Webtoon Development Resources

Welcome to my resource archive. This is a collection of resources that I have gathered, read, and used to enhance my webtoon journey. Hopefully this collection will help you on yours.

Art Fundamentals

Books

• How to Render: The Fundamentals of Light, Shadow and Reflectivity

• Pocket Anatomy: Figure Drawing

• Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers

• Framed Ink2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers

• FORCE: Drawing Human Anatomy (Force Drawing Series)

• FORCE: Fabric (Force Drawing Series)

• FORCE: Dynamic Life Drawing: 10th Anniversary Edition (Force Drawing Series)

• Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist painter by James Gurney

• Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist by James Gurney

• Fundamentals of Creature Design

• Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists

• Drawing Anime Faces and Feelings: 800 facial expressions from joy to terror, anger, surprise, sadness and more

• Masters of Legends of Fantasy Art, 2nd Expanded Edition: Techniques for Drawing, Painting & Digital Art from Fantast Legends.

Web Links

• Line of Action: Drawing References - https://line-of-action.com/

• Head model studio - https://headmodelstudio.com/

• Color palettes - https://meodai.github.io/poline/

• Face reference angles - http://referenceangle.com/

• Body poses - https://www.kamitokatachi.com/

• Visual References - https://unsplash.com/

• Visual References - https://pixabay.com/

• Visual References - https://www.pexels.com/

• Visual References - https://www.splitshire.com/

Misc. Resources

Fonts

• Blambot

• Dafont - https://www.dafont.com/digital-strip.font

• 1001Fonts - https://www.1001fonts.com/anime-ace-font.html

Preproduction

• Character Design References -  https://characterdesignreferences.com/character-design-boards

• Storyboarding help: https://film-grab.com/

• What is the process of writing a webtoon - https://www.s-morishitastudio.com/what-is-the-process-of-writing-a-webtoon/

• How to promote your comic - https://www.darkchibishadow.com/post/how-to-promote-your-web-comic

• Sound effects look up - http://thejadednetwork.com/thejadednetwork.com/

• How to write sound effects - https://www.georgbrush.club/

Clip Studio Paint & Sketchup

• Tutorial: How to Make Custom Brushes (In Clip Studio Paint) Tutorial: How To Make Custom Brushes (In Clip Studio Paint!)

• Acon3d

• 3dwarehouse.sketchup.com

• Archive3D.net

Webtoon/Webcomic Platforms

• Webtoon

• Tapas

• GlobalComix

• Inkverse

• NamiComi

• Lemoon.io

• Pixiv

• Comic Fury

Books

(*Highly recommended)

• *Webtoon School: Everything you need to know about Webtoon Creation and Story Writing

• *The Secrets to Creating Character Arcs by John S. Warner

• Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-of-This-World Novels and Short Stories

• Story by Robert McKee

• *Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field

• *Save the Cat by Blake Snyder

• *How to Write Dazzling Dialogue : The Fastest Way to Improve any Manuscript by James Scott Bell

• Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert Mckee

• The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Dialogue by John Hough, Jr.

• The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri

• Write Pacing Your Readers Won’t Forget by Stant Litore

• The Trope Thesaurus by Jennifer Hilt

• *Romancing the Beat: Story Structure for Romance Novels by Gwen Hayes

• *How to Write a Dame Good Novel by James N. Frey

• Making Comics: Story Telling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud

• Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics Volume 1 by Alan Moore