Henry Rebble Graphic Novel - Just Decided To Draw It Myself

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If you're a writer and really want to make a graphic novel, but think you need an artist and can't pay one, maybe try giving drawing a try. I'm not going to say my drawings are amazing (they most certainly aren't), but it's been super fun to shape it the way I wanted to. I drew with colored pencils and scanned them.

https://henryrebble.wixsite.com/abcd
 

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This is finally finished. I've been updating the comic weekly. Parts 1 and 2 of 4 are up there now. Take a look!
 

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It's quite unique :)
It's not top pro artwork, but it conveys what you want to show, which is the number one thing it must do! You got the narration right.
Btw a piece of advice - avoid to put a lot of text together like in page 13 because, in comics, it easily becomes hard to read.
 

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Thanks for taking a look! And thanks for the advice. Are you working on something?
 

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No problem!
I'm working on a comix plot ^_^
I have to draw it for class, too. It's really fun to make.
 

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If you're a writer and really want to make a graphic novel, but think you need an artist and can't pay one, maybe try giving drawing a try.


I really wanted to second this bc a lot of people can get hung up on their art not being good enough when good writing can more than make up for it.

A really high-level example of this is the One Punch Man franchise that started out as a free webcomic that was drawn by the author and as far as artistic quality goes is a bit... well see for yourself in the links below.
https://i.imgur.com/2wltqRh.jpg?1
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net...ebcomic.png/revision/latest?cb=20160110203220

But what set these apart was the unique story and top quality humor that helped it gain popularity despite its messy art. And eventually it got noticed and picked up for a professional artist to rework the illustrations for an official publication. See the link below for how much better the art in that is.
http://loser-city.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/One-Punch-Man-Special-Sale-Day.jpg

The takeaway here is that as long as the writing is good and whats drawn on the page is understandable to the reader, you don't really need to sweat whether everything is up to a professional print standard.

Keep at it boss!
 

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I really like the Robot dilemma and although the art isn't brilliant, the use of colours and the panels all focusing in on the key part of the stories help make up for that.
 

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Because you use colour pencils I think your art could benefit significantly from upping the colour saturation and changing the levels on a photo manipulation tool like Photoshop of The Gimp, so the mark making is bolder and more visible.

It's always good to test the flow and composition of writing in panel format and how it interacts with imagery whether the art comes from you or an artist, so you're making a positive decision.