craftymarten

Rae

Scotland

https://tapas.io/series/Lycan

Two years ago Felix contracted Lycanthropy, an ancient viral disease that causes the sufferer to turn into a wolf-like creature every full moon. Something is wrong though. The only known transmission method is through a bite, or blood transfusion but Felix caught the virus from a pill. The transformations are becoming more sporadic. Less controllable.
It's up to Felix, and his boyfriend Luca, to figure out what's going on, and not lose themselves in the process.

Joined
Mar 2, '18
Last Post
Mar 11, '20
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Jun 10, '20
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I've had a massive drop in subs and views since Feb, I've had no new subs in the past week. Sometimes this just happens though, it's disheartening but I just have to hope it gets better soon. [image]

I thought the site was broken when I first opened it but then I realised it was supposed to be all white. It looks so sterile, all the sense of fun is gone.

I moved Lycan over to LGBTQ+ from drama to see how it goes. I normally describe it as LGBT+ Mystery Drama but if people are only looking in LGBTQ+ for romance I'll move it back I think. I've not had any nasty comments on Tapas but on other sites I've had people say they stopped reading because there…

The same happened with my account, it's saying I had no subscribers last November when I know I had about 70 because it was my highest ever. I'm just used to numbers on Tapas being weird. Last week I got 15 new subscribers but I also lost 14 subscribers? I've had it happen a few times where I've los…

I think I probably would, I expect my comic will never be massively popular so if I can get the story out to as many people as possible that would be great. I'd still keep the rights to the webcomic I assume so I can always be one of those creators that hates the movie version and complains about it…

I'm at either 396 or 391 (my subs are different when I click them!) If you like dark, supernatural fantasy-drama about werewolves check it out! I'm just finishing off chapter 5 and I'm super excited to work on chapter 6!

I was taking a look and it made me realise that searching "tag" ranks it by subscriber count instead of whatever searching "comics" ranks it by, which is nice! Way less dead comics that updated once in 2015.

I've lost loads of followers recently, lost 6 with my most recent update but this month I've gained 14 followers and lost... also 14 followers. I thought I was finally gaining some traction after a few months of gaining 40-70 subs per month but this is the first month my comic has had no growth at …

Done! I have my period right now so yes let me rant about this. :smiley:

Of the 20 comics on the popular tab now 9 are in the BL category and 3 are in the romance category (with 2 having BL in the thumbnail) Of the 8 left, 2 are about M/M romances under other tags. From the newest 20 premium tapas comics 8 are BL and 7 are Romance which is far more than any other genre…

You can like someone's work without thinking it's perfect. Naïve art can be cute and fun without being technically accurate. Honestly, I think there's redeeming qualities in everyone's work. at least if nothing else they're trying. Tearing someone down is very rarely going to help them improve, if …

Could always get one of these (not my photo) They're pretty expensive I think but I've heard they're really good for preventing shoulder and back pain which is quite common from screen tablets. [image]

Cool, I was just curious. Your post seems really professional so I have no doubt you'll run a successful kickstarter. I'll try to come up with something :slight_smile:

This seems really cool! Can I ask if you've done projects like this before? Also how many contributors are you looking at? 4-10 pages is quite a lot so I'm just wondering how long it'll be. Definitely interested in joining in!

I love my Huion. I have the Kamvas GT 191 too. I went through 2 intuos tablets and 3 pens before I gave up, there's issues with the charging port that wacom hasn't fixed in years and I kept having to take the battery out of my last one and charge it manually. You can get the Huion H610 for less th…

I name searched Lycan before I posted my comic and thought it was generic enough that I was safe when no other webcomics came up. 2 months after I started posting someone with a print comic called Lycan started posting online and sent me a message saying they'd sue me if I kept using the name, I tot…

Ah that's amazing! Thank you!

It is! I asked my twitter and half the replies were "we have coffee makers though". How you going to drink tea with a coffee maker? There was a tweet going round this week that Americans don't use A-sized paper. Crazy. :smile: Anyway I decided to set my comic in the US because I needed somewhere with …

Honestly I think indie comic artists have so much to do that calling them lazy for missing something is a bit unfair. What's obvious to you might not be obvious to everyone else. I do see what you're saying though and I think that research is important, especially if you're going into specifics abou…

True, I don't mind little mistakes and I don't find them immersion breaking. OP was talking about things like age you can drive and leave school though, which I probably wouldn't even notice. I've had a few readers point out things that are off. I'm pretty sure every street scene I flip which side …

Speaking as someone writing a comic based in a country they don't live in- it's a lot harder than you think. Even where I live we use words and speak in dialects that people half an hour away don't understand and there's a lot of things you take for granted that you don't even think are different in…

I think tracing is fine as long as you aren't tracing a copyrighted photo and you're being transparent about it. There's nothing worse than someone obviously tracing something but when you ask they say "maybe I used it as reference I can't remember". In my comic I just can't draw cars at all so I te…

I went in to crit your faces since you said you were horrible at them and was pleasantly surprised- you're definitely not horrible at faces! There's one thing I think that's holding them back and that's the structure and expression in the eyes. You're drawing them a lot more like eye-symbols than ey…

I'm not popular at all but if you stick around long enough eventually people have to give you attention.

I'm always pretty on the fence about this. GMOs (specifically talking about the common use which doesn't include selective breeding) can produce more robust, more nutritious crops, or crops producing vitamins which are uncommon in certain diets (eg: golden rice.) They can also decrease the use of d…

I'm really bad at most of these, I haven't posted on IG in over a month! I'd also say if you've got an art instagram post mostly art! If I see someone who's art I like but their feed is- photo of food, photo of dog, photo of food, art, photo of friends, photo of book I'm far less likely to follow th…

Yeah I've got to disagree. You can't compare blockbuster films with indie webcomics. I don't send my comic through 100 teams of people who all want it to be different things and also have to write in a scene where coca cola and the army team up to save the world. If someone only wants to make a comi…

I've got so many comics to catch up on but here are a few that I'm caught up with at the moment

I don't really think this is a trope, it's more a thing people just do. If I was dying in hospital and no one came to see me I would feel pretty bad about it. Imagine if the world was ending and no one said goodbye to you, it's pretty grim.

I'm prepared for everyone to guess far younger than I actually am but here goes! Here's some fairly recent stuff that isn't actually my comic. [image] [image] [image]