I am actually planning (which will take years to accomplish) to make a web comic series

with my best friend

But I don't know how to animate

My only experience is with a stick figure animation program i used like 7 years ago lmao

Drawing cant be that hard

Especially if you have a pad

Even if you dont know how Id suggest you try. Its not something you are just good at.

Set up scenes with figures take a picture and draw that shit

My friend is going to learn to draw, I am going to be the person in charge of story and the big idea man

Basically the director

I am aiming for drama

not comedy

lol

Gay

House wives and faggots like drama

Drama needs to be really well done for straight men to enjoy

It isn't drama in a soap opera-y way

I just mean it in a non-comedic way

Something serious

If you are going for drama and dont have a good style already dont be surprised if you dont do well.

As I said, it will take years before we are at the point we can actually do it

There is a lot of things to do before we can begin

Learning to draw, for starters

but actually creating the full plot and planning out the entire story and possible stories

and before even that, worldbuilding

We're not going to start it until we are perfectly ready

Ehh that stuff is fairly easy

That stuff is fairly easy depending on how far you are willing to go

If you over think it youll fail

It depends on what you are going for

If you are creating your very own universe, you have to ensure that it acts like its own universe

Otherwise it's just an expy earth

And if you want to go for that, you can

but that isn't what i am striving for

Idk one piece does alright

Keep it simple

i think you conflate worldbuilding with what is seen in the story

The readers only get into it at the rate you let them

just because you create an entire universe doesn't mean you show it all

lol

but it adds to the authenticity of it

Leaving it open also allows you to change it later

That is true, but not anyone needs to leave their universe open for further changes

I want to establish things so everything remains as consistent as possible

And because I already have a good understanding of the universe I've created

What we are working on is a reconstruction of what we've already done, but something to buffer out all of the inconsistencies and things that do not make sense when we first began

My point is if you could be overthinking things that the readers might never see or even think about

I don't see a problem with that for worldbuilding

It could be surface-deep and have the facade of its own universe, and people can make that work and do as they wish with that

But I want to make it as detailed and deeply rooted as I can

that's simply how I do things

Worldbuilding won't even take that long lol

We've only a few more fundamental things to do, before we move onto the general history of the world

Idk still sounds like you should both learn to draw some so you can split the work

I can't draw well lol

It would help with how deep you want to go

No one draws for shit at the start

I've taken a few art classes here and there, and I was never a good drawer lol

If nothing else learn how to color and shade

🤔

Its art but there is a ton of stable techniques behind it

idk, i have never been able to shade well

I'm not sure what you mean by color

if you mean coloring in things, or if you mean choosing colors that go together or what

Neither did I till I took an art class and commited to understanding it

By actually coloring the comic

That is something we have not decided yet, if it is going to be black and white, or if we are going to color things

Art is basically like learning to write the alphabet with different styls being fonts

Pick an artist with a lot of work out and recreate their stuff till you get it then branch to your own style

It takes time to learn. It just sounds to me like you dont want to take the time

I understand that -- I just don't see why I need to learn how to draw, when that is what he will do

Putting all your eggs in one basket

And drawing is the hard part

How well can you draw

Got 2nd place in colored pencils in highschool art fair

District type

Can you show any examples

Took me 2 months for that one piece

And how long did it take you to work up to be able to do that

I dont have the picture anymore it was a hermit crab

Looked great

It was lile my second class the teacher was just good

Made us pic a nature picture that looked amazing to us. We would work on making it look like the picture and she would instruct us how to make it closer or better throughout the class

Everyone needs time to learn but it goes much faster if you have direction.

rip lol

You dont just start drawing how you want to easy from the start

and that sounds like a useful class wtf why didn't my art teachers do that

That was my biggest weakness at the start

and i know lol

if i could, i wouldn't need to learn in the first place

My drawing level is best described as Adventure Time but no sense of scale or proportion

Just pick an artist. Replicate their work. Then most importantly critique where you went wrong and keep it in mind for the next piece

Replicate how, on a sheet of paper by just looking at it

Tracing it

or what?

You can trace first to get it down but the more you free hand the better

I mean just recreate their work from scratch

Like if you wanted to draw like naruto author start going through some random volume re drawing every panel and make corrections after each one

ik it was just a suggestion but no thanks to naruto lol

i will think about that, i don't have much to do for the summer

so i could at least try