so this is the official /hyw/, or, more importantly, How's Your Webcomic thread. Please don't mind the picture in the OP, because the original poster of the thread apparently disappeared.
How's your webcomic
Other urls found in this thread:
boysland.thewebcomic.com
angelfirehime.tumblr.com
twitter.com
Been dead for 9 years now. Thanks for asking!
I'm slightly drunk so please don't hold that against me.
-drunken OP
Why have you been dead?
Seriously, WHY IS THERE NO /hyw/ THREAD?!
user, would you delete this and start a new one if I find you a link to the previous thread with the right images?
there's also one in /ic/ right now but I wouldn't take that seriously
just in case
Juggling two threads is ungainly.
I would, but note I'm on mobile and hella drunk, so that limits my abilities.
We're on /ic/ now. This thread on Sup Forums is just the ColdFusion general.
well I appreciate it anyway
and seeing as you at least put "how's your webcomic" in so people can search that on the catalog, it could be worse.
I leave it to the next threadmaker whether to consider this #420 or #421
Funny, that's what /ic/ said.
How many generals does cf need?
I'm told there was one on Sup Forums once
well I'm still just gonna post this here
So you're telling me that these threads died because the dude who originally posted these threads gave up, and not because of mod faggotry?!
What the fuck?!
I like this duochromery. Really makes everything easy to make out. I still remember when your stuff was muddled and hard to discern.
ohhh the title! he said the title of the comic!!!
>half as many posters as the /ic/ thread
I'm going with the majority on this one, see you guys there.
Webcomic creators are all about giving up. Did you expect him to spend his whole life creating threads or something?
Every so often someone forgets or neglects to make a thread. Often it's because a thread dies late at night so making a new one right away seems odd. It's not always the same person (I made the last legitimate one and a maybe 20 or 30 more but that's it) but we do have some responsible regulars.
Yeah, but it's been TWO DAYS. You'd think someone would take up the mantle in that time....
We're still here. C'mon guys. /hyw/ might be dead, but you guys aren't and neither are your comics!
They did. You missed it.
I'd link it for you but I can't seem to find it myself.
>two days
user there was a thread just a few hours ago.
>boysland
Sexist chauvinistic pig
i want to make a webcomic but i dont know how to art
im not interested in making doodles either, it has to be good enough the art where its not stick figures
The first step is to draw with a goal.
The second step is to reflect on your shortcomings.
The third step is mustering the will to try again.
Do these three things and never stop and eventually you will be good at art.
step 2 doesnt help if i dont know how to literally draw better
interesting. I think most of us decided we wanted to do webcomics because we were already good at drawing (or mistakenly thought we were)
what is it that motivates you?
Well then where was that thread when I searched for it?! I usually just type in "webcom" into the search prompt and the new /hyw/ is right there. Did I fuck up by making this thread?
its just something thats always been in the back of my mind
i wantto make a nice little adventure series about dungeon crawling and funny shit going on
Alas, its topic was just "hyw"
I normally search for 'webco' too. and i'm not the only one, someone else said the same thing in that thread.
Makes sense. Have you considered other media, such as simple games or animations using sprites, or just writing a book? Or maybe doing a little audio play on youtube?
You're on a computer.
There are infinite examples of people doing it right a twitch of your finger away, whether in the shape of anatomical atlases, photos of nude models, masterpieces of comics, concept art, illustration, abstract or what have you.
Just a quick jaunt over to /ic/ will have you drowning in weeks worth of reading and years worth of practice on the subject.
Compare the result you want with the result you're getting and revise your process accordingly.
im a programmer, ive done game devving as a hobby and occosional stupid videos on youtube
but those really dont fulfill that little niche need of having created my own little world exactly the way i envision
You got us!
No, but seriously, the title is of plot importance. We just haven't gotten to it yet. (But in this arc, yo!) We also got some leading ladies coming to the forefront as time goes on. As for now it's really just Tats, ursa, and Benny. But keep an eye out.
Mmm I hear that. There's nothing quite like things being hand-crafted and totally customized.
