How do you guys draw your comics?

[liamnaughton7]

Pages in a very manga style.
Alot of my layout habits have been influenced by Shotaro Ishinomoris later works when he began to move away from that 4×8 grid structure seen in a lot of manga at the time and started using panels that would stretch across the width/height of the page and a lot of diagonal gutters. His early attempts at endings for cyborg 009 especially.

As for shading and rendering I've been finding myself pulling back alot in that regard. Weirdly enough when I was drawing comedy I'd do more shading and perspective but now doing a more serious work I find I can't make the look too intense otherwise it's a bit over the top.

[monochrome0M394]

well, there's the left to right just like the Japanese writing so you gotta keep that in mind.

[polochon]

I'm western, but I went for a webcomic/korean scrolling style because I wanted to make full use of web platforms. For exemple, making a long sky gradient to show time has passed, or use the scrolling system to change the rhythm or add a surprise effect. But my drawing and coloring styles are quite different from koreans, as well as my panelling (they tend to space it a lot more), so it think it's a funny mix.

And same as some of you, I sketch it on paper first, and then draw over it digitally!

Like this (click to see full):

[liaroger]

I'm currently doing page format (at least I've storyboarded the first chapter of my comic in page format) but am pretty sure I'll switch to vertical afterwards. Rearranging my panels to vertical is just too much extra work and I'm not really making full use of the vertical format. I highly doubt my comic will be printed any time soon if at all anyway.

As for the shading, I uh... I soft shade everything, the most important reason for that being that I just like it. But I also just suck at cell shading. I'm not significantly faster at it. My current comic is monochrome anyway so it doesn't take that long to make in general but I've been practising colouring and shading in my style because pretty much all of my future comics will be coloured and I'd like to keep the soft shading. I've simplified my shading a little so I don't turn every panel into an illustration and familiarised myself with colour theory and layer styles to speed up the lighting and shading so hopefully that'll be enough to speed up the process.

Anyway. This is what my current comic looks like. No idea what my style is, you tell me.

Coloured comics will hopefully be something like this but simplified

The only comic examples I have are old and made before I learned anything about colour theory. This one's probably 6 months old and page so once I get to actually making this comic it'll probably look a bit different but you get the vibe.

[Eiranyx]

It's actually more on Korean-style -- because of the scroll format and also because I like to take advantage of that scroll effects during establishing shots and that sky gradient, but my shading style is a bit more detailed than the usual simple shading usually found in korean webtoon.
What makes it a bit different is the background, because I don't actually use 3d assets that most korean webtoons use, I draw the background myself because some details have hidden meanings that are actually related to the story, what I do is usually, I have a floor plan for a specific house/location traditionally drawn for the room placements and also to determine where the windows are(if there is) since the light usually comes from there ^^

[Llyrel]

My style is definitely western The Sandman, The Crow and Dylan Dog (an italian comic series) all had a pretty big influence on me, though I wouldn't really say that my style looks like any of them XD the influences are definitely there if you squint (broody characters with cheekbones that could cut you in half, hairstyles straight out of the 80s, painterly backgrounds as seen on the Sandman covers and some pages of The Crow) but overall, I think the final effect is pretty different from the works mentioned above: my comic uses a lot more color, the shading is waaaaay softer and, although the style tends towards realism, it still retains a cartoony appearance:

I... definitely like to put way too much detail into my drawings and I had to try really hard to tone it down and simplify stuff. That said, I work in traditional page format first, and a single page can take me up to 10-12 hours. A single page can go anywhere from 3 to 9 panels, which then get converted into vertical format for Tapas and Webtoon. I still dream of printing my comic one day, so you'll have to pry the page format from my cold dead hands
Lately, if I feel that an episode is too short for Tapas, I skip a week and merge two episodes into one, while I keep my regular "one page a week schedule" on ComicFury, where I post pages in traditional format. With Webtoon, I decided to post updates whenever I get to have 20-25 panels at a time, so about once every two/three weeks. Despite the higher number of followers, my interaction on there is literally zero no matter if I post long, short, fast or slow updates, so it's not like I'm afraid of people complaining XD

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Mine is fusion between western comics and manga. I use b/w and traditional pages. My overall storytelling vibe is reminiscent to 80s indie comics like Usagi Yojimbo.

[roccobear]

For me, and perhaps it was a bad idea for the online formats that are popular these days, but I originally format my comics to be traditional Western Comic Book style, as if for print. I realized this made them VERY hard to read on sites like Tapas and Webtoon, so I have since kept my pages in that format, but single out individual panels so they're easier to read on vertical scrolling sites.

Traditional

Vs.
Web-scrolling version

My panels vary from page to page, depending on pacing and how much information I need to convey to move the story along at that point, but usually average from 1 (splash page, which I'm curious if anyone has any feedback on how to make these work on vertical scrolling format sites like this and webtoon, I'm just NOW realizing this might be kind of a difficult thing to adapt) up to 9 (smaller, shorter panels, usually when I'm trying to get a back and forth conversation out)

As is now, the level of shading and rendering is a little bit less refined than my standard art, just for the sake of not taking forever to do a single page.

In regards to unique... I guess all I can do is do what I would normally do and hope that is unique enough, lol.

[mon_quu]

I used to do full colour comics but am doing black/white/grey shaded comics just to ease myself back into the habit. I'm also trying out longer pages like manhwa but I don't do panels in that style, I still try to go with western styles because that's just what I am comfortable enough to do at the moment.