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Hello, I hope it's alright to post about this here since it's not Tapas related but I'm not sure who to ask for help regarding this. My comic is on the Webcomics app, it's this website and I had signed a non-exclusive deal with them, but I stopped posting my comic on there back in 2019, before they…
1500 is a pretty good size imo, i noticed the total height is 120080, does that make your device slower or is it because it's broken up into sections that it doesn't affect the speed/CPU all that much?
Hello everyone! This is specifically if you make webtoon style comics, I've seen so many artists draw directly on long canvas or using this specific webtoon feature: [image] So... What is your canvas width?? I've been interested in using this feature on CSP but every tutorial has width at like 8…
My fav part of making my comic is doing the lighting/shading part. I personally don't think the lighting needs to be super realistic, it should be realistic enough for the scene but also as an artist you have much more freedom to exaggerate and manipulate it to fit the scene in your comic, i like us…
I really like that it has 2 formats on it, I've seen manga style comics as well as Webtoon style and website formatting changes to accommodate that. My current comic is ending soon so maybe for the next one I'll consider posting there. Does it have an application though?
Over the past few months i hired an assistant for the base colors and honestly i wish i had done this sooner! Base colors are the most tedious part for me, i honestly love coloring and shading but i always find i get so bored doing the base colors and I'm just looking forward to the shading part. Hi…
Ah sorry i might have an older version of the app on my phone without realising. I'm glad that section is there then
I was about to type out the exact same thing. I actually think its more like Webtoon becoming more like Tapas with the increase in their launch titles but even with all that scrolling the front page of the app you'll find a section for the indie comics so there is still come visibility for us. I hav…
Honestly I'd be very annoyed at a response like that, i'd rather my crush just reject me. It could be that the response is so... condescending and kinda robotic? maybe if it was phrased a bit more naturally? "I don't have feelings for you right now but... I'd like to go on a date to get to know you …
I love dramatic lighting, the direction and colors you choose really help convey the mood of a scene. I use dramatic lighting a lot for my comic for this reason. I made a few tutorials about simple dramatic lighting techniques I use, i hope it's helpful:
@hjpetersonauthor Thank you so much for the responses, it honestly helps so much I was wondering about this too, thanks for sharing your experience it's really helpful! Another question if that's okay, where do you go about finding a color flatter? I've only seen artists searching for assista…
Hello everyone, I've been considering hiring someone (Paid) to do the flats for my comic but I'm still debating it as I've been working on this comic the past 6+ years on my own and never worked with anyone else before, i don't even work in the industry so i have no idea how any of this works and w…
My main platform shifted to Webtoons when Tapas started doing a lot of changes that affected the visibility of non-premium comics. I really don't mind that they're advertised more but my friend who started reading more webcomics recently had no idea Tapas has free/indie comics. While people are say…
Hi, I did the first 60 or so episodes of my comic with pencil sketchy lineart combined with digital colouring before transitioning to fully digital. Heres my comic if you'd like to look through it. My comic is a webtoon/scroll style comic as well so I used to draw the panels in a sketchbook, scan th…
Hey i dont know if someone suggested this already since i didnt read every reply but this is something i do sometimes: - shade in grey scale, set this layer to multiply - new layer above the grey scale layer, set this layer to Overlay then clip it to the grey scale layer - place any colour there, sh…
Sometime I see printed copies of a comic and I feel like it would be nice to see my comic like that but... it's also super unrealistic for me, even pre-covid. With self publishing, printing books where I'm from is really expensive if you want it done well, most of my readers are from the US so I'd …
I don't have mature scenes in my comic but if I did I'd choose to censor them for Tapas to stay on the app, and maybe post the uncensored version on Patreon (doesn't necessarily have to be behind a paywall but I've seen artist do that as a patreon perk). The app audience is leagues larger than the …
I feel like comics are such a commitment of time and effort that its not worth it unless you're working on your own passion project or that you're getting paid. If a writer tells me that "I'll be getting paid in the future" it'd really show how little they know about webcomics and how difficult …
The base colors all the remain the same and the colors I change are the ones in the multiply (shading) and Overlay (lighting) layers. Changing and constantly color picking base colors is time consuming and I only do it when I'm not getting the desired effect from the below technique and even when I …
I loooove colors and coloring is probably my fav part of making my comic, especially when it comes to adding lighting and shadows. My personal illustrations are shaded in more details compared to my comic, for my comic I take a much more simplified approach to coloring which i still find interesting…
I don't like it at all and I find it annoying. A comic I used to read did that a lot and it made me stop clicking on it's updates right away, instead waiting to collect a few updates. I just find it disappointing when you see a comic you love update, feel excited that it's a new episode/page only t…
At the end of last year I made a compilation of how my 2 main characters look throughout the series and it really shows the art development! I didn't realise their facial features changed? Like i think especially Mihai since I wasn't actually used to drawing the type of face I wanted to give him …
I honestly don't know, it's hard but also kinda fun? I find certain aspects of it hard and other aspects I love and look forward to working on so I don't find them hard. I find writing difficult in general, I also find it difficult when I make edits last minute and add like 6 new panels to an episod…
If you use the slicing tool on photoshop or webtoon export (i think thats the name) on clip you can slice your panels in really small sections then save in high resolution JPEG (since its the smaller size format compared to PNG). The slicing/export tools save each section automatically in one go and…
I use the LT conversion on 3D assets (it makes 3D assets into lineart) i then sliiightly blur the lines so they don't look as rough. I then colour them using my own colour palette and the lighting that fits the scene so they blend it pretty okay in the comic. [image] Another thing to consider, …
I've seen comics that get posted on Tapas also get an official release on Webcomics (which as far as I'm aware also does official eng traslation?). Weirdly enough the comics I've seen that are posted on both get different english titles even though it's the exact same comic, so maybe both websites/a…
Colouring is my fav part of making my comic, an older comic I had was B/W and among other issues I had with that comic I found working with B/W boring. As for reading I'm fine with both! Although I wonder if I'm the only one but... with B/W comics/Manga I want to see at least a sketch of the char…
If a webcomic platforms like Webtoons/Tapas didn't exist then I wonder how many comics wouldn't exist in the first place? I feel like mine wouldn't since comic hosting websites make it so much easier to post online and where I'm from we don't have traditional comic publishers... like AT ALL... Self…
I colour my comic so I try to cut corners wherever I can lol. -THIS BRUSH THAT ERASES ALONG THE LINE - Like... it's magical... I only recently found it on the asset store. -keep shading simple. 1 Multiply layer for shading and 1 Airbrushed Overlay layer for lighting and that's it, they go over…
I choose the direction of the light source mostly based on how much it would fit the atmosphere of the scene. Like Backlighting looks very dramatic so i would add some lights behind the characters so the scene can be backlit. But if its just a random drawing my default is the opposite of where th…