I'm Ingrid Ochoa and my series is The Kiss Bet
It's about a girl that's in high school
And she just turned 18 years old and she's trying to figure out how
to grow up and have her first kiss
so her friend Patrick
dares her to go and kiss a random stranger in the subway and
yeah, they meet again and you gotta have to -- read to find out where it goes!
I have a full-time job, an office job, where I'm a graphic designer and work all day and
then I come home. Then I draw all night.
I'm trying to figure out how to manage that at the moment.
Mostly my friends and the experiences that I have with them.
I watched a bunch of shows
back -- growing up in Mexico, and mostly... Inuyasha, Sakura Cardcaptor, a bunch of those
Just reading a bunch of Webtoons also helped me a lot with that
When I first started the comic it was all black and white it was just
sketches and I was like, OK if I I just want to focus on this story right now so
I started posting really regularly like almost every day and I think once people
are into the story they just want to see what happens and so then people want to
keep coming back and I think that's maybe what what got me discovered a bit
oh also, I forgot I entered the Webtoons the competition that they were having
last year and I was like yeah I'm gonna try really hard to like you know get
noticed a little bit and I got honorable mention which is super cool and I think
that's what made people
notice me
I'll start with the writing all the dialogue because I have it all planned
out what's gonna happen in the scene and then I write all the dialogue which is
probably the funnest part for me because I love just interactions between
characters and then I'll go in and do like a just a big sketch in procreate
I work all of my work and Procreate. Just do all the panels and the quick sketches
and then I go back in, do the lines.
I just hired some flat artists, my sister and another friend
And then they send it back to me and I beautify them. Put light
shadows and I send it into Photoshop and then I put all the little speech bubbles and
voila
I had a typewriter when I was back in school when I was little and I would
type my stories and I would bring it to my friends in school and they would pass
it around and they would read it. It was awesome!
Everyone says it, JUST DO IT because it's true. It took me a while. I tried it
until I decided okay I'm gonna do it I'm gonna dedicate time into it and do it
The other thing, also, that I've learned that I wish I knew earlier is that you
have to know that your first story is not going to be your successful story
Might have to try a few times until you hit something that you're very
passionate about and you really understand the topic so that you can
write more naturally about. So I think stick with what you know, just do it, and
you might fail a few times before you find success but, but keep at it!
Thank you! Yeah, I am so grateful for you guys all
your support. I get really nervous and I put a lot of pressure on myself to
make it really great for you guys and then I'll read all the nice comments and
I'm like oh my gosh -- OOP -- thank you so much for everything.
So, yeah, thank you!