Clip Studio sent me an email with this tutorial. It is INSANELY GOOD, you really cleared up a lot of stuff I was not getting, lol. Thank you very much.
I am new to really trying to understand formatting for comics and this was SO DANG HELPFUL. Also, from an editing stand point, this video was super thorough as well. I appreciate all the effort! Thank youuuuu
As someone who started a webcomic just thinking on the scrolling format and with 0% intention of printing it, and now realizing how cool that'd be, THANKS SO MUCH. This video is not only great at informing on how to do it but it also works as motivation. :)
If you make your own font where all letters are capitalized, this allows you to use the lowercase/capital versions to double as dingbats/emoji. For example, I could use the capital L slot for L and the lowercase slot for a heart or star or whatever without exceeding the character limit calligraphr and other font-making programs have (when I played with it; you could do the uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers 0-9 and like 5 punctuation symbols before any font you'd make was no longer free). That's any one's preference though, I just figured I'd share an idea of how to get the most out of the limited characters. I'll incorporate the styel of all-capitals to allow for the lowercase letters to be 26 extra dingbats/emoji and punctuation symbols I wouldn't have otherwise lol!
You can of course upload to Webtoon or Tapas as comic pages, there's no rule against it! I've seen comics that do that and that still manage to gain an audience. But many of the users of those platforms are used to the vertical format, so it can be helpful if you're trying to appeal to those users. :)
I’m working to someday have a website ideally that houses my page by page comic and then I would also upload my comic to webtoon as a scroll style. I’ve world builded and character builded and outlined and now I have to script the first chapter. Im literally only in the beginning stages but this is so fulfilling. I want to do this type of thing for the rest of my life no matter how long it takes me
Thank you SO much. This tutorial is gold. I knew I wanted to make my comic in print format first, but as I've gotten closer to actually posting it, I realized I have no idea how to efficiently reformat it to Webtoon without some ridiculously expensive add-on like Photoshop. I'm so glad it's all possible in CSP. I only wish I had found this tutorial sooner!!
A very helpful tutorial, I've been rewatching this so many times! I tried doing line art on a different canvas with 600 dpi and copy + paste on a webtoon canvas (600 dpi) makes it pixelated, do I have to line art on each format separately?
600 dpi only matters in relation to setting up a format in cm/mm or inches. So, let's say, you create a 1x1cm picture with 600dpi, that's going to give you a 230x230 pixel image. If then, you create your webtoon canvas with at least 800 pixel width and size up your line art, that might make it pixelated. I would recommend two things: 1) Only worry about dpi when creating pages meant for print, and base it off the size you want to print at. With creating the webtoon version of your comic, worry more about pixel size (again, at least 800 pixel width as this is roughly what Webtoon/Tapas size the final image down to anyway). 2) Draw with vector lineart (I have another tutorial on this on my channel "5 Methods for Perfecting your Lineart in CSP"), which will ensure your lineart looks smooth no matter how much you scale it up/down or transform it. Hope that helps!
Thank you so much, for the longest time i was trying to figure out how i would be able to have both a physical and digital copy of my comic without redrawing everything😩
Is there a way of creating a web toon on mobile (even designing it on mobile) that can be later converted to a book size without that much editing from the mobile layout?
Thank you for posting such a detailed tutorial. This is something I've been thinking about since I have been wanting to make a comic in a more traditional format, but over the years platforms like Webtoon and Tapas have become very popular. I think I have my work cut out for me 😅
Thank you so much for this tutorial! This was extremely helpful, I learned a lot! I'm definitely going to try a lot of this new things with my comic. I've been struggling a lot to make my fledging comic look decent on Webtoons, I had no idea how people make worked with its formatting. You cleared up a lot of questions I had for it. That Croppy link is going to save me SO much time!
Thank you so much for giving all these tips! You're seriously a hero! I've wanted to do both a normal printable comic version and webtoon version of my stories, but was a little intimidated, and this made me feel so much more confident
A million thanks! I love how simple and engaging this was. I'm making my first Webtoon this year, but I also want to publish a comic version, so this was a godsend. Also, love the little bursts of humor like the vector layers joke. I'm going to refer to this often. Some particular tips that stood out to me were making it as a comic first and then reformatting it to Webtoon. Seems much easier. And adding the dialogue first. I was Suprise Pikachu because I'd never thought about that. :D
I'm currently making a comic, and i'm trying to convert the pages into the webtoon/scroll format; however, when i try to copy paste my frame folders, only the frames show up, and not their corresponding layers. how do i fix this?
