Pumpkin carving! It’s one of those funny types of art like Easter egg painting or decorating gingerbread cookies that you only ever get to do once a year. I never seem to get much better at pumpkin carving, but that doesn’t stop me from getting pretty intense about ...
Jack-O-Lanterns!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Oct. 21, 2016Thought Bubbles: Outdated?
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 16, 2016
One of the really cool things about comic making is that we have so many tools at our disposal that people who tells stories in other mediums don’t necessarily have. One of those is the ability to show a character’s inner monologue without interrupting the external narrative or ...
QUACKCAST 287 - Evoking emotion
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 6, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Evoking emotion in your readers/having emotion evoked from comics: How do you do it? what are some mistakes/ineffective methods? As a comic creator you use a whole bunch of different ways to evoke emotion than say a novelist or a film-maker- you don't ...
Web VS Print
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2016
-Guest Post written by Prototype
I believe webcomics authors are often too eager to mimic our paper print cousin. We try to make our comics as close to a normal issue as possible with format and length when we in fact should embrace the stuff we can do better. We ...
Quackcast 250 - Tradigital art - Digital VS Traditional
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 22, 2015 LISTEN!
-Art by Pitface!
There's not really a difference between digital and traditional art - art is art, your tools and media don't really matter, what's important is how its meant to be seen and what it's meant to be used for. But, people do like to ...
Tools of the Webcomic Trade
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 27, 2015
I began creating webcomics because it was an affordable hobby. All I needed to create a page was some bristol paper, some black ink pens, a scanner and a computer. Having a digitally-formatted final product cut out the additional printing costs of traditional comics.
Eventually, I started learning new drawing ...
Desert Island Art Supplies
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 29, 2015
You've been tasked with illustrating the graphic novel memoirs of an evil king. Hey, the pay's alright - you can do this! The catch is, he's locking you up in an isolated tower somewhere with only three art supplies of your choice until the project is done. Assuming ...
The Balancing Act of the Real World and Creating Webcomics
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 21, 2014
My personality appears extroverted in the right social situations when I am surrounded by like-minded people, however I know deep down that I am truly an introvert because I recharge when I am by myself and drawing.
When I first started getting serious about webcomics in college, there were many ...