I use the “Zap Pack” for a comic book fonts(wild and crazy), bubbles and speciality text.

Link to my webcomic

Link to my webcomic

It just hit me today this might be of interest to people creating a web comic/comic book. I use the Zap Pack here is the site you can buy it at:

http://www.comicbookfonts.com/zap/index.html?sid=0001TXPDT2Hu4y8czE3D8r6.

The Zap Pack includes the Standard look comicbook font, a font with for sounds in your comic like KA-BoooOOM! and pre-made comic bubbles.

I also love this free font site 1001 fonts: http://www.1001freefonts.com/

Just a heads-up!
Doran

The webcomic designs and solutions

Link to my webcomic

Link to my webcomic

Hi Again all,

Every comic book is deisgned with series roles to be completed, resulting in a comic book. Here  are the roles in a sequence with the solutions I developed over time. This is ment as a guide to help plan and maybe provide some much needed short cuts.     

1. Writer(storyline, plot)
Not much I can say here. You need a story don’t just make it as you go along. Goes back to basic english classes.  Our teacher use to say there were 7 parts to a good plot/story: 

i. Exposition
ii. Rising action
iii. Climax
iv. Falling action
v. Resolution
vi. Conflict
vii. driving question.

I leave it you to research each section. Always remeber every rule is made to be broken.

The point is you need to plan then re-work, and re-work and re-work a story…

 

2. Artist(Pencils)

I still do the traditonal art by hand and recommend  bluelinepro art boards, Blue Line comic boards can be bought at your local comicbook shop or off Amazon or the BluelinePro website. There are cheaper boards out there but you get what you pay for,  Carson(a)Fanboy make a lower end product. Always buy acid free paper or boards for any art or you paper/boards will become faded over time. I am not much for mymicing but every artsist needs some guidance some of my fav books are:

Drawing Dynamic Comics by Andy Smith
ISBN-10: 0823003124
ISBN-13: 978-0823003129

Dynamic figure drawing by Burne Hogarth 
0823015777
9780823015771

Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery by Burne Hogarth
 0823015874
9780823015870

 I also did something very very sacreligous. I went to the local book shop bought a pile of comics of intrest. I then used a paper cutter and chopped off the spines of the comics(then cried for my sins) and hole punched the pages. Took a 3 ring binder and removed the rings and mounted the rings to my art table. So now I can flip though about 20 comic books with ease as I draw. Its quite handy! But I still fee guilty for doing such. 

3. Inking

Some may concider me insane, but I avoid this stage as a time saver. Instead of inking I create dark lines and change them black in Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

  • I scan my boards as  RGB then clean them up using the tone curve feature.
  • Convert the file to Blank and White with the line art  setting (adjust again).
  • Then back to RGB and use the guassian blur effect to slighty fatten the lines so they are more consistant. 
  • Then out as a tiff to Corel PAINTER. 

4. Coloring

5. Lettering