#comic tutorials

How to Comics Tips & Tricks, and Deep Dive Sneak Peek!

The new How to Comics reward levels debut this month!  Both will cover how to make and create comics and all the little stuff that goes into going that! They’ll each be like a little monthly class.

Here's a sneak peek at what you can expect from these levels! For more on this month’s topic, become a patron! 

You can find more information on my patreon blog post here

And next month, we'll be tackling chibis, if you've never wanted to learn how I do them ^_- 

PREPPING FOR INKING:

Converting Your Roughs to Digital Bluelines and Printing Your Bluelines: Intro to Comic Craft: https://nattosoup.blogspot.com/2017/06/converting-your-roughs-to-digital.html

Turning Your Sketches and Lineart into Printable Bluelines: Watercolor Basics: https://nattosoup.blogspot.com/2017/07/turning-your-sketches-and-lineart-into.html

Intro to Comic Craft- Printing Cicada Summer Bluelines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acP5T4fdGUo&list=PL_pXBtCqjKy_rSwHWPopIvoG9EuYXAb_X&index=16

INKING RESOURCES:

Intro to Comic Craft Inking a Comic Traditionally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfZzFXxvZtc

Tips for Erasing Pencils after Inking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tc_oLtEEuE&t=2s

Nib Exposure- Inking Tutorial with Artsnacks Inktober: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyhqGRs_Jw8

Robust Inking Toolkit Guide for Professional Artists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xl8jkG6r4

Inking Your Characters to Life with a Brush- Inktober Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWHELbsqvw

Cicada Summer- Pencils and Inks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evku6jd1Gfw

Chibi Inking Tutorial with Bouncy Lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcNRla36SZY

Brush Inking Tips with Artsnacks Inktober Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPNt17Vl51k

Inktober Inking Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZCihgIzKk

Size Matters!  Brush Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7F3ZiNfRZ8

Cartoony Inking with a Size 4 Brush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqr_wqHhHU

Inking Panel at NOCAZfest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2zzry4LX1M

Best Brushpens for Illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQ9bEiDur0

Manga Nib Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwH7A3fBBJk

To learn something better you teach it to someone, so I broke down the new comic process I’m gonna start to get into! See the final comic here!

1. First you ROUGH IT, liberal use of transform tool, no fucks given about faces  further than expression lines.

2. The lineart of the speech bubbles ,characters, and the background are given their own layer in that order

3. Below each lineart is a random color blocking it in. This layer will be the one the character shading will be clipped to. Sometimes I use eyesearing pink in the bg to see where some of the fill went over the lines.

4. CHOOSE YOUR  FIGHTERCOLORS! Lock that opacity and go crazy with the hue changer until you got the thing that rustles your jimmies.

The How to Comics tutorials are now a milestone goal, which currently we’ve reached. As long as we stay above it, starting next month, tutorials will be an added monthly reward for all patrons!

There is also a new Participants level now that you can pledge to, where we will discuss that month's tutorial, where you can ask questions about it, and request topics you'd like to see covered.

So monthly rewards now include: 

A Wallpaper

A Chibi

A How to Comics Tutorial 

A Patreon exclusive Gaming Gag Strip (on a month delay for anyone under the Early Comics level)

A comic WIP

Access to the patron-only Discord channel

And so much more depending on the level that you choose! 

How to Comics: Tips & Tricks, and Deep Dive Patreon Reward Levels!

Want to learn how to comics and how to art? I’ve got two levels on my patreon dedicated to that now! So if you want to support what I do, and learn how I do it, now you can!

Tips and Tricks cover the basics of the topic I choose for that month, enough to get you started, with some fun tidbits thrown in. Deep Dive goes way more into the topic, lets you request a topic you’d like to learn about, and ask follow up questions! (yes, that includes showing me art and getting my thoughts on it).

And you get access to all previous months when you join! Here’s what you get already if you pledge to either level:

Page Building Starters

Making Chibis

Sound Effects and Speech Bubbles

So if you’d like to support my art and get monthly tutorials, check out my Patreon! (upcoming topics will cover practical things too like managing a webcomic schedule, and the behind the scenes stuff that isn’t just the drawing part).

Other Videos in my Cicada Summer segment of Intro to Comic Craft:

Planning Cicada Summer- Planning, brainstorming, making time for your comic

Character Design in Colored Leads- Anatomy, character design for storytelling, designing a large cast

Roughs- Drawing your comic- perspective, anatomy, panel composition

Printing Bluelines- Printing onto your final paper

Borders and Bubbles- Page borders, panel borders, word balloons by hand

Pencils and Inks- Penciling your final art, inking with a fude pen