What's YOUR webcomic process?

that_lizardguy 2025-09-14 13:11:33 UTC #1

I'll start! I create a rough sketch, then clean it up (My favorite part). Adding flat colors and speech is next, finishing up with my title! What's your tips for comic making?
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My comic is Lizard Life Chronicles, a comic strip series with a quirky lizard family going though various trials that life throws their way! https://tapas.io/series/Lizard-Life-Chronicles/info

kyupol 2025-09-14 13:58:20 UTC #2

Layer 01 - sketch
Layer 02 - line
Layer 03 - color flats
Layer 04 - shadows
Layer 05 (optional if I need to add another shade Layer)
Layer 06 (optional if there's sfx like speedlines, etc)

wolflu66 2025-09-14 14:33:35 UTC #3

My webcomic creation workflow -

1.Come up with the overall story outline, then divide it into appropriate lengths for each episode. However, adjustments may be made later - splitting one episode into smaller parts, or combining two episodes into one. But the main direction won't change.
2.Use Excel to write down the dialogue, character actions, and scene notes. At this point, I've already roughly planned out the panel layout in my mind.
3.Draw out the planned panel layout/storyboard.
4.Officially start the artwork. First draw the rough sketch, then the line art and coloring.
5.Add the dialogue text.

If you're asking about my drawing process, it's really quite simple. 1. Rough sketch 2. Line art 3. Coloring

Sometimes after coloring, I use Photoshop for overall post-processing and adjustments, but when I want to be lazy I skip this step XD.

BoomerZ 2025-09-14 17:30:15 UTC #4

write script using an outline format with each bullet as a panel. All dialogue complete like a movie script. This usually takes 2 days as I let the episode sit for a day and come back to it to make sure the dialogue sounds correct and find spelling/grammar mistakes. I do multiple passes, specially for the structure of the dialogue to make it sound natural.
Set up the roughs for all panels, basically just outline of where things are. Add dialogue now so I know it all fits, makes sense, and how much I need to draw. Also so the dialogue doesn't cross over or is confusing to the reader. All this is done at full scale, in a digital world thumbnails are a waste of time.
Pencils over rough, erasing and replacing the roughs. Very loose drawing to keep the movement of the characters in the scene.
Ink the final panels over the top of the pencils on high layer. enclose dialogues in balloons.
All colors, flats etc, on a file below all the panel layers. Also add shadows as a two layer (light and shadows) as an opacity layer, adjusting for the shadow I want. I use dark blue, not black, so I get true shadows of the base colors, not grey.

I do weekly comics so only the first step is multiple days, usually 2-3 days. All other steps are a single day. My episodes are 30ish panels in a scrolling format.

powerplantanimations 2025-09-14 17:43:32 UTC #5

Originally for Dream Goddess, we had to follow this schedule in order for the day to feel more realistic since the daytime segments are the protagonist journaling.

We then had to build the outline around this. Then I had to create the nighttime segments and make everything blend. I had to look over EVERYTHING to make sure everything was lore accurate.

Afterwards, we'd do page drafts for layouts (since it's easier for Burd to draw):

Afterwards drawing:

We then wait until everything is finished so we can start doing test pages.

Then we give it to Burd_Lady, who draws 5 pages a month. We use the text pages as buffers.

krazycafetales262 2025-09-15 14:11:19 UTC #6

In Order:

Scripting
Sketching using Pencil and Paper
Text/Speech Bubbles/Panels
Inking using a tablet
Flats
Shades/ Highlight
Texture/Mood coloring

Red_Dog 2025-09-15 18:00:35 UTC #7

Once I have an idea I like to write it down to just get the idea out of my head. Kinda like scripting or maybe a very rough version of scripting.

Then I do a sorta storyboard with stick figures with some minor details on them. Like roughly sketched hair or a hat so I remember what character is what. I also put rough versions of the word bubbles in these sketches too.

Then I sketch the panels proper.

Then I get to inking and shading the panels and adding in details while also making proper word bubbles.

Here's some examples from some chapters I'm currently working on.

Ex 1:

Ex 2:

Ex 3:

Ex 4:

Nugapug 2025-09-15 19:43:26 UTC #8

I make the stories for it first, and I have given myself quite a head-start since I made tons of story ideas for both Fourthly Puzzled and Human Yet Hybrid, one of them I'm almost done with, writing wise.
When I pick an idea, for the layout stage, I use blender to screenshot a scene for every specific line, sometimes it's for more if the idea has more than one part
After that, I start out the pages with the boarders and put the layouts down to which panel it goes to, and group them together with Krita, and to make things go a little quicker I go through which number of pages to start with.
I draw the heads of the characters first, then I sketch out the body in different layers, from the torso, the arms, and the legs. And I position them to which pose or direction it should go to.
Next, I use a curve tool to make draw out the bodies of every character that is present in the comic.
With the help of the layout, I just use the curve tool and draw out what the background should be, but I make some tweaks like ad some extra lines in order to fit in the atmosphere of the background/world building.
After all of that is done, I add the text for speech bubbles, action words, and some dialogue yellow boxes for other beginning scenes like "At the bar" or "Five minutes later."

Or if you wanted it to be put simply for both.

Fourthly Puzzled
1. Script
2. layout
3. page layout
4. sketch
5. cleanup
6. character coloring
7. drawing backgrounds
8. background coloring
9. text and speech bubbles

https://globalcomix.com/c/fourthly-puzzled

Human Yet Hybrid
1. Script
2. layout
3. page layout
4. sketch
5. cleanup
6. character coloring
7. character shadows and lighting
8. effects (If needed)
9. drawing backgrounds
10. background coloring, shadows, and lighting
11. text and speech bubbles

https://globalcomix.com/c/human-yet-hybrid