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I know nothing about publishing but I know a bit about patreon! Patreon takes a lot of work and mainly a lot of patience. It usually takes a while (and a loooot of advertising) for people to think about becoming a patron for you, unless you already have a huge following and bam, you start to use p…
I am planning to make comics my main job, through sales, patreon and conventions. Currently I'm not yet there, and I do have a secondary job to pay off bills, but there's a lot of webcomic creators out there that have made webcomics their career! If you plan to become a comic creator it really jus…
I have a very weak hand, so I post every other Sunday at 7AM PST, not too early that no one's awake on the net, but not too late either kinda of deal. I don't know why Sunday... just the day that's most convenient for me and mentally it gives me more time to finish I think?
I think the number one way to make characters interesting is to give them lots and lots of depth, and I think the best way to do that is how they interact with other characters, and situations. In what situation are they happy, angry, nervous, scared, determined, can't think straight etc. What's imp…
It's also kinda repetition? Especially when you're first starting out. Just consistently post, and consistently talk about it all over social media, and eventually readers will come, because they'll eventually continuously see it. Advertising and readership takes a lot of patience and repetition. Qu…
I'm pretty sure they're leaving that.. it's more so for the creators that do the monthly system I believe? since if you're a brand new patron, if you start supporting lets say june 3, you get a full month of content, and then if you leave before you're charged, then you essentially steal it. With …
I'm one of the creators who actually already has Charge Upfront implemented! And I absolutely love it. I make my content mainly available on my creator wall so you can get the content through the app. And patrons not being charged right away was a problem for me. Because I had uploaded a Patreon exc…
Sometimes theres images linked to URLs, and twitter will automatically use that, unfortunately you have no control of what that is, and how it's cropped. HOWEVER, the moment you upload an image with a link, twitter will override that default image. It is a good idea to create separate ad images! I…
Nice to know all those details! I'll keep them in mind for my more serious comic 
@Anthea Good luck love! Yeah I think the biggest thing hiveworks has to offer is advertising, and aide with site work. @Tweekling Honestly, no harm in applying right? It's up to you how you want your comic to be online. The worst case scenario is that they don't accept your submission. They have …
This is such an interesting topic. And I tend to question myself a lot now. haha;; My comic is literally formatted for tapastic, and was mainly meant as practice? But now I wish I drew it larger FOR print, just because a lot of fans are asking me if I ever want to make a printed copy. I love webc…
if you're just adding pages to an existing episode you don't make it to the fresh section,so that's one of the drawbacks to it.
It kinda just .. depends on you I think, everyone has a preference to what program to use (I use photoshop because I've used it the longest and know it the most) a digital program is just a tool, like any tool you can get really good at it the more you use it. BUT, here's some programs to try out…
even if you choose to not become part of the hive im sure you can say "im sorry I've changed my mind"
ad revenue is based on views I believe, so it doesn't necessarily matter how many episodes you have. A way that a lot of creators on here post is have on episode that you update by adding more pages, or make a new episode for a new page, and then combine all of them into one episode once the chap…
I agree! There's not enough for me to say "heres exclusivity rights to my comic" just to say i'm part of the hive. It's fine if you're just starting with your comic, but I can't find it in me to abandon my tapas fans just because I want to be part of a collection.
it's definitely exclusive. if you go to those series theyll probably have a notice "moved to hiveworks" all hiveworks comics have their own sites, which link to other hiveworks creations. so instead of it being thehiveworks.com/yourcomic its purely just yourcomic.com I love a lot of comics on hive…
From this post, I got super curious over everything, whether or not to apply for hiveworks, and I finally came to a conclusion and thought I'd share everything that I've come across! Hiveworks: They promote themselves as a publishing company, but their guidelines to apply are /very/ vague. It also…
I'm from Manitoba! Don't think there's much of a Canadian aspect to my characters though but maybe there is unintentionally? But I guess because Canada is so diverse so I've made my characters very diverse as well.
It definitely depends on each creator. When I first started I tried to update every week, but because of that I literally had no time to do anything since I work other jobs, and comics are a side thing for me currently, I had to change to every two weeks if I wanted to do anything else. Making a b…
I don't post enough on the forums so I'm going to use this as my reason to start! o3o [image]
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See a doctor! Doctors are there to help. My hand started to hurt after I drew a lot, I attempted to not draw for a couple days, then it turned into a week, then two. I tried massaging it, stretching it, etc... but to no avail. I went to see a doctor and was told I strained it from over working it an…
I've actually read that post, and it did have a good amount of info in choosing a font face, but not really about the size itself. Thanks though!
I'm trying to prepare myself for uploading my the 1st part of my 1st chapter next week, and I probably have to resize my font (since I have to resize my image because it's too large... probably making the font too small) and I was wondering what a good font size was for mobile friendly comics! I'…