How did you make your first comics?

[Shanny8]

When I was little(elementary school) I used to A) draw 1 page comics on notebook paper and color it with crayon or B) fold blank paper in half and make my own comic books...

Once I got to middle school I started out drawing 4 page adventures of my own transforming robots(I was a big Transformers fan back then), then started making 8 page issues(complete with cover art) of my little group of mutants(I also had started reading X-Men back then as well)...I pretty much stopped the robot stuff and kept drawing the other comic basically up til I graduated and went to art school; at that time I had bought the "How To Make Comics The Marvel Way" book and started attempting to draw on a larger scale. I had the wrong everything- wrong type bristol, wrong type pencil, wrong type ink and wrong type brushes- I got frustrated, but never gave up; I eventually started buying the right stuff once I went to an actual art supply store. I kind of eventually gave up on inking with a brush and tried to pick up inking with nibs(I didnt get good inking with nibs until 2001).

Unfortunately I dont have any of my old comics with me- I packed what little I still have away. Most of them were destroyed between the many moves I have made over the years and though I did have some that I saved to an external hard drive, I put the drive away as well.

[Kelheor]

The same as I am doing it now, really Only I used screentones (it was manga competition for Jump) and my husband was helping, because the schedule was very tight.
I still love the cover and the idea though (which was changed for this competition), so maybe one day we will try to remake it.

You can even read it on Medibang, hehe. I thought of putting it on Tapas, but the art is really not so good.

Master of Keys - Kelheor

[PabloRomero]

I think it was in old printer paper (those that had holes on the sides) My father brought that from work, back in the early 90s. With my cousin we used to do short comics with stick figures and we named them after us. It ussually was very violent stuff.

[irene_addler]

I'd never drawn a comic in my life until I started the one I'm working on now back in January (which is why it's not great, but is slowly getting better!). Sure I wrote a lot, but I never thought about drawing what I'd written. It's like drawing and writing were two different things in my head. Then I saw Lore Olympus somewhere, and got hooked on webcomics. Then one day I was like...hey...maybe I could do that. I got a basic drawing tablet for Christmas last year specifically for drawing webcomics and haven't stopped since I got around to installing CSP! Wow...I just realized how impulsive I am...

[skicoak]

Pssssh.....paper.

We used crushed berry juice and cave walls back in my day.

[emilsay]

this helps alot.... thank u

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[saak]

by accident i was trying to do art first time in my whole life couldnt make facial features correct so i gave him a mask and then the story started as a dumb robber and his life no pre planned or anything on the spot the story was born.

I am a robber | Tapas

[lintvar85]

I set aside a set period of time a day to draw, when I had the occasional day off from school/work I would take an 8 hour day to commit to drawing. Now a days when I get home from work I have planner for my time and not allow myself to move from my drawing table until the time is up.

[KittyWrites]

Bump!