To all the Comic Artists, how did you first start off?

[ColeDX]

So yeah, just wondering, if you're making a Web Comic and you're really into it right now, how did you first start off?

Why did you choose to make a WebComic? What made you decide to make a WebComic? How much of an amateur were you when you first started drawing?

Just a freebish conversation, not looking for advice or anything like that

[robybang]

I started out doing sprite comics because a friend on a forum was doing one, so I decided to do one too. After a while, I got tired of scrounging the internet for the perfect background image or prop I wanted (I can custom sprite, but it takes a while). And if I was going to those lengths just to get what I wanted, I figured I might as well just draw everything. I did a CYOA for another forum and put it up on SJ. You can see how shaky my lineart was at the time on it, but by the third year, I got better. I eventually gave that up and did a Nuzlocke and a original comic strip that I have printed in the school paper. I'm currently taking a double major in art so I can improve my artistic ability.

[RyoSoulreaper]

Started Spriting like 4 years ago and got tired of it. I would spend hours trying to make shit look nice to no avail and thought life would be easier if I learned how to draw better then I already did.

And here I am. Not one Drawn comic worth a damn to my name yet.

[ColeDX]

I started off with a sprite comic too It was a Pokemon Sprite though, made a custom story and everything with it. It was then I decided to get more into making better Manga Web Comics. So, on my birthday, I got a drawing Tablet. A Bamboo Pen I started remaking the Pokemon comic into a Manga comic, but after a while, it didn't go so well as I thought it'd be. So I practiced on drawing Manga and put Pokemon Nano on a little Hiatus Now I'm working on opening a new Web Comic I'm serious about, got pre skteches and everything, just need to plot a little more

[blankd]

Started a webcomic because I sure as hell wasn't getting anywhere trying to do it traditionally. (I'd recently gotten a tablet.)

[H0lyhandgrenade]

I liked comics a bit as a kid, Calvin and Hobbes mostly. Then as a teen I came across mangas for the first time, Gravitation I think it was (yeah, I know...) and was totally blown away. Comics for adults!! With such different, pretty art! AND WITH GIRLY GUYS IN IT WHO KISS!! Scandalous. So I decided to make my own crappy BL and started uploading it here, and no one read it (for good reason). Things have changed a bit since then, mind.

[Wulfmune]

I've been drawing long story comics since I was 11, had some small publications when I was in my early 20s...and I just started my first real webcomic this year. I'm so behind the times...

It's something I started as "fun" while other projects were on wait. I wanted something fresh to get back into the grind, and jumped into something based on a dream. Its taken over my life for the last 3 months >__>

[TerminalMontage]

I started with sprite comics.

[TennoujiSaki]

Actually, I'm starting today. Just making a temporary banner and cover page, and only uploading the first 2 pages of manuscript at the moment.
I decided to start a webcomic, since it's a good way to publish something. And I think this is a good way to develop myself on manga.

[uglyfun]

The long version:
Waaaay back in the day I fell in love with a show called Invader Zim, did some research and found out that the creator of the show had started off in underground comics... ordered his comics (which were so not appropriate for 12-year-old me, but whatcha gonna do), and started drawing my own!

6 years later, went to art school... still there 8D

Junior year, took a comics class with an amazing professor who really inspired me to improve my craft in every way.

Summer after junior year, took a year-long job in California with uh, a massive entertainment conglomerate *cough* and started to develop comic/cartoon characters in my free time. Summer after that, applied to my dream internship at an animation studio and got it. While I was there developed a storyboard for the characters I had been designing, and a world & personalities for them. Presented it to the dudes at the studio and got really good feedback on it.

Back at school in fall, took an independent study with the professor from my junior year and developed a new "episode" of adventures for those characters and turned it into a 27-page comic!

This past winter, started posting it on the internet and called it a webcomic. 8D Currently making the next arc/episode. :'D

The short version:
I LIKE DRAWIN COMIX <3

[Guildadventure]

I draw comics for hobby since almost 2 decades, have a few episodes of a personal comic too but never tried something serious with them, until a friend told me to do a serious comic with him and publish it online and later in paper. So we started a comic based in something popular and that we both like: monster hunter.

That was about 4-5 months ago, we have 3 chapters now and the comic is less and less Monster hunter and more and more our own world XD.

But i must add myself to the I JUST LIKE TO DRAW

[Nymine]

Stories and story telling has always been a big thing in my family. Besides being read stories and collecting books for the fun of it, one of the major past times was making up stories and seeing how long we could go with them. Among the five of us, I was easily the worst at that past time. So I made it my goal to get a story published and have living testament to my improvement. It's always been more natural for me to draw pictures, so comic making hooo!

I chose web comics a couple years ago, because I wanted to see what other people would think of the wacky stuff that's come out of my head. And the experience has been exactly what I was looking for. I've learned a great deal. Like how much I didn't know when I started, how much planning it really takes and the super duper importance of buffers and schedules. I even finished a comic that I'm definitely going to revisit later when I've got a better plan for it. One of these days, I think I'll be ready to put together a pitch or something self-publishy depending on the means of the time. or something.

[erase]

I've loved comics all my life.

I've had internet acess most of my life.

Hence webcomics.

I have probably been doing webcomics longer than most people here, since the first thing I remember posting anywhere, I was like 8. 10 years of webcomicking woo.

I've done done traditional, sprites, digital.

Original creations, fancomics.

In english and portuguese.

Writing and drawing, writing for an artist, drawing for a writer.

For fun, for atention, to impress a boy, to impress a girl, for art, for my friends and for myself.

Course, I've only been serious about it for 4 years.

*smokes old man pipe*

[Mr. Henry]

As a kid, I liked writing and generally coming up with stories, and I also loved drawing. Long story short, manga gave me a direction and the internet gave me a place to throw my ideas to. This project is actually the second comic to go online, the first was more of a prototype that went unfinished. I still consider where I am now as "starting off" though.

[DragonHat]

I really loved comics when i was a kid. I was obsessed with garfield, calvin and hobbes, and farside. I also liked superheros, mainly spider-man. In my tweenage years I branched out into manga, I liked the stories but I always felt like they were missing something! Or they were too predictable. So many ended the same way!!

after getting mad at mangos for oh so long, i figured, hey! i have a slight ability to draw, and i know what i want to do with these stories, so I started writing scripts and drawing characters.

and that's pretty much how it went!