#comicme

[bernie-buddy]

#sverige #svenska #å #comic #comicm

[abyssalzones]

What's your comic writing process like? I'm starting to get into making my own comics and I really admire your work!!! Any advice?

Ah, intrepid traveler, you've done well to journey to this secluded mountaintop spire, in search of the answers you seek. I indeed can provide such forbidden comicmancy knowledge... at the cost of your mortal soul...

coughs. anyway, I'm going to warn you immediately that what works for me does not work for everyone else, and in my experience the way I do things can prove very slow and discouraging for anyone who is more interested in the actual "drawing the damn comic" part of the process. I only do it this way because I enjoy weaving a narrative web that feels not only fully contained but re-readable, but my projects are often so long and my memory so shitty that I can't just keep all of it in my head! It would spill all over the place and make a really embarrassing mess of brain-juice. Not ideal.

but as for my own process, uhh... I suppose a comic would be fitting, right?

a little choppy but you get the idea.

as for turning words into art, I've been experimenting with figuring out the best way to do that for a little while now. Originally what I was doing for something like Ad Astra Per Aspera was to take my "script" and sketch it out on paper very loosely, before transposing that onto my canvas and working from there:

...but, I've found that can make it kind of difficult to space everything around on your standard page-size, and the thing I'm having the most problems with currently seems to be finding the sweet spot of panel-size proportions. So, I've taken to printing out standard thumbnail templates (you can just find these on google) and sketching very tiny panels in those, which seems to give me a slightly better sense of scale... (mild chapter 5 spoilers, sorry ad astra fans)

but I have yet to totally pull through on this, so who knows, maybe I'll try something else in the future!

As for advice, this is probably most applicable to me, but as a disabled artist I have a very hard time managing my workload without literally working myself into injury. I don't think I talked about this publicly but when I was working on that ten year anniversary comic I was literally drawing every single day for 3 solid months. Sometimes, in my case, I really can't bring myself to stop once I've latched onto an idea, and sometimes I find the most rewarding thing I can do with my time is to draw- but I seriously cannot overstate: Do not fucking do this.

You will fuck up your wrist, your back, your neck, your eyes, and probably your mental health. It's a well-known fact that mangaka have a lower life expectancy than the average japanese person due to the intense workload imposed on them by deadlines and personal expectations. Comics are a very demanding artform, and even though I'm not on any sort of mandated schedule there are times where I've toiled away at something when I likely should have been exercising or taking vision-breaks. Therefore the best advice I can give you is to chill the hell out.

Namely, find parts of the process you can be lazy about, and embrace the laziness! You don't like digitally sketching? Don't do it! Skip it, or maybe find a way to traditionally sketch things out in advance like I do. Hate lineart? Don't fucking do it. You really don't feel like wasting your time writing 72k words of comic scripts? ...then, don't be like me. skip that part. I'm a flawed human being and what works for me might not work for you.

The second most important piece of advice I could give is to read comics. Of all kinds. The reason for this is pretty self explanatory: In order to figure out your own comic-making style, you should first pick out bits and pieces from the artist's buffet to add to your plate. Manga, graphic novels, american comics, european comics, weird niche little webcomics, funny papers, anything and everything. This advice rings true of pretty much any art form, but I find it to be essential to honing comic-making skills because so many things you feel will just come intuitively often don't. and that's okay! nobody is born knowing how to leave space for speech bubbles or shape their panels in a way that imitates stretches of time. The best way to figure out stuff like this, in my experience, is to study the "masters", and then after becoming well accustomed to the basics, figure out what rules you want to bend or break to create your own style.

I consider myself to be in equal parts a writer and an artist, which lends itself well to making narrative comics, but maybe you're a bit more of an artist and want to focus on panel-by-panel visual storytelling. Or, conversely, maybe your talents lean closer towards writing, and the art itself is more of a secondary skill. Regardless of your unique blend of talents you can and should make a comic, you should just also be aware of your strengths and try to hone in on those- there will always be opportunities to build up skills you lack, but focusing on what you do best will always lead you in the right direction.

