NanoGraphicMo

The NanoGraphicMo starts November the 1st and ends at 12 am November the 30th. The goal: to finish a black and white, 48 page graphic novel with cover in just under a month. *The idea for NanoGraphicMo is modeled on the NaNoWriMo. We are not affiliated. Just loosely related to the same intent, namely to have fun and create!

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At the End of the night

It's past twelve already in the Netherlands, thank you all for participating in nanographicmo! For those of you who still have a little bit of time left: goodspeed and see you on the flip side :) To not let this blog go quiet again until november 2014 I will post tutorials and helpful links in the coming months. Frequency: about 3/4 per week. Of course if you'd like to submit your nanographicmo or a tutorial you are welcome to send it in and I'll post it. Cheers!

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[nanographicmo]

Page One Splash of "Working for a Living." (Working title)

I'm way behind on this project, but here's my first page.  I've got about a dozen more pages pretty close to done, which puts me about a quarter of the way through.  But each day of work goes faster than the last, and that's encouraging.

  PS.  If you didn't figure it out, I'm not an artist, and I'm learning everything from drawing to photoshop as I go.

[nanographicmo]

I'm posting my nanographicmo here:

http://trowelhousebook.wordpress.com/

I try to scan a page a day but my scanner is very slow!

@bostonsteamer

[nanographicmo]

From the past..

Next couple of posts will be from 2012/11 they didn't show up in the tumblr ask/submissions box then, but are of course still worth visiting. :)

[felipesmithart]

[scottycomics]

Good words to live by. XD 

[felipesmithart]

At it again! RUuuaaarghh!!!! Props to everybody who’s on the same boat! DO iiiiiitt!!!!

[amyreeder]

Hear hear!

[sparklermonthly]

Felipe’s so great. ^_^

[royalboiler]

I think I have a great idea for an ongoing sci-fi comic. I would very much like to draw it myself but I'm not very good (guys like you, yer misses, Rios and Stokoe produce some very intimidating work). So, that gives me three options: I could draw the thing myself and produce a subpar strip (which would benefit no one), I could get another (better) artist to draw it and give up some control (which I imagine would drive me crazy), or I could just let this thing wither on the vine. What do I do?

Just draw it yourself. Some of my favorite comics aren’t that well drawn. I think it’s about getting the ideas out. And the more you tell stories the more you learn. I feel like deciding that you’re not good enough at something or just handing it off to someone else is the easy way out. 

Personally for me some of the fun of comics is both how fun they are and how many challenges they offer. 

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[kateordie]

Tomorrow is Hourly Comics Day. Make panels. Save yourself the hassle!

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Whelp, it's feb 1 already. 

[mnemovore]

Sketching out a character design for chapter 4 from my 2012 #nanographicmo project.

[psuedofolio]

Got some spare time? Make a comic!

Download the sample printable comic right here!

Reasons for doing this?

1: My followers can finally have a printed comic by me.

2: It seemed like a fun activity to do, specially with young kids.

3: It might be cool if interweb folks shared tiny little mini comics with each other. And a whole bunch of people can print each other’s comics and maybe we could collect ones by other artists. So… ya know. Why not?

EDIT: AHH! Before I forget, I should mention that this mini comic format was created by the folks at http://www.pocketmod.com/ I came by their technique while listening to Fear the Boot, a roleplaying game podcast as they were interviewing Stuart Robertson an indie table top rpg designer.

If you’d like, support those folks cause they helped me discover this neat design.

EDIT2: Added tags. Dag nabbit.

[mnemovore]

Perfect.

[nanographicmo]

Last minute sharpening of pencils

In about 4 hrs and 10 minutes it'll be the first of november ( for me it's GMT +1 Amsterdam, feel free to adjust to your time zone) and the nanographicmo begins.

The NaNoGraphicMo starts November the 1st and ends at 12 am November the 30th. 

The goal: to finish a black and white, 48 page graphic novel with cover.

The contents: original works; characters, story. Coloring is optional.

The Nanographicmo goal isn’t to write next Watchmen. It’s to finally sink your teeth in the big story you’ve been meaning to tell.

Anyone who wants to participate can send in a link to their blog & twitter and I'll rt & reblog/link your progress on this tumblr.

The tag as always is: #nanographicmo

Have fun! :)

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when you put them on-line. 2/2 :)

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RT @bostonsteamer: It's cool to be doing research for #nanographicmo and find a photo I took 10 years ago being used on wikipedia http:/ ...

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RT @mroobit: Some pencils from pages 3 and 4 featuring Audra (main character) from my #nanographicmo project http://t.co/kYHRKraS

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RT @mroobit: 12 hours and 34 minutes into #nanographicmo and I have officially decided that I am, indeed, going to do it again this year ...

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Hey Ho Let's Go! - Welcome new and familiar participants of 2011 NaNoGraphicMo The twitter account has... http://t.co/KvmluxMo