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Eileen Fairchild
Her current outfit in the comic!! She’s a magic fencer who specializes in burst attacks. Maybe has knives on her at all times.
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Wednesday Webcomics: "Solstoria"
Solstoria by Angélica María
Solstoria by Angélica María contains a balance of humor and suspense while never straying from the heart of its story. It’s a webcomic that spins a tale about finding yourself and cherishing the unexpected friends you encounter during your journey.
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#Angélica María#fantasy#hiveworks#ongoing#ongoing webcomic#puerto rican creator#solstoria#wednesday webcomics
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🌟 Embark on an enchanting journey with Solstoria! 🌟
Follow the tale of a young girl who sets out to become a knight when her brother mysteriously vanishes. She's on a quest to discover the world's wonders and, hopefully, forge lifelong friendships that'll aid her along the way!
Read Solstoria by Angélica María (@charmwitch) New updates every Wednesday!
https://www.solstoria.net/
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Have you read SOLSTORIA yet? You should!
@charmwitch is the creator! ;)
#liveblogging#webcomics#solstoria#hiveworks#check her out! :D#the Solstoria anniversary is coming up o this is a great opportunity to catch up!#fantasy#knights#lady knights
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It's 5:30 and I need to go to bed soon, so obviously the smart thing to do is to finally start reading Solstoria,
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I swear to God
#crow#crow professor layton#solstoria#these spot the difference games are just fucking impossible now wtf
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Doodlin’ Alhena from @charmwitch ‘s Solstoria!
I’ve been meaning to catch up with the comic for such a long time now, and I finally sat down to devour it all in one sitting @w@;;; It’s really cute with a colorful cast and a twist on magic in the world it takes place in! I’m glad I get to keep up with updates now!
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Lettering in Webcomics - a Reference Post
Imagine you have finished the perfect artwork for the latest update for your webcomic. You feel so proud about it you want to hang it on your wall. You want to post it immediately! You want everyone to see it! But before you can do that, you need to add dialogue between your characters.
And that’s where you get stuck. No matter where you place the speech balloons, you’re covering too much of your drawing. It all looks badly placed. You accidentally make a speech balloon that goes from side to side of the frame. It’s a major disaster! What did just happen and how can you avoid it? Let’s answer those questions now.
The charm about comics and webcomics is that they’re a combination of text and images. It’s true its main strength is the fact the reader can look at the art depicted, but a webcomic is never complete without dialogue or text.
However, filling your webcomic to the brim with text and dialogue is not how webcomics work. It’s rare to find the exception to these rules, such as Homestuck, and even then it’s only because of the difference in format. It’d be tedious to read a webcomic that has paragraph after paragraph crammed in a single frame!
As if all that wasn’t enough, you also have to remember that if you place the text badly, it’ll make the reader overlook the art you worked so hard on or even get confused, cardinal sins in this type of work. If you strive to be a webcomic author, you must understand how to place dialogue and text properly. That’s what this post is here for! Here are some handy tips that will allow your webcomic’s text shine without sacrificing anything in the process!
GREAT! WHERE DO I START?
Not so fast, enthusiastic creator! Lettering isn’t something you add in the end. You need to plan this carefully from the beginning. Webcomics are a visual medium, and that’s a double-edged sword. You can communicate a lot through art, but there’s not much space for dialogue unless you plan carefully from the very start. You can’t clutter the page with line after line after line!
That’s why, before starting to draw the page, you need to be aware how much dialogue you’ll have this time. Write it somewhere, analyze how much space you will need. Keep in mind the text is a piece of a larger picture, so to say. You can’t let it overshadow the rest of the page.
I’M DONE PLANNING.
Congratulations on completing the first step! Now you may start drawing. Whether you sketch on paper or digitally doesn’t matter, what matters is that you sketch. Why? Because this way you can plan where you’ll place the speech balloons. It’d be a shame if at the end your dialogue covered too much of the art, this can be easily prevented if you sketch. While you draw, imagine where you may be placing the speech balloon, and avoid drawing too much inside that small area. You also may adjust the size of the frames, leaving enough space for the speech balloons without having to sacrifice part of the art.
