An aspiring manga comic or webcomic artist’s struggle – lack of resources

November 16, 2009 by r2moo2
Filed under: Manga Journey

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/*Update 18 Nov 2009*/
I was messing around with the themes again, and found that comic press is just too cramped in my opinion. Probably Comic Press wasn’t a good idea at all for me.

Sorry for the constant changes these days.
/*End of Update*/

What’s really difficult for an aspiring manga comic or webcomic artist? You do not know where to start from.

This has happened to me before, and on many occasions up to know, the lack of resources continues to try to haunt me relentlessly.

There are too few success stories to learn from, and noone’s giving good advice into how to start their own manga comic or webcomic saga.

Even right now, I am still learning the ropes as I go along, and I pretty guess there are many out there who are lacking in resources.

An aspiring manga comic or webcomic artist’s struggle – lack of resources

Now what do I mean by the lack of resources?

It basically means the lack of means to start or continue on your goals.

There are several resources that are needed for a webcomic artist to fulfill his goal, I will list the more common ones that we all generally lack:

1. Knowledge of how to promote your webcomic in the Internet and increase exposure to the crowd.

2. Knowledge of how to make money from your webcomic, or monetizing your webcomic.

3. Computer skills of how to design a good website: knowledge of important programming languages.

4. Knowledge of how to engage first-time visitors at your webcomic site.

5. Knowledge of how to use graphic editing software like Photoshop, Corel Painter or GIMP well.

And many more.

Last but not least, is the lack of experience that many of us suffer from. That’s why knowing some experienced folks in webcomic forums is important for any aspiring webcomic or manga comic artist.

So generally, the above points are some issues that has to be tackled, along with knowing how to draw and illustrate well in our webcomics.

A webcomic artist’s challenge

We must realize by now that drawing well isn’t the way to popularity in the Internet.

The Internet is wide and huge, and only those who are able to present their website and their webcomics well to the world will truly make it amongst the thousands of other webcomics online.

Hence for the webcomic artist, not only he faces the challenge of drawing well and fast, but also having enough computer and Internet knowledge to spread his webcomic through the Internet.

Final words for this post

In future posts I hope to share some knowledge of how I overcome some of these issues, and to share them with the readers.

I actually started a mini-webcomic on myself recently, but I took them down. That’s because it makes this blog look really messy, and I might just look for an alternative to post up some mini-webcomics to practice on illustrations.

It was just stick figures webcomics, as I am not willing to reveal my manga character prototypes online.

So till further next time, I will announce again if I restart my mini-comics of myself.

Stay tuned for further updates!

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