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How's Your Webcomic? #324
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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
quickposes.com
>*-What’s a list without some reference STOCK IMAGES?
People: senshistock.deviantart.com
Scenery: shutterstock.com
>*-Here's a big fat compilation of CHARACTER DESIGN REFERENCE:
pinterest.com
>Links to get a rough WEBSITE started up:
Easy to use tumblr webcomic theme: tumblr.com
Do’s and Don’ts for starting a site: pastebin.com
>Contact sheet if anyone wants to put information down, like their site and webcomic:
docs.google.com
>DISCORD CHAT going on,
Ask for an invite in the thread.
>Wise words from John Cleese:
youtube.com
>Invisible Ink:
courses.cs.washington.edu
courses.cs.washington.edu
courses.cs.washington.edu
>Paper Wings
chrisoatley.com
web.archive.org
>Fonts for your webcomic on Blambot:
blambot.com
>Writing Resources:
cienciasecognicao.org
>Guide to promoting your comic:
miss-melee.tumblr.com
>Comics for makin' comics!
mediafire.com
WIP of the next page!
Yes, the evil dudes are pretty much Daft Punk.
>new france
le ouch
i read that as 'oh my stairs' at first, and now I want that to be a catchphrase
New art markers!
And who wants to see the rest of the story?
How's the current state of webcomics? To what degree is the alleged, "To succeed you must do the community circlejerk hosted within the webcomic hosting service of your choice?"
How toxic have internal community/ies been?
hosting services don't have communities
The worse the art, the worse the fetish.
I WISH that were true.
Smackjeeves and TheDuck?
not that I know of. people don't really care about where they're hosted. communities are more about subject of the comics
I'd like to thanks the assist I got last thread, and finally, got an update done.
My overtime crazy at the office ends tomorrow, so I hope once it's over, I can get to do more strips.
work is such a piece of ass
Yeah, but money is not, and waifus don't come for free, kek
Happy Halloween, /hyw/!
I'm not exactly working on a webcomic but it'll have comic bits in it
Should I still post here?
Wat a shitty thread. What is this crap?
My fucking 8 year old cousin can draw better than you guys. This is is really bad art. Get yourself some practice.
Man slap your name on this. It kinda sounds like some Murphy's law.
Yeah I think I would rather see badly drawn poorly rendered terrible fetishes than seeing them in HD, very detailed, and very well drawn.
I just started posting mine. It's at agrestthethief.tumblr.com
Proof of concept prototype art tests for some future gifwork for the comic. Halloween-themed.
Trying to get the process down so I can crank this out in under half an hour.
It's time to end Wilfreda's Super Spooktacular Halloween Special. Here's the last strip of the story arc: surprise winners and absolute Trolls.
Read the whole thing here! wilfredacomic.tumblr.com
Still refuse to believe he posts here.
You can't make me accept it.
Haven't posted here in forever, but since it's Halloween I thought it'd be a decent time to share this comic I finished last month about teens and ghosts (and teen ghosts.)
Gonna go ahead and post it anyway
Working on bad outfits for a fashion montage in this children's novel
This is gonna be the "final" outfit in the montage.
Hi Sup Forums. It's been a long time since I last visited, but it's Halloween and thought I'd share my sci-fi/horror webcomic "The Sprawl".
Before you click that link, it is "furry", it does have some gratuitous nudity, and there are scenes some may consider gory.
thesprawlcomic.com
Comments and criticisms are welcome.
This looks adorable. Is she a robot?
Yes, she is.
Bump.
Is naming a female vampire bat Bella too many steps to get to the reference or am I underestimating people? Would it make more sense to make it a boy and name him Bela instead? The gender isn't incredibly important, though I do prefer the f/f dynamic.
Like Bela Lugosi?
I think Bella would make people think Bella from Twilight first.
Supposed to be Bela Lugosi, totally forgot the girl from Twilight's name is Bella. I think I'll stick with it then. Give her a bit of a complex about people getting it wrong.
In today's comic, the king has returned...
Yeah, Bella's a good name.
Damn, he's FUCKING HUGE...
a solid cutie!
You really have your comedy down
Huh, so Remington is still alive. I wonder how that happened.
May as well post the first page.
That looks worth a read. i'll check it out
for some reason i'm expecting them to have kids running after them trying to steal their cereal..
nice linework, but could use more values. the whole thing looks really empty and unfinished
I'll look into it. My main inspiration for art style is Stan Sakai.
Next few pages are going to be mostly in the dark, but after they leave the cave I will try giving the backgrounds more attention. As it is now it would be easier to colour though.
Had this story/concept for a while now and never knew when and how to start it, particularly in the "how can I make a self-contained pilot" department. Luckily, inktober and drawlloween came in close, do I decided on using the opportunity and followed the prompt list calendars that were put up. I think I'll manage to finish it up today, but I would still like to post a page here, just because you're good people and I trust you.