So you got your art done! Well done, now place the speech balloon. There are many speech balloons you may use, depending on what you want to communicate.
These are more like guidelines, the most used meanings for these type of speech balloons. You as the author of the webcomic have the liberty to adjust speech balloons according to your style and needs. You could modify speech balloons to make them fit a character. Color, shape, font, all that are qualities you can change according to situations. You’re the one who has the last word on the matter!
---Guilded Age
To keep your speech balloons orderly, try to accommodate the words in the shape of a square. Avoid long lines, occupy as little space as possible with the speech balloon. Make sure the tails are pointing at the character who is speaking. It doesn’t have to touch the character; all it needs to do is point in the general direction the character is at.
Angelica Maria, the author of Solstoria, mentioned this as her usual technique on how to accommodate text inside a speech bubble:
I try to keep the text in a speech bubble looking like a "Square", so for example
"Oh no, I'm being
held accountable
for my actions!"
The middle line can be extended slightly depending on the shape of the bubble. This is just something I keep in mind, it's not something you have to follow to a T or anything. I just want to make the lettering look somewhat good.
Wait, but how to position the speech balloons? Generally, it’ll be better to position them in a way that’ll guide the reader’s eyes in a natural direction – left to right, in other words. Take this for example:
---Girl Genius
See? The speech balloons are positioned in a way it’d be easy for the reader’s eyes to move towards the right. The dialogue always starts on the top left corner and moves either in an arch towards the bottom right corner or in the top and bottom parts of each frame. It’s not a requirement to set your speech balloons this way, but it’ll certainly make it easier for the reader to read!
To put it in a nutshell: as a rule of thumb, remember to direct the balloons placement in a way that leads from left to right or from top to bottom.
Another thing you have to remember and keep in mind if what font you’ll use for your lettering. What kind of font would be the best for your dialogue? Any font that’s legible at small sizes will be good. Maybe Comic Sans would be your first thought because, just as its name says, it was created for comics, and that is because Comic Sans is meant to be readable at small sizes. That doesn’t mean you have to limit yourself to using Comic Sans. There are many other fonts that could be useful to you!
I recommend you take a look at this website. It has many fonts that can be used in the comic book industry, and most of them would be good for your webcomic, no matter the genre. Some are paid fonts, but there are many fonts that are free to use and can be useful to you.
Here, take a look at some fonts you could use! Compare and decide!
Personally, I like how the Back Issues font and the Kid Kosmic font look!
Generally, it’s recommended you use all-caps in the webcomic, as it’ll be easier to read. Most of the fonts you’ll find for comics often only have capital letters, so most of the time you just will have to type without worrying about activating the all-caps function.
I HAVE THE FONT AND THE IMAGE. NOW WHAT?
Open your sketch or finished image in your software of choice. For the purpose of this post, I’ll suppose you have Photoshop. Most software you can use for these purposes have the same basic functions, so it doesn’t really matter.
Create a new layer above your image. This layer will hold the speech bubble itself – the writing will go in a different layer. Don’t start drawing ellipses or circles yet! Instead, write the text you want to use, and place it where you want it to be, and the size you want it to be. If the text tool didn’t automatically create a layer when you used it, manually make a new layer and place the text there. It’s a good idea to have one layer for each speech bubble, don’t lump all speech bubbles in the same layer.
Once you have the text written, you can make the speech bubbles themselves! The quick option would be to use the ellipsis tool and fill it with white color, but the result will end being rather generic. How about you try to draw the speech balloon by yourself? Use a tablet or, if you don’t have one, use the pen tool. It may take some practice, but this should give your webcomic a more professional look.
You don’t have to make the balloons perfectly round. As long as it’s decently round and doesn’t look like something splattered all over your image, you’ll be okay.
Remember to leave some space around your text, though! Constricting your dialogue into a speech balloon smaller than it is not a good idea.
See?
