Hi! I really love your art and your YouTube channel and I was wondering if maybe you could explain a little further how to comprise comic strips and clean lineart? I'm really having trouble with mine 😓 thank you!
Hi there! Hmm well comic strips/pages are a matter of flow, composition and readability. The way I learned (I think) was reading a looot of comics when i was younger. I think I learned the basics of how to tell a story and lead your eye through the page. So find a few comics that you like and study them and how they do it. As long as you keep all your characters moving with the left to right rule of movement (because this is how we read) you can basically do whatever you want. Also another tip (and something I love to think about when thumbnailing) is tempo. Imagine an animated series, the more frames the longer the scene. Same thing with comics, the more similar panels the slower the pacing seems. So try taking your time and introduce the environment and characters, and when it comes to the action go bold, quick and big! Its weird how it will affect how the reader reads the comic. That’s mostly for pages though, I’m not as familiar with strips! Also that was me just rambling.. hope it kind of made sense?
Also clean lineart is tricky. Its a skill you just need to practice! Smooth lineart will come when you are more confident and quick with your strokes. If you work digitally remember to work on a big canvas as smaller files will make your lines look bad. I work on 3000x3000 px and up with 300DPI. Also some programs have stabilisers that will help with shakyness. And last but not least, learn about lineweight, this can transfor the look of your linework pretty quick! Though the topic is a bit too complicated for me to only write down..
Again hope it helped and thank you for your question :)
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