To create a webtoon, it is not enough to know how to draw. Creating a webcomic can be difficult, and the starting process is different for everyone. Here are some tips to keep in mind when launching your first webtoon:
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1. Define an artistic style
Having an established art style does a number of things. Your artistic style is practically your signature. By establishing a defined art style to use to create your webtoon, readers will recognize you, the creator, from your art. Establishing a consistent art style throughout your comic will generate a more positive rating from readers. You don’t want to start and end with a specific art style
in a different art style in the middle or end of your comic. This can be unsettling and put off readers.
However, there is a difference between having a consistent art style and improving your art style. As an artist, if you constantly work on your art, it will inevitably improve and create changes in webtoon art, and that’s okay. In fact, readers recognize it and applaud creators more in these cases.
2. Know your platforms
Before creating panels for your comic (or having too much ready to change without starting over), research the platforms you plan to publish your webcomic on. Each webcomic platform has different requirements in terms of panel size, resolution, and other technical points. Each webcomic platform also caters to different audiences, which ties into the following tip.
3. Know your audience
During your selection, decide on which platform you want to publish your comic, for which audience you want to create your comic, or for which audience corresponds to the readership of your already created comic. For example, if your comic is a stylized love comic from a Korean webtoon, Comixology might not be a platform you would try to publish your comic on. Instead, webtoons or tapas might be better options.
Also try to narrow down your target audience. Broader might be better in some cases, but in this case a narrow audience means an audience that searches and cares about the type (genre, theme, theme, style, etc.) of the comic you’re creating. They are more likely to stay and stay longer.
4. Have you built the story yet?
One of the challenges creators sometimes face is coming up with a story they can/want to work on. On average, it takes a few years and at least a year to complete a webtoon with a plot. Therefore, you must:
Create a comic about something you like or find interesting so creating web comics isn’t too much of a chore. Otherwise, the purpose of pursuing a career you love is defeated.
Draft the story before you start drawing. This can be in the form of notes or a storyboard, scripted dialogue and action, prose in narrative format, or any other form you find useful for charting the story in the comic.
You don’t always have to follow the plot as you draw and post each episode online, but it can help you along the way. And if you’re lucky enough to be approached by a publishing platform, at least you’ll have something finished or partially finished to show them the direction your comic will take.
Instead of just diving in and drawing something, then posting it online, consider these tips to start developing your own webcomic more easily.
