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I was asked by a friend yesterday if I could offer basic tips about comic paneling. As it turns out, I have a lot to say on the matter! I tried breaking down the art of paneling using the principles of art and design, and I hope it helps you out!

EDIT: uh uh there are a lot of people reblogging this, so i figure i may as well append this now while i can lol

This whole thing was very much cranked out in a few hours so I had a visual to talk about with a friend! If this gives you a base understanding of paneling, that's awesome! Continue to pull in studies from the comics you see and what other artists do well and don't do well! You can tell paneling is doing well when the action is flowing around in its intended reading format.

Here's the link to the globalcomix article from which I pulled the images about panel staggering! Someone sent in a reblog that it wasn't totally clear that the 7th slide mostly covers what NOT to do in regards to staggering, and that is my mistake!

I saw in a tag that someone was surprised I used MamaYuyu too, and I don't blame them lol. If I had given myself more than a couple hours maybe I would have added something else on, I just really admire MamaYuyu's paneling personally.

Règles de base :

Codes de triches interdits, mods pour rajouter du gamepaly autorisés (voire même conseillé)

Aucune limite d’enfant par génération.

Vous pouvez choisir quel enfant deviendra l’héritier.

Chaque génération possède une couleur dominante. A vous de jauger selon vos envies (vêtements, décoration…)

Vous pouvez choisir la durée de vie.

Pour valider une génération, compléter l’aspiration, la carrière et les compétences.

GEN 1 (vert) :

La vie n’a pas toujours été tendre avec vous. Ballotté de foyer en foyer toute votre enfance durant, vous n’avez jamais eu la chance de vous épanouir dans une famille aimante.

A votre majorité, quand l’orphelinat ou vous avez grandi a décrété que vous étiez capable de vous prendre en main, ils vous ont mit à la porte… sans aucun bagage.

La seule chose qui vous a maintenu pendant tout ce temps, c’était la nature.

Dans votre dortoir, assis face à la fenêtre et observant le monde extérieur, vous vous étiez juré que si vous vous en sortiez vivant, vous vivrez dans une maison entourée par la nature, et donnerait amour et chaleur à vos enfants.

Alors quand vous vous êtes retrouvé dehors, vous n’aviez qu’un objectif : réaliser ce rêve.

Ville : Henford on Bagley

Aspiration : Botaniste indépendante

Traits de caractère : Adore la nature, généreuse, proche de sa famille.

Carrière : Jardinage

Compétences : Education, jardinage

Règles & objectifs (au début) :

Vous débutez sur un terrain vide à Willow Creek (votre ancien orphelinat s’y trouve)

Vous commencez la partie avec 0 simflouz

Avant de pouvoir quitter Willow Creek pour Henford on Bagley, vous devez avoir réuni la somme de 5 000 simflouz. Vous pouvez utiliser n’importe quelle méthode pour y parvenir (sauf triche).

Règles & objectifs (à Henford-on-Bagley) :

Vous vous installerez sur le terrain de votre choix, mais celui-ci doit contenir une maison plus ou moins délabrée ou vieillotte, que vous allez retaper par la suite. Pour vous installer sur le terrain, le code de triche “freerealestate on” est autorisé.

Une fois sur votre terrain, retirez 5 000 simflouz de votre budget. (vous pouvez le faire avec le code “money X”)

Vous activerez le défi de terrain vie simple

Vous devez posséder minimum 5 plantes d’une qualité excellente

Vous devez vous marier

(facultatif) Vous adopterez tous vos enfants, pas de grossesse ni de bébé éprouvette

GEN 2 (jaune) :

Vous avez grandi au milieu de la campagne d’Henford-on-Bagley, et avez supplié vos parents pour qu’ils adoptent un chien. Et pour cause : Depuis très jeune, vous êtes un amoureux des animaux.

Vous passiez votre temps à les dessiner, rêvant enfin de ce jour ou vous pourriez à votre tour donner tout votre amour à un animal.

En grandissant, cette passion s’est transformée en une véritable ambition de vie.

Tenir une clinique vétérinaire afin de redonner santé et vigueur à tout un tas d’animaux, c’était un projet qui vous animait.

Alors en quittant le cocon familial, vous prenez la décision d’ouvrir votre propre clinique.

Non loin de l’air marin, Brindelton Bay vous a semblé idéale pour lancer votre entreprise.

Et si votre futur âme sœur se trouvait parmi les clients de votre clinique ?

