So i want to draw comics.
Where do i start? What are useful ressorcues to learn? What apps should i use? Are there special comic drawing apps or is any drawing app sufficient enough?
I have already an android tablet with a pen. I can also buy those graphic tablets for pc but my budget would be tight.
I am, and have always been, an untrained hobbyist. Back in the day I just used pencil and paper.
Nowadays I use GIMP and a Microsoft Surface tablet, but I still do most things pretty manually. I never really bothered to find fancy solutions for panels, speech bubbles, text, and so on. It suits my needs.
So that means you do your own panels, speech bubbles etc… Do you always them from scratch or do you have a own made template where you copy your bubbles?
I have a couple things templated, like a vertical page that fits on a phone screen with a few panels already outlined. Otherwise it’s from scratch.
Templates are boring anyway. Part of the fun of comics is using different shapes, sizes, and positions for panels/bubbles in ways that help tell a story.
On that note I must also plug Scott McCloud’s books, they really helped me see all the tools at my disposal.