#webtoon tips

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I'd love to sometime, when I can get a hot second to do it. I used to be able to show off the Rekindled drawing process back when I was still streaming, but with my tablet still out of order, streaming isn't really gonna be a thing for a while (also I've learned streaming is just sort of ... really exhausting for me so I'm thinking I'd rather go for just video recording and commentary or something).

That said, if I can give just like, a quick basic setup, Rekindled is drawn on canvases of 2400 px (width) by 15k px (height) minimum with a dpi of 350. The height isn't so much what matters as the width, height can be however long you want it to be due to vertical scrolling (though note that the longer your canvas is, the more processing power it'll take for your computer, so don't overdo it if your PC can't handle it lol), but width is a lot more limited on various platforms (ex. Webtoons has a restriction of 800 px wide, so I like using 2400px because it's easily divisible by 800, but that's JUST for my JPG's, my root files always stay at their original resolution of 2400px wide to ensure I can keep the highest-quality versions of the pages). This is pretty much my default layout for vertical webtoons, beyond just Rekindled, it's what works for me haha

I am not a webtoon professional and my comics aren't the best, but there are some things that will help make your comics look a bit more professional, since they did help with mine.

1. Avoid the edges.

Nothing wrong with this page, is there? Well, let's see what happens when a webtoon user clicks on your episode:

Moral of the story: don't put vital information by the edges of the page. It'll be easily missed. Especially avoid the very top of the first page, since the banner ends up obscuring it, as shown in the example above.

2. Stacked boxes are the absolute worst!

This is a pain to read in a scrolling-based webcomic, but a lot of artists fall into the trap of trying to save as much space as possible, so they cram as many panels onto each page as possible. That leads to a comic that is three pages long and as easy to read as hieroglyphics. I usually only put two to three panels on each page to let the comic breathe. Also, giving some space between panels helps with your pacing. So if your pacing is too fast, adding more space between panels, or some panels that don't have any dialogue or action, (an establishing shot, closeup on an expression, etc) can help cushion it a bit.

3. This ain't the peanuts.

Webtoon is read top to bottom. That's what it's designed for. If you make a comic wider than it is tall, all of your artwork is going to be so tiny that it'll only be observable under a microscope.

So here are my main DONT'S of webtoon. If you're wondering how you SHOULD be formatting your stuff, take a look at some popular webtoons and see how they do it. How many panels? Where are they placed? How big are the speech bubbles? How is everything arranged and sized?

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