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Comic-Making ResourcesSince I get asked about how I make my comics pretty often, I thought maybe it'd be helpful to provide some tutorials and tips for beginners! The focus here will be making digital comics (like in photoshop or sai), since I'm not experienced making them traditionally with pencils and paper. This is also probably going to lean more towards animal comics, because I imagine that's what most of my watchers are into or interested in making themselves. I'll go over character-making, paneling, scripting, things to avoid, publishing/self-publishing, etc.
Please keep in mind that I'm NOT perfect when it comes to making comics, I really consider my own work to be mediocre at best. vR is much too fast-paced, and there's pretty much no character development, so you probably shouldn't look to it as an example for a "good comic."
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There has to be some sort of reason you want to make a comic, and any reason is a good one! ...Unless it's just solely to copy someone else. DO N

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Tutorial: comic layoutsby =medli20

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Well, I'm no expert on comics, but I do know that there are certain comic layouts that are easier to read than others.

Anyway, I don't have much to say here at the moment, since I said most of what I already wanted to say in this tutorial. Enjoy.

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~Bryce1350 3 days ago Student Traditional Artist

Cool tutorial! Definitely'll come in handy!

=JakkRobbit Apr 29, 2013 Student General Artist

This tutorial is great. I kind thought the thing about panel layouts was true, but I didn't know if it was bullshit I made up or something other people believed. XD Whenever I look at awesome scenes in comics, 90% of the time the panels are just plain squares. It's the composition inside them that looks cool. So, I decided to lay off the trapezoids panels, lol. I hadn't thought word balloons that much though. Thank you for the awesome tutorial!!

~DaggerPen Apr 28, 2013

Ooh, really handy. Thanks!

*KuroKitsuSan Apr 28, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

tHANK YOU I NEEDED THIS HELLO.

~V-Oblivion Jan 23, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Life saver!

*RainFlame07 Nov 19, 2012 Hobbyist

This is very helpful! I'm doing some research before I start my own graphic novel thingy, so this has been very enlightening! Thanks for taking the time to put this together

=medli20 Nov 19, 2012 Student Digital Artist

No problem! I'm glad you found it helpful.

Also, if you want to do research for writing graphic novels, I highly suggest you read Scott McCloud's "Making Comics." Seriously, it's one of the most helpful books I've found on the topic and it's entertaining to read just for fun, too!

~Richmanswealth Sep 9, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Didn't help totally, I got it when I was reading a comic before... so I knew all this stuff! But really cool.

~LongLastingDreams Aug 6, 2012

thanks! This helped a lot!

=medli20 Aug 8, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I'm glad to hear it helped!

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