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Oh flip, I love process gifs! More of these please, thread. Here's one for an older page of mine.
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SexyBlindfold posted:What are those filters that you do before and after laying the shadows? Is it to give the whole page a more unified tone/palette? The first is just me reducing the opacity of all colour layers to 90% to let the colour underneath show through a little, then there's a texture (usually an old paper type one) laid under the characters and over the backgrounds. And yeah, it's a quick and dirty way to set a tone!
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Personally I really dislike it if a site unexpectedly plays music at me, it screams 90s Geocities site and makes me close the browser very quickly.
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http://www.comicsbeat.com/tolja-tokyopop-is-back-with-publishing-plans/ Good summation, with a lot of links to other articles.
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RobinPierce posted:Not any of the big ones in the last few years, I would have noticed. Well, you sometimes get stray tables at UK cons, if they're less well-attended than MCM or something, but it's not like you can safely rely on there being three of them every single time, and frankly no con organiser I've met would put up with this.
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Jul 5, 2015 00:38
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Agreed. Handlettering looks great, but for many of us it's a time restraint. I will say that I've felt a lot better since I started handlettering sound effects, though, but those are rare enough to be not too huge an investment.
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Jul 7, 2015 18:17
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Readers quite often enjoy seeing the art evolve, too, as long as it's not a drastic change from one page to the next. Never hold yourself back. I don't know about tracing poser models either, that seems like it'd result in some pretty stiff-looking figures. Would love to be proved wrong on that, though.
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Okay, wow. I am really glad that art is making you happy, though like many others I question the wisdom of the crotchless Disney picture as a centrepiece. But Reiley is very much correct, you're going to lose out on a lot of fundamentals if you only trace and don't ever sketch from life to learn the basics of how things are put together. The time you think you're saving from working like this isn't worth skipping all of the lessons that can teach you. Please draw from life. Please don't post Disney porn.
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Jul 28, 2015 09:55
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Making Comics Thread: Poser-traced Precensored Ironic Train Tits
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The fact that it's from Eve Online makes it 300% funnier somehow. Edit: New page: Delta Echo posted:12 hours
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Every now and then I have to dip back into Photoshop to edit a thing and I just can't draw it in any more, compared to Manga Studio it's like dragging a stick through mud.
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Fangz posted:The key to drawing comics is drawing comics. Essentially, yeah! Start out with a couple of small projects, like a short story that's just a few pages long, and work from there.
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Kind of a non-problem. Also, I can't say mobile traffic is exactly overwhelming my own site-
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It's not a requirement, but it helps a lot to get your name out there. And it's not like you have to be a "face", you just say hi to folks. It's the irl version of making online friends who link to you- not 100% necessary, but helpful, and also fun! Cons make up the backbone of my income, kickstarters aside, but it's taken four years of consistently visiting the same 8-12 cons with a new, professionally printed book each year. I'm no salesperson but I've got my short pitch and a smile, which seems to do the trick, and I definitely don't go out of my way to be a "face", but have made friends regardless. There's also no small amount of filtering required to decide which are the right shows for you, which has the right vibe, the right audience, your genre being sold. I've peeled it down to about 6 shows a year that I make a good chunk of change at, and that's my comfortable level. So yes, it's possible to do very well from cons, but definitely tricky.
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Which con is it? They have really different audiences, perhaps someone has done that one before and can help.
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Operation Juicebox posted:London MCM Expo. I'm prepping video game and anime fanart stuff to take. Steven Universe. Ponies. Etc. I expect those to sell far better than any of my comic related stuff. Ah, I've done MCM a couple of years now! As a warning, if you have a Comic Village table, they don't allow fanart sales, but you're fine if you're sharing a dealer table with your buddy. Trinkets go very well at MCM, it's a lot of teenagers after anime bits and bobs, they always head directly to keyrings/buttons etc as if magnetised. Sounds like you've got a friend who knows the ropes but if there's anything else you need to know, I may be able to help! If anyone's in the UK and interested in taking debit cards at cons, Square isn't an option for us, but I've had a lot of luck with an iZettle reader- the cheap one that comes with a wire which plugs into your phone's headphone jack, since the bluetooth connection on the fancier ones gets a bit confused in a big con hall with a lot of other bluetooth devices around. That might just be my old phone being old again, but still, worth mentioning.
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They've been pretty strict about it in the Comic Village area of MCM London for the last two shows and it's certainly not slowed the footfall at all. Heck, I don't think most of the punters even noticed.
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He specifically asked for people to not make money off Undertale, please and thankyou, but who knows how many people will listen.
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He's probably hoping that people might respect a pretty drat reasonable request from a guy who spent years of his life eating ramen and living in a basement while making the thing that you enjoyed so much. I mean, obviously they haven't, if you search for Undertale on redbubble there's a poo poo-ton of awful shirts, but I can't blame him for trying.