Make sure to NOT have the "Object" tool selected when copy/pasting a frame folder. If you use the Move Layer tool for example, it will copy everything, not just the frame.
Do you crop the canvas size to the actual size of the comic when exporting for print? Great tutorial tho! I've been looking for a csp comic tutorial, and this is really comprehensive, it helped a lot!
Sorry for the late reply, I must have overlooked this message. I don't crop the canvas size when exporting for print within Clip Studio Paint. I set up the files so that bleed is included (extra art extending beyond the final dimensions, which helps prevent any potential inaccuracies when art extends to the edge of a page and might not be cut cleanly in the printing process). If anything, I tend to cut the canvas size to the final dimensions when exporting for online PDFs or CBRs. Hope that helped answer your question!
But what are the actual dimensions of the page with or without the borders, gutters, or bleed? I know it can vary, but any example of numbers is better than nothing.
Different standards in different places. Always a good idea to refer to existing comics as reference on the size you might want; and to check with various printing services whether they are able to work with that size.
If you click the little menu icon next to the "Color Set" tab, select the option "View(S)" and then you have new ways of displaying the Color Sets. I'm using "List medium"!
I don't have an iPad so I am not sure, but there just might be a limit. In any case, the values I named here are just suggestions, so if you can't stick to them, you will still be fine! ^^
👏🏿👏🏿 I forgot what you sounded like! Haha. This is a great tutorial and I love that you created little drawings of yourself and "the student", fits your aesthetic very well!
You made a tweet or something a few days ago and I lost it but then I find this video!!! Ur like the first person I’ve seen who does regular pages and reformats for webtoon, thank you!!
Wow... This is so helpful... So basically its possible to edit and arrange both ways .. first comic to webtoon or webtoon to comic... Its just the matter of arrangements... Thank you so much.
Your tutorial helped so much! will definitely like on the clip studio tips site. My question is When setting up an 8.5 x 8.5 page how do I set up the margins and bleeds for the page especially when exporting to amazon.
Thank you! As for your question, I'm afraid I don't know exactly what you mean. By saying you're "exporting to Amazon", are you talking about a Kindle version of the comic?
@@JerryDunhamJr The bleeds will depend on what your printer will want to work with. But 5 mm (0.20 inches) is usually plenty, and even 3 mm (0.12 inches) is enough for most printers I've worked with. For margins, I would suggest at least 0.5 inches on all sides. Depending on the look you want to achieve, you could make it larger, but I wouldn't go over 1 inch as it might limit the space available for the art too much beyond that.
I'm not sure I understand which part exactly you're struggling with. Is it setting up the webtoon format for a new file? Or do you mean it's not copying your frame folder to the other file?
@@simondrawsstuff the part am struggling is to but the comic page panels into the webtoon page i have. i think everything you said in your video select frame folder copy/paste put nothing happens and cant paste it into the webtoon canvas
I'm considering making my comics in webtoon format first, than later on, edit it into print format once I have enough of an audience. Would anyone recommend that? I feel it's easier to work in webtoon because if you make a mistake with paneling (Too short a panel, pacing is too fast, or you rushed and now the pacing is bad), you can just easily add another panel or change it in webtoon format, but that's just me feeling and thinking. Anyone with experience working the other way around and vice versa or just wanna post their thoughts on this, I would love to heard it.
I worked that way for chapter 2 of Weirdogs. All I can say is that I had a much harder time rearranging the webtoon version into print pages, than I did vice versa. Though, if you don't care about having an elaborate and typical page layout, and are okay with doing something loose (with lots of unused white space) like Lore Olympus did for their print version, then this approach can work. I just personally prefer the look of typical page layouts and it's pretty much going to impossible to replicate that look when you start out with webtoon focused layouts.
4:47 okay can you PLEASE tell me how you pasted text directly from google docs? Even after slowing the video down I can't figure out how you did it. I was always told that you could paste text to Clip directly, so I'm very confused. Step by step instructions please, I am a desperate fool. T^T
Hey! What I've done is: 1. Create a template text layer with the default font size I want for my entire comic. 2. Copy this text layer for each speech bubble I want on the page. 3. Select final speech bubble text in Google Docs. 4. Press Ctrl+C 5. Select template speech bubble text in Clip Studio Paint 6. Press Ctrl+V 7. Format text (add line breaks, adjust position, add bold or italic text, etc) (Repeat steps 3-7 for each speech bubble on the page Hope that helps! If there's a more direct way to copy text over, I'm not aware of it.
