The best method for making comics

[@river8322]

One of my favourite things to see in comics or animations especially, is when you can see the improvement of the artist's skills within the story, and if you flip between the first and last page, you can clearly see the improvement between. I find that it just adds so much more personality and story to the piece, and it's just so nice to see!

[@BrinkleyComics]

I agree!

[@duvetboa]

JJBA and Attack on Titan are my favorite example of this

[@callarcreations]

I have started working on my comic knowing it wont look what I deem perfect, but as I progress it will show how I have improved.

[@BlackHayateTheThird]

It's so hard not to build pressure on oneself- but done is better than not at all! it's definitely something I have to remember, Love the vid! Thanks for sharing~

[@TheLobstersoup]

Very well thought through and very true. I think it is also easy to forget the small progress we make every day. I made a very important decision for my story today, which came just in time to be incorporated into the current chapter's layout. It helped me setup my dialog for the page and it brought another surprising change with it. So in the end, one small observation and a seemingly small bit of progress can cause us to understand a much bigger piece of the work. As long as we progress, we learn something. And then we have to practice and repeat it in order not to forget again.

[@SanaSankyuu]

Thank you so much, the message is beautiful and your videos help me get back into comics after a decade or more of abandonment of the art! I surely am thinking that I am not good enough and can only fail but I’ll try rewriting that feeling with the ignorance of a child who draws for fun and trying to draw what comes from my heart and being proud of it, despite it being very far from my self set expectations.

[@TheBigBadGeorge]

Incredibly helpful. I needed to hear this. Thank you!

[@JH-pe3ro]

I fell into a romance with zine-making today after thinking "I could make some of those 8-page mini booklets out of this scrap paper I have", and I think those minicomic formats are a great format to use to prototype comic ideas without pressuring yourself with a big blank page and a script and illustration. I do a lot of diary comics. Comics are words and pictures and panels. There are conventions about relatively how much of each of those to have, but they're just that - conventions. The drawing can be important, but the drawing done *for* a comic depends on accumulated knowledge about the world that you're trying to draw. Some of that knowledge is in your head and hands, some of it is in character design sheets and references. Some of it is built by trying to tell the story twice. Some of it is built by doing a careful study of someone else. It's just very hard to tell what's the blocker at the beginning, so breaking down the task of "comics" any way you can into bite-sized pieces makes a big difference.

[@ivanav.3136]

7:42 i do this self-evaluation too except instead of panel i use page because I'm unlearning an old habit of over detailing a panel when the reader just takes less than a second to look at it. and since it's a comic, i find page cohesion is more important (panel flow, beats, page turner all in all), also it calms my anxiety (insecurity) if i can look at one page i did and be kinda proud of it, that if someone can find something good at it then it's worth it.

[@darklordsoma]

I storyboarded my first comic, and now I'll be working on it!

[@CWARrated]

As always. Great advice!

[@andygorman858]

This vid is a great confidence booster for me. My fear is inking. I like to my panels with pencil and marker pens (scanning the final page in and colouring digitally), it’s a process I like so the next step is to actually use an ink brush to ‘ink’ the panels. I could do this digitally but it feels like cheating I guess…I can ‘undo’ as many times as I like. It’s a physical skill I want to get better at, I’ve seen KZbin vids, read books on the subject so I have a basic understanding of ‘how to’ it’s that initial ‘first mark’ with the brush that scares me. After seeing this vid I guess it’s just a case of ‘do it.’ Time to enter the forest 🙂

[@BrinkleyComics]

You've got this Andy

[@ZherzArt]

Thanks for the advice for this! I am starting my first manga some time later, rn planning my script. Idc whether it is terrible or not, I just want it released. I chose a manga becaz there isn't any colours involved and things could be done quicker. Hope you the best in creating your own comics too, I'll find some time to read them if I can.

[@breisyaispuro2410]

I have more trouble with drawing backgrounds, do you have any tips for me?

[@BrinkleyComics]

Learning to 3D model (very basics) can help with this significantly.

[@BrinkleyComics]

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[@Alphawolfinify]

Where do u post your comics? I'm struggling to put my art out there especially on the wrong platform. It feels like throwing your baby into a well right now to post anywhere.

[@BrinkleyComics]

I'd strongly recommend learning marketing to help get more eyeballs on your comic. That coupled with patience will serve you well. My current comic is unfinished so I'm posting it on Patreon for now, but I've posted on Tapas, WebToon and GlobalComix

[@andi_pasti]

My problem is more that I can’t progress the story of my comic because it doesn’t feel good enough. So I’ve put out a comic with a good beginning and a cliffhanger, but now I don’t draw anymore because my story isn’t done. Huh 🤔 Also I always thought I am bad with colours but software with integrated colour schemes help a lot to get started.

[@ShinGallon]

I thought I'd try doing the sequel book in my series in color, thinking to myself that I was already doing a lot of work on the manga-esque grayscale shading the majority of the first book is in so how much more work could color be? The answer is "a lot". It's taken me 4 times as long to do the first 6 pages of Book 2 as it took me to do the last 20 pages of Book 1. Suffice to say the prologue (pages 1-6) are all I'll be doing in color (aside from the odd single page for emphasis throughout the rest of the story, like Book 1 had). But I definitely don't feel I ruined the book, and it was a valuable learning experience. Working digitally allows for a lot of freedom to experiment. I ended up redrawing about 5 of the first 20 pages of my graphic novel completely, because I'd gotten so much better at page layout and composition by the time I got to the last page (202) and lord some of those early pages were unsalvageable. The Infinite Revision Loop is a tempting trap to fall into, but I have at least 3 sequels to finish, so onward and upwards. I could literally spend the rest of my life just tweaking and redrawing the first book in the series but then no one would ever see the sequels I have in my brain.

[@BrinkleyComics]

Sounds like you've got a really good balance going on in your workflow. Love that!

[@SideBurns]

I bought and dowloaded the ultimate comic planner, but ai can’t edit the entries, help?

[@BrinkleyComics]

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[@nycsim-r8t]

Don't worry about someone being better. There will always be someone better than you-smarter, better looking, better drawing, better rendering. It's not an obstacle. In the world of manga or comics, look at One (One Punch Man) or Hajime Isayama (Attack on Titan). Poor drawing skills wasn't an obstacle to being a top mangaka. Yes, they improved over time, but they're still mediocre compared with the drawing skills of an average mangaka. Their skills were storytelling and ideas.

[@BrinkleyComics]

Two really good examples there