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Webcomic tips

In the conclusion for now, some things I’d really recommend doing if you’re seriously considering making a webcomic (or really a comic in general). Some of these don’t really apply to strips or gag-a-day type of comics, but I’m not talking about those here.

1. Write down ideas\sketch stuff, LEGIBLY. “I’m gonna remember it later” NEVER works. And if you scribble it somewhere on a piece of paper, you’d better scan it or retype in one doc later, because tiny notes always get lost among other doodles in my skethbooks.

(i know it’s hard to keep everything clean and organized, but this mess is just not productive)

If your project is a collaboration, save your conversations. If you’re working alone, make a blog for your ramblings. You have no clue what tears of relief I cry when I open that blog and rememeber I don’t have to painstakingly look through my heaps of sketchbooks and folders for a tiny idea I’m not even sure I wrote down a few months ago.

2. Inspiration folders, or even better, inspo blog with tags also help with collecting and remembering ideas. Color schemes, landscapes, style inspirations, atmospheric stuff, maybe some photo references, all those neat things.

3. Basic tier: character design sheets. Top tier: common poses, expressions. God tier: outfits they wear throughout the comic. Holy cow tier: turnaround sheets for all those outfits.

(I’d die trying to find good pages for references without these)

4. If you haven’t finished detailing the plot, don’t even think about moving on to drawing the comic. You’re gonna regret it when you come up with a really cool plot element that can’t be incorporated anymore because you’ve already drawn all the parts you could’ve tweaked.

5. Don’t just define the plot, make a script. Writing down the lines and the brief description of the actions serves me fine:

(notice that I approximately divided the pages & the text that’d go to each panel on a page)

6. Hard mode: make thumbnails for all the pages, if possible. At least whenever a new chapter starts. 

7. If your story involves some convoluted chronology shenanigans, you’d better write down the events of your timeline in the chronological order.

8. Backgrounds. You can’t avoid them, bro. Like half of the comics are backgrounds, especially if your story involves a lot of adventuring and looking around. I know it hurts, but you’ll have to become friends with them. Read some tutorials, practice on photos, go out and sketch some streets, use 3d programs (like Google Sketch) to understand the perspective, use sites like houseplans to visualize your buildings better, I don’t know. Just be prepared for their imminent evil.  

9. If you’re drawing digitally, pick a brush size for the lines and stick with it. You don’t want your lines and detail levels to look all wonky and inconsistent in different panels. And I don’t mean the cool stylistic varying lines, I mean this:

Also, things on the background should have thinner and/or lighter lines to avoid distraction. Usually less details too, unless you’re making a busy background with a simple foreground to help it pop out. Or wanna draw the attention to an object on the bg.

10. Readable fonts. Even if you chose to ignore people with poor sight or dyslexia, the majority of your readers aren’t gonna be excited about struggling to decypher this:

Also, as much as I love my black speech bubbles, colorful text on black still kinda hurts the eyes. I wouldn’t recommend doing that for all the characters. Black speech bubbles are usually used for creepy, inhuman voices. And yes, having a colorful outline in this case helps.

11. Probably newsflash, but did you know that panels have their place, order and functions? They do! My favourite thing ever is how I used panels when I was like 12:

(comics ain’t rocket science, but this one is)

The composition of the panels and word balloons always serve for a better reading experience. They guide your eyes over the page, so that you never feel lost or confused. The images in the comic equal frames in a movie, so it’s pretty damn important in what order you look at things and how quickly you can understand what’s going on!

(Eric Shanower & Scottie Young’s Wizard of Oz)

12. One update a week is fine for testing waters. Don’t overestimate yourself, especially if you have a pretty busy life outside it. A stable comic that updates slowly, but regularly is better than an unpredictable erratic one. You can always pick up the pace later, if you feel confident enough.

13. Try to always have a buffer - a couple of pages in reserve. If you’re making the pages much faster than you’re updating, this shouldn’t be a problem. But if those paces are equally the same, it’s goddamn HARD. But on the other hand, if something happens and you skip an update, those come in handy.

If you’re looking at this list and thinking “wow that’s a LOT of work”, you’re totally right. And it’s okay to be intimidated at first! But that’s why it’s important to start with something small. Once you get the formula down, these things will be natural to you.

out of context this looks like kami is gay panicking

The evening was quiet and still as the sun slowly sank. It was peaceful, calm, though not for long. Moments after the sun sank fully, the shadows began to writhe and bubble. Soft taps and scratching noises sounded out from the front of the home, gradually growing in number, as the owner of the little cottage slowly stirred.

