If you haven’t heard, I’ve been making an Everly Heights web comic since last fall, Mr. Matheson’s Arithme-TIPS. In this video, I’ll share my webcomic creation workflow to send you from pose to panel at the speed of inspiration! Learn to accelerate your comic art process using cutting-edge tools and techniques as I create the latest webcomic for Mr. Matheson’s Arithme-TIPS.
In this video, we explore:
- Posemy.art: Create drawing references in seconds with pre-made models and scenes for easy character blocking and set design.
- AI-Powered Art Generation: Use Stable Diffusion and Flux to bring your comic panels to life.
- Human Creativity at the Core: While AI is involved, human creativity and storytelling techniques remain central.
- Script to Rough Layout: Use ChatGPT for outlining, then refine it through manual editing. See the process of creating a rough visual draft in Photoshop with a custom template for an aged comic look.
- Integrating AI: Posemy.art exports depth maps, Canny edges, and images for use as guides in Stable Diffusion.
- Multiple Outputs: Export character, OpenPose, and canny templates for Stable Diffusion Forge. Learn “sandblasting” for refining posed figures.
- Enhancing Visual Quality: Achieve high-quality, print-ready comics with a two-step upscaling process using Topaz Photo AI and Gigapixel AI. Learn denoising, lighting adjustments, color balancing, face recovery, and creative upscaling techniques.
- Final Touches: Add word balloons, titles, and text using custom-made fonts in Adobe Illustrator.
Whether you’re a seasoned webcomic artist or just starting out, this video offers invaluable insights into leveraging the latest technology to dramatically speed up your webcomic creation workflow without sacrificing your artistic vision.
Check out posemy.art for free and start creating your poses today!
LINKS
Everly Heights Comics Creators Pack (FREE TEMPLATES)
Mr. Matheson’s Arithme-TIPS Web Comic
TIMECODES
00:00:46 Everly Heights and Mr. Matheson’s Arithme-TIPS
00:02:18 First Segmant (We Start With The Script)
00:03:02 Create A Wireframe Version of our comic with PoseMy.Art
00:20:42 The Fakist: Breaking News
00:20:46 Turning Storyboards Into Comics with Stable Diffusion
00:20:53 – Free 4-Panel Comic Photoshop template
00:29:44 Create Panel Prompts With LLM/ChatGPT
00:33:04 Building Your Comic in Stable Diffusion
00:34:20 Loopback Editing Technique
00:37:32 * PhotoPea Photo Editor for Forge WebUI
00:39:25 Inpainting Consistent Characters Across Multiple Panels
00:42:29 * Sandblasting
00:46:45 Inpainting The Background
00:51:05 Full Process Slideshow
00:51:30 The Final Touches
00:51:54 Upscaling With Topaz AI Suite
00:58:01 Finishing Up In Adobe Illustrator
00:58:24 The Everly Heights Comics Creators Pack with Templates and Fonts
00:58:56 The Final Comic
00:59:59 Outro
