COMIC POLICE 2nd Edition
Welcome to yet another thread of How's Your Webcomic!. Come here and show us your precious work so we can help you improve or drive you to madness, whatever happens first.
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COMIC POLICE 2nd Edition
Welcome to yet another thread of How's Your Webcomic!. Come here and show us your precious work so we can help you improve or drive you to madness, whatever happens first.
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artists.pixelovely.com
quickposes.com
senshistock.deviantart.com
shutterstock.com
pinterest.com
tumblr.com
pastebin.com
docs.google.com
discord.gg
youtube.com
courses.cs.washington.edu
courses.cs.washington.edu
courses.cs.washington.edu
chrisoatley.com
web.archive.org
blambot.com
cienciasecognicao.org
miss-melee.tumblr.com
mediafire.com
youtube.com
character-limit-blog.tumblr.com
boysland.thewebcomic.com
shi-tan-nime-comics.blogspot.com
twitter.com
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;
calligraphr.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:
discord.gg
>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
We are also running our third challenge! Now fortnightly!
>THEME: post apocalyptic - cartoon - animals
>GENRE (options): FREE PICK (choose whatever genre you want on this occasion!)
>DEADLINE: August 13
Remember that you can play with the theme as you see fit, we want to see how creative you can get!
How much did you draw today user?
I tried your Idea, didn't like how the diamonds/bipyramids looked. The circles it is then, thanks for the input.
dont fucking look at me like that i tried ok but i just got distracted, ill draw more tomorrow i swear
Does anyone have experience doing commissions? I'm low on cash right now and am probably gonna go downtown Union Square in NYC and try to sell some sketches and panels there for $5-15.
>Don't ever talk to me or my daughter again
Inked 4 panels where 2 of them had cars which I have absolutely no experience drawing alright. Adding flat colors right now.
I drew half a panel. I'm so slow and get distracted easily.
I've only just started!
11 seconds of animation...
but now i get to work on my comic!
Narry a pixel.
But I feel more motivated than I have done in 2 years, so that's something.
i guess i repost it again.
link to comic? i can't find a url on your page at all.
character-limit-blog.tumblr.com
This is a early page. Also beware of the first chapter. I was a noobie.
have a tumblr? post everyday, draw fanart to gain followers, shill your art there, you'll make more than 5 - 15$.
Hey guys, we managed to get out an early update this week for Boys Land.
boysland.thewebcomic.com
This is the finale to Farm Land. All that's left is the falling action the next two weeks.
Still looking for someone to write something for me to draw for the weekly challenge. I'm here to disappoint but I'm pretty good with deadlines.
>When people draw little chibi versions of their stuff and it looks exactly like my stuff should look normally, with way better perspective and shapes and emotion and whatnot
Love this. Especially the tail snake eating.
Okay this chapter.. hot damn that's some dynamic movement. and a magic bat.
I appreciate for once a guy that's out of bullets doesn't try to huck his gun at the enemy.
BEING IN COLOR PUNCH! fucking cool. This guy just has the blood of every shounen hero running through his veins doesn't he
hmm, Marco's hair appears to be shorter than it used to be.
You mean like, come up with a script?
Well I managed to finish the page I promised for today. Sure nobody will check it because it's 10 pm here and everybody who follows me on facebook is sleeping, but hey I kept my word!
I wrote this on Spanish first this time, but still I don't know a lot of police talk in English, any errors I got on these? The joke works?
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
If you thought this was crazy, just you wait!
Since you mentioned it, show me your art dude. :)
(This is some old art from last year)
You should say "In a rush to get to the beach early, are you?" and "a speeding ticket"
As for the joke, I don't understand at all. Is it that they spend their vacations busting people closer to the beach?
oh you know me. hint: i proofread
I don't get it
His art is pedo trash. He's ColdFusion
I'm not sure how to translate the joke into English on this one, mostly because I don't see many cases of this on American TV in comparison to our local culture. The joke is that they are corrupt cops. They are excited for the vacation period because that means they can stop people for speeding and similar small violations to get bribes. That's why the "give us a little help to help you", that's pretty much what they tell you here.
Ah so it's like vacation for the citizens = hunting season open for the cops
Not sure how you would tweak it maybe I'm just dumb
Ohhh crooked cops. I should have thought of that right away, I know exactly how that is in tacoland and it comes up in several of the webcomics I read made by mexibros.
Well see, now, I could help you get that joke across better, but one aspect that is never quite going to work is the idea that -on their vacation- they can go get bribes, but can't the rest of the time.
unless in the prior panel he was like "you know what that means!" and maybe to hammer it home even more unsubtly the other say "we can stop.." etc.. playing it straight, whatever.
