How's Your Webcomic? #343

You should post your webcomic! Do it! Share it with us. How do you make it? Are you doing it wrong? That's okay.
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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=5xPvvPTQaMI
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/
mediafire.com/folder/9pf1nwwa92lbp/Comics_for_making_Comics
youtube.com/results?search_query=how to draw comics
abnor.com.br/?lang=en
imgur.com/a/kt3s7
imgur.com/bQC6n6e
drive.google.com/file/d/0B-u8SocsU28YSW43eVlLYnFtejA/view?usp=sharing
bridgefirecomics.deviantart.com/
twitter.com/bridgefirecomix
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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/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/ (surprisingly not a typo)

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

>DISCORD CHAT going on,
Ask for an invite in the thread.

>Wise words from John Cleese:
youtube.com/watch?v=5xPvvPTQaMI

>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/

>Comics for makin' comics!
mediafire.com/folder/9pf1nwwa92lbp/Comics_for_making_Comics

youtube.com/results?search_query=how to draw comics

I'm trying to outline my comic, but I'm worried that I'm getting a little too detailed with it. At the rate this is going, I'll never even get around to scripting the actual pages.

I've read through dozens of how-to articles for outlining, but now I wanna hear Sup Forums's opinions.
What do you include in the outline for your comics?

I include every event in the story as long as they are either essential to the plot or the characterization. Then I fill in the bits while creating.

abnor.com.br/?lang=en

Worked a few hours last night and this morning polishing the layouts from last time.

I usually am well with compositions but never did well with dialogue placement.

It's a humiliating story that I hoped never to tell... Well pull up a chair!

If reading articles and stuff isn't doing it for you, just get head long into it, and figure it out while you're doing it. It's not the best way to make it work, but you'll hate the early stuff later in life anyway, might as well just dive in.

Yo, it's me again. Added a new page if you feel like giving feedback again.
Maybe if it's passable enough, I can keep going, or start colouring this, I dunno. Sorry for being over reliant with this, but I seriously don't have any confidence.

imgur.com/a/kt3s7

I promise to focus on my actual comic this week, tho, for real.

I feel like I should repost since I was at the tail end of the last thread, but I couldn't post this one in the first place. I mean I think. It's hard to tell how mildly-nsfw Sup Forums mods are going to tolerate in a given day. Doesn't help if it's furryesque aliens.
typo in panel 6, should be he is the ONE who should be in fear
also I goddamn love this comic. Tadeu is such a bro. I love when they defeat things with the power of rules. and I love the symmetry of how they were making fun of each other at the beginning of this story and now it's praise time.
is there a way to separate these out by story? It's like six different comics sharing one navigation
tried this on two computers, it won't let me scroll past the top. anyone else having that problem? it just jumps back to the top every time

Weird, I can see it with my logged account, but one another browser, it does that.

Anyway, here's the link for the single image:

imgur.com/bQC6n6e

Also, since you're here, lemme give a glimpse of my other side work. I wanted this revealed once it's finished, but w/e.

Bro you're going to overload my happy. i'm going to break my face from smiling this much

also that page is hot. You don't see the pretending-to-be-asleep thing very often with someone trying to seduce someone else that they're already kind of dominating.
yeah I looked it up and this is just a glitch imgur has periodically. they'll fix it, they did so 10 months ago.

This is really good

run from this place

I think this thing is finally ready for animation. I'm glad to finally be done drawing cables.

I see you like invader zim, I also like invader zim.

Good work on the detail tho brah.

practice outlining by taking your favorite movie and listing each scene and what happens in it

It also helps if you're writing a story more about the characters than explaining everything in your world and how it works

Seems like a wise idea, I'll work on making an archive that has just the individual stories in it.

The dewd is finally gone,
Why did you guys tolerate him so fucking long??

