Are there any things that you're afraid to tackle when making comic (but need to anyway)?

[Aleksei]

Trans-people.
I would have loved to include a trans character on my roster, but I have no idea about what kind of problems they lived through to be how they have a right to be. I find that it would be more damaging than constructive to try to illustrate them without me finding more about them before. I have to read more books, articles, etc, to find different histories to not create a character just for the sake of 'variety'. If I have one, it will have to have content.

[DiegoPalacios]

I know that struggle.....it was complex when i was drawing traditionally

Sadly i don't have solid advice for that, but here is some emotional support!

[Darth_Biomech]

If X-men films can get away with having Mystique (A character whose "costume" is basically just bodypaint) and still be PG-13, I'm sure you will be fine as well, as long as you omit depicting certain parts of the anatomy and the Dreaded Nipple.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I'm going to find some images of glowy effects and do some studies trying to replicate them with my markers. Hopefully I'll learn what I need and make it work.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I might suggest checking out the art of Bob Eggleton. He manages to pull off glowy monster beam attacks and he does everything in oil paints. Not sure how that will help with markers, but it is possible in traditional art to make glowy fx.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I'll take a look, but if you know anyone who does the same with watercolors, that'd be more helpful. One of the biggest challenges with markers is you have to work from light to dark-- you can't start dark and make things lighter, which you can do with oils.

Watercolors work similarly, however, because like markers, they're also transparent. So basically I have to think about 12 steps ahead and figure out what my light is doing before I do anything else. Light, uh... is challenging. But seeing how people handle the effects in real media will still be helpful, because sometimes you learn new tricks even if you can't use everything they're doing.

[Rhonder]

One recommendation that I know on Tapas is this comic:

https://tapas.io/episode/1467029

I believe at some point it switches to digital art, but all of the early work is done in marker and manages some cool glowy magicy effects The episode linked above has some glowly yellow light, and the one below some blue fire, as two examples. I havne't read all the way through so I'm not sure how prominent these types of effects are overall, but there are some to observe, anyways!

https://tapas.io/episode/1468151

[Drag0nPrincesS]

aaaw man, it sucks that now people get to nitpicky with details of the story that are not actually as needed for the story to make an impact, maybe if the story talks about realism then I guess it is, but for most of the time it is the characters that are carrying the whole thing to begin with. So it's okay if you can't get all details right :'D
It is a long topic.
I think for me, more than an thematical or technical fear, it's more about being worries it that my comic is somewhat accesible to children despite my warnings, there are way too many children on the internet that are not mature enough to understand my material because it talks about relationship disfunction, and not really being able to classify it as mature because it renders my artwork unreachable. I haven't gotten to the creepy scenes yet so I guess there is still plenty of time to figure out stuff. But man lousy parenting and virus doesn't help the case of too many children being online instead of playing outside.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

Wow, I don't see very many comics done in marker-- and even fewer with that level of skill. Good find!

[Tromroan]

The main character of my story has Narcolepsy with Cataplexy! I've researched it a TON, but it's such a misunderstood and often misrepresented condition that I always worry I'll inadvertently offend someone. I really want to try to make it as realistic as possible, but at the same time, it's a relatively dramatic condition which can effect the plot in major ways. I want it to have dramatic possibilities while still remaining very accurate.... it's a struggle.

[Caro]

uhhh all of it the whole thing the very idea of making a comic

[Gleamiarts]

my ending

i have one planned, but i'm not sure how to make it satisfying and tbf i have a long ways ahead to think about it since i'm really early into my comic. i am doing a lot of brainstorming about it and doing a bit of outlining backwards from the ending to the beginning to see if that'll help

[BarBarKetrab]

The pacing and flow of my panels. I constantly obsess over whether or not I should add more frames to a given moment.

[samiluu]

just one word. Chairs.

probably I will have to draw some violent scenes for my comic too and I don't want but it's necessary but I don't want

[wekanian]

I feel you with the military stuff!!

Although, I am more afraid with the technical stuff of drawing things I am not familiar with. Sure there are references but learning to draw and actually drawing them to a panel with update date looming makes me anxious. The most recent one is combining a horse and a dog. I pulled it ok-ish and patted my back so hard.

[im_sleepy]

totally relate about military stuff but also action in general. People really like to tell you an action sequence choreographically doesn't make sense ;-;

[feuersichel]

Contrast is key. I use markers and Aquarell aswell (and also struggle with that problem xD ). I found alot of usefull videos on youtube about that.

For me, I fear to draw night scenes. I am very unsure about which colors to take and as I'm drawing traditionally, I can't just play around. I had to draw a night-scene very recently in my comic and it actually turned out alright, but it took sooo much time research and scrap-paper x,D

[AmysGames]

I feel you on the military thing. I've had people nitpick my worldbuilding details on stuff like that, and it can get pretty uncomfortable, haha.

But I think the biggest thing for me is, well, some of my planned scenes deal with some pretty sensitive topics, sometimes getting into some pretty gritty details. I'm hoping I'll be able to pull them off gracefully when I eventually get to those parts.

[Scarlet_Cryptid]

I'm dealing with the headache that is night scenes myself-- a night scene is coming up (in the pages I'm currently drawing, which will be posted MONTHS from now) in the next 10 or so pages. So I gotta sort that out.

I've taken to finding photos of the sort of night atmosphere I'm looking for, trying to replicate them in my comic style, and if I just cannot figure out the right colors, actually color-picking in Photoshop to figure out what I'm actually seeing. S'what I did with this one, which seems to have turned out fairly well, as experiments go:

[feuersichel]

I like the colors though! It gives the sceene a mysterious vibe. My night scene is more "happy" as it fitts my story more. I found a very good YT video about drawing nights. Ill post it later, when I'm home on my computer