/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3837765
Panels are just stills of a given scene; lay them out sequentially and you have a comic. Take a closer look at scenes from your favorite movies and tv shows; how are they shot and framed? What exactly is the director trying to convey with the camera? In comics, scenes are laid out sequentially over multiple pages in the form of panels, which are often cropped in different shapes and sizes to indicate pacing. Limiting yourself wrt that can give you interesting results as well. It's beating a dead horse at this point but with Alan Moore's The Watchmen, Dave Gibbons famously made use of a strict 9-panel structure, only ever deviating from it when a scene called for wider and/or taller frames Otaku like to drone on about how mangaka have supposedly mastered this dynamic (hence why these threads are full of splash pages), but if you look at western comics by the likes of 2000AD you'll find very similar works.