/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2133875
It's compositional, anon. Like thumbnail sketching. Each panel should be trying to convey a message or some information about the story/character/whatever. Is the panel big or small? Bordered or windowless? Are the characters in it big or small? What is the panel focusing on? How fast is it happening?
Each panel is its own little picture.

Comic form is essentially a more artistic variety of Commercial format.

>>2133875
Panel 1: Attention shows us the girl as she leaves her apartment block

Panel 2: Necessity shows us the layout of the apartment block so that we know where she is.

Panel 3: Satisfaction shows us what the girl is doing.

Panel 4: Visualisation is split as the elevator comes to the girl's own level

Panel 5: delayed Action as we see the mechanical effect of the elevator

Panel 6: Action is initiated as she sees another girl's face appear in the doorway.

On the left side of this photograph you see an 18x21" bristol comic board. It demonstrates the same principles as above.

>>2133989
Sorry, 18x12" -- the old standard comic board size.

Buy a Compose-It Grid to frame your reference photo, then line up your comic page before drawing it in.

I wish I could employ some of you bastards to help me make comics all goddamn day.

I wish I could employ some of the more industrious guys here to help me make comics all day.

>>2134002
Commit seppuku you grid-using shilling faggot

>>2134007
You don't have a clue and you'll never succeed with that attitude.

Does dumbass still wonder if commercial artists use grids?

>>2133877
This

>>2133875
whats to understand? its a box.

comics are just really low framerate animations, think of the individual panels as cameras.

after that the only thing to decide is how you want to tell your story.

Just want to say you chose an excellent example pic to introduce this topic, op. Good job.