However, as someone starting out drawing, you might find it less exhausting if you have to do less art. Then as you get better, you might be more ready for a full-on comic. But I don't know you and your attention span, it's entirely possible you really could start now and start improving
this thread was never meant to be. let it die
>/ic/
>unironically shilling your false hyw thread in the true thread
I'm trying to do a daily adventure comic. I figured I would use characters I've already made for other stories, in this comic format. Kind of like they're actors.
I'm also attempting to use a more traditional style of inking, and using a limited color pallet.
The /hyw/ pasta doesn't have any significant art resources. I was talking about the entirety of /ic/.
You can find things like Loomis, Bridgman, Vilppu, even Scott Robertson's How To Draw and How To Render in their stickies and resource threads. It's not an exaggeration to say that it would take you years of serious practice to internalize all of the concepts.
>I figured I would use characters I've already made for other stories, in this comic format. Kind of like they're actors.
That's how a lot of the greats do it.
The inking doesn't look very traditional right now, it's super extra digital-looking. The colors are definitely neat, though it's slightly odd to have skin represented by white when several shades of red and pink are available. I would think it would at least be white with pink shadows.
I think they got burnt out since someone started begging for the threads to die in the last post of every thread.
Nah, he's been like that for years.
The cutesy elements of the style kind of clash with the rest of it, but the art looks okay. The drawing skill > the presented art
>I figured I would use characters I've already made for other stories, in this comic format. Kind of like they're actors
I think this only works if people know who your characters are, unless you mean you're just reusing the designs.
We have extremely devoted shitposters
>The /hyw/ pasta doesn't have any significant art resources.
Then why does it exist?
tradition!
it has SOME art resources. perhaps it needs updating. Last thread someone suggested adding drawabox
It has other useful things.
Paper wings and invisible ink are excellent primers on writing stories.
I figured as much. The last two posts I saw of the last thread were "let it die" and "alright".
That's just one person, two max, just shitting up every thread
Wouldn't it be better to use this as an opportunity to make a new thread boom by posting your comics as separate threads, and abandoning aggregation threads like these?
This way more people would actually see your comics since nobody actually comes into these threads except other webcomic amateurs trying to get noticed themselves, and it'd increase the overall webcomic presence on the board exponentially so it isn't all the same generals every day, ostensibly increasing the quality of the board?
really demotivated recently, feeling incredibly tired/lazy
slowly chugging along though, I don't feel like giving up
>The inking doesn't look very traditional right now, it's super extra digital-looking
I'm trying to use Kyle's Photoshop brushes, It's one of my goals to start learning and using techniques of people who make comics that I like.
I was thinking about doing style studies, and doing the daily comic in that style, maybe even change the comic style for a few-days to a week.
>this only works if people know who your characters are
I was thinking of actually introducing my characters this way so people can start to recognize them. And so people can get to know their personality a bit.
Then I was going to release their actual comics in the future. I have a lot of characters from stories that aren't ready to be put out there yet.
I just figured that I work so much on my stuff but don't post it, that if I focused my energy on something like this. I could actually have something to show people. And get the opportunity to get feedback.
>pic is the one I did yesterday
I can sort of see where you're going with that, but can you honestly imagine a dozen individual Sup Forums threads about everyone's webcomic? all bumping to try to stay up for more than a few minutes?
here we go, this one looks more pencil-ish.
Here's a (You)
That would legitimately be a better alternative than what you have going right now. It may seem nice, but it's essentially a feedback loop chamber where you can neither get other people to legitimately absorb your work on its own, or have a meaningful and organic community growth around your work without it being attatched to this pre existing one. It's not healthy to stay stuck in a cave forever.
I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade or try to bring anyone down, but I'm saying it as an honest observation and piece of advice: you guys really actually would benefit from killing these threads and just posting individually, until it's normalized enough by multiple people that nobody is afraid of doing it. Think of all the successful webcomic generals, they all involve the creator basically showing their work and interacting with people in their own threads on public terms, and many niche smaller ones even manage to start enough of a following to get financed through those threads.
Doesn't it sound good to try and do that, instead of stagnating here and only getting shoulder pats from friendlies? Do any of you want to find success in your art?
>you guys really actually would benefit from killing these threads and just posting individually
People on Sup Forums hate shilling, I'd rather keep it to one thread.
You're objectively wrong. It's not difficult at all to show how these threads have helped people grow.
