Heh. I was once yelled at for reusing the same background in eight frames over four comics. I am NOT redrawing an identical background. I just leave certain areas transparent such as the window, and use a colour layer over it to depict night time. Why would ANYONE redraw the same background eight times? It was a bedroom, by the way.

the guy who lost all three backups in one day had me CACKLINGG, dude's gotta be the unluckiest man on earth

backing up your files is SUPER important -a novelist who lost an entire 23 chapters after my school google account was deleted upon graduation

“ Draw backgrounds.” Literally passes out.💀😂😂

7:24 I still hear my late professor in my head saying, “Draw the backgrounds. Do not leave that panel empty.” Now I’m going to hear his voice with that vine boom. 😂

It was your "what not to do" video that got me into this channel. When I clicked on it, I was worried it was just going to be some rando complaining about tropes they don't like, like "Don't put your protagonist in a love triangle, that's a boring cliche!" When I saw instead that it was objectively good, sound advice for how to be successful in webcomics, you gained a new subscriber. This is a really good companion video to that one.

Props to the milk cartons that just appeared and disappeared 8:17. Made me rethink the way I look at art entirely, on a deeper level than I could ever even imagine.

Number 9. FUCKING LISTEN TO IT. I used to play the viola, and I sprained BOTH my wrists pushing myself too hard. I also have back problems due to the posture I had to sit in. To this day I still get really bad pains from those sprains in my wrist and my posture greatly suffered, with me now having occasional back pain. And due to stress my body developed a stress indicator of sending me into debilitating pain with inflamed ribs. I can still draw, but now I have to keep an eye on my body to see when I need a break. LISTEN TO YOUR BODY.

when you started saying the next tip was "something you get yelled at a lot for" i was genuinely like "oh boy what is it?" and then you said backgrounds and I started cackling. As a storyboard artist and comic creator I 100% see this issue so much it drives me nuts like "why is character jones in a blank white void??? where are we, what is happening?" also BLESS YOU FOR MENTIONING CAMERA ANGLES AND TECHNIQUES PLS IM BEGGING COMIC ARTISTS TO TAKE STORYBOARDING COURSES THEY ACTUALLY HELP SO MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA!! they are very interchangeable and a lot of storyboard artists in the industry actually started out making comics. its a very good skill to learn~ (also star thank you for making your videos in general, they've been helping me stay motivated and productive during comic planning and got me to read Castoff which i am deeply in love with now lol)

great vid! "Be your comic's biggest fan" is what I've been preaching for ages!! definitely something all creators need to keep in mind! x)

Not a webcomic artist, but I am a writer. I agree wholeheartedly about starting small. Thankfully, I had a lot of practice writing short stories in my creative writing classes. Everything from 100-word challenges to my 13,000-word creative thesis. Over the course of two years, I used those short stories to build a fantasy world and create characters for it. And now, I'm much more confident about creating a larger narrative because I already have a strong foundation to work from.

THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #1 : Start Small 1:10 THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #2 : Keep your character designs simple and easy to draw 3:48 THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #3 : Back up your files 5:20 THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #4 : Draw backgrounds 7:18 THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #5 : Show feet 9:16 THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #6 : Study screen design 10:29 THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #7 : Work efficiently 13:49 1 : Keyboard Shortcuts 14:32 2 : 3 : Make custom brushes THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #8 : THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #9 : THINGS EVERY WEBCOMIC CREATOR SHOULD DO, #10 :

As a 13 year old (14 next month) writing and illustrating a WEBTOON, tips online really help, especially if you don’t do formal training. It took me less than 10 minutes to get 5 point perspective in one of my pages, and sometimes I play with the colors and shapes

