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I want to start drawing online comics. Whats a good program to use so that I may put my ideas to digital paper?

I want to start drawing online comics. Whats a good program to use so that I may put my ideas to digital paper? I have a copy of "Open canvas plus" and will look into buying a wacom drawing pad. I need to know whats a good program that allows me to make the "boxes" inwhich you draw your comic in or does open canvas allow that?

August 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Comics

4 comments to I want to start drawing online comics. Whats a good program to use so that I may put my ideas to digital paper?

  • Hayley
    August 1, 2010 at 4:10 am

    What about Photoshop? When you buy a Wacom tablet you get a copy of Photoshop Elements and that’s what I use. I have a Wacom Graphire 4 and have been using it for two years. :) ) There are many other good programs but I’m not sure if they allow you to create boxes. Open Canvas is good but there’s a program called Paint Tool SAI which is awesome and the lineart is really smooth. Email me if you have any other questions! I’m forever drawing cartoons and comics. :p

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    August 1, 2010 at 4:10 am

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  • jplatt39
    August 1, 2010 at 4:10 am

    If you are going to put this up on your web site you can use just about anything from Microsoft Paint to Photoshop. Even the Open Source Inkscape if you are into Vector Drawing.

    What matters is that HTML displays jpegs, gifs and pngs most easily. Further, jpegs have a smaller file size but they are a lossy format while gifs and pngs are what is known as lossless — so you can rescale them larger without loss of clarity.

    If you are doing this for someone else, the file format still matters more than the program you use to create it, so talk to them then grab a program which creates the format you want to use, and you will find you have a LOT of choices.

  • dave
    August 1, 2010 at 4:10 am

    There is a lot of compositional potential in the frames/boxes htat go around the pics, i really think you should design those yourself- inkscape is a free, open source vector art program that may be useful. more expensive option is adobe illustrator. vector art creates smaller files usually but I don’t know anything about the specifics of publishing to the web.