imma write an ending for you ok as the group stared at their newly acquired cheese wheel, tears where brought to their eyes, they knew their magical had come to an end, (female character) looked upon the group, and upon (other female character) feelings washed over (female character,) as she wanted to tell(other female character) how she really felt. but alas they all departed, they all went on, but the wheel, the wheel stayed neglected, as no-one wanted to care for it, the wheel would have its revenge the end :)
I tried making a comic today and I spent ALL DAY making the first 2 panels! Goddamn I have so much respect for artists and some of them don’t even get paid for the fan-comics they make!
I’ve been thinking about making a webtoon for a while now. I wrote this really bad story for an English assignment in school, but I still like the concept of it, so I’m thinking of turning it into a web comic. It’ll also help me practice digital art too. The story is about this terminally ill guy looking for a place that can cure his unknown disease. By chance, he meets this guy who runs a hospital and says that he can cure him. The protagonist goes into the hospital but later finds out that the hospital traps its patients there and turn them into these half human-half monster creatures so they can grow their population and overtake humans. The protagonist meets people who want to escape with him and they make a plan. I don’t have a bunch of details on it yet, but this video has really helped me a lot, thank you!
Also about overdesigning. There are always going to be big important shots where you can draw a character or scenario with more detail and it's going to make a HUGE impression if your character is not as detailed normally. Great video. It helped me a Lot
@@ElmKyh well, then it depends on your way of story telling. Nothing HAS to be detailed, specially if your style doesn't call for it. Also depends on what the story is about and what type of comic it is, at least that's my way of seeing it. But I'm far from being an expert
@@ElmKyh present them in a way that makes them interesting to look at. I recommend using techniques like shading, perspective, and expression to give more information about your character. Any design can be used well if you know how to present them well. I recommend watching Alan Becker's Animation vs Minecraft series as he gives so much life and story to his simple designed characters.
@@videogamelover2006 maybe they're young or English isn't their first language - it's just a comment so it doesn't really matter :P you still get what they're saying
@@videogamelover2006 👨🏽🎨 this is public, international platform, even if English is not our first language.....art is a multiracial, multicultural, multimedia, multinational, multifaceted, multidimensional, multiple, multidisciplinary, multilingual, multiverse way of living. Please love each other, as Jesus loves everyone in this earth!!!
there's actually a book quite like it! 'fortunately, the milk' by Neil Gaiman where a dad comes back late from getting the milk and recounts the story of his epic adventure to his children and they don't believe him
1. Format (Comic - A4/5 or Webtoon - Verticallity) 2. Thumbnails (mini versions of the pages to test the sizing, understandability, and flow) 3. A beginning and an end (even if the end doesn't come for a long time, you need to know it - as you fill in the journey arc from there) 4. Establishing shot (first panel - and when scenes change - that tells the audience where the characters are, what they're doing, what the environment is like) 5. Don't overdesign (shadows, patterns, crosshatching from different angles and 100s or 1000s of times)
Wow! This was a spectacular video that not only simplified the basics, but it was spoken very clearly and was easy to interpret. The visual examples were overall done very well too, this is incredible! Thank you!
Nice, I use to draw my own comics way, waaaayyy back!, I really want make em again, and maybe get into the publishing, it’s been my goal ever since, This was a really nice analysis on making comics, thanks ^^
You should so get back in on it !!! Im personally new when it comes to *actually* making a comic, but I feel like it's better to start someday than never!! Whether it be a simple hobby or something more serious like a business
It is a challenge, but worth it in the long run. Examples are Batman and Hellboy - Most draw Batman with the cape covering him, Hellboy artists usually have him in heavy shadows. But if you want to overdesign, that's okay. The risk is always that you will burn out on drawing that designed character and it will take longer to produce your story/comic/illustrations.
Really helpful to jolt me out of my roadblock.I've been trying to write a typical, traditional kid picture book, but realize I need to go more in this direction to create something unique. Thanks!
one of my favorite ways to make comics is making everything black, grey and white, very simple and then. BOOM all of the sudden, one of the important scenes is completely colored, full details and have a large box
Beginning: The son of a zombie fighter just so happens to be a zombie himself. He admires his father and wants to fight zombies like him. Ending: After ending a major conflict between humans and zombies, the protagonist becomes an iconic and respected zombie fighter.
beginning: a schizofrenic guy is dating a girl who struggles with derealization. she doesn't feel real, and after telling him that he starts questioning wether she is real or just another hallucination. end: the girl dies of an overdose and her boyfriend asks if she's dying, to which she replies "I don't know, am I dying?" (this format is repeated throughout the comic with different hallucinations, but this time it's real). Moments later she dies in his arms, but the guy convinces himself that it's just another hallucination, sitting with her for hours. In the last few pages we see the two spending time together, seeing her alive and well through his eyes, but in the final panel we see her true apearance, the one of a rotting corpse.
I have a villain/neutral character that has a evil outside but a neutral inside. Cause basically my character is based off myself and my character has a childs soul. My characters evil outside represents how much power i want to have in the world, but the child soul inside represents part of me that is still innocent and more caring for others. Itherwise me and my character have evil thoughts.. only my character gets to do those evil things..
I just want a basic cliché story to check if I like making comics, so here's my starting brainstorm for a cute yuri romance bcs why not Protag: random unpopular otaku kid The Protag has a friend who's also a otaku and doesn't have that many friends. Protag falls in love with popular and nice girl. The story would be a wholesome slice of life of these two falling in love and their dynamics, trying to make the relationship work and getting to know each other, with the supporting best friend character that'd be specially important at the start, while they're figuring things out. I'm thinking of making a pilot episode on webtoon and if I like it I'd make it into a comic, the idea is for it to be a "feel good" time for the readers
I liked ur story it sounds fun! But I suggest why u won’t make it straight romance, I think it’ll suit more audiences and maybe it’ll help u more in the future, but in the end it’s ur decision! Good luck ig✨
I love Yuri stories and I fully support you turning this into a real comic. Dont Listen to the guy who claims you have to make it 'straight' just so it appeals to the mainstream. There are enough people like ne who love these stories.
