Well, depends on what sort of comic you want to make. Watching movies and reading books helps a lot, in forming characters. It really depends on what you want to make, really.

A tip is to write down your ideas, and try to form something from there.

Also sketch out the characters, and their environment.

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Thank you that does help. Ive been trying to be more observant in that area, in any case there's a first time for everything

keep trying to think of new characters and before u start the comic, always write down the whole story line and plot everything out. You remind me of me. I always had trouble making comix. also use Naruto-Rendens tip. reading and watching movies and t.v shows will help alot!



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I was six. No script, no sketches. Just color markers and lined papers terrible!! it was spontanous.

All you need is to have the story precisely planned, make the sketches of whole pages to know how the page will be outlined. It's really important. Some changes will probably appear during the work but it's normal.

I usually imagine my story and characters much in advance. Someimes my script writer helps me to create them. Usually very simple to let me finish it on my own.

The story and particular pics will change during the making the whole comic. A lot.

I drew all panels by pencil, then I ink it and color with aquarelle. In the end I use pencil again to finish the soft shadows again.

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Always.. when I look at the finish piece I say to myself what to change. Always!

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I was six. No script, no sketches. Just color markers and lined papers terrible!! it was spontanous.

All you need is to have the story precisely planned, make the sketches of whole pages to know how the page will be outlined. It's really important. Some changes will probably appear during the work but it's normal.

I usually imagine my story and characters much in advance. Someimes my script writer helps me to create them. Usually very simple to let me finish it on my own.

The story and particular pics will change during the making the whole comic. A lot.

I drew all panels by pencil, then I ink it and color with aquarelle. In the end I use pencil again to finish the soft shadows again.

Check this out [link]

Always.. when I look at the finish piece I say to myself what to change. Always!

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COMICS is a kind of ART!!!

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Write out a general outline for your comic first. Make sure you know how it starts, how it ends, what you're trying to show with this comic, and a few scenes in the middle.

Try to keep it simple -- don't have fifty characters where five will do. Look at your characters. What is the purpose of each one in the story? Are they absolutely necessary to establishing either the plot or the atmosphere? Is there any way to reduce the number of characters? The fewer people you concentrate on, the more likely it is that you'll do a good job of making each person unique and interesting rather than having a bunch of generic characters no one cares about.

Likewise, keep the story fairly simple too. What exactly are you trying to say in this story? How are the events that happen necessary to say it? (That is, say you're writing a story about friendship between two students. You'll likely want to include scenes that establish that they're friends, and then scenes where that friendship suffers problems. There's no point in adding a scene where the hero is arguing with his sister unless it has something important to do with the main theme -- shows the hero's character, establishes that the hero's family is an obstacle to the friendship, or whatever. If the scene has no real purpose then cut it.)

When I started my comic, I had just a setup and some characters. I didn't know where the story was going, exactly. It took me a few months to draw the first bit of the story, though, and in that time I figured out the rest of the plot. I don't really recommend this unless you're really good at continuing what you've started. There's been lots of weeks where I sat thinking "what the hell am I going to do NEXT week?" It's really easy to quit when you're tired and don't know what you should be writing about next. So... work out the main plot points first, and then you'll always have something to drive your characters towards.

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thats some good advice, thank you

thats amazing, where did you learn to shade like that?

don't know... I am self-taught. Trying, practising...

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