/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4553673
Link to youe comic?

>>4554358
It's probably for the dad challenge

I personally need to get a drawing tablet because its gonna suck ass with paper

>>4553673
Fuck you jackass.

If I ever want to draw something like pic related do I have to start doing painting studies? Or will sticking to line drawing + rendering alone be okay? Like how hard is it to guesstimate lighting effects?

>>4554414
Not shitting at all just simply

>draw rocks for one week, at least four hours a day
>draw apartment buildings for one week, at least four hours a day
>draw bridges for one week, at least four hours a day
>draw misc urban stuff for one week, at least four hours a day

do this while learning composition and you'll get like 2/4 there

>>4554424
>Four hours a day
Damn, that would be like 2 bridges every hour for me

>>4554409
why so aggressive?

>>4554414
just hire assistants

Here's my comic, was for my last college project, day in your life during quarantine. It's the first time I've done a comic so please crit

>>4554414
God his art is so soulless.

>>4555164
I have trouble understanding what's going on there

>>4555164
Yeah, for now focus on the "5W1H" rule. Who, What, Where, When, Why, How. I know its basic but you need it. It's difficult to understand what's going on. Didn't even realize there were 2 main characters at first.

Yes I am 60 pages in.

>>4554414
just break it up into simple shapes

>>4554358
I dont have the thing in a gallery yet. Ive got maybe 4 pages till this chapter is done.

>>4555164
It helps alot to think about each panel as a shot from a movie. Try to study some shot composition and imagine youre the director of a film trying to get the audience to see something specific. After that id suggest setting up the panels less rigid. Think, "is my audience reading this on a phone? laptop? paperback?" and adjust the panels in a way that pushes attention where you want it to go. Like a rail car.

>>4555200
Simp

>>4555237
French, i see. Cool its trad.

>>4554405
Its not for dad. Dont care about dad one bit. This is more a series of one off pilot chapters ive been making.
Heres a different one i did quite some time ago.
https://imgur.com/gallery/hjA2QZQ

Made this mock-up page a while back to practice. Sorry for shitty pic, it's all I have on my phone.

>>4553673
I have ideas of cool drawings that I want to do involving motorcycles and fights and stuff like that, but I can't come up with a comic story to shoehorn my drawing ideas into. Any tips?

I feel like all my comic ideas are boring, how do I make an exciting comic?

>>4555385
Read books and comics while thinking about how the stories are paced.

>>4555229
Thanks for the crit. I tried answer some of those. Had time change from me going to and from work and tried set up that I work across from my house. Because a couple of you didn't get it it's supposed to be me going to work getting stopped by the gardai, doing random shit like weeding because there's fuck all customers and then going home. It's supposed to show the real situation where I'm earning less while working that my girlfriend is getting from the government every week because the cinema she works in is closed. It's a 3 page comic so I wouldn't really call the gardai or my girlfriend a main character but there are 3 in it all together. Now that you hopefully get the context are there any straight forward things I could change to put it across better or is it more to just keep those in mind more next time. I appreciate the crit though

>>4555258
I'll try better next time, I did try keep It in mind but I can see what you mean

>>4555373
when will you finish it?

>>4555385
make a fanfic from an existing universe.

>>4555642
I like how its shaping up. good intro page.

>>4555692

>>4555689
Thanks, I made this while still learning how to digital.
Almost finished with 35 pages now

I’m not really sure what I want to make

>>4555785
the writing is probably the strongest part from what I can tell. internal monologues are pretty hard to make interesting.

>>4555570
I think the simplest way to make it clearer would be the use of colors. The walls of your appartment have the same color as the sky when the guard stopped you. The window of your appartment has the same color as the floor where you are gardening. Just that small change would it more clear for the eyes.

This is one of my favorites so far, even tho i still cringe at the dialogue when i read it.

>>4555642

Hey, keep it up man. Fyi, you spelled efficiently wrong in the last panel.

Im in the very early stages and was wondering if it's better to plan out big scenes and build inbetweens leading up to them (pretty much focussing the story on select, detailed images and the rest kinda flowing towards them) or if I should design every thumbnail or page as it's individual scene.

