Hello, I’m Angel and this is how I learned to take my comic making from two weeks a chapter to only 3 days! ٩(`･ ･´)

 

 

Tools I use all the time!

Firstly this!

This! This is my everything! (づ ￣ ³￣)づ

 

I use it for every major character in my comic. Redrawing the same face over and over again can be tiring, and as someone gets bored very quick and runs solely on motivation skipping the constant head drawing process was much needed.

 

For example a simple talking panel such as this one I would just use one of the premade heads and change the expression as needed.

Next is this!

Something that I really struggled with when I first was making my Webtoon was distancing. I didn’t realize how important distance between panels really is, and one of my first Webtoons read like this.

Everything is the same size and same distance, very boring story telling.

 

When placing panels what I do, is for speaking between two characters I will place them 600 pixels apart and make the box take up about half of the page for adding speech bubbles later.

for less important details such as quick movement not only will I make the box smaller but I will make them closer together using the 200 pixel marker.

and only for scene changes/moving to a new area will I place a panel 1000 pixels apart and as well as make the box take up the entire width of the page.

The Most Important Step.

STORYBORDING! The most important step, there’s no comic without this step. I’m a very simple person (and easily distractible) person so I use stick figures only to speeded the process, and I sketch as I place my panels. But you don’t need to be like me and you can use full sketches or even sketch them out in a sketch like I used to.

Major Time Savor.

Draw your backgrounds in each panel layer, but don’t color it.

I used to draw everything out in the individual panels and then color and shade in each panel, individually. As you can guess that took forever ಠ_ಠ

 

So what I do now is I will draw the backgrounds along with my respective characters.

Then I will place a color layer under everything so I can just color everything at the same time.

And then I’ll place a shading layer on top so I can also shade everything all at the same time.

If your as detail oriented as me

I use very large canvas when I draw, so only being able to draw on a canvas that’s only 800 pixels wide sucks. So what I do to fix that issue is I will double the size of the canvas.

Then I’ll draw everything out, once I’m done I’ll just downsize the canvas. To do that first tap on “edit” and then “change image resolution”.

Once you do that this should pop up.

You can either click on the width and change it to 800 pixels or click on scale and type .5, both do the exact same thing.

This way you can have all the detail without the loss of quality!

And that’ all my tips! I hope these help you as much as they help me ヾ(*´ ∇ `)ﾉ