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Patreon Secret Bonus Episodes!
Did you know? Our Patreon has secret bonus episodes, bloopers and behind-the-scenes content! A few recent Patron-only episodes from our growing collection:
Bonus Jam - What makes a webcomic?
Rae, Krispy and Varethane talk about the essence of webcomics, and if Homestuck counts.
Bonus Jam - Critiquing from the Critiquer's Point of View
Krispy, Claire, Miranda and Delphina talk about all the messy stuff around giving critique to another creator, and why it's important to do anyway.
Bonus Jam - Webcomic Expectations
Krispy, Miranda, and Delphina talk about all the weird stuff that's changed for us since we started our webcomics.
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Perspective
Perspective is a useful tool for drawing webcomic environments, but how does it work? Let's dig in with some quick tips for using vanishing points to help sell the perspective in your scenes! Vanishing points and horizon lines Vanishing points and horizon lines are what determine the eye lev...
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Webcomics have a lot of moving pieces, and constructive critique can be an excellent way to troubleshoot those pieces or get around road blocks. We understand that it can be scary to ask for a critique of your work, but learning how to receive and process critique can help you, and your webcomic, to improve and grow. Today we're going to talk about how to be on the receiving end of critique.
Have you come across a creator with a style that astounds you and wished you could bottle it up for yourself? Perhaps even....devour it? Join us today as our hosts discuss the dark secret behind art school...and the truth about how they really got their webcomic powers.
We all love creating characters, and we want to make them feel like they could be real people. But at the end of the day, characters aren’t real people - they act as tools to help tell our stories, while hopefully still coming across as having a three-dimensional history and personality. Today we wanted to talk about how to interpret characters as storytelling tools - and what to do when your audience gets a little too invested.
One of the biggest questions about making comics is: what roads are available to make money off of making comics? One direction that many creators go is commissions or contract work. Contract work is specifically entering into some kind of agreement, where someone is paying you for your comic-related skills. It can be a simple illustration commission that you draw for someone in a day, or it can be something long-term that spans years and years.
So here’s our scenario: you’re making your webcomic, your readers are following to the best of their ability, but you’re hearing the feedback that they can’t tell some of the characters apart. This can be about how you draw them, the styles and coloring you’re using… OR there could be aspects of your writing that are affecting how they’re perceived. For whatever reason, people are getting confused. That's what we call Same Face Syndrome and we're here to help you diagnose and treat.