What resources do you use for creating your comic/novel?

[CurryXSake]

For comic script writing, I use Microsoft Word. For the drawings, I use Krita and a pen tablet.

[foxnflames]

Haha fair point. But for me, painting/drawing/writing is that weird balance of being a stress reducer and stress inducing

[CommanderMarty]

I draw using Kirta and I write using Google Docs.

I do use 3D models but I trace them. (I pose them myself and then I trace them and this isn't always the case)

[ninjashira]

Let's see, for writing I use Google Docs. While I'm in the "figuring things out" phase, I'll share the Google Doc with some friends and they can go in and makes notes and comments right in the document live, which is awesome.

For creating the artwork, I use a combination of Photoshop and Clip Studio. I do most of the work in Photoshop, but I'll do a lot of the backgrounds and the manga-style flashback inking in Clip. I use TinkerCAD, a free browser-based 3D modeling program, to make rough models of my backgrounds to draw from, so I don't have to math out all the perspective as I'm drawing. The program is aimed at children, so it's super easy to use. I'll also use Google Sketchup and the Sketchup Warehouse as a reference for 3D models of things like cars and Vespas and once for this fancy water fountain. It's just so much easier to have a 3D reference to draw from for complicated things like that.

Everything else, I do in Photoshop, though I am trying to transition to Clip Studio for future projects, to try and escape having to pay the Adobe subscription service for the rest of my life.

[Fuzed]

Hi CurryXSake, how're your doing today?

I've seen Krita mentioned multiple times here. What kind of a program is it?

[Fuzed]

Same here. I love telling my story but then I always feel like I'm not doing it justice.

[Fuzed]

Hi Lordsomething, how're you doing today?

I see this method quite often, seems like a pretty popular one.

[CommanderMarty]

I'm doing alright, I only use this method when something is too complex for me to do on my own.

[DualDragons]

I use a lot
I use google docs for writing. For the art I use Clip Studio Paint. I usually do the lineart traditionally and scan it in though.

[R.n.P]

pen, pencils, rulers and eraser for my art and photoshop for my panelling and dialogue

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[Fuzed]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Fuzed]

Hi there DualDragons, how're you today?

CSP is very popular from what I've seen. Do you just scan the lineart with a regular printer/scanner or how do you do it?

[Fuzed]

Hi there R.n.P, how's it going today?

So you do all your art by hand on a physical piece of paper? How do you translate it onto your PC?

[R.n.P]

After i finish drawing i scan it n on photoshop i adjust the image levels in order to get the best black and white image quality (tho in my current episodes released its not showing yet, my next one will show how clear the images are now since i perfected it there), then i do the paneling using photoshop and do the dialogue too

[DualDragons]

Just a regular scanner, though I'm thinking of how to improve the scan quality.

[RyzaCobalion]

For my novel i have used Microsoft word to type out every chapter and use grammerly to correct any typos and grammatical errors i made. As for the program i have used for depicting art for my novel series i have used medibang pro which i love using because it's a program use draw comics and im using it to draw out my new novel cover and my characters as seen here

Though I have touched 3D such as Maya for a small time during the springtime of college and have designed this monster that will appear in my novel much later but this is what I have designed it to be.

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[PaulDevers]

I use FireAlpaca for my skeletons usually, simply because my decrepit computer opens it faster than my other programs, and it's what I learned on so it's easy for me to do quick and fast lines; appropriate for page skeletons I think. Nothing more than just a transparent layer and such here!

For my actual lineart, I cannot go without Clip Studio Paint. I love love love it for comic work, even though I don't even think I'm using it to it's fullest potential.

Clip Studio also takes up coloring duty when I need it to! Pretty much everything I do revolves around these two programs; I don't draw that much physically these days due to convenience and lack of practice.

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[rajillustration]

For writing I just use LibreOffice lol. Occasionally I'll use notepad but it always ends up on LibreOffice. If there is too many editing tools for writing, it just weighs me down and makes me distracted. I keep a glossary of lore at the beginning of the document, and that's enough to remind me of big events and timelines and stuff.

For comic making, I use photoshop and ClipStudio. Occasionally I'll take advantage of online splicing tools and flatting tools like croppy and flatton. Sometimes if I have a weird 3d object I throw it into Blender. I also like to use Lazy Nezumi for my perspective tools--it's wonderful for doing buildings in perspective, and I like it better for smoothing than photoshop and clip but I might just be biased because I've used it so long..

[Shanny8]

I use Scrivener to script out my comic chapters.

I use Clip Studio Paint to pencil & ink my comic pages; I then toggle between Photoshop and CSP during the coloring & effects stage. I use Adobe Illustrator to letter my pages...

I do use the 3-D pose models that Clip Studio has. I'm currently trying to find a 3-D program that will allow me to quickly slap together items for background images- something easier than Blender.

[miss.monocle]

For all my current scenes, I drew everything with a few references, such as photos I had taken around the city or photos on pinterest. For newer scenes though, in order to cut back on the time it took to do pages, since I draw them almost entirely alone and I am going into my senior year of college, I am now using sims 4 in order to create sets that I can extract the line art from.

It works great because I love interior design in the sims and it saves me time in the long run!