What tools do you use to draw your web comics?

[artamazon]

Photoshop, Clip Studio, 3DSMax, Cintiq21UX - highly recommend Clip Studio. I was a hardcore PS lover until I started using Clip Studio. The bulk of my work is now done there, though I still color and do logo work in PS. Clip is doing the sale right now, but they also have a trial if you're not sure yet.

All that said, there's nothing wrong with pen and paper! Digital just makes some things easier and faster, but you still need the same skills to lay it all out and make it!

[Raven_C]

I, too, use Clip Studio. Been using the Pro version for years but recently upgraded to EX when they still had the sale available. I don't have Photoshop anymore since I never went back to it, although I still have Adobe Illustrator (but it's not for comic work). I use a Cintiq 13HD that I got secondhand two or three years ago. Still works like a charm!

[VibrantFox]

wacom intos medium on a dinky hp laptop (hopefully soon to be replaced with a new baby) and medibang pain pro or firealpaca depending on the mood.

the only time i bring photoshop back from the dead is if i need any color fixing which is next to never; and i got clip studio during one of it's last sales but i...still haven't used it. it's much different than when i used it years ago and that was on a trial version. i respect folks who can make good use of either

[lauragarcia511]

I draw on my Surface Pro and use Photoshop as the art program.

[thecrystalrook]

a mechanical pencil, pigma micron pens and copic markers. I'm old school

[ninjashira]

Hey, nothing wrong with working old school! Traditional art has a great texture and tactile quality to it that a lot of digital art lacks. If you can rock fineliners and Copics, that's awesome! It can be a tricky and temperamental medium to work in sometimes!

[EmmyPax]

I'm primarily traditional as well!

Speedball ink with a bowl nibbed pen for linework, on hot press watercolor paper. Then I use Winsor Newton watercolors (sometimes Copics, for the "video game" panels) and Posca pens at the end for corrections.

Then I scan and do all the formatting/lettering/word balloons in Krita. I hate my penmanship, so I had to go somewhat digital.

[borzoiteeth]

My main comic is an anthology and right now I'm experimenting with pixel art- but usually my ingredients are: Graphite, India+Archival ink, watercolour with a waterpen. Then to GIMP with a 14(?) year old wacom tablet.

I looooove metallic paints and those never translate to digital!

[DokiDokiTsuna]

Stolen printer paper + pencil --> Gel pens --> Scanner --> Paint.NET

[KariIllustrations]

Sometimes i also use pencil and paper to draw the rough sketch, then i'll take a pic of them on my ipad and upload them to the Medibang Paint app

[NickRowler]

-I story plan in a Black n' Red note books, the paper quality is good, the cover is sturdy and the lines are not too dark.
-I draw with a small Wacom Intuos4 which is probably like 12 years old but it still works fine.
-I use a very old version of Photoshop, so I doubt you can easily get a copy of it. I have been trying out Clip Studio which is fine if you are just doing illustrations and comics. Tho it is really lacking is some key features I like from Photoshop

[Ardelvion]

• Wacom Intuos Small - I use this for drawing webcomics. It's the one that comes with a USB cable, not the one with the bluetooth. I place a somewhat thick plastic sheet on top of it so that my nibs won't wear out when I draw.

• SketchUp - for backgrounds and for helping me sketch where I should position my characters.

• Corel Painter Essentials 6 - for flat colors, textures, shadows, and digital painting.

• MediBang Paint Pro - for sketching, line art, and speech bubbles.

• Adobe Photoshop CS2 - for text, pacing the panels, and slicing the final webcomic.

[Doodler]

For me I used a simple wacom tablet and photoshop. In the past I would use illustrator to do the line arts. But after learning the magic of photoshop pen tool I was able to skip the extra step and really streamline my work

[AmandaJ-art]

I use a UGEE 5 tablet and clip studio paint pro!

[emvink]

I use an ipad + clip studio paint pro!

[SagaHolmgaard]

I use Clip Studio Paint and really recommend it! And I use a Wacom Mobilestudio, which was my upgrade from a Wacom Intuos that I had been using for five-ish years. An Intuos or a cintiq are probably good when you're starting out Or a huion if you're looking for something more affordable, though I've never tried one personally.

[humhumsong]

I used wacom intuos small and medibang paint pro.

-Wacom intuos small -

I bought wacom intuos small, an affordable tablet like a month ago because I don't know if I can be a real artist or not. I'm a beginner who just know what layer is, what's the differences between airbrush, g-pen and others . So if I don't have talent for this, I won't feel my money is being wasted too much on this.

-medibang paint pro-

To be honest, it is a bit hard to use medibang because it doesn't have slice tool and there aren't lots tutorial of medibang for making webtoon in YouTube but after a month of using it, I got used to it and it's not a big problem.

But still, it would be better to have Ps someday.

[demthorshie]

I have a Wacom Bamboo and a Wacom Intuos I switch between every now and then and I do the majority of my comic in Clip Studio paint and the coloring in PS. I'm hoping to upgrade tablets in the near future.

[MoiOBRA]

@alexitsios
Mine is XP-pen deco 03
I highly recommend it for the price and functionality.
It's almost three years since I bought one, and it still is what I used until today.
https://www.xp-pen.com/product/89.html

My monitor is Philips 43" 4k monitor

Buy the Philips Brilliance 4K Ultra HD LCD display BDM4350UC/00 4K Ultra HD LCD...

And a windows 10 pc

On the software side, i used Medibang for my line-art, Krita for coloring and Photoshop for slicing and other technical stuff.

[Shanny8]

Clip Studio had a 50% off sale a couple of days ago...its original price for its Pro(basic) version is $50, but the sale slashed it down to $25. You can get tablets as low as $60 or 70 bucks...the larger the tablet & the more features it has, the more it costs.