Lighting a small candle, the older woman shuffled out of her bedroom, a soft shawl pulled over her shoulders, and her nightie brushing against her slippered feet. After a few moments of fiddling, she opened up the front door and stepped out, raising her candle a little in order to see better.

The sounds stopped, and a large lanky form dropped from the roof, landing before the old woman. It bent down, terrible maw opening up slightly, before letting out a gargling rumble, its warped body easily towering over the little old lady, face stopping inches from her own.

The old woman squinted up at the creature, before smiling brightly when it finally got close enough.

“Elenta! You’re awful early today dearie. Trying to get the first pickings are we?” The old woman tittered as the monstrous creature let out a choked gargling sound in response.

Patting the sheepish creatures cheek fondly, she turned around and shuffled back inside, the creature following along dutifully. Once it had cleaned off its hands and feet, it settled contentedly next to the kitchen counter, eagerly munching on its goodies as the woman shuffled around the kitchen, setting everything up for the night.

A few minutes later, a terrible screeching hiss was heard from the kitchen window, and the woman smiled, dusting off the flour on her hands.

“Elenta, be a dear and open the window for Kdlr’t will you please?” Nodding approvingly as the creature gurgled in reply, she turned her attention to the oven, pleased to see that the next batch was doing well.

She would have to get one of them to help her get down the big pan later, so that she could make more of that drink the so love. One of them must have put it up there the last time they helped clean up, forgetting her comparably tiny size. Fixing her shawl, she turned towards her guests, smiling as she saw that a few others had arrived, a large brutish looking creature lumbering over for its nightly head pats. She did so love her darling monstrous visitors. 

imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

  Choose your starter 

Katsudeku’s Horikoshi’s sketches~

There’s a crawling sensation under your skin that hasn’t let up for days. Your flesh feels foreign and ill fitting, leaving you constantly agitated and on edge. The feeling came upon you so suddenly, so aggressively, that you’re left floundering desperately for answers, unable to eat or rest. 

Part of you knows that it’s connected to what happened that night three weeks ago, knows that there is something there that is glaringly obvious. You wish you could remember anything about that night, but there’s nothing there, as if the memory had been ever so neatly snipped off and stolen away.

Finally, you can bear it no more, body trembling with restless energy as you scoop up your coat and keys. There’s no one around to stop you at this time of night, and you quickly start a determined pace, heading to the one place that you hope you will find answers, the last place you can remember before everything fell away.

Happy Fourth of July

aka: the day that scared the ever living shit out of every dog that’s ever lived.

kacchan protecting deku + all might + deku’s face tbh

Practicing!

Compilations: Midoriya Izuku + silently judging you

fellas..... it's been a good one

THIS IS THE CUTEST THING

why do anime redheads always look like That

just another day in the bakusquad (⌐▨_▨)

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Joining in on that ship dynamics meme hehe

tmw they forget eachothers real names lmfao

I’m stronger than I was back when I fought with you, y’know! | 202

wow the new jurassic world looks so good

Do you know of any other good bkdk fics/authors? I love yours so much, so much so that I’ve read all the ones you’ve made and I NEED MORE

I don’t read a lot of fanfic (cuz I’m kinda picky) but I’ll give you a rec list of some that I’ve read and liked!

First off, the only fic I ever bookmarked on AO3 and probably my favorite bkdk fic is What The Fuck Did You Just Call Me? by reading_raindrop. It’s also probably the only finished fic I can recommend.

Some in progress fics I’m enjoying right now are torn fur, blunt teeth by SageMasterofSass. A great fantasy fic, but you should definitely read the tags before you read it since there is some mature stuff. 

A Little Issue by thebakuhoe is a very cute and fun “Izuku got turned into a kid” AU that I’ve been enjoying.

And the fic that inspired Foster-Mates is, of course, Izuku’s Home for Wayward Pets by glamor_weeb which I would again warn to read the tags because it’s quite mature (but if you liked Foster-Mates, you’ll probably be fine with it lol).

And finally, a fic that I unfortunately think might be abandoned since it hasn’t updated since December, but that I still really loved anyways, is The Only One Who Can Receive His Feelings by dracofides. It’s done all in texting format, so sorry if that’s not your thing, but it’s really cute!

A fan since day one…

AAAAAaAAAaAaaaaAaAaaaaAAaaaaAaAAAA I’M GASPING I’M DYING HELP

text from song “Blackbear - idfc”~

When I draw them I wanted to cry. so much. because. its. canon.

I really want Team Rocket to be in Smash

He needed it (part 1)

Izuku is not ready to face his future