I need advice about translating a book idea to a comic or manga. I'm kinda lost in how to start creating designs for my characters. I have lots of ideas that seem like it would need to be illustrated for it to come across well, and when I imagine the story taking place, it needs to be illustrated. However, I can't get started, how do I start to create this?
Also, I want to one day put my story on the internet, is there a place to do that?
Try reading a similar manga/ comic to the one that you would like to create, then try to voice it into a novel. Do that with yours, but in reverse. :)
Try reading a similar manga/ comic to the one that you would like to create, then try to voice it into a novel. Do that with yours, but in reverse. :)
I see what you mean, thank you
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Raina Telgemier makes GREAT comics.
What I do is I take a sentence like, "Otis played with his hair as he faced Sarah, his crush. 'H-hi', he said, blushing." and I draw a boy facing a girl, a speech bubble, and hi playing with his hair and blushing. Descriptions such as, "The silence was amazing, because he never had any" are a bit trickier, but you could have your character think them, or simple put them in a box below the panel.
Fair point. I also struggle with character design in general. I can't figure out how to start creating a new character's look, or my art style in general.
I'm doing this… Trust me the hardest thing is how to portray time and space. What you should do, is have something in each panel guide the viewer's eye to the next panel, so it becomes easier to read along.
You can use clocks in the background, shadows, or the Sun's position to portray time, and corners, dutch angles, and agsin, shadows to portray space.