Also, there’s a technique that could make this easier for you. In Photoshop, there’s a special layer effect called ‘stroke’. If you configure it correctly, everything you draw on that layer will be surrounded by an outline. Make sure to configure it so there’s a black border, of two or three pixels wide, and that it’ll be placed externally. Use a brush with a white color to make the speech bubbles, it’ll immediately be outlined, with no additional effort on your part! If you want to recreate these characteristics in new layers without having to open the window again, all you have to do is duplicate the layer while it’s empty. That’ll give the same characteristics to the copied layers!
Those are the basics of speech balloons.
Dialogue isn’t the only text you may use in a webcomic, though. There’s also expository dialogue, like a monologue, thoughts or notes you’re adding to the page, for one reason or another. What to do, then?
---Between Failures
Usually, these are done in these rectangular boxes. These could be considered similar to speech balloons in many ways, and follow many of the tips and rules speech balloons have. When asked, the author of Between Failures said this:
I've only done this two or three times in the entire run of the comic. It's not talking because it would make the character look insane if he monologued out loud to himself for a couple of pages. This is basically just expository narration to set up the premise of the comic in a single page.
How much expository narration is necessary for a webcomic? It’s not like there’s a definite answer to such question or a guideline you need to follow, but it may be worth remembering that webcomics are a visual medium. Sticking to the ‘show, don’t tell’ may be a good choice, since illustrating some of the exposition may help get it across better than text would, with the risk of breaking the pacing a bit. It all depends on the situation, so trust your intuition, ask yourself what you’d like to see!
I UNDERSTAND!
Excellent, I’m glad to hear that.
Oh, right, there’s one thing more you may want to hear about: can you stylize your speech balloons? Give them your own touch? By all means, go ahead! If you feel it’s appropriate for your webcomic and you think it looks good, then experiment all you want. Gauge how the speech balloons look in your webcomic, maybe ask for a few opinions...do everything you can so the end result is something you’re happy with.
It doesn’t have to be anything complicated. Simple measures such as a shadow or a border around your speech balloon can be quite effective to make your webcomic have a distinctive mark to make it stand out from the many, many webcomics available on the Internet.
---Solstoria
I started adding them because I removed the black outline on the bubbles and felt they looked better with a drop shadow and now concrete outline. I also removed the outline of the comic panels of Solstoria in general around that time too! I just did it because I wanted to try something different and I liked how it looked. I know Solstoria isn't highly structured, but I enjoy experimenting with it.
As you can see, speech balloons aren’t something done spontaneously if you want professional results, but the effort will be worth it!
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I hope everything discussed in this post is of some use to you. Good luck to all your endeavors in the field of webcomics!
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Guest Art: Angelica
This week’s guest art is from Angelica!!
I love this piece so much!!! Angelica’s style is so charming and i love the colours… and Nyneve’s determination… and especially PRILL’S BEAUTIFUL FACE!! MY LOVE!
And hey, if you like stories about magical girls and knights you will probably enjoy her gorgeous comic Solstoria, and if you’d like to see more of her art you can check out Angelica on her twitter or tumblr!
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Miss Eileen~
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Paper, lace, moth, and dagger :3c!
(First off, thanks for asking me!! 👌👌)1. [Paper] What are you currently reading?A: (A buncha webcomics, that I shall post!) Alice and the Nightmare, Hazy London, Paranatural, Prague Race, Sufficiently Remarkable, Forgotten Order, Headless Bliss, Lonely Vincent, Agents of the Realm (BIG recommendation it is sooo good), Kiwi Blitz, Ponto, Lilith's Word, Far to the North, Devil's Candy, Monsterkind, Demon Street, Never Satisfied, Oddity Woods, Harpy Gee, Radio Silence, Peritale, Stand Still Stay Silent, Sakana, Solstoria, Three Panel Soul, Johnny Wander, Trying Human, Daughter of the Lilies, and Boumeries!2. [Lace] What kind of clothing do you wear?A: Currently? I'm rocking the baggy t-shirt and jeans rolled up to the knees look for Summer, every other season I'm in a hoodie and jeans. If I could wear something that I wanted to wear (or could afford) I would totally be rockin' the punk rock look 👈😎👈3. [Moth] What do find attractive in a person?A: someone who is good company, someone who can make me laugh, (humor is a big thing for me) I don't have to be a fake me for them and they accept all of me. It doesn't even have to be romantic, I'm usually attracted platonically to people who are relatable and who are a good person. Just don't be an a-hole or be tied to things that could be illegal or hurt other people and I could maybe gravitate to ya! (Plus if you're just casual and chill I'll be more comfortable around you!)4. [Dagger] Tell one secret you have.A: I'm still very much afraid of the dark, I have a paranoia of it, so I keep on a small desk lamp I have on my dresser as a nightlight every night.(Thanks again for asking me these Gabe! 👈😊👈)
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🌟 Embark on a captivating adventure with Solstoria! 🗡️
Meet a young girl determined to become a knight and uncover the mysteries of the world after her brother's disappearance. 🌍 Her journey is filled with new friendships and untold tales of her brother's courage.