The fact that you felt the need to create a positive video about webcomic creation after a 'negative' video already sets you apart from other online creators out there in my eyes. Edit: I can understand the controversy around the 'start small' tip. I have trouble coming up with 'small' ideas. The background 'controversy' just sounds like people being lazy. Yes, I too hated backgrounds and I understand. But then I tried actually drawing the things around me, places I go, and at first it's hard, but it's actually quite rewarding. 2nd Edit: I have to get on this soapbox for a second. So, I love the last tip, making what you want to make. Art teachers and writing teachers, especially the latter, are starting to become like nutritionists, if you listened to all of them, you would never eat. So many writing teachers are full of "don'ts". Scratch out the don't, and do. Make the dumb mistakes. Draw the wonky anatomy. Make a cringe romance story with OCs that make people's eyes bleed. Making a mistake hurts now but regret hurts way more later. Fall off the bike 5, 10, 100 times and then get back on.

The 180 rule is definitely something that I learned from my hubby who does animation. It's kinda funny thought, I naturally followed this rule until my mom said that i should break it to make the pages more interesting. So I did, for a while. Until I got yelled at for it. Luckily, when I didn't follow that rules, the comic I was working one was not dialog heavy, so wasn’t an issue.

5:16 personally I would say either make them easy to draw like you said or just easy to remember how to draw. I drew a few characters that where super complex but easy to remember. Bonus points if there fun to draw. It's always more enjoyable (for me at least) to draw a character that's super complex but fun. Like cute shapes or interesting details that you enjoy drawing over and over

After watching tbis video I'd like to give a shoutout to Manga May, a challenge organised by MonitorComics, where each day of May you have to make a comic page based on a prompt. Its goal was to help aspiring artists get over their fears of posting their first comics. After participating for 20 days straight i can confidently say it was one of fhe most important things I've done. It has given me the courage to actually start writing comics with the goal of uploading them. I'd encourage y'all to check it out next year, the community was amazing!

The 180 degree rule in #6 seems like something that could be used to intentionally unsettle audiences in intense scenes like with unstable characters or to amplify a tone shift, ESPECIALLY in horror. But that just reminds me of the old saying for all art "you need to know the rules to effectively break them". Great video with excellent advice!

Star hypes up point 4, making it seem like the most controversial take on webcomics ever: "Here it is: Things every webcomic creator should do, Number 4: ..." aaand YT plays an ad. That got a good chuckle out of me. Tip 10 hits so hard. "Be your own primary target audience" has always been my first and most important tip to anyone asking for advice. I really have to take "start small" to heart. I've been stuck on page 4 of my passion project for far too long now and could really use the experience. Maybe little episodical shorts using the same characters and world. Working in IT, I can't stress enough how important the 3/2/1 rule is. Save your stuff in at least 3 different places, using at least 2 different mediums and have at least 1 of them be online. We had students not being able to present their final presentation because their laptops refused to boot due to the vibrations of the bike ride to school on the very same day of the finals.

I just recently read the first chapter of castoff and oh. My. God. Even though it was your early art, the characters personality are well established and isn’t your generic fantasy comic. Vector is such an innocent bean and must be protected. I’m very interested in the story, and I’ll keep reading to find out more about the story. (A “How I create my own site for my webcomic” would be very appreciated!) ❤❤

8:15 Has anyone else noticed the milk carton? Or is that just me? 😂 Keep up the great work Star! Love your videos ❤

I genuinely wish I had the patience to keep practicing drawing. I love writing scripts and ideas for webcomics. But my drive to learn how to draw is... not high... As such, I usually look for people online to draw for me and... well obviously payment is something I just HAVE to do because artists deserve compensation for their time.

Thanks for helping me dig myself out of whatever mess I’ve jumped into as well as making me realise I haven’t completely done everything wrong

I can't believe it took me a whole minute to realize it's magni being drawn! Your videos on comics are always so informative. A wonderful mix of emphasizing stuff that should be obvious (cough taking care of your own body) as well as stuff that I've never heard about. The 180 degree rule is definitely something i instinctually know as a reader of many comics but i had no idea there was a name for it

6:34 How hard must the dude have broken that mirror to have such shit luck?? LMAO Thanks for the tips btw 👍