@@SprinkleMyDoughnuts I didn’t mean that actually, I wish u read that more carefully, ofc she can make it huri that’s her decision and i understand that there is an audience for these type of things, well yuri content may be sensitive to some people, for example i know sm people including me who can’t see these things, and I would love to see her story and don’t want other to not be able to see it cuz of a little thing, maybe it sounds selfish, again I’m not saying that she has to do it straight so it appeals to the mainstream, I’m saying that because more people will see it, I’m sure her story is amazing and it would be a waste if some people missed it just because it’s yuri, u can’t force others to see things that can’t see, plus again and again I’m not claiming that she SHOULD do that because that and that, I’m just expressing my opinion here, u don’t have to act like I asked her to give up entirely on that I just tried to explain what I’m trying to say politely, what I don’t understand is that why do you try to encourage her in that way idk I don’t get it plus I’m not rlly good at explaining, I hope u understand
@@bahanbayan9696You people will never get it. Tell me, are the millions of stories featuring straight romance not enough for you? Why does ever single story have to cater to your demographic and when it comes to my demographic, we're constantly discouraged to have stories about us cause we're not "popular" enough. How would you feel in my shoes if people constantly told you that? Tell me.
@@SprinkleMyDoughnuts im asking you the same question too. plus i never discourged her because yuri is just not rlly "popular" . my point was why not make a great story like hers appealing to everyone, plus these kinds of thing are personal preferences. A great amount of people including me doesnt hate yuri or things like that, its just not our cup of tea, she asked for opinion, and i gave her mine, and i never meant to be offensive(sorry just in case i sounded like that). And as well as that i also know and acknowledge that there is a huge amount of people that likes yuri, and it is their cup of tea. She here clearly asked for opinion from lots of perspectives online, and i as any other human who read this comment, gave mine. i encourged her and told her that i liked her story as well as saying my personal preference that yuri is not my cup of tea, and i tought i said that in a polite way.I see nothing wrong in what i said, but honestly i felt that when you told her not to listen to my opinion it was a bit rude, i just told her what i thought and i felt a bit offended by your comment.
These are the tips I NEEDED, thank you so much for this, you helped out a LOT & more than you will ever know, blessings and love to you and everyone on here 🙌🏾
Thank goodness! I already know the ending but I couldn't figure out my establishing shot. I also have scaled down designs of my main couple but do their more detailed looks as single illustrations. Thank you for this video!
Beginning: family arrives to the village, ready to start a new life (protagonist: eldest child of the family) End: she takes an oath to join a temple, swearing to forget everything her father taught her, to never hurt someone who didn't deserve it. Not again.
This was actually incredibly useful, I never thought about the establishinh shot, and wondered why my comic felt incoherent. Zap added an establishing shot and it makes much more sense.
To be honest I basically get nervous before starting my comic so I'll just type in my story to see what you think So my comic is basically going to be about a creepypasta character from Minecraft. But as a kind and caring type. It's the white Ender that goes into an adventure and making friends along the way. And yes ofc there would be trouble along the way. My comic will include charters back stories as well!
Ok, I tried to write a comment about one of the 4-5 ideas I've had during these years of wallowing in my inability to draw/write and laziness to do anything about it, but since I can't write I'm trying again: So, the name is Undead or Revived. The basic idea stems from my hatred for the concept of zombies in general, and is as follows: what if, under certain circumstances, zombies were able to regain their sanity? What if they were able to remember their lives and develop a society similar to humans? And how would they even see humans? The story is set in the "Infected Zone", a small, isolated portion of Earth devastated by a parasitic life form known as "the Mycelium", which kills its hosts' body and literally"revives" them as nigh-invulnerable, rapidly healing and feral beasts known as the "Undead". The rest of the world, unaffected by the Mycelium, just stopped caring about the averted apocalypse and the most governments do is occasionally sending food, weapons and medications to the survivors. This zone is divided into small human communities, living in appalling conditions in repurposed rural villages and city outskirts, and the "Wastelands", the abandoned cities and landscapes roamed by the Undead. But, unbeknownst to humans, what they consider "Undead" is just the primary stage of the infection, which leaves the host physically and mentally damaged and forces it to devour meat and act like an animal. Once their healing factors (activated by absorbing organic material, like human flesh) patch up these damages, they actually redevelop human intelligence and regain their memories and awareness. They become virtually immortal, intelligent and overall human beings (they still need to eat and sustain themselves through external means, but at a far less frequent rate. They have a pulse, and are able to procreate. Some of them are able to control the Mycelium and use it as appendages. The Mycelium itself is able to synthetize simile-bone tissue, regrow missing tissue portions and heal wounds by eating and absorbing proteins and nutrients contained in animal meat, including human flesh. If their bodies are damaged in a way that would normally kill a human or they stay for a long time without any form of sustainment, however, they revert back to a feral state, requiring the absorption of new animal flesh to regenerate their wounds and bring them back to normal), who organize themselves into a large interconnected society and call themselves "Revived". And, as humans see them as monsters, so do they. After all, humans kill tons of them before they can even reach their advanced stage, and any attempt to communicate with them resulted in useless bloodshed. So, under the guide of the "Council", they are actually and secretly trying to take over and infect humans in an attempt to spread the Mycelium and establish themselves as the ultimate "evolution". The protagonists are 31, a human soldier from the improvised military force of her home village with a pessimistic and passive outlook on life, and Robbie, a one-eyed and eccentric Revived with a troubled past life and an unclear, utopian plan to stop the Council and bring peace between both species, and their friendship over the course of a few months. The series would be a sort of comedy/slice-of-life comic with an underlying plot and deeper messages, featuring a cast of quirky characters and quite a few story arcs I already have basic plotlines for. Whew, I actually did it. I shared this shit with someone. Now, I'm off to never do anything productive with any of this in my entire life.
