I've been working on making comics for more than a decade. Under different usernames on different sites my old stuff still exists. But eventually I took a hiatus from comicking. It wasn't really going anywhere, I hit a wall with my story telling because I was doing too much on the fly, I wasn't happy with my artwork, etc,... So for 3 years I just did a bunch of reddit gets drawn. I just would draw for the sake of drawing. Somewhere along the line I learned to love improvement for improvement's sake regarding everything, not just art. But I still had the itch to create comics. So, I started brainstorming ideas and working with them. Eventually I came up with one after a few inspirations and I spent a year worldbuilding and getting the basic structure of the start of the story set up. And then I just dove in. I wasn't fully prepared but I knew I would learn more if I got my nose to the grindstone and worked on it instead of ending up in worldbuilding hell forever. And I looked for lots and lots of critiques. Now, I feel I've got a handle on the story and such but I still need to finish up the Chapter 0 to get into the stuff I feel confident about. Still trying to make every page better than the last. I'm about 2 or 3 ahead on my patreon. I can't wait to start Chapter 1 and really put everything I've learned and practiced and studied throughout Chapter 0 to work.

I made my comic back in December 25 2019 and it was posted on Tumblr. I made it to promote a custom plugin for Team Fortress 2 (a game that I love) and I also made it because I wanted to make my own shonen series.

I made my novel after I finished reading the Fate route of Fate/Stay Night. That made me want to make a novel so I made one.

I've been writing stories and comics since I was about 10. Eventually I discovered webcomics & started scanning my comic pages onto my computer and posting them on deviantart etc. Then I discovered smackjeeves and posted them there. Eventually I started drawing digitally with a mouse. I did that for years up until just last month I finally bought a tablet and now I use that!

I discovered Tapas a few months ago too & now I post here! This site is a lot nicer than smackjeeves, and also smackjeeves dug its own grave when it changed its website format. Everyone left.

My current comics:

I always liked reading and writing fiction when I was young. I stopped in my teens (writing, not reading) due to school but picked up again in 2015. I started with fanfiction, original short stories, and poetry in 2015. Eventually, the fandom died down and I didn't want to confine my stories to use a certain set of characters. So I did my research and found out that Tapas concentrated on original comics and novels!

Then I started posting some of my older works here - after editing and revamping it of course.

My latest novel is new though, and it's inspired by people in real life.

I started writing in February this year.
Before that I did a lot of RP's with one friend and with that, I mean that we did that for over 14 years. Always with the same set of characters but thousands of different contexts and storylines.
This year I just figured: I want something real, something I can hold in my hands at some point.
I plotted out a real story for these characters. Ending on 6 different books for the series.
I wrote the first draft of book 1 in four months and ended on 108k words. This is the one being uploaded on tapas.
Right now I'm rewriting that first book (added 6k words in the first four chapters and working on chapter five and while doing that I'm writing book two, where I reached 20k words

I just started releasing my Original Story Morpho Mons here on Tapas.
It's a Novel which is also illustrated, and will feature short comic pages in the future.

It's a passion project, a remake of sth I created 12 years ago, which combines childish/nostalgic media with more mature topics.

Genres are Drama, Slice of Life, LGBTQ+
More subgenres will be added in the future. It's a bit hard to categorize, but I generally want to show the stories/identities/struggles of the characters in this setting.

The origin of this is very funny bc when I was 12 I was all over having Pokemon Fancharacters, Digimon Fancharacters, all that jazz. However I wanted to create my /own/ monster series, where I have the creative control and where I only implement what I like.

The story was frozen for about 8 years until I decided to revive it and give it a glow up, using it for my need to design and draw monster characters and build genuine LGBTQ+ characters that I and hopefully others can relate to <3

I love writing and I started writing and coding when I was not getting the content I wanted in the old video games.

Then I did the same with the novels.

I write for the dead tired from work Because I am dead tired from workand I need escapist stories that are full of adventure, funny and clever.

I stun Rule of Cool and Larger than Life stuff. With settings that are awesome! Pulp fiction is my thing!

And,yes, have interesting romances between kick-ass characters.

I started drawing the art for our series a couple months ago! I hoped to be an oil painter when I was younger but ended up going into mechanical engineering instead and then corporate work. My personality is just not suited to the networking I needed to do to make it with painting.