Right now I am leaning towards
>Set important moments and flesh em out a bit
>Lay em in a page, design pages with minor story flow before and after it
So lets say I have X stepping out of a plane on page 1 and I want to have a big impact shot of him getting slammed in the head by a skeleton hooligan as the next big impact shot. I develop these to a presentable stage and after focus on filling in the gaps
Would this be a proper way to do it? I feel like I get lost in the details and unimportant bits and I design the story page by page and spend way too much time thinking way too hard about the minor thumbnails instead of the bigger picture. I still don't really have something I feel comfortable with pushing towards the presentable stage.

>>4557502
To add another question to this, how do you guys deal with designs?
I want to have some characters that I'll have fun drawing long term so I am mostly focused on that but do you just say "fuck it lets go with this" after a while and develop it as the story goes and maybe add in minor changes that you would've liked in hindsight later on during a moment of peace or do you really hold on to your original design that you decided to go with?

I finally began writing the idea I've had in my head and now that I have to come up with design for characters and places I feel like for the first time in my life I'm drawing with a purpose, it feels really good.

>>4557847
Nice anon. Welcome to soul country. Now make sure you stay there

I'll throw up my four most recent pages. This is the first time I've had to make relatively complex landscapes and/or buildings, and I'm pleased with how it's turning out as a first real attempt, but I can't shake the feeling that it all looks like dollhouses.

Regardless, I've made a ton of progress in the past 1.5 years I've been working on it. You can check it out here:

http://concord-initiative.com/

>>4558127

>>4558132

It’s an attempt

Beg here, what are the major differences in panelling and flow between manga and american comics? I want to do flow based no dialogue scenes in my comic for school and I am not sure if they will work since my comic has around 15/20 pages.

@ZanmillerART on Instagram likes underaged girls

>>4558244
>Beg here, what are the major differences in panelling and flow between manga and american comics?
American comics usually have way too much text, and bad paneling, while manga is more like a movie. American paneling is very static compared to manga.

Manga also has more inner dialogue, about inner conflicts, while american comics are more superficial, more about detailed art, rather than about "soul".

>>4558257
Who doesn't?

>>4558271
Yeah manga has inner conflicts of anime tiddies

Started some inks on a few pages I've got done to start building up that buffer.

>>4558271
Cringe.

>>4558271
What about french-belgian comics? Even when text-heavy and compressed they tende to have nice panelling and flow

>>4558136
>>4558132
>>4558130
>>4558127
God damn your art has come a long way, these last two panels look fantastic and I can see some massive gains in your fundamentals even while keeping things heavily stylized. Keep up the great work, cant wait to see where this goes

>>4558244
murican comics usually have more panels and more words. while japanese pages sometimes just have a couple panels in a page. this is cause murican ones are printed on bigger paper and there are only 22 pages per pricy comic compared to a manga so they have to fit more story into less pages

>>4558583
Americans also have way more time. They often can spend a whole week on a single page, while mangaka often have to churn out 20 pages per week.

That's why manga has a lot more tempo and a much better flow, while american comics feel more like an illustration with text.

Where do you all post your comics at?

>>4558944
Tapas and Webtoon are the normal choices. But I think it's worth it to learn how to start and run your own site.

>>4558434
Thank you! I'm rather pleased myself.

>>4553673
The secret /ic/ discord link is https://discord.gg/vbTmrx
It has to stay hidden or (((discord))) will shut it down. As far as discord knows, it's an Australian Roblox themed server....
..

>>4555527
Execution always trumps ideas, dude. It doesn't really matter what you're doing, just do it well. Nothing has ever truly been carried by its premise.

>>4559214
Same thing about character design. There are many acclaimed series that have characters that look designed by 5 year olds. If the character is properly written his looks don't matter.

This thread made me realize the pandemia killed Tophatturtles

>>4555164
The first one made me laugh, i like how depressingly funny it is. The only critic is that i can't understand the second and last strip.

>>4555385

Wow, you're a kick ass artist. Got a blog?

>>4559280
anon....

>>4559287

dude I must be really missing something, was that not your work?

>>4559289
No

>>4555679
maybe this weekend. I need inking practice so I might make blue line copies to work on.

>>4559290

Oo, well anyway mate I hope that you *do* get around to making kick ass motorcycle fight art. In terms of writing, I would recommend figuring out some sort of prompt that you can write from. Basically, you need to figure out one thing after another until the whole story's tapestry really just weaves itself.

For starters, you'll have motorcycles fighting. The logical questions that you then have to answer is "who is fighting, where are they fighting, why are they fighting", and so on. With each new element that you create, you'll need to keep asking questions until you've got some semblance to a story.

