#m.tut

yo, i was tagged by @01degree​, @realstraykids​, and @banghans​ to show my gif making process! thank you so much guys, this was super dope to do! i just ended up making a new set to do this lmfao... i couldn’t be bothered to recreate an old gif but anyway!

obviously, it depends on the set, how many gifs there are, on my computer and how its running, on the colouring and how it has to be varied, etc.- but for this 1 gif, it took about 5~ minutes (not counting vs time) so for 4 gifs it’s probably around 20 minutes and then maybe an extra bit for vs so overall my giffing process takes me about 30~ minutes when i’m being fast (that’s so sad.. im just so slow..... rip....) but yeah;; also?? idk if my giffing style is weird or wrong or whatever but hfaowijeoai i learned it from my friend like a while ago and idk all of u do it so differently im shook lmfaooo... (sidenote, i rarely change my vs settings which is why i don’t really use the processor window anymore... my settings only really change when i’m giffing stages and even then... its really not that much.)

if you’re going to take anything away from watching these videos that gifmakers are creating, then let it be the fact that we all spend time to create this content and we all put in a lot of hard work as you can see... appreciate your local gif maker and just remember to support their work.

anyway!!! thank you for watching and being kind and supporting my gifs whenever i post! i really appreciate! i’ll tag: @kimseungs, @hanjisungz, @3noracha​, @huiracha​, @poetlix​, @hyunjins​, @changbeanie​, @leeminho-s​, @juyeons​, @minknows​, @felixies​, @seoschangbin​, and @hwang-hyunjinnies​!!! sorry if you’ve already been tagged ; ____ ; and u dont have to do it but yeah... if you do i’d love to see!! 

Color Tutorial

You can also color the lineart if you’d like. It makes everything much softer, but I didn’t do that here.

Because of the positive comments I received for the last piece I did with the neon, I figured I’d make a little tutorial because the lighting is a lot of fun to draw.

Start with something you’ve colored and shaded. [I drew this in a few minutes so I could say I drew Josuke crying but also to make this how-to.]

Add a dark background color of some sort, and lighten up the middle behind the drawing slightly. Usually, I use a dark blue, but don’t use black because it can be harsh.

Draw whatever you’d like to be the neon sign in bright white with a solid brush. For the purpose of this tutorial, I just did ‘neon hearts.’ [Keep in mind that a lot of neon signs use cursive because the neon tube has to connect through the whole sign, but you can do whatever you’d like.]

On a new layer behind the white, take a bright neon color, and using an airbrush or another very soft brush at a large size, trace the thing you just drew in white.

Apply a harsh gaussian blur to this new color layer to spread it out.

On a new layer, using the airbrush again, do the same thing, and apply another blur, but at a slightly less intensity to keep the color a little closer.

Now take the color of the sign, make it a little brighter and closer to white, and use the airbrush again. Do not apply a blur this time.

This gives it a color halo:

Make a new layer above your colored drawing for each color of your signs. Take the colors you used for the signs and apply them with the airbrush or a soft brush to the places on the drawing that the sign would light up.

Set these layers to blending mode overlay.

Use a small solid brush to add colored highlights to anywhere else they need to be, like eyes or anything shiny.

And that’s about it! If you want to add anything additional, you can add the wires or unlit parts of the signs in a solid dark grey, like I did on my neon piece. I hope this is helpful!

So, just for the record, I wanted to see how much I've improved with comics and digital art in general. The first image is one of the first digital pieces I did and one of my earliest comic pages. Obviously the second image is one I finished today.

I wanted to share some things I've learned about comics with you, because these are things I had to figure out myself that I wish I had been told going in.

TEN [10] COMIC DRAWING TIPS:

[Keep in mind this refers to comic books and spreads, not 4-panel comics or Sunday-funnies/humor comics.]

1. Look at page references, please. Comics are like any other art- in order to make them look better, it’s nice to have some references. Reference manga you like, internet web comics, and doujinshi artists. I’ve been spending a lot of time lately printing out pages of doujin I like and writing comments about the page layout and flow that the artist used, so I can use it for reference later.

2. Start with single panel flows. What I’m talking about is ask-blog style, panel by panel storytelling. It’s simple, it’s easy, there’s no page-paneling involved. This is how you can get a better idea of character movement and speech bubble placement. I’ve been doing this for ages.

3. Panels don’t have to be square. Normally panels on comic pages are square/rectangular because they fit together on the page easily that way, and there is less wasted negative space; however, it is also very common to add oddly-shaped panels in every once in a while for interest. I use triangles a lot to turn big rectangles into more panels.

4. Panels are allowed to touch. In addition to using different panel shapes, you can overlap panels to make the page more interesting. Try not to crowd the page with panels though, because that will make it hard to read. Sometimes classic rectangles work just fine.