Anyway, that being said, here are some recommendations in no particular order:

Monster, Naoki Urasawa (!!)

Bone, Jeff Smith

Witch Hat Atelier, Kamome Shirahama

The first IDW run of Transformers comics (namely More Than Meets the Eye and Lost Light)

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (!!)

Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (really any Emily Carroll comics)

Kill Six Billion Demons (webcomic) (!!)

Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo

The Third Person, Emma Grove

Tintin, Hergé (can be super racist please be wary)

Dungeon Meshi, Ryoko Kui

Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson

Maus, Art Spiegelman

Cucumber Quest (webcomic)

Jellyfish Princess, Akiko Higashimura

Golden Kamuy, Satoru Noda (!!)

Note that I did not grow up with manga so I am seriously behind on a lot of extremely influential japanese comics such as Dragon Ball, One Piece, basically any of the original Shonen Jump comics, but they're widely considered building blocks of the genre so if you love the artform I think you should give them a try! Same goes for classic non-shonen manga genres like various Shoujo, Josei, Yuri, Gekiga, ETC.

same as above applies to a lot of classic DC and Marvel works, I unfortunately am just not a big fan of superhero comics... but I'm sure there's good stuff in there. a couple of my mutuals talk about booster gold and the blue beetle all the time so I'm assuming there has to be something worthwhile.

...and many, many, many more that I'm forgetting! I noticed as I made this list that, to my knowledge, hardly any of these are made by black or just non-japanese-mangaka BIPOC artists, which makes me sad about the gaps in my own comic collection. Therefore, anyone is welcome to add their own recommendations in the replies!

now go forth, and combine images with text!!!!!!!!!!!

#lab notes #long post #lab creations #askbox #not hiding all this shit under a readmore. look at my advice #hopefully this helps ? I'm not a professional and I'm still fairly new to making comics but this is what I've found works for me #I'll add alt text to this later! very busy right now!

[druidshollow]

druid what the fuck go to sleep

i had to..... i ahd to ... pos comicm

[maiji]

This is a super fun collaborative/interactive project I got to work on with many of my lovely comicmates in the SpiderForest Webcomic Collective! 

We each picked a Tarot card and illustrated it with characters from our webcomic. The cards were then compiled into a banner for our Sept news along with a bunch of Tarot readings. 

The Ten of Cups is such a warm and cozy card of happiness and contentment with people you love. I thought it would be a perfect fit with my dear found family of robots from Now Recharging - who are welcoming you to join them in their fun!

Check out all of the cards here - and get a fun reading!

Aaand if you're looking for awesome new stories to read (for free!) take a look at the webcomics of the participating artists at the link above. There are even more fantastic SpiderForest webcomics here!

Many thanks to @lucylyall (creator of the splendidly thought-provoking supernatural webcomic Spare Keys for Strange Doors) and @delphina2k (creator of the brilliantly worlds-hopping fantasy webcomic Sombulus) for conceiving, organizing and implementing this!

#tarot #ten of cups #robots #androids #comics #webcomics #spiderforest #art by maiji/mary huang #now recharging

[delphina2k]

My comicmates over at @screentonescast and @webcomiclibrary have a #NewYearNewComic hashtag event going today for anyone whose resolution is to READ MORE COMICS! Mine's called Sombulus, and it follows a feisty paladin, a magic scavenger idiot, and a cute inventor who got magically superglued together. They must search the surreal Myriad Worlds for a solution (and stay out of trouble along the way!) Lots of Discworld-ish humor and big emotions! 📚 Read Sombulus free at https://www.sombulus.com

#NewYearNewComic #Sombulus #webcomics #indie comics

[heavenseraph]

Sorry for reading the Scott Pilgrim comicm book 12 years after you asked

#czz

[carlosilva87]

Sometimes it's good to look the other way. #comicaapp #comicme #thoughtstomyself https://www.instagram.com/p/CHU-uFhnuNt3JdIY4UZbyJF_3x2mDvIQTpqzno0/?igshid=zyi33kh3y5vc

#comicaapp #comicme #thoughtstomyself

[vickglampshous]