Then, figure out characters, if you haven't already. Give them simple, easy to understand motivations, and some good personality traits, and one bad one, for example.

From there, you'll be pretty easily able to place your characters in the arcs of your story. Now that you've placed them, figure out what they'll say. Conversations can seem really hard, but as long as what they say makes sense for their character and is something that's semi logical, it should be fine.

From there, start drafting models, figuring out settings, frames, etc. More detail stuff. By this point the detail stuff should be easy to pick out and it's mostly leg work.

The main focus of your comic sounds like kick ass motorcycle fights, so keep that in mind. Don't lose sight of what's inspiring you, basically.

Any questions? I'm not an expert, but I dabble.

>>4559280
Looks like Kim Jung Gi.

>>4555385
Maybe you can piece some things together based on what you want to include?
For instance motorcycles are for traveling, so you're going to have to give the characters a reason to travel. Maybe picking up/delivering something/one, a race? Running from pursuers as they surface from time to time trying to accomplish some goal? Trying to get to a far away safe zone? Start throwing around some scenarios and you might be able to fill in more details and connect some dots.

Does anyone here have any tips on drawing for the Webtoon and Tapas format? I really want to make a comic and upload it there and I've never drawn one in that way before.
How do you go about doing your layouts? How do you size it? If it matters, I use CSP. I'll probably look for a how to video on youtube too but it never hurts to have more info.

>>4555244
Quite possibly one of the worst redlines I've ever seen

>>4559640
Bro, people don't have mouths on their cheekbones. Lasso tool drag that shit to where the fucking mouth should be.

>>4559549
Not a redline. It's a simplified approach.

>>4558289
That's a good looking background. How long did it take ya.

>>4553673
Pup and kit

https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=207315&articleNo=15

>>4559843
Another short i made...

SK8

https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/detail?titleNo=207315&articleNo=1

>>4555200
nigga what?

>>4555200
How is one's art so bad and so good at the same time

>>4559937
Great paneling, low effort illustration. See also: Togashi Yoshihiro

I'm only a few pages in and I'm already stuck. I think I bit more than I could chew, and should have gone for something much more simple and short instead. I keep redrawing panels and rewriting dialogue and always cringe at them

>>4559946

>>4559845
Love this.

>>4554414
This is Garbage of shit

The author will Bury all the S Class hero, They will all look weak ass bitches!

>>4553673
that is one pathetically weak onomatopoeia bro

you know fucking loud guns are, how the bright muzzle fire blinds you? put some power into it

>>4560001
You are wrong.

>>4560116
>gunfire with the same font as a small click
no
if you wanna include onomatopoeia, do it properly
I'd prefer no text over this wriggly, skinny, lowercase-y "Bang"

>>4560119
I disagree.

>>4560181
... mind saying why?

>>4560185
Yes.

>>4558289
Best guy here

>>4558359
DUHHH CRINGE!!

>>4553673
The /ic/ hidden discord link https://discord.gg/B5QXC2s
It has to stay hidden or discord will shut it down. As far as discord knows it's an Australian Roblox themed server.

>>4559946
The style looks good, but I don't like the abundant use of red and blue. It looks good in panel three but shit in panel one

>>4558244
>Beg here, what are the major differences in panelling and flow between manga and american comics?
Well for starters, American comics have no flow at all. They're a collection of illustrations that vaguely relate to a scene.

>>4560837
weeb

>>4555164
lmao I started at a pizza place part-time and worked 3 shifts before this shit started and I've been raking in the 350 every week since. Respect though man, I wouldn't be arsed.

>>4560793
Wheres the panels or text? Is this even a story?

>>4560837
Weeb

>>4559457
I personally don't size my comics for webtoons. I like to format it at the usual 11X17 page format for printing purposes. But you can find a plethora of how-to's on youtube for sizing for webtoons/vertical comic hosting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iUJYmJWj8

>>4559811
Thanks anon. I want to say around a good 2-3 hours in total for the whole page. (pencils to inks). But it helped that I had the rough already drawn out on a separate file. I just refined the sketch a bit, and went in with inks.

>>4559947
>>4559946
Loving the colors on this. You don't have a script ready? or at the very least an outline of events?

Found this, made 5 years ago.

>>4561266
That's pretty funny. You got anything recent? Or at least some concept to show? I'd like to see where you lie 5 years from that.