When I did write stories and I knew the end from the beginning, it didn't go well. But when even I didn't know how my story would end, it went great! In artschool I get lots of compliments, especially because I don't know what I'm doing, but always can figure something out. Don't want to have an ego, but that tip of having an end isn't the best tip for creative People. Therefore I'm not sure about the other tips, joined art school to understand drawing in general better.
I could say the same about your tips, most creative people never got anything from art school, and not all people can work improvising every step like you. So judging the tips for yourself is one thing. But don't judge for others. Since you said it yourself... You don't know what you are doing.
I have a question, is it best to go straight to your main idea for your story, and the one that you want to do best, or should you do a trial run comic first?
@@SDW90808 Thank you, I will have to look into that. The problem is I would like to make a comic digitally and I don't know what measurements to use for webtoon etc but it might be nice to just do a few pages to practise.
I wanna make a parody of silver/bronze age comics while also making the charecters deep and with depth. But, i also want to make them goofy and comedic. How do i do this? Oh, and i also want to make my main charecter break the fourth wall and reffrence other comics, like x-men or legion of superheroes. What should i do?
Hahaha well that showed in the delays between chapters, he getting constantly sick and eventually his tragic passing. These tips are more for the beginners and medium creators 😋
What do you recommend for a person that's starting her first comic and thinks of the possibility to do an physic form of the comic but also wants to to make it a weeb comic, publish it the two ways? What form should I make my comic? And what's the best site for an comic with the 'classic' form to be publish if I do it that way?
i would say - do it like a physical comic first, then convert that to a webtoon comic. Check : th-cam.com/video/evv5hyB6UGk/w-d-xo.html - and for hosting : webtoon or tapas. Otherwise create your own site.
Sometimes i think i'm doing something wrong, because i dont spend that much time or effort in my drawings at all, not that they are extremely good or anything, by far i only did 2 littpe cute comics, but already looked like many i see on webtoon It fells like i'm doing something wrong 😅
Drawings don't have to be super advanced or detailed. As long as they tell what you want them to tell. If you feel that they look like many others style, try changing one or two details about them to mix it up. For me, i recently changed how i do my noses.
Okay i need your guys’s opinion on my comic. It starts off with a pinapple. The things on top of it form a guy named “Pineapple Man” , he then comes out and is a villain of sorts and starts flying around the city shooting spikes at places. But all of a sudden apple man comes in flying on an apple slice and has and epic battle with pinapple man. Pinapple man tries to throw a spike at apple man but it bounces off of apple man and hits pinapple man in the eye- knocking him out. Apple man kicks P-Man off of a building and then hops in his car. But what he doesn’t know is that P-Man fell into the back of his truck. Apple man pulls up to his house and enteres it. And goes to the bathroom. Pineapple man goes inside and steals a pinapple. Then heads to his lair. He goes inside the pinapple and gains more power. 2 years later and pinapple man finally awakens again. Apple man jears this on his radio causeing him to get distraced in his car and crash into a tree just outside of p mans lair. P man walks out and decides to befriend apple man. Soon i will make a new comic titled: Pinapple Man And Apple Man. Two Fighting Fruit People. What do you think?
Just make it! You seem to have it very thought out. Even if you think you can do better or your worried why others might think, if you make it now you will be more prepared for your next comic
The simple design is one of the hardest things for me to do when redesigning mt characters not to mention the backgrounds too. Like how can I make backgrounds look alive and lived in yet simple and not too distracting of detailed
having a simple design just to make it easier is a cop out... real comic artist dont do this.. imagine if jim lee or joe mad, todd mcfarlane made webcomic looking characters for the sake of simplicity...
Yeah I get you, except that those guys don't ink or color their own stuff. They also don't letter or put the finishing touches on pages. And are you telling me Batman, Spawn etc.. Is not simplified designs? Sure ,the style is detailed, but the designs are simple. And how about references, are they also cop outs? Real comic artists know simple designs are not cop outs. Or are you a fan of the 90s convoluted poach on everything designs? And lastly.. webcomics and U.S printed comics made by a team of people are two different beasts.
@@EbbeWaxin huge fan of 90's comic work, they are legends for a reason, your right they have a team, but the work and draftsmanship, drawing all the backgrounds, the rendering, nothing simple about it.. just me personally, if i have the skill i'd rather just go all out if its gonna be printed.. almost every webtoon is some low skilled ultra simple art slice of life crap, as for your example i'd much rather see the detailed art then the simple one.. and totally doable.. man i miss the 90's
Bro, I want to ask, if I make a story chapter by chapter, separate the original ending and the ending of the chapter, is that okay, because this makes it easier for me to make the story
@@EbbeWaxin Thx, my friends say that this method is actually wrong, they say we have to directly determine the beginning and ending of the story we write, so I'm a little doubtful, that's why I'm asking
I really want to start making a comic and probably selling it with the help of my parents, i rlly like drawings and some of my teachers know i love drawing alot , i really love drawing when im bored or when I'm calm, your tips are very well and good for starters!!! :)
Hi! I know there are some super skilled writers in here, soo I wanted to ask for a comic idea (cuz I'm not fitted for writing stories) I'm supposed to make a comic about ,, how i became a hero and defeated the villian'' yeah its classic, but I have no ideas for making something unusual. Maybe you could suggest me something good? thanks in advance :>
I have one! How about there is an alien invasion or something but the alien turns out to be human and comes to your town! But it's alien DNA somehow gets trapped in your house and you collect it and get superpowers! Then there's an epic showdown between you and the alien! And maybe there's a plot twist, like the alien's your uncle or something! Hope this helped!
@@Epikz_Wallop Thanks a lot, that's an amazing idea! Now I'll just have to think of some cool super power and character design and I can start planning. Thanks again you've helped me a lot :>
Holy smokes I didn't expect in my whole life I'd find Johnny Depp making comic tips on youtube. You genuinely sounds like Johnny Depp. Anyway I love the tips it's really important for beginners to know about this.