You dare speak his name?!? Why the fuck are you trying to summon him from Sup Forums or wherever the fuck he's sperging at??

he's not gone, he just hasn't posted yet

I came into a little cash to put into some comics, do we have a master list of /hyw/ posters looking for work/do commissions?

new sketch of one of my fates chaos characters

it doesn't come up often enough, but stick around. You're willing to pay, so that puts you at the top of the list.

woops, drew human ears on her, my bad, fixed it

WOAH what's up with all this ANIME TRASH lmao

What style of art are you looking for? We have plenty of regulars here and I feel like all of us are probably open to commission.

>typo in panel 6, should be he is the ONE who should be in fear

Thanks, man, I will fix it right away. Be sure to honor your contracts.

Thank you, but aren't we supposed to bail on these threads only after we make it?

individual commissions for sure, but not everyone wants to commit to doing full comics for someone else

im sure theres a few in these threads who are open to that. what type of comic is it though. nobody is going to apply for a job they know nothing about

This is looking great so far, it's always a pleasure to see you around.

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On Twitter it looked like he was trying to find a new site

10/10

Who would want him though?

Not sure about the framing on the last page of my comics. The girl should be falling down softly. Should I add another frame with her spinning a bit to link frame 1 and 2 ? Basically she falls into the purgatory and that dude welcomes her of sorts

Hot.

So how does /hyw/ feel about webcomics that inserts sex into their works for views?

I've been diggin through most of his sites,
and he seems to talk a lotta shit about other OCs.
Which, I think is strange considering his own art quality.

I did this for the launch of my comic, and boy it attracted people.
Can't say I'm sorry for it, but man, did it bought its own burden afterwards.

I will never understand people obsessing this hard. I don't follow anyone's social media, least of all people I hate so much that I derail every thread I'm in to bitch about him

What kind of burdens? Like guys wanting more porn or weirder fetishes being represented?

don't do it for views
do it because it's beautiful
include beauty because it's nice
make your comic nice for views

More like the former for starters, but then, I felt it became what represented my work the most, and that's for sure something I wasn't aiming for, so I started to do the soft censor by chapter 3, using speech bubbles and whatnot to reduce that impression.

That's what kinda motivated me to do the porn spin-off as well, so I can split the waters while giving everyone the same.

I do kinda understand not wanting it to dominate and represent the work
if I draw people fucking it's one panel of one person on top of another and the punchline is someone walked in on them or something.
or if there's just a dildo sticking out of someone's ass, it's just... yknow, between their legs. it doesn't have to be a grotesque closeup

I think you did pretty well with the dialogue, less is more in these serious types of pages. More of it would make it look like those wacky marvel comic pages.
Also how long does it take you to do one of these? I feel like page two came out a month ago. I hope I'm wrong.

Thanks. Yes was always told not to be wordy but still seem believable and natural when people speak. So I think of if I'm in those situations and think of the first thing out of my head naturally and work around that.

Honestly, It goes back and forth. Some panels would take me a while, especially when I'm not feeling it, other times in other panels I get them done quickly especially when completely redoing them.

Guess it depends on mood. That or not being busy with work, freelance, and spending time with the fiance. Had finally finished an animated short for the advertising dept in the company I work for.

>animated short
Care to share? Whoa, that rhymed.

Oh, and page two I posted 9 days ago, so I'm definitely doing much better than before haha.

I guess it's just me then. With all the finals, days seem to last like weeks.

drive.google.com/file/d/0B-u8SocsU28YSW43eVlLYnFtejA/view?usp=sharing

I honestly think it's shit, but the guy wanted it to be sketchy like my test animation roughs so I said sure. The only parts I thought were good were the first 7 seconds.

Am trying to upload it online. Didn't ask him yet for permission so I doubt he'd say no. Plus I have no following on social media, so whatever.

how can you possibly think this is shit? this is professional animation.

Oh, well thank you for thinking so. But I just know I could do it much better; would've taken me much longer to do. And hated the rhino running animations, the human running animation looks stiff with his lower torso looking so stationary.