I tried but I can’t get a good flow...

>>4561234
Thanks anon, this was exactly what I needed to get me started! This guy has some great videos for all the formatting specifics.

>>4561431
Leave space between panels. Gives them room to breathe.

>>4561864
what this Anon said. Also, you can try putting more variation in your character poses and perspective. It looks way too flat since they're all just facing the front.

It's not really a comic, more part of an animation but this has been part of a story I've been thinking of for a long time.

>>4553673
I did this like 2 months ago.

Two separate comics. How do you guys come up with anything worth writing, all I can make is cringe depressing shit

>>4562265
>How do you guys come up with anything worth writing, all I can make is cringe depressing shit
By not being a cringe le depressed artist type. Don't like your life? Treat writing as escapism. Doesn't mean what you're writing has to be all sunshine and rainbows, but try to make something that isn't just depicting reality.

>>456226
fair enough. i guess im just curious how you turn escapism into a coherent narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

>>4562272
Well, the same way anyone else would. This is a very difficult task, with books and schooling dedicated to this.
There's the usual advice: start with an idea, figure out how you want it to end then work backwards and so on, but really no matter how you do it it'll be annoying.
I don't know if this will help you at all but personally there's one work I've been thinking up for years and years now, that I know what beats I want to hit with it and how each plot thread will end from memory. Every other thing I try to make I feel like I constantly forget shit about it, but this project sticks in my head for some reason. So, uh I guess if I had any advice, try to find something that sticks in your head and it won't feel like you're trying to force ideas, I guess.

>>4562272
meant for >>4562268

>>4562274
well, that actually helps a bit. I guess the idea that sticks in my head feels way too ambitious for my current skill level, or work ethic. Everybody suggests start small, but i dont have so many stories as just settings id like to depict but dont know where to go with.

>>4562281
>well, that actually helps a bit. I guess the idea that sticks in my head feels way too ambitious for my current skill level, or work ethic
Haha, likewise man. I don't really have any advice here. Gotta just suck it up and make some sacrificial lamb works first to build expertise.
Maybe try to think of an idea, doesn't have to be an amazing idea, just something you think mite b cool, then just build on that. Don't get too attached to it, it's just something for you to hone your skills on.
To give you an example, instead of working on my "big idea", I instead am working on a lesser-idea that I still kind of like. It started from thinking "man why aren't there any comfy SoL series set in and around a wizard's tower?" and has since evolved beyond being recognizable as coming from that seed... so, I guess, look for "seeds" of ideas then grow them into something.
"How about an isekai... in space... and the main character is a serial killer!"
"What if an old-timey fisherman went on a high-tech submarine adventure?"
"Aliens invade the middle ages!"
You know, vague concepts like this that you can imagine lots of different ways it can go, then just think of how you'd like that scenario to end and work backwards from there. Or start from how it begins and build to a conclusion, or whatever.

If you're asking exactly how you should do that, then idk lol. Write it in a notepad, scribble sketches, whatever. I don't really have a method that just werks because personally I'm a lazy note-maker and most of the shit I write down gets invalidated the next time I have an idea of what whatever I'm thinking of is gonna be.

>>4562302
Forgot to mention that one-shots are perfect for "sacrificial lambs" built around a single concept. You take an idea, fiddle with it until it's something you can make something out of, then through together a 20-50 page one-shot of it, then review your work and see what you failed at and try to improve.
Jumping into a series will achieve two things: 1. you will quickly grow and improve as a comic creator and 2. you will just as quickly notice how fucking bad the beginning of your series was. Then it's up to you whether you want to keep going anyway, go back and re-do the beginning before you continue or just stop completely and come back to it in the future (or never).

Here's one of my attempts. Question for you anons. How do you know when and where to place your screentones? It usually takes me a while to figure out where to place them because they look weird. Like in the second panel where the windows are. I wasn't sure to place a screentone there, or make it all black, or cross hatch it. Any advice?

>>4562265
I'm like to take something from personal life "what I already know or am familiar with" and then fit it into an unfamiliar setting.
for eg. a past job or a phobia or memory, and then adapt it into a fantasy or scifi setting, and expand on that.
goodluck!

>>4562384
Why was she teleported from the city on the last pannel? The transition between the city and the outskirts is not obvious.
https://youtu.be/AyIOZSR08zQ?t=1040
In the video, he makes a simillar apocalyptic cityscape. Screentone in the first panel depicts the center, where the main characters are. Windows and other details are simply filled with black.

