My Super Terrible Art Thread of Stuff
- Thread starter Kyoku
- Start date
- Joined
- May 15, 2016
- Messages
- 1,879
- Reaction score
- 3,349
- First Language
- English
- Primarily Uses
- RMVXA
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2017
- Messages
- 282
- Reaction score
- 653
- First Language
- English
- Primarily Uses
- RMMV
Meet Shino Takemago!
I wanna start a small web-comic series soon, which is currently dubbed (for now?) the name: The Wild Sky (thank you random generator X3).
Sooo, yeah... Really bad, I know, but whatever! Look forward to a few more characters soon to be made! Probably.
Had to compress it 3 times... at a level 9 compression... gaaah...
I wanna start a small web-comic series soon, which is currently dubbed (for now?) the name: The Wild Sky (thank you random generator X3).
Sooo, yeah... Really bad, I know, but whatever! Look forward to a few more characters soon to be made! Probably.
Had to compress it 3 times... at a level 9 compression... gaaah...
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2016
- Messages
- 288
- Reaction score
- 1,343
- First Language
- Malay, Lotudian
- Primarily Uses
- RMMV
Meet Shino Takemago!
I wanna start a small web-comic series soon, which is currently dubbed (for now?) the name: The Wild Sky (thank you random generator X3).
Sooo, yeah... Really bad, I know, but whatever! Look forward to a few more characters soon to be made! Probably.
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2017
- Messages
- 482
- Reaction score
- 789
- First Language
- English
- Primarily Uses
- RMMV
Ooh a webcomic! As someone who has been drawing a web manga for the past four years, I hope you don't mind if I share some advice with you
1) As it's your first try, keep it short. I know this advice is usually given to first time game makers too, but seriously, my biggest regret is making my comic too long. It's so easy to underestimate how long it will take, even a one shot is still a big time sink. Rather than trying to make something super deep, to find you get bored of the story/don't enjoy comic making, or just aren't ready for it, and drop it, (which, by the way, really sucks as it will probably knock your confidence about making another one in the future, and you can easily build a reputation as "someone who never finishes anything" & people will stop even trying to look at what you make.) I reallybeg of you suggest, that you don't make my mistake, and just try to keep it short and sweet :3c
2) Do a bit of research about where you're going to host the comic. I'd recommend a comic hosting site, rather than just trying to put it in an isolated place like tumblr. Comic hosting sites already have visitors who look at them hungry for more stuff to read, so it's a good way to start your reader base. The different sites tend to have a few genres that stick out as being more popular, so finding the site that matches your comic genre will help you attract more readers. However, don't be disappointed if you aren't immediately super popular and get loads of comments. When you're just starting, there isn't a lot for a reader to form an opinion on. For the first three years, I only ever got comments off the same two readers, but in the past year, my number of readers has shot up Just give it time, if you enjoy and love your comic, other people are sure to as well!
In case all my advice so far seems a little scary, here's my last one-
3) Making a comic is probably the best thing you'll ever do for your art. You already draw a lot, so making a comic probably isn't going to inspire you to practice even more, but what it will do, is push you out of your comfort zone. Drawing different angles, action, backgrounds, trying to keep a character consistent, they're all things we tend to avoid thinking about when just making little doodles. When you're doing a comic however, you have to pay attention to them. When I started mine, I'd hardly drawn guys before... and the two protagonists of my comic are men It really helped me see where I was lacking, and gave me the chance to practice and improve. It's both a frustrating and inspiring experience, but I think it's worth it.
Uh, I hope you don't find this patronising. It's just some stuff I really wish someone had told me before I started, so I wanted to share it with you.
