/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3853657]

How's that comic going, /ic/?

[Anonymous No.3853662]

>>3853657

[Anonymous No.3853670]

>>3853657
I started working on it in the hopes of publishing it on webtoon or tapas but then I checked the sites and found out that people only read anime romance or shonen shit on there and that my comic would have no audience so now idk what to do or where to post it.

[Anonymous No.3853671]

>>3853657
comics are usually a wholesome topic in /ic, fuk ur pepe shit...

[Anonymous No.3853673]

>>3853670

Post it anyway. Make your own audience. If you are that weak and easily discouraged you will never get anywhere.

[Anonymous No.3853690]

>>3853657
pretty good desu i'm already at project 7

[Anonymous No.3853691]

Comic is going Pretty good actually. I’m working on the pages tonight. I’ve been slipping on my daily discipline but I’m forcing myself to get back into scheduled nightly drawing time. I do it at night because I have a lot to do during the day. Today I had to drive my friend around because he recently had a stroke. Now I’m getting to work. Probably gonna keep going for another hour or two.

[Anonymous No.3853692]

I ended up taking another career path in life and now just draw art for myself instead of trying to make it big/strike rich with a comic. It's a weird kind of feel, man. I like being able to do art at my own pace. I draw my comic but I do it for me. I haven't really shared it with anyone other than a couple of curious friends and I like it that way. I don't really have to make it marketable or anything, but at the same time, all my life I really thought I was going to be an artist. Now I'm just someone who draws as a hobby. I wonder if the situation were reversed would I maybe be regretting everything and wishing I had gone the money route instead?

[Anonymous No.3853709]

>>3853657
I'm working on 4 oneshots.
>1st oneshot - script fully completed and edited. Panels are already planned. Moving on to character/buildings/scenery designs.
>2nd oneshot - 1/3rd done with the script.
>3rd and 4th oneshot - will have to wait as of the moment


Things are progressing nicely, thanks. Where do I plan to spam my shit? I'll post it on Pixiv and Webtoon. I'll also post the links on a Twitter account that I created to promote my comics. And even if I finish my 1st oneshot early, I won't post it online unless I have atleast 2 other completed oneshots that are also ready for posting, but that's only because I hate nearly-empty galleries with only 1 short work posted in it.

[Anonymous No.3853832]

>>3853657
I'm about to finish page 60. I feel great--I think I made a lot of technical progress over the past 6 months of making it. Still plenty of work to do, but it's been an incredibly rewarding experience. God only knows if it will ever gain any sort of traction, but I'm happy to see that my comic is unique among all the fantasy comics I've seen and reviewed. I love making it; I think everyone should make comics as a learning experience.

[Anonymous No.3853933]

all I've done is write ideas and bits of a script for like a year on top of doodling and drastically changing the main characters. I really need to focus on fundies now, time flies by too fast when you're lost.

[Anonymous No.3853956]

>>3853657
people want to have made a comic more than to be actually making one.

[Anonymous No.3853959]

Making a comic is a meme.

[Anonymous No.3853973]

>>3853657
I'm not going to start it.
Everything I posted online with the characters / setting to test the waters garnered zero interest and I have already experienced working for a year on a project to no avail, so I just can't bring myself to start this one, my last experience was soul shattering. Honestly it's hard to find the motivation to draw anything at all because no matter how hard I work on my ideas and how refined my drawings are, nobody cares.

[Anonymous No.3854116]

>>3853973
I know that feel.
I'm not even bad, either. Every 10000000 drawings I get reblogged by a popular artist and my drawings go from 0-1 likes to 100+.
But that doesn't mean anything, if I get a follower who will never like anything I post ever again, I can consider myself lucky.

D-damn Russian bots liking my art!

[Anonymous No.3854127]

>>3853657
Learning fundies while designing the loli heroine.

My expectations for starting the comic are astronomically low, but I mean its still a motivating goal instead of "just draw shit".

[Anonymous No.3854137]

>>3853973
>>3854116

Do you still have your comic up online? what's the name? perhaps we could tell what happened and why it never got the traction

[Anonymous No.3854141]

>>3854137
I made 3 comics, they're all off the net now along with the handles I used for them. I'd rather not bring up my old accounts and make myself recognizable. I always blamed the fact that these comics weren't well drawn, but now that I am 10x better my concepts still get no traction, there's something wrong with the general mood of my art. If you put my art in the middle of any art that is popular, it just looks off even if quality wise it hold up.

[Anonymous No.3854150]

>>3853657
Glad to see so many anons full of ideas working on stuff!

It's slowly coming along for me. I got the script for my first story mostly done, I have to work hard on the details to make it good now. Got a lot of pages of storyboard already that'll certainly need re-doing.
My skills are still too lacking when it comes to drawing faces and hands so I'm grinding that shit daily now. When I can do that to a satisfying degree I'll just jump into making the comic itself despite being shit at shading and not knowing how to draw half of the shit I intend to draw.

[Anonymous No.3854157]

>>3854141
That's unfortunate. Wish we could see so we'd know if it was the story or really is the art, as you'd say. Anyway, there's no other way but for you to only go up from here. Don't let yourself get rusty.

[Anonymous No.3854160]

>>3854157
*btw that pic related is not the "absolutely must follow rules" when creating stories, but I just thought to post that here, anyway. The number 1 rule especially is very important.

[Anonymous No.3854161]

>>3854157
I always kept those in mind when writing, I love Vonnegut. But my writing is probably just as uninteresting as my art, I am really just meant to work at McDonald's but my ego won't let me admit it.

[Anonymous No.3854187]

>>3853670
post it everywhere you can post it, and make sure you have links to your accounts at the end of your strip. Or if your comic format is not webtoon-style, have a credits page where you have your links and/or email address. It's what the nips do, and it's there for a good reason, especially with webtoons. Webtoons sucks at promoting the artists' non-webtoon accounts with the exception of patreon. And the weird thing with webtoons is that the creators are like ghosts there. What I mean by that is a lot of readers know the titles of what they read or what they subscribed to, but they don't remember the usernames of the creators of the comic they like.

So you get a platform where your readers don't know you, community interaction is limited because there are no forums, and only your patreon is promoted unless you do something about it. Sounds like the perfect ingredients to be known/exist in only one site and not anywhere else.

[Anonymous No.3854206]

>>3853657
Great!
1 down, working on 2 more.
I have a third one I'm being commissioned.
:)

[Anonymous No.3854214]

>>3854206
>commissioned
Sweet! How much per each page?

[Anonymous No.3854221]

>>3853657
The hard part isn't the actual drawing, I've realized that what I should've been studying is how to write an interesting story.

I find myself drawing random comic pages just to practice how to draw a comic. I'll try to come up with a plot for something but my mind is always blank.