>>4561268
Thanks. Unfortunately I barely draw, I most just doodle here and there. I drew a lot 10-5 years ago when webcomics were still a huge thing.

>>4560842
It's a nice job though. Get to slack off alot cuz I'm on my own, my boss is chill and I work 10 seconds away from my house. Getting less than 350 while working suuuucks though. Only good thing is that when the economy crashes I've basically got job security whereas done if my friends might lose their jobs

Just added some shadows to practice with them. I'll be taking people crit into account on my next attempt at a comic. For now though this guy is done. Have any of you had good luck with ctrl+paint because I've decided I wanna work on fundamentals more. Plan is ctrl+paint and the Scott how to draw perspective book

>>4555164
>>4562700
>''men toiling at a job while a roasty on OnlyFans makes bank bending over in yoga pants'' the comic

kek

>>4562482
I tried to make it a sort of walking montage through the city. How would I go about doing it without it looking like she's teleporting?

>>4562384
My guy out here copy pasting cars
I like it thi

>>4562748
Man i fucking hate drawing vehicles. It was a lazy thing to do, but I can't stand drawing them.

>>4562741
Maybe change the last panel, either split it in two parts "city-suburb" and "suburb-outskirts", or simply make the cityscape on the left side much bigger, half or even more of the panel space so the reader would know that she is still very close to the city.

>>4562754
Yeah, I should've probably made the cityscape bigger. Looking back though, I think a better fix would be to have a shot of the outskirts without the girl. And then another panel with the girl in the outskirts zoomed in more. I was trying to go for a 28 days later opening thing with the wide city shots.

>>4562265
>have a story to tell
>tell it
Simple as that bro

Anyone willing to help me hash out part of my story? It's a subject I'm not too familiar with and not easily researched on my own.

Basically I need a way for this kid to end up getting tricked or coerced by a hacker into going somewhere that he ends up dying, perhaps by human traffickers or organ thieves, maybe a stalker and serial killer? I'm not sure about the hacking part, whether they'd just mislead him or sell info that the killers use to trick him or something. I need help piecing together specifically how a hacker or info thief would lead him to get killed.

>>4563168
What is your character’s motivations? What would motivate him to risk it all to get duped in the end? Does he care about someone to think “oh shit he/she’s in trouble! I’d better do as this hacker known as 4chan says!” Or does he have any drives? You should flesh out your boy Yuichi a bit more. Give him something to care about that would reflect the story.

>>4559945
Yep panneling is often more important than goods art in manga/comics imo.

Also look up Matsumoto Jiro for exemples of simple drawings but amazing paneling (pic related)

>>4563168
write
what
you
know

>>4563181
Well that's part of the issue. Since I don't really know what someone could do to manipulate someone remotely like this, I can't put his reasons in place. His baseline has enough there that I think could be used by someone, for instance they could threaten his family or his dad's business. He's a student trying to either get into college or maybe go into an internship, so it could be as simple as being sent a fake email to meet for an interview. But I don't know everything a hacker or anyone who'd be plotting something like this could or would do so I just want some suggestions of ways they might go about manipulating him to get me started.

>>4563323
I am, but that doesn't mean I'm never going to include something incidentally that I might need to research a little. Like if I had a scene where a character uses a gun and I ask "hey what kind of gun do you think would be best for __" I don't think that'd be a big deal. This is on that level. It's a small part of what gets the ball rolling, but hacking and deep web shit or whatever isn't remotely the focus of the story.

>>4563332
Watch the black mirror episode based around a similar premise. Forget the name but a teenager and a bunch of others are blackmailed by hackers to do shit. Think it's called face the music or dance or something?

>>4563719
Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Actually while I'm at it I'll check out some Mr Robot too, that's about hacking right? All I need is something plausible and interesting, I don't need to go into much detail and accuracy of the actual hacking, but I heard at least Robot has some fairly believable depictions of it.
Thanks anon.

>>4563728
The black mirror ep is good because its pretty realistic. Basic way most of this shit happens is either through phishing, people installing dodgy apps that give camera access or some other shit like password guessing. Then they get photos of you naked or texts of you cheating or webcam vids of you jerking off and threaten to release them unless they get paid of the person does x

>>4562265
Read some of the classics. Feed your brain with good shit and it will be easier to produce good shit.

