Proportion Tutorial!
Added 2017-03-14 17:41:23 +0000 UTCTutorial worksheet? grab it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/proportion-8599257
This is that tutorial I wanted to do since day 1 and now I have done it B]
I am a total bitch about this but my #1 way of making friends with comic is by judging proportions... this is the way you tell if someone actually cares about their comic as a cohesive piece, or if they're just stumbling around making stuff thoughtlessly. TO BE COMPLETELY FAIR some people are still learning how to proportion their comics as beginners, but to be fair I also see a lot of more "professional" folks who care more about drawing character expressions than they do about making sure their entire work is tight from the ground up. This stuff requires almost zero art skills, but is the best thing you can do to make your comic art look amazing.
For the rest of the high-res patron tutorials, just click on the Tutorial tag down there!
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Comments
This is really great! I read this just after looking at your discussion of the 2007 version of page 5.25, and the redrawn bottom three panels really do make that section more interesting and dynamic. I think it's great that you're putting together tutorials about the craft of comic-making beyond lineart/colors/etc. It's something, that like good film-editing, should be invisible if done well, but it painfully obvious if done poorly. Until looking at your tutorials, I'd never really thought about the visual-technical language of comics (and how similar it is to film in many ways!). Thanks for this and I look forward to your next one!
Samantha Cornelius
2017-04-01 04:37:09 +0000 UTCYeeeessssssss :D
Taylor Camp
2017-03-28 19:10:02 +0000 UTCThank you for making this!
Goblin
2017-03-27 02:03:50 +0000 UTCThanks for this, very informative!
Taylor Jones
2017-03-16 19:24:03 +0000 UTCI'm really excited to see more of these tutorials about making comics! I'm making a rough webcomic as my final project in university, so this has all been super informative. Thanks for putting these together and sharing your know-how with us!
Frigandier
2017-03-15 04:49:16 +0000 UTCIf anyone is curious, the "frame" area around a comic is more commonly known as the margin. Often times I see margins conflated with what is known as the "safe area", so some comics keep them pretty tight... usually about 1/4" from the trim line. The boards I work with (standard US comic size) have about 3/8" margins on the inside and outside and 1/2" margins on the top and bottom (which helps if you're considering putting page numbers in your book).
chiz
2017-03-15 03:37:02 +0000 UTCYES bless you, just the tutorial I needed!
Sue Donem
2017-03-15 01:28:37 +0000 UTCI can't tell you how much I appreciate the level of detail you put into your comics! Also, sticker giveaway entry: ":]" :-D
John Hoffman
2017-03-15 01:18:18 +0000 UTCOkay this has already been said, but I never even thought about this before. Thanks for sharing this with all of us!
Shannon O'Connell
2017-03-15 00:29:42 +0000 UTCDer-shing, is there nothing in this world that escapes your attention? :P
tadboz
2017-03-14 23:02:34 +0000 UTCI wanna do a mini cmic soon...ish so it will be great help I'm sure! :D
natalia komuniewska
2017-03-14 22:54:34 +0000 UTCoof, this is... definitely my weakness. I'm not good at this at all. Honestly I was considering dismissing layouts altogether and doing more of a storyboard format for my comics.These are really good notes to keep in mind though...
Dee
2017-03-14 21:04:29 +0000 UTCI'm in the middle of thumb-nailing a big batch of pages and this is definitely something I'll think more actively of from now on! Thanks!!
Ofeila E
2017-03-14 20:43:40 +0000 UTCSomething to definitely keep in mind going forward. Thank you!
Liz
2017-03-14 20:16:14 +0000 UTCThis is so, immensely helpful and gives me SO MUCH to think about and address to implement better in my own work. Thank you so much for making and sharing it. Going to be referring to this one quite a bit going forward!
ceeb
2017-03-14 20:08:13 +0000 UTCActually the first pages I did were based off of a french comic I like, but euro comics use a different paper size than US comics, so they were a bit too thin for US comics. I had to redo the first dozen pages completely a few years ago to make them consistent, but since then everything is in print-ready proportions (but I still like to have a lot of padding around the pages to mimic that french comic look).
Der-shing Helmer
2017-03-14 19:44:35 +0000 UTCI hadn't thought about this, but it makes total sense. Thank you for sharing.
Matt Van Gorkom
2017-03-14 19:43:44 +0000 UTCYeah, definitely a site consideration thing. I have to do some funky things with the MI pages to get them to look normal on the site cuz I wanted the rounded corners, haha. Site things are more annoying cuz you often have to widen things to make the overall page column large enough for ads, or whatever
Der-shing Helmer
2017-03-14 19:43:05 +0000 UTCThis is great! Thank you! Did you have to make many changes to proportions (mainly to frame I assume?) when formatting TM for print? Super looking forward to getting said book, btw! 8D
Arteopteryx
2017-03-14 19:42:37 +0000 UTCThis is super useful! Thanks :)
SuetyFiddle
2017-03-14 19:02:47 +0000 UTCThis is a great topic! I admit I've never given much thought to the frame space around the panels before... it's a site design thing too isn't it Also, it makes me want to verbally appreciate good layouts to the people who draw them more!
Lorian Merriman
2017-03-14 18:13:26 +0000 UTC
