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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;
calligraphr.com
>*-Don’t forget to brush up on that ANATOMY:
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People: senshistock.deviantart.com
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>*-Here's a big fat compilation of CHARACTER DESIGN REFERENCE:
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>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:
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>Paper Wings
chrisoatley.com
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>Fonts for your webcomic on Blambot:
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>Guide to promoting your comic:
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Posting recent storyboards.
Boy, I sure wish I could draw haha...
>"Your webcomic is shit"
HYW Bones edition?
>>"Your webcomic is shit"
HYW Lucy edition?
Try using index cards
>Be me
>Can't write for shit
>Get a writer to help me
>We fuck up hard
>End up writing a porn comic instead
>Porn comic actually comes out decently
>MFW
Don't be like that Lucy! Share!
where have all the good comics gone?
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Uh, gonna repost. was at the end of the last thread
You know I'm surprised puns on 'riposte' don't come up more often in posting in general.
Why do you want an unfinished pile of sketches?
They're still in development AkA mine (jk it's a pile of shit)
How do i star making my own webcomic?What software/tool should i use?
You can go the classic route by doing it all on paper with pencils/ink/whatever and just scan it, or you could go the digital route and use either Paint Tool Sai/Clip Paint Studio/Good Old Paint/Anything that let's you draw really.
>post my decent quality garbage
>not a single reply
>wonder what i did wrong and scrap the idea
onward to sexy teenaged magical girls with plenty of fan service!
>post garbage
>no reply
what'd you expect?
next time i'll make sure to bring a polished turd
Is there any specific resolution for a webcomic?
72 dpi for web is fine, but if you want to send them to print eventually you must work on 300 or 600 dpi
How do i upload my webcomic then?
can't you just increase the DPI after the fact in case you need it for print?
Technically yes you can and it shouldn't be an issue as long as you remember to keep the same size for the file. The thing is that is kinda better to work first on higher resolutions because if you instead do the 72->300 increase you may get some damage on the overall quality. But it depends on how you work around it, since some styles and formats don't get the same amount of troubles other stuff do. Pic related is a subtle example, and is subtle because what you see on the screen may not be the same to what you see on print neither. But that is going into another area.
You mean as in which sites? You can check the stuff on the goodie bag here to solve any questions about hosting and what not. The rest is just knowing how to use webpages.
Just to add to the dpi matter, it's not really recommended to just increase a 72 dpi image to 300 dpi because the problem comes with the pixels. The dpi stands for "dots per inch", and a 72 dpi file has, well, 72 dots of color per inch. If you increase the image into 300 dpi, the file fills the missing 228 dots with the most similar colors it already has, which is why sometimes the image looks like it even got a different tone and in the worst case it would look like a really shitty resolution image.
Instead if you work first on a 300 dpi and then reduce it to 72 dpi, you may lose some dots of color but the overall damage may not be as noticeable. In these cases losing is not as damaging as adding.
Just as a final thought, resolution only really matters when you are going to print. If you think you will print your comic at some point, what I would say is best is to work on 300 dpi from the start and have the original file saved, then for the web posting just resize the image into a comfortable pixel size so you don't end with a 5000x8000 pixel page or something. That way you don't have to do so much work on it, and when you decide to go to print you will already have the files on the Letter/A4/your chosen print size format ready.
>check on the schizoveggia comic an user posted threads ago to see if he updated.
>"This webtoon has been deleted or is currently unavailable."
I-is the cabbage alright?
I'd like to make a webcomic but my motivation comes and goes, as in I'm unhappy sometimes so that puts me in a bad enough mood for me to not wanna do anything.
Anyway, for now I'm focusing on writing the script. I'm almost done with the brainstorming/rough event outline phase, the shit that's gonna happen. I often digress though and add more stuff, like dialogues. The next part will consist of polishing all that shit up into an actual script. Pic is the reference of the format I'll be using. I already experimented with it for a short story and found that script writing really isn't that hard, but I digress. When (if) I'll finish it, I'll let it rest for a month then come back to it and see if it's not cringeworthy. If my brain gives me the green light I'll proceed to actually drawing. One can dream
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Good luck user! It's nice to see people actually looking up how to script. And I know it's hard to work when in a depressed mood, but it's not good to let it control your (in)actions neither. Maybe instead of letting it take you down ise your mood to work on parts of the story that fit said mood? When you feel better you can revise it and maybe change stuff, but it would still be progress at least. That's usually what I do when feeling down.
