From Novel to Webcomic?

@TheFalseVyper
Sun, 25 Nov 2018 05:33:10 +0000

@TheFalseVyper wrote:

My comic actually started out as a novel.

What I love about creating a webcomic is the imagery that comes with it. I love being able to show in more detail what my characters look like and how some of the magic in my world functions. The setting is more apparent in my webcomic than a novel where most of the description is usually left up to the reader to fill in the blanks.

Most of the challenges I face have come from my own lack of skills. Expressions, for one, is something that is easier to portray in novels. Describing someone looking wrathful and murderous is a whole lot easier to say than it is to draw. Scenery is time consuming (but 100% worth it). Action scenes are hard to write correctly in novels, but I find them even more difficult drawing them.

Perhaps the biggest difference I've come to realize and agonize over is the length of time it takes to create a webcomic over a novel. A chapter can take a couple of days, more or less, to rough out. A complete chapter in a webcomic can take MONTHS to finish. My story is long so it very well may take me years to get the whole thing out.