Journey: an ordinary life but with a twist happy life but need to collect 4element and 4emblem End: war, dead, discrimation and hatred but end with a hangcliff ending
The beginning of my story is complicated. The technical beginning is the main character benjen waking up from a strange dream of his 16th birthday, but it really begins when he escapes from his elemental kidnapper, Iko. Benjen falls from the plateau cliff and into the kingdom, where he meets his future best friend Bo, the generals son. It ends when Benjen fufills his part in the ancient prophecy, and brings elementals and kingdom people together once again. Since Benjen has completed his purpose he dies… well, kinda. But not really. He leaves behind an empty shell, which still has a pulse, and his soul is taken by the blue devil, a strange being that lives in his dreams. His soul is taken to another mysterious dimension, and a redeemed Iko and sad Bo are left to deal with the aftermath of the war.
I can never recommend knowing atlesst the begging and end of a story whether it be a book, comic, ect anything. It personally helps me a ton for stories, along if you want to have more detailed scenarios in between, figuring out what happens in the end and begining can help with figuring out if you want to add it, and personally helps me with foreshadowing, i lovee foreshadowing
I kind of just come up with the ending before even making the story. The middle is the hardest and the beginning is easy but overwhelming to introduce the characters and even the world.
To be honest for me it’s easier to read the webtoon format the standard format is harder for me to read as in I’m not always sure which side I have to start reading in one panel there could be 10 scenes and I’m not sure where I should start right left up down it’s never really consistent from the ones I’ve read so far
This was amazing information some of it already knew but the information given, gave me a different view of how to do things. Honestly for my comic it doesn't really have an ending because it's just supposed to be little funny strips here and there. I was kind of going for a storyline similar to Adventure Time where you have the beginning and then it doesn't get serious until a bunch of episodes later?
I am making a chomic abt a ceature in creatures of sonaria in roblox its abt a puffwumps fear Basicly there is a pack off puffwumps living in the desert but they always fear 1 thing in the nighttime
@@EbbeWaxin oh wow you replied urm I don't know what to say well thank you again and I'm going to comment to this message and tell you all about my comic when it's done and I hope you remember it ok talk soon 👋
Journey: Learn to plant potatoes.
End: Fail at planting potatoes but have a family and a garden full of berries.
if that is a story,i for some reason like it
I'd read it
Teemo pfp :D
Title: Potatoes and Berries
@@nomiflower9707 maybe “potato berries” is a better title?
I never even considered thinking of an ending for my story 😶
imma write an ending for you ok
as the group stared at their newly acquired cheese wheel, tears where brought to their eyes, they knew their magical had come to an end, (female character) looked upon the group, and upon (other female character) feelings washed over (female character,) as she wanted to tell(other female character) how she really felt. but alas they all departed, they all went on, but the wheel, the wheel stayed neglected, as no-one wanted to care for it, the wheel would have its revenge
the end :)
@@tacoart2120 actually my universe is based off of cheese so this makes sense
@@kedamono8616 happy to be of service lol
Yo that’s the first thing I do-
Same 😭
God I just love how he goes straight to the point. Like literally zero filler or anything. Bless you man.
Hahaha thnx
I tried making a comic today and I spent ALL DAY making the first 2 panels! Goddamn I have so much respect for artists and some of them don’t even get paid for the fan-comics they make!
Indeed. Lots of good artists out there that goes unnoticed.
I've been working for 3 days on my first 11 panels lmao
I’ve been thinking about making a webtoon for a while now. I wrote this really bad story for an English assignment in school, but I still like the concept of it, so I’m thinking of turning it into a web comic. It’ll also help me practice digital art too.
The story is about this terminally ill guy looking for a place that can cure his unknown disease. By chance, he meets this guy who runs a hospital and says that he can cure him. The protagonist goes into the hospital but later finds out that the hospital traps its patients there and turn them into these half human-half monster creatures so they can grow their population and overtake humans. The protagonist meets people who want to escape with him and they make a plan.
I don’t have a bunch of details on it yet, but this video has really helped me a lot, thank you!
Glad it could help. Good luck with your story.
Bro that sounds good, I would def read that
Best of luck! Make it happen and I'd definitely give it a read 👍🏾
Me too
yang?
Also about overdesigning.
There are always going to be big important shots where you can draw a character or scenario with more detail and it's going to make a HUGE impression if your character is not as detailed normally.
Great video. It helped me a Lot
Quick question, what if all my characters' designs are really simple all the time (context: they're literally cutout shapes with simple faces)?
@@ElmKyh well, then it depends on your way of story telling. Nothing HAS to be detailed, specially if your style doesn't call for it. Also depends on what the story is about and what type of comic it is, at least that's my way of seeing it. But I'm far from being an expert
Spongebob be like
@@ElmKyh present them in a way that makes them interesting to look at. I recommend using techniques like shading, perspective, and expression to give more information about your character. Any design can be used well if you know how to present them well. I recommend watching Alan Becker's Animation vs Minecraft series as he gives so much life and story to his simple designed characters.
Saitama style!
Your simple illustration are so good than mine actual drawings
I practiced detailed and advanced drawings first, but found more fun and easier with more simple drawings. 👍
Use proper grammar
@@videogamelover2006 maybe they're young or English isn't their first language - it's just a comment so it doesn't really matter :P you still get what they're saying
@@videogamelover2006 👨🏽🎨 this is public, international platform, even if English is not our first language.....art is a multiracial, multicultural, multimedia, multinational, multifaceted, multidimensional, multiple, multidisciplinary, multilingual, multiverse way of living. Please love each other, as Jesus loves everyone in this earth!!!