Out of curiosity, what would be your story about?
slow but steady.
Finished a full body picture of CIN that will be used for his bio page. I'll be doing these for all of my major characters. Really conflicted on what information to actually put in each bio though.
how come no one from here ever makes it? is there some kind of hyw curse?
That's just content creation in general. I know of many webcomic unrelated to these threads that are failures. Just like how there's thousands of failed animators, movie makers,let's players, and game devs. A vast majority of media made never "makes it".
Thanks for the advice man, I appreciate it. As for the story, well I'm very secretive about it. All I can tell you is that it's inspired by Nazi Germany with the protagonist being part of a similar fictional country. I asked myself what it must be like to operate as a soldier in such a place, and worked on the story from there. The protagonist is a fanatic at first but then slowly realizes how his nation's goals aren't being accomplished and that he's just running around in circles. He won't turn against his motherland but he won't work for it anymore either: he'll wander off into the world seeking a new purpose to give to his now meaningless life, maybe serve a new master
People from here make it. They just stop posting here when they do for the most part. A few people who make it say stuff from time to time but they're either ignored or get fed up with the perceived toxic negativity of Sup Forums in general.
Is there any free (or easily torrented) software that can format scripts like that?
Atm I'm immitating this style in your pic by painstakingly adjusting paragraphs in word (and sometimes open office) and I feel real fucking stupid...
>toxic negativity
>Sup Forums is in fact one of the most civil and on topic boards except maybe the origami or animal board or something
Maybe I spend too much time on Sup Forums and Sup Forums and my perception of conversations is warped.
I can't imagine what "discussions" on reddit and tumblr and so on must look like though if they consider Sup Forums standards to be intolerable...
it's not. he's a fucking quivering manbaby, this board is a padded playpen
New girl is cute
>I know I can do it, user said, helping himself to another sheet of paper from the dwindling stack. I'm sure that in time these scribbles will be a mystery, even to me.
dropping this wip im working on here, GGZ episode 2 page 1 (technically page 41)
hope yall like it! it just needs some word balloons and a little more background detail and its done!
Why is one of the characters all blurry? Did you copy paste her in with a early 2000s version of photoshop?
Also, I realize this page is virtually done, but there's a lot of negative space in the second panel. Try using a different angle next time, imagine there being a camera behind the back of the character to the right edge of the page...
i stretched her out because i had to stick my old hardrive in my current laptop and the screen resolution stretches the image out so when i look at it on any other computer besides mine everything ive been drawing the past 3 or 4 days looks stretched in and super thin, so ive been drawing wider on purpose because my laptop resolution is all weird and fucked up and i know this page is not going to look right on normal computers and tablets. :/
im using a 2009 windows vista hardrive with a native resolution of 1152x864 on a windows 7 asus laptop with ultra high radeon hd 5870x resolution with extra higher resolution for plugging into widescreen tv's
I can relate to your strugle with webcomic related technology.
I bought a wacom bamboo last year but I haven't used it to this day because the codes for free software that came with it were expired and I couldn't be assed to search for appropriate software for a wacom and buying / pirating it...
Pretty much any modern art package will be compatible with Wacom's drivers seeing as they've been around for ages and are basically the industry standard tablet.
Do you know what open source and free to download art packages are available? That's something you can do, Homer: find out.
its done unless it looks really messed up when im able to get on a real computer and see what it really looks like, i have no idea if its to stretched out or to stretched out yet until later on today.
to stretched out or to stretched inward*
how would you say it? squeezed in? shrinked in doesn't sound right because its a left to right thing not a size thing...
huh? what are yall talking about? im talking about laptop screen sizes not being right and stretched out wrong. theres nothing wrong with my tablet or drawing programs.
god dammit.
deleted the highlight layer and had to redo it, doesn't look right without it
loving some of that subtle texture. really helps make it less flat.
