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Feb 2021

We all use various resources to make comics, let's share some of the easily accessible ones!

Line of action: https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing7
This is super handy for doing warm ups and anatomy studies. If I'm feeling stiff I'll set it to 60 seconds per image, then draw for 10-20 minutes. It's like magic. It's really changed the way I draw!

Comic lettering standards: https://blambot.com/pages/comic-book-grammar-tradition#thoughtballoons11
Really useful when you're just starting out and you need ideas on how to handle certain situations in text!

Perspective grid maker: https://www.reubenlara.com/perspectivegrid/6
If you're like me and you use photoshop, you're gonna need an external perspective grid maker. This is really customizable and super useful!

Bonus! Alternate perspective grid maker: https://haztro.itch.io/perspective-grid-maker7
This one's not entirely free, but worth mentioning because it's just so useful. Found this when the other perspective grid website was down for an evening, and it's saved my bacon on a few occasions. Plus, it has some fun features that the other one doesn't have, like using a fisheye lens.

Blambot fonts: https://blambot.com/collections/all-fonts
I think this is pretty well known by now, but Blambot has a free license for many of their fonts if you're a hobbyist comic maker. They're not all free of course, but some of them are, and they're all high quality. Keep in mind you'll have to buy a license if you end up selling your comic.

Do you have any really useful resources? Post em and let's get more efficient!

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Komika fonts! They're free for commercial use, so if your comic blows up you don't have to worry about the legality of profiting from it. :grinning: They tend to look good in everything, plus there's a version with lower case letters if you prefer that.

I looked for ages for a lowercase comic font which was clear, legible and had bold and italic versions. Komika is perfect.

https://www.1001fonts.com/komika-fonts.html3

yeah it ain't perfect so I have to go in with a brush on dissolve to finnesse parts with acute angles, but it saves me just hella time on photoshop because I don't want to drag my art into clip studio to also have a hard time with acute angles.

Swedish Planner - 3d modeling app

It helps me make super fast, super rough models, which I can use as a general guide.
I do NOT trace, and my finished backgrounds come out way different than the models.
But the app does help me figure out weird angles if I can't find a good reference.
Plus, it's free!

Here's a quick model I made:

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