People posting individual comic threads would never normalize, it would become a bigger and bigger annoyance.
>Think of all the successful webcomic generals
That didn't take long. I can only think of one.
>shoulder pats
>friendlies
What threads have you been watching?
Advertising is against the rules, in case you weren't familiar with them.
Can you be stupid somewhere else?
Someone must have complimented his art and didn't see the spelling mistakes or whatever.
You only think that because you haven't actually done it or seen people do it successfully, because it doesn't come off as shilling if you're upfront about it. The it hurts, prequel, poppy o possum, K6BD threads all had their creators always coming in and talking directly to people, engaging with people, being honest about wanting to show their work to people, because it's really not shilling if it's a free fucking comic, man. I've shown my art around whenever the subject comes up in unrelated threads and I always get a positive response from people and get new followers. It's legitimately an easy and better way to showcase your comic boldly like that than it is to hide away in a safe spot like this.
You think you like it because it makes you feel comfortable, but that's the opposite of what growing as an artist is, man, you've got to grow out of your comfort zone and do stuff you'd rather not, at least to try and see what happens. Challenge yourself or else no one will have a reason to give a shit about your art, and you don't want that to be the case if you're doing it for years on end.
You can do whatever you want, man, you're adults. I'm just suggesting what I've seen actually works for people who succeed vs people who just stagnate forever. Just don't end up like the rest of the dobsons, man. Lot of people think they ain't a dobson, but they a dobson, there's a lot of them in these threads and they'll drag you down to keep them company. Be careful.
I heard someone in a thread on /ic/ (not the hyw one but one about webcomics) mention that they once linked their comic in /hyw/ (it didnt look familiar) and he got banned for advertising
The people making Prequel or K6BD threads are not the creators. They're just hoping the creator shows up
>You only think that because you follow rules and don't shill like a faggot.
Correct.
As it should be.
That's a barely enforced rule that's mainly for weird foreign business dudes trying to shill shit to sell, it doesn't apply to free stuff. Hell, I've seen indie devs on Sup Forums get away with it by giving out steam codes, and let's be real, a ton of webcomic generals start out being posted by the authors as anons. If it's free, it ain't advertising, and if it ain't free and you're storytiming your own work, you're a cool guy who doesn't mind piracy and Sup Forums will suck your dick over it.
You're making excuses to stay in a comfort group instead of actually competing for peoples' attention. And if you aren't doing that to begin with, why even make publicly posted fiction in the first place?
>If it's free, it ain't advertising
This is what millenial communists actually believe.
...
>user tries to get everyone else b& for shilling so his is the only webcomic left
Clever
I've heard the steam code shit gets immediately removed
Progress
>"Couldn't you have used white or flesh-tone thread?"
>"It was! A lot of your blood got around...
>all this projecting over following the global rules
No amount of guilt tripping, agenda pushing horseshit is going to convince me that my work needs to be forced onto Sup Forums every second of the day to get attention. Let the work speak for itself, and if it's good enough, people will come to it.
This. how sad would it be if you never found out how popular you were going to get because the threads were all made by you
>"what do you think of my webcomic?"
>1/1/1/10
The fate of 99% of webcomic authors who try to make individual threads.
Lol
Again, you guys can do whatever you want, I'm just telling you what will actually get you a fucking readership, let alone a fanbase. There's a world of difference between helping to make people aware of a thing you're making for free vs intruding on people to tell them to buy something, and you're being dishonest as fuck to pretend it isn't.
I mean really, this exchange is more for other anons who aren't trying to make this failed experiment live. Do you really want no one else to read your stuff except people who don't read it to enjoy it, but out of a sense of communal obligation? No one else but competing amateurs like yourself, who'd like nothing more than for you to go away so they can have the spotlignt? Why share room with people like that, why not share it for people who would actually be interested in reading a good comic, the typical Sup Forums user? What's stopping you from just storytiming something you've made and keep people updated sporadically? Because other people do that to varying degrees of success.
Here? There's no success. You'll just stay the same and basically throw your hard work and effort into the void with no feedback. You know it, I know it, the user I'm responding to knows it.
So just get outta here, man, be free.