Very helpful and concise video, with some very good tips! #1. Funny thing is, my comic started as a "I'll just do a little 5-10 page thing with this new D&D character I just made". I'm currently working on page 146. It just sorta snowballed and I just kept adding pages as the story started forming in my head. When I added another D&D character in as the second protagonist I couldn't stop. These characters now live rent free in my head and I have 3 secuel graphic novels planned after I wrap this one in another 35 or so pages. #2 I definitely wish I'd simplified my Kobold artificer's armor a bit before I started my comic. I'm definitely simplifying it for the sequels. Love him to death but he takes like 20 minutes to draw per-panel. #3 I have backups upon backups. I am a digital hoarder. #4 I have gotten better and faster at drawing backgrounds, thankfully. It's still a pain and triples the time it takes to finish a page, but it's so much better looking in the end. But BARE MINIMUM you should be drawing establishing shots for scene changes. MINIMUM. #5 I'm diligent about doing this every few pages. It's easier when you're drawing a fight sequence. #6 Okay, page 146 of my comic, the one I'm currently drawing as I listen to this video? I beark the 180 rule across it's 2 panels. BUT...there was no other way without having the second panel have the central character of that panel facing away from the viewer and it looked bad. I tried several thumbnails to fix it. It just wouldn't be fixed. So, I compromised by having that second panel be a far-away shot that shows the characters whole bodies. And in my defense the characters are all radically different looking from each other so I felt the visual clarity wasn't broken. Most of the time I try to follow the 180 rule though. #7 I've been meaning to do just this, I'm learning Unreal Engine to use to build models for locations that are going to feature prominently in the comic that I can then put a camera in to screensnip reference shots for the environments. I'm just not very good at working with 3D programs yet. #8 I live in constant mortal fear of carpal tunnel, I take extreme precautions against it #9 I'll have to give this a shot, I typically only move my arm at the elbow to do large curves. #10 My comic has been my passion project. I utterly and completely adore my characters, and want to tell their story. Other people seem to enjoy it as well and that's fine, but even if no one else did, I'd still make it because it's something I want to see happen. My comic's B&W because I wanted to go for not just a manga look but also kinda mimic the small indie comics from the 80s I read a lot of growing up. Sometimes I think it'd be easier to do in color, though. But I'm rambling, I just love talking about my comic and characters.

I remember when Drunk Duck got hacked and I lost the comic that was hosting there, it took like 3 months for it to return and I still had the comics lucky but I never restarted it. Another thing every webcomicer should do is have a buffer of comics ready. It varies on update schedule but I would say try to have at least a month or 2 weeks minimum so you can keep posting if things happen, getting sick, machine breaking, tablet breaking, supplies, moods, or emergency happen, so having that buffer will not make you stress enough. Once you able to draw again replace it slowly, you can easily draw parts of next page or add a page a week or even 1/4 a page a week till it is replaced. This I would not skimp on, if you in mood to do it add more to it. I am sure all of you read comics that had to stop for these and other reasons and when they finally back they lost half the audience or something. So a steady update is needed, unless you do things ahead of time to show people it is the end of a season or so. Either way a buffer will never hurt. This way you will always be a few weeks ahead and can relax instead of rushing things. If you use printed comics, those comics you read and buy where not made a month ago and printed and released, no they was ready to print 3 moths ago, sometimes they made in a year or more in advance and yes there are times where they change things and add story elements but even those are either hastly put in comics leading to it being poor or put in later at least 3 months ahead. This will also help with advertising aspects but that is a whole worm of cans on it's own.

7:22 I love drawing backgrounds, theyre really fun! But the comic I wanna make is set in an empty black void.