@@t4u112 shut up
I'm going to make a comic called Dad for the milk it's going to be an epic adventure of a dad going for the milk and how he got back to his son💀
there's actually a book quite like it! 'fortunately, the milk' by Neil Gaiman where a dad comes back late from getting the milk and recounts the story of his epic adventure to his children and they don't believe him
1. Format (Comic - A4/5 or Webtoon - Verticallity)
2. Thumbnails (mini versions of the pages to test the sizing, understandability, and flow)
3. A beginning and an end (even if the end doesn't come for a long time, you need to know it - as you fill in the journey arc from there)
4. Establishing shot (first panel - and when scenes change - that tells the audience where the characters are, what they're doing, what the environment is like)
5. Don't overdesign (shadows, patterns, crosshatching from different angles and 100s or 1000s of times)
Exactly 👍
HELP- I GOT A GRAMMARLY AD ABOUT 5 TIPS AND THEN I SAW THE TITLE AND IT WAS THE SAME NUMBER.. WHAT TYPE OF COINCIDENCE IS THAT???
"Tip 6: Git gud, scrub!" :P
but everyone starts bad ^^
Wow! This was a spectacular video that not only simplified the basics, but it was spoken very clearly and was easy to interpret.
The visual examples were overall done very well too, this is incredible! Thank you!
Thanks 😁
Ima do the newspaper type of comic strips.
Imagine being subscribing to miranda crosgrove
@@nbj2532 bruh
Nice, I use to draw my own comics way, waaaayyy back!, I really want make em again, and maybe get into the publishing, it’s been my goal ever since,
This was a really nice analysis on making comics, thanks ^^
Good luck on your journey!
@@LinkLover-so6of hello, and thank you, you too ^^
You should so get back in on it !!! Im personally new when it comes to *actually* making a comic, but I feel like it's better to start someday than never!! Whether it be a simple hobby or something more serious like a business
3:48 SOO THATS WHAT TAKING MY FATHER SOOO DANG LONG!
Pfft.. dats funny
I have such a hard time not overdesigning. it's hard to make a simple design that doesn't feel empty 😭
It is a challenge, but worth it in the long run. Examples are Batman and Hellboy - Most draw Batman with the cape covering him, Hellboy artists usually have him in heavy shadows.
But if you want to overdesign, that's okay. The risk is always that you will burn out on drawing that designed character and it will take longer to produce your story/comic/illustrations.
Really helpful to jolt me out of my roadblock.I've been trying to write a typical, traditional kid picture book, but realize I need to go more in this direction to create something unique. Thanks!
glad it could be of use ^^
It was so helpful for me as a comic artist and a writer.Thank you.
Glad it could help ^^
Great video and awesome tips! Thank you!. And holy crap, I freaking love your art style. Keep up the great work!
Glad it helped. Thnx ^^ I will try
one of my favorite ways to make comics
is making everything black, grey and white, very simple
and then.
BOOM
all of the sudden, one of the important scenes is completely colored, full details and have a large box
Id love to see that visualized
Lol
@@SoliacTrahkorskymany mangas do this style knys kinda does this
Beginning: The son of a zombie fighter just so happens to be a zombie himself. He admires his father and wants to fight zombies like him.
Ending: After ending a major conflict between humans and zombies, the protagonist becomes an iconic and respected zombie fighter.
That is a kick ass setup go for it
beginning: a schizofrenic guy is dating a girl who struggles with derealization. she doesn't feel real, and after telling him that he starts questioning wether she is real or just another hallucination.
end: the girl dies of an overdose and her boyfriend asks if she's dying, to which she replies "I don't know, am I dying?" (this format is repeated throughout the comic with different hallucinations, but this time it's real). Moments later she dies in his arms, but the guy convinces himself that it's just another hallucination, sitting with her for hours. In the last few pages we see the two spending time together, seeing her alive and well through his eyes, but in the final panel we see her true apearance, the one of a rotting corpse.
You gotta make this now dude, this would be a killer read.
Begining: Happy family man
Ending: Ruthless merciless coldhearted man
Breaking Bad
I draw a lot of fully formed comic ideas in my sketchbook, so I'm glad I've been largely following the tips in this video without knowing about them.
I have a villain/neutral character that has a evil outside but a neutral inside. Cause basically my character is based off myself and my character has a childs soul.
My characters evil outside represents how much power i want to have in the world, but the child soul inside represents part of me that is still innocent and more caring for others. Itherwise me and my character have evil thoughts.. only my character gets to do those evil things..
I just want a basic cliché story to check if I like making comics, so here's my starting brainstorm for a cute yuri romance bcs why not
Protag: random unpopular otaku kid
The Protag has a friend who's also a otaku and doesn't have that many friends.
Protag falls in love with popular and nice girl.
The story would be a wholesome slice of life of these two falling in love and their dynamics, trying to make the relationship work and getting to know each other, with the supporting best friend character that'd be specially important at the start, while they're figuring things out.
I'm thinking of making a pilot episode on webtoon and if I like it I'd make it into a comic, the idea is for it to be a "feel good" time for the readers
I liked ur story it sounds fun! But I suggest why u won’t make it straight romance, I think it’ll suit more audiences and maybe it’ll help u more in the future, but in the end it’s ur decision! Good luck ig✨
I love Yuri stories and I fully support you turning this into a real comic. Dont Listen to the guy who claims you have to make it 'straight' just so it appeals to the mainstream. There are enough people like ne who love these stories.
@@SprinkleMyDoughnuts I didn’t mean that actually, I wish u read that more carefully, ofc she can make it huri that’s her decision and i understand that there is an audience for these type of things, well yuri content may be sensitive to some people, for example i know sm people including me who can’t see these things, and I would love to see her story and don’t want other to not be able to see it cuz of a little thing, maybe it sounds selfish, again I’m not saying that she has to do it straight so it appeals to the mainstream, I’m saying that because more people will see it, I’m sure her story is amazing and it would be a waste if some people missed it just because it’s yuri, u can’t force others to see things that can’t see, plus again and again I’m not claiming that she SHOULD do that because that and that, I’m just expressing my opinion here, u don’t have to act like I asked her to give up entirely on that I just tried to explain what I’m trying to say politely, what I don’t understand is that why do you try to encourage her in that way idk I don’t get it plus I’m not rlly good at explaining, I hope u understand
@@bahanbayan9696You people will never get it. Tell me, are the millions of stories featuring straight romance not enough for you? Why does ever single story have to cater to your demographic and when it comes to my demographic, we're constantly discouraged to have stories about us cause we're not "popular" enough. How would you feel in my shoes if people constantly told you that? Tell me.
