#comic resource

[rivriderart]

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.

uh uh, final append: I am by no means a renowned master of paneling, so if you find anything off base here, by all means, counter it with your own knowledge and ways you can build upon from here! Art is always a sum knowledge of everything we find. 💪

[kayleerowena]

✧ graphic novel progress tracker ✧ - Kaylee Rowena's Ko-fi Shop

a google sheet template to track progress on comics & graphic novel projects. keeps track of days to deadlines, how many pages you've starte

i put the spreadsheet template i've been using to track my graphic novel progress up on my ko-fi shop in case it's useful for other people too! pwyw!

[trekkerac-art]

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

Free to use.

[boazpriestly]

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

Here is a link if you want to get some.

[djwaglmuffin]

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:

https://discord.gg/HGu9jx

Also: My class is a livestream class on @picartotv every Friday (as best i can) starting at 12 noon CST.

If you are on picarto, you can follow me here:

https://picarto.tv/djwaglmuffin

Also don’t forget I am holding a 200th follower kiriban on Picarto AND a 700th follower kiriban here on the tumblr and twitter: @djwaglmuffin :>

[toadlingscentral]

Toad from X-men Forever issue 4 of 6 from the 2001 series. Interesting he was rescued from a mob attack...

[trekkerac-art]

In January I made a simple quick character sheet for comics, with magic & fights. Anyone's free to use it.

[m80-peace]

heya, As I use Krita and it can't measure in mm's, I made a Japanese B5 template, (257mmX182mm) that is the most common doujin size, it has 5mm for bleed each side making the total 263mmX187mm divided the safe zone in 9 (3x3) in blue lines and in 16 (4x4) in red put the 8 and 10 font size just as a guide, found out a 8 font size means it's height is 8/72''. feel free to use!, the inner continuous lines are for the safe zone, and the outer continuous lines are for the trim zone. you can extend the trim zone a bit if you wish so, but leave alone the left line for trim zone on your right pages and vice versa, if you wish to use this on a printed work, the safe zone is where the visibility it's gonna be intact.