor his "wit" in the second sentence. Even blindfolded I'm spot on.

who are you talking to?

>tfw you read a comic with great art and you get depressed knowing your comic will never be that good

is this the new bonesposting?

I like writing about girls, and want to write stories where girls interact with each other go away /u/ . But the problem is that I'm a guy, so I feel like every attempt I make at writing a female character is cringe worthy to any girl that actually reads it. What do I do?

>implying my writing isn't already cringe worthy to all genders

>What do I do?
get better taste?

Give us an example, all I can otherwise recommend is "write dudes but they're women instead"

look at this betamax mother fucker already apologizing for his own betaness. even the reaction pic is beta as fuck

the beta is pretty much equivalent to the feminine, so just pretend you're the characters as you're writing.

Go ask any girls you know what girls are like.

Read media aimed at girls, written by girls, for an idea of how girls might perceive themselves.

Go visit predominantly female social spaces (online or offline) and get a better grip on their interactions and how they present themselves.

Go read up on the actual psychological studies that have been made on the differences between how boys and girls socialize.

What exactly is it that makes you particularly worried about writing girls, rather than any other kind of characteristic that you don't share in real life, like a cop character?

If you can't get into the same head space as a woman you ain't been interacting with them to much then homie...woman are complex but it's not to hard to portray one in a comic or whatever. Watch some cartoons or movies with the type of chicks you want to create to get a better understanding .of course you could talk to one and would be a nice excuse to speak to a female and get her opinion on the characters your making.

Realistic women often aren't as interesting or amusing as imaginary ones. Think about what you really want to write.

Girls are just people, user. Unless you really want to write dialogue about girls discussing their periods and vaginas it's okay to make them talk like any other normal human being.

I remember a recent thread people were arguing about when to start using Patreon, but it all seemed to be a back-and-forth of "before you have a big fanbase" and "after you have a big fanbase", but no real mention or discussion of what constitutes a good-sized fanbase/readerbase. Just how many unique visits a day would you guys believe justifies starting up a Patreon?

>question that I figured out the answer to by just thinking about it for 3 minutes
>7 replies
>I post my actual writing on /hyw/ that I worked on for over a month
>no replies
the heck with you all.

I'd say a couple hundred, based on a very tiny amount of research into the subject.
It also depends on how long you've been updating. Even if you get a lot of visitors, nobody's going to want to risk it if you're still in the beginning stages of your comic.

>things that are easy to do get done more than things that are time consuming
You don't say.

Should i buy this?

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user.
You must find the answer within your own heart.

the alternative is this

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basically, a small Wacom Bamboo for $95 vs a medium Wacom Bamboo for $154.

>tfw have to make a comic with male characters because you end up drawing every female character too sexy and you start masturbating and when you finish you're no longer motivated to draw

It doesn't matter when you start Patreon, it's just kinda discouraging to do it really early because you won't have any Patrons for a long time, and they'll come in at far more of a trickle than they will if you wait to build up a fanbase first.

If that kind of thing doesn't discourage you or make you feel bad then you can start a Patron the very second your comic launches.

There's a lot of different factors that go into how successful your Patreon is in the early stages.

dobsonspatreoncampaign.jpg

>Been reading some Berserk along with other hardcore merciless stories
>Start to wonder
I'm starting to wonder whether or not my story crafting method is...I don't know...mature enough. I mean, I had planned to kill off characters in my story, and for plenty of bad things to happen to them, but compared to Berserk, it's like a Sunday afternoon walk through the park.

And then I wonder if I even want to write stories so...raw. I don't think I could.

I like Berserk, but I don't know if I would call it particularly mature. It's just unrelentingly dark. I don't think a story being less grim or graphic or depressing is a mark against it.

That said, if you really do want to write a story like Berserk, yeah, you're gonna have to learn to revel in twisting the knife.

If you make it, will you acknowledge /hyw/?

>read story
>really like the story
>want to make changes to your comic to better fit what you just read
It happens to all of us. Don't give in to temptation.

Different poster here, I see where that user is coming from, although he's slightly off.

It's not that you're ripping off Kevin Smith for dialogue, but you are falling into the same trap Smith often does when writing dialogue, where every character sounds like the same person 90% of the time, that person being very obviously (to me and apparently at least one other person) the writer. The characters don't feel as unique as they look.

First page of chapter 2. About time.

10/10 gripping drama
Good to have you back mate.

Finally you're back. The comfiest comic in /hyw/.

>tfw that comic with great art is mine

>yfw he's actually talking about West Tree

What's the worst idea you ever had for your comic HYW?

I once had an idea for a sitcom-style webcomic about Andrew Dobson and Tim Buckley living together.

that sounds fantastic though

keep your feels to your self feelposter

He's broken. You motherfuckers finally broke him.

Off the top of my head, I tried to have a decompressed 5-person fight scene in a dark room begin and finish in a single page because I wanted to avoid boring people and capture some of the feeling of abruptness in an actual fight.
It ended up being pretty good considering, but man, it's a mess.
I'd considered giving myself a hard limit of 1 page per fight scene, but after this I figured that probably wasn't a good idea.

Dobson is one of those guys who "quits" art at least every other month.

Pretty sure those tweets are from months, if not a year or two ago.

>tfw working on the comic and another creative project
>tfw its somehow boosting my morale

I would recommend giving it a shot to see how it works out for you.

So, I feel like these next 2 pages are a bit more boring than they have to be. I mean yeah, it's just a bunch of talking and it won't take very long to read through in the archive, but does anyone have any great ideas for how to pace or shoot it better?
1/2

I'm especially wondering what I should do for the first two panels here. Maybe something with the wolf?
2/2

how is that pushup motion?

You can take it down further for the bottom position. All the way down.
I also think it would read better if he either had his hands further apart or his elbows closer to his body.

Maybe you could have him doing pushups with bent knees to show how bad he is at them?