>My main inspiration for art style is Stan Sakai.
Have you considered using screentones? Sakai, like many black and white comic artists, uses them extensively. Check out this page from Usagi Yojimbo to see what I mean. He fills the page in with a mix of screentones and heavy shading.
A simple decision about a character's looks.
that's really tough. the birdbodied one is fucking creepy, but the harpy lacks eyebrows and her eyes seem too big, even though they're smaller than before.
also don't forget owls are xygodactyl.. if she is still supposed to be an owl. i'd like to see some more options, honestly.
Definitely seconding this. Human faced one is pretty creepy looking.
I've been posting these for awhile now. This is just something I do on the side, hopefully for cash soon, so I don't put as much effort in them as I could
My next project is a Little Nemo inspired full page comic about a travelling salesman travelling a magic world. I'm really going to put an effort in it to make it look great
That's really cool, user!
I've always thought that there's a lot of potential in making a webcomic that utilizes gifs to do things traditional comics can't Excluding that one webcomic that shall not be named
I hope it all goes well!
simple strips are good!
Oh my, then i really need to pay attention to details when it comes to creating fictional character from real life animals and concepts...
Didn't even know about owl many being xygodactyl... I wish i learned about that before...
Well thank you very much for the insight. I also need to remember the barn owl visually have smaller pupils than most owls. it will be corrected.
>Also in you opinion this character is suppose to look more innocent than creepy looking, i wanted the facial design to be familiar (being human), but it seems maybe making the character transform from beast form to humanoid form might be more (comforting to the viewer).
Looks like Eva from Wakfu
if she's supposed to be innocent, then I'd keep the big pupils from the one on the left, at least. I just looked at some barn owls, and their eyes seem to be ALL pupil. the one on the right looks more action-packed eye-wise.
has there ever been any comics to crawl out of this cesspit?
your mom
Has the webcomic bubble popped yet? What's the state of webcomics as a whole... err. genre or whatever?
i don't think it has even begun, really. not until there's some kind of really profitable market. creatively, it's not like the medium is taking a significant chunk of anyone's time or showing up in very many fan discussions (except a few like homestuck that barely qualify as webcomics)
Update time!
Also time to possibly de-naked the lizard soon. At least temporarily.
Update can be found here:
mostlylizard.com
ooh, instaclothes are a lot better than regular clothes
So about that discord?
acidflowers.com
Updating daily
interactive - you choose what the protagonist does next by commenting / upvoting other comments
this is about the level of wit you'd find here, so no.
i'm enjoying participating in this. the upvoting idea is great, not everyone has an idea of their own and you don't need tons of suggestions, just a few good ones
Thank you very much :) Means a lot.
Happy Halloween /hyw/
y'know if you ever wanna ditch the whole western thing, I would read the fuck out of this
Finished this page!
I've found myself less time to work on it, but I'm finally getting to the good part.
excellent lines, cute
have I seen this comic before? Art doesn't look familiar.
I don't think anyone believes it's the real guy posting here... for one thing, the real guy seems way more spergy-angry.
It's a little hard to parse, but I like your character design!
It's all good man. I know not everyone likes western stories. My next story won't be western. But I may ditch the anthros.
Well, for one, I altered the style a bit to fit with the dark setting, so it doesn't look like it usually does. Second, I barely have anything out (seven parts) and I don't post here often, so I don't think you'd have run into it before.
Hey, if you're interested in it, it's called Witch's Hill.
I don't like most western stories, but I like yours.
I would just also enjoy a story about witch friends.
I seem to recall you drew some humans a little while ago that I really liked, but your anthros are pretty great so i hope you don't feel any kind of pressure there
Welp, I suck at replying
See Here:
nope, still not recognizing. did you post it here before?
anyway, link!
I post it on FunnyJunk and occasionally Tumblr. So... pick your poison.
funnyjunk.com
torklet.tumblr.com
>How's your Webcomic?
Going nowhere honestly. I believe I've made the mistake of thinking too big too fast. I want to form a daily habit of drawing so now I'm thinking I'll start with that. And then work on writing short (very short) stories to work on form and pacing. Eventually I should have a nice collection of short works and then I'll revisit sitting down and trying to write a completely original piece. But right now starting alone is nightmare enough.
Right now I'm toying with the idea of a Beetlejuice short. Because I've been in that kind of mood lately but who knows.
That's a story we've all heard a lot. People of your talent often jump the gun
that's uh.. a very interesting face you've given lydia...
>content was not found
fine, MAKE me go to tumblr
>that layout
fun for reading while there are 7 pages, I guess. could be worse. buuuut when you add new pages, do you expect people to read from the beginning each time? that's not a good format to follow
Cosmic tales guy here.
