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What is the best free (or cheap) comic design software?
I'm working on a webcomic. I will be doing most of the artwork by hand, but I would like some software that comes with some pre-designed layouts that I can put my artwork into as well as some different speach bubbles and comic fonts. It would be especially useful if it also offers the option to create a book, since I might eventually sell hard copies of the book.
I have both InDesign and Illustrator. I just don't know the first thing about designing a comic, so I was hoping to find something that would help me with the layout.
I'm an arts student, I had all the adobe creative suite before I ever thought of making a web comic. I was already going to use photoshop to fix up the scanned images, but my plan had been to re-size and frame everything digitally after scanning the hand drawn images. I didn't mean to take shortcuts indefinitely, I'm just looking for some templates or a guide or something to give me an idea of what I'm doing. Every time I try to make a layout for my comic, it comes out looking messy.
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
you could use photoshop? i'm not sure why you'd need illustrator if you're drawing everything by hand. illustrator is for vector art...unless you have the patience to draw everything like that, which really isn't necessary. and adobe products aren't cheap... anyway, if you're drawing everything by hand, you may as well draw the frames by hand and make up the layouts yourself to suit the story. then you could add the speech bubbles and text in photoshop. seriously, taking shortcuts now really isn't going to help you in the long run. :/ anyway, i've also heard of a program called manga studio that you might be interested in checking out. i've never tried it, so i'm not sure if it'll be helpful. also, try blambot for comic fonts. & indesign could be helpful if you end up making it into a book.
- ǝƃɐʞǝpuɐdLv 51 decade ago
The only ones that would be helpful are Adobe's InDesign and Illustrator; the former lets you create a book format and layout, the latter makes your drawings more defined. Both are pretty cheap (relatively) if you're a student.
- 1 decade ago
This isn't specifically what you're asking, but if you're hand drawing stuff, you might find ArtRage worth looking at (they have a free version to test run and the paid versions are $20, $40 and ...$80 I think, and all worth way more).
Otherwise it sounds like you have what you need - you might be better off just sketching the panels instead and using the computer to tidy up the lines.
Source(s): www.squidoo.com/artrage-3
