#comic resource

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.

A writing template for comics. I made this to help gather my notes into a more concise plan to follow.

I discovered that these journals that my preschoolers use are perfect for comic plotting.

So I drew this up as an example in my class about how to break down a script into a comic page.

I wanted to show a couple of things: How to determine which elements to include into a panel, which parts are a panel, how to number dialogue and then, finally, how to break it down into pages.

I want to expand upon this further but this is just ONE way you can practice.

This script is a google search for “script examples” and is a blurb from “The Godfather”. But you can just about any script as long as there is a clear setting, some sort of allusion to mood and dialogue between at least two characters.

So give this a look over, if you have any specific question please drop them in my ask box and, if you want you can join me here on discord:

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