But the logic of it is never going to come across, I think. It doesn't really make sense that crooked cops wait until a designated vacation period to act crookedly.
ColdFusion is actually a pretty good guy who has done nothing wrong and you should stop bullying him, you monster. ColdFusion is a real man, not a beta manlet like you!
Yes
Oh wait, okay, so the joke is that during vacation time, more people commit traffic crimes, meaning more opportunities to pull people over (and thus get bribes) ?? because if that's the gag, then the major issue is the police dispatcher announcing 'our' vacation period.. that's just misleading if it isn't meant to be the actual cops' vacation time (which now that i think of it, would never be a thing)
Yeah exactly that. Is kind of a whole cop thing so that's why they are all "our anticipated vacation period! Have fun!", part of the joke is the misleading bit. They don't get vacations themselves but the citizens do, so anything goes.
Is not that they can't get bribes any other time of the year, but more like on vacation period people get even more careless with the driving rules so they have more prey to hunt.
Yeah that's one part of the joke. The major issue you mention was intentional. The reader thinks is just the cops getting vacations and then going "wait these guys don't get vacations" while they reach the last panel.
Might could try that. If'n I think of something, I'll let you know. This particular one, though, isn't really doing much for me. Only when someone was talking about animal mech pilots did I have any interest, and then only in doing drawings.
Ahhh so the ideal structure of the joke is one of misleading you into thinking it's cop vacation time, and then you realize it is actually everyone else's usual vacation time
The fact that neither of those is really a thing is getting in the way of me helping think of a good way to do that, I'm afraid. but if the third panel had 'ch-ching!' in it, that would help
also I forgot to say you misspelled period
Yeah I noticed the typo on period right after posting it, I fixed it for now.
Ah back to actually making the joke work (?) yeah I think I fucked up by saying "our vacation period" instead of "the vacation period", that would sound more ambiguous and work better I think. I may add some more straight reference to actually getting the bribe if I want this to work on English, again in Spanish it is kinda easier because it's pretty much daily life but seems cops are more regulated on the other side of the border.
What we typically say in (american) english is "Vacation season" if we do say it at all. In british english it'd be something about holiday time I think, that's what they tend to say. here that sounds like it refers to christmas.
But yeah while we may not nearly have your problem with cops and narcos, we do still have a concept of crooked cops, so it should be no problem. Just have them lay on the corruption even thicker, riiight from the start.
actually I thought of a fantastic pun you can use that works in english. to "kick back" is to relax, as you would on vacation, but "kickbacks" are also bribes given to officials (granted that's more of a mayor thing, but still). So you could end one panel with "kickback time!" and it would be misleading slightly
some concept art for an antagonist for a webcomic I'm working on.
The webcomic in question was originally going to just be just 4-6 panel purely comedic strips, but I suck at writing those and I enjoy writing larger plots much more.
Kek that pun is actually perfect! It fits really nice on the beginning for the misleading yet keep it kinda straight. Alright I will get to rework these dialogues, thanks for the help!
ooh, we need to get you and Dustin together in the same thread sometime to compare notes.
hey that's a cute mélusine!
You got that idea from spongebob.
Not that guy, but I've never watched spengberb and I know I've seen the idea of an anglerfish-like monster with a lure that works better for intelligent species by looking like something a little more complicated than a worm.. in at least a few different stories. Hell, Futurama had one, didn't it?
oh and then there was that weird cat in adventure time that had small invisible segments of its body and a tongue shaped like a smaller, cuter, more normal cat that he just used to ... well, just to be fucking weird, as I recall.
I don't love it either, but I'm biased because I'm horrible at drawing anything action-related.
If someone wanted to write some kind of slice-of-life, love story type of thing I would be down. But with a lack of a deadline I'll say it again--I'm here to disappoint.
Something is occurring to me that people in the post-apocalypse might be using cartoons (including the older sense, as in comic strips) to educate themselves about animals that no longer exist.. something funny about a misconception, confusion as to how elephants could have lived on peanuts and how dogs only ate the bones of their prey
I knew the concept was inspired by something else I saw, just didn't remember where it was from.
>dustin
I don't go in these threads very often so I dunno who that is. care to explain?
polished values, kinda
Guy that draws a comic called Urchin. Takes that kind of cartoon style to an even further extent, and has a lot of neato monsters.
Alright fixed a bit, I think it is more straight on the whole bribe thing now. I hope using a hyphen doesn't break any rules if it is for a pun's sake.
TRAITOR!
Looking nice so far. I really like your work with the grayscale overall.
