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Well, well... I actually made this. People have asked me SO many times how I make my comics so here you go. Oh, and this is SIMPLE tutorial. I have simplified some things because the idea of this is to get the basic idea how I make the comic. For example, Lost Tower is really on it's own layer but I made it a part of the BG in this tutorial.

At first I was going to make a tutorial only about the shadows but I figured that I might as well show the comic progress step by step. I hope you'll find this interesting and if you learned something from this. Great! Oh, one tip for the shadows. You don't need to use bluish shadows. You can also use other colors and see how they affect the multiply result. Play around with the Hue/Saturation adjustment to get interesting results.

About line arts... I have done line arts with pencil/markers too but I've find that I get the best result with digital ways. It takes more time though and, to me, line art is the most time consuming part in comic making.

The program I use is Photoshop CS5 but you can do this with older versions too. As for other programs... There shouldn't be anything too complicated here so I think they are good too.

Edit: Commonly asked questions:

How long does it usually take to make one page?
- Depending on how complicated the page is (amount of characters and/or effects), about 5-10 hours.

How big are your working files?
- I don't change the size of scanned documents in any way. The size of one comic page while I work and BEFORE resizing is usually 2457x3437. Resolution 300. (very random numbers indeed).

And of course, you can see the final result here.

Pokemon (c) Nintendo
Random Doom (c) me
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~empt-minded 4 days ago  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I have NEVER thought to multiply the shadow layer asdfghjkl
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~Mr-Bangala Apr 15, 2013  New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist
This looks very helpful and I thank you for your tutorial.
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~Rimskye Mar 23, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Everything is clear now. :iconheplz:
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Mood: Joy ~Dragonwish2 Feb 25, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
What text font do you use? Do you draw the speech bubbles by hand or use a tool for them? Lovely guide by the way.
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*TamarinFrog Feb 26, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
I think I used "post human" font here.

You can draw speech bubbles by hand too. I personally use the ellipse tool.
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Mood: Love ~Rampage546 Jan 31, 2013
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this! Thank you! I was going to try and start a comic, but I had no clue how. I must say the comic I wanted to start was very inspired by yours. If I ever do get on my feet and start a comic, I'll be sure to let everyone know how much you inspired me, and how helpful you were. Thank you! Thank you!!!
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*TamarinFrog Feb 1, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
That is so nice to hear! Best of luck in your own comic project! :D
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Mood: Joy ~AlphaMoonlight Nov 25, 2012
this is very helpful, thx for the tutorial XD
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~chapus2009 Nov 11, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Wow, this is VERY helpful! :O I'm curious, which Wacom tablet to you use? c: I've seen some and I'm planning to save money for one, because I'm better and more comfortable at drawing with a crayon rather than using the mouse. I went on the website but then they show me tons of products. o-o
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*TamarinFrog Nov 12, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Glad to hear you found this helpful. I am planning to do more tutorials in the future. :)

And I use... *looks at her tablet..* I use wacom intuos3. But this model is at least six years old so I don't think they sell this anymore (newer version for sure). But let me give you a tip. Don't worry too much about the size. Mine is one of the bigger ones but I know from the experience that drawing with the smaller ones is just as easy (once you learn the whole drawing with pen tablet style in general). So you may want to consider the smaller and cheaper products like the wacom bamboo. Look at them and think how much money you're willing to spend in it and then decide which product would be the best for you. :)
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