Photo: The Uncanny X-Men Volume 1, No. 285 “Portal’s End”
I stumbled upon a two page-spread that spanned the second and third pages, while flipping through an X-Men comic book from the nineties that I picked up from a local thrift. The comic doubled as a splash page listing ...
Spreading Out the Two-Page Layout
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 18, 2021Using pre-made assets
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2021
As I was scrolling through Instagram I saw a video from a fellow comic creator. They were demonstrating how they went about drawing shoes. They opened up a sheet and, here’s the kicker, the sheet was full of shoes at different angles. They just copied and pasted the angle ...
Felix the Cat: A Lesson in Comedy
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 6, 2021
Photo: Felix the Cat in “Woos Whoopee” (1930)
Today, the United States celebrates Labor Day, a day traditionally used as a break from a day of work. It also signifies that Summer is coming to a close, schools are back in session, and the time has come to tuck away ...
Color Theory as a Rewind Machine (Revisited): Community Contributions
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 26, 2021
The 31 May 2021 article related to “Color Theory as a Rewind Machine” mentioned how colors could be used intentionally as a way to transport the reader to different time periods. At the end, I posed the question whether anyone had ever used a specific decade’s color palette in ...
QUACKCAST 538 - Fashion and Trends in Webcomics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 6, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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We chat about the styles and trends in webcomics and what causes them, whether it's people copying stuff they like, working with the limitations of the ...
Is it Luck?
damehelsing at 12:00AM, June 27, 2021
Have you seen ”The Road to El’Dorado”? If you pay attention to the movie, the whole thing is pretty much based on luck.
Spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched the movie!
We witness luck happening from the start of the movie when Miguel and Tulio have been using ...
On Using 'Shortcuts'
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 26, 2021
One of the latest twitter dramas seem to be around artistic shortcuts, and how consumers of comics and webcomics (often non-artists) tend to scoff at any artist that dares admit they use them.
Comic shortcuts could include pre-rendered backgrounds, using 3D programs to arrange spaces or make sure perspective is ...
Short Changed by Kiddermat Reaches Its 100 Page Milestone!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 21, 2021
Kiddermat has an Awesome announcement to make:
“Hello! My comic has made it to the 100 pages milestone (At 110 at the time of sending this)!!
Link: https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Short_changed/
I've never made it this far in anything XD”
Short Changed Synopsis:
A stupid webcomic about a ...