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Link to the first tutorial on panels and other tutorials of the same ilk: [link] (Which also contain my disclaimers about this tutorial)This tutorial covers the importance and use of margins as well as scenery changes. (If you think margins aren't important, that's a rookie mistake.)
The links in the tutorial are listed below.
Fairy Tail: [link]
Kimi ni Todoke:
[link]
The discussion Emura has about scenery changes is in the manga Kyou mo Ashita Mo, chapter 03, in which a character is learning how to draw manga.
I tried to note where shoujo uses a certain technique more. This does not mean that shounen never uses such a technique, but more on tendency to use said technique.
Oh and some of this I lifted from my design classes...
Part 3: [link]
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Bless your soul, I needed this. It's really a very helpful tutorial! Thank you very much.
One of the things I particularly like about yours is that you give us more than just a rule, you give us a reason. I don't take people telling me to do things unless they tell me why, and I'm glad you told us why you do these certain things! I would never realize what each piece of advice was for without the explanation
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I tried to explain the rule, but also the ways to break the rule and why you would want to break the rule combining psychology and design... It's like using everything you learned in website design principles in comics to some effect--same sort of idea. Direct people where they want and need to go by visual cues.
I seriously got sick of the magical elves explanation to frame layouts so decided to do something about it.
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Ahhhh, that's noce. Teaching us to break the rules set is always important, it's really a shame to force everyone to follow these rules arbitrarily. Though I didn't know know you could break the rules of psychology.
"Why do you do this? The elves told you to!"
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If you want to use elves for paneling, you need shoes leather never give your elves clothes. Probably ink, white out, paper and a tiny little wacom pen they can use. Be sure to turn off your touch pad setting if you have one. Unless you have a cintiq...
You can break the rules of design using psychology. You can break the rules of psychology most of the time by using culture. You can break the rules of culture by being a deviant. (yes, a long excuse for a pun).
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Thank you so much for making these, they are a real help
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You're welcome. There are ten of them and then one extra to show how to apply them.
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I will be sure to check them all out 
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I go over margins later and how to break the rules--I show rules and then how those rules are effectively broken. Also some notes on Shoujo v. Shounen. As for pacing, that's more of a story-wise thing... and up to the individual mangaka.
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I love your work! but i have one question, I might have over-read it, but how many centimeters do you measure from the edge of the paper to the actual margin?
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It depends on the printer on average, and will vary on the type of layout you want, but most mangaka have a default--which usually matches the regular print books of the same sizes for the given country. (May vary by country and printer, determined by bleed, etc.)
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*speechless ..typo
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These all are super informative. Thanks so much for making these!
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Thank you for reading them. I hope they prove useful for you.
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There are 10, 9 is the only one that's not fully complete, but if you read 1-8, 9 should be understandable with just the text (until I fix it.)
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