Absent-Minded Professor
Well I am guessing part of this goes onto the writers' area but I'll put some advice.
Well take into account some ideas though:
- First: remember that you are doing out for your own interest so not abusing the safety blanket nor the Fanservice (that gets old really fast). Do the work the way you want not as a small demographic wants, otherwise we would have tons of gratuitous yet useless fanservice.
- Second: Make time to get many pages done and keep a cushion of extra pages for times when you cannot update (this gets more evident if you study or work at the same time as publishing).
- Third: Use a text editor to get the grammar and spelling right, words are important as the drawings themselves so you had better balance both of them. If you have some problems onto that just get a few small checks can help your readers' understand stuff better when you leave those little clues.
- Fourth: be organized on all the items in the comic. Keep small stuff like character bios and timelines written in another document so when you do not have the inspiration you can take the stuff onto the basic timeline and use the backup information to fix things without taking a blatant "Deus Ex Machina".
Thank you! Any kind of help is appreciated, even if it's harsh. I want to have everything sorted out, so I can change it if a big flaw comes up. So thank you for the advice!
I get asked this question a bit, so I wrote an article about it
. If it's too long to read in full, skip to the last 5 paragraphs, beginning: "Now we come to possibly the most important pieces of advice I can give about making a webcomic".
Actually this one might be useful too. It talks about what I've learnt about drawing comics (as opposed to compositing comics out of photos). It's highly possible you're a better artist than I am, but there are things to consider when laying out a comic that you don't have to deal with for non-comic art.
edited 27th Feb '15 10:56:31 PM by Dmmaus
Hello, everyone.
I'm an artist and I upload manga-styled drawings at Deviant ART as an hobby. I've grown fond of many webcomics, example: The SNAFU comics and a handful satire styled comics. Ever since I got intressed for webcomics, I had the desire to make my own. Because it seems like a lot of fun and I really love to draw. It has helped me through a lot of tough times.
I have planned my webcomic for almost a year now and I want to get started. But I want some feedback, thoughts and advice for my webcomic idea before I start, so I can change ideas before I actually publish anything. Now, you can judge my idea however you want. It might be a good idea, "meh" idea or a stupid idea. But here it is:
My comic will be about a female demon names Theresa who is a half succibus and half human. She's married to Lucifer (aka The Devil). The whole point with the comic is to be silly and funny and show a caring and gentle side of someone people think is nothing but evil. But there will be some satire and serious moments in this comic as well. The main character, Theresa, is a survivor of abuse. And I want to show you can recover from it. That you can recover from abuse or illnesses.
Now, you can laugh at this idea all you want. But my point with this whole thread is to get some advice and feedback, before I dive into anything at all. Just promise to be polite! Thank you!
edited 26th Feb '15 2:16:37 PM by Interela1000