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Bonus - Some tips about comic paneling

Added 2016-09-06 19:33:35 +0000 UTC

Some people have asked me for tips about how to panel a comic, and I always have a really hard time answering that because there's so much going on with paneling, and I never formally learned it. I tried to list as many parts of how I work as I could think of, but I probably still missed a lot of things ;w; I didn't really touch on composing the stuff inside the panels as much, because tbh I don't do an amazing job with that stuff (I like staying on eye level too much haha...), so I tried to link some more (better) tips about that here:

Wally Wood's 22 panels that always work: http://articulate-heroes.s3.amazonaws.com/1563.wallywood22panel1600nv6im1.jpg

I found this while googling and it looks super useful: *http://www.smackjeeves.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=13442*
(Edit: Link is broken now unfortunately; apologies for that~)

This page is targeted at storyboarders but you can apply the fundamentals of composing a shot to a comic: http://www.floobynooby.com/comp1.html

I saw a few pages of this posted somewhere and it's full of useful tips; google it and you can find a lot of the pages, if you don't want to buy it: http://www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-framed-ink-drawing-and-composition-visual-storytellers

I included an attachment of this *huge* image if you just want to download and read, plus a large version of that bit with the comic page examples I collected, so you can see the paneling better :) I've also listed those comics below if you want to check anything out~ I really recommend reading lots of different comics if you want to make comics!

If you have any specific questions or feedback please feel free to comment or send me a note! Thanks!

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Credits for paneling page examples (from left top to right):

Calvin and Hobbes (c) Bill Watterson

Batman (c) DC

The Enigma of Amigara Fault (c) Junji Ito

Bone (c) Jeff Smith

More Batman

Deadpool/Spiderman (c) Marvel

One Piece (c) Eiichiro Oda and/or Shonen Jump

Adventure Time (c) Boom Studios

Death Note (c) Tsugumi Ohba/Takeshi Obata/Shonen Jump