TZH Webcomic Tutorial by Ashwings

Hey everyone! Have a tutorial! Enjoy!
It's pretty big...so it may take a while to load^^ I cover everything...I think. Yes.

It takes me, on average, 6-8 hours to make a strip. Sometimes longer because I can be REALLY picky with certain things, especially with the line-art. So it varies-- also this had a far less complicated background, so that cuts down time considerably!

The Zombie Hunters ©JennyRomanchuk
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Given 2009-02-13

If you have ever wanted to create your own web comic page,or feel you need guidance is this creative process,thenTZH Webcomic Tutorial by `Ashwings is for you.This extremely detailed tutorial will guide you step-by-step through this members process to create a professional looking comic page.Although a little experiance in photoshop is required,there are still many techniques included in this tutorial that I am sure will inspire you. Thank you for sharing. ( Featured by znow-white )

darkcandlelight Featured By Owner Jun 21, 2016 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you so much! This helps a lot! :D (Big Grin)

Ditster Featured By Owner May 1, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Whoa!!! It took so much steps, i cant imagine how patient you are! By the way Thank you for The Tut! It helps me a lot to learn about making cool comic!

Ringelotta Featured By Owner Oct 19, 2015 Professional General Artist

very nice thank you

zoven Featured By Owner Oct 19, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Very nice. Ill fav this for reference thanks so much for doing this. ^^

legoland99 Featured By Owner Aug 4, 2013

<3 I love your work ,and I open your site everyday ,I'm thinking to buy the first book , I got to try all those programs XD

xVentusXCrytsalx Featured By Owner Dec 9, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

WELL.... to my idiotic mind with computers that looks HARD..... but that is cooll.... i love your comics...:3

bibicachan Featured By Owner Jun 3, 2012

very helpfull

Ahkward Featured By Owner May 30, 2012 Professional Traditional Artist

Wow! Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial!

xFeatheredFury Featured By Owner May 21, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

This tutorial helped me SO much! I'm beginning to draw a comic digitally and I had absolutely no idea how to put speech marks in, and this really helped! ^^

Once again, THANKS! 8D

Ashwings Featured By Owner Jul 31, 2012 Digital Artist

You're welcome!

FlamingPickles Featured By Owner Mar 19, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

You and your comic are amazing, I just started reading it, and then stumbled across this tutorial. Wow.

Ashwings Featured By Owner Mar 28, 2012 Digital Artist

Glad you are liking it n__n

TheRainbowRanger Featured By Owner Jan 3, 2012 Hobbyist

_{What kind of scanner do you own?}

Ashwings Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2012 Digital Artist

I own a Epson Perfection V200 Photo

TheRainbowRanger Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2012 Hobbyist

_{Thank you Now I shall save the little money I have and buy one!}

TheRainbowRanger Featured By Owner Jan 3, 2012 Hobbyist

_{Oops, nevermind. I just noticed it in the tut.}

melsr007 Featured By Owner Nov 27, 2011 Hobbyist

WOW!!!!!!!!!

Nice

Prannke Featured By Owner Jul 4, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I love you <3
Did this technique for my first college graphics course intro assignment! It was a bit (make that A LOT) more shading than my lazy self ususally does by such nice work. I have been a fan for years and hope that my little cartoons can become HALF as good compared to yours one day.

ApocalypticAya Featured By Owner Jun 22, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Thank you so muck for this ^0^''

Vipera8 Featured By Owner Jun 5, 2011

molto brava!

demonprince102 Featured By Owner May 4, 2011

awesome

VendettaHex33 Featured By Owner Apr 26, 2011

This is great! I like all the advice.

warthogrampage Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I'd never thought to use Poser in this way. Thanks for the tips

Raidell Featured By Owner Jan 17, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Very nice! Your tips are really good.

noiselessness Featured By Owner Jan 5, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

Fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing your expertise. I couldn't even imagine trying to figure all this out on my own!

Faylinn-Night Featured By Owner Jan 5, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Oh my gosh. This is amazing! That you for taking time to give us a few pointers in this area. Seriously. :'D I'm just beginning to maul over the idea of making a comic, but I have no idea where to start. It's a bit overwhelming. There's so many things you can do! I was actually dreading the idea of having to ink every panel I drew (I'm a sucker for traditional art and royally suck at inking digitally), but you've shown me that pencil art can work for line art just as well!

Now I really need to save up so I can afford Painter. I got to play around with Painter11 for a bit when I first got my tablet two years ago. It was amazing. I was sad when my trial expired. D:

Poser looks like an amazing program! Where did you get it? I guess I could look that up myself, huh? If it cost money, i sure hope it doesn't cost that much. Heh.

Aside from all of that, I love your art style. That I do. wonderful work!

Ashwings Featured By Owner Jan 10, 2011 Digital Artist

I have poser 8 for the Mac right now, it's not over the top expensive as far as programs go, I got mine from amazon! [link]
If you are still in school and are in an artistic field you can get discounts on software

ElwenAldalinde Featured By Owner Nov 24, 2010

This is a great resource! I'll have to try that trick with just scanning in the pencils

Inking can be so tedious...

wunleebuxton Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2010

Quite awesome tutorial of how to build up a comic

, thanks, it's great for composition ideas.

LeafOfSteel Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2010 Professional General Artist

Thanks for that. A lot of useful tips. I coule NEVER be so organized. Umm... maybe THAT'S why I never succeed in making comics...

PintofAl Featured By Owner Nov 10, 2010 Hobbyist Artist

Great help! Can't wait to use for my own comic. Now if I can just get zombie shading right lol

Marbelyra Featured By Owner Aug 16, 2010

Awesome tutorial! <3 I may use it as a ref in the near future to begin my own webcomic. <3 Thank you! And your work is amazing!

AlexGhost Featured By Owner Aug 8, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Awesome tutorial. :3

Daelinn Featured By Owner Aug 1, 2010 Student General Artist

Can I just say that I love you? xD

Ashwings Featured By Owner Aug 2, 2010 Digital Artist

Daelinn Featured By Owner Aug 2, 2010 Student General Artist

I'm gonna take that as an "I can." haha.

Cyric23 Featured By Owner Jul 22, 2010 Student General Artist

So this is how you draw lips!

Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial!!!

JunBowman Featured By Owner Jul 20, 2010 Student General Artist

This was very helpful. Thank you.

CaseyCorrupted Featured By Owner Jul 6, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Single handedly the BEST comic tutorial I've ever read. I've been searching for a great tutorial as I'm going to be making a webcomic with a friend of mine. . . and this is what I needed.

Now I can finally get started instead of putting off such an intimidating task.

Thank you so much!

Ashwings Featured By Owner Jul 7, 2010 Digital Artist

I'm glad you found it useful!

You're welcome!

pearlshatz Featured By Owner Jul 6, 2010

Great tutorial, I found it easy to follow and fun to read.

FactionFighter Featured By Owner Jul 3, 2010

This is really helpful! Especially the part about how you do speech bubbles. Thats been on my mind for a veeeery long time, and i couldnt find a good way, so thanks! Keep up the awesome work ^^