HOW'S THAT COMIC COMING ALONG, Sup Forums?

HOW'S THAT COMIC COMING ALONG, Sup Forums?

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Finishing the first issue as we speak. It's about a bunch of sentient robots who run on water. They crash land on an arid post-apocalyptic planet and have to contend with the feral natives while searching in vain for water to fuel themselves and parts to repair their ship. I'll probably dump it on Sup Forums when I'm done.

That sounds pretty cool.

I had something that I was ready to submit to 2000AD, but couldn't quite execute the twist in a way that I felt was satisfying. I'm glad that the submissions period is longer than I expected and I haven't sent it in, because the other day it dawned on me how to tell it in a different way that will let me write the end with the impact I wanted it to have. Now I'm rewriting it.

Thanks! I'm not ready to share the lineart yet, but here's a sketch of the main character I did earlier today.

Taking the LONG route, mate.

It's long.

Were you inspired by Bionicle at all? I'm getting serious Bionicle vibes.

submitted to top shelf, got rejected within 12 hours

My artist is really slow, so I've just got to sit on it.

>the submissions period
wait what? there's a deadline?

Open submissions are until March 2nd.

I published it this summer. It's not very long, but I'm proud of it.

I've been like that with my FS scripts too. It's weird because the Future Shocks that make into the actual comic are really variable so I find it hard to be confident when I've got one I think is good. Sometimes you read them and it's this amazing twist, but others are really wanky and/or lame.

It’s porn so I can’t post it. But it’s going pretty good.

(insert dick joke)

slowly but surely

Have you submitted before? This will be my first and I've been dissatisfied with the ending since I outlined the story, but because I thought the submissions would be open two months at most I just went with it. Finding out it would last much longer was a godsend since I have to do the entire thing over. I'm just worried that once I have it done it'll be the same situation with me muddling the story again.
You can link it if you want.

Doing alright. Started a couple days ago, and already up to page 8 of Teddy Roosevelt Monster Hunter In The Frankenstein Safari.

Yeah, it'll be my first. I was going to last year and backed out for really stupid reasons which made no sense. I have a few stories outlined but am unsure which one to submit, because they only want 1 at a time and I assume the return window will pretty much be the whole submission period due to volume.

Anyone here make animation?
Cause I ain't working on a comic, but I am working on a horror cartoon.

started a few days ago
just figuring some things out rn

Looks sick as hell. Any context?

I need to get my depression sorted out so I can feel again before I can pick drawing shit back up. When I do you better believe I still won't be working on one of my dozen ideas.

>muh depression
Everytime. Go take a walk outside and stop being a baby.

i have a feeling you have file and files of concept art

you're the user doing the halloween streams, right? with the custom animated bumps and stuff

Yep.

looking forward to seeing it m8

when does your stream go up again?

dead man resurrected by ghost dragon to murder other dragons fueled with the power of revenge.

17th, says so on the ad. Plus a blog where it'll be posted on, so as not to necessarily have to make a thread (which would get banned since mods hate streams) or try to find a spooky thread to shill on.

Maybe....

>You can link it if you want.

Sexyversecomics.com

I do animation, right now I'm working on an animated pilot involving Sup Forums...
Right now it's an animatic and 25% done

>involving Sup Forums
Don't do that.

I've been working on it for 9 years and I have the outline mostly done. ;_;

Oh hey, Deviants, I've seen that on sadpanda. That's some good stuff, man.

FUCK MARS INTERSTELLAR RACE WAR NOW

Writefag here, is there any way to seek out artists who would wanna collaborate with you on an idea without coming off like a total asshole? Like, how do you seek out people who'd be interested in drawing a comic that you script without coming off as the "ideas guy" or some other variant of a lazy asshole?

You pay them. Also have an actual script.

If I had money to pay artists with, I wouldn't bee seeking out collaborators, I'd just do everything down to panel formatting and look for who makes the best bid. But I'm shit broke, so I need to finesse around the "money" thing and find guys who are willing to be a part of this from the ground-up.

i saw these kind of thread on Sup Forums for years, and i always shrugged, as i while i do draw porn for a living(somewhat, like 50%) i never had time/motivation to do a proper comic

well, finally i can say i do and it is coming along nicely.

Drawing is a million bajillion times harder than writing.

i actually am looking for an artist for a short story. (in comic pages, it should be around 40)
the genre doesn't matter as long as it is not porn.

However here comes the big problem and why i haven't been able to find someone yet to do that with me: If someone else is the writer, he needs to be better than me the artist. But most "writers" are just people who had an idea and wrote it down instead of actual proper story/dialogue writing with proper research into a matter(for example a sci-fi story needs some occasionally techno babble to look accurate. Everyone can just go ahead and say "it's a time machine" but making it sound convincing is another matter)
In other words, i could do it. If for some reason it won't work out, then just try to show artists that your writing is better than the one of others. Try to make them interested in your story. Stuff like that. Imagine if you were writing a novel and need to advertise to people, make them want to look forward to it. That's how you can get an artist to draw for you without sound like a dick.

