Unless you’re going for a specific effect, or are pairing panels like the previous point states, keep your gutters the same size throughout your pages. There’s little confusion as to where the reader should look next. The divide between tiers is extremely clear, making it very obvious which panels are associated with each other. These pages from Dragon Ball Z express the point well (though you could probably get away with a more subtle approach). By increasing the size of the gutter in between panels, you can split up a page into sections of grouped panels. When reading something, the eye naturally wants to jump to nearby panels before going to ones that are further away. Remember, a large part of page composition is about guiding the eye to the correct next panel. Use smaller gutters in between panels that you want to be read together.Here’s the result of an actual study to reflect this point: If you disrupt that order without properly guiding the reader, you risk throwing off the flow of your page. People read in “Z” order (left to right, top to bottom). Make sure your panels have a natural reading order.Here are some tips to make sure your page layout is fully optimized:
Save that hard work for the penciling stage. Do yourself a favour and don’t spend an hour filling in all the details of your thumbnails. They are most definitely not meant to be perfect because you should expect to be throwing out a lot of your designs as you go along. It’s important to remember that thumbnails are experimental. The rough nature of the thumbnails also allows the artist to go through a bunch of designs in a short period of time. By very quickly sketching out a page, an artist can determine the key aspects of the page as well as the elements that do and don’t work. One of the best and most efficient methods of doing so is through what we call thumbnails.įor many artists, thumbnails are an essential first step to the drawing process. Your first focus when designing a page should be it’s composition: how the panels fit together on the page. Power through Composition (video) - Strip Panel Naked Panel Layout: The Golden Ratio (article) - Making Comics Really, really cool.Īdvanced Layouts: Paneling Outside the Box (article) - Aaron Diaz Comic Book Paper (webapp) - You pick the number of panels in your page and it provides a whole bunch of sample page layouts.
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