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My First Attempt At Comics

pridecity

pridecity

Patients took over asylum
I belong to a cat forum as well and wanted to try my hand at putting my cats' antics into a graphic form. This comic is just a quick put-together and isn't near finished. I still have to add details and clean it up before I color it. I googled some cat pictures to get as anatomically correct as possible. It's really hard drawing on a trackpad, but there you go. Of course, Whippet does a much better job at comics than me.

In the bottom pane, the cat closest to the edge is supposed to have a shorter back leg. That's supposed to be my Cassie (the deformed brat that owns me). It's not the funniest comic, but it works.


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Lol. My two are characters. I woke up this morning with Cassie's claws in my leg and my big toe in her mouth between her lip and teeth. I think she was sleep hunting.
 
LOL! Those are cute and oh so true. My one just stomps around at whatever time. He doesn't care. It's when he wants more attention. Barrupps and purrs and kneeds in you at all hours. The other one only bugs you when he thinks you're too late for his morning rat. Then he'll come up on the bed and stuff his nose in your face.
 
I'm glad you guys like it. I'll have to finish it up. I have a few more up my sleeve, so I'll start making more.
 
Not too bad. I used to make sprite comics, so some "pro tips" for you:

1. Create a logo for the name of the comic, or make it look nicer than plain text.
2. Don't use a fancy font for text that the characters are saying. With this, it should be easy to read, not look nice.
3. TEXT BUBBLES TEXT BUBBLES. These are a real must; very few comics I've ever read have done any good without text bubbles. These can either be somewhat fancy, be color coded, or just a round/square box to hold the text. I used rectangular bubbles with rounded corners, and later I colored the bubble and the text the same or similar color as the character who was talking.
4. Make it obvious who's talking. I remember there was a guideline a fellow sprite maker used a few years ago, but I can't remember it. I'll let you know if I do though. I think it was something like 'top to left to bottom to right'. *shrug*

A few other things I did was I made the comic panel, then copy and pasted it a few times, keeping all the panels the same size unless they HAD to be changed; I also used a 1x1 pixel wide line to separate panels. Looks nicer, I think. I just thought I'd note this since the huge bottom panel looks weird to me with the small top panels.

Really nice joke in this comic. :3 I just want to help see this be successful.
 
Thanks for the tips! This isn't a finished copy, I just wanted to get it out there.

A lot of the anime books have weird shaped/sized panels. My characters aren't anime-shaped enough though. I still need to learn how to draw anime characters with a track pad. As for the text, it looks great when the picture is full sized (1500x600 or so). I'll change it. For the title, I'm actually going to finish the cat and fade it so that black text shows better. I'm just not sure if I want the name to stay the same or not.

I really wish I had Photoshop. I'm using a free web based program called Sumo Paint. I can't stand Gimp. I'll have to read up on how, and if, I can add new fonts to Sumo. I'll also experiment with making bubbles as well. With Sumo, I'll have to make it out of about 5 layers, but I'll live. Lol. I'll also try a smaller borders. I was going to go with thick lines for the characters like in the first panel, but couldn't get the detail I wanted. I think it's a 10px and the characters are 1px.

I think I might change the position of Cassie in the 4th panel because the position she's in now looks like she's jumping down from something. At any rate, I'll get working on draft 2 tonight.
 
I personally like Cassie's position, I think it shows her landing on the bed while Spook's already on his second bounce. What confuses me a little more is the "Jump" and "Boing", maybe because it's the same color as the conversation? Dunno. Also, Cassie's front ear in the second picture looks smaller than the back one, where it's supposed to be the opposite ;) But that's just me, nitpicking (sp?)
Can't wait to see another one!
 
I crashed just about right after I posted last, so I'll have to work on it today instead. For Cassie in the second panel, I used a Savannah for reference, so that's probably why it's off. It was a weird position for me to reference. I don't know why. I'll have to make her fatter too. Cassie is my pot belly pig of sorts. Lol
 
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