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MCM is a heavily anime-based crowd of mostly teens, but the all-original works Comic Village does gangbusters for many people- I regularly sell 100+ books there a turn and I've never done fanart prints since that's not what I'm interested in. Of course, this isn't the case for everyone, there's a lot of factors involved like how many years you've attended, what new stuff you're bringing, quality of the print, etc. We're talking mostly comics and zines here, btw, not so much with prints, though DestinyBlue is constantly swamped with people buying her original prints. If you put good stuff in front of people and they have a whole weekend to look around the con, chances are they'll come have a look. Perhaps the UK scene is somehow very different, but the notion of only being able to turn a profit if you draw My Little Pony isn't entirely true. Edit: Might as well mention that if you pay out for a dealer's table, you can do all the fanart you want. Don't quite get that, but that's the deal! Couldn't tell you how dealers tables compare to Comic Village tables exactly, though. Kojiro fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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Manga Studio has speech bubbles built in, it's a subtool of the text tool. They need a little adjusting so they're not perfect ellipses but they're otherwise pretty great.
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Did you send out a brief press release to some indie sites? Looks like you're in the UK, so try Forbidden Planet blog, Broken Frontier, Down the Tubes, Comics Alliance, Pipedream Comics, etc. Just tell them when the comic's up, give a quick summary, and such, many places will be happy to run an article. You can try Bleeding Cool too but they won't run a thing unless you write them an article, which is ehhh. There's a ton of indie comic review sites, I only named the UK ones there, just google about! If there's anything else specific you wanna know feel free to ask or PM me, I've done a few projects now and the press legwork for them too, most of my knowledge is UK-centric but I'm happy to help 
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Cold_Ethyl posted:Thanks Kojiro! Haha, cool, thanks! For Comics Alliance, try Steve Morris, he is a very nice chap. His email's in the sidebar, there, along with a big list of other places you could try. Also, if you're feeling a little lost, have you tried joining the Comic Village Alliance on facebook? That's a group of us who've been doing MCM shows for years, but its open to all independents, we're all just amateurs helping amateurs but its a nice community and a good heads up about when tables are available for various shows, which printers/merch suppliers are worthwhile, etc. Good luck! Kojiro fucked around with this message at 01:30 on May 13, 2016 |
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Hi I literally do webcomics for a living and Squidster is right, there's a fuckton of hustle involved. His post was pretty drat accurate to my own experiences. Talking with my friends who are also fulltime artists, it is clear that we all reached this point through different paths, but every one of them involved self marketing, poo poo tons of conventions, establishing connections, keeping an eye on new trends like crowdfunding, etc. 90% hustle, 10% luck. Self employment means learning new skills, that's the long and short of it. Kojiro fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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Yeah, cons work, but it takes time. Cast your net wide initially, go to as many as you can, then figure out from that which ones are worth your time. Bring flyers, too, give them out like candy. Next year, show up at the ones you liked, with more flyers. A few people will go "oh hey I saw this last year!". Have something new for the ones who bought from you last time. Lather, rinse, repeat! Keep establishing your presence at the cons that work for you, keep handing out flyers, keep bringing new stuff each time, and after a few years you've got a healthy lil fanbase going on of diehards who buy each new thing, and folks who think "I've seen this comic here every year/picked up a flyer for this last time/heard a buddy talk about this" and come over for a look. Be friendly, polite, engaging, have an elavator pitch ready, wander other tables to see how they're interacting with customers, and have a goddamn card reader because trust me they're helpful as fuuuck.
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Yeah! Table 122, first floor.
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mrfart posted:I notice nobody here seems to publish on something like comixology. Well, they're completely different formats, really. Putting it on Tumblr means its free to read, comixology means they have to pay for it upfront, very different markets.
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Yeah I've not made much on comixology either, also if you're outside the US they pay you in a cheque, which is pretty not great since the bank takes a chunk out of foreign cheques. Throw your stuff on there if you like but don't make it the backbone of your business model. Patreon is much better for that kind of thing.
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No reason not to pop it on comixology then, if license restrictions from the magazines aren't an issue!
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Any of Blambot's free dialogue fonts will work nicely. http://www.blambot.com/fonts_dialogue.shtml
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Reiley posted:If you do build from scratch avoid Webfaction, they used to be top notch but they were acquired by GoDaddy last year and have become less great. I recently got bumped off the service because they were merging products with another host that didn't support part of my site so they just said, well, we're terminating your account. Haha they said this to me, then I removed the part that was causing them migration problems- then they deleted my account anyway and sent a "final warning" to an email they'd just deactivated and made unreachable. That was a fun afternoon of running about like an idiot
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Oh nice, comic control is really solid. nice to see it out for wider use.
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Fortis posted:Despite the fact that the developer explicitly does not recommend using Dreamhost, I’m pretty drat interested in moving my comic away from WordPress forever. I’m going to assume that the recommendation against Dreamhost is made mainly on the assumption that the average user lacks any web hosting/server knowledge whatsoever. I don't really have any solid recommendations unfortunately since I moved to hiveworks, but the dreamhost warning is absolutely there for a reason.
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