1) As it's your first try, keep it short. I know this advice is usually given to first time game makers too, but seriously, my biggest regret is making my comic too long. It's so easy to underestimate how long it will take, even a one shot is still a big time sink. Rather than trying to make something super deep, to find you get bored of the story/don't enjoy comic making, or just aren't ready for it, and drop it, (which, by the way, really sucks as it will probably knock your confidence about making another one in the future, and you can easily build a reputation as "someone who never finishes anything" & people will stop even trying to look at what you make.) I really
2) Do a bit of research about where you're going to host the comic. I'd recommend a comic hosting site, rather than just trying to put it in an isolated place like tumblr. Comic hosting sites already have visitors who look at them hungry for more stuff to read, so it's a good way to start your reader base. The different sites tend to have a few genres that stick out as being more popular, so finding the site that matches your comic genre will help you attract more readers. However, don't be disappointed if you aren't immediately super popular and get loads of comments. When you're just starting, there isn't a lot for a reader to form an opinion on. For the first three years, I only ever got comments off the same two readers, but in the past year, my number of readers has shot up
Just give it time, if you enjoy and love your comic, other people are sure to as well!In case all my advice so far seems a little scary, here's my last one-
3) Making a comic is probably the best thing you'll ever do for your art. You already draw a lot, so making a comic probably isn't going to inspire you to practice even more, but what it will do, is push you out of your comfort zone. Drawing different angles, action, backgrounds, trying to keep a character consistent, they're all things we tend to avoid thinking about when just making little doodles. When you're doing a comic however, you have to pay attention to them. When I started mine, I'd hardly drawn guys before... and the two protagonists of my comic are men
It really helped me see where I was lacking, and gave me the chance to practice and improve. It's both a frustrating and inspiring experience, but I think it's worth it. Uh, I hope you don't find this patronising. It's just some stuff I really wish someone had told me before I started, so I wanted to share it with you.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2017
- Messages
- 282
- Reaction score
- 653
- First Language
- English
- Primarily Uses
- RMMV
...I wonder if the double posting 72 hour thing reset according to your edits, not your actual date of posting...
So why don't we experiment right now! I just really wanna stop having to edit that post.
BOOM! I colored Kumiko Remix and embraced my inner cartoon anatomy! Don't cha worry, I didn't embrace it as much as I did last time, that was terrible!
I wonder if the double posting 72 hour thing reset according to your edits, not your actual date of posting...So why don't we experiment right now! I just really wanna stop having to edit that post.
BOOM! I colored Kumiko Remix and embraced my inner cartoon anatomy! Don't cha worry, I didn't embrace it as much as I did last time, that was terrible!
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2013
- Messages
- 244
- Reaction score
- 461
- First Language
- English
- Primarily Uses
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2017
- Messages
- 282
- Reaction score
- 653
- First Language
- English
- Primarily Uses
- RMMV
Haha, yeaaah. I changed styles a lot and learned a lot too!Kinda funny now that I think about it!
Boom! Art made, at most, 5 months ago, now THAT shows an improvement!
(yas, no more oversize sleeves and stupid hair!!! Also stopped doing the same dang poses all the time sort of!!!!)
non-digital art, yo!
Kinda funny now that I think about it!Boom! Art made, at most, 5 months ago, now THAT shows an improvement!
(yas, no more oversize sleeves and stupid hair!!! Also stopped doing the same dang poses all the time sort of!!!!)
Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)
Latest Threads
Latest Posts
-
-
-
-
RMMV An "animation substitution" plugin to allow for a "photosensitive players" option (7 Viewers)- Latest: caethyril
Latest Profile Posts
Our latest feature is an interview with... me?!
forums.rpgmakerweb.com
Spotlights/Features - RPG Maker Feature: Nick 'Touchfuzzy' Palmer
Spotlight: @Touchfuzzy (Tagging yourself is...
People4_2 (Capelet off and on) added!
forums.rpgmakerweb.com
Tonbi's MZ material factory
That is ok. I know the rest of the Actor 3 Set...
Just beat the last of us 2 last night and starting jedi: fallen order right now, both use unreal engine & when I say i knew 80% of jedi's buttons right away because they were the same buttons as TLOU2 its ridiculous, even the same narrow hallway crawl and barely-made-it jump they do. Unreal Engine is just big budget RPG Maker the way they make games nearly identical at its core lol.
Can someone recommend some fun story-heavy RPGs to me? Coming up with good gameplay is a nightmare! I was thinking of making some gameplay platforming-based, but that doesn't work well in RPG form*. I also was thinking of removing battles, but that would be too much like OneShot. I don't even know how to make good puzzles!
one bad plugin combo later and one of my followers is moonwalking off the screen on his own... I didn't even more yet on the new map lol.
