Put time into studying storyboarding and visual storytelling. One of the big problems I see when novel writers jump to comics for the first time is they're still thinking like they're telling the story with words and then adding pictures to illustrate the words rather than telling the story with pic…
My number one tip is this: make a plan. A big difference between writing a novel and making a comic is that novels are fairly easy to edit. Multiple drafts, inserting or deleting scenes or whole chapters are standard practice when writing a novel. Not so with comics. Making comics takes such a tre…
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My Comic: Derailed
Are you a comic creator? Do you want a chance to have your series featured?
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We have a fun mini-event in which comic artists have the opportunity to have their series featured in Staff Picks! The rules are simple. All you have to do is pitch your series to us using ONLY emojis. 
We’l…
Hi there! As the title says I'm looking for an artist to collaborate on a story of mine. I started releasing the written chapters, but I feel it would be better in comic form. Which you can read at the link attached: https://www.wattpad.com/story/245906539-second-chance A little about me to help s…
Maybe sometimes the best option is to keep your darlings, since they are your darlings after all. Maybe kill everything that's NOT your darlings. Sometimes self-indulgence can be more interesting than anything else.
With a big ol' knife >: ) 
jkjk. It's definitely difficult, but on principal the purpose of killing darlings is to improve the work as a whole- in other words, it's for the greater good. When approaching it that way it's still hard but... you can just look at it like a gut punch you have to take …
Your art is amazing! I really enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing 
Been a while since I posted in these forums, but I like to pass on info about comic/manga contests whenever I come across them. This year's Tezuka Manga contest has just been announced, and the judges list is looking very impressive this year. [image] You can follow the link below to read more…
@mikeampao1 Love the panels a lot. The colors are striking and dark which is making your comic different from others. I really like the coloring a lot. I'll be checking out your comic during my free time. 
@MeganUosiu Thank you! I'm happy you like the idea of my thread 
Love your panels a lot. Th…
This was in response to a thread that may or may not be deleted. Either way, I think this is useful information for anyone contacted with a dodgy offer/commission, or an offer/commission in general if they've never received one before. Any professional artist with experience in this is free to add t…
I've been holding off promoting in this thread til I got to an exciting jumping-on point in the new chapter 
Do you like people punching demons that explode into rainbow sparkles? Action comics with relationship drama and LGBTQIA+ themes?
Hello! I just made my first webtoon, SEVEN MILES DOWN. It’s a psychological horror story set in the deepest trench in the world. You’ll follow a young oceanographer as she makes her first dive down these mysterious depths... and discovers things that may not be as pleasant as she expected. I…
I vote for quality. One chapter per week is a pretty good schedule. Personally I'm a picky reader - grammar mistakes, misspelling, and other small stuffs can turn me away from the novel. Maybe you wouldn't lose many readers, and would grow a bigger circle faster - but that will stagnate by time. On …
This is my math. If a reader support me with an ink value of 100$ All the ink is form app purchases with a 30% fee. Then I have a value of 70$. Tapas takes the share at 15% Then I have 59,50$ The PayPal takes 10% It gives me a value of 53,55$ And If I have to pay my Danish tax of that income at 40…
Actually I am not too surprised by the outcome and here is why. This outcome massively benefits Line from a financial business standpoint. By choosing only one extremely popular series to be a winner and the rest as not very well known, they have made a pool of featured creators where if they do acc…
Just saw the rollout! Lots of good changes. Banners are baaaack, and a giant subscribe button (much appreciated) and I LOVE that infinite scrolling is included with full screen mode. Its a perfect function for binge reading, whether or not you have a scroll comic or a book format comic that updates …
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei is an obscure manga/anime with my favorite openings and OP. The opening perfectly sets the tone of this weird series. A high school girl walking to school in a beautiful cherry blossom filled day...only to see some one hanging on a noose on a tree. And she proceeds to mo…
I'm 29, and of course, can empathize with anyone else who's currently buried under student loans. x_x I did manage to land some decent gigs here and there as a clean-up animator for a couple 2D projects, though! Just got rolled off a little while ago, so I'm mainly trying to get by until they call m…
Full disclosure, I'm 11 years elder to you and at 16 I was in the exact same boat. I also started with anime and didn't do any structured life drawing until I was 19 and in college for an animation degree (I spent the first year in college learning I didn't care to become a Psychologist.) Today, I…
Hello! Just recently started my webcomic!
In this world everyone is connected to a tree that gradually grows as you are also growing. However, if you have some kind of problem that might stop the tree from growing and if it isn't big enough by the time you turn 18... well you end up becoming the …
Hey there! We get a LOT of request threads like these in the forums so there really does need to be more information upfront. Otherwise, other users will become frustrated and it will ultimately lead to nothing. Here is a thread about how you can make a really awesome and informative collab thre…
Demon House: script: 4 months drawing: 4 years, still going Heavy Horns: script: 3 months drawing: 4 years, still going Sarota Springs: script: 3 months drawing: 2.5 years, still going Erie Waters: script: 1 month drawing: 1 year Secunda (webnovel) writing up to 57,000 words: 4 months O…
Eh, it's still only been 3 weeks since the revamp. Even during past revamps it took awhile to address all the bugs and iron out the wrinkles (which I'm guessing is what's going on with side trending displays). And since it was a bigger revamp this time, that means bigger wrinkles. And with the glob…
Hey people, Quite some time ago I used to follow a comic that was on here, but I've forgotten what the name is. It's about a girl who was investigating a recent string of deaths of angels. If I remember correctly she had sort of an small spirit with her. Normally some spell would show the killer…
Once in a blue moon I'll see tweets like this crop up: And it always gets me wondering. We know that pirates are an unfortunate fact of life. Whether these individuals are poor or well off, much like the new phenomena of 'porch pirates' as one tweeter there pointed out, they feel entitled to th…
saw this, thought i post here 
http://herald.comicadia.com/2020/03/06/the-tapas-redesign-a-walk-through-with-a-ux-strategist/
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Long story short: most of us here want to promote ourselves on various social media platforms, but we're not good in that 
So maybe we can make a list of challenges a creative person can participate in to gain some popularity and subscribers!
I will start with #Inktober, which is an artistic chal…