I am currently writing a short manga-ish comic with around 30-40 pages, after that i plan on doing anothoer 20ish page long comic for christmas and then it would be nice to try something new by drawing something someone else wrote.

Well, cover

Thank you!

I'm trying to write a script for it, but I keep scrapping it and starting a new one

I just don't know what direction I want to take the comic in

I do both, and writing is way more intensive than drawing.
with drawing, I already know what I want the end result to look like, how the line width should be, the textures, what colors to use to get what mod, and what 'on-model' looks like for each character.
with writing every single word needs to be scrutinized as you go along. which synonym carries the most appropriate subtext. is every single bit of dialogue consistent with the character's voice. do your characters even have distinctive voices or have you gotten sloppy and had everyone sound like the same person for the past two chapters. do you have not enough or too much forshadowing of so and so plot development. have you provided adequate fleshing out of the supporting cast without letting them overstep their role as supporting cast. should your pacing be faster or slower? have you provided this important scene with enough focus and gravity that it sticks in your audience's mind when it informs the character's actions later. does your audience feel like you're building up to something, or does it just feel like a bunch of stuff happening with no rhyme or reason. is this instance of intertextuality appropriate or just cliche. have you established a character's fallibility enough that when they get proven wrong later it doesn't seem like an asspull.
You need to triple guess everything because a botched scene can fuck up a story much more than some botched anatomy or lighting in a single image, and fixing a botched image is just a matter of drawing it again whereas fixing a writing mistake can require redoing dozens of scenes spread throughout your book to avoid plotholes and references to scenes that no longer play out the way they did when you first wrote them

i think the main reason why people think(and i agree) that drawing is more difficult is because technically everyone could write something decent without practice, as we all learn how to write since the first grade. However proper drawings is something you need to go out of your way for several years to learn, and only then you are at best "okay".

Or maybe this.

I have a script written but my drawings are trash though I'm working on improving

Learn how to write a proper script and save up some money, otherwise you're wasting the artist and your own time.

I like it. How are you going to distribute it? I've got a book on gumroad, but self-promotion is a hard road.

In terms of actual hours of physical work, drawing is much more time consuming than writing a comic script. A decent writer can knock out a 23 page script in a day, a solid artist will take at a minimum a week, usually closer to a month. The distribution of labour isn't equal, and if you're claiming otherwise, you don't know what you're talking about.

I actually don't know yet. It's gonna be featured in a magazine, plus digital distribution.

It's a 16 pages short so it's not really meant to get massive returns anyway.

It looks cool. I can definitely think of a few comic pros that would be keen to give it a look.

Unsolicited opinion: of the two I prefer the colours of the first, its got a heavier atmosphere. Both are good, with that kind of Mignola flavour.

It's turning into a novel because I can't find an artist to rope into this project by way of my charisma alone and I can't shell out enough money to convince one to work with me. It's awkward to write something that has science/magic fight scenes in this format, but if I'm good I can make it work.

My first project is a mess but the second one which is very much in its infancy...well, I'm generally just low on ideas and one of the main characters is transgender and I'm afraid of it coming across as diversity shilling even though there's a somewhat good reason for him to be trans. Sigh.

This looks super sick but this font is a little rough on the eyes though in terms of readability, user.

This is the first page. it's not done yet, but it'll give you an idea.

That looks gorgeous user.

mad Mignola vibes here, good shit, user.

Loving it. Is Kirby much of an influence? Love a good cosmic jam.

That looks awesome! Professional and stylish.

Thanks guys.

Yeah Mignola and Kirby are huge influences. I try not to just copy but to use their quirks and make them my own. Mignola especially.

I already started,

You can read it here ->webtoons.com/en/challenge/bongo-and-luna/squeeze-play/viewer?title_no=98650&episode_no=1

>Wanna talk about new bladerunner
>Everyone on Sup Forums hates it

Well...damn

Do you have a tumblr?

I need to get back on my writing. I haven't written in awhile, which is odd because I really enjoy it, but I can't find the motivation. I also have a ton of ideas but I'm not sure if I can get an artist to agree to work on my comic. I know it's possible, believe me, but it doesn't happen very often if you don't pay them, which I'd do, but I'm strapped for cash right now.

Your style is great. I'd love to see you make it big just so I could own a few books with that art.

Writing the first issue now. Hardest part is finding an artist and saving up to pay them

Sup Forums, Sup Forums, and /lit/ are made up of teenagers who define themselves through the media they consume and are terrified of looking like normies, so I wouldn't take their judgement to heart.