Need help on comics.

[Cheshire cat]

Can anyone draw comics real well? I want to make a comic jhonen vasquez style, but i can't do it very well.

[Frost]

hmm... I can't draw at such a good magnitude but I do recomend you practice. hehe, like my art professor says, "the is no magical way to learn to draw. you must practice over and over to get good. "

[Random_Logic [William_Clinch]]

Not sure if you're asking about how to draw, or how to structre comics, but I'm assumeing the latter

I've only done a few comics (on a computer, useing sprites from a old snes game. Who remembers earth bound? ), any way, there a few things I discovered as I went along

• It's always best to know what you're doing, and plan out what is going to be in each pannel, (rather than progressing the story as you draw it)
  
• The best order (I find) to draw things in each frame, is to draw the main action/importan stuff first, then work out where (if any) the text is going to go, and then fill the rest of the space with backgroind stuff
  
• Make sure the amount of text is er... a good amount,
  too much text, and you'll have less space for other stuff, (and reading too much can slow the story down)
  too little text, and it will just be confuseing
  
• Make sure that anyone reading it will understand what is going on (assume they know nothing extra relating to the comic that you know)
  
• Dont make the backgroud too complex, or it will may draw attention away from the action
  
  
• The best thing I can sugest though, is to just draw a short comic (probably only a few frames) and then let others see them (post it here perhaps) so they can give you advice and tell you what you need to improve
  

if this isn't what you ment, then dont read the above

I may add to this if I can think of any other use full stuff

[Cheshire cat]

I can draw and make comics, i just can't draw comics. I know, wierd.



I just printed an exerpt from "Squee" From Jhonen Vasquez, and i'm going to draw him over and over untill i have the design down.

Of course, my characters won't be squee, that would be copywrite law evilness. ;D

[Cheshire cat]

randomlogic said:

Not sure if you're asking about how to draw, or how to structre comics, but I'm assumeing the latter

I've only done a few comics (on a computer, useing sprites from a old snes game. Who remembers earth bound? ), any way, there a few things I discovered as I went along

• It's always best to know what you're doing, and plan out what is going to be in each pannel, (rather than progressing the story as you draw it)
  
• The best order (I find) to draw things in each frame, is to draw the main action/importan stuff first, then work out where (if any) the text is going to go, and then fill the rest of the space with backgroind stuff
  
• Make sure the amount of text is er... a good amount,
  too much text, and you'll have less space for other stuff, (and reading too much can slow the story down)
  too little text, and it will just be confuseing
  
• Make sure that anyone reading it will understand what is going on (assume they know nothing extra relating to the comic that you know)
  
• Dont make the backgroud too complex, or it will may draw attention away from the action
  
  
• The best thing I can sugest though, is to just draw a short comic (probably only a few frames) and then let others see them (post it here perhaps) so they can give you advice and tell you what you need to improve
  

if this isn't what you ment, then dont read the above

I may add to this if I can think of any other use full stuff

Heh, exactly. The perfect advice to one who wants to be a comcicer.?

I used to draw (horribly drawn) comics once. "Hairball the cat" and his owner "dude". LOL so funny i was. But i'm much better now.

[Random_Logic [William_Clinch]]

uhanimar said:

I can draw comics, i just can't draw comics.

er... so yacn draw comics.. but you cant draw comics
(once again I am confused )
Is there some kind of split personality thing going on with you where one personality can draw comics, and the other cant?

[Cheshire cat]

randomlogic said:

uhanimar said:

I can draw comics, i just can't draw comics.

er... so yacn draw comics.. but you cant draw comics
(once again I am confused )
Is there some kind of split personality thing going on with you where one personality can draw comics, and the other cant?

LOOL no thats not it. I can draw crappy comics, and i can draw, but i can't draw good comics.

I want to draw like this:

www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0943151244/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/104-7575826-8678319?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S006#reader-page

But suck considerably.

But i CAN draw stuff, just not comicy.

[Lexa]

Well at least you can draw something CC.

I used to be able to years ago but now I can't. Maybe I'll try again sometime, see if I can revive my talent.

[Kwei-de]

il alright at drawing, not good enough to make ur comic tho. srry. try asking Masuro

[Cheshire cat]

kweide said:

il alright at drawing, not good enough to make ur comic tho. srry. try asking Masuro

I don't expect anyone to do it. i Just thought i might be able to get a tutorial, not to mention start a thread about comics.

[Random_Logic [William_Clinch]]

Just try drawing small and simple pictures
If you can draw okay in normal pictures, draw what you want in normal size, and then keep trying to draw it smaller, and more simplified.
Do you have any of you sketches on this site?

[Cheshire cat]

randomlogic said:

Just try drawing small and simple pictures
If you can draw okay in normal pictures, draw what you want in normal size, and then keep trying to draw it smaller, and more simplified.
Do you have any of you sketches on this site?

Yeah, but i took it with my webcam because my scanner doesn't work. Although you can kinda see the detail.:



This was my first try ever on a pred mask, and basically anything else with detail. I was born with the gift of art i guess hehe.

*works of squee*

[Da'dtou-di]

For your first try not bad!

[Cheshire cat]

keka said:

For your first try not bad!

You sould see the real thing. It's MUCH more pretty and professional then it looks on the webcam.

[Random_Logic [William_Clinch]]

what would a comic version of that look like then?

[Cheshire cat]

randomlogic said:

what would a comic version of that look like then?

Heh, thats the problem. I dunno.


Also i am planning to make a graphic novel that has absolutly NOTHING to do with predies.

[Random_Logic [William_Clinch]]

Mabey try to make some of the best RPGs from this site in to comics

[Cheshire cat]

randomlogic said:

Mabey try to make some of the best RPGs from this site in to comics

Omg that is a wonderfull idea.

[Frost]

a very good idea I must say.

[Random_Logic [William_Clinch]]

I started trying to make a comic based on the RPG AlienVsPredatorVsAsh, but after reading it again, I got confused, so I made this instead
Needs work, but you get the idea
(also need to find aprites of a dead/unconcios/lieing down pred to finish it


www.geocities.com/clinch_william/PredVsMJ.JPG