Hooray for more webcomic tips!! I just got your ebook last week, and I read it all in one day (I was very excited 😅), and I loved it! Your book and videos have helped inspire me to start working in my own comics that I’ve had in the back of my head for years. They’re still in the draft phase, but now I’m eager to work on them! Thank you so so much for your advice and inspiration Star 💖

I bought the E-book and I can definitely recommend it! Lots of straight-to-the-point and easy to understand tips. With the perfect balance between text and fun explanatory illustrations :D

It was through this video that I found out smackjeeves died. RIP Also the "take care of your body" advice is something I highly agree with. I don't have carpal tunnel, but I did have a carpal tunnel scare, and I do have RSI that flares up now and then. It's no joke and absolutely soul-crushing when the doctor told me I had it. Couldn't draw or play video games for a long time. I learned to live with it with lifestyle changes (drawing w/ arm/shoulder and taking breaks helps as you said!), but I wish I had been made more aware of these types of injuries when I was younger so I could take better care of my hands and wrists. You only got one body, y'all, take care of it!

I most definetly needed to hear the first one. I have a whole Pokemon AU comic planned and scripted and I've NEVER worked on a web-comic before.

honestly, i love drawing backrounds. after drawing the same characters for hundreds and hundreds of times, i think its nice to draw something different yknow

I'm so glad you mentioned doing short one-off comics set in your story's universe because that's exactly the approach I've taken I feel so seen haha! I'm currently working on a one-shot about 50 pages long centering on one of my main villains and her whole M.O and it's a real challenge but I figure this is the best way to warm myself up for eventually starting the main story, y'know? I'm kinda hoping that if it reaches anyone it'll get at least one or two people interested in my characters- that's the dream, after all. Anyways, fantastic video, you seem like you've got a good head on your shoulders when it comes to making webcomics so this advice is duly noted! This actually got me a little pumped to keep working on that one-shot, so thank you ^^

Honestly so curious about auto actions, I’m very familiar with doing them in Photoshop when it comes to converting color profiles (mainly for printed work)- but I didn’t know clip studio could do them too, never mind for multiple exported formats, that’s really cool! Hopefully I can find some tutorials

Making a small side story is an amazing idea! Ive been planning a long running webcomic for almost a year now but have felt overwhelmed. I already have an idea for a small side comic, so this is really useful!

you might be the most helpful webcomic artist on youtube! thanks for sharing your wisdom! ps. now I'm obsessed with Castoff lol

Not a web comic creator, just a writer and art enthusiast who reads WAAAAAAY too much webtoon but THANK YOU for mentioning the backgrounds thing! I paint landscapes as a hobby so I get how much work backgrounds can be but the worst is when a good story and the emotion are ham-stringed by the characters floating in the white (or generic fill) void. Also, the standard blender assets that so many webtoon artists use as a shortcut drive me crazy. Using 3D to help with angles and as references overall makes total sense and there is nothing wrong with that but so many (particularly isekai) comics feel the same because they all use the same assets. Then there's the fact it sometimes exposes the artist's lack of skill with perspective. Nothing like seeing someone emotionally throw themselves into a chair or onto a bed that look big enough in comparison to accommodate an entire family of giants. Tea cups that are jagged polygons rather than nice circles or necklaces that look like a 2D fill that cuts off exactly at the character's outline with no "wrap around" or "bulk" also stand out glaringly. And really, using standard assets outright instead of just as reference almost always seems to make the characters feel disconnected from the world just for the basic fact the art styles are so different. The few comics I've read in which the artists clearly draw the backgrounds always feel so much more immersive and beautiful to look at. I go back to those over and over and recommend them all the time. All the "standard Blender asset" comics go into the "To Be Forgotten" pile. I totally understand making web comics is crazy work but why put all that effort in only to kneecap it by neglecting or half-assing the backgrounds? (Also, thanks for mentioning the 180 rule! So many need to hear it! The viewer isn't "in the room" with the characters so they lack the same frame of reference so it's jarring when the rule is violated.)

Just want to say thank you! Caught up on Castoff again and Wow Have a good break But yeah it’s gotten us thinking of starting our own comic instead of the animated series we’d planned; while it’s not gonna be much less work it’s still more approachable I think So Thanks!