I just select each line of dialogue individually, press CTRL+C, select the template text in one of the text boxes that I made multiples of in Clip Studio and press CTRL+V. I hope that clears it up, if not, let me know!
Hey there! Thanks for the video, it was very useful. I had a question about DPI - on webtoon it suggests a DPI of 72 or more, but I'm guessing 72 won't be good enough for print. Do you have any suggestions on what is a good DPI to use? Thank you! :D
For print, especially color comics, 300 DPI is the standard. If you're just doing a black and white manga style piece, I have also seen 600 DPI recommended.
@@simondrawsstuff Actually, what would be your advice for someone who (let's say) does a webtoon now, but is not sure if they want to make it in print in the future (but they're highly considering it?)
@@spydertyler7572 I'm not familiar with Krita. If it's a better option for you personally due to the familiarity or the price, it might be worth to considering choosing it over Clip Studio. Make sure to also check if there's tutorials available for doing the stuff you would like to do in Krita, as having easily accessible help and guidance can be a very important factor.
@@spydertyler7572 If you are already doing a webtoon and are highly considering printing it, I would recommend to start as soon as you can with making stuff for print first and for webtoon second. It's much easier to rework from a regular page to a webtoon than it is the other way around. Even if you were to end up not printing your current webtoon after all, it would still be a valuable way to learn how to prepare things with print in mind and it might come in useful in any future projects.
I made a painterly background a ton of details details while working in the graphic novel format, only to realize realized that it doesn't work well for my webtoon lol. The details make everything pixelated and blurry. So keep your mind on that compromise too. Don't be like me~
Honestly, if you're working with analogue media but plan on having the finished product be a vertical scroll manga, I don't think it makes a lot of difference which paper size you're using. Just make sure to scan it at a high DPI (600 for smaller paper sizes, at least 300 for larger paper sizes). I would try avoiding larger paper sizes so you're not tempted to add in more complex panels. You could maybe even pick a small notepad size paper actually, and think about each sheet of paper as a single panel that you can then stitch together as a vertical scroll. Those are just ideas and suggestions - I haven't created a vertical scroll that started out with analogue media, so I'm not speaking from experience.
01:42 creating the page
03:04 creating the panel base
03:56 creating dialog
05:46 creating panels
06:16 the sketch
08:10 finishing page artwork
12:59 exporting
15:32 rearranging to webtoon basics
17:13 rearranging to webtoon details
21:13 uploading to webtoon
Youre welcome.
Clip Studio sent me an email with this tutorial. It is INSANELY GOOD, you really cleared up a lot of stuff I was not getting, lol. Thank you very much.
I am new to really trying to understand formatting for comics and this was SO DANG HELPFUL. Also, from an editing stand point, this video was super thorough as well. I appreciate all the effort! Thank youuuuu
I'm really happy to hear that! ^^
As someone who started a webcomic just thinking on the scrolling format and with 0% intention of printing it, and now realizing how cool that'd be, THANKS SO MUCH. This video is not only great at informing on how to do it but it also works as motivation. :)
So glad to hear that! What's your webcomic called?
@@simondrawsstuff It's called The Last Dimension! Excuse the late reply;;
The fact that this has NO dislikes is a testament to how helpful this is
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This comment aged about as well as spoiled milk that's been forgotten for a year...
If you make your own font where all letters are capitalized, this allows you to use the lowercase/capital versions to double as dingbats/emoji. For example, I could use the capital L slot for L and the lowercase slot for a heart or star or whatever without exceeding the character limit calligraphr and other font-making programs have (when I played with it; you could do the uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers 0-9 and like 5 punctuation symbols before any font you'd make was no longer free). That's any one's preference though, I just figured I'd share an idea of how to get the most out of the limited characters. I'll incorporate the styel of all-capitals to allow for the lowercase letters to be 26 extra dingbats/emoji and punctuation symbols I wouldn't have otherwise lol!
That's definitely an interesting idea!
Is it okay if I just upload the weebtoon as a comic page or is it mandatory to make it vertical?