5. Make sure you keep the flow. This is the most basic piece of page layout information I can give you. If doesn’t matter if you decide to draw a comic left-to-right or right-to-left, the pages still need to be readable, and in order to be readable, the panels need to flow together. When you look at the page, starting at the appropriate top corner, the panels and speech bubbles need to follow naturally. If you were a reader of your comic who has never seen it before, you don’t want to have to reread or do a double-take in order to figure out in what order the dialogue is happening. The easiest way to do this is to stack panels from side to side, and then top to bottom. Divide your page into 1 to about 4 ‘rows’ of panels. Start with the appropriate top corner and fill the first ‘row’ before moving to the second. Your brain wants to read horizontally before it reads vertically, so let it go in that direction before you lead it down the page. Same concept with speech bubbles. The ones on the top of the page are going to catch the eye first, and then downwards.

6. Angles are important. No one wants to read a page of character heads talking for a whole comic, that’s boring. If you want to draw comics, you have to be able to draw a variety of character angles. As the comic artist, you’re like the cameraman. No one wants to watch a movie where the camera never moves or changes angles. Take the same concept into your pages. Use full body shots to make it dramatic or introduce a character, Use close ups for thinking or speaking. Use sweeping shots to display the scene/background. The angles you use determine your panel placement.

7. The scene’s energy matters. Panels can be used to slow down or speed up a scene. The reader is only going to look at the panels for a split second each, or as long as it takes to read the text in them. You have to use this in order for force their brain to slow down or speed up. Small, closely packed panels will make the scene speed up. This is good for quick movements or fight scenes, saving the bigger panels for dramatic whacks or cool poses. Long panels that span the width of the page, and big page spreads will pause the reader and cause them to slow down a little. This is good for emotional scenes or romantic scenes. You can use the combinations of these to pace your story. For example, I’m going to use wide panels as my characters lean in for a kiss, but use short, small, vertical panels for a close up on their lips as the moment speeds up like their heartbeats... you get the idea.

8. Speech bubbles convey emotion, not just words. Ovals work, but they’re plain. Unless it fits with your art style, making every speech bubble the same shape is a little boring. I take a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga and the elongated, unique, free-hand speech bubbles that it uses. They don’t have to be ovals- they can be slightly square, with rounded corners, or a little bit more angled. Changing the speech bubbles changes how your brain reads the text too. Thought bubbles are obviously read like thoughts, since they’re bubbly and seem internal. Hard angles or spasms in the lines of the bubble might indicate a harsh tone, anger, or sudden speech/surprise. Double-lined speech bubbles tend to be the other end of a phone call. Speech bubbles with dotted lines instead of solid make it seem like a whisper. Squares are usually a narration. No bubble at all may be a mumble under the character’s breath. This also can apply to slight text changes and fonts that you use for your words too.

9. Break the fourth wall. Why stay constricted and confined to those stupid square-shaped panels when you can utterly destroy all the work you put into drawing those straight lines? Break out of the panels. Hell, break a little out of the page itself. Panel edges are annoyingly straight and that’s not going to work with your pastel-aesthetic-lesbian Steven Universe fan-comic. Instead, let small parts of the characters come off of the panels. Let their head poke out of the top of the box and overlap the other panel. Put a whole body shot down the side of the page and draw your panels around it. We wanted to look at your handsome superhero OC for the whole page anyways. You can also let panels hit the side of the page to keep the page looking open and less crowded. Speech bubbles can break the fourth wall too, but they don’t always have too. Sometimes nice squares with everything neatly inside is just what the scene needs.

10. Finishing touches bring a page together. Now that you’ve drawn all your panels and bubbles and drawn in all the characters, you can add screen tones. Well, I’ve never used screen tones specifically, but shading does look very nice in grey-scale. Also, don’t be afraid of adding a black panel background to make it dark, or a panel with hyper-realistic shading for drama. You can add speed lines [very cool by the way], sound effects, or sparkles, bubbles, and blush. These details bring the page alive and make it appealing to look at. You can also draw your comic in color, but just remember that color takes a lot of time, so when you’re starting out and trying to get the hang of things, I wouldn’t worry about color.

Anyways, I hope this can help some of you who have wanted to draw comics or are doing so and need some advice. I’m not an expert or a professional, but I’m happy to try and answer any questions you might have, just ask.

hi sweetheart;; first of all i’m really sorry for the delay in answering this question, i was sorta busy today, so thank you for waiting so long! and secondly, i really hope you were looking for a tutorial fnoawiefoawf bc that’s what i’m gonna give you!!

edit: this got fairly long because i included pictures and did my best to explain everything in detail !!! i hope it made sense and that you like it!!

edit edit: also, the ask wouldn’t let me use the read more option so i’m having to do it the hardway :[ sorry about that! 

hi sweetheart;; first of all i’m really sorry for the delay in answering this question, i was sorta busy today, so thank you for waiting so long! and secondly, i really hope you were looking for a tutorial fnoawiefoawf bc that’s what i’m gonna give you!!