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I compiled all my notes on everything I’ve learned about making comics into an ultimate series on how to make a comic - here’s part 1: How to Write An Outline 🤗🫡 Disclaimer: I didn’t go to school for this and am by no means an expert, this is just what I’ve learned over the years from studying & research & my scrambled notes Resources that i mostly learned from that I’d highly recommend are: • “How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way” • “The DC Guide To Writing Comics” (honestly can’t go wrong with the classics • and the @comicprobootcamp • watching a crap load of tv lol (I find comic structure is very similar to the story structure of a tv show broken into episodes (= issues) If you have any questions or would like another tutorial going more in depth on any parts of the process, let me know in the comments! If you want to support my comic, you can get a copy of Book 1 at the link in my bio, or follow @richthecomic for more info 🖤 💀 #art #manga #mangaartist #comic #comicartist #digitalart #anime #animeart #animeartist #drawing #mangaart #mangaka

How to write a comic script! I’m not a professional writer by any means, but these are some formatting tricks and guidelines that helped me a lot, and I hope they can be useful to anyone else who’s trying to start writing their own comic and might find the script-writing process a little overwhelming :) If you have any questions or would like a tutorial on any other parts of the process, or think I missed anything, let me know in the comments! If you want to support my comic, you can get a copy of Book 1 at the link in my bio, or follow @richthecomic for more info 🖤 💀 #art #manga #mangaartist #comic #comicartist #digitalart #anime #animeart #animeartist #drawing #mangaart #mangaka

How to draw page layouts: 🖋️ Drawing page layouts for your comic or manga can be one of the hardest parts. It requires a lot of thinking about different things like emotion and pacing. So to make things a little easier, here’s how to draw page layouts by thinking about 3 things 🙌🏻 ⭐️ 1. The SIZE of your panels - larger panels = a longer time looking at them, so use fewer, larger panels for slower paced scenes and more small panels for action scenes. Larger panels can also be used for reveals and anything on the page that you want to draw focus to ⭐️ 2. The SHAPE of your panels - standard shapes like squares and rectangles feel normal and safe, so use these for calm scenes like dialogue or exposition, and try using jagged, asymmetrical shapes for action scenes ⭐️ 3. OVERLAPS & EMPHASIS - if you want something on the page to stand out from everything else, you can either: a) make the panel larger than the rest B) remove the panel borders c) make the image overlap on top of the other panels (this is my personal favourite and I try to use it as much as possible) If you have any questions or would like a tutorial on any other parts of the process lmk in the comments! 🖤🤗 I hope this helps! #art #manga #mangaartist #comic #comicartist #digitalart #anime #animeart #animeartist #drawing #mangaart #mangaka #arttutorial #drawingtutorial #arttutorials

Thank you so much for all of the support for Book 1 ❤️‍🔥 I’ve wanted to make this comic for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I used to doodle ideas for it on spare scraps of paper, whatever I could get my hands on. Over the years I tried again and again to redraw it, but was never happy with it and never really believed people would want to see it. Years later, Book 1 is done and I’m waiting for the first printing of books to arrive so I can start packing up all of the orders and mailing them out to everyone 🖤 Even though it was a huge learning experience and with a few big life things happening, definitely took longer than I had hoped it would, it feels surreal to finally have a finished, physical book, and to have had so much support for it so far. Every bit of support has meant so much and motivates the heck out of me to keep going. Thank you for making this possible, and Here’s to Book 2 🤞🏻 If you want to support “RICH”, you can get a copy of book 1 at the link in my bio or follow along on @richthecomic 🖤☠️ #art #manga #mangaartist #comic #comicartist #digitalart #anime #animeart #animeartist #drawing #mangaart #mangaka

How to draw page layouts 🖊️🫡 this has probably been the most highly requested tutorial, and it’s one of my favourite parts of the process so I hope this helps! If you have any questions about the process, lemme know in the comments 🤗 and if there are any other tutorials you’d like to see also lmk! What’s your favourite part of the drawing process? #arttutorial #drawingtutorials #drawingtutorial #arttutorials #howtodraw #howtodrawanime #howtodrawmanga #howtodrawcomics #fantasyart #comicart #indiecomics #mangaart #manga

How I made my comic from start to finish 👀 1. Researched how to write comics and story arcs. I’ve written a book before, so going in I was familiar with story structure, but it was a different thing to relearn how to structure that specifically for a comic format 2. Wrote a plot outline for the first arc, and then broke that up into outlines for each book 3. Wrote the full script for book 1 4. Drew the cover & a few sample pages to promote it 5. Made a Kickstarter campaign to fund it (then proceeded to stress that it might not get funded) 🥶🫣 but it did, woooo!! 6. Finished drawing the rest of the pages 7. Made the filler pages like the thank you, acknowledgements, credits, etc 8. Exported all the pages (saved in a few different places & backed up) 9. Found a good printing company (I went with @mixamprint - would HIGHLY recommend them for anyone looking for a printing company. They made the process super easy & the quality turned out amazing) 10. Uploaded all the pages to their site, chose the specs I wanted, got a PDF proof and then waited for the book to come in! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 11. Packed all the kickstarter and website orders ans shipped them out It was a long process but I hope this is helpful for anyone else looking to make a comic! If you have any questions lmk in the comments! If you want to support my comic, you can get a copy of Book 1 at the link in my bio, or follow @richthecomic for more info 🖤 💀 #fyp #art #artist #reels #manga #manga #mangaartist #comic #comicartist #comics #digitalart #anime #animeart #animeartist #drawing #draw #webcomic

Happy place = drawing my comic 🖤 Thank you to everyone who’s supported Book 1, can’t wait for everyone to read it!! The story’s just getting started If you want to support the comic, you can get a copy of Book 1 at the link in my bio, or follow @richthecomic for more info 🖤 💀 #art #manga #mangaartist #comic #comicartist #digitalart #anime #animeart #animeartist #drawing #mangaart #mangaka #comicart #fantasyart #fantasycomics

Throwback bc I haven’t drawn traditionally in a while, but it do be like that sometimes #artstruggles #artiststruggles #artproblems #drawing #artwork #sketch #comicart #mangaart

If you want to read the comic, you can get a copy of Chapter 1 at the link in my bio, or follow @richthecomic for more info 🖤 💀 #mangaart #characterdesign #arttrend #fantasyart #fantasycomics #mangaartist #mangaartwork #illustration #comicartwork #comicart #ocart #ocartwork

Its been a long road, but its finally done 🖤 Chapter 1 of my comic is out now and i just started chapter 2 so the process begins agaaaain! If you want to support my comic, you can get a copy of Book 1 at the link in my bio, or follow @richthecomic for more info 🖤 💀 #art #manga #mangaartist #comic #comicartist #digitalart #anime #animeart #animeartist #drawing #mangaart #mangaka

Happy place = working on my comic (@richthecomic) Thanks so much to everyone who’s supported it so far, it honestly means the world to me You can get Chapter 1 at the link in my bio! 🖤 #artistsoninstagram #artreel #artreels #artistreel