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You've really been working hard improving your art. Love to see it! [:hype_01:]
Okay, so as I understand... your current position is that you're a high school graduate, your parents are protective and so are stopping you just going out and getting a job, so you're presumably living with them while you attend community college. You've done jobs on Fiverr and similar, and you're …
I don't think Errant would be easy to stage, just because it has such big sequences involving effects, I can't help but feel it'd go the way of Spider-man: Turn off the Dark, and be over-blown, over-budget, look terrible and cause cast injuries. [:sweat_02:] Now an animated musical, like Encanto o…
I feel like the only person in the Errant cast who would deliberately do ASMR and have a good voice for it would be Jules. But they'd say like... weird crap, like they'd read you all of My Immortal in a soft whisper, or list the symptoms of horrible diseases or something because they think it's funn…
I've only ever turned up in extras. [:sweat_02:] [image] At most I'd be in an Omake maybe, or some day if I have a big crowd, I might sneak myself in there. I don't really have a problem with that sort of stuff in concept, and so actually think it can be pretty funny. It's just that Errant isn…
I went with Iliya, but I'd also suggest Ilya as an option, because that's a recognisable name. I went with Iliya over Eliya because for a British English speaker the I and E would be pronounced very differently, like ee-le-ya versus elly-ya.
That's cool backstory, but I wanted to know if they're characters in a comic, and if they are, what they do in the story. Like, who's the protagonist? Who's a villain or a friend or a rival? What role do these characters play in the story? If they're not for a story or a comic or anything, they …
I'm not sure how to rate these because I don't know what they're for. Are they for a comic? What's the intended audience? Are they meant to be main characters or are they more like powerful entities the main characters might interact with?
I learned to play guitar and bass a bit because of Scott Pilgrim. Stuff like the bits where the comic shows the chords for the songs the bands are singing got me intrigued, and also it being about kind of crappy bands who play very simple music was reassuring for me as a beginner. [:sweat_02:]
I post Fridays at midnight PST, because it's 8am GMT/BST, so people in North America might be awake still, and I'm awake in the UK. It's not the best time for people being awake when the notif drops, but I've found that isn't that huge an issue; getting seen in "fresh" is barely a thing on Tapas any…
It's a Fantasy world created in Japanese media around the same time as the Final Fantasy series. They probably drew from similar areas of inspiration. It's like Lord of the Rings and Narnia. They were created around the same time by people who were really good friends and taking inspiration from s…
I like the idea of allowing people to upload updates from mobile devices, because I think there are people who do make their whole comic on an iPad, and my partner often does a lot of writing for their Tapas novel on a tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard. Plus it would be convenient to be able to do th…
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All right... I'm going to be honest, so some of this may feel harsh, but it's all fixable stuff that you can hopefully work on in the future. There are a few major areas that hold this comic back: Format: Gag comics aren't that big on Tapas generally, and when they are, they tend to be much shor…
A villain doesn't need to be dark to be compelling. They only need to be challenging to the hero, so that they force the hero to push beyond their own limits in some way and learn a lesson to overcome them, and to have strong convictions in something the audience can feel like they genuinely believe…
I tend to have a rule of "at least one panel with some background in per page", but beyond that, I tend to use colours and patterns. I generally start a scene with a detailed establishing shot, and then subsequent panels with backgrounds in that environment are simpler and more pulled-in. I also som…
I've spent years now working on other people's IP as an illustrator, games artist etc. My webcomic is the place where I get to be the boss and make something that's all mine. It belongs to me and I get to make the creative decisions and try things out to see what works. A lot of the time working on …
Overall, this looks pretty solid. The art is nice, with well-integrated 3D and photo elements. The main font is maybe a little fancier than it needs to be, but it doesn't feel too out of place in a comic, and it's clear and readable. There are a few errors in the English, mostly grammar, but they do…
Ohhh... you know.... [image] Maybe just... [image] A little bit... [image] Now and then. [image] If you don't mind people being silly and having feelings in-between! [:sweat_02:] And it's about Knights, though they're not so much on a quest as struggling with the concept of duty and …
Urien, Ambrosius and Lacey are all kind of awful people I wouldn't enjoy being around for different reasons. I have good reasons for how they ended up that way, but that doesn't mean I'd want to be around them. Ambrosius is somebody rejected by the human world who has taken on a very, "It's okay f…
I get you. Having to be your own publicity person is a pain in the arse, and it's my least favourite part of being a professional creative. The thing that keeps me going is I see the absolutely useless people who get ahead by being really good at making contacts and promoting themselves and I thin…
I can try my best, while having a chuckle that a twenty something is asking somebody closing on forty how to use tiktok [:sweat_02:] The funny thing with tiktok is that crap quality is not only fine, but seems actually well-liked. Like literally point a camera at your screen, overlay some captions…
Ahh, I see... well, one thing you could try, if it's just for Novels, not comics, is Radish. You have to apply, but I have heard it's good for more mature queer works and makes better money for novelists than Tapas. Worth a shot?
Tapas is actually the best platform I've found for LGBTQ+ comics. I made it my primary platform specifically because it's probably the platform with the largest active readerbase (partially due to being big enough to have not just a site, but an app, so it has a few million users) that goes to lengt…
No need! Happy to help! [:smile_01:]
It's optional, so it's your choice. I personally choose to avoid platforms that are involved with them at all if I can, because I believe they're unethical for a variety of reasons, and that association with a platform like that wouldn't go down well with my audience who also largely believe they're…
Yeah, sorry, it's in their FAQ. Point 5, which they've somewhat misleadingly titled "sponsors" and avoided using the word "NFTs" to describe things that are definitely NFTs.
Oh it's that platform that lets you turn your panels into NFTs again... It's at least clear now that it's a creator choice, not something they'll do to you without permission... but I still want nothing to do with it.
When [protagonist name] is magically whisked away from her life of desperate struggles in a dimension overrun by monsters to our world, she thinks her problems are over, but the struggles of office romance and trying to fit in with her strange new surroundings are only made harder by her home world …
You only have eleven episodes, your last one was posted over a month ago and isn't a comic episode, it's somebody else's drawing of a mermaid. You haven't posted an update with actual comic panels that tell a story since April. If you want to build a following with a comic that people read, you ha…