Ville : Brindelton Bay

Aspiration : Ami des animaux

Traits de caractère : Amoureux des chiens, adore les animaux, ambitieux

Carrière : Vétérinaire

Compétences : Dressage

Règles & objectifs :

Vous débutez sur le terrain de votre choix à Brindelton Bay

Vous activerez le défi de terrain vie simple

Vous devez adopter au moins un chien et un chat, si vous en voulez davantage, vous pouvez

Vous n’êtes pas obligés de vous marier

Vous pouvez avoir recours à n’importe quelle manière pour avoir des enfants (naturellement, adoption ou bébé éprouvette) mais vous aurez deux enfants maximum

GEN 3 (bleu) :

Vous avez été l’enfant surdoué de votre famille. Diplômé du baccalauréat en avance, et entré à la fac alors que vous étiez encore adolescent, vous faites la fierté de vos parents.

Vous avez visé le diplôme prestigieux d’histoire dans un seul but : Devenir militaire et vous engager dans l’armée.

Malgré vos rêves de grandeurs, vous gardez une petite place dans votre cœur à votre désir de devenir un jour parent, et espérez parvenir à lier une vie de famille et votre carrière très prenante.

Ville : Oasis Springs

Aspiration : Culturiste

Carrière : Militaire (Vous pouvez installer ce mod pour avoir une carrière militaire active ! (https://modsims4.fr/carrieres/carriere-militaire-active/)

Compétences : Fitness

Pendant l’adolescence de votre sim, vous devrez lui faire atteindre le niveau maximal dans deux compétences de votre choix (en plus de lui faire obtenir un A au lycée) afin qu’il puisse passer son baccalauréat en avance.

Sachez également que pour débloquer le cursus “histoire” à la fac, vous devez pratiquer les compétences logique, charisme et recherches et débats (sans pour autant avoir besoin de les compléter au maximum)

Règles & objectifs :

Vous débutez sur le terrain de votre choix à Oasis Springs, une fois votre diplôme d’histoire obtenu. Avant, vous pouvez vivre ou vous le désirez.

Vous devez vous marier

Vous aurez un enfant unique (naturellement, bébé éprouvette ou adoption)

GEN 4 (marron) :

Même si vos parents militaires ont fait de leur mieux, vous avez souffert de ne pas avoir vécu la même vie de famille que vos amis de l’école.

Oasis Springs ne vous convient plus, et depuis vos vacances passées à Chestnut Ridge pendant votre enfance, le monde équestre vous a attiré.

Vous désirez plus que tout au monde vous éloigner de l’armée qui vous a volé vos parents, et souhaitez participer à tous les concours équestres possibles et inimaginables.

Vos parents comprennent votre choix et vous soutiennent.

Si bien, qu’ils vous payent un terrain vaste ou vous pourrez vivre dignement votre passion pour les chevaux.

Ville : Chestnut Ridge

Aspiration : Cavalière de championnat

Carrière : Aucune (vous vivrez des concours hippiques et d’autres activités indépendantes si vous le souhaitez)

Compétences : Equitation

Règles & objectifs :

Vous débutez à Chestnut ridge, sur le terrain de votre choix

Le mariage n’est pas obligatoire

pretty cool head lighting ref thing

senshi stock

croquis cafe

line-of-action.com

quickposes.com

posemaniacs

clip studio paint models

pexels.com

sketchdaily

eggazyoutatsu atarichan drawer

designdoll

Freeimages: You can use the images in digital format on websites, blog posts, social media, advertisements, film and television productions, web and mobile applications. In printed materials such as magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, product packaging for decorative use in your home, office or any public place or personal use. The rights granted to you by FreeImages.com are: Perpetual, meaning there is no expiration or end date on your rights to use the content. Non-exclusive, meaning that you do not have exclusive rights to use the content. FreeImages.com can license the same content to other customers. Unlimited, meaning you can use the content in an unlimited number of projects and in any media. For purposes of this agreement, “use” means to copy, reproduce, modify, edit, synchronize, perform, display, broadcast, publish, or otherwise make use of.

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Morguefile. Big old free photo archive from the dawn of the web. “We are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.”

Open Access at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Whether you’re an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 406,000 images of artworks from The Met collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.”

Smithsonian Open Access. Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images […] from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Posing Sites and Apps:

Adorkastock. Stock photos for pose refs. DeviantArt gallery started in 2007.

FreePhotoMuscle.com. (translated page link click here) Japanese stock photo pose site that includes buff people, but in funny poses and costumes.