Discover the magic of Solstoria by Angélica María (@charmwitch) Join us every Wednesday at https://www.solstoria.net/
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Want to discover a new comic? Just good ol'fashioned webcomics? Some good escapism instead of doomscrolling?
Why not check out these comics? (´,,•ω•,,)
Here are some promos I made for a couple of really awesome comics! Check them out!! (these were not commissioned, it was just for funsies - because they're good comics)
Obelisk draculing
Solstoria @charmwitch
Fairmeadow @hagofbolding
Hazy London @scottycomics
Ghost junk sickness @ghostjunksickness
Phantomarine @phantomarine
Lies within @byelacey
Magical How? @eyugho
Ozzie the vampire @ericlide
The End @skullamity
Daughter of the lilies @bludragongal | @yokoboo
Come hell or high water @chohwcomic
No End @noendcomic | @erlie | @kromitar
Starhammer @jnmonk | HarryBogosian
Tigress Queen @allidrawscomics
The otherknown @longlostlorian
Tripping over you @akasuzana Kickstarter
♥ HIVEWORKS COMICS CATALOUGE
♥ HIVEMILL/SHOP
#comics#webcomics#webcomic#hiveworks#hivework#hiveworks comics#hivework comics#obelisk#ghost junk sickness#hazy london#fairmeadow#lies within#magican how?#ozzie the vampire#phantomarine#daughter of the lilies#starhammer#no end comic#come hell or high water#The end comic#the otherknown#tripping over you#tigress queen#solstoria#no end#the end#comic#comic artist central#comicartistcentral
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/MUFFLED SCREAMING
anyway read Solstoria
#just finished chapter 5 and i'm!!#!!!!!#the characters all have so much personality and charm#the art is so cute and colorful and vivid without sacrificing the story's mood#the world is fascinating and i want to dig into it with both hands#/just rolls in it like a creature#sam's still my favoritest bestest bean but EVERYONE here is so!!!#so!!!!!#/shoves it in my mouth
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Webcomic Recommendations!
These are my faves
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>Monsterkind
Human Social Worker (Wallace) is sent to District C, where the monsters live; nothing is as it seems. Monsters fear humans, because what was done to them is hidden from ‘the public’; and anyone who tries to help them... is dealt with.
>Ava’s Demon
Ava Ire, a young woman, lives in a world that is run by Titan & his followers; attached to her, is a powerful immortal spirit that changes everything. Only she, and those like her, can save the universe... by bringing Titan down.
[Amazing visuals & audio-visual components; author provides warnings prior to any flashing lights or sounds being shown]
>Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Brilliant and hilarious story following the Commander, a man from the future who tries to help video game protagonists (and sometimes the antagonists) exist in our world. Zany escapades and clever adventures every week; as he turns tropes upside down and sort-of adopts a pokemon trainer with a giant gyrados for a son.
>Trying Human
Humanity has known of aliens for a long time, or at least, the government does. Hue, of the Greys, is the protagonist; he has a fascination for Rose, a young woman who is frequently taken for experimentation (though, like all humans, she never quite recalls the event). When her boyfriend becomes a member of the Majestic 12, who keeps the aliens in order... things get messy.
