#comicing

[hotchocolatier]

tried to do some ethical watercolors today!

[monstermonger]

more... of Her

[solidempty]

Started the color of the waters. Progress has been slow, but more important things than coloring keep happening. You jest, “what could be more important!” You cry! Well my dog need snuggles by the fire ok? It’s been cold, and he is cute. Coloring will just have to wait. . . . #comicing #comix #indiecomic #indycomic #undiescomix #wendigo #horror #art #ink #inking #penandink #watercolor #horrorart #watercolorwendigo (at Sebago Town Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHJm_hsjcA8/?igshid=19mca7perldxa

[galoogamelady]

I'm planning on making a comic, but I'm not sure how to make the speech bubbles look good or what font to use for the dialog, how do you make speech bubbles??

I used to draw them with Photoshop’s vector tools (an ellipse + then reduced a square into a triangle and connected them) but that clean style didn’t match the calligraphy of my lineart + the textured brush I use so I just started drawing them by hand. Sometimes I draw them in one motion, sometimes I break them up into smaller lines... whatever works best at the time.I’m afraid there’s no better way around it. Drawing them gets easier with practice.

For English text I use Anime Ace (but there are other similar comic style fonts out there) and center the text in the bubbles. This is done in PS as well.I try to make paragraphs look aesthetically pleasing but if possible, I separate lines by readability too.So for example,  instead of structuring a sentence like

What was I supposed to do, leave them there?

I’d structure it like

What was I supposed to do,leave them there?

Also don’t forget to vary the shape, color etc. of your speech bubbles to communicate feelings and tone of voice, try to avoid crossing the lines that come from the bubbles and make sure that the bubbles are placed so that the viewer will read them in the intended order.

[stephseed]

Follow my blog to see lots more things like this. I’m posting every weekday for a year! Lets see how it goes together? I started in January and I’ll finish in December ( a long way to go).

Join me and together we CAN RULE THE WORLD ...no wait...the other thing...

[hotchocolatier]

[hotchocolatier]

shout out to the power fantasy by kieron gillen and casper wijngaard. Issue 1 is free online!

Issue 11 releases on Wednesday, August 13 - it’s the final issue of the second arc, and a great time to hop on. The art brings such life to the characters and the world they inhabit, and the characters are varied, but feel like the kind of person shaped disasters you might expect would be created from being handed world ending power.