Sound Words / Onomatopopeias (BOOM, SPLASH etc) what do you use

[Dysis]

POOF

Does it count? I love this one a lot.

[alextsarace]

Y'know, this is the topic I have nightmares about. First, because there is like no full dictionary of onomatopopeias in the net, so I need to find some of them specifically which makes my browsing search look like I'm 1-year child who tryna learn words. Second, I'm not native English speaker, and in my native language many of sounds spelled and heard different. Like VERY different. Not to mention we have specific sounds English doesn't have and cyrillic writing, so sometimes it's real hard to find analogy for word I'm using in Russian vers of comic. So yes, I'm mostly use internet and samples from other comics because I'm not linguisticly pro enough to transform sounds to word & how I hear some things can be misleading.

[Memento_Mori]

I just use the weirdest sounding onomatopoeias I can make up like 'Oh Figgley Giblets!' or something weird like that.

[Iris-Grimoire]

Since my comic has a lot of magic effects, I try to think of sounds you could make with your mouth to get close to what I want to "hear". Fwoosh, bzwoooom, tchwahh, etc. I use a lot of the standard sounds too (and I end up replacing a lot of 'tap' with 'pat' because it feels like a more natural sound), though I'm dreading when I get to crying because I've yet to find one that truly fits without getting TOO inelegant. I think some good examples were posted last time this thread came up but it wasn't quite right for some future scenes.

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Hmmm. Well I don't use them anymore because they crowd my panels too much. But when I did, there were a lot of Silver Age style SFX

WHAM
KRNCH
KRAK-KABOOOOM
SKRRKK
THUDD-D

[TheGentleArtist]

I just enunciate some onomatopoeia's and use them. Ex: "ptak" for bare feet walking along smooth pavement, "Bwooom" for reality warping, energy expanding effect and etc,.

[therosesword]

Not a word you see tossed around often yet within 24 hours two people have slipped it before my eyes. The other one was during a discussion of Djent Metal.

thank you!

[nathanKmcwilliams]

@therosesword
D-dd-jent-ddjent-d-ddjent-djent (I love Djent!)

[therosesword]

LOL.... that was great

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Haha yeah. I like that guy's videos xD he annoys a lot of people but...he's got some pretty great songwriting skills.

[therosesword]

Pfffftttt, so he annoys some people. How many people are in the world? Billions. How important are the people he annoys? Pfffft!

To them I say: Moving on, nothing to see, take your annoyance where it matters... oooh, can't find a spot... too bad, get perspective on how important you are(n't)

Obviously not finished with first cup of coffee.

[Phantomlight]

POOF

Does it count? I love this one a lot.

I love this one too, but I don't think I have used it...Always reminds me of cartoons where a fluffy character gets a bath and then dries off themselves only to turn into a giant pom pom after a "poof" sound xD

[Puck]

That´s the way I try to do it too, take sounds words from existing comics, but yeah it is hard for people who are not native english speakers

[TOTO]

A heroine punching a goddess of rebirth in the face ASMR

"S-stop--GBYFFYG!?--h-hitting me you pleb--GABGHFUYB!?--i-in the face, I-i need it for--GABGFYFYFT!?--work!--GBAGFYFBKFJBJKG!?"

Ends live recording

[drpingas3000]

Oh man, I love this stuff. I don't even know why.

[Legendofgenii]

Oh! I almost made a thread like this the other day, as I usually need help with this.

I’m looking for a flying emergency stop Sound (winged).

So far I have used sounds like BOOM, THUD and WHOOSH! So quite basic.

Another favourite is KHHHHSSSSSKKKK! Which I hope sounds like electricity/energy...

[Puck]

I will make a list, alphabetical order. The goal is too find the right sound word easily.
I have something like this in mind, you look for bird or you look for wings or flying and
there are all options.
There is no list like this at the moment and I think it´s missing

[Legendofgenii]

That would be brilliant. I’ve found a glossary for American superhero comic sounds, but they are all really old examples like “Biff!” and “pow!” Etc. A modern one would be great

[LCT_m_a_d]

I really dislike that word [onomatopopeias] for some weird reason

[Puck]

I have to look it up every time I write it