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Pandastrophic
Feb '23

Hello everyone!

This is specifically if you make webtoon style comics, I've seen so many artists draw directly on long canvas or using this specific webtoon feature:

So... What is your canvas width?? I've been interested in using this feature on CSP but every tutorial has width at like 800-1000px... that's way too small for me, my minimum is like 1800px for comics. This isn't for printing reasons, I just like how my lineart looks when I work on a bigger canvas. If i set it to 1800px the height will be so long for the full ep.

I've been making webtoons for like 7 years but since completing my comic I've been looking for more streamlined ways to work on my next project. So for my previous comic I would storyboard on a long 800x30000 canvas for each episode but then I would split the panels into sections of like 4-5 panels per canvas and resize the canvas to 1800px width, for the lines and coloring. Then I would import it back into the storyboard 800x30000 canvas to put it all together and add speech bubbles. It seems like a longer process but its really not, it allows me to work on larger canvas size without straining my laptop too much.
I feel like doing everything on the one canvas might be a lot more streamlined though and I've seen many artists work using the above CSP feature and it looks great for webtoons but like... is everyone actually that small? how?

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DNoble
Feb '23

I usually just work at triple resolution when I'm drawing for the webtoon format. Webtoons display at 800, while I think Tapas displays at like 920 or something, so I just make my width 2400, my height 10x that so each section has 10 square 'chunks' and then scale it all down to 0.33 when I export.

Also, I never use just one of those per episode; usually somewhere between 2 and 3 per. It prevents me from doing an entire full-length episode that is a single bottomless scroll panel like I've seen some series do for big moments, but that's a rare enough issue that I consider it a small price to pay in order to be able to work at a reasonable resolution.

hakei
Feb '23

When I draw illustrations I use a big canvas but for webtoon I work in smaller canvas for speed and CPU's sake — my art style's simple enough that it doesn't see much benefit when I draw webtoon in a bigger canvas.

My episodes are broken up into two parts, so one upload of mine has about 4~5 pages (~10 pages total for a complete episode). Each page contains about 10~15 panels, depending on the panel sizes.

I'm not a fan of infinitely seamless paneling so I haven't had any problems using this format so far. Especially since Clip has the Webtoon On-Screen Preview window and the Companion mode.

Pandastrophic
Feb '23

1500 is a pretty good size imo, i noticed the total height is 120080, does that make your device slower or is it because it's broken up into sections that it doesn't affect the speed/CPU all that much?

hakei
Feb '23

Since it's broken up into sections, it's fine.
Only when I have all the pages open at the same time, with effects-heavy pages, then my computer starts complaining but I rarely have to do that.

BoomerZ
Feb '23

I just do what DNoble does. 3X the size, max height that can be done. Then export as webtoon to png folder at 33%..

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