by Henrike Dijkstra | Sep 3 2020 | Blog, Improvement, Making comics, Mindset, Overcoming obstacles, Tutorial
We want our comic pages to look good. But we also want to churn them out in a reasonable amount of time.
In this week’s video I show you how drawing MORE isn’t necessarily better. And how you can increase your speed by using your art skills to the max.
by Henrike Dijkstra | Aug 27 2020 | Audience building, Blog, Making comics, Personal projects, Project planning
The perfect webcomic publishing platform doesn’t exist. But one or the other might be perfect enough for you.
by Henrike Dijkstra | Aug 20 2020 | Blog, Making comics, Personal projects
This is the associated blogpost that goes with this Youtube video: Nowadays, we have many tools at our disposal to make comics. There’s all kinds of materials, tools, programs and apps. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the choices that we need to make...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Jul 30 2020 | Blog, Improvement, Making comics, Mindset, Overcoming obstacles, Personal projects
This blogpost has an accompanying video on my Youtube channel: What is a good artist mindset when it comes to making mistakes and imperfect art? And what do you do when you hit a roadblock in your art? I’ll tell you what I did when that happened to me in 2006: I...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Jul 17 2017 | Blog, Making comics
Recollection City, my fantastical adventure comic about friendship and stepping up and taking the risk of being seen and making decisions, is finally online! You can read the first five pages here and after this week I will upload it every Monday with a new page! Five...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Sep 23 2015 | Blog, Making comics, Overcoming obstacles
This week I finally started sketching the pages of the prologue of Recollection City. The reason for this specific blogpost is that I could have started sketching these pages earlier. but I fell into the trap of wanted everything to be “ready” before...