>>4563733
Ah good, sounds like I was pretty much on the right train of thought then. I'll give a look into how they portray it and go from there, but this has already given me a couple good specific ideas of what it should be so thanks again.

I was planning on making a bait-and-switch gag comic about a boy who pretty much lives in the world of a preschool show but then ends up growing into an edgy teenager who becomes sick and tired of everybody's overly happy attitude.
Before I knew it, I was adding backgrounds and screentones (which look horrible when uploaded to a png) and now I'm just thinking about turning the comic into something else since I've put in way more effort than I was originally intending to do.

>>4558289
How much do you prep for a page? And how long do you design or do you just go with the first thing that pops up?

>>4558378
BDs aren't American. Each panel moves the story along. There's none of this characters standing around while a book page's worth of text is stuffed into a single panel.

>>4559937
ONE has a great eye for design and composition. It's the difference between a drawing that "seems" bad and one that actually "is" bad.

>>4563262
i think this is more a style thing, he's done more complex stuff and his skill is actually amazing imo. although he was criticized by one mangaka who he worked with as an assistant for being too sloppy with the screentones.

>>4564385
Yes, exactly. Only American comics do this.

>>4564119
r34 of the mom when

I spent today laying out some test panels to upload on Webtoon, feels good. This vertical format will definitely take getting used to but I think I can do a lot with it.

>>4564160
For each chapter, I write out my outline first. I make it into a list of events that happen within the story. Then I break it down and type out a script. It doesn't have to be a super detailed script, so long as it lists the actions and dialogue so that I can have a reference to go back to.

Then I draw out my thumbnail, pencils, inks etc.

As far as prepping goes, when I'm writing out my script, I usually have a clear idea of how each panel will look. I may change a few things like position of characters, or camera angles, but the basic idea is laid out during the thumbnails. After that it's just execution.

>>4564119
The graffiti kids are cool.

>>4563168
Maybe the hacker knows something Yuichi doesn't want others to know and blackmails him, like a compromising video, nudes or proof he did something illegal.

>>4553673
A comic within the world of my story based on a boy who made an offensive tiktok.
I apologize for the low quality

>>4565117
Wrong image

Only 3 more pages to go. I started this 5 page mini comic so long ago and them just forgot about it

>>4562265
Fisher?

>>4562384
Make a gradient of screen tones like a grayscale gradient. Then use screen tones like you would grayscale.

>>4564119
Soul

>>4565305
>>4565314
Gold

>>4555385
Biker paladins in a far future nestworld (think BLAME but with more roads). Fighting robots, mutants and other stuff in search for the Grail.

>>4563332
The easiest way is just to hack the kinds computer/phone with all the porn history and then ask him to do something simple and not dangerous at a first glance. Hell, maybe it wasn't even supposed to be dangerous. Say a kid must pick up a packet at the post office which hacker can't take himself as his face is on a wanted list. Then he must bring the packet somewhere where hacker can later take it. This place is in some remote location and when kid get there he meets a serial killer in the process of murdering someone. Which wasn't supposed to be there of course but hacker is sitting in his basement and kinda has a lousy grasp on the outside world at times.

So serial killer murders the kid.

>>4565623
Oh I like this scenario a lot, mainly because it made me think of the whole thing differently. I've been seeing it as someone having hired the hacker to get the kid to a certain spot but I couldn't think of any reasons they'd target him I thought would be compelling to readers.
But I want the hacker guy to have kind of a shitty history so maybe instead, he has to go meet up with people who are pissed at him, that maybe he owes money to, so he coerces this kid to go in his place and they kill him because they think its the hacker guy. I'm thinking that brings all the characters way more into the story, they all felt a little disconnected from the events to me before. Thank you!

Just got into to thread to tell that i hate comic books

>>4565653
I’ve been drawing comics for 8 years. I hate it too

>>4563168
it's simple, anon. catfish your character.

the hacker is pretending to be a cute girl online, and your character falls for her. then the hacker convinces the guy to come visit, and bada bing bada boom he ends up murdered.

>>4564119
This eminates high powerlevels of soul. On par or even surpassing dorf fort bro.

>>4565746
That's a good suggestion, I think I've pretty much gotten it settled now though. I'll be back if I get stuck on the details of another part.

Really want to emulate Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s style. How long does it usually take you anons to draw up a comic page from prep to final inks? A few hours? A day?