Obviously his bio needs to talk about who he wants to kill, why, how he plans to do it...
he did say 'perceived'
Not that I know of, no. And don't feel stupid: I'm doing the same man, using the buttons in pic according to necessity. It's a bit of a pain but if done right you get a clean, easily readable script
A few more things I wanna add on my post...
I suggest not to bother with different fonts (i.e. bold, italic, underscored text) and only use all caps tops when needed.
I also wouldn't bother numbering panels and pages for now so that you can add and remove panels without having to modify the number of all those panels that may come after. I suggest doing it only when you're done with writing the script and even then it's pretty redundant imho. It's up to you user
Act Of God is dead...
So I just downloaded Page 2 Stage and it works fine... I guess.
It feels very antiquated though, the tab bar looks like something straight out of windows 95.
Also, with so many writers / idea guys hanging around hyw (usually in search of an artist to collaborate with) I'm a bit surprised that we almost never see any scripts posted...
*sarcastically
I've allready fucked up.
how embarassing.
Nothing you do comes out decently
It's because more often than not idea guys may not really have any idea written down.
Also I may be talking bullshit on this second department, but I guess many feel that is easier to donut steel some script than a sketch of a page? Dunno I'm just trying to think of reasons why we don't see scripts often.
Well the other day I finished this, I was practicing backgrounds and landscapes
It does look antiquated (who knows, it might *actually* be Win 95's version of Word), but it gets the job done.
But really, all you need at the end of the day is finding a script format you find yourself at home working with. If this one ain't cutting it for you you might be able to find more comic script formats on Google images
What's hyw?
No bullshit, you're right. I personally would never share any ideas because I'm extremely jealous of them
Looks nice.
I'm not sure if you're doing it intentionally, but low contrast, flat backgrounds go really well with your character design. Just remember to have a lot of variety in coloring and it will turn out great!
I'm reading Cracked at work and sometimes history is just too perfect. Apparently the British tested experimental weapons on a public beach in a town called Westward Ho!
Any call for a historical comedy about that? I'm not sure if I have the drive to do all that research and practice my drawing and maintain any sort of schedule, but how non-historically accurate could I get before it turns into an alternate history instead of just a comedy?
You need to place the speech bubbles in the second half of the page differently - readers need to be able to figure out the reading order intuitively, not puzzling it together after the fact...
I'm done with the first 4 pages of my first comic with the tips you guys gave me, if you have any more tips?
Btw thanks for helping!
Here's page 2
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There's no real story but I'm just trying out the tips for the panel composition.
It's not really toxicity that drives the good ones away. It can be shitty here, but for the most part as soon as someone good "makes it" They don't need to shill to 40 some odd retards that already know their comic exists.
Or they just stop doing their comic because the pressure is too much for them/ the creativity is gone. Most of the good /hyw/ comics I can think of died, or knowing the creators, they know you read their comic and don't give a shit to come back.
That's exactly what I just said
most people post their scripts as pastebins
That sounds like a pretty fun comic. I think you can mess with the real story as long as anything new you invent never actually got used or worked well enough that it would have changed things. that way you can just call that speculation about more failed stuff
Chuckling pretty hard. She's a cutie. I could see this getting its own cartoon
This is coming together nicely.
I'll need some time adjusting to this script program but having a well organized script really balances out the messiness of the layouts, very helpful.
Now I just need to learn perspective, anatomy and shading and I'm ready ro go!
Isn't there also this discord thing?
I checked some archived threads from about a year ago but the links don't work anymore.
Gib current link plz, if you have it.
>do you want to buy a fidget spinner?
okay, I laughed.
I'm down to try it out, is okay if I do it?
You're a very fast learner, good for you.
You're allready experimenting with slightly unconventional elements like the thought bubble panel - and the small average panel count is complementing your style nicely.
If you enjoy writing and drawing this comic, you should work up a sizeable back-log and publish it on a popular webcomic site. I think the premise would work very well with short, self-contained stories over a few pages on a weekly or bi-weekly schedule.