A hyphen is the perfect way to do that, actually. It creates the right amount of ambiguity. Some people probably still aren't going to get it, but the only way to make it clearer would be one last bubble at the bottom, the blue guy saying "sweet, sweet kickbacks" or something. and at that point you've kinda put a run in the joke's nylons, so it's probably best to leave it as is
plz be my artist gf
Get it down to three pages and have it on my desk before the deadline. I can see where it's going... Maybe a grandfather telling his grandchildren about his favorites. Throw in a three-legged dog and I think we've got a tear-jerker.
Thanks! my monitor is screwed up, so I don't actually know if it looks good or not to other people
>VACATIOOOONS!!!
I laughed because it reminded me of my fobby mom. It would probably be better read without the 's'.
Here's a wip.
Saudra explains what's been currently happening in her life, jack demands a backstory, saudra's about to start but then remembers that she's starved so celest suggests that she could make some- Angel suggests to go out to Burger-O's to eat.
They go, leaving Celest in the dust.
Fair point. This is one of those cases where I have trouble knowing which word can stay as plural in English, since we actually almost never use the singular version of the word. We always say "vacations", in fact I think I have never heard anybody say "vacation".
I don't think that would work quite right, the subtle change in meaning of vacation would no longer really apply to 'people on their way to the beach that we can bust'
I just realized another way you could sort of do it, that might be a hat on a hat at this point
If during the car-leap one was like "look out, vacationers, here we come" and at this point you still think they mean "here we come to join you" and then you realize oh
>"look out, vacationers, here we come"
>tfw I actually imagined the scenario of them really going on a vacation
>it can only end awkwardly or on a disaster
My poor cops can't be this carefree.
That actually doesn't sound bad for a change instead of using the VACATIONS line I had. I will give it to some test audience (aka friends I can spam my comics to) and see how it all sticks. Thanks for all the help everyone!
>a hat on a hat
Is this a TF2 reference?!
Joking aside this sounds like an expression that would work wonders there, but I guess it has been done already.
I heard it on mike tyson mysteries, but the analogy kind of speaks for itself. Something superfluous, doing a job that has already been done.
Alrighty final fix for the night. Seems it really is a hat on a hat, people seemed to like it better with this than with the previous line it had.
Also a friend said I could make the "$" sign I added on "small fee" green just for more money jokes, so I went with it. Subtle though, I don't want to leave anyone bugged with a weird green in the middle of a word balloon.
Excellent. This is working now.
And the best part is, IF the joke were to fail, it would fall the other way, so to speak. Which is good, because it works in that direction. If the reader doesn't ever fall for the conceit that the cops were going to be on vacation themselves, the fact that they're THIS EXCITED to go get some bribes is still both inherently funny and ironically funny as it makes it a sort of vacation for them.
Basically your two-legged joke is now putting more weight on the stronger leg.
doodling a character that will sometimes appear in the future, trying to get her looks right. I wanted to convey a sense of gentleness and benevolence.
Well her face already gives away that vibe of gentleness. The clothes are very sketchy but I can see it's some kind of robe, which are always good for this characters.
Hit that out of the park. She looks like she leapt right off of a coin.
I have never seen anyone wear that kind of aegis and not be benevolent. You know why? Can't fight in that thing. Even if it was really flexible cloth, it would get in the way of extending your arms forward to hit someone, and it SURE as hell wouldn't be fun or easy to draw the cloth folding. Plus, you'll never have an action figure with that outfit. Nowhere to put the arm joints. That means you have to be a pacifist.
To anybody hosting their webcomic on tumblr, what is the deal with having pages divided in many pics instead of uploading the whole page as a single pic? Is it because of loading issues or just aesthetics?
because it doesn't show up right on your dash if its not multiple photos, so you have to break it up. you miss the opportunity to grab new readers attention through your readers reblogging. if its one giant image that is shrunken down because of tumblr's shitty image management then people will mostly ignore it.
tfw dewd is better than me at comics and if i make a comic people will probably think i'm a dumb tard on coldfusion's level
It is pretty easy to be better than dewd. Just keep on drawing and learn how to draw legs.
i'm worried about my writing and people disliking me as a person for the most part. my spaghetti is going to make me the most hated person in comics, i'm positive of this.
You have to be pretty fucking dumb to be as low as CF, if you keep push yourself, practice, and take criticism to heart you're already above him
Just try your best, and have fun with your comic. Maybe someone will like your writing.
And remember to study on your art.
nigga u already know what NOT to be like, just dont be like him
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corrected some issues, still playing around with it. focusing on the clothing now tho.
Wow, you are so good. I hope you start writing your comic.
already did. I was told to focus my art on a specific style more fit for a younger female audience. so i'm studying korean fashion
oh...
