Tutorials

This page links to some of the most important posts to help you get up and running. Make sure to read the actual blog because these are only a quick guide to get you started – not all of the posts are here.
PAGE CONTENTS:
Art Basics
Photoshop
Headspace: Better ways of thinking and working lead to better business practices
Organization
Convention and Conference Organization
Business and Marketing Tips for Artists
- Oni’s Essential Art Supplies
- A free “version” of Adobe Photoshop?
- How to Set Up Photoshop for Pressure Sensitive Tablet Artwork
- Digital Inking with the Photoshop Pen Tool
- Digital Lettering and Comic Speech Bubbles
HEADSPACE: Better ways of thinking and working lead to better business practices::
- Your Friends and Peers Might Not Be Your Fans, but that is OK
- Handling Rejection and Finding Your Comic’s Target Audience
- Brain Tricks: Organizing Your Week with Sliding Days
- How to Stay Organized and Motivated: Index Cards of Doom
CONVENTION AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
- 8 things you should know before starting your own convention
- 15 MORE things you should think about when starting your own event
- Corporate Sponsorship: Why Intervention is the most awesome con to sponsor and how we did it
- Con Solutions: Event Internet Connectivity
- Con Solutions: Payment Processing
BUSINESS AND MARKETING TIPS FOR ARTISTS:
- How to Survive the Artist’s Alley
- How to Use Twitter to Promote Your Comic Without Inadvertently Looking Like an Ungrateful Jerk
- A Con Staffer’s Perspective on Webcomics
- The Table at the Con: The Most Important and Most Overlooked Key to Success
- 10 tips to get a lot of quality followers on Twitter
- 5 things that will increase the likelihood that you will get invited to a convention
- 4 ways you can inadvertently undercut yourself
- Marketing isn’t about barfing things onto the internet at the last minute for frak’s sake


