Welcome to the OrAnIMe Tutorials section. This is a guide I designed to help out those in need. Not "in need" like a homeless man needs food, but rather "in need" like, "Help! I have no clue how to do this!". I have a feeling the homeless guy would rather me just make him a sandwich instead of writing a guide on how to feed him.

This guide is designed to help out those wishing to create comics who don't have the understanding to figure out how to do it as well as a reference for the rest of us.

It should be noted that this guide is not complete! I went ahead and uploaded what I have, but the images accompanying most of the instructions aren't up yet. You can still probably figure out what I mean by following the text, but feel free to skip the sections without pictures until it's done if you're confused. I'll try and finish everyone soon.

I have learned a couple things in working on comics. One is that there are a lot of people out there that love to make comics, rather they want to do it as a career or just endulge in it as a hobby. Everyone has a story to tell, wants to express themselves, or just wants to make someone laugh; basically, coming up with material is usually never the problem for most people. That brings me to point two, I have discovered that if you know how to do it, people will inquire to "how" you did that.

That is essentially why I decided I needed to design this guide. While there are guides out there, most of them only cover small portions of the overall process of comic book or webcomic creation, or consist of about two pages worth of material that is basically a brief overview of what they do. It seems no one goes into depth on the technical issues behind creating comics. I wish to provide a "how to" for those wishing to delve into the world of comic books and a reference for those who have already worked with comics, as I believe there is always another way to do something. It's always a pleasant suprise to find a method for accomplishing a task in a different way that simplifies the action. I hope this guide will be able to accomplish all this and become a valuable resource.

First and foremost, I feel it is necessary for me to stress that I do not believe my methods are the only way to do something. In fact, as I mentioned before, I always am on the lookout for a better way to do something. I will try and mention other methods whenever possible besides my own, but there are as many methods to do some of these things as there are stars in the sky. I would encourage anyone and everyone who reads this guide to experiment on your own. Art in general is about preference. You have to try each method to really know what you'll like.

While there are many means to create comics, I will only focus on creating them through the new digital methods commonly used nowadays. The main reason being of course that it is how I produce work, and I don't feel I have the proper credentials to lecture on things I don't do regularly. Also, very little work aimed for professional production (comics for print, magazine art, etc) is done traditionally without using the computer at all anymore.

This is only a guide of the process of making comics on the mechanics end. While I might add it on later, there is very little into the actual design of comic elements themselves in this guide. Basically you won't find a bunch of things like perspective, face shapes, expressions or other elements that have to do with the artistic end in this guide.

To some point this guide is a work in progress. If I discover new methods, I may add on information, or if I need the need arises, I may go more indepth on different points, such as how to create a specific element in a background. I wish for this guide to be an evolving piece of work, as the art field in general is always changing, especially with the technology today.

My goal is that someone could study this guide and be able to begin producing comics with efficient, well-studied techniques no matter the experience they have had before. I have tried my best to produce the information in a way that is descriptive yet simple, and I hope it helps everyone who reads this. For questions and comments, please contact me via e-mail at adyon@oranime.com.