Another chapter

The comics title is 'Coffee Please'

In the last article I posted the first 8 pages

here are the next pages

Another comics

 8 pages, for this new comics ... and this time there is a nice start and a possible story!

Making comics with canva

A while ago, I did a little experiment with canva 

and created a 3 pages comics using MidJourney

https://blogmymix.blogspot.com/2022/12/first-step-with-midjourney.html

Today, I wanted to try if I could do it again and here is the result

It must be super difficult to work in this office ...

First steps with Midjourney

https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/recent/

To get into Midjourney, I followed this nice video from PromptMuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdE_h-xjMPs&t=50s

These settings are very important:

and Generated this 3 pages comics for fun on canva.com

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFVkcVC-j8/RlGDZRREcqybgkGryQSeIQ/view?utm_content=DAFVkcVC-j8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=homepage_design_menu

Could this be the end of copyright music, photo, movies?

with some examples:

- https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio

- https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/pop-nocturne

this was made ... in 2019!

- https://openai.com/blog/musenet/

https://on.soundcloud.com/61kjp

How much money can you make with patreon?

A formula

https://blog.patreon.com/figuring-out-how-much-you-might-make-on-patreon

How many followers?
From these followers, how many are active?
How many of these followers could convert to patrons?

Let's have an example - Teal Swan:
Current subscriptions on youtube - 589K
15% are active - 88K
7$ by Patrons (on average) - Teal might cash 618K per month!

Jessica Nigri:
Instagram followers : 3.7m (these don't convert easily to Patrons)
only 0.1% of instagram followers in average will convert
Youtube followers: 1.2m
15% are active - 180K
7$ by Patrons (on average) - Jessica might cash 1.2m per month!

Now the actual revenue for Miss Nigri is coming from 2736 Patrons - with an estimate of 19K per month - source: https://www.patreon.com/JessicaNigri

Bonus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ye7Ri8S1t0

Who are the Top Patreon Creators?

https://creatorhype.com/top-patreon-creators/

Webcomics little helper

Here comes more helpful links and tips for (web)comic artists 

1. list of (free) programs

Inkscape - For your layout and illustration

Gimp - For sketching, inking, coloring, and adding text (Inkscape might be better for that task).

2. list of miscellaneous helpful links for the making 

Now if you don't have drawing skills you can always fall-back to use some nice comics stock resources free.

For Office comics
Check http://www.designcomics.org/ for usage details.

The whole source files (Characters, Background scenes, etc ...) is available for download in JPG (64MB) or Adobe illustrator format (207MB) at http://www.designcomics.org/source.html

For drawing references
Check this deviantart account, where a lot of renders are available


For caricatures and public domain pictures
check openclipart.org

3. Lettering

For a good selection of comics fonts
Check www.blambot.com (it's a reference)
The website even has some nice tips for letterer

4. Hosting 

Wordpress & Comicpress - Both for your basic site setup and webcomic layout.

(A nice alternative where everything is already setup is comicspace.com)

And finally Webcomic List - Great forum, get tips, help, or have people critique your work!

3 Ways to create a new font from scratch

More detail on this method at http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/inkscape-dings/

If you don't have Inkscape or find this too difficult then you can use the "quick and easy" Handwriting font creator: "Free online tool to create a vector font from your own handwriting."


Now dedicated for  t the hard core geek there's "FontForge" but Warning! this tool is not really user friendly - but a lot powerful, that is ... if you manage to use it.

How to Publish your own Book

Maybe you've read about self-published author "Amanda Hocking" (the 26 years old writer from Austin, Minnesota) and you're wondering how to self-publish yourself ?

First thing to notice about her, is that she tried very hard before succeeding - she had the story, the writing skills, the book was ready, the only thing that was preventing her to get published was actually ... publishers, which thought the public wouldn't like her book ?! which thought some other books should have priority ... whatever the reason, Amanda did the good thing and past over their head.

This story is really inspiring and a big hope for freelance and occasional writers because it means everyone got a chance now - and that's for the public to decide what they like.


I prepared a selection of links  to help you publish your book :

How To Publish Your Own Book (In Print) Cheaply

How to self publish your book explained in 2 mn
www.lulu.com/publish/books


Other inspiring success stories from Lulu
www.lulu.com/success_stories

But now don't be fooled, when the book is out there - it doesn't mean it will sell ... because on top of having writing skills ... you'll have to master the techniques to promote your book, and find ways to spread the word about it using clever marketing ...

Now if you make it big, make a book about it. I'll definitely buy it!