I'm ass at coloring. I don't actually have anything scripted yet since I'm still doing concept stuff but I had a scene I wanted to sketch. I didn't really get to work on lettering yet.

I want to do the 10 pages comic for dad but i dont know if i can reach that. I have a lots of sketches of it, this one for example. First version i drew is about a guy talking with his psychologist about his chilhood traumas. now i started from scratch and im trying to do my best for being a bit more dynamic with narrative and expressions.

>>4553673
i made this for fun

>>4564119
i really like it !

>>4569135
Depends on the page for me

Made a quick sample page to see what I need to work on before I go make a full short story.
Still messing a bit with styles/use and the use of black/lines

>>4572747
Nigga calm the fuck down with your layout, everything is shaking and spilling out of frames without any rhytm to it.

>>4553673
Here is my comic. Tell me what you think.

>>4573039
Yea, wen't a bit overboard on this one and in hindsight a bit inconsistent with style. Wanted to cram too much into a single page

>>4569582
really like the exaggeration here with the proportions.The folds and wrinkles on the old man are crisp too.

>>4573330
Cute artstyle, can you post your blog?

>>4573330
?????

>>4557500
Checked and spell checked.
Thanks for catching that, anon. I'll go back and fix it

>>4558289
Glad to see youre still working on it after all this time. Lost the link and forgot the name about a year ago. Pretty fun reading

>>4565413
yep

My shit isn't that great but here

>>4572747
Looks dynamic and rad to me. Only bit that sticks out poorly is the elfin ears in the last panel.

>>4558244
Scott McCloud's books on comics explain the difference really well, I'd recommend you give them a read.

Can't remember if it's Understanding Comics or Making Comics that goes over manga, but they're both a solid read anyways. You can find the PDFs around here somewhere.

>>4562255
I very much like the tone of the first two panels.
The problem might lie in the pacing/paneling.
Am i supposed to read left to right or other way?
How and why does the third panel fit in?
It's very hard to read as a standalone page and would even confuse me as a regular comic.

Just been drawing random single pages for practice lately. Trying to work up to doing 3-5 page stories soon.

>>4575213
i rike it

>>4560793
In space, no one can hear you BYLLAT

>>4564119
reminds me of late 2000s era 3angledblue/weaver

>>4576993
Seconding this. Would also recommend Will Eisner’s book on comics.

>>4554405
What’s dad?

>>4554424
how do I learn composition ?

>>4555200
I like One's art but don't you dare diss daddy Murata

>>4559640
>>4559640
Good gravy, anon. That Sonic the Hedgehog sidemouth is super wack.
It's probably best if you ditch it altogether, except for 3/4 angles where a character is facing more towards the camera than they are to the side. Horikoshi's method of drawing mouths would be pretty well suited to this style, study that guy.

>>4575213
This is quite enjoyable.

>>4564119
>"Morning!" "morning." "moo."
Ahh, this warms me cold dead heart, brings a smile to me dry, cracked lips, and a sparkle into me hollow, empty eyesockets.

It's like I'm witnessing the good old drawfags of yore. It's beautiful.

I just don't know what to draw in the last panel. I hate this. The space is too small for me to draw the characters nicely, but I also can't just draw another random background shot.

>>4555792
make something and youll find out

on hiatus, but open to roast
https://tapas.io/series/maxim

I'm trying

>>4581203
I kek'd.

>>4581203
Context?

>>4581218
Thank you. Comic is pretty dark but it has its moments.

>>4581228
>Context?
He really fucking hates oni.
https://tapas.io/episode/1272284
Sharing the link in this board is embarrassing because the art was downright terrible for most of it.

>>4560793

Over 100 pages for my 2nd chapter.

I'm going back to drawing lewd shit comics take way to long

https://tapas.io/series/NARCOLEPTOMAN

>>4580250
>>4579898

https://imgur.com/gallery/ciRLkk5
heres this one story im working on, you can see the failure dripping off the pages

another native story about a mask but im not that far into it

>>4581727

>>4582132
Oooooh dang I'm liking this one already

>>4582132
Are you the artist who drew that animal crossing comic ?

I'm posting one on Webtoon right now, it called "The Brain That Just Won't Die".

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-brain-that-just-wont-die-b/list?title_no=435821

>>4582170
Here's another pannel.

>>4582142
thanks
>>4582144
sorry, you have the wrong person.

