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I was asked for advice for making panels. Here's the details.The left page has panels evenly spaced and too squarely aligned.It's hard to tell which way to read it. There's no natural flow.
The right one has the panels aligned left-to-right, but off alignment vertically. It keeps people looking sideways. Also, the wider spaces seperating non-sequential panes. This makes the panels flow without following dialogue.
All questions welcome.
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How do you create the panels initially? I want to know if I should draw them out and scan them in or create them in photoshop?
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Well, I do all my work by hand. I use a piece of copy paper (The poor-man's art supply!) and measure a 1 cm margin on all 4 sides. From there, I do the panels within as needed. The margins are to allow for publisher cut-off and whatnot. Otherwise, I measure out the sizes of the panels and try to keep them square, depending on the desired result. When done, I ink it using either a 0.7 or 0.8mm pen. I then draw from there. I do very little on the com.
However, if you use a graphic studio, between the line tool and pixel measurements, I'm sure it'd be similar. But I never re-use the same panels. It's all made as needed.
I think I answered your question, but please correct me if I didn't.
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um, what do u mean by wider spaces separating nonsequential panels?
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Basically, on the right hand page panels one and two are a little closer to each other than the pages below them. People usually look at things closer together, so it makes it clear the right one follows the left one. The space below is wider, so we don't look down right away.
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so...if two panels are connected, they're closer together?
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As much asthey can be. Lets say if you have 4 panels (2 in the top row and 2 in the bottom) the first two could be 2mm apart and the third can be 5mm away from the top two.
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can u check out my comic , as in the panels and give me some critic tips on those? one person said that the panels were weird, but he didn't say exactly how
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Well, they look pretty good to me. The off-setting makes the path clear.
Maybe he was thrown when you started setting 2 pages together. Or I do see the page's themselves changeing from a few large panels to more but smaller ones. It's probably a layout transition that's causing some weirdness in his mind.
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...putting the two pages together was just...laziness -_- also i am lacking photoshop.
anyway, so panels should generally stay the same size?
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Not really. Mine changed in my later chapers of Winter Moon (chapter 2 comming when I have more time...); I made them a little bigger. And I can appreciate the lack of Photo shop. I have it, but it's so inintuitive...
I find paint does the job for me. The text tool works fine and touch-ups are easy enough.
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i find that paint does...nothing. it's full of cumbersome things that just messes up the slightest task
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I only add text (slowly and clumsily, but I somehow make it work) and add the odd line or re-shape voice bubbles with the curve.
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O_o omigod! why didn't i think of that!!! (the voice bubble thing with curve)
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At first I tried the circle, but it was too easy to mess up. So, I used the bubbels from when I hand-drew it and used the curve to expand them when I needed to.
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No prob. I was advising another and offered to make visuals. She seemed to like the idea. Most of these tips I got from books though.
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