Open Panel Episode Two: I Don’t THINK it’s Illegal...

Time to get technical. We break down the process of taking a comic page from your head to the web -- from planning your story right through to setting up a site, with only mild larceny and a can-do attitude.

This episode hosted by G.C. Houle of H&J, with guests Amy King (The Muse Mentor) and Rosa Lee Marnie (Mythos).

Highlights:

What does a creator’s process look like?
Rosa endorses a life of crime
Hand lettering: how and why? No really. how? why??
Amy sez: throw money at your problems
Passive-aggressive vaguecasting about wordpress plugins
How do you find an audience? Tell people about your comic, dingus!

This episode’s recommendations:

Art Programs:

($) Adobe Photoshop, Manga Studio, Paint Tool SAI
($) FireAlpaca, Inkscape, GIMP, TwistedBrush Open Studio

Drawing & Lettering Tools:

Lazy Nezumi, FontCreator ($), MyScriptFont ($), PaintFont ($), Ames Lettering Guide, Blambot, Pixelovely, iStock

Website/Hosting Tools:

WordPress, Comic Easel, Smack Jeeves, ComicFury, The Duck, Simple Webcomic Theme for Tumblr, Luis Boisvert

References:

The World Encyclopedia of Calligraphy
Drawing the Head and Figure by Jack Hamm
A google image search for Jon Hamm
This is Everything I Know by C. Spike Trotman
Drawing Dynamic Hands by Burne Hogarth
’The Human Figure in Motion’ and ’Animals in Motion’ by Eadweard Muybridge (again)
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing and Force: Animal Drawing by Michael D. Mattesi

Other Artists Mentioned:

Tessa Stone (http://www.ndecomic.com/)

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