>>4576993
I think Making Comics discusses a bit about how manga uses atmosphere and aspect-to-aspeft transitions in paneling. McCloud should absolutely publish a book exclusively on manga technique and particularly -- narrative (ki-sho-ten-ketsu and how that form changes over a variety of genres). Manga is simply more diverse in storytelling, Western writers would benefit from learning about Asian day-in-the-life and psychological dramas.

>>4582132
Small critique, when she's breaking the guy's arm, instead of punching the more natural motion would be a hammer fist strike using the side of the hand.
Or- depending on how strong she is- for more intimidation points she could simply break his forearm or wrist by twisting her hand and applying pressure from her thumb and fingers, as seen in this crappy diagram.

>>4582170
>>4582172
It's pretty good anon also
>9$
Already beating a bunch of webtoon artists lol

>>4555385
Boomers spend kids college fund on bike garage

>>4582211
pretty sexy stuff anon but I like women's fingers to be a bit more delicate

>>4555247
hey anon, could u give me one of ur socials? I rly like the way u structure u pages and ur art work. If u ever decide to make a full blown comic, I'd love to see it.

https://tapas.io/series/BaDoom
or
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/badoom/list?title_no=302822

if you want uwu

>>4582548
he is infected too isn't he

>>4582896
you'll have to read on to find out bad spoiler anon!

>>4581718
can someone see anything coherent in this, its been a wip for a while and just wanted to hear someones thoughts on it. its really hard to get criticism about putting ideas onto paper.

>>4553673
I published mine. It costs $3, but it's reviewed pretty well.

>>4581016
Pretty cool stuff, I just read the chapter with the image you posted and the one before, didn't really see the connection but I guess it was a flashback. You should keep going

>>4553673
My first webcomic, drawn during the free time I had in Grad school. It's a short read.
https://tapas.io/episode/474974

>>4560793
its бyдyщee, not бyдyщиe. and there were no such mottos on soviet stations.

>>4554414
>maximum destruction
>There is not even a scratch on the houses
this detail makes me doubt what happens

>>4565305
>>4565314
Holy shit, blog?

>>4554414
does she wear panties?

>>4585257
https://mila-mm.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/Quietscheente4

mood page

>>4553673
A horror/adventure webcomic I made a few years ago. 30 pages. Please give it a look and let me know what you think
https://tapas.io/episode/798958

>>4555164
>those houses
>that Garda uniform
>Ronan

Hello fellow irishfag

>>4589494
Really nice painting but please make the dividers straight, the reason it’s done is to contrast the typically organic shapes in art so that panel delineation is clear.
But I do love the painting, I need to get better god damn
Also maybe it’s deliberate but I’d advise editing the lower panel so that the hill from the second panel doesn’t look like it’s sliding into the bank on the third panel.

>>4589620
Read it, not bad, but the racism bit seems pretty out of place.

Not one of my most recent pages, but one I'm pretty happy with. I haven't updated it in like, a year. Feel like I hit some sort of art rut. Spent the past year drawing lewds instead of the comic every time I got the drawing bug. And while my lewds have gotten better, my comic has completely staled progression.

Even went so far as to get the first volume printed, just to be able to say "Yeah, I followed through on the first step of this project."
https://i.imgur.com/puqvRiv.jpg

>>4553673
https://mangadex.org/chapter/899064/1

I don't usually make comics, actually, it's been years since I made one. I found a work flow that means I can make simple pages quickly. Anyway, I thinking about a game I used to play in the 90s called Turok Dinosaur Hunter and I thought I'd start a little fan fic about it. Page 1/5

>>4596670
2/5

>>4596672
3/5

>>4596673
4/5

>>4596676
5/5

I have 2 currently running now. Art is pretty subpar but I think I've been getting better

>>4596825
And here's the other one.

>>4594420
That's a fair criticism. I don't think that I was ever able to work it in organically.
If I were to do it again, I'd probably remove it.

>>4553673

>>4598828
"What are you doing, step-bro?"

>>4583862
Doing a free book giveway. It's an action/adventure story inspired by Legend of Zelda and Samurai Jack, with a bit of a Kirby approach to action.

Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Midia-Boluwatife-Oriowo-ebook/dp/B07XTLY3KZ

>>4564119
This is soooooooooo good!!!!! Thanks for making me depressed asshole

>>4582304
its me, @juste_VU

>>4600319
10/10

Did this for fun.