@@SprinkleMyDoughnuts im asking you the same question too. plus i never discourged her because yuri is just not rlly "popular" . my point was why not make a great story like hers appealing to everyone, plus these kinds of thing are personal preferences. A great amount of people including me doesnt hate yuri or things like that, its just not our cup of tea, she asked for opinion, and i gave her mine, and i never meant to be offensive(sorry just in case i sounded like that). And as well as that i also know and acknowledge that there is a huge amount of people that likes yuri, and it is their cup of tea. She here clearly asked for opinion from lots of perspectives online, and i as any other human who read this comment, gave mine. i encourged her and told her that i liked her story as well as saying my personal preference that yuri is not my cup of tea, and i tought i said that in a polite way.I see nothing wrong in what i said, but honestly i felt that when you told her not to listen to my opinion it was a bit rude, i just told her what i thought and i felt a bit offended by your comment.
These are the tips I NEEDED, thank you so much for this, you helped out a LOT & more than you will ever know, blessings and love to you and everyone on here 🙌🏾
Glad it helped 👍
Thank goodness! I already know the ending but I couldn't figure out my establishing shot. I also have scaled down designs of my main couple but do their more detailed looks as single illustrations. Thank you for this video!
Beginning: family arrives to the village, ready to start a new life (protagonist: eldest child of the family)
End: she takes an oath to join a temple, swearing to forget everything her father taught her, to never hurt someone who didn't deserve it. Not again.
i love this
the adventure of krumbs HERE I GO!
This was actually incredibly useful, I never thought about the establishinh shot, and wondered why my comic felt incoherent. Zap added an establishing shot and it makes much more sense.
Glad it helped 😋
To be honest I basically get nervous before starting my comic so I'll just type in my story to see what you think
So my comic is basically going to be about a creepypasta character from Minecraft. But as a kind and caring type. It's the white Ender that goes into an adventure and making friends along the way. And yes ofc there would be trouble along the way. My comic will include charters back stories as well!
That sounds so adorable
@@MondayAgainBip ty :)
I was hoping it'd be about Herobrine but this is even better
I have been making comics since grade 5. I learned so much and it helped me learn how to draw better so much
The establishing shot tip may have saved my life… I have spent way too much time drawing backgrounds haha
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Thanks for the comic tips, it really helped alot! :)
Glad it helped 👍
Ok, I tried to write a comment about one of the 4-5 ideas I've had during these years of wallowing in my inability to draw/write and laziness to do anything about it, but since I can't write I'm trying again:
So, the name is Undead or Revived. The basic idea stems from my hatred for the concept of zombies in general, and is as follows: what if, under certain circumstances, zombies were able to regain their sanity? What if they were able to remember their lives and develop a society similar to humans? And how would they even see humans?
The story is set in the "Infected Zone", a small, isolated portion of Earth devastated by a parasitic life form known as "the Mycelium", which kills its hosts' body and literally"revives" them as nigh-invulnerable, rapidly healing and feral beasts known as the "Undead". The rest of the world, unaffected by the Mycelium, just stopped caring about the averted apocalypse and the most governments do is occasionally sending food, weapons and medications to the survivors. This zone is divided into small human communities, living in appalling conditions in repurposed rural villages and city outskirts, and the "Wastelands", the abandoned cities and landscapes roamed by the Undead. But, unbeknownst to humans, what they consider "Undead" is just the primary stage of the infection, which leaves the host physically and mentally damaged and forces it to devour meat and act like an animal. Once their healing factors (activated by absorbing organic material, like human flesh) patch up these damages, they actually redevelop human intelligence and regain their memories and awareness. They become virtually immortal, intelligent and overall human beings (they still need to eat and sustain themselves through external means, but at a far less frequent rate. They have a pulse, and are able to procreate. Some of them are able to control the Mycelium and use it as appendages. The Mycelium itself is able to synthetize simile-bone tissue, regrow missing tissue portions and heal wounds by eating and absorbing proteins and nutrients contained in animal meat, including human flesh. If their bodies are damaged in a way that would normally kill a human or they stay for a long time without any form of sustainment, however, they revert back to a feral state, requiring the absorption of new animal flesh to regenerate their wounds and bring them back to normal), who organize themselves into a large interconnected society and call themselves "Revived". And, as humans see them as monsters, so do they. After all, humans kill tons of them before they can even reach their advanced stage, and any attempt to communicate with them resulted in useless bloodshed. So, under the guide of the "Council", they are actually and secretly trying to take over and infect humans in an attempt to spread the Mycelium and establish themselves as the ultimate "evolution".
The protagonists are 31, a human soldier from the improvised military force of her home village with a pessimistic and passive outlook on life, and Robbie, a one-eyed and eccentric Revived with a troubled past life and an unclear, utopian plan to stop the Council and bring peace between both species, and their friendship over the course of a few months. The series would be a sort of comedy/slice-of-life comic with an underlying plot and deeper messages, featuring a cast of quirky characters and quite a few story arcs I already have basic plotlines for.
Whew, I actually did it. I shared this shit with someone. Now, I'm off to never do anything productive with any of this in my entire life.
I’m making a comic (well, I plan to) that’s basically Warrior cats but with me and my cousin’s ocs
Wow u uploaded a vid nice
hahaha a rare sight ^^
When I did write stories and I knew the end from the beginning, it didn't go well.
But when even I didn't know how my story would end, it went great!
In artschool I get lots of compliments, especially because I don't know what I'm doing, but always can figure something out.
Don't want to have an ego, but that tip of having an end isn't the best tip for creative People.
Therefore I'm not sure about the other tips, joined art school to understand drawing in general better.