Well this is a wip, I block out the foreground and background colors and then shade and put real color in later
If you're so convinced that your method is the best method, then show us. Let us see what happens to a thread that shills itself.
On the subject of personal threads, I had considered storytiming a very short, very old (like 2004-2005 ish old) comic of mine for Halloween, but wasn't sure if that was a faux pas, and then I forgot to do it and now it's November.
Anyone interested?
stay in your containment cell
Again, individual threads for amateur webcomics are destined to die with one, maybe two posts total. At least here, we can get honest critique that will improve our art and writing.
It still might be fun for a special effect sometime. Either way it sounds pretty useful on your end.
How short is short? 10 pages is kind of pushing it unless a thread is really extra dead. Maybe put them up and link us?
well the /ic/ thread got 404d and little if anything was posted there, so I suggest we call this #420
Remember it hurts? He posted his earliest work here. Eventually realized this was an echo chamber and stopped, improved on his own terms, and then did his own comic buffer for a few years posting threads very sporadically until the big reveal. Then he got enough of a following thst the motherfucker was able to sell books and get a ton of fanart and a following.
All because he posted threads outside of this place. There are anons who think that it's the greatest webcomic ever made and I know for a fact some of you can draw better.
You have no excuses here, m8, it's been done successful with flying colors because of persistence, the good sense to know when to post, and good old fashioned work on a finished page instead of forever posting wips.
>He posted his earliest work here
seriously? I thought his comic was much older than that. Not sure what I was basing that on, I just know Dewd is a fan
It got removed because it didn't belong there, but out the goodness of my heart let me leave you with some advice, Y'all motherfuckers need Loomis.
I think any independent art projects belong on /i/c/, but we'd have to expect the infamously strict level of loomising if we were to stick around there. I could do without that.
15 pages and 4 character redesigns. The whole thing is up on my currently neglected old comic snarkive: angelfirehime.tumblr.com
why should there be THIS thread on /ic/ is what i dont understand
they already have their own beginner threads and you can just start a thread if you want an opinion
if some of you are trying to connect or get exposure or shitpost or encourage each other i dont think thats something they want on /ic/
>and I know for a fact some of you can draw better
>and good old fashioned work on a finished page instead of forever posting wips
I commission an artist to draw my comic.
Success doesn't equate with "learning from your mistakes" or producing good content. Katie Rice barely makes $300 a month off Camp Weedonwantcha and it's arguably one of the better webcomics out there. Forcing exposure makes you look more and more like a tool.
You're currently in the right place, but if you actually wanted to improve the art in your work then I encourage you and anyone else to post on /ic/ asking for critique, the writing and things like that don't belong there though.
Although, I sense a lot of people here woudln't actually want to improve and would rather hide behind the guise of "muh style".
why should this thread exist at all?
maybe it shouldn't, i dunno.
It's fun sometimes, and its interesting to see what anons are doing, or talk about the process of creating. ive stopped reading the thread every once in a while because of the shitposting, but ive come back because its interesting to me and my ambitions.
if it's not a constant thing and just happens when it happens thats fine. it seems like there's not enough going on to justify remaking the thread all the time anyway. We've had weekend or monthly threads for other things. i dont know but its not like this is a big deal what the fate of all this is.
Settle this out of court.
I want that girl to sell me goth-themed fast food.
I love how your writing is so much like a guy wrote it, if that makes sense. Like if there were more writers like you, the dumb pre-existing idea wouldn't exist
>mfw 300 dollars a month would help me out tremendously
I think most of us vary depending on our mood. Sometimes we've done a new drawing and want to get some help because we're sure part of it is wrong and would like someone to tell us what it is (and if we're lucky, we get it)
Other times, we're so pent-up from being given advice, slightly frustrated, and finally you "get it" and make a good drawing, and you want to show it off to the people who criticized you before. A healthy desire to show your growth
Then the first thing they say is how you never listen to criticism and your art never changes
It doesn't make sense! As a middle/high school weeblet I would occasionally catch shit for having too many girl characters. Most of my earliest OCs were Mary Sues following all the girly wish fulfillment tropes. When I started making more balanced or mostly-male casts (like Laserwing) my work subtly inched into low key fujoshi bait (like Laserwing).
So I'd be interested in hearing more about the impression my writing gives.