You can of course upload to Webtoon or Tapas as comic pages, there's no rule against it! I've seen comics that do that and that still manage to gain an audience. But many of the users of those platforms are used to the vertical format, so it can be helpful if you're trying to appeal to those users. :)
I’m working to someday have a website ideally that houses my page by page comic and then I would also upload my comic to webtoon as a scroll style. I’ve world builded and character builded and outlined and now I have to script the first chapter. Im literally only in the beginning stages but this is so fulfilling. I want to do this type of thing for the rest of my life no matter how long it takes me
Thank you SO much. This tutorial is gold. I knew I wanted to make my comic in print format first, but as I've gotten closer to actually posting it, I realized I have no idea how to efficiently reformat it to Webtoon without some ridiculously expensive add-on like Photoshop. I'm so glad it's all possible in CSP. I only wish I had found this tutorial sooner!!
A very helpful tutorial, I've been rewatching this so many times! I tried doing line art on a different canvas with 600 dpi and copy + paste on a webtoon canvas (600 dpi) makes it pixelated, do I have to line art on each format separately?
600 dpi only matters in relation to setting up a format in cm/mm or inches. So, let's say, you create a 1x1cm picture with 600dpi, that's going to give you a 230x230 pixel image. If then, you create your webtoon canvas with at least 800 pixel width and size up your line art, that might make it pixelated.
I would recommend two things:
1) Only worry about dpi when creating pages meant for print, and base it off the size you want to print at. With creating the webtoon version of your comic, worry more about pixel size (again, at least 800 pixel width as this is roughly what Webtoon/Tapas size the final image down to anyway).
2) Draw with vector lineart (I have another tutorial on this on my channel "5 Methods for Perfecting your Lineart in CSP"), which will ensure your lineart looks smooth no matter how much you scale it up/down or transform it.
Hope that helps!
Where can we find your comics btw?? The art looks nice !
Really good tutorial man. This was very helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much, for the longest time i was trying to figure out how i would be able to have both a physical and digital copy of my comic without redrawing everything😩
Is there a way of creating a web toon on mobile (even designing it on mobile) that can be later converted to a book size without that much editing from the mobile layout?
Thank you for posting such a detailed tutorial. This is something I've been thinking about since I have been wanting to make a comic in a more traditional format, but over the years platforms like Webtoon and Tapas have become very popular. I think I have my work cut out for me 😅
Thank you so much for this tutorial! This was extremely helpful, I learned a lot! I'm definitely going to try a lot of this new things with my comic. I've been struggling a lot to make my fledging comic look decent on Webtoons, I had no idea how people make worked with its formatting. You cleared up a lot of questions I had for it. That Croppy link is going to save me SO much time!
Awesome! I'm so glad to hear. And yeah, Croppy is just A HUGE time saver. So thankful for it.
Thank you so much for giving all these tips! You're seriously a hero! I've wanted to do both a normal printable comic version and webtoon version of my stories, but was a little intimidated, and this made me feel so much more confident
So happy to hear! :D
Good video! I uploaded my creation to Webtoon as well.
omg thank you so much! it was so funny and easy to understand
Amazing tutorial !
Thank you very much! i couldn´t decide if i wanted to make the print format or webtoon.
Thank you soo much Master XD
Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much! :D
This was a great tutorial.
Thank you!
This is so helpful T.T Thank U!
Thank you for this tutorial
A million thanks! I love how simple and engaging this was. I'm making my first Webtoon this year, but I also want to publish a comic version, so this was a godsend. Also, love the little bursts of humor like the vector layers joke. I'm going to refer to this often.
Some particular tips that stood out to me were making it as a comic first and then reformatting it to Webtoon. Seems much easier. And adding the dialogue first. I was Suprise Pikachu because I'd never thought about that. :D
Thank you!
but i dont wanna leave lol
Thank you very much for this tutorial. How do you do to compress your jpg file (33.33%) without lost images quality ??
There's a "JPEG Settings" option where you can set "Quality" to 100.
I'm currently making a comic, and i'm trying to convert the pages into the webtoon/scroll format; however, when i try to copy paste my frame folders, only the frames show up, and not their corresponding layers. how do i fix this?
Make sure to NOT have the "Object" tool selected when copy/pasting a frame folder. If you use the Move Layer tool for example, it will copy everything, not just the frame.
Do you crop the canvas size to the actual size of the comic when exporting for print? Great tutorial tho! I've been looking for a csp comic tutorial, and this is really comprehensive, it helped a lot!