I could say the same about your tips, most creative people never got anything from art school, and not all people can work improvising every step like you. So judging the tips for yourself is one thing. But don't judge for others. Since you said it yourself... You don't know what you are doing.
@@EbbeWaxin Maybe you should rewatch your own video before making this comment???
i dont agree on the last part but helpfull!
thanks dude it make my brain more faster.👍👍😎
This was really helpful, thank you!
glad if it helped ^^
You sound like prismo from adventure time and it fits so well I love this video so much thank you for makeing this:>
I have a question, is it best to go straight to your main idea for your story, and the one that you want to do best, or should you do a trial run comic first?
Do every version you said. Everybody works different. Find the way that works for you. 👍
@@EbbeWaxin Ok thank you
FWIW, I like the 8 panel format on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with a front and back page. Lots of examples on TH-cam. Fun, easy practice.
@@SDW90808 Thank you, I will have to look into that. The problem is I would like to make a comic digitally and I don't know what measurements to use for webtoon etc but it might be nice to just do a few pages to practise.
I’m working on my comic and the cover is better than the comic itself 😂
My pencil: how about, you can see me through the page?
Me: what-no!
Pencil: lines can be seen through the page
Me: >:(((
I wanna make a parody of silver/bronze age comics while also making the charecters deep and with depth. But, i also want to make them goofy and comedic. How do i do this? Oh, and i also want to make my main charecter break the fourth wall and reffrence other comics, like x-men or legion of superheroes. What should i do?
Black clover anime lovers
Attendance here
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I dont think kentauro miura followed the fifht tip in all berserk
Hahaha well that showed in the delays between chapters, he getting constantly sick and eventually his tragic passing. These tips are more for the beginners and medium creators 😋
this may be my ticket on my first comic, wish me luck
thank you 4 this!!!
you're welcome ^^
Yo this is a great video :)
I like your tip on establishing shot! Super helpful
I’m thinking on making a comic titled ‘Shrunken Silly’ & this will help a lot, thanks a load man!
Brand newbie here, to comic drawing. Thanks, this was helpful!
I want to make a comic based in Minecraft, but with a lot more story and with some headcanons, also I want to make it happen on the actual century
What do you recommend for a person that's starting her first comic and thinks of the possibility to do an physic form of the comic but also wants to to make it a weeb comic, publish it the two ways? What form should I make my comic? And what's the best site for an comic with the 'classic' form to be publish if I do it that way?
i would say - do it like a physical comic first, then convert that to a webtoon comic. Check : th-cam.com/video/evv5hyB6UGk/w-d-xo.html - and for hosting : webtoon or tapas. Otherwise create your own site.
@@EbbeWaxin thanks for the help 👍
this person sounds soooo tired..
I sound tired? Hmmm... I guess its because i did a lot of retakes in sound.
is there a name for the kind of art style for the 'simple' design at the end section? I would like to learn how to do it.
The art style is mine, if you mean simpler design, that is what its called : "simple character design". Not sure exactly what you are asking here 😋
@@EbbeWaxin thanks I guess I don't know what I'm asking myself. The cartoon-ish but cool style. Also, thanks for the reply man! I appreciate it
Bro thanks,u really motivate me to do better in my comic book
@@Panda_gaming.75 glad if it helped 👍
👨🏽🎨 thanks for the tips, i will surely use them in my project
People who go out for milk, their ending is always a mystery. At least that's how it was for my dad. Still don't know where he's at
HOLY CRAP I JUST FINNISHED MY BEUTIFULL COMIC HOLY THIS IS 134 PAGES BRO THE MONTHS WAS WORTH IT
Sometimes i think i'm doing something wrong, because i dont spend that much time or effort in my drawings at all, not that they are extremely good or anything, by far i only did 2 littpe cute comics, but already looked like many i see on webtoon
It fells like i'm doing something wrong 😅
Drawings don't have to be super advanced or detailed. As long as they tell what you want them to tell. If you feel that they look like many others style, try changing one or two details about them to mix it up. For me, i recently changed how i do my noses.
such a great video! thanks for explaining all of this!!
Bro best idea 💡
thank you very much
Okay i need your guys’s opinion on my comic.
It starts off with a pinapple. The things on top of it form a guy named “Pineapple Man” , he then comes out and is a villain of sorts and starts flying around the city shooting spikes at places. But all of a sudden apple man comes in flying on an apple slice and has and epic battle with pinapple man. Pinapple man tries to throw a spike at apple man but it bounces off of apple man and hits pinapple man in the eye- knocking him out. Apple man kicks P-Man off of a building and then hops in his car. But what he doesn’t know is that P-Man fell into the back of his truck. Apple man pulls up to his house and enteres it. And goes to the bathroom. Pineapple man goes inside and steals a pinapple. Then heads to his lair. He goes inside the pinapple and gains more power. 2 years later and pinapple man finally awakens again. Apple man jears this on his radio causeing him to get distraced in his car and crash into a tree just outside of p mans lair. P man walks out and decides to befriend apple man.
Soon i will make a new comic titled:
Pinapple Man And Apple Man.
Two Fighting Fruit People.
What do you think?
Just make it! You seem to have it very thought out. Even if you think you can do better or your worried why others might think, if you make it now you will be more prepared for your next comic
First sentence and I am sold
It sounds like JoJos characters dueling 😆 It's awesome ! Work hard and good luck! It will turn out awesome
The simple design is one of the hardest things for me to do when redesigning mt characters not to mention the backgrounds too. Like how can I make backgrounds look alive and lived in yet simple and not too distracting of detailed
Easy check out how pros do it and break it down to study it
A beginning... NNN
Hey there! Amazingly helpful & informative video. I just curious what font you’re using in this? I really love it
having a simple design just to make it easier is a cop out... real comic artist dont do this.. imagine if jim lee or joe mad, todd mcfarlane made webcomic looking characters for the sake of simplicity...
