Jun 11, 2025
Some basic comic paneling advice.
Obviously, this doesn't get into Space Is Time, beats and pacing, or more general composition principles, but it's meant as a starting point to just get panels on a page.
Sometimes layouts are just setting down panels, which you then feel out re: readability and beats. Sometimes what you put down doesn't work, but that's okay! Just keep playing and puzzling.
You can find the half, quarter, and third marks by making lines from the corners of the whole page, then lines from the corners of the vertical half of the page.
#comic advice#comic tutorial#webcomic tutorial#webcomic advice#comic layout#layout template#comics#art advice#most of my comics rn are in various stages of completion so i don't got much to show but!#this technique has helped me figure out layouts more quickly so i wanted to share#this is for comics with gutters but gutterless can follow similar techniques albeit the proportions are more fiddly#would love to do a part 2 that gets more into pacing and composition but we'll see
