Don't Draw SPEECH BUBBLES Like This!

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[@imhere1303]

it's hilarious that we went off on a tangent about tangents

[@robertlupa8273]

My thoughts exactly.

[@raineyclouds09]

Yus

[@bungiecrimes7247]

We?

[@imhere1303]

@@bungiecrimes7247 Yes

[@bungiecrimes7247]

@@imhere1303 fine, I fall to peer pressure because I'm so easy.

[@Gabriel-doodle]

You forgot about custom speech bubbles and tech speech bubbles! The ones that Dream and Iron Man use respectively. Custom can be used to tell the difference between people. In fact, this is used a lot in _The Property of Hate_ where *everyone* has custom speech bubbles. Which is useful because some of them don’t use words. Tech speech bubbles are square with lightning bolt tails. They are used for robots, people on phones, etc.

[@kimchi8022]

Thank you!

[@b-on-y]

Or you can color the bubble in the color of the eyes/hair/clothes or a color that represents that character. I saw this more times on Scratch Web Comics and it is quite useful... unless it is a colorless comic-

[@avivastudios2311]

I never realized just how smart artists were. This is so cool.

[@citrinerey4900]

As someone who has hand-lettered my comic....yes...You go insane. But hot dog does it look nice! It sorta adds to the art, in my personal opinion.

[@capnotserp]

would you ever consider doing a video on prosthetic limbs? either for humans or maybe even animals :) love your work!

[@canoistercat]

OMG YES PLEASE I'D LOVE A TUTORIAL ON THAT.

[@SnowFox-gv2rn]

Thank you for making this! I still need to get better when it comes to making comics (it’s definitely more challenging for me than just making a singular artwork), and speech bubbles are always difficult for me This will definitely come in handy!

[@Shala_Boi]

Okay, I'm currently making a comic and this is amazing for what I'm trying to achieve. Thank you so much! Once I get a steady flow of income, I'm coming back and subbing to the patreon! Thank you so much!

[@V3rminous]

One thing I was pondering would changing how far the speech bubble goes from the head help show how well the voice is projected Like how far the sound travels

[@imagiman893]

Yes

[@ass_terism]

The other day I just said to myself I wish someone would make a tutorial on this. Then I get this notification today. Honestly thank you😭🙏

[@CherryblossomFoxx]

There's another you've missed, and its kinda like a thought or inner narration/ 3rd person narration where its just a rectangular box on the top of bottom of the panel

[@-correct-ok2398]

the fact that this is free is WILD. I'd pay for this

[@ErgoComix]

2:38 I don't know where this trend of using the word balloons with the tails pointing inwards came from (probably Webtoons, the worst place to learn from), but it is *not* used when two people are talking. I know it was used here as a quick example to guide the eye more through the panel, but still the example is wrong, as the word balloon is already placed poorly. If anything, those "inner tails" are used when a character is talking *outside* the panel/frame, and it has to be pointing towards the direction they are, not away from them (like in the example in the video). And there's better ways to show that: Having the tail go off panel and cut at the gutter, or, if there's only two characters talking, not have a tail for it at all. your dialogue should be clear enough that people understand who's saying what.

[@HermitFanimations]

Thank you so much for this!!! I’ve actually been meaning to plan a comic soon, so this came at the perfect time :D

[@pasquilx]

Once I've started one short comic and used handletter for it. And oh boi, I felt it, it's so hard. So the solution was pretty easy. I cannot remember the url, but you can create your own font, you fill in jpg template, upload it to that service and it generates your font for free. Profit :)

[@kendradupree1094]

i use the wide pointy for yelling but the sharp point for sreeching like when their so mad they don't care if they are understandable

[@ApexPredator1000]

This has been brilliant! Thank you so much! A question on thought speech though; you mentioned the bubbles and the starry-form in manga - but there's also the blocks used in Western Comicbooks. What would be the pros and cons or even situational uses, of these three types? Should I aim for a specific one in my own comics?

[@thelemoncoffee]

thanks for that tangent tangent, i kept being told "don't create tangent lines" but was never given an explanation for wtf a tangent line is

[@coryschlosser7826]

Thank you for making this video

[@orangeismyfavoritecolor]

You can also make your own custom fonts! I forgot what website I have in mind specifically, but I remember LavenderTowne doing a tutorial on it once.

[@rosinka-.-7725]

Thank you for this tutorial😭

[@avivastudios2311]

Subscribed. That first section was perfect. Yes, weirdly enough, the words are apart of the art so they got to flow.

[@furbyhasteeth]

as someone who hand letters my comic. yep.

[@Shadowigel]

really helpfull vid, learned some new things i didn't even thought about yet, thank you!

[@SwimmingSirena]

I want to make another comic or graphic novel or whatever, but I ran out of ideas. 😂

[@thedrunkenmudcrab]

This was very useful, thank you!

[@ehhhhhh1885]

i hand letter my comics lmaooo and im insane at this point

[@Lavender_Moonlight1]

I keep seeing your videos for some reason also im glad and thankful for that your tutorial are very helpful it helped me improve my art as thank you I subscribe to you ^^

[@JHVH]

Great tips :) thank you

[@fireignitus9767]

Hello, what about color coding speech bubbles for important characters? Opinions?

