Episode 461 - Top Comic making 5 tips!
Jan 13, 2020
Today Banes and I chat about our top tips for doing a great comic page: What is most important? I mainly focus on art and Banes is talking about page design and writing tips. Bellow are our top 5s for ways to make better comics! We expand on these and explain them in the Quackcast.
Topics and Show Notes
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Banes' tips for making a comic page:
1. Page layouts
2. Economical wording
3. Vary the camera
4. Don't always hide things you can't draw
5. Don't eat the ink off your brush!
Banes writing tips:
1. Avoid too much exposition up front.
2. Write things that matter to you.
3. Let different characters be different
4. Powerful stories have themes but work better if it's hidden
5. Avoid burnout by working too hard all in one go
BONUS 6. JUST DO IT! Jump in and start.
Ozone's comic art tips:
1. Practice
2. life Drawing
3. Simplification
4. Backgrounds
5. Consistency
This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Molly Lusc: Dark shades of grey, shadows in the night, penumbra, tenebrae, and twilight. We move in the not-quit-night, keeping our actions secret and behind closed doors. No one must know! The dual life and secretive nature of Molly Lusc is well summed up with this creepy noir tune of whispers and shadows.
Topics and shownotes
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Links
My top 5 comic art tips - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2020/jan/09/my-top-5-art-tips/
Featured comic:
The Watch Dogs - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2020/jan/07/featured-comic-the-watch-dogs/
Featured music:
Molly Lusc - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Molly_Lusc/, by Andreas Helixfinger, rated M.
Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Episode 275 - Layouts, what to do and what not
Jun 13, 2016
The topic this week was ALL Banes' idea! We talk about page layout: techniques to make a good, readable layout, and stuff to avoid. We have Tantz Aerine (greetings), Banes, and myself, Ozoneocean, chatting about how best to do page layouts, at least from our own limited perspectives. None of us are pros in this regard, but we've been doing comics for many years now and we've all developed some pretty decent ideas about how best to do it, in our own ways. Banes is mostly influenced by American style comics, which have more interesting layouts. Tantz and I were manly influenced by European comics, which tend to have a more conservative by very constantly readable style of “box” layout. On Pinky TA and Bottomless Waitress the majority of my pages are in a fairly standard box format, but every now and again I experiment with crazy shapes, overlapping panels, no panels at all, and even “infinite canvas” pages that work with the scroll function. Speaking of which we briefly mention Scott McCloud and the comic Heart of Keol, which uses vertically scrolling large pages. The music this week by Gunwallace was Wastelanders Anonymous, an epic classic rock tune with a lovely repeating upward base rhythm, soaring guitars and authoritative keyboard.