CroquoisCafe. (NSFW, nude model poses warning) A stock photo pose site. You should be aware this org has been linked as pro-Trump. I leave it to y’all to decide if you want to use the resources or not. I highly encourage not financially supporting them and trying to support the individual models if you can.

Line of Action. Fantastic site that includes posing refs, community discussions from other artists, figure study, anatomy, etc. So much stuff in here.

PoseSpace. Extensive library of poses. Some free resources others are paid. I’ve not fully evaluated both, but you should be able to use this all mostly free and get great use out of it.

SketchDaily. This one is one of the better ones out there. You can time yourself, search by pose, clothing options, body type, perspective, etc. All real models.

JustSketch.me. A pose app for any device. Has apps for most devices and a webapp. Customize and pose models/props/scenes.

Quickposes. Pose site that gives you timed challenges to become more proficient at poses.

POSEMANIACS. Ref site with anatomical poses. All the ref pics are of 3D models with only the bones and muscles. Can be helpful for seeing how muscles behave in certain poses. limited to two body types tho.

MagicPoser. A wonderful app that’s great on mobile. Lets you choose size of models, number of them, style, etc. Significant features are use of snap point with the physics engine, adjustable lighting, multiple perspective, 360 angle, articulated hand posing.

Clip Studio Paint Modeler. Free 3d tool that works with Clip Studio Paint. You can import your own data or other models you find online. Not quite an alternative to Blender, but the integration with CSP is very nice.

Egg a Zyoutatsu Atarichan Drawer. (requires enabling flash player or downloading and using standalone flashplayer) Drawing tool for pose practice. The developer is working on an html5 version.

DesignDoll. One of the best pose tool apps out there. You can customize so many things. They also have an extensive collection of ready made poses here. You can use the free or pay once for life and have the poses integrated into the client as well as the ability to export your obj to other programs like blender or smt.

Stock Photo Sites:

Unsplash. Giant free stock image site.

freeimages.com. Another stock photo site, less features than some others.

StockSnap.io. Stock photos with a creative commons CC0 license, which essentially means you can use the photos however you want and don’t have to attribute to them. (though its nice if you do attribute)

Burst.Shopify. Tons of royalty free high quality images. Similar licensing to StockSnap.

pixabay. I feel like most people know about this one, but it features entirely free CC0 licensed Photos, Videos, and Music. No attribution required, but still nice to support a giant site with all this content.

Viintage. Big collection of public domain vintage photos.

Gratisography. For commercial or personal use. They specialize in odd, quirky, wild stock photos.

pexels. Great free stock photos and videos. Only a few stipulations of what they don’t allow, but their license info can be found here.

Faestock. An artist and model with a huge amount of fantasy and fae and other types of photos available. Their terms for use are here.

MorgueFile. Old stock photo archive that’s been around a long time.

Museum and Institution Open Access sites:

USA National Gallery of Art. Over 50k works available for download.

New York Metropolitan Museum open access. 490k works to browse. Even codes for Animal Crossing New Horizons patterns.

The Smithsonian Institution open access. Probably one of the largest open access collections available online. Around 3.9 million items available to view.

A quick guide on how I draw sleeves. Especially oversized ones. To figure out the arm’s direction, I’ll divide the arm into three sections by drawing two curved lines. I use these lines to figure out how to draw the end of the sleeve. Works every time!

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Short thread on how to do minimal work on shading and line art that makes your art 1000 times better

I created a quick walkthrough on my process! You can do the same with any digital art program and brushes you like. As always, learning comes with critical thinking and if you feel this does not apply to you, then no worries! There’s no correct way to do things as long as you achieve the results you want. 

The technique can be customized with different brush types and colours, and can be as simple or heavily rendered as you so desire. I hope it helps a little! I like to do lighting like this in my own work for a sense of atmosphere.

The difference somewhat simple enough.  Perspective is the phenomenon of proportional distortion that applies to objects that are at varying distances away from us. For an example, the distortion that makes a tree appear smaller in the distance than it does close to us.  Or how a branch on one such tree, might appear larger than the trunk - if the branch itself is perched right in front of our eyes, and the trunk is some ways away from us.  

https://www.udemy.com/course/creative-perspective/

Foreshortening however; is a technique applied by artists to give the illusion that something exists within any given perspective. Done through “ shortening” and bulking out certain volumes to make it look like parts of the object is closer, and parts are further away from you. 

https://www.lovelifedrawing.com/powerful-exercises-in-foreshortening/

Comic Panels Reference

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