[@robertlupa8273]

Sounds neat if used well. It essentially gives each character a unique "voice" in a medium without sound. Could be good for a big reveal/comeback moment or even just simply showing what offscreen character is talking. Just remember to stay consistent. ^^

[@M4rlol]

Hello, I'm a ratter quirky artist and I'm here to share my quirky wisdom For fonts I have a font I made myself, kind of like the handwritting artist thing but upgraded, and then I make variables for characters and moods, for example, I have a softer one and a edgier one then I'd use the edgier one when characters are feeling negative emotions and the softer one when they are feeling positive emotions, or I'll make a character that has trouble speaking have a slightly different font that looks a bit less polished/a character that speaks in a fancy way have a more polished and cursive like font. I make it so the changes are not so drastic it's jaring or hard to read but it's enough of a change that it's noticeble. For speach bubbles it's basically the same, each character has a different speach bubble that will change accourding to the sittuation, maybe a calm loving character will have flowers growing on their speach bubble but the flowers change to different tipes of flowers depending on what they are saying, blooming roses for love, dead daisies for sadness etc, for example, one of my characters is a ghost and their speach bubble is always surrounded by two small ghouls that will change expression acourding to what they are saying, as well as the speach bubble also changes of course. I also like to make characters from different projects of mine have differences in their speach bubbles, like the ghost guy I mentioned, the project they are in has organing inconcistent kind of woblie speach bubbles beacause it's a quieter story, the main character is mute and it's a more visual thing, and they are also all black with white text as the enviroment is also dark and it makes the bubbles look more like part of the story, then there's another project of mine where it's a more bubbly thing so the speach bubbles resemble clouds and are all white with dark slightly different coloured text for each character. It's a rather cartoony thing to do but it works for me so yah.

[@AubreyanaVanMeter-tx6bw]

Ah yeah i have a proboem with tangents so thank you about that, thank you very much

[@defixntgxmer]

i handletter my comics- but i mostly draw on paper, so...

[@Deimos_Brainrot]

I was just thinking about doing a comic based of a fic I have so thank you!

[@_StarlightRose_]

I personally do a differently colored speech bubble for every character in my comic, and hand letter them Granted, the hand lettering is because the software I use doesnt have a better option

[@ShinGallon]

I always liked the speech bubbles that Transformers had in the 80s Marvel comic, where they were all squares with little sparks at the corners. That always struck me as neat. I just use the general speech balloon tool in CSP most of the time in my graphic novel, but if a character is yelling (in anger or pain) or whimpering I'll draw out the balloon.

[@thenderyoshi]

I will write my speech bubbles in Comic Sans It _is_ its natural habitat, after all.

[@adtheartist030]

I used to make comics on paper and still do lmao. But by now I stop at not even half of it. :]

[@IrrelevantArt]

3:34 Bu-but... my cowboy shot =( (I know it cuts above the knee, but I like to complain =P) Great advice!

[@shannonallaroundofficial]

This is so awesome! Thank you so much!!

[@millgiass]

I always use the cloud-shaped bubble for thought bubbles. I've been doing it wrong the whole time?

[@konkoism]

How would you handle muffled speech, meaning the protagonist doesn't know what's being said but we want to indicate that something is being said (maybe on the other side of a door)?

[@lucigutz]

Interesting video, thanks :)

[@robertlupa8273]

Why am I watching these if I know I'm not gonna find enough willpower to draw anything? I guess it's because these videos are fun to watch. :)

[@Greasypoptart]

simple dont draw a speech bubble just draw a line

[@artsyjennie7151]

I write hand written comics 😂😅

[@Maybe_magic02]

What about the sentences outside of the speech bubble

[@laxi5597]

Why hand letter when you can letter the whole alphabet once and make that into a font?

[@kenmtran]

Hi I have a question! How do u make the word bubbles? I’m starting my own graphic novel and I’m not sure how I would don that…

[@leiocerayt]

Why did I watch this, I CAN'T EVEN DRAW xD

[@Dula.Aulia.Dildul]

a, lake ona piecec

[@dragonkitty1475]

1:35

[@besmatchu4717]

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[@BanazirGalpsi1968]

So if you have 2 characters, one is just under 7 ft tall, and the other is 3 ft 6, and you need them in the same frame in a way that shows the size difference, but not full body, can i show the tall guy from just below the crotch, and the short one from mid chest? And yes eyelines observed.

[@BanazirGalpsi1968]

Also, I have a character who speaks in uncial because she's got a super thick Scottish brogue , and it's a nod to the deacon in pogo who usually speaks in modified blackletter.

[@samankucher5117]

hmm good video ;)

[@zephyfoxy]

"it's called available to download online for free" is this an audio editing mistake lol? That can't possibly be the name of a font.

[@Jacobflamecaster]

I don’t even draw speech bubbles

[@Its_PacFan]

Bruh these thumbnails are so silly 😭😭

[@_misu_art_]

I love the small interceptions when you explain something which was already explained without just saying "well go watch the other video if you want to know what I meant" is so refreshing 🥹 thank you! Loved this video a lot 🫶🏻