The idea of drawing a comic book has never appealed to me much because one reads comics so quickly—- the time it takes to produce the art is 100s of times the time it takes to consume. But This is a rather shallow and vain way to look at it I’ve realized. Thinking about the way I keep thinking back on the comics I’ve read- over and over. The way the images and the few words stay with you is warming me up to the idea. 1/
@futurebird It is time consuming, & not great if you have perfectionist tendencies like me. But it goes more smoothly if
Make steady daily progress. 15 min/day > 105 min on weekends. It’s much harder to get in the flow when you have to figure out where you are every time. Plus the 15 is a minimum, itcan easily be longer on individual days.
Plan. Everything. Out. That means Script, Thumbnails, Pencils, Inks, Text, etc.
Welcome to #WebcomicTalk. Our topic this week is "role models." Two questions remain.
Question 4: "Would you be willing to put yourself out there as a resource and mentor for newer webcomic creators? How might you help?"
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End up handing out specific links a lot, especially when I see creators saying "I want to make my own website, but I don't know where to start."
In the era of search engines serving pages of links to shallow SEO-bait articles that all make the same 5 generic points, it's so easy to miss that you can still get helpful, in-depth walkthroughs somewhere. But they're out here!