Also, don't take this the wrong way because it's usually an insult on Sup Forums - but I think your webcomic would be very popular with the tumblr crowd, it hits all the right beats without being obnoxious (most tumblr-core comics are, hence the bad reputation).
I've talked a lot allready so I'll leave it at that for now, but it's always nice to see new faces on hyw. I hope you don't disappear in a few weeks like most others.
I have not heard of this but history is really full of funny shit that sounds right out of a surreal comedy, shows that really any idea we may have had it was already done. Australia's war against Emus is just another example. The emus won.
Knock yourself out; you can't copyright an idea. The execution is what matters: give different 5 people the concept of "Dad's Army meets W. Heath Robinson" and you'll get 5 different strips.
god dammit send ME those emus. theyre fucking delicious and I can't find them in any store
I wonder:
does anybody remember the user who used to post his layouts for a comic involving antro animals , battles and excellent art.
He mentioned being accepted into hiveworks but turning down the offer due to schedule issues. He was one of the most talented people I#ve ever seen on hyw but he disappeared a few weeks back.
I can't remember the name of the comic and I didn't save any of his drawings so I can't reverse image search. Any hints are appreciated...
Chochi's "Beatriz Overseer"?
Oh dear I really love your style, it has so many details yet looks so charming. Also you have some really nice work with panels and the layout (that dream panel is wonderful). Tell me when you publish it so I can bookmark it and follow you.
Also for no story, many comics begin as just self-contained "this happened and it's funny" kind of stories, and later it either keeps being that way or you get inspired to add more story and lore and what not. Eitherway it's good as of now.
>do you want to buy a fidget spinner?
Why this makes me laugh so much? Is because it's a skeleton named Hiddlehand trying to sell it? Is because I didn't expect it? WHY A FIDGET SPINNER JOKE MAKES ME LAUGH?!
nah, the character designs were more cartoony and the style much more dynamic.
This is a good webcomic too, though.
You may have to dive on archives searching for hyw threads user, sorry. And we lost track of some so good luck on your search.
>Turning down a hiveworks offer because of schedule issues
This is sad. I have heard Hiverworks is a bit demanding on update schedules, makes me wonder if it's a good idea to one day try to apply or not.
I really like this
>yfw your favorite furry porn comic creator turns out to be a former HYW regular under a different name and you never recognized it
Does anyone know how the 'reward system' on hiveworks looks like? Do you get a monthly salary, a cut of the ad money or a stacked payment based on how many pages you put out?
I'm just wondering because all other webcomic sites I'm aware of have just (tiny) ad cuts and since hiveworks is a lot more selective with content what their policy looks like.
They mention it nowhere on the site...
>furry porn comic creator turns out to be a former HYW regular
as expected of the master, hyw
i'm contemplating buying tickets for comicon which starts soon in my country.
I've been once and for hyw purposes I've tried to sum up the experience in one image.
Pic related. Maybe I shouldn't go this year...
I like this, I hope you will stick around or leave us a blog or something.
Haha thanks,
Yes of course! I'm not very frequent on this thread, but sometimes I go in to see new things and post what I'm doing
>my Tumblr cauldrawn.tumblr.com
Sorry I had not seen your comment, yes, I did it intentionally!
Yes I still have a lot to learn about backgrounds and landscapes. (And anatomy)
for web comics, I personally think clip studio paint or fire alpaca are good choices.
as much as I like to draw in sai, it lacks useful tools for making comics.
Sasuga Sup Forums
I posted this comic because I decided Sunday will be the arbitrary deadline for my comic, and come hell or high water I will stop working on this and post it on Sunday.
Who that?
Damn, this looks really good.
Thanks for the constructive compliments! I guess I'll continue!
I think he went by the name Nunc. Used to draw Res Nullius. That one sci fi comic about the alien lizard girl and the guy fleeing a war.
Been working a furry porn comic called "Study Partners" for like a year now. It's really good.
Thanks for the constructive compliments! I guess I'll continue!