I really like random D20 tables of little character details and flavour accents - it only takes a couple of small details to make a character feel unique.
I really like random D20 tables of little character details and flavour accents - it only takes a couple of small details to make a character feel unique.
As a more general thing about these comics.:
I’ve been drawing comics for a pretty long time, and I’ve always aimed for a mostly stand-alone format where every strip has a joke by itself, and you don’t need to read anything else to understand them - with the content being a mix of bad jokes I’ve written, and nerdy stuff.
Over those years I’ve gone through multiple DnD parties, and characters, and generally I’ve used whichever characters I’m currently playing as a vehicle to tell DnD jokes, or I’ve made comics about funny moments in those campaigns - as such, I never really intended these comics to “tell a story” from one comic to the next, just to be individual funnies.
I try to make them “context free” so you can enjoy the joke in one strip without seeing the others, but sometimes when I need incedental dialogue (i.e. not directly part of the joke) I might make allusions to or reference things from the campaign, just to add a little depth to the characters for people following along and reading everything - That’s why I feel comfortable posting them to a “memes” community, there’s an individual gag in each one, and something to chat about, so I don’t feel bad about posting them.
That was the plan at least - the most recent Konsi comics (while they all have a gag in them individually) work a lot better as an ongoing story.
Your comics are great and I’m always thrilled when a new one pops up on the feed. :)
Do you draw your comics on paper and color with pencils? I don’t think I’ve ever seen coloring it shading like that before.
I do.
I use Bristol board for paper (an expensive super smooth super white heavy paper). Bristol board is very durable, so you can erase pencil work without leaving any marks.
I use a mechanical 2H pencil for sketching, because it’s very hard, if leaves fairly faint, erasable marks.
I use pigment liners to ink the black lines - these are disposable technical drawing pens, they produce a very consistent line in permanent black ink. They’re often referred to as Microns, as they are a popular brand- but I use Derwent Graphik and Mitsubishi Uni-Pin
I use coloursoft pencils for shade. Coloursoft pencils are a high wax acrylic pencil that puts down a LOT of vibrant colour very fast. This is great for comics. They also sharpen to a very sharp point. The downside of coloursofts is that they don’t blend well.
Then I scan, and tweak digitally.