Traditionally Made Comics!

[Nugtown]

There's an experience that's pretty much irreplaceable when it comes to pen and paper. I did only digital work for about six years, but the moment I moved back to doing my work on paper I simply couldn't go back. I started my comic digitally, but now everything's traditionally made, with an exception of the logo, written sound fx and non "screentone" colors.

What makes me avoid drawing digitally so much is this strange disconnect between hand and screen. What takes me a mere minute to draw on paper can take ten on the computer, so it becomes tedious fast, and frustrating.
I would also be lying if I didn't make mention of the fact that completing the comic this way brings me a lot of pride because ink and paper is it's own challenge. The look and feel of physical, tangible work feels incomparable to anything else.

[Alyssa]

I absolutely love pencil and paper. Art school has been heavily biased to move into 100% digital, and I've had teachers strongly encourage me to work sketch to finish in digital. Although I'm more comfortable with digital now, I must at least do sketches traditionally. It seems my brain just can't wrap around digital, even with a cintiq.

I also find my hand gets extremely sore and cramps when drawing digitally, so I try and do as much traditionally as possible.

All my shorter, experimental comics are fully or mostly traditional. Inks and sometimes washes. There's just an entirely different personality you get from traditional.

The comic I've been posting on Tapastic though is now fully digital. I still do the sketches by hand, and the first chapter (currently being posted) has traditionally inked lineart, but I've since made the transition to digital linework as well (as you can currently see this in the series banner). I just have to be sure to work slowly with digital. That may seem counter-productive but it is for the sake of my drawing hand, which is my life

[UrMom]

Never been much for digital, too sterile. I do traditional because it's more enjoyable, and satisfying, also I prefer the look of traditional mediums. It just has this look you can't simulate with a program. The fact that it's physically there rather than a thing on the computer screen is also really cool.
The comic I'm working on right now is all traditional, including lettering because I hate doing stuff on the computer, and avoid it like the plague. I never did a full process thing, but I did do a quick thing with my colouring process once upon a time on Spider Forest.

[ISNEKO]

After a while I realized that I didn't enjoy digital drawing at all. Nothing about it was enjoyable to me. So, now I just scribble with charcoal.
I Should Be Writing /// There is no Death

[scarlet_wings_kaili]

I've done both traditional and digital comics and I'm surprisingly much faster with traditional.
That being said, I actually think a mixture of both is what's most productive for me.
Some traditional stuff below :o
The bottom one is supposed to be a rotating comic box :3

[R.n.P]

This is my traditionally made comic, though its colored digitally
THE LAST SAMURAI
Its bout a war victim's struggle to get revenge for his clan that was wiped out.

[mechafeedalert]

The lineart is just godly. What pen/brush/etc do you use? My guess is fountain pen but I could be wrong.

[kylebrummond]

I pencil my ruff drafts and scan those in, then loose pencils on my iPad in pro create. I print out those pages in blue line and ink over them in the real world. Then scan them back into the computer for colors in Photoshop. https://tapas.io/episode/707480

[AmysGames]

I have a self-imposed challenge to do a 31-page comic every July, and they're almost always done traditionally because they take less time for me to draw. (Unless I decide to color it, and then I suffer :'D)

I've posted a few of those comics here on Tapas, if you're curious, though they're a bit old and don't have the best art quality, haha. The Legendary Female and Aiiro No Ninja: The Legacy!

[ashriott]

I draw and ink Malleus Maleficarum traditionally, but tone everything on the computer. I've always enjoyed inking traditionally. Despite the countless mistakes I make with them, they're so much fun and organic. There's certainly something about the sound of the nib scratching on the paper...

[bear1]

Do you mean me? (I'm sorry, I still have to get used to this forum format :))
My husband does my inking for me and he uses some deleter nib and winsor&newton ink. The BGs are done with rapidiograph

[mechafeedalert]

Yeah it's you. Some serious skill your husband have. Does he post any of his artwork online?

[jessiepolfliet]

Can I get a link to this please, it looks awesome.

[bear1]

Well, in this case: Thank you for the compliment. I will tell him
Unfortunately he doesn't post any artwork anymore. He used to have an account on Deviantart. But it's long gone by now
I asked him if he would post stuff online again. But he doesn't want to atm...

[bear1]

Wow! That water fountain looks amazing! I really like how you rendered the water there

[scarlet_wings_kaili]

These two aren't really "up" anywhere because the first one was a short for fun (but isn't really going anywhere) and the box is pretty hard to "post"
Sorry :<

[MoonSquid]

Thank you!! ;~; I try really hard to make the pages beautiful, and am still trying to learn along the way.

I never would have guessed In Security was traditional!! It's so clean! I seriously love it, it's so funny and the style is wonderful <3

[TheRabbit]

I draw and ink Vulperra the traditionally way. Then I do the colouring and screentones in Clip Studio Paint.

(wip picture)

(How it looks when it's done.)

[SirGutsalot]

Yay Traditionalists! Okay here's some pages from my comic:

[ella_mini]

Never been much for digital, too sterile.

I really like purchasing stationery so digital art couldn't bring that joy to me. haha.
Honestly though, I much rather and enjoy the ink to paper process. It may be that I could not grasp the digital methods. I do not dislike others artwork because they are digital, but I admit that I could never achieve the same results or looks.

I think there is also something in the traditional method that brings a bit of charm to it as well. There's room for error, there is less chance to "clean up", and these little things makes the work more charming to me, perhaps in a way more authentic?

Anyways, love to meet you all who favour traditional styles a little more than the counterparts!