Sorry for the late reply, I must have overlooked this message. I don't crop the canvas size when exporting for print within Clip Studio Paint. I set up the files so that bleed is included (extra art extending beyond the final dimensions, which helps prevent any potential inaccuracies when art extends to the edge of a page and might not be cut cleanly in the printing process). If anything, I tend to cut the canvas size to the final dimensions when exporting for online PDFs or CBRs. Hope that helped answer your question!
What places should I look for that can print out my WEBTOON with nice paper?
If you're in the US, some friends recently used Mixam Print to print their comic and were really happy with the result!
But what are the actual dimensions of the page with or without the borders, gutters, or bleed? I know it can vary, but any example of numbers is better than nothing.
This website gives a pretty good overview of a few common dimensions: makingcomics.spiltink.org/pgtemplates/
Thanks. Excellent tutorial
Glad to hear! :D
i thought your comic size should be 11 x 17? I'm surprised its a4
Different standards in different places. Always a good idea to refer to existing comics as reference on the size you might want; and to check with various printing services whether they are able to work with that size.
this deserves hella views bc it was super helpful! thank you
Thank you!
what about the reverse i want to make my webtoon to be a standar comic
Well it's still possible, but it's more work than the other way around in my experience.
this is really good!! straight to the plot haha like it♥
why does your color sets look like lists?
i've never seen them like that, how do you do it?
great tutorial btw
If you click the little menu icon next to the "Color Set" tab, select the option "View(S)" and then you have new ways of displaying the Color Sets. I'm using "List medium"!
You are a godsend. Thank you for this!!! ❤️
Glad it could help! ^^
My original comic is handdrawn in the regular comic format but i completely overhauled things with the webtoon version. This is much needed 😅
Wow! Thank you so much! Very concise and super pro tips!!
Anyone know if the iPad version has a canvas limit? Mine won’t let me resize the canvas. I’m using 2400x20000 but the 20000 won’t go further to 50000.
I don't have an iPad so I am not sure, but there just might be a limit. In any case, the values I named here are just suggestions, so if you can't stick to them, you will still be fine! ^^
@@simondrawsstuff yo thanks for replying! Yeah I figured it’s the limit, but 20000 is good enough.
👏🏿👏🏿 I forgot what you sounded like! Haha. This is a great tutorial and I love that you created little drawings of yourself and "the student", fits your aesthetic very well!
Glad you liked it! The drawings were a lot of fun to do!
You made a tweet or something a few days ago and I lost it but then I find this video!!! Ur like the first person I’ve seen who does regular pages and reformats for webtoon, thank you!!
Incredibly helpful - many thanks!
Wow... This is so helpful... So basically its possible to edit and arrange both ways .. first comic to webtoon or webtoon to comic... Its just the matter of arrangements... Thank you so much.
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Close but not quite. I'm Austrian.
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Your tutorial helped so much! will definitely like on the clip studio tips site. My question is When setting up an 8.5 x 8.5 page how do I set up the margins and bleeds for the page especially when exporting to amazon.
Thank you! As for your question, I'm afraid I don't know exactly what you mean. By saying you're "exporting to Amazon", are you talking about a Kindle version of the comic?
@@simondrawsstuff to keep it simple how do I set up the correct margins and bleeds on an square comic? Like mouse guard
@@JerryDunhamJr The bleeds will depend on what your printer will want to work with. But 5 mm (0.20 inches) is usually plenty, and even 3 mm (0.12 inches) is enough for most printers I've worked with. For margins, I would suggest at least 0.5 inches on all sides. Depending on the look you want to achieve, you could make it larger, but I wouldn't go over 1 inch as it might limit the space available for the art too much beyond that.
@@simondrawsstuff perfect! Subscribing to your webtoons. Keep up the dope amazing work!
I can´t believe how useful this video was for me. Congrats! you have won a new sub.
i already did my frame folder and copy/paste but cant put in the webtoon format please help me i got lost and i dont know what to do....
I'm not sure I understand which part exactly you're struggling with. Is it setting up the webtoon format for a new file? Or do you mean it's not copying your frame folder to the other file?
@@simondrawsstuff the part am struggling is to but the comic page panels into the webtoon page i have. i think everything you said in your video select frame folder copy/paste put nothing happens and cant paste it into the webtoon canvas
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Separate layers is going to crash and burn my phone but it's the best option tbh
this channel is underrated
keep it up dude, this was super helpful
Which kind of apps can I use?
I recommend using Clip Studio Paint, as shown in the video.
Great forward-thinking tutorial.
