Green Ink

here is a master list of great art tools that can make your workflow easier! 👇 (consistently updating)

Alone in the forest... (almost went insane doing this haha)

2-3 - FOREST and FIRE [ Day 1 ] -> [ Day 4 ]

i am excited for woolhaven :D

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It's my pleasure to show you my cotltober prompt list for this year!🔔

Rules are the same as last year - you can do whatever you want, just be creative, draw, write, sculpt, sing a song, do a cosplay, make a photo, do whatever creative thing comes to your mind (no ai of course, respect yourself)

Easy, medium and hard levels are just a suggestion, you can do as many prompts as you want and remember it's all about having fun, no pressure

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

I'm trying to figure out how to get lil tutorials done for u guys, so I started with a simple cloud one X)

Huevember day 07

Just one more artwork to go folks 👀

 Steve… Why is he always like this-

Metal tutorial

Download this free brushset here!

Yes!

1) Read comics. 

Read MANY, MANY, MANY comics. You cannot drive a car without fuel in the tank. You cannot draw comics without having read many different comics.

Read comics and ask yourself what you like about them. Ask yourself how the panels help you read it easier. Ask yourself how the speech bubbles are organized. Read to understand, to analyze, instead of just reading. 

2) Think smaller. 

I see SO many people who go from ‘I want to make comics’ to ‘I’m gonna draw a 300 page long epic with 300 characters, an incredibly complex plot, backstory and an in-universe conlang!’ Those stories fail, 99% of the time. 

When you start doing comics, you start small. 

Draw a three-panel comic before drawing ten panel comics. Draw a ten panel comic before drawing 5 page comics. Draw a 5 page comic before drawing 10 page comics. Draw a 10 page comic before drawing 30 page comics. 

Don’t be afraid about time - ‘but if I don’t get it out in time, it’ll disappear!’

No it won’t. Your story will never go away - it will just evolve and get better as your own skill evolves.

3) Be kind. 

To yourself, to your readers, to other comic artists. 

The people who love to critique comics (and any art form) the most are people who have never made a decent comic themselves. Everything is ‘easier said than done’. 

Be gentle on yourself and don’t expect success at every turn. You will make more terrible comics than you will make mediocre comics. You will make more mediocre comics than you will make good comics. You will make good comics only if you’ve made terrible and mediocre comics first.