Then link me to your comic.
its written! not made. I'm pretty close tho, sorry.
i thought you already made a ton of pages?
There is no forgiveness.
Kinematic touches on a range of delicate subjects such as visually impairedness, unemployment, and Robotics and personal redemption.
I want the readers to feel like they can relate to the story in a personal level with out them feeling like they are being preached to about these issues.
For this reason making the right intro is not easy, specially when it could potentially alienate or loose credibility so easily. I feel this story requires a lot of personal insight and careful consideration.
This is why I'm taking my time. This is project is a reflection of my experiences with my loved ones being legally blind... So please be patient as I too want to make this project come true the right way.
Excuse the typos. Need sleep.
some art for my comic, way behind on everything
Yesterday's page. This is the best car I have ever draw in my entire life, how the fuck am I going to top this? What was I even thinking when decided to make a chase sequence? Luckily I have a couple of pages while they learn what's happening an get a car for themselves.
Dead cat trolling, is that you?
I draw sketch cards when exhibiting at comic conventions. A large stationers should have packets of blank A6 cards or postcards you can use to draw on (maybe even A5), though most people would probably prefer something A4/US letter sized. Use either single loose sheets of paper, or a sketchpad with easily detachable pages (as in your picture).
Get a multipack of sharpies or other markers.
Have some pre-drawn samples available.
Be prepared to do a lot of portraits and/or caricatures. See what setup other caricaturists have.
Be prepared to have people looking over your shoulder (and commenting) on what you're drawing.
Be prepared to adjust your prices on the fly.
Be fast. Good drawn quickly is better than excellent drawn slowly. At a convention you can tell people to come back later to pick up their sketch, but no-one will want to do that standing in the street.
For online, a tumblr full of fanart will get people to notice you. But you'll need to produce a colossal amount of pictures to get the all important follows. Reblogs are better than likes for publicity purposes.
The balloon for Dialogue 2b in Panel 1 needs to be larger to give the text more space, especially when compared to every other balloon on the page.
"She would make" or "She'd make".
That is a good car though. The next ones will be better; you can do it.
yea, hope my art has improved since then. it was kind of embarrassing
>you'd think it was sweet
dude
dude no
You're falling into a trap of "coloring" things while working in greyscale. It doesn't work. All it does is messing up values and making it hard to focus on things you should focus on. You're not good at coloring, are you?
There's no reason to actually fill the clothes with a tone, nor is there any need to do the same for the windows. Clothes should be recognizable by just patterns and some blacks (blonde cat's shirt) and there are other ways to make glass recognizable; with a see-through glass (windows) it's especially easy - just lightly draw what's on the other side.
Even with almost no text I manage to fuck the grammar. That's what I get for staying up till 4am I guess. The balloons are my Achilles' heel, I have to be more conscious of them, but I think I'll overcome them soon.
Thanks for the encouragement mate, I'll try my best.
Coloring takes me an obscene amount of time, and I'm still not very confident in my ability to make textures and make the page work with pure black, so that's why I'm using greys. I'm slowly working toward it thoug, so maybe when chapter two starts I'll drop the greys.
Quick comic.
What would be the best place to upload a light novel-ish kind of project?
Like a mix between an LN and Captain Underpants
>fuck panel borders, amirite
>shi-tan-nime-comics.blogspot.com
shi-tan-nime-comics.blogspot.com
The case of the dokuza~ Despite these normie characters, something creepy will happened! And the dokuza is not a fucking drink. Its read right to left, because i dont want to be filthy gaijin forever....
I have returned with a company name! And holy fuck, im still really bad at drawing. One thing i have learned is, if you want to be comic artist, never practice shit that isnt comic making. This is the, OFFICAL. Sup Forums. PROMOTION. PAGE. meaning once when i create another 5 pages of the comic, i will go back and edit to post on Sup Forums again. Why? Well, combining all the panels into one would be impractical, and my comic is unworthy to take up 5 posts in this thread. Sup Forums might be wondering
>you took this long for something this shit
yus. yus i have. i had to over come my dignity and depression; and come to the realization i might be spending the next 20 years of muh life posting shitty comics on Sup Forums
enjoy. And, i know there are flaws. But i hope i can absorb all your criticism one day make "quality" content, and not become a meme here. Just by clicking the link, you give me the courage to go on, because i can view my site statistics!
wow, so this is the origin of taokaka
very cool. Counter terrorists win.
heh heh. Nice. This is just like these police one shots ive read but with furries.
im not sure if this is an inside joke, but as a pleb like me, i have no idea what the fuck i just read.