Love your videos; it's really helpful as I'm trying my hand at comic making!

a good idea i had as someone who likes to make detailed designs is save the complex outfit ideas for promotional art. what i plan to do is create a simplified version of the ideal design i want for the character in the comic and then add the extra details on any art outside of the comic. a bonus is that that way, if i were to receive any fanart, people could choose which version they’d want to draw. the simple version or the “canon” complex version.

So glad to see that this uploaded not too long ago, because I am actually about to start a comic so I all of this is gonna help out a lot^^

I love your videos! Thank you for your tips, and i have actually got your book for my sisters birthday! And she's been reading everyday! And I'm thinking of maybe making my own comic because you have inspired me so much :D!

This artist is a great teacher! I'm going to start a comic soon, and these tips are really helpful! I should take notes tbh!

Love your art style 😍👍 thank you for the tips btw

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a video from you about screen design in more detail. I’ve bought and read your book, but definitely would appreciate the deep dive ❤

BACKGROUNDS. YES! THANK YOU! Plus, the more one practices drawing backgrounds (or tracing them!) the easier they are to create. Now I enjoy drawing backgrounds! Also I looooooove the way you color and have been enjoying your con stories!

You provide such solid good advice! That also works for animation. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience.

All good tips. Something I do specifically on the character design front to simplify designs, if I have a character with an intricate design, when I'm designing the model sheet, I'll include different levels of detail for each character in smaller and smaller sizes. So I know how the character will look for close-ups, as well as having a standard way of simplifying them for far shots or in silhouettes. Also having a standardized way of drawing background characters so they're naturally pushed into the background a bit more.

I love your tips!!! This actually helps alot and it makes me more confident and happy now that I know what to start with! I appreciate you!!⚘️(I love your art)

My biggest question with trying to start a comic is... How does one find the ability to keep on track while trying to get through life? I have tried to make a comic several times. Each time I start, I get two or three pages in and then life hits, takes me away from it where I can't think of working on it for months, and then... then... I don't even know what I was trying to do. It's a real mood and creativity killer for me. Also, your animated start in this video was interesting. I give that a thumbs up.

I just got your eBook yesterday!! It’s so helpful so far!

first step is so real. shueisha has an international manga contest every year. and my story expands on just a small aspect of my main story :D.. not only do i get a better feel of what i want to do, but i have the opportunity and focus on a aspect that i might not be able to get to in my main story.

thank you so much for videos like these!! I’ve recently been debating over whether I should make this silly idea I have in my head into a webcomic or not, and these tips are incredibly helpful!

This was really helpful, especially the idea of making your own website. I've been doing my webcomic since 2020 on top of my full time job as a board artist, and while I love writing and drawing the series, it definitely could use more TLC from your tips.

Thank you SO much for the tips! I've never done a web comic before but i have a story ive been thinking about and sketching out for a while now. Making a side story set in the same universe to get better making a comic is a wonderful idea and will help me flesh out certain characters. I cant wait to get this comic out there!

Thank you so much for those videos. My experience with drawing comics comes from a similar veign. Drawing strips or 1-5 pages per. (by now its 20 pages per chapter) So I dont consider myself inexperienced. YET, it is just very healthy to have experiences confirmed like this. To me it is very reassuring when i watch your videos and realize that I already do so many things right. Most of my friends specialize in illustrations. So I dont have many people to bounce my experiences off of. Therefore videos like this are pretty much a blessing. Thank you! P.s. draw backgrounds! You will thank yourself, ppl!!!

I ask for more videos about screen design.

This has been super encouraging with great tips! I recently started thinking of making my own comic.

This is very useful advice for anyone working in a visual medium. Print comic book artists should take note

You're back! Missed your voice and your awesome art!

This is my first time hearing about actions! I'd be very grateful for a tutorial video, being able to automatically save in multiple formats sounds like a dream!

This is just such good advice!!! I agree with every single point, because I learned all these things in the Time I drew my Webcomics. And I am excited for when I start drawing on my new project and I can use all the new tricks I learned

Great advice! Drawing backgrounds / feet, studying screen design, working efficiently with smart reuse of assets and 3d modelling, having a custom website (but still leveraging third party sites) and backing up all your hard work (in multiple places), are all things that immediately come to my mind when thinking about what I'd want to say based on my experience making webcomics too!