I actually liked pic related much more, and even then I see so many mistakes. I dunno, guess just a self-confidence thing when it comes to my craft.

maybe it's the complete lack of anything remotely like this on tv anymore.

I guess. And I can see why not many companies want to do much traditional animation anymore. It's hard and very time consuming. Crazy how the anime industry does it.

slave labor can build pyramids and make a country rich on cotton and tobacco crops, but real innovation is when you build a machine that can do it even better
i blame smartphones. technology has been lagging, even going backwards, over the last decade.. when we should have fantastic AI by now, that can intelligently inbetween drawings.

bump for boobies

I leave here for 4 days and i'm 11 pages into (The sketches i mean...) the comic.

>I feel ashamed coming here, but it's nice to leave a little update for at least once in a while right?

So expressive!

Not entirely sure, I have a lot of projects that I want to get proof of concepts together for, usually in the form of 5 page stories, but I match the project to the person's style, so it is ncie to have a frame of reference.

Finished my first short comic. 3 Pages.

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good writin'
hmm, kinda using the same pun twice in a row. I would have gone with something like "i think we both know where this is heading" or change the first instance to "I'm headin' you off at the pass" or something.

Trying to teach myself to do short, simple narratives. Concurrently, I was also trying to improve my line work by forcing myself to only use black and white and not grey tone the shit out of everything.

It mostly came out the way I imagined. Naturally 10 seconds after finishing I thought of a hundred ways it could have been better.

This is good stuff, got any websites with more of your work?

Shit, you're right. I didn't even see that... these pages were worked on weeks apart.

All of them. (No, not really)

bridgefirecomics.deviantart.com/
twitter.com/bridgefirecomix
bridgefirepictures.tumblr.com/

Thinking about doing something on Inspector Gadget next...

yep I've done that. fuck just today I was doing parody lyrics and I used the same word one word apart in one line. thank god youtube lets you edit that shit now

That's some nice swirling horror, but I gotta say... those are some weak sandworms compared to the original. Everything else is great.

This is going to torture me now.

The line works great in both situations, so I feel like it's a matter of coming up with a better line for one or the other...

Right now I'm toying with "Don't MIND me" for page 2...

Page 3 all I got are the ingredients for a lewd joke about keeping his foot out of his mouth or something? Fuck... puns are hard when you're trying to be intentional about it...

oh my god that is an incredibly cute style for IG. do it. do the fuck out of it. I never realized how much I need this.
I can't think of what the story would even be or what the tone could possibly be but this needs to happen

Followed you on twitter and all tha jazz. Great work. You could easily do some IG 4komas in that style. That'd be fresh.

Page 3 is fine, doesn't need more jokes.
I think the second page has the weaker one, since he's not really getting ahead of himself in any appreciable way, he's just goofing around.
he could say "you don't have to bite my head off" or "I'll head back up in a sec"

I was thinking something relatively light somewhere between Akira Toriyama and Osamu Tezuka. 3-5 pages.

The hard part is trying NOT to turn it into a story.

Yeah, it works better on page 3. I changed it to "Don't mind me" in lieu of a better idea that might strike me later in the middle of the night.

that's exactly the feel I got. after all the tezuka influences in IG are so obvious.. along with monkey punch. and I can see some toriyama in your Penny. I'm gonna love this.
wait, -what- works better on page 3?
as for the lap thing, I feel like I still need to keep suggesting. It's a good exercise. but the only ones I can think of are kind of a stretch or not nearly beetlejuicy enough
>worried I'll kopf a feel?
>is my dome too close to home?
>what am I gonna do, bite your kneecaps off?
>but your thighs make such nice earmuffs, and speaking of m-
and then she cuts him off.

The original line works better on page 2 (I mis-typed before.) Originally he was "ahead" of her line of thought on page 1 but on page 2 he is literally getting ahead of himself without his head. I think that's better.

