catholic catboy

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.

This one has five songs:

💜 La violetera (The violet seller)

🎵 Las tardes del Ritz (The evenings at Ritz)

✨ La Mariblanca (The Mariblanca)

🪟 Los Amoríos de Ana (Ana’s love stories)

💈 El peluquero de señoras (The ladies’ hairdresser)

male privilege is not like, youre being given a little dessert with your meal. everyone is given a meal, but if youre a cis man, you get to eat it without someone putting sand all over your food. you dont even have to think about the possibility of eating sand, ever! but the woman next to you has spent her whole life trying to pick out edible bites of food and getting grit out of her teeth that she doesnt even think about it anymore. the sand is misogyny, the food is life.

male privilege is when you never have to worry about or be victimized by misogyny, and how relatively easy life is without that weighing on you.

with this definition it becomes apparent that no trans person has male privilege. trans men do face misogyny, both before and after transition, and the hypervigilance is instilled in us forever no matter how well we pass or stealth. obviously i dont need to tell you that trans women experience misogyny; transmisogyny is a particularly violent, cruel and insidious form of it that fucks with you severely.

a lil on my process for illustrations !