I have been taking a break and working on my art. Again.
I did pic related today.
Oh geez, I thought the FunnyJunk one would work. I don't actually like using Tumblr, so I don't care that it's all jumbled up. Honestly, I forget to upload the comic there most of the times.
I prefer using FunnyJunk and using the collection list thing they have; it's like an archive. I haven't used it on mine, but I suppose I should now.
Yeah. It's kind of amazing. Like, I'm not even that good, and the people who are way better than me who I've always wondered "why aren't they putting out more stuff?" and the more I've improved the more I've come to learn the horror of the answer.
Like, I'm not saying drawing isn't fun for me now, but it feels like it was a lot more fun when I was terrible at it.
>lydia...
Beetlejuice has the weirdest dynamic (specifically the cartoon.) He's like, a way more successful Goblin King when you think about it. Plus I've always like that Lydia just rolls with whatever crazy horror movie shit that goes down between the real world and whatever hell dimension she's constantly getting dragged to to go on adventures.
I know I say this every time you practice, but you are getting noticeably better. but you also have a way to go in terms of your proportions and anatomy.. compared to your inking which is fantastic
Thanks. I appreciate the feedback and I agree it is time to focus on anatomy again.
yeah dude if you fix it up, that'd be neat. i've never read a comic on funnyjunk before but i like the idea
agreed. and now you're making me wonder what it would have been like if they'd had a Labyrinth cartoon where Sarah and Jareth were suddenly friends.
but what I meant was.. er.. her face. the way you drew it.. uhh.. is there a reason you went that way?
Hmm. I'm not sure what you mean. Like, is it that weird looking? I'm not 100% sure on the design so it's just a rough sketch...
it's a very, very strange face for a young girl. She looks like Murdoc from Gorillaz.
She has a bit of a man-jaw
how do you portray a friendship between an adult and teenager without makong it creepy or weird... is it possible? any good precedences you guys can think of?
Hm. Well, she's not that young in that picture. Well, not a child anyway.
In the picture you responded to or the first picture I posted? (lol, or both?)
Just treat it like the very normal thing it is
>any good precedents
like, anything made before the 2000s. like every single disney movie.
kind of all of them.. not just the jaw, basically every facial feature is that of a typical haggard, untrustworthy male character, such as a leader of a gang of thieves. I'm not saying she has to look like winona ryder, but.. what were your motivations behind those feature choices?
Funny, a friend of mine dressed as lydia tonight actually. she's an artist, if she was still awake I'd ask her to give some input
It's pretty common for intergenerational friendships to happen. Most people have at least one older friend they go to for advice
I'd say the simplest precedent you could aim for is making your characters have similar interests in media they consume. Sports, Art, Music, TV etc.
Or like a big-brother type such as a kid befriending one of their older sibling's friends.
Or even a local community club.
That's interesting. No particular reason. She looks like a girl to me, but then I've spent a lot of time looking at girls faces, they're not all that soft.
I agree she does look pretty shifty eyed though, lol. I'm actually not going for any particular look. They all simultaneously look right and don't look right to me which is why they're all a little different. I'm not sure what to settle on. I'm also not looking at a lot of references I'm just drawing whatever comes to mind.
For instance I just realized that's not even how her hair is supposed to look....
I agree except most of those are same gender. Mine isn't, and the younger character is a girl. I suppose I am really worried that my audience would only see him as "predatory" even if he's a kind of mentor and they have a genuine rapport.
I think she looks fine. Reminds me of actual teenage gothy types. They just want her to look soft and cutesy.
>but then I've spent a lot of time looking at girls faces, they're not all that soft.
not all, no.. but unless you live in eastern europe or something, you shouldn't be seeing a lot of noses like that on women.
I actually wasn't sure if you were going for a cartoon look or maybe a hybrid of cartoon and movie look. fanart is fun that way, you can do it however you want
anyone who sees him as predatory isn't "your audience". so don't worry about losing them, you want that.
lol, you never know. One thing I've learned in my adventures of creepy staring (aka studying features) is that they're all over the place. She does have a tiny nose in the cartoon though.
Like I said, I'm mostly just drawing whatever comes to mind. I don't particularly want her to have a bunch of masculine features (the opposite really) but I'm also not aiming for particularly "cute" in a traditional sense. Although I do think goth girls are cute, it's just not in a conventional way at all. By design.
It depends on the ages. When you say young, how young? How old is the guy? Technically these things shouldn't matter if the relationship is platonic anyway, but it MAY affect what type of relationship would be believable. That also goes for if you're sensitive about it, it may affect your own point of view on your story.
What I would say is just do whatever it is you were planning to do unedited and then re-evaluate it as you go along. Are you worried about unintentionally creating sexual tension or something?