Yeah I get you, except that those guys don't ink or color their own stuff. They also don't letter or put the finishing touches on pages. And are you telling me Batman, Spawn etc.. Is not simplified designs? Sure ,the style is detailed, but the designs are simple. And how about references, are they also cop outs? Real comic artists know simple designs are not cop outs. Or are you a fan of the 90s convoluted poach on everything designs? And lastly.. webcomics and U.S printed comics made by a team of people are two different beasts.
@@EbbeWaxin huge fan of 90's comic work, they are legends for a reason, your right they have a team, but the work and draftsmanship, drawing all the backgrounds, the rendering, nothing simple about it.. just me personally, if i have the skill i'd rather just go all out if its gonna be printed.. almost every webtoon is some low skilled ultra simple art slice of life crap, as for your example i'd much rather see the detailed art then the simple one.. and totally doable.. man i miss the 90's
Bro, I want to ask, if I make a story chapter by chapter, separate the original ending and the ending of the chapter, is that okay, because this makes it easier for me to make the story
Ofc. You can have arcs within a bigger story. And chapters usually end with a cliffhanger so you want to read the next one.
@@EbbeWaxin Thx, my friends say that this method is actually wrong, they say we have to directly determine the beginning and ending of the story we write, so I'm a little doubtful, that's why I'm asking
I really want to start making a comic and probably selling it with the help of my parents, i rlly like drawings and some of my teachers know i love drawing alot , i really love drawing when im bored or when I'm calm, your tips are very well and good for starters!!! :)
Hi! I know there are some super skilled writers in here, soo I wanted to ask for a comic idea (cuz I'm not fitted for writing stories) I'm supposed to make a comic about ,, how i became a hero and defeated the villian'' yeah its classic, but I have no ideas for making something unusual. Maybe you could suggest me something good?
thanks in advance :>
I have one! How about there is an alien invasion or something but the alien turns out to be human and comes to your town! But it's alien DNA somehow gets trapped in your house and you collect it and get superpowers! Then there's an epic showdown between you and the alien! And maybe there's a plot twist, like the alien's your uncle or something! Hope this helped!
@@Epikz_Wallop Thanks a lot, that's an amazing idea! Now I'll just have to think of some cool super power and character design and I can start planning. Thanks again you've helped me a lot :>
@@sonian1736 no problem! :)
Holy smokes I didn't expect in my whole life I'd find Johnny Depp making comic tips on youtube.
You genuinely sounds like Johnny Depp. Anyway I love the tips it's really important for beginners to know about this.
Thank you for your help, good sir.
This is what I was looking for: simple, easy to understand and to the point. Helpful.
Thank you!
No problems! 👍
Journey: an ordinary life but with a twist happy life but need to collect 4element and 4emblem
End: war, dead, discrimation and hatred but end with a hangcliff ending
Ente I understood but I didn't understand because I don't know English
The beginning of my story is complicated. The technical beginning is the main character benjen waking up from a strange dream of his 16th birthday, but it really begins when he escapes from his elemental kidnapper, Iko. Benjen falls from the plateau cliff and into the kingdom, where he meets his future best friend Bo, the generals son. It ends when Benjen fufills his part in the ancient prophecy, and brings elementals and kingdom people together once again. Since Benjen has completed his purpose he dies… well, kinda. But not really. He leaves behind an empty shell, which still has a pulse, and his soul is taken by the blue devil, a strange being that lives in his dreams. His soul is taken to another mysterious dimension, and a redeemed Iko and sad Bo are left to deal with the aftermath of the war.
I can never recommend knowing atlesst the begging and end of a story whether it be a book, comic, ect anything. It personally helps me a ton for stories, along if you want to have more detailed scenarios in between, figuring out what happens in the end and begining can help with figuring out if you want to add it, and personally helps me with foreshadowing, i lovee foreshadowing
2:47 *me who's doing an adaptation of a book*
All... for nothing at all...
Start: friends playing together
End:disaster
I kind of just come up with the ending before even making the story. The middle is the hardest and the beginning is easy but overwhelming to introduce the characters and even the world.
I’m thinking of making the death of my oc in a comic and this will help
is it easier to go from page to webtoon or the other way around?
Page to webtoon
Meanwhile Kentaro Miura drawing The whole berserk series: Hold my Pen
Hehe true , but also... that is a warning story about health and how long and hard it is to make that kind of quality for a long time.. :/
@@EbbeWaxin Yeah so true...may it a lesson to others...to take care of ourselves .RIP KENTARO MIURA SENSEI😔
pls just a short tutorial for us beginners who are just getting started
My Filipino teacher told me to make a comic as an assignment. I will make a comic version of my fantasy novel called Carmelita Marolanda.
Omg thank you I’m working on a big comic called me and my friends wacky adventures you helped me on making the panels and other things
I making issues oof my character shadow man
To be honest for me it’s easier to read the webtoon format the standard format is harder for me to read as in I’m not always sure which side I have to start reading in one panel there could be 10 scenes and I’m not sure where I should start right left up down it’s never really consistent from the ones I’ve read so far
This was amazing information some of it already knew but the information given, gave me a different view of how to do things. Honestly for my comic it doesn't really have an ending because it's just supposed to be little funny strips here and there. I was kind of going for a storyline similar to Adventure Time where you have the beginning and then it doesn't get serious until a bunch of episodes later?
3:49 I read a book about that! But I only the dad the cow that stands on two legs and the dads goal
I am making a chomic abt a ceature in creatures of sonaria in roblox its abt a puffwumps fear Basicly there is a pack off puffwumps living in the desert but they always fear 1 thing in the nighttime
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I'll keep in mind the overdesign tip, tysm!
Hi bro you probably won't see this but this has helped me alot and I want to thank you for helping me how to do my format of my comic ❤
Glad it could help 😁👍
@@EbbeWaxin oh wow you replied urm I don't know what to say well thank you again and I'm going to comment to this message and tell you all about my comic when it's done and I hope you remember it ok talk soon 👋
I always think of beginning and ending,the middle can be somewhat hard to figure out.