I've been an avid manga/webtoon reader for years and my husband (the amazing writer) and I had discussed a long epic-ish story a couple years ago and even started a couple panels, but I kept falling into the "my art isn't good enough" problem and eventually dropped it. When I lost my job -thanks pandemic :(- I thought it would be a great time to revisit. After reading some advice we decided to go with a "short" project first to get a feel for our workflow. It was supposed to be short but I'm getting really attached to the characters . We'll see where it goes but it just feels so great to be making art again!!

A few years ago, I had just started getting back into art after a long period of being too depressed and low energy to work on it. Around that same time I was playing in a DnD game, and had started chatting with the group about how I thought the character dynamics and setting would make for a neat comic, and they were supportive of the idea. I had flirted with the idea of drawing a webcomic in the past, but had never committed to doing something like that long term, with all the planning that involves. But I was excited about the idea, especially since I had read that webcomics were a great way to grow art skills since you have to do so much drawing for them.

And then the DnD game died lol. Which was a bummer at first, but sort of worked out in the end because it freed me up to just take the pieces of it that I wanted for the comic, but do whatever I felt worked best for the story otherwise. I spent about a year doing pre-production, figuring out character designs and deciding what stuff I needed to cut and what new things needed to be added, before finally launching on May 1st 2019. And here I am a little over a year later, I definitely feel like I've learned a lot! I've had to slow down my update schedule (at the very beginning I was updating twice a week), but doing so has given me more time to polish my pages, so I feel it's worth it. I've definitely got a long way to go on the story, since I didn't follow the common advice of starting out with a short comic, but honestly being committed to a long project I'm passionate about is working out with how my brain likes to focus on things anyway, haha.

I did posted something like this topic before, so because I'm too lazy I copied what I wrote on that topic and have fun

For me, I started reading the comics first on webtoon and I thought that I could make something like that, I watched YouTube tutorials about how to draw​, but I really made no progress, and one day I came across a group on Facebook that shares some stories, then I got the idea of creating a novel.
But I needed the spark that will boost me, it was an anime called " Black clover ", and then I created my first episodes I think three months ago, and after that I found out about Tapas, and I began sharing my imagination and ideas with you !!

And if you wanna check my Novel " age of magic "

Y2F AND PEACE 🏼

I wrote a heck of a lot of fanfiction back in college that sparked my love for writing and became pretty popular! I eventually broke off into original writing around 2 or 3 years, but only ever short stories. I was looking to start writing long fiction again and browsed around for a home for my work. Tapas seemed like a good bet due to the tipping system and I started experimenting with long form stories. I had a couple series going, but my novel "My Roommate is a Camgirl" ended up taking off. I never intended for my erotica to become quiet so popular and get over 50k views, but maybe I should have seen that coming, oops haha. Anyway, I've been updating twice a week since March of this year and it's been a fun and interesting experiment!
Here the story is now: https://tapas.io/series/My-Roommate-is-a-Camgirl1

I've been writing since I was a kid, like since I was six or seven, because I loved reading and telling stories. Then I started publishing in my native language on wattpad, but my motivation shifted to drawing and writing essays more in high school because writing became too time-consuming. Around two years back I started writing short stories of my oc's and I wanted to pick up writing again!

So when I finished an rp with an amazing story I was sad that we couldn't develop the story further and that no-one would get to see it, so with the permission of the other person I've taken the main plotpoints from the rp and created a more detailed story around it.

https://tapas.io/series/Fair-No-Fair-

I've been writing books since I was really young. I spent a while worldbuidling for Demetori as you can probably find on another thread. Most of my fantasy novels are in the same world and Demetori is planned to be the first real example of that.

What pushed me the extra steps to want to publish Demetori is basically just how many books I've written that I say I'm not happy with and therefore cannot show in the light of day I have a writing degree and STILL don't feel comfortable with my work being out there. But it is now and I hope you guys read it one day.

'Don't Touch' was never meant to be a story honestly... I wrote chapter 1-2 as a one-shot to express emotions of anxiety and panic attacks. it was to represent the emotions my best friend deals with because she had a few traumatic events happen to her and not a lot of people understand how she feels.

Then I approached a friend who posts comics here on tapas and expressed how I wanted to write again since the last time I wrote a story was about 8-10 years ago. She encouraged me to give Tapas a try so I did. I give 'Don't Touch' a try on July 2019 and it's been the best so far having this story grow.