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Blake
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Just a guy who likes comics and long, in-depth lore videos.
Check out my work on my Website, TAPAS or LINE Webtoon.
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There is never a thing of advertising yourself too soon, especially with stuff involving social media. If you got the media to put on these platforms, do it. More so if that is the release date you want to start releasing your comic. The next question you should ask yourself is how many pages you …
It is also important to know that not everyone will have the same experiences with the same platforms. For me this was the opposite. I have had very minimum interaction with my followers on Tapas, not to mention having far less compared to Webtoons. This comes down to a lot of things, like how l…
For marketing, you can do many things, but it comes down to what works for you. You like tweeting things about your comic? Get on twitter and start sending out tweets. If you like talking about how you make your comic, make a YouTube channel. Like to colab? Find people on forums (like this one!) a…
Are you doing so because of work/school during the day and this time is the only free time available to you, or just that you seem to only get motivated to work at such a time? I feel you though, time seems to go really quick when you get into the flow. I had plans of going to bed early, have a pr…
Haha, sounds like you have the same drawing schedule as me... I have only a few days off from work and I draw all day until 1 am, wake up at 10.30 the next morning and do it all over again. Literally nothing else other then drawing, Webtoons/Tapas organizing and website tinkering... So many house ch…
Are you going OK my friend? What has made you afraid of drawing? Just the belief that you can't do it or something else?
Very nice start! I don't know what your other comic was like before you deleted it, but damn. This new one is really nice so far! I look forward to seeing more of your work!
I agree, it is not a perfect way of dealing with things. In hind sight, I guess it doesn't really matter whether it is multiple stories in one series, since people will tend to start at the beginning and work their way through it all. So even if I have 1000 pages/episodes to a series, people are goi…
G'day guys, so here is my dilemma: I want to keep my stories for my comic S.U.B.O in their own respective episodes, since they are an individual story. So each episode will have 10 plus pages for that single story arc. I used to upload these as single page episodes, but found that I have has so …
I think what you should do is take a break. Maybe do small comics unrelated to your main story (even if it is in the same world) or just another big project you have in the works. If you do that and still come back to the DRAGOONS story feeling the way you do now, just archive it. If you are doing…
I mean anytime you voice any opinion on any subject, people are going to agree with you or not. People are going to like and not like you just by the way you behave. You simply cannot please everyone. I think a lot of people have run along with the idea that the internet is a safe place for everyone…
Well how much do you think your work is worth? If you charge $10 per panel and it might take you two hours to get it all done, are you OK with working for $5 an hour? Be realistic in pricing your worth (at least minimum wage where you live) and don't go too low as a compromise. Though just don…
I always suggest to do charge hourly for your work. But instead of literally charging by the hour, do a couple of drawings of a certain shots (Head shot, mid shot, fully body shot) and time how long it takes you to do them. If it takes you on average 2 hours to do a head shot, charge for 2 hours of …
If anyone is a Dwarf Fortress fan, you guys might have seen a guy called Kruggsmash around. He basically draws what is happening to his Dwarves in the game, since its main text and random symbols. I remember watching his videos waaaay before he started to draw, when it was just him editing his vid…
Just did a quick google and got this other link for Movie Maker 2012 too: I still use it on Windows 10 and I'm pretty sure I got it through here. Been awhile, but yeah.
You should check out the anime Your Name if you haven't already. Basically two people switch bodies randomly and they try to work out what the hell is happening. Not saying this is the way to go, but it could give you a different way of seeing how others do the sort of body switching/is this a dream…
O.K so lets start with some criticism, then some good stuff to not leave a bitter taste. The first chapter doesn't really feel like it needs to be there. Nothing really was told to us as a reader that we don't already know from the description. You physically describe the main character, the maids…
That's still no problem. If your jokes and skits are funny, art still doesn't matter. I mean look at the early Cyanide and Happiness comics to see what I mean. Simple, not a lot going on drawing wise. But so. God. Damn. Funny. And you can see from their later works, they have greatly improved. The…
The story is much more important then the art. You can draw like complete crap, but if you have a well written story, people can look past it. Not all people, but most. Some will be turned off by art but I challenge you to try and remember a specific panel from the last comic you read. You probably …
It's up to personnel preference to how many pages are in a webcomic episode. Whatever works well with you. I personnel found that a page per episode works well since it gets more eyes on you instead of updating the one and only episode, since it gets you on the new released section of either TAPAS…
Cats haven't been fully domesticated by humans, unlike dogs who we evolved with over the thousands of years. You can argue that they are, but they can turn feral (i.e wild) much quicker then other animals cause they haven't had that reliance and trust with humans bred into them. They are still wild …
Try and think of it less like a shift at work where you get paid to work for block of hours and more like working when you feel like it in a previously agreed time frame, as long as you provide the service to the standard you set. Say you agree on a week after settling the details (recommended). Y…
For prices, I say it is fair and reasonable to just charge an hourly rate. Depending on your skill, if people are wanting your work and other factors will play a role in how much exactly you should charge per hour. For how much you should charge per hour kinda depends. Say you just do minimum wage…
In my completely honest opinion, I think making a completely unique word for a race is better then slightly changing an already existing word or a word from another language. If you called your race Aracniods, nearly everyone can imagine that they are going to look like a spider, or have something s…
Canvas size isn't really that important IF you are just making art for art sake. If you are making desktop wallpapers or postcards or anything that needs a specific size, you will need to obviously change it to fit those requirements. 300 DPI is a must. Imagine commissioning someone for $50 and yo…
I know this isn't what you are exactly looking for, but it can help if you are wanting to make a name for something down the line. And while not actually having the word Arthro, there are still words that relate to arthropods. Look at the scientific names of insects, or the insect that closely rela…
I feel where you are coming from because I was the same. Started with Blue Host and then backed out cause it all seemed too scary. Eventually the pros outweighed the cons and I just dove right in. It seems a lot more scarier then it actually is, trust me. What exactly were you wanting to test before…
I think that because you have had you characters learn that things do end and that everything has an expiration date (friendships, circumstances, lives), that it would almost be throwing all that out if you had a something to state otherwise. Yes, it might be a "happier" ending, but it is not what y…
Yeah, I mean if she is in a library, she could pretty much absorb all that knowledge from the books in a pretty quick amount of time if she can clone herself and retain all that knowledge. So I guess that she does it so she can collect more knowledge, both in the library and outside it? And if the…
Wilde Life is pretty good. It's not on TAPAS, but still worth your time checking it out. Basically its about a guy who moves to a new town, and starts to discover that there are different supernatural creatures there. Some are harmless, some he befriends, and others are more... questionable... htt…