WEBCOMIC STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL

Making a Web Comics is daunting if you have never maintained an online presence before, but it is a
surmountable task. Web Comics are recently read nowadays, and it’s either been read in paper or in
mobile. Webcomic have been read mostly by some millennials, artist who creates Webcomic started by
steps. This steps will help some beginners who wants to create there comics by their own way:

1. HOW TO START – DIVERSITY IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING

The most important part of starting a Webcomic is to have a clear idea of what the comic will be.
Thinking of what comic you want, what is its genre, what type of comic you want to draw, most
importantly is it should catch the readers eyes even it’s just the drawing and the title of the comic.

2. PICK YOUR SOFTWARE, CREATE YOUR TEMPLATE

Picking a software, this part is kindly a headache for beginner, thinking and picking of where you were
going to do you comic is hard, there are a lots of software you can pick. There a lot of software were you
can draw, Photoshop and Illustrator are common things that will cross your mind, and some for those
who use phone to create some comics are Ibis Paint and Medibang.

Creating a template is hard, when you first create a template and you are going to do some changes but
it is okay, changing and adding some difference will help you improve.

3. HOW TO WRITE A WEBCOMIC

= Create a compelling concept

- For many Webcomic, this means having a good plot. A plot isn't required for your webcomic,
but having one will help you come up with ideas and stay motivated.
- Remember the most common piece of writing advice: write about what you know. This does
not imply that you should only write about your own life or create realistic fiction-style stories. It
simply means that you will usually write best when you write about general experiences and
emotions that you are familiar with.
= Create your characters
- Create some main and secondary characters if your cartoon is regular. Draw them a character
sheet that will surely keep their look in line. Write down a "cheat" book of the history,
personality, defects and other details of their character.
- Remember that characters who are more flawed will give you more to work with as a writer
and develop over time. Balance is essential, but you must allow for some wiggle room.
= Draw up a couple of test comics.
- Create at least three test comics. They should include all of your main characters and be in the
style of your webcomic. If this isn't how all of the comics will be done, don't make it too quick
and sloppy, or too careful and precise.
- The aim of this exercise is for you to get a sense of how long it takes you to create a comic
and how you can speed up the process. You can decide that a simpler design, less coloring, or
other changes are needed.
= Get some feedback.
- Show them to review with your friends. If you do not think your friends are a trustworthy
source, try to find a chat room to send them. You will want to understand what your comics are
good and what you have to do to improve. Request a lot of detailed feedback, not a "I like it!" or
"It's funny!"
- Don't worry about listening to everything everyone says. You want to address the most
common complaints.
- Is your main character disliked by the public? Are your jokes amusing? Is your drawing style a
little sloppy? Before you finish your final comics, work on things like this.
= Decide on an update schedule.
- You should create a regular schedule that you can update and then stick to it. This is done so
that your readers will know when to expect a new strip.
- An irregular publishing schedule is a good way to lose readers and turn off new ones. Working
on your comic as a habit will help you overcome laziness and procrastination, so an update
schedule will help motivate you to work on it.

HOW TO DRAW A WEBCOMIC

1. Script
- Deciding on what script you were going to do is increases your chance of actually finishing,
sometime getting a script from some comics that you may have read is best, it will give you an
amazing ideas.
2. Planning
- Scribbling of what drawings what should be write and planning of which part you should draw
first. Planning is important, this will help you to sort things out.
3. Sketches
- Sketches is a part of doing a comic, doing this will give the outline of the drawing, making a
layout of the drawing will help the process of the drawings storyline.
4. Borders, Lettering and Balloons
- This parts are the body of making a comic, the borders, where the characters and the words
have been put. Picking the lettering is easy, you just have to think of what lettering or font is
most suitable for the story. Balloons are where the letters put it is where the characters speak.
5. Inking
- Trace the page sketched on the boards with the borders and the balloons using a lightbox. If
necessary, adjust the images a bit. At times, I ink with black markers and I do paint art.
6. Scanning and clean up
- At this step scan the inked pages and clean up mistakes where you painted outside the frames
or over speech balloons.