Blog
Perspective
Perspective is a useful tool for drawing webcomic environments, but how does it work? Let's dig in with some quick tips for using vanishing points to help sell the perspective in your scenes! Vanishing points and horizon lines Vanishing points and horizon lines are what determine the eye lev...
May 2025 News
🌷May is Here🌷 May is full of some fantastic events, both within Screen Tones and without! Let’s see what is happening this month. Community Mermaid Project Submisisons are open until May 4th! Join the community collab and submit a mermified OC today! Nib & Ink Festival...
April 2025 News
🌧️It’s Raining Comics🌧️ April seems to be the start of a lot of things. Spring, gardening, and a lot of fun community events! Let’s see what we have in store! Community Mermaid Project More details to come in Discord, but the Screen Tones community is here to help you pre...
Read more on the Community page
Newest Episodes
So here’s our scenario: you’re making your webcomic, your readers are following to the best of their ability, but you’re hearing the feedback that they can’t tell some of the characters apart. This can be about how you draw them, the styles and coloring you’re using… OR there could be aspects of your writing that are affecting how they’re perceived. For whatever reason, people are getting confused. That's what we call Same Face Syndrome and we're here to help you diagnose and treat.
If you’re like… well… everyone on this podcast, you’ve had some pretty epic webcomic ideas. They’re really cool and exciting, maybe you’ve even been developing them for years without even drawing a page, and it's such an expansive idea it's probably going to even longer to draw, maybe even ten years! (if you’re lucky). This is a situation that can be both exciting and scary, and today we're going to talk about taking this BIG idea and using it to start your webcomic journey.
There are a lot of approaches to comedy in comics, and I wanted to get an episode together about that. Humor is OFTEN rooted in all kinds of cultural trends: current events, age groups, time periods, and styles, so it can be hard when people ask about how to learn to write comedy to find a way to talk about it! But Bob and Delphina are going to do their best today to break down at least their experience and approaches, and hopefully that’ll help you too
We’re not here to tell you how to live your life. If you want to post every comic page as soon as you’re done with it, that’s valid. But! A buffer of comic pages can help keep your comic on a steady release schedule, set healthy reader expectations, and prevent burnout or stress during the times when you can’t be at your drawing desk as often. So let’s talk about buffers!
The beginning hooks of your webcomic are what's going to inspire a reader to keep reading, and there are lots of approaches to starting out, depending on the story you're trying to tell. Today, we're going to talk about the many ways to begin a beginning.