Truth and Beauty Bombs

the second one

Were you planning on being a teacher there, or what? Because I hear it's a great school for teachers.

They have a really good english/literature course or something

Something about today's art that I really like.



Can't put my finger on it...

You know, there's an entire forum for this.

Allan a friend showed me your comics and then I tried to do yours in a similar style but it turns out I can't draw/ I'm not interesting

I'd love to see them, regardless!

I discarded them but I feel inspired to make more, have to dig out my old sketch pad

Fucking animation:



Done in Photoshop, since I still don't have Flash on Windows 7.

Hey Allan erm, any tips ? My friends tell me I can draw but the thing with drawing is you have to find your own style right whenever I get down to try and draw a comic I can't really decide what to do, I don't like the idea of a video game comic because everyone does it and it's more to fun to be expressive I guess. I am not sure what I am really asking here I don't know I just find your work inspiring

sounding more and more troll-like imo

Urgh! I am getting tired of this, please keep this negativity to yourself

Well here's the thing: no one starts out with a style of their own. They do what they've seen before and draw that way. However, as they practice their style (hopefully) will separate from what they've seen. A good example of this is, I used to read CAD when I first came into webcomics, and my comic looked a lot like CAD. Over time, it started looking more and more cartoony, and over time I started getting pissed off at how long a single comic would take me to draw, so I started practicing drawing quicker, leaving out unimportant details. I won't say that my style went straight from CAD to Allan, since there was a lot of in-between, but CAD is, admittedly, what started it out.

While no webcomic enthusiast will tell you to make a gaming comic, the actual point is, make a comic that you think you can do better than anyone else--whether it be through your story-telling, art, style, whatever! If you think you have something unique to add to any genre, do it. If you fail, it is okay. I think I had like 17 webcomics before I put Allan online, and since then, I've had 4, 1 of which has failed/been delayed.

As for being expressive, imo it is definitely more rewarding to have a fluidity to your style than to have your characters look the same in every panel, but some might say only a real artist can replicate his characters perfectly every time.

Also I've noticed expressions are hard for a lot of people. The people who ARE good at them are well known all across the internet, and they should be. You'd be surprised how a lot of people have a hard time matching an awkward look with an awkward sentence.

Anyway, what I tell everyone who asks for help making a comic is this: Draw something until you get an idea. Even if the idea sucks, flesh it out. This will give you good experience in webcomics (or comics in general). After a while, you might come on a terrific idea, but you won't be able to get there without making a bunch of horrible mistakes with other webcomics before you approach your great idea. It's all trial and error. Start trialing.

Hope that was helpful?

Pretty much answered all the questions I had floating in my head, thanks!

you used to have an easy accessible links to your comic, allan

That is £££££

Glockenspiel is a German word by the way which literally translates to "Bellplay".

The glockenspiel comic makes me think of Deadpool.

Chimichanga!

I added one to my signature! Do you think I should add a link to the first post of the thread? I guess I'll do that anyway.

Allan, what is going on with this Curvy comic

Man, I dunno. I've been seeing his (?) ads popping up all over the net, and, imo, it's nowhere near as good as the one where the husband can't satisfy the woman's needs, so he builds her a robot who fucks her, but then falls in love with her, and then the husband gets jealous, and just jacks off to his wife and a robot doing it.

what

Oh so you haven't seen that one?

i kind of want to now though

I've read both and the robot one is kind of too pornographic to be a regular comic. Plus it's not entertaining enough at first.

Curvy on the other hand has very appealing artwork and some parts of it are entertaining, but i dont know man. i just dont feel like seeing some dude's sexual fantasies interspersed in it.
amanda spent a whole afternoon speaking to that guy and apparently he won her over completely so i'm guessing he must be all bad.

but why would i read it then

Oh my god what he didn't win me over at all!

After I realized he was not a fat broken goth girl I spent the remainder of the email exchange trying to figure out how to stop talking to him. Thankfully it sort of stopped on its own.

what were you doing that required him to be a fat broken goth girl?

cybering?

Pretty much. Really it was going to be stopping just short of cybering to see if I could make her even more broken. At least that was the plan. Really I probably would have lost interest/been too disgusted before it even got that far.

It was like a sleepy Thursday afternoon and it sounded entertaining at the time.