I must Copy'n Paste good tid-bits of advice here, to remind myself and others. Thank you Bsky.
Thid is my favourite from Kelly, showing how deeply the racing the bottom is taken for granted. Applys to self-help books and the how-to book industry complex too! It applies to all industry complexes when they forget the first part.
Also if you're doing a colour webcomic/comic (maybe just for webcomics haha), each panel doesn't have to be rendered, you can leave it as flats! Save yourself the time and don't make it hard for yourself!
April 27, 2024 at 8:28 PM
I also wanna add to this cause I was told these lies early on-
NO, your comic doesn't have to be in color to be seen as ✨professional✨
NO, your comic doesn't have to be in color to even be published!
Pros should never be telling budding comickers "do only this or u suck" kind of advice!!
April 27, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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As much as there are supportive peers who wanna see you make your idea,
there's also UNSUPPORTIVE peers in comics who try to tell younger artists "exactly what to do" cause they are trying to put you through the wringer and burn out fast so you're no longer competition for them 💀
if anyone ever tells you to fully fckn render every panel of your comic in order to "sell it better, audiences enjoy color more"- RUN
Someone tell'n you to do a fck ton of color work, not hire help and then smack talk others to make a project sound cooler? DO NOT WORK FOR THEM
it's taken me so long to color like I do cause I'm colorblind!!! I was REALLY bad with colors and shading digitally when I started a decade ago making my first comic, I opted for greyscale and color key story moments!-
You can get pages done FASTER without color! (its obvs not a race too)
If the no one on the crew has kids/spouses/mortgages/experience, they’re either the kind of place that only wants to employ hungry young people with no responsibilities at home who are ready to work any amount of unpaid overtime, or they’re the kind of place experienced people know not to work for.
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Honestly yeah. If all you’re hiring is people that are fresh out of college or haven’t had non-art jobs, one could say that’s pretty much just feeding wood into a woodchipper as far as how much those workers will get taken advantage of
So many studios in Toronto have like, one keyframe animator or programmer or whatever, and then a stable of 30 unpaid interns making all the assets and stuff
April 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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And as soon as that internship turns into a year of experience, it’s time for the new interns to start, so they don’t really spend a dime on that line change