Absolutely love this! Thank you!

In addition to doing hand stretches daily I've started doing hand grip exercises with some equipment I got from amazon. I do them 2-3 times a week and it's helped my hands feel better.

I particularly relate to the advice about screen design because I've been drawing comics for years, but then I learned photography and videography and realized that rules on shot composition are very helpful in drawing comics too.

These are super helpful honestly when I'm too inside my own head I self sabotage on accident by doing all the wrong things , this has helped me organize, and try new habits to work on my little art webcomics , especially the backing up my files multiple sources and work on backgrounds / camera angles not just two bust up characters having info dumps. I can honestly say you are the Most helpful webcomic artist , I've not seen others share such advice and I seriously thank you becuase if not for finding your videos and webcomic I think I'd of given up 😊

This is a very helpful video, and I have done some of the things you have given tips on. Thank you for making this.

I found this channel via the 10 things not to do video and now I can't stop binging this content is so good!

Im currently working on a comic. And I plan on using 3D to help set the scene so I dont spend too much time struggling with perspective and how im gonns do this and that. Learning how to use Blender or any other 3D sofward of your choosing is a great skill to have. It saves time and energy in the long run.

Omg your comic is so good the the art style the colors it just cool

Watching this video has made me enthusiastic about starting web comics. Would love to watch your video covering screen theory to help me get into drawing comics.

The screen design thing is very interesting. I’m not an artist, but I was curious what goes into making comics and webcomics, and when you talked about screen design… it reminded me of another video where a guy named TotallyNotMark praised the panel design in Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga because it naturally lead the viewer’s eyes throughout each page for the best path to understanding the story. I never thought about how sometimes, the placement of things like talk bubbles can disrupt the flow of a comic and whatnot, but it makes sense that the same applies to webcomics as well. Also never heard of the 180 rule until today so I learned something new.

the 180º rule is actually really powerful if broken in animation and cinematography because that confusion you mentioned could reflect the same confusion the character in the foreground is feeling, like their worldview was suddenly flipped; I don't know to what extent this can be well translated into comic form, but in any case this is only powerful because it's breaking the rule but not ignoring it

Honestly I’m very late yes! But this is very helpful, all your tips and other webtoon videos. I’ve recently started my own called Delusional mindset, so it’ll be very helpful to keep these in mind lol. I truthfully started out of boredom but I do plan to continue!

thank u for reminding me to draw from my shoulder while i was listening to your video! i've been trying to do this for a while, and it's just starting to stick ahaha~

Was watching this while drawing characters for a comic lol. Good tips!

These are all very good advice (especially the "draw backgrounds" one cause I understand how important that is even though I hate doing it as well lol!) I do have one question though, you shared some stretches that you do for your wrists and hands but I was wondering do you have any stretch suggestions for helping your back as well?

That fanart sure came in "handy" for the background.

20:10 SCREAMING AND WAILING!! I MISS SMACKJEEVES! It was so nice to use, and then one day it suddenly got a REALLY bad update. Like *really* bad to the point the website shut down within the month because everyone jumped ship. I'm not exaggerating. I remember feeling devastated that I had nowhere to go, because I refused to use Tapas, my comic wasn't formated good for Webtoon, and my art wasn't good enough for Hiveworks. Honestly if it weren't for Comic Fury, I don't know what I would have done. My comic likely would have been cancelled long before I actually cancelled it, but I wouldn't have an archive for it. For my next comic, I'm definitely gonna have my own website for it. I'm not going through that nightmare again.

I'm secretly a bit of a know it all and like to go into these thinking I am gonna be aware of everything you say. But I actually did learn about several things I didn't know or at least didn't consciously realize were a thing. I know how that sounds, but getting an idea through my thick noggin and humbling me a little should be considered a compliment. Very good and educational video from you

7:18 Draxx: Say it Qwill! I can take it.