>CASSIOPEIA QUINN
>Hotblood! (Complete)
Centaurs in the Old West. It’s amazing, no words.
[There are NSFW additional comics available for purchase, but nothing in the main story].
>Witchy
In a world where the length of your hair equates the power of your magic, you would think Nyneve had it made. Except, if your hair is too long, you get burnt to death... unless, you take things into your own hands.
>Monsterpop!
Follow George, a cyclops, as she navigates college for the first time amongst other monsters and humans. She encounters a mixed mess of people, has the world surprise and disappoint her... the most relatable ghoul out there.
>Wildelife
Oscar Wilde, a writer, moves to Podunk (Oklahoma) in search of something he can’t define. What he doesn’t anticipate is the amount of supernatural chaos he is immediately mired in; including an ethereal roommate, his not-friend werewolf, the young witch he meets, and his pregnant neighbours whose dearest daughter is not so departed...
>Sister Claire
Young Claire is part of an ancient Sisterhood who practice Nunfu in preparation to fight the witches that threaten the world amongst other supernatural threats. She’s not great at it. In fact, everyone is suspicious as to her nature, given all the witch-like signs that follow her... and then an angel comes flying out of the toilet to let her know... she’s about to become the Holy Mother. Things only become more tangled, exciting, and chaotic from there.
(Complex array of characters of all kinds, amazing story, and so many popculture references... also there’s a dildo on the holy altar, try to spot it.)
>Love Not Found
Humans live amongst the star on different planets, they bioform to meet the planets’ environments (which makes switching between them a heck of an adjustment, as our protagonist Abeille finds out!). Humans can do everything technologically, and this has... led to one unfortunate side effect; no one makes actual physical contact anymore, let alone... anything more intimate.
A casual, accidental touch changes everything for Abeille; except pursuing her need for contact makes her quite the deviant.
>ZombieRoomie
George the Zombie, & his human roommate John, move through a ridiculously zany series of adventures that get more complex and awesome as the story progresses. Many monster friends & enemies appear along the way; and then... the world learns about zombies, chaos ensues.
>Daughter of the Lilies
>Oglaf (rather nsfw)
Sometimes a series of stories, but mostly hilarious weekly comics.
>Far to the North
>Cindersong
>The Automan’s Daughter
>Zoophobia (hiatus, currently, but AMAZING)
Cameron Walden, a guidance counsellor, is given a mysterious job assignment; except, no one told her exactly where it was going to be, or... that she could never leave. Welcome to the Zoo Phoenix Academy, in a world apart from our own; where aliens don’t exist, but animals, supernatural creatures and giant talking cheetahs do!
...too bad she had a bit of a phobia about animals...
>Monstrous
>Mare Internum (Trigger Warning: Suicidal Ideation & Attempt like Pg 1)
>Knights Errant
>Riven Seal
>The Last Diplomat
>Blackgrass
>Sharksplode
>Solstoria
>The Mash
>Stand Still. Stay Silent.
>Starfighter (Occasional NSFW)
Humanity lives and fights alien threats in space. Each fighter plane has a fighter, and a navigator; both classes are kept separate except for training in simulators or in battle, that’s how it is. Fighters are tough, brutal; navigators are seen as intelligent, gentle. No one has a real name, they are assigned paired codenames.
Abel, a navigator, is provided to fighter Cain; for an experiment that only one is aware of. [INITIAL QUESTIONABLE CONTENT].
>The Black Brick Road
>Not Drunk Enough
>Mages of Mystralia
>BLINDSPRINGS
>The Night Belongs to Us
Hank is having a bad day. She was bitten by a werewolf in a random attack, and left without a guide; thankfully, here’s a department for that. Unusually, her saviour (a Vampire named Ada) is assigned as her supernatural mentor... and that’s where the fun starts.
>PARANATURAL
(I actually have yet to read this one, but the few bits I’ve seen are amazing).
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~*Comic Sites to find your own new Faves*~
>HIVEWORKS
>Tapastic
>SmackJeeves
>Comic Rocket
#comics#i only put in a few descriptions for the ones i've re-read a dozen times between updates#i'd hate to undersell one of my favourites
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