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Any tips for someone who's only done illustrations but wants to get into making comics? im really at a complete loss on how to start and everything i google just perplexes me more n more o-o

Hiya! /cracks knuckles/ OKAY

1. Don't be precious with your drawings. You are going to be drawing a *lot* of panels/images that will be glanced over so try not to spend too long on a single panel! Save your pretty details and illustration skills for big panels or the panels that hit HARD.

2. Don't write your dialogue as you are drawing the pages. Start with a script > thumbnails > layout (putting in the panels for ALL the pages including dialogue bubbles) > drawing the characters.

c. Panelling and page layout works a bit like composing an illustration. You are still leading the reader's eye around the page.

iv. It helps to break up your sentences when you write your script or write it a little funny or disjointed in time to your story beats. For example the line : "I learnt that in time that some things will never stay the same."

I would write it in my script as :

"I learnt.

That in time.

That some things.

Will Never.

Stay.

The Same."

This helps with pacing, it reminds me how fast I want readers to experience this bit of narration and plan how I want to lay things out.

5. It's not cheating if you copy paste and slightly alter existing drawings into a new panel or use a 3d image as a trace for your background. Comic drawing is hard and time consuming, so the last thing you want to happen is you getting stuck on 1 page for too long!

f. none of these are numbered sequentially. Again, comic drawing is hard and its a skill to build like illustration. So is panelling, pacing and scripting. These are all things that i've learnt over a few years of practice and work and there are still things I'm learning and figuring out everyday. So enjoy the process and hold onto the excitement of sharing a story! That's honestly the best part!

(Also I can reccommend these videos : hello, HELLO)

i'm still looking for an agent to rep me in graphic novels and comics, so lordt knows i have a long way to go in comics. But i hope all this helps! At the very least hope its entertaining LMAO

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Drown by .Yi - https://yi1zhi.artstation.com

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The doors

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This photo by Yuri Litwinienko is called “The last day of painting”. An artist from Odessa, Valentin Zakharchenko could not take his large painting “The blind ones” (oil on wood, 1978) out of his dilapidated house in 2012, so it had to be cut in two pieces.

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Una buena historia <3

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summer’s almost over so here’s some summer themed drawings~

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Time to say goodbye

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Admiré la vívida memoria con que, quizá después de tantos años de ceguera, recordaba las imágenes cuya deformidad estaba describiendo. Llegué a sospechar, incluso, que, si aún podía hablar de ellas con tanto apasionamiento, era porque en la época en que las había contemplado no era improbable que hubiera sucumbido a su seducción. Pues con frecuencia he encontrado las representaciones más seductoras del pecado precisamente en las páginas de los hombres más virtuosos, que condenaban su fascinación y sus efectos. Signo de que esos hombres son tan fogosos en el testimonio de la verdad, que por amor a Dios no vacilan de atribuir al mal todos los encantos conque este se envuelven, para que los hombres conozcan mejor las artes que utiliza el maligno para seducirlos. Y, en efecto, las palabras de Jorge despertaron en mi un gran deseo de ver los tigres y los monos del claustro, que aún no había examinado.

Adso de Melk en El nombre de la Rosa de Humberto Eco.

Intervención: Kara Daimaoh

Ilustración original: https://www.deviantart.com/monkeyswithbrushes/art/Jorge-De-Burgos-365674116

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CHA LA HEAD CHA LA