Man, thank you for this video!
Awesome video, thank you!
I'm considering making my comics in webtoon format first, than later on, edit it into print format once I have enough of an audience. Would anyone recommend that? I feel it's easier to work in webtoon because if you make a mistake with paneling (Too short a panel, pacing is too fast, or you rushed and now the pacing is bad), you can just easily add another panel or change it in webtoon format, but that's just me feeling and thinking.
Anyone with experience working the other way around and vice versa or just wanna post their thoughts on this, I would love to heard it.
I worked that way for chapter 2 of Weirdogs. All I can say is that I had a much harder time rearranging the webtoon version into print pages, than I did vice versa.
Though, if you don't care about having an elaborate and typical page layout, and are okay with doing something loose (with lots of unused white space) like Lore Olympus did for their print version, then this approach can work. I just personally prefer the look of typical page layouts and it's pretty much going to impossible to replicate that look when you start out with webtoon focused layouts.
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4:47 okay can you PLEASE tell me how you pasted text directly from google docs? Even after slowing the video down I can't figure out how you did it. I was always told that you could paste text to Clip directly, so I'm very confused. Step by step instructions please, I am a desperate fool. T^T
Hey! What I've done is:
1. Create a template text layer with the default font size I want for my entire comic.
2. Copy this text layer for each speech bubble I want on the page.
3. Select final speech bubble text in Google Docs.
4. Press Ctrl+C
5. Select template speech bubble text in Clip Studio Paint
6. Press Ctrl+V
7. Format text (add line breaks, adjust position, add bold or italic text, etc)
(Repeat steps 3-7 for each speech bubble on the page
Hope that helps! If there's a more direct way to copy text over, I'm not aware of it.
@@simondrawsstuff Oh shoot thank you! I didnt get a notification that you replied so sorry for replying late!
how did you copy and paste from Google doc to clip studio?
I just select each line of dialogue individually, press CTRL+C, select the template text in one of the text boxes that I made multiples of in Clip Studio and press CTRL+V. I hope that clears it up, if not, let me know!
Hey there! Thanks for the video, it was very useful. I had a question about DPI - on webtoon it suggests a DPI of 72 or more, but I'm guessing 72 won't be good enough for print. Do you have any suggestions on what is a good DPI to use? Thank you! :D
For print, especially color comics, 300 DPI is the standard. If you're just doing a black and white manga style piece, I have also seen 600 DPI recommended.
@@simondrawsstuff Great! Thank you very much :)
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Great tutorial!
Thank you!
Did you use clip studio paint or clip studio comic for this?
I used Clip Studio Paint Pro!
@@simondrawsstuff Do you also recommend doing this with Krita too or mainly Clip Studio?
@@simondrawsstuff Actually, what would be your advice for someone who (let's say) does a webtoon now, but is not sure if they want to make it in print in the future (but they're highly considering it?)
@@spydertyler7572 I'm not familiar with Krita. If it's a better option for you personally due to the familiarity or the price, it might be worth to considering choosing it over Clip Studio. Make sure to also check if there's tutorials available for doing the stuff you would like to do in Krita, as having easily accessible help and guidance can be a very important factor.
@@spydertyler7572 If you are already doing a webtoon and are highly considering printing it, I would recommend to start as soon as you can with making stuff for print first and for webtoon second. It's much easier to rework from a regular page to a webtoon than it is the other way around. Even if you were to end up not printing your current webtoon after all, it would still be a valuable way to learn how to prepare things with print in mind and it might come in useful in any future projects.
How has this channel not exploded? This is so informative! Thank you!
I made a painterly background a ton of details details while working in the graphic novel format, only to realize realized that it doesn't work well for my webtoon lol. The details make everything pixelated and blurry. So keep your mind on that compromise too. Don't be like me~
Whats a good actual paper size to then scan and efit into a vertical scroll manga?
Honestly, if you're working with analogue media but plan on having the finished product be a vertical scroll manga, I don't think it makes a lot of difference which paper size you're using. Just make sure to scan it at a high DPI (600 for smaller paper sizes, at least 300 for larger paper sizes).
I would try avoiding larger paper sizes so you're not tempted to add in more complex panels. You could maybe even pick a small notepad size paper actually, and think about each sheet of paper as a single panel that you can then stitch together as a vertical scroll.
Those are just ideas and suggestions - I haven't created a vertical scroll that started out with analogue media, so I'm not speaking from experience.
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