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Tips for Improving Your Comic Workflow
Recently I've been working on the first batch of pages for my upcoming comic project. Between the time I started my other webcomic RORY and now, I've learned a few ways to ease my workload and quicken my pace by inplementing a few changes to my workflow.Some of these tips rely on features specific to Clip Studio Paint, but there are likely similar features or workarounds in your program of choice too.Keep Your Tools TogetherOnce you've found the tools you use most often when making a comic page, it can be helpful to make duplicates ...
DatMK CH 1 Pencils Sneak Peek
a sneak peek at the pencils for chapter 1 of Deryli and the Magician's Key, in cool 3D book form ✨
VAMPBYTE Tutorial Thread Masterlist
I made a masterlist of all my Twitter tutorial threads! I used to keep them in a Twitter Moment but that whole system has gone obsolete so this is the most efficient way to keep track of them all.
Deryli and the Magician's Key Process Interest
i've officially started working on the first batch of pages for DatMK!i'm planning to post patron-only previews of my process and upcoming pages, but i'd like to know what kind of process stuff you'd like to see.if you have any ideas not listed below please feel free to comment! i'm SUPER open to suggestions since i'd like to make sure i'm posting stuff that interests everybody.
Clip Studio Paint Workspace (Updated)
i uploaded an updated version of my current csp workspace! feel free to use if you like 😄
Drawing Backgrounds For Comics - Drawing A Room From Multiple Angles
When working on a comic, you'll have to draw rooms from multiple angles depending on where your characters are standing. I used to just approach each page with the mindset that I would probably remember where things go in a room based on other panels, but very quickly realized that this led to me making a lot of small but noticeable mistakes.This is one of the methods I like to use to make the process of drawing a room from multiple angles much simpler.The Floor PlanTo start, I make a floor plan of the room I'm planning to draw. This in...
Dimitri of Blue Lions - Fire Emblem Three Houses Fanart
i finished the blue lions route of fe3h and basically, i love dimitri with all my heart and soul ðŸ˜ðŸ’•
CSP Auto Action - Lineart Color
I made these CSP auto actions to quickly give a base color to my lineart.These actions only work if your lineart is already fully colored (including background for best results). It takes colors from the rest of the drawing so your line colors are cohesive.Make sure none of your color layers are locked before you use the actions!How to UseTo load the set in, open the Auto Action window and go to "Import set" from the dropdown in the corner. Load in the file and the set should appear in your action list.To use, make sure your lineart lay...
Making Head Angle Brushes for Comics in CSP
I recently made a Twitter post about making character head angle brushes in order to keep characters looking consistent for a webcomic, and several people asked me about my process so I decided to catalog my steps for making a head angle brush here so anyone else looking to work faster and smarter on their layouts can do so.Drawing the AnglesFor the sake of this guide, I decided to make some head angles for my character Duvont, who has a much more defined face structure than the other main characters of the story and could use his own distincti...
Free CSP Brush - Blocky Sketcher
a new sketching brush i've been using recently! it has "multiply" mode turned on so it builds value really easily and it works really well with gradient maps 👌
7k Celebration - Lotus Lineart
i recently hit 7k followers on twitter! to celebrate i decided to put up the lineart for the july lotus pinup for anybody to color!the file (either the .clip or the .psd file, choose whichever works for you) contains the lineart and swatches of lotus' colors. they're just there for people who want to stick to lotus' color palette but please feel free to go wild and color him however you like, this is just meant to be fun!!please do not remove my watermark from the lineart! if you color this lineart and upload it when it's done p...
Choosing Color Palettes for Art #1 - Value & Saturation
Knowing How to ChooseIt's easy to think that the only difference between colors in a color palette is their hue. But to make a really visually interesting color palette, you need to also understand how saturation and value work towards your palette, too!In this example, you can see the difference between changing the color orange by its value, versus changing it by its saturation.Saturation is how vivid or intense colors are. In the left column, I made a color palette based solely on changing the saturation of the color orange. For the sake...