💕Me as a cartoon character. Yassss, I love it:-) #cartoonchracter#comicme#comicchracter#amimeme#animeart#animegirl#animeedits#animeart#animedrawing#animeworld#cartoonfilter#cartoons#cartoonart#cartoon#cartoonface#cartooning#cartoonist#cartoonoftheday#cartoonstyle#cartoonnetwork#cartoon3d#cartoonprofilepic#cartoon3d#cartoonofinstagram#cartoonofme https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ-gqN8AaEN/?utm_medium=tumblr

#cartoonchracter #comicme #comicchracter #amimeme #animeart #animegirl #animeedits #animedrawing #animeworld #cartoonfilter #cartoons #cartoonart #cartoon #cartoonface #cartooning #cartoonist #cartoonoftheday #cartoonstyle #cartoonnetwork #cartoon3d #cartoonprofilepic #cartoonofinstagram #cartoonofme

[kevinpichette]

It’s me… sort of. . . . #drawing #me #spokaneartist #spokanearts #spokaneart #digitalartist #digitalillustration #illustration #comicme #sketch #procreateart #ipadart #dailydrawing #dailydrawings #artvsartist #caricature #caricaturemyself #myself (at Spokane, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPUqoQDBEg7/?utm_medium=tumblr

#drawing #me #spokaneartist #spokanearts #spokaneart #digitalartist #digitalillustration #illustration #comicme #sketch #procreateart #ipadart #dailydrawing #dailydrawings #artvsartist #caricature #caricaturemyself #myself

[supermilich]

Did you guys and girls know that I have a band? No? Now you know. I am the singer. If you wanna call that stuff singin. Selfie number 85 of #100drawnselfies hope you enjoy it 🙃 #singer #band #progressivemetal #il #illustration #germanillustrator #germanartist #zeichner #polychromos #cartoonme #comicme #comicselfie #selfie #selfportrait #karikatur #quillustration #drawmequi #toonmeup #fabercastell #fürth (hier: Fürth, Germany)

#quillustration #100drawnselfies #comicselfie #selfportrait #band #polychromos #zeichner #toonmeup #progressivemetal #cartoonme #karikatur #germanartist #fabercastell #selfie #illustration #comicme #il #drawmequi #singer #fürth #germanillustrator

[scottycckk6-blog]

Comic me😂😂😂😂😂!!!! #instatoon #comicme #cartoonme https://www.instagram.com/p/B-GKTtMAz7C9QAmIWuyXgAlPbISWH6cWMCGpHs0/?igshid=15lrpbol55kno

#instatoon #comicme #cartoonme

[10alex01]

Today I made my last update for my webcomic, Comic-Me. It's sad but also liberating in a way. Strange way to start the new year I know. #webcomic #webtoon #webtoons #comic-me #comicme https://www.instagram.com/p/B6zShqtjsK7/?igshid=u23sr52e5i3n

#webcomic #webtoon #webtoons #comic #comicme

[comma57]

one more game.

#EXPLODESSWS you dont undesyand omg i #heehee. i wanna draw tht comicm another thing for the backburner mein gott mondieu good lird etc

[delphina2k]

A Year in Sombulus 2022: Comic, meme, and doodle highlights from 2022

IT'S DONE! My yearly Sombulus review! ✨ Along with a few big milestones, fan art from my comicmates, and highlights from the amazing Sombulus community in the comments and Discord, you'll find a blend of my favorite 2022 memes, concepts, and never-before-seen Sombulus sketches. Enjoy, everyone! https://www.dropbox.com/s/mvxmelktchp0n3w/Sombulus2022Review.pdf?dl=0

#sombulus #webcomics #yearbook

[tillman]

ok lunch ordered... class sat through.... im gonna do my art homework and eat and then pass the FUCK out 

#txt #m so tired ... im soooo tired #i gota nother page of the comicm sketched out while in class at least

[plasticsandwich]

hrgrrnggnnrnnn,,,,,,, , ,,, , ,,,, ,, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

#thinkin abt.... . ... my comicm.... .. .. . . .. . . . . . . #diary