Woww this is so helpful, thank you! I'm just leaving college from learning graphic design and.. while I learnt some things, I don't feel it was so helpful for what I needed to learn and improve. I've taught myself mostly, but if anyone can share their experience with art school or taking animation in University, it could help me - i'm not sure whether the experience is worth the cost 😅

Im gonna try and make a comic using this advice. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

This was informative. I've watched Whyt Manga's video about creating a script first before sketching. My question is do webcomic creators have to write story layout first or go straight to creating the panels?

Thx star this is my first video I watched since being subscribed thx my amphiba fan comic is gonna be great because of you YIPPIE

I'm glad I watched this video. I came up woth a story and started to practice art on my phone but this is making me realize i wasnt desogned for this hobby at all, props to all webtoon creators who put their souls into this

Ooooo like the use of the menu music of Bravely Defualt for your tale lol

Literally the first thing was what I decided I will do, I want to just have a bunch of small comics that maybe play into the lore, and maybe some here and there things that then lead up to a bigger comic with all prior knowledge from the other comics potentially working in

Hey just wanted to say I LOVE your series on how to make webcomics but I know I’m speaking for many people when I say you should make a video on the scripting/writing process all of your tips have helped me so much but I’m just not quite sure how to write my comic just yet

Thank you for convincing me to draw more present backgrounds in my comic...I was sooo scared of how daunting it would be to have to draw BGs in every page, I thought I should just leave it be. Butttt when I think about comics I love, I can imagine the world they take place in. So BGs here we come.

If there's one tip I greatly appreciate as someone who's starting to try and get better at drawing, it's using my shoulder to draw instead of my wrist. I never understood why I struggled with so many shapes until I used that particular advice. Thank you very much!

Minor point from a storyboard artist and comic junkie. The 180 rule is good to follow in film because you can't go back three panels or the top of the page to re-orient yourself - you have the element of time in film and you have to keep moving forward. You can often and should ignore the 180 rule in comics to avoid boredom or repetition of character placement in panels. There is something known as 'Graphic Review" for comics where your eye can shift back and forth instantly when the reader needs to know where someone was standing at the beginning of in a sequence. The two forms of visual storytelling cross in a lot of places. This one is not as essential, and that's why it is rarely covered for comics. The most important thing with this sequential story point is a combination of clarity and interest; one can always supersede the other.

9:16 "Show feet" my first thought: "DeviantArt is that you?"

I actually hate not drawing the background, because indeed I need to have that feeling of "this is real, and they aren't just floating in some colored void"

Definitely do thoughs backgrounds, I use blender for mine and now you can project some awesome line work using blenders greasepencil tool, you can even fill your line work in blender as well 😎

8:15 I think I just saw a gallon of milk for a single frame

The backgrounds tip 😂 My own tip for this is using the Sims for indoor settings and drawing over or using screenshots for reference. Also, sort of unrelated, but my biggest pet peeve with art is when an artist draws everything but the feet and “cut off” the calves to have these weird cylinder stumps. If you really hate it, just have them out of frame…

Tip #3 - Home NAS appliance (with a UPS) plus syncing offsite to Backblaze or other offsite backup solution. With some kind of automation on all of that. Tip #7.2 - The more common word for that is *macros*. Generally automation is a good thing. It will not only be faster than whatever you can do by hand, but more accurate - if programmed properly - saving you from having to correct errors. The major keyboard makers have companion software that can allow you to create macros tied to one of several macro keys, if you have a keyboard that supports it. There are even macro keyboards or macro pads - keyboards that are only macro keys that you configure with the companion software. Taran Van Hemert (formerly of Linus Tech Tips) demonstrated how to use an entire separate keyboard as a macro keyboard - though there is a bit of a learning curve involved. Whatever you're doing, consider if there's a way to automate it. Even something as simple as scripts that automate your backups and run as a scheduled task so you don't have to think about it. I have a short script that automates dumping files from my camera card to my workstation, then copying them to my NAS before I start working with the workstation copies.