danielcruzoliveira
Nov '23

Hello, I'm the author of Greco Advocacia, and I've come to thank you for your support and to teach you a few things. I see a lot of people wondering how some authors draw so fast and yes, there really are teams, buffering and other details that allow them to do so. However, there are tricks I'm going to share that I've learned to help anyone I can.

1 - Draw in blocks - Simple, if you're going to make your comic make all the pages/panels you need as follows:

  • Draw all the sketches of all the panels you have

  • Draw all the lineart of all the panels you have

  • Draw all the shading for all the panels you have

  • Do all the painting of all the panels you have

2 - Don't do it in vertical mode but as a western comic. I know we're going to post it in vertical format for scrolling, but during the drawing process do it in western format and then copy and paste the finished panels into your webtoon. You'll save a lot of time by being able to see 9 panels at the same time to work on them rather than having to scroll around to draw.

3 - Use the frame templates, in clipstudio there are ones that already come, but you can download them, this tip is essential for the next tip and will be a great trick. When you use these templates you can draw inside the panel only or outside all of them, if not, use them, I highly recommend it.

4 - Top tip: Do all the sketching on a single layer, do all the lineart on a single layer over all the panels, do all the colors on a single layer (this can be separated if you like). Quick example:

Layers in order:

  • Lineart (here you draw all your lineart over everything, don't worry about making mistakes, only what's inside the panel we're keeping)

  • Sketch (here you draw the sketch over everything, the whole sketch of all the panels on the page)

  • Panel 1

  • Panel 2

  • Panel 3

Now you're going to use the magic selection tool to select outside your panels (I recommend that they're all in the same folder so you only select the folder) and then you go to the lineart layer or any other and delete it. Then everything that isn't supposed to be in the panel will be deleted. You save a lot of time traveling from layer to layer just to do the same thing you've already done on another.

5 - Have your color palette ready: Always have the palette open in a nearby window or already customized in clipstudio. clipstudio allows you to create customized palettes, if you search you'll find the form easily, photoshop I'm not sure, but it seems to have the same feature.

6 - Have all the faces ready. This is one of the things that I'm very fond of. Having the basis of your characters' faces at different angles is a great way to save time, I highly recommend it to everyone. This way you can only modify them according to emotions and situations.

7 - Use tools like sketchfab, posestudio and even AI to help you with references for scenery, poses and objects. Anything goes so that you can do your job quickly and well.

I hope this can help everyone. Sorry for writing so much, it's because I needed to describe it as well as possible. Good luck to everyone!

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BoomerZ
Nov '23

You are not using the power of Clip by doing this your way. couple things.
1: Make a scroll comic template X3 the width and the max length for the final page to be cut evenly once you reduce it in the export. You can save this template under "webtoon" new canvas selection. You reduce on webtoon export to png to 30% the size. This way you are working at a larger pixel size. Just remember to not use brushes under 3 as they could disappear.
2. You can do all your thumbs and sketches on this long scroll. EX allows multiple pages so make as many as you want. After your roughs/layouts are done, place your dialogue. This makes sure it fits and what it will cover. Zero point drawing stuff covered and never seen by a word balloon.
3. Once all you rough frames are done, use the create frame tool to block in the frames right on your sketch page. Turn on create new folder option in the tool options and that will create a folder with a layer already in it that will hide any drawing outside the frame. This gets rid of the need to delete outside the frames.
4. for the color layer, create a folder at the bottom of the stack called color (naming conventions) and you can do all the colors you want and it will appear under your line art. This allows easy fill as you can turn up the overflow of the fill tool and it will still be behind your line art in your panels. No white ghost lines.
5. In the end you will have a dialogue folder at the top of your stack (to over lay any panels or color), all the panel folders with your line art in each one, and a color folder at the bottom of the stack with all you colors. I add one more layer under the dialogue but above the panel stacks for highlights. Effects that will be on top of the line work like glare or shine.

This eliminates the copy paste of boxes of artwork onto a scroll format. This also allows you to plan your dialogue and panels better as you aren't stuck with panels drawn before they are placed. Part of the craft is panel size and placement for pacing.

The copy and paste of premade faces is a style thing. It would work for some but not others.