I just realized I used "mind" already in an earlier line of dialogue so I'll have to change it.

Could be something as simple as "Heads Up"

For 2 I was thinking something along the lines of "Better a thigh than a foot..." which makes no sense, but I feel like there's some kind of sex pun there. I"m just not seeing it right.

And followed. Keep it up.

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aww I liked it better in page 1, but ok..
in that case, the replacement in page 1 will be something where he transitions into explaining that it's not what she thinks, but instead he plans to do the haunting.. so .. uh..
you know what? actually that works. I've exercised my pun muscles enough for one night, you clearly know what you're doing

The catfolk of Singapurr are but one of many forms of Sapient to make their way to Palea after the rise of the Magic Empire. Catfolk are taught music from a young age, and many attempt to get jobs in the business. Unfortunately, they’re really weird looking and make everyone uncomfortable, so most get jobs as waitresses in seedy bars before realizing they’re never going to make it big. With no local industry, a constant influx of immigrants with useless skills, and the constant discomfort of a being a furry creature living in a desert environment, not everybody wants to be a cat.

SaffronComic.com

Fucking incredible

>human-eared cats
I get it, reverse of nekomimi catgirls. That's pretty clever but gotta agree, weirdlookin. Enough to hurt one's musical career for sure.
That punchline is great

>the constant discomfort of a being a furry creature living in a desert environment
I take it they aren't as desert-designed as housecats, sandcats, etc then. More like tigers?

Even a housecat starts getting into trouble at 90+ degrees.

These guys were very nearly Abyssyrian refugees, which would be a great pun if "Abyssinian" were a more well-known breed. Alas.

I kept trying to fit in a joke about how some of the cats tried shaving themselves to beat the heat but look like those wrinky sphinx cats and are even weirder-looking and less employable shaven, but I couldn't get the concept into a good joke. I might rewrite the lore post to fit it in, I had some trouble with this one.

Finished her Model sheet, moving on to bara dinosaur man and pink megaman tomorrow.

How to do an opening narration?what is the basic rule? what to tell? what not to tell?

I'm super stressed and depressed tonight, /hyw/. Post something to cheer me up.

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I doubt this was meant to be in reply to me but it cheered me up a bit anyway. Thanks, user.

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Are there any guides that are strictly focused on having good pacing and story flow? I never seem to find shit like that, just general umbrella guides that briefly mention pacing and flow to the extent of "make sur dey gud" without going into more detail.


I'm interested in this as well.

Is that character based on this joke?

most likely, that guy is so unoriginal in all his stories

Please put your trip back on coldfusion.

Someone last thread said the proportions in one of these poses was messed up. They were correct and I wasn't measuring things properly, so here's a corrected version.

Her torso seems really short compared to her legs

You don't draw alot of characters naked do you... you tend to draw them with clothes first (which is fine), but it leads to this problem as seen with the underwear model of the character.

Have you noticed in your dynamic poses her torso is slightly longer?

And I have a feeling she might not be the only character that suffers from a slight anatomical problem.

I want you to go and search the major difference in men and women, from head shape, torso proportions to foot size.

It'll help you understand how to make an appropriate measurement for your character.

Also final opinion to you if she sparkles like that in battle, she's gonna die first by every archer or long ranged fighter on the battlefield... to bad :^) but hell prove me wrong.

Now here's the good news your characters torso isn't impossible people do look like that believe me... so she's possible if you wanna keep her that way, but chances are she can't bend over or sit down without stumbling a bit, she'd run quite awkward but her leg size would help her build some serious speed.

Peter Griffin would also bone here, good chose :^).

Good Luck.

oh yeah they look like nutsacks

oh my god, the skulls

she got thighs up to her armpits mang

actually he did fix the problem earlier where her elbows were at her waist (I'm the one that pointed that out). they are now at the bottom of her ribcage where they belong. unfortunately the